Part 3

2004

Lily clung to Marshall, sobbing, while thick black smoke dissipated in the air. She couldn't speak, couldn't breathe. How in the hell Marshall managed had to keep it together she would never know.

"Was th-that…? Did you just…?" Marshall gulped.

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Part Two

2008

Ten years wasn't enough time to say goodbye to his brother, not when James barely believed that night at the crossroads had really happened. He tried to explain this to Marshall and Lily at the hospital, in half garbled sentences. He tried to tell them how guilty he felt, all the time knowing that he sounded like a crazy ( Read more... )

Family

May 1998

James watched as his younger brother scrabbled in the dirt, covering the hole in the ground with his bare hands. His dirty-blonde hair hung in a curtain over his face, hiding the tortured expression, the vacant blue eyes. James was glad of that. He couldn't bear to see his brother in such pain, but at least Barney was still ( Read more... )

What would it be like to…?

1. Fly

1980

Loretta Stinson had dreaded this day for almost five years. The phone call had sent her into a panic - running from a job she was close to losing already, all the way to the hospital and Barney's bedside. When she saw that he was very much alive and well, apart from a broken leg, Loretta sagged with ( Read more... )

Title: Learning How To Live
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My way

Sam fiddles with the cuff of his sleeve, then with his watch, scratching his wrist. Everything's wrong. He feels hemmed in - the church is too full and the atmosphere is too oppressive. He feels angry that no-one will talk to him. He's the eldest of all the cousins - he's twenty-two, not a kid - so why can't they just have a proper ( Read more... )

Part Two

He's not angry, he tells himself. He's not. It's just… he expected more of Robin. He stalks back to the bar, leaving his friends to their beer and he orders a martini. Boob-chick is still there but talking to her now would make him feel brittle so he downs his drink in one and heads out, telling himself that he needs some ( Read more... )