Apartment-hunting - in New fucking York of all places - is not exactly how Gates planned to be sending September, but it turns out to be how it works out anyway. She doesn't really want to go back to Liverpool, and Harry's been making noises in her ear about moving out of the damn office for years, anyway. It's not really a serious thing - she can ( Read more... )

It's mid-afternoon, Sunday, when Gates makes it to Chicago--Lakeview, although she'd probably have to stop and think to name the place, going only by pinpoint coordinates as she is. Council funding goes a long way when she's traveling via pinpoint and thus far mostly taking her 'holiday' by way of wandering aimlessly in and out of the company of ( Read more... )

( but for the grace of god. )