4.5. "Sex COULD kill you. Do you know what the human body goes through when you have sex? Pupils dilate, arteries constrict, core temperature rises, heart races, blood pressure skyrockets, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, the brain fires bursts of electrical impulses from nowhere to nowhere, and secretions spit out of every gland, and the ( Read more... )

07. So you thought you might like to
(Pink Floyd - 'In The Flesh?')

[Follows THIS. Co-written with pullmysteth]

( Beth wasn't even going to question his change of mood. If she did, she just knew she'd end up putting a stop to all this because she'd convince herself that this really wasn't what he wanted, and she would be once again rushing to punish herself for breaking his heart. )

10. All the world just stopped now
(Tori Amos - ‘Tear in Your Hand’)

[Relates to THIS and pullmysteth's NEEDLESTICK plot]She really hadn’t been expecting anything to be wrong. She’d just assumed that Riley had been a little late in answering the door and had gone off with Lachlan shortly after. That had been why she’d found the apartment empty. Or so she’d ( Read more... )

3. I saw his face in the corner picture // I recognized the name // Could not stop staring at the // Face I'd never see again
(Pearl Jam - ‘Worldwide Suicide’)Beth hated this. She hated always needing to censor her reactions, or the way she wanted to behave with Riley. She hated that she couldn’t comfort him the way she wanted, or just express her ( Read more... )

2. "Will, my love for you is like this scar, (points at elbow) ugly, but permanent."
| Will & Grace

( Beth was starting to think that returning to Scotland was a more than viable option. She’d done what she could. She’d laid everything on the line with Riley, and while she couldn’t blame him, she also couldn’t wait forever. )

04. Do you remember a good first kiss? // Stars shooting across the sky // To come to such a place as this // You never left my mind
(PJ Harvey - ‘One Line’)

I wasnae looking for anything that night. I wasnae looking to “score” and I certainly wasnae looking for true love. I was at that pub for a couple of drinks with my friends and then he was ( Read more... )

( Beth decided she hated flying. If it wasn't for the fact that the plane was going to be getting her to Riley, then she saw no good reason for why they should exist in the first place. )

1.6 “Carpe Diem.”
| The Dead Poets Society

( This was her moment, and she wasn’t going to bloody wait around for term to finish. )

Since you’ve been gone I can do whatever I want // I can see who ever I choose // Eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant, oh yeah // But nothing, nothing can take away these blues
(Prince - ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’)

She’d almost forgotten what it was like to be single. Almost. The coming home to an empty house had never escaped her memory. It had been ( Read more... )