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[OOM: Red {You're a tragedy starting to happen}]

In which Kaye finally takes Ichigo to New York and a visit to the Thistlewitch reveals a dire prediction.

[OOM: Happy Ever Now: Part 2 - Smells like teen spirit.]

In which Kaye, Ichigo and his injured ankle head back to his house for some illicit teen activities. Now with surprise guest star

[OOC: There is a wee teensy bit of clumsy (or sexy ^_-) teenage touching in this. So don't read if it's going to bother you.]

[OOM: Happily Ever Now - Part 1: The Rescue ]

In which Kaye and Ichigo go on a rambling river date. Kurosaki and Fierch, challenging traditional gender roles since 2009!
 

It's a Scottish spring day outside, which is to say that it's cold and wet and drizzly and grey. Ellen spent nineteen years of her life in a world without weather. The Brahmin she brought in from her world has spent all its life in the Capital Wasteland, where wet weather usually means it's time to hide before the acid rain starts falling, and ( Read more... )

There's a young man down by the lake today. Not a strange sight, and not an unfamiliar one either, but there nonetheless. Ichigo finds his time at Milliways much more tolerable when he spends more time outside and less time inside. Maybe it's because outside there's no missing door to taunt him ( Read more... )

Ellen finished touching up the alien guns the other day, so just at the moment she's... not going much of anywhere, really. The thought of that damned, damned spaceship keeps coming back to mind whenever she approaches the front door, even just to check. Then she has to go and sit down for a while to put the panicky urges aside ( Read more... )

Out of Milliways: The Scrapyard.

The door swings open on an August day that smells of blood and dust. The blood smell remains after it closes, but it's largely attached to the smaller of a pair of bedraggled figures. Ellen's in her relatively well-repaired suit of black stealth armor, and she's being followed by an odd-eyed dog that has most ( Read more... )

Ellen hasn't gone back to her world yet. She'll be making her way back to Megaton when she does. Right now she's still mostly trying to adjust to all the things she discovered in Arefu and Meresti; between Ian West and, well, everything that Vance said about The Family, she's rapidly becoming convinced that living on the surface flat out makes you ( Read more... )

There is a massive house of cards being built on a table not far from the bar, the tip of it scraping the heavens themselves, inspiring awe in all mortals and immortals alike who gaze upon its magnificence, their eyes swelling up with tears as they drop to their knees and worship.There is a house of cards being built on a table not far from the bar ( Read more... )