The door opens, untouched, and through it runs ( Read more... )

[The following OOM is located at an obscure point in millitime that meets the following critera:

After this.
Before this.
Just in time for this.]

I want your ugly
I want your disease
I want your everything
As long as it's free

('cause I'm a free bitch, baby)

[OOM:

Once upon a time, there was a puppet who wanted to be a real boy.

Instead of letting his master move his strings, he started a revolt. He stepped into a fire, and his strings burned up. But, unfortunately, so did he ( Read more... )

[OOM: This is happily ever after.]

In the great machine somewhere behind the stage set, a chain moves. A counterweight descends. Cogs and gears begin to turn.

Oh. Look at that. The story's started up again, hasn't it? After such a long time, too!The boy sitting by the fire looks rather the worse for wear. His torn blue shirt has been inexpertly ( Read more... )

[OOM: Entr'acte: Borrowing a wheelbarrow.]

When Fakir pushes the bar door open, his right uniform sleeve pulls back, to show an arm wrapped in clean bandages. Fakir's left arm is also bandaged. There are probably bandages under his clothes, too, and he looks more than a bit pale.

But Fakir's here, after all. I didn't expect to come back.Fakir ( Read more... )

"I'll just check in the back," comes a soft, English-accented voice from the door, followed shortly after by a small, blond teenager, who stops dead in his tracks as soon as he turns around to see where he's ended up.

"..."

His jaw drops and he just...STARES.

"It's finally happened. I've cracked under the pressure. I'm too young to be mad."

( Read more... )

"Kimmie, come on," Mark coaxes. "You know this could make a real difference."

"Yes, I agree, but it's only been ten days since they announced the results of the trial," she reminds him. "Besides which, I hear they're pricing it at seven thousand American per person ( Read more... )

[After this:

and they reached the right conclusions
and they got what they deserved . . .

into the woods, then out of the woods

(to be continued!)

and happy ever after]

[Most of the dialogue and action in these threads comes from Princess Tutu: Episode 13.]

[Tinytag: Rue, Mytho]

[After this:

It's the last midnight.
It's the last wish.

Most of the dialogue and action in this thread comes from Princess Tutu Episode 13: Swan Lake.]

[tags: Rue, Mytho]

Once upon a time, (I wish)
in a far-off kingdom (more than anything)
lived a fair maiden...

Into the woods, without regret,
The choice is made, the task is set.
Into the woods, but not forget-
Ting why I'm on the journey.

[Most of the dialogue and action in these OOMs comes from Princess Tutu Episodes 11-12.]

[tag: Rue, Mytho, Drosselmeyer]