The sunlight was just starting to creep onto the porch, which was nice. Heading into spring, the air still had a bite to it and the winds still chilled the skin when they picked up. She smiled, tucking her feet a little further under the blankets he'd insisted she bring out with her. She was just getting over a winter cold, and they couldn't afford ( Read more... )

Reid talked about it exactly once, and it started out with saying something so incredibly stupid (and Reid-like) that Caleb almost killed him. And then he explained, and they never talked about it again ( Read more... )

Muse: Tersa
Fandom: Black Jewels series
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own, they're Anne Bishop's. Just borrowing.
Prompt: children
( she had known that the baby was a son )

I guess I just hadn't seen him in that kind of situation before ( Read more... )

Layla put it down to her powers. She could tell when things were growing, and when things were dying. Granted, that was supposed to only extend to plants, but when it was her body you were talking about she supposed it would extend to that as well?

Maybe. At least it felt that way.

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He was beautiful when he was born. He's beautiful now, of course, and you'll say all babies are beautiful, but that's not really true. Some are only beautiful to their parents and some even then the parents have to be in denial over. That's human children, of course. Sidhe children are always beautiful, but he had human blood and I was terrified ( Read more... )

It galled him to be treated so, twisting his stomach into knots of bitterness. It was all well and good to joke about them all being five. It was all well and good to ruffle his hair and joke about him being a child compared to the others. But the truth of the matter was that he wasn't a child. Perhaps he wasn't thousands of years old, but he ( Read more... )

"They started it!" Colin says hotly. "They were picking on Dennis for being small!"

"Yeah!" says Dennis. ( And Billy tried to stuff Colin in a locker! )

[Set after the BDM. Tiny spoilers for a deleted scene.]It took her several days to recover after learning she had had a torrid affair with a pirate. After that little story, though, and the one about the burning temple, she started to collect the rumors ( Read more... )

Muse: Fergus ( Read more... )