They'd fixed the door, the splintered frame and broken glass long gone from the wooden floor of the hall, and Jacob turned the key in the lock before he pushed the door open and stepped back, to let Josiah walk first into the room.

( Doc swallowed hard. )

When he first planned on heading back to his world, he hadn't planned on taking his horse.

But when he thought about it, he realized it was stupid for him not to take his horse. Especially if the rain held up for the entire time it would have taken him to walk back to the nearest town -- he'd be drenched in an instant. So he led the horse through ( Read more... )

It's a small town, on the outskirts of the state, he's not quite sure where he's at but he's not quite sure of anything at the moment because he's too far gone, mentally and physically, to give a damn ( Read more... )

Before they pull into the station on the outskirts of New York City (because they don't take the cattle straight into Grand Central), Doc takes the time to saddle up his horse and check all the leather, to brush off his coat and situate himself, and to smoke yet another cigarette ( Read more... )

The ride north into Lamy takes longer than he'd like, but he's not about to push his horse, even if it's not all that hot out. There's a cattle train leaving Albuquerque and heading up for St. Louis, and Doc thinks that he's got enough friends in New Mexico to still call in a favor or two ( Read more... )

He's standing in his classroom, making a fool of himself in front of his students while teaching them about the letter 'W', walking around like he's drunk and trying to get them into the lesson when the door swings open, hitting the wall behind it with a noise that makes the whole class jump ( Read more... )

The door doesn't come back, right away like he's used to ( Read more... )

Tunstall had bought him this suit ( Read more... )

there's a corner of the floor
they're telling you is yours
you're confident but not really sureThe first night he's back from Milliways, Yen-Sun asks him why he seems sad and distant when they're sitting at the table in the small, one room apartment in New York City. He's pushing food around on his plate and he tells her that he's not really hungry ( Read more... )