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The name's Ava Jacqueline. A.J or Jac for short. I like to think of myself as both a Chicago and Boston native being that I grew up in both cities. I currently live in Maine with my boyfriend, whom I love dearly. A writer who constantly suffers from a severe case of writer's block, I have a ton of ideas floating around in my head for all of my stories, yet it's hard to put them all in words and form a sensible, believable plot. My writings mostly involve a certain character in a film and an original female character of mine being romantically involved. I usually keep true to the script of the film I'm writing about and just basically add my own character(s) into the mix and tweak the storyline in a few ways to make it my own (example: removing other significant characters that were once in the script). I always give credit to the original author(s) so I'm not stealing. I'm making it original with my own character(s) and if you have a prob with it, do me a favor and just don't read it. If not, then enjoy and thank you!

Although most of my stories tend to lean towards the romance genre and usually have original characters in them, I never read stories such as these. I know it's weird, but if I read a summary and it's in the romance category and/or says it contains an OC, I automatically skip over it. This is in general for any type of story I browse through, not just 'Ninja Turtles' or 'Da Vinci Code' fics. There have been few (and let me stress, few) exceptions, such as the story Mutants Alike and its' sequel, but so far they are the only romantic/OC tales that I've followed and have been added to my favorites. Sci-fi, action/adventure, cest and/or slash fics are other genres I tend to avoid, unless the summary intrigues me enough to give it a chance.

Hopefully this little confession of mine won't deter anyone from reading my own stories. :crosses fingers and looks up with wide, wet, innocent Michelangelo eyes: I'm just not into love stories but I love to create them. Sounds strange perhaps, but I'm just being honest. I'm more of a humor and angst/tragedy/hurt/comfort/drama type of reader.

I am currently working on a story that is not meant for public posting. Only a very few handful of people are reading it upon request and receive it through private emails. It's entitled, Collapse, and the reason why it's not on here or any other site or forum is due to the subject matter involved and my insecurities of possible criticism over it. It involves my OC, Traci and Raphael being captured and tormented by familiar enemies. I'm not too sure how detailed I'll get with descriptions in certain scenes but the action that takes place is pretty brutal, no matter how graphic I decide to make it. If this sounds like something you yourself are interested in by all means, send me a message with whatever queries you have regarding it and I'll try to answer them as best I can without spoiling anything in the story. Then you can make the decision of whether you'd like to read it or not.

The heroines in my stories all have a piece or two of myself whirled into them somehow but aren't completely based on me:

Michele in my 'Da Vinci Code' fic is a licensed psychatrist. I am studying to be a psychatrist so this particular fic will give me the chance to show off what I've learned for the past four years. But not to worry, I won't go too overboard with the psychological language and analytical stuff.

Lucy in my 'Green Mile' fic is a secretary. I briefly worked as a secretary the first year I left high school. The only other thing that we share is we're both sympathetic to 'flawed' (for lack of better word) people and try to see the good in everyone. Oh, and we're both attracted to seemingly 'jerks' for boyfriends. (hehe)

Violet in my 'Clockwork Orange' fic is a character I haven't really had too much time to flesh out. I think she's alot like Lucy in that she's attracted to bad boys and wants to help them get themselves together, which as I said pertains to me. I just realized I should start working on her character more.

Traci in my 'Ninja Turtles' fic(s) is my female OC that currently has my full attention. She has a few of my characteristics and her ethnicity (mixed Italian background) is like mine, however she's mainly inspired by someone I know personally. Also, she has two completely different personalities. She's not schizo or anything, but she's very serious with certain things such as her job and issues that effect her city and the world (she is a reporter). When she's with friends, however, she's a party girl who loves to go to clubs and live it up. You'd never guess it by watching her on the news. (Hey, she's a young girl. She can't play professional career woman all the time.)

She aspired to be a dancer before settling on a career in journalism, which was something I had been studying since I was a child until I decided on another career. Dancing is my (as well as Traci's) passion. Besides that one major detail, there are a couple of other small characteristics we share, but let me note, her childhood background is not at all based on mine. It's a fictional background for a fictional character.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

-Michelangelo: Whoa! And I thought insurance salesmen were pushy!

-Leonardo: Awesome!

Michelangelo: Righteous!

Donatello: Bossa nova!

Michelangelo: 'Bossa nova'?

-Leonardo: Can anyone tell me who or what this is?

Michelangelo: I dunno. But I bet he never has to look for a can opener!

-Raphael: Come back here! I'm not finished with you! DAAAAMMMNNN!

-Raphael: A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me... you didn't pay money for this.

-Michelangelo: Hey, Donny! Looks like this one's suffering from 'shell shock'!

Donatello: Too derivative.

Michelangelo: Boy, I guess we can really 'shell it out'.

Donatello: Too cliche.

Michelangelo: Well, it was a 'shell' of a good hit!

Donatello: I like it! Step up!

-Cab Passenger: What the heck was that?

Cab Driver: Looked like sort of a big turtle in a trench coat... You're going to La Guardia, right?

-Pizza Man: Terrific. Where the heck is 122 and 1/8?

Michelangelo: You're standing on it, dude.

-Casey: New game, round-head... Cricket.

Raphael: Cricket? Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.

-Danny: Don't shoot!

Raphael: I don't think it's loaded, kid.

-Michelangelo: Fight?

Donatello: Fight.

Michelangelo: Kitchen?

Donatello: Kitchen.

Michelangelo: Yyyeah...

-Donatello: Good thing these guys aren't lumberjacks!

Michelangelo: No joke! The only thing that'd be safe in the woods would be the trees!

-Casey: Oops!

-Leonardo: Who the heck is that?

Michelangelo: Wayne Gretzky on steroids?

-Michelangelo: Yes, dudes and dudettes, major league butt-kicking is back in town!

-Michelangelo: God, I love being a turtle!

-Michelangelo: ... Oh, and no anchovies. And I mean, no anchovies. You put anchovies on this thing and you're in big trouble, ok?

Splinter: Michelangelo!

Michelangelo: Uh--that'll do. And the clock's tickin', dude!

-Michelangelo: Wise men say, 'Forgiveness is divine but never pay full price for late pizza'.

-Raphael: Gosh! I do hope there's mor'a them.

-Raphael: You guys must be studyin' the abridged book of ninja fighting... I mean, c'mon, how do you guys expect to beat me?... Good answer. Good answer.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze

-Leonardo: That's right, Shredder. You forgot, we carry insurance.

Michelangelo: Yeah. 'Mutual Splinter', dude!

-Donatello: Oh, great!

Leonardo: Terrific!

Raphael: Wonderful!

Michelangelo: Bummer!

-Donatello: These nets are remarkably effective and very well-constructed.

Michelangelo: Yeah, remind me to drop a line to Ralph Nader!

-Donatello: The perimeter's quiet.

Leonardo: Yeah. A little too quiet...

Donatello: Well, that was easy!

Leonardo: Yeah. A little too easy...

Donatello: Look! It's Raph!

Michelangelo: Yeah. A little too Raph!

-Raphael: Hey, Mikey! You think you can crunch any louder? I can still hear outta this one! Yeesh!

-Raphael: I'm curious: you guys ever heard of the expression 'fair fight'?... Y'know, pal, if I had a face like yours' I'd try to make up for it with some sorta personality!

-Leonardo: I'm Leonardo.

Michelangelo: I'm Michelangelo.

Donatello: Donatello.

Raphael: I'm Raphael.

Michelangelo: Yeah. All the good ones end in 'O'!

-Professor Perry: Four walking, talking turtles.

Raphael: Yeah, the guy's Ph. D material, all right.

-Raphael: Hey, Mikey! T'row it ova here!

Michelangelo: Go long! Go long!

Raphael: Downfield! Turtle in tha open!

-Leonardo: We'll give you the tour later. Right now, we have a few questions.

Donatello: Yeah, a few inquiries.

Michelangelo: Yeah, a few... uh, we'll give you the tour later!

-Michelangelo: I love this spy stuff!

-Raphael: SHREDDER!

Donatello: Thanks, Raph! I may never have the hiccups again!

-Michelangelo: Hey, dudes, 'cowabunga' says it all!

-Raphael: Hey, Mikey! Toss me a 'ninja slice'!

Michelangelo: Donny! Statue of Liberty!

-Raphael: Aha! Touchdown! Yeah!

-Michelangelo: I said it before, and I'll say it again...

All: ...' man, I love bein' a turtle'!

TMNT (2007)

Leonardo: I told Master Splinter I'd get this team in shape again.

Michelangelo: Hey, I've been training. Since you left, my video games scores have, like, doubled.

Leonardo: Right, and while you've been playing games, little brother, this Nightwatcher character has been running around town like some sort of vigilante showboat. But his days are done.

Raphael: Hey, you went awal, Leo, and the Nightwatcher was the only one around to pick up the slack. Crime didn't take a break... you did.

-Raphael: Ok, jungle boy. Grab a vine.

-Michelangelo: Dude, did anyone get the license plate of that thing that hit us last night? Man, my head!

Donatello: Okay, that was just weird. First the Foot, then that hideous monster.

Michelangelo: Yeah. It looked like your mom, dude! Ha, ha!

Donatello: Yeah, that would make her your mom too, doofus.

Michelangelo: ...whatever.

-Donatello: No, sir, I'm not playing hard to get! I'm telling you, it's not that kind of phone line!

-Leonardo: Funny thing about anger: let it consume you and soon enough... you lose sight of everything.

-Michelangelo: Oh yeah! The turtles are back, dudes! I'd give us a ten for style, an eight for skill... and a two for stealth.

-Splinter: Ah, good morning, my sons!

Leo, Donny & Mike: Good morning, sensei.

Raphael: 'Sup.

-Raphael: Psst! Casey! Meet me on the roof.

Casey: What is it?

Raphael: The roof. You know what the roof is, don't cha?

-Leonardo: Hot-head.

Raphael: Splinter Junior.

-Leonardo: Well, is he gonna be all right?

Raphael: You still here? Go back to your jungle.

Leonardo: Well, at least his personality is still intact.

-Raphael: They're playin' my song.

-Raphael: We live together. We train together. We fight together. We stand for good together. We are ninjas. We strike hard, defend, protect, and fade into the night. And there ain't no bad guy or monster ever gonna change that. That's what's important and that's why we'll always be brothers... Oh, I love bein' a turtle!

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (2003)

-Donatello: Piece of pie.

Michelangelo: Mmm... piece of pizza pie!

-Splinter: How many times have I told you not to sneak up to the surface?

Michelangelo: This month?

Donatello: About 512, actually.

-Leonardo: We have to keep our wits about us.

Raphael: Don't worry, Mikey. You can share my wits.

-Donatello: Been there. Done that.

Raphael: Well, then go there and do it again!

-Donatello: You know, things might get rough at times, but at least we have each other.

Michelangelo: Yeah, but do we have to have Raph?

-Leonardo: And even if the Shredder is still out there, no matter what he throws at us, no matter how he messes with our lives, nothing he does will change the most important thing: that we are family.

Michelangelo: Hahaha! Leo, that was off the charts on the Sap-O-Meter. You've been watching way too many after-school specials, bro!

Raphael: Just eat your s'mores and keep quiet, Mikey. Leo's got a point.

-Michelangelo: Man. When we found out that Shredder was an Utrom, I nearly soiled my shell.

-Shredder: Say farewell to each other while you still can.

Michelangelo: Oh yeah, Mister Spikey-pants? Well, you're the one who should be sayin' farewell to... uh... to yourself.

Raphael: Oh yeah, Mikey, that got 'im.

-Raphael: I hate watchin' the news. It's all bad. These gangs out there bangin' heads, it really ticks me off!

Donatello: Raph, everything ticks you off.

Raphael: Not everything... all right, everything.

-Leonardo: Things look pretty ugly.

Raphael: That's just Mikey.

Michelangelo: I'm afraid you must be mistaken, bro, because I was voted most likely to brighten any room with my smile.

-Criminal: What are you?

Raphael: I'm the Green Vengeance.

Criminal: 'The Green Vengeance'? What?

Raphael: All right, never mind. Don't like green, huh? How 'bout black and blue?

-Raphael: Hey, I smell smoke.

Donatello: I smell gas.

Raphael: Mikey...

Donatello: No, not that kind of gas.

-Hun: This is some nice steel. Tell me, who gave them to you?

Raphael: Yo' mama.

-Criminal: You can see?

Raphael: I can see. Only lookin' at you I'm already kinda missin' the blind thing.

-Michelangelo: I feel like I'm at an ugly convention.

Raphael: Then you must feel right at home.

-Donatello: Remember, Casey, just distract him long enough for April to slip in and slip out.

Raphael: Yeah. Don't screw this up, bonehead.

Casey: If anyone's gonna screw this up, it'll be you, freak-face!

Raphael: ...moron.

-Splinter: We will resume your training in the morning.

Michelangelo: 'We will resume your training in the morning'.

Splinter: I heard that!

-Michelangelo: It's garbage day, fat man! Time to take your can out to the curb!

Garbage Man: What?

Michelangelo: Uh, how 'bout: time to dump you in the dumpster, smelly boy!

-Michelangelo: C'mon, Leo! Move it. I don't wanna be starin' at your butt any longer than I have to!

-Donatello: Guys, you okay?

Raphael: Peachy.

-Leonardo: Guys, the only way to stop them is to slice their heads off!

Michelangelo: Well, ain't that great news-- for the turtles with the blades!

-Leonardo: Well, guys: fight or flight?

Raphael: I vote 'fight'!

Michelangelo: You always vote 'fight'!

-Donatello: Wait a minute. A bo staff and a crowd of guys who all look the same? Time to try out one of my favorite movie stunts!

-Raphael: Let's get ready to kick some shell!

Leonardo: Hold it, Raph. We're way outnumbered. We need to use our heads.

Raphael: Guess that leaves Mikey out.

-Raphael: You really wanna look like a Purple Dragon? Try gettin' your butt kicked by a Ninja Turtle!

-Raphael: Watch yer back, oddball!

Michelangelo: Did you just call me 'odd'?... I'm not odd. I'm eccentric. Donny, Raph just called me 'odd'!

Donatello: You're just being sensitive.

Here are some stories I hope to post, if I ever obtain the time, and more importantly, the patience to write them:

Ninja Turtles: Raphael and my OC, Traci Taber- This story starts at the beginning of the 1990 film and works its' way through the second, mixes with the recent cartoons and goes all the way up to the 2007 film. I'm not too sure if I'll include the third installment of the live action film in it because it was so ridiculous but it's highly possible. My character is loosely based on the April due to the fact that Traci is put in her place and her occupation is that of a television reporter. She has her own personality and character traits, though there are a few recognizable similarities between the two females which is both intentional and unintentional on my part. April will be included in my fic as a supporting character who is a friend of Traci's, however she won't be introduced until much later. Her job will be working for Winters' transporation and formerly being a lab assistant for Stockman as originally intended.

The Green Mile: Percy Wetmore and my OC, Lucy Laurel- Percy has a girlfriend (!) who is also the secretary of E block. To shake things up a bit, I made one of the changes as I stated above by having the character Dean Stanton not be married, and instead in love with Percy's gf. I have a few in script form and from Lucy's POV written as journal entries. This was the first fanfic I ever wrote and it was years ago. The one journal entry that I have posted on here I'm a bit embarrassed about because I know I could've done much better with the writing. But it was my first try so just try to forgive it. I've composed what I have in one shots but maybe (someday) I'll tie it together and post it as a full story.

The Da Vinci Code: Silas and my OC, Michele- A young psychiatrist who's faith in God has diminished unwillingly finds herself involved in something she "can't understand" and wants no part of. During this she meets an odd monk who unbeknownst to her has been admiring her for the past two months and even saved her life on one occasion. Though she knows of his vicious actions, she can't help but sympathize with the misguided young man she sees buried within the seemingly menancing monster.

A Clockwork Orange: Alex and my OC, Violet- A young devotchka teaches our humble narrator how to love instead of immediately wanting to resort to the ol' in-out in-out.