Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay

You can’t escape your past. You can’t pretend it never existed. You can’t move on. You just can’t. Yesterday is going to sneak up from behind and catch you off guard. You won’t expect it. Or, at least, I didn’t.

My life in New York seems almost like a blur ( Read more... )

Derek was a Yankees fan, born and bred. It had been this love for the team that had initially bonded he and his father. The fishing and the camping and the flannel had come later. The Yankees had also inspired his favorite color, indigo. He didn’t know at the time that the pinstripes were actually more of a navy, he just liked the word “indigo.” ( Read more... )

Apparently, CBGB is no more.  Why didn't I know this before now?  My sister was just here.  She could have mentioned something.  That definitely qualifies as an "emergency" personal day I could have taken to fly to New York.  The closing of that club is one of very, very few things I would go back there for.  But it's over with now, so I really ( Read more... )

Apparently, “Doctor McDreamy” is my nickname ( Read more... )

I’ve never handed out trust very freely.  As a teenager, I had few friends because of the whole Star Trek obsession, which would’ve been okay with the geeks in school, except for the whole outdoors thing.  Having your heart broken after being so stupid to think it wouldn’t takes some time to get over.  So in college, I went out with a few girls, ( Read more... )

What makes you jealous and how do you deal with it?

Back in New York, I wasn’t the best of husbands, or the best of friends, or the best of sons, or the best of brothers. But I was the best of neurosurgeons. All I cared about for several years was my work. I took the longest shifts available and always came home after my wife, even though we ( Read more... )

Title / Prompt: Love (July #02)

Character: Dr. Derek Shepherd
Pairings: implied Derek/OC but mostly Derek/Addison and Derek/Meredith
Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy
Word count: 953
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Grey’s et al created by Shonda Rhimes. Derek's high school image, friends, love, etc. are mine ( Read more... )

I’m not an angry person; it takes a bit to get a rise out of me.  There’s one thing, though, that’ll do it every time: the mere presence of Mark Sloan.

I’ve already said enough about Mark to fill a book, so I won’t go into what a terrible person he is.  I will, however, give you the two encounters that set had him cross the thin line between “ ( Read more... )