Madeline left Gabriel asleep upstairs- she only ran her hand over his hair once, lightly, though she did take one of the t-shirts he borrowed from Adam and hadn't washed yet to wear over her own. It's (obviously) too big, but she feels better with it and decides not to care ( Read more... )

( The last few miles weren't too different from the ones that came before them. )

Nica...is annoyed.

There's something in the library that shouldn't be there -- something wrong, something that wasn't there before. She doesn't know what it is, yet, but she knows that she feels--different. She can feel something. She's got a headache she can't get rid of, and that almost never happens. There's always a reason for it...usually a ( Read more... )

Nica spends a lot of her time, lately, reading. Or trying to read, at least, which occasionally bears a passing resemblance to reading, but is in fact much more difficult and generally embarrassing. At one point, she entertained the idea of raiding someone's abandoned house for reading glasses (not because she needs them, but because at least then ( Read more... )

"Oh my GOD ( Read more... )

Wanda doesn't remember how she got to the bar ( Read more... )

On Sunday, at around ten in the morning, Nica realises there is no fucking way she is getting ready for a party in her corner of the library; this is something for which she needs a) a mirror, b) a real bedroom and c) another girl to harass ( Read more... )

It's starting to get dark by the time St. John and Adam get back to Hell, even as fast as the drive back was. Zombies, don't you know. Or...zombie. Singular ( Read more... )

It's late, and Nica's in Dante's instead of heading back home to the library -- it's not safe to be out at night, she's got that much through her head. She's made the bar her home away from home, so it makes sense to be there -- to her, at least, and she's not really asking for anything to make sense beyond that.

So. It's late at night, and Nica is ( Read more... )

Having had a couple of days since he and Chancey were attacked to heal up a bit, and go out in the Sun to make sure that having been bitten had no apparent bad effects, John thinks that it's time to:

• be around people;
• get some booze; and
• get some answers.

Fortunately, he should be able to achieve all of those objectives by stopping by the bar, which, ( Read more... )