( If you could only see the beast you've made of me/I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free. )

( 'Didn't expect to see you up and about so soon.' )

( In which Annie finally gets back at Owen, and everything goes horribly, horribly wrong. )

( In Which Jack Learns The Truth, So Does Mitchell, And This Isn't Exactly Avengers Assembling But They'll Have To Do. )

On Sunday morning, November 7th, George turns to Annie and says, "Have you seen Mitchell? I've barely seen him, have you?"

And Annie looks up, and frowns, and says, "Not since that night, when... well, since the accident."

They stare at each other, worried.

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( And when I feel like giving up/Like my world is falling down/I show up at 3am/She's still up watching Vacation, and I/See her pretty face/It takes me away to a better place. )

( In which Mitchell and George get a visit from their landlord, and Herrick shows up again, and everything basically sucks. )

( Where do I belong? Where do I fit? Who are my people? )

It was probably a very bad idea, coming here. Mitchell had only spent the better part of the past year running to get away from this lot, get out of this world and rejoin the other one. But he'd heard whispers on the streets, and some part of him - be it the cautious part, or the other one, the one that curved in his stomach and reeled like an ( Read more... )

It had been a fool's errand, an act of desperation, of something sodding stupid done to stave off his own helplessness. The phone call, that was. Of course, none of the scum and the idiots down in Bristol had known anything, so the point was moot and Mitchell was getting more frantic in his efforts.

Maybe the island hadn't been such a good pick, ( Read more... )