Her door crashed open loud enough to send her falling off the bed and crawling under it. Not reaching for the shotgun, crawling under the bed. If something was landing with that kind of force at her door she wanted a good look at what it was before she decided what to do. Maybe she could go out the window ( Read more... )

It was getting hard to focus. Too much time underground, too little light. Too little food and variation in food, her nutrition was lacking, and she wasn't getting enough water. Or exercise. A part of her wondered if the shackles weren't growing into her body, under her skin, but they hadn't been on anywhere near long enough for that. Which she ( Read more... )

"We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find."It was a moment of rare peace, for them. For all of them, now. The war was consuming everyone, the end of the world as it was, and all that. Swallowing everything up. Her house ( Read more... )

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"A kiss is just a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one." - UnknownDate nights were catch as catch could. Which was to be expected when you were dating a police detective, but there were times when he had a stretch of nights where he was more out of the house than in, where Pam spent her evenings nuking leftovers and curling up in ( Read more... )

"When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul." - Michelle DelioIt only took two sessions. Maybe she shouldn't have been surprised at that; it wasn't a very big tattoo. It felt larger than it was in her mind because of who it represented. Now the last of ( Read more... )

"True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them." - UnknownAnd things had been going so well ( Read more... )

"Dean is way too smug about this."

He almost cracked a smile. "He believes it is important."

Pam shook her head, not even bothering to hide a smile. "He does. It isn't as important, isn't nearly as important as he thinks it is, but he does like it."

"I have noticed."

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Take care of someone when they're sickThey had just gone through this with John. Not this bad, but they had fretted and worried their way through his first colds, his first fever, hovering over him like, well. Like overprotective parents. Pam had expected to go through this with Ester, too, but not this way ( Read more... )

"You look like shit."

Pam was speaking into a phone connected to a barrier between her and the man she had never expected to see again. Between them was a panel of wire and glass, bordered on either side by two panels of plastic. She had seen this kind of thing in movies, but always figured her odds of actually encountering one were slim.

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