The problem with Grahame being in LA and Mother spending most of her time in Sacramento is that, for all intents and purposes, the Chandler household has been whittled down from three (from four) to one. That makes less work to go around, and it's getting harder and harder to justify keeping on all the staff. Cal is combing intently through ( Read more... )

First thing about college that sucks: Classes started two days before Sunnydale High ( Read more... )

Tina is finally asleep. Richard has been and gone, leaving a mild sedative so she can sleep between transformations. Cal closes the guestroom door quietly behind him, trying to think through his own physical and emotional exhaustion (and low blood sugar, and nicotine withdrawal) to decide exactly where Sherlock will be.

After the alarming conversation with Tina's mother, and the subsequent instructions to Peter, Cal doesn't waste time.

He calls Sherlock while he's still in the car, halfway across town.

Cal isn't sure which took longer: the speeches at the graduation ceremony, or the gathering his mother had planned after. At least the monotony of the party was broken up by Grahame's calmly stealing the spotlight to announce his new job with some law firm in LA ( Read more... )

Cal knew graduation was coming, but after everything that's happened in the past few months, it still catches him by surprise. It should be a major milestone, but it seems almost pointless, like it's getting in the way of more important things ( Read more... )

So you know that guy who gets a new girlfriend, and suddenly it's like his friends don't exist? Yeah. Cal is trying not to be that guy. Which is why, after not making plans with Tina to avoid having his afternoon sucked away from him when there are things that need doing, he makes time after dinner to head out to the Stark residence for the ( Read more... )

School is, finally, over.

Cal has shoved everything he's not bringing back home into his locker (so, pretty much everything) and now he's gone to find Tina.

Cal is finally attending school on a regular basis again, for the first time since his father's death.

He doesn't consider it much of an improvement. The school day is ending and he's shoving a few things into his locker before heading home. Bringing books home to study is for people who don't have more important things to do.

The Milliways vacation was, Cal thinks, exactly what they all needed. He definitely came home to discover that things seemed a lot more manageable than they had before he left for New York, and not just because Obadiah Stane will officially never be his damn problem again.

(Peter, he knows, suspects that something happened while Cal was away, but ( Read more... )