So after looking at this thread and seeing how dominated it was by Spoils Drabbles, I made a decision on a couple of things.
A) I'm going to get an early pruning of feedback, so while all of your lovely comments (all of which I greatly appreciate) will disappear in the thread, rest assured I have saved and cherish all of them. And I was delightfully shocked at how long that word file got. So thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've loved reading them and knowing that you're enjoying my little tidbits, even when I'm a relentless tease.
B) I'm creating a new thread and moving all the Spoils of War drabbles into it. I think at this point, they have taken such a life of their own, that they warrant a separate thread, although, I had been trying to avoid making another since I seem to be dominating the UC board a bit.

C) This thread will remain active, but it will go back to the general drabble thread that it was once intended to be and I'll be adding to a few to the connecting drabbles that got a little lost when Spoils hit with a vengeance. I have a couple that are open ended and need some sort of closure, so I'll have to see what I can drum up on that. After all, in Checkmate Michael made that delicious threat that I never followed up on. And we still don't know if Michael made his position clear enough to keep Liz away from Rath. So, I'll definitely have to get cracking on those.
As always thanks to everyone for their continued support and kind comments. You truly make my day when I come onto the board and see your comments! Okay...enough babble, I need to go corral Michael and find out whether Liz actually took his threats seriously or if she's in need of some serious payback.