She's learned that if she wants to have a conversation with her sister, she has to actually show up at the door. It's a bit frustrating, but it is what it is. Her sister is depressed and she can't expect Jenny to come over and sit down with them at the kitchen table. It bugs her, but she can respect it. So, armed with a notebook full of cures for ( Read more... )

Follows thisIt is a silent procession down the hall to where Jenny has been holed up. Gibbs in the lead, followed by Stan McQueen, the director of the Albuquerque Witness Protection office. Stan is a small man, a terrier with a pit bull of a personality. Perfect for the job that has been handed to him. He and his agents will keep the Director safe ( Read more... )

In response to thisShe's checking email when she sees it and her nightly "don't worry" note to Abby is interrupted by her sister's rant on their shared community. She reads it once, then twice, and is torn between typing off a childish response and turning off the computer. She wants to respond, to write a pages long letter but it would fall on ( Read more... )

He's flipping idly through the channels and watching the hands on the clock tick while he listens to the hiss and pop of the oxygen tube. He swears he can hear the IV dripping. This one was close, too close, and waking up to see Heather's teary eyes over the mask they had her wear the first time she came in to visit still haunts him. What hell had ( Read more... )

She's just about to wake James up from his nap when her cell phone rings. It's her generic ringtone and she'd let it go to voicemail but Leroy isn't the only one with instincts and her gut has been churning since that day he came in and told her Vance wanted him undercover. She barely trusts Jenny any more than she does Vance right now and since ( Read more... )

He trundles through the door just after six, fresh and clean and undamaged from any undercover work the day might have wroght. He's exhausted but good and when Heather kisses him at the door, her purse tucked over her shoulder, he lets himself revel in the moment of domesticity ( Read more... )

Somehow, he's hungover in the morning. A night sanding down corners of the bed and then checking the internet only to find Jenny drunk and kidnapping dogs ... even Heather's starting to worry about her sister's sanity again. There's a part of him that misses this playful side of Jenny, the side that stayed up and drank any man under the table, and ( Read more... )

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Six hours of hell and a commute that pushed his last button later, he made his way through the door, toed off his shoes, and took a deep breath. The air smelled of pizza, the TV was on in the living room, and he heard the boys laughing at something. Heather emerged from the kitchen and grinned and he swore she already looked better ( Read more... )

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