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May Prompt - #6 Alone (AU)
The snow melted, and there was grass. The thing about Alaska. In the winter it's cold, yes, but in the summer it's long, long warm day with brilliant splotches of wildflowers. Fireweed brightens the not-yet-lush landscape and bit by bit, the foot hills bleed green, the snow reeling back for another short season ( Read more... ) -
Saying Goodbye - Closed to Alice (Backdated to Monday Night)
He'd been too busy to pay attention to his sidekick. Claire had gone to bed a few hours ago and it was the first chance either Alice or Carlos had to get off their feet. Her energy seemed truly endless. He loved it. She'd met Nicholai and Jill. He would take her to see LJ and Ranger soon. Yes, Carlos loved showing her off. It was the first time in ( Read more... ) -
Ruins
Prompt #6 - RuinsSometimes they would come upon ruins. Carlos no longer really knew where they were. The jungle. Somewhere in the jungle. Somewhere in the shit. Most of the time they were just abandoned indigenous villages, broken pottery strewn about the dirt floors and the thatch rotting through. But sometimes there would be the stone skeleton of ( Read more... ) -
March Prompt - #5
What one act in your past are you most proud of?It wasn't a hard decision to make. He would get into the truck, wrench it into gear, accelerate through the writhing mass of infected and then he would die. Carlos had lived a life during which most days had been days where he might die. Would it hurt? He wondered. He'd come close before and it had ( Read more... ) -
January Prompt #4
A taste of your own medicineThe night Alice told him how the Virus had gotten out, Carlos went on a very long patrol. Spence Parks. He didn't know what the man had looked like, but he had a very clear picture of a hand dropping the blue vial, could watch in his mind's eye as the glass shattered against the sterile white tile of the floor ( Read more... ) -
Private to Nicholai
Meet me at the edge of the forest. Come armed and hurry. -
Familiarity - NWS Carlos and Alice
Continued from here
He was working hard on keeping himself reigned in because man would that be embarrassing. This girl was too beautiful and amazing for him to make a fool of himself like that ( Read more... ) -
November #3
"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed." ~Natalie Clifford BarneyCarlos never once saw Alice cry. She didn't cry in Detroit, not after they lost Jill and Angela. He couldn't even remember her shedding a tear when she'd faced Nemesis, which meant all the more when he'd finally learned who Nemesis had once been ( Read more... ) -
August Prompt #05
When the box was opened again, fifty years later, Carlos was long gone. In fact, everyone he knew was gone. Life expectancy wasn't long these days. It was like they were working their way back up the evolutionary chain. But it didn't matter, because where Carlos was no longer, the box remained. It was metal and ugly, dented and thick with grime ( Read more... ) -
July 06 - Sundog (AU)
"It's called a Sundog ( Read more... )
