Okay, here's the main thing.
Depending on how things go, "Missing the Bus" may become something of a collaborative effort—though it may be as simple as Anne helping me with story, you never know.
Here's some hints of the future.

In the NL realm, aside from Nanuq and MtB, I'm mulling over some other NL-AU ideas.
The premise of the first idea is: "What if TJ had kept enough of his rational human mind to run for it?" I'll admit, it might fit a little more into the vein of some of the other NL backstories I've seen lately (some of them go into avenues I rather wish I'd followed the first time around, but hey, that's what AU is for, right?), in that TJ might end up on the run, just having enough time to say his goodbyes before fleeing the state.
Another idea I've been playing with is "What if TJ in polar bear form had held on to his anger towards the bus driver and acted accordingly?" I'm not sure I like the "killer theri" idea, but I'm toying with the idea of having TJ thrown in with the killers but eventually finding his way to the Pack.
Okay. Now the last one's a little trickier: "What if TJ's transformation had occurred much earlier?" Maybe sometime during his middle teens, so he could already be an established member of the Pack. That would certainly be fun to write.

On the LSC front, I've got a lot of ideas and I can hardly wait to write them down. You're gonna love it. I already have AU plot-bunnies. (Good grief.)

Stay tuned, true believers.