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Penname: SongBirdie [Contact] Real name: Valerie Portolano
Member Since: 04/18/09
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Name: Valerie

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters showing up in my stories, unless otherwise stated. I make no money off of this, it's purely for fun.

Archiving: The stories I write, however, are mine. Please do not screencap this story, save it to any hard drives, exchange with others, or translate into other languages without my permission.

I want to send a huge thank you to my friends and betas Satan-Wears-Prada, and Liz, thank you for your help! You're both awesome!

Thank you all for the story alerts, reviews, author alerts, and favoriteing! They make me so happy! Have a great day!


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Series
The Dawning Of... Series by SongBirdie [Reviews - 0]
Summary:  When Death Eaters attacked a Navel Base, little did they know it would bring together the only groups that could stop them.

Fandoms: General fiction, General fiction, Harry Potter [Movies], hetero fiction, hetero fiction, N.C.I.S, x-overs Characters: None
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: torture, violence
Challenges: None
Open: No
 
Stories
10 Things you didn't know about Jennifer Shepard by SongBirdie Rated: FRC - child safe [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: 10 things you didn't know about Jennifer Shepard, told by the man who knew her best. Written for the Weekly Writing Challenge #10 on NFA.
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Gibbs/Jenny, Jen Sheppard, Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: None
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 310
Published: 05/21/11 Updated: 05/21/11
A Hell All His Own by SongBirdie Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1] Featured Stories
Summary: Alex Eames thinks on her feelings for Bobby Goren, and the reasons it will never be the way she wants.
Fandoms: Law And Order: Criminal Intent Characters: Det. Alexandra Eames, Det. Robert Goren
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Unrequited love
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 587
Published: 12/31/09 Updated: 12/31/09
Are You Happy Now? by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary:  Gibbs and Jenny find that life isn’t the same without the other in it. So they think of how to correct this little fact.  Jibbs! Sonfic!  Mentions of Gibbs/Diane and Gibbs/OC.  Again, A.U. to the Extreme!
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Gibbs/Jenny
Genres: Song, fic Warnings: Angst, AU, Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 1113
Published: 04/23/09 Updated: 04/23/09
Beauiful Soul by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1] Featured Stories
Summary: Tony tells Ziva something that will change both their live forever. Tiva!
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: DiNozzo/Ziva
Genres: Song, fic Warnings: Angst, AU, implied sex, Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 3 Completed: No Word count: 4476
Published: 05/05/09 Updated: 06/07/09
Caitlin-Jenna's Questions by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1] Featured Stories
Summary: Abby must anwser some of her daughter's hard questions at bedtime.
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Abby, Sciuto, Abby/Tim, original, character, Tim, McGee
Genres: Hetero Warnings: Angst, AU, Character Death, violence
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 744
Published: 04/26/09 Updated: 04/26/09
Captive No Longer by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 3] Featured Stories
Summary: After months as a captive of war, Ziva takes matters into her own hands. Everyone must learn to live with the consequences of her desperate action. Spoilers for Aliyah, A.U.!
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Abby, Sciuto, Anthony, Dinozzo, Ari, Caitlin, Todd, Jen, Sheppard, Leroy, Jethro, Gibbs, Paula, Tim, McGee, Ziva, David
Genres: General Warnings: Adult Situations, Angst, Character Death, Dark Themes, mild violence, suicide/mention of, Unrequited love, violence
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 3 Completed: Yes Word count: 1849
Published: 06/25/09 Updated: 07/03/09
Finally Free by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Rose Wilson reflects on her life, while getting ready to end it once and for all. Suicide could be implied depending on how you view the ending.
Fandoms: The Teen Titans Characters: Rose, Rose
Genres: General Warnings: Angst, mild violence, suicide/mention of
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 352
Published: 05/31/09 Updated: 05/31/09
Heartbreak by SongBirdie Rated: [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary:  This story was written for the Romance Novel Challenge on NFA.

Jenny realizes how real life is so unlike a Romance Novel.  

 
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Jen Sheppard, Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Unrequited love
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 882
Published: 10/04/09 Updated: 10/04/09
Her Flower's Promise by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary:

Hanna David makes her baby girl, her little tulip; promise her something on her deathbed.

 Winner of the Everyone Has a Nickname Challenge on NFA.


Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Ziva, David
Genres: General Warnings: Angst, Character Death, Hurt/Comfort
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 912
Published: 12/08/09 Updated: 12/08/09
Just another Christmas by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Timothy McGee spends another Christmas alone, for it now means nothing without her.

Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Abby Sciuto, Abby/McGee, Tim McGee
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: Character Death
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 237
Published: 05/21/11 Updated: 05/21/11
Just out of Reach. by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1] Featured Stories
Summary:

Gibb's thoughts on why he hates Father's Day.

Disclaimer: I do not own NCIS; it is the property of its respective creators. I do however, own the plotline. 

 


Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Jethro/Shannon, Kelly Gibbs, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Shannon Gibbs
Genres: General Warnings: Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 318
Published: 04/25/09 Updated: 04/25/09
Kissing in the Rain. by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Tony and Ziva make some discoveries while stranded in the rain.
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: DiNozzo/Ziva
Genres: Hetero Warnings: Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 352
Published: 04/25/09 Updated: 04/25/09
Lies of My Father by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary:

Written in response of the “The Female of the Species" Challenge.

What happened during The Director’s and La Grenouille’s final faceoff.


Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Jen, Sheppard, female, Other, male
Genres: General Warnings: Adult Situations, Angst, Character Death, Drama, Language, violence
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 1299
Published: 07/31/09 Updated: 07/31/09
One Last Goodbye by SongBirdie Rated: FRC - child safe [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: What Jenny's letter could have said.
Fandoms: N.C.I.S, Television Characters: ensemble, Gibbs/Jenny
Genres: Hetero Warnings: Angst, friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 324
Published: 04/18/09 Updated: 04/18/09
Regrets by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Story Summary: One shots on the main character’s regrets in their lives and choices.   Chapter Summary:  Tony DiNozzo has a lot of regrets, and, like memories, they’re haunting him.  
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Gibbs/Jenny
Genres: Hetero Warnings: Angst, mild violence, partner betrayal, Unrequited love
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 2 Completed: Yes Word count: 2165
Published: 05/16/09 Updated: 05/30/09
Remembering by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Ziva's thoughts on her life before her death. Spoilers for Aliyah.

Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Ari, Ziva, David
Genres: General Warnings: Angst, Character Death, mild violence
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 585
Published: 05/30/09 Updated: 05/30/09
Shalom Abba by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: A possibility of what the letter Ziva never wrote to her Father could have said... Spoilers for Aliyah.                                                                      
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Ziva David
Genres: General Warnings: Angst, Character Death, Dark Themes
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 623
Published: 05/30/09 Updated: 05/30/09
She Knows by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Vanessa Mallard remembers pieces of her son’s childhood, and of her lonely life, as her mind deteriorates. 
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Vanessa Mallard
Genres: General Warnings: Angst, Character Death
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 986
Published: 07/02/09 Updated: 07/02/09
Starless by SongBirdie Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 1] Featured Stories
Summary:

Ziva David remembers the importance the Star of David played in her and her sibling’s relationship, and realizes how it now means nothing to her.


Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Ari, female, Ziva, David
Genres: General Warnings: Adult Situations, Angst, Character Death
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 638
Published: 10/21/09 Updated: 10/21/09
The Dawning Of... A New Night by SongBirdie Rated: starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 2] Featured Stories
Summary: Death Eaters attack a Navel base, and in doing so bring two very different worlds together.

Fandoms: General fiction, General fiction, Harry Potter [Movies], Harry Potter/NCIS, hetero fiction, hetero fiction, N.C.I.S, x-overs Characters: Abby Sciuto, Abby/Tim, Agent McGee, Albus Dumbledore, Anthony Dinozzo, Ari, Ari, Ari, Arthur Weasley, Bellatrix, Caitlin Todd, DiNozzo/Ziva, Gibbs/Jenny, Harry Potter, Harry Potter, Jen Sheppard, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Lord Voldemort, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: Adult Situations, Angst, AU, Character Death, Language, torture, violence
Challenges: None
Series: The Dawning Of... Series
Chapters: 2 Completed: No Word count: 4973
Published: 12/31/09 Updated: 01/05/10
The One He Needed Least by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Excerpt: He only had one child that remained of his deadly trio, though. The one he would honestly sacrifice first if he had had the chance to choose.

Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Ari, Ziva, David
Genres: General Warnings: Adult Situations, Angst, Character Death, Drama, violence
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 1329
Published: 07/31/09 Updated: 07/31/09
White Flag by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: After a mistake, Olivia must live with the consequences of the actions and decisions she made. Songfic to Dido's White Flag.
Fandoms: Law And Order: Special Victims Unit Characters: Elliot Stabler, Olivia, Olivia/Elliot, original character
Genres: Hetero, Song, fic Warnings: Angst, AU, Character Death, implied sex, OOC [Out of Character], partner betrayal, Unrequited love
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 2072
Published: 06/25/09 Updated: 06/25/09
You're telling Nina! by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Pre-series. Conner Lance is at a bar with his fraternity brother, Tony. Johnny Walker, his girlfriend Nina, and Lila Simmons, the cheerleader Tony's crushing on, make for an interesting night.
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Anthony, Dinozzo, original, character, original, character
Genres: General, Hetero Warnings: drabble, friendship, Humor, Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 890
Published: 05/21/11 Updated: 05/21/11
Ziva David, American. by SongBirdie Rated: FRT - young teen [Reviews - 0] Featured Stories
Summary: Ziva reflects on her new life in America. 
Fandoms: N.C.I.S Characters: Abby Sciuto, Anthony Dinozzo, Ari, DiNozzo/Ziva, Jen Sheppard, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Tim McGee, Ziva David
Genres: Hetero Warnings: Established couple, friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 493
Published: 04/18/09 Updated: 04/18/09
 

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