[set after this]It had been a lie. Jake hadn't had to work the next day, but he had needed a reason to show up the way he had at his ex-wife's workplace. At that moment he had said it because it had been the only believable lie he could think of ( Read more... )

This is so
This is familiar this is so
This is so foreign
That's okay
Foreign's familiar to me now

- Butterfly Boucher - BusyEven if he had a feeling that Charlie disagreed with it, along with his chief, Jake had been taking a lot more shifts at work lately than usual after his fight with Valerie. He didn't bother explaining to anyone, not even ( Read more... )

[This 'ties' with a case that is going around in sixwordstories; Catherine = willows_csilv and is used with permission from her lovely mun. <3 Second part to this]

A. "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing ( Read more... )

August 2005"Daddy ( Read more... )

[locked | private]My old man and I don't get along. It doesn't take a lot to really see that if we're ever in a room together, and it's been that way ever since I can remember. I'm not sure why, either. I mean, yeah, I've tried to figure it out. I've questioned it. When I was getting my degree in Psychology sometimes I'd try to understand him ( Read more... )