Reid couldn't help it, sometimes. He knew he worried Caleb, knew more instinctively or intimately that he worried Pogue, knew he drove Tyler nuts half the time. But he didn't understand, and it made him act in jerky, sudden ways ( Read more... )

We are all God's children, Gaius.I have never heard any statement more terrifying. Gods, who wants that sort of a lineage? Children of God -- it has such a fatalistic sort of sound to it, like some all-encompassing being that we cannot escape, and for a Cylon to claim humans as children of their God ( Read more... )

Pogue made it to school. Caleb didn't. That made... he didn't know what number he was up to on the list of unprecedented events from his best friend, but it wasn't a good number. The drinking. The flinching. The blowing off school. The roof. The fight with Aaron. The things he'd said ( Read more... )

Muse: Nick Andros
Rating: uh. PG?
Disclaimer: not mine, he's Stephen King's
Fandom: The Stand
( Nick's classmates in elementary school would have benefited from a spanking or
being locked in )

Six months. Six ( Read more... )

"Hello," said Colin, leaning over the crib ( Read more... )

If these last comments disturb you, I'm sorry of course, but I think one has to consider the conditions of contemporary cultural life. ~ Oscar Wilde

Just outside London:The coffee/tea shop was pleasant enough - more so than he had expected. Modern designs, what was termed a “chain store” offered everything that someone who loved the tiny ( Read more... )

What could have really happened ( Read more... )

Muse: Dean Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural
Words: 168 ( Read more... )

Muse: Alexa Bond
Fandom: Highlander
Warnings: Strong language, very unhappy and angry pup, drug references.
Prompt: Disturb

OOC: Obviously, Alexa is pretty stressed, sick and not a very happy camper. The holidays are very difficult for her, and her recovery from the drugs and the demon has been full of setbacks. She's not really angry, as ( Read more... )