( The Crowded Hour )

((Tonight, your dreams have all gone wrong. Not quite nightmares but just ...off in that strange way that dreams can be. Share them with us. Or, even better, share them with someone else. Sometimes it's good to talk about these things ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the wee hours of the morning, Sally managed to scrounge up enough sleep to sufficiently rise off the couch the next morning. Alex was already fiddling with something in the small kitchen, trying to coax the coffee pot into life, probably. She and Sally exchanged some sleepily mumbled greetings before the blonde staggered off to the ( Read more... )

Title: Well this is one place where your gods can't dwell
Verse: Hide and Seek
Serial: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Characters: Sally Sparrow and Helen Magnus ( notanemptymotto )
Setting: London, 2010, The UK Sanctuary
Relative Time: 11:56 PM

The drive back to the Sanctuary  was quiet, and felt unnaturally long. Sally watched the streets and unlit shops pass by the ( Read more... )

The rain beat senselessly on the roof above, like a child swinging away at a makeshift drum, a rythem beat out in uneven tempo on pots and pans and anything else within reach. The sound has a touch of pained frenzy to it, the clouds that had been hovering overhead threateningly for two days now being wrung forcefully empty by some great hand ( Read more... )

Title: Trains and sewing machines (oh, you won't catch me around here)
Verse: Hide and Seek
Serial: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Characters: Sally Sparrow and Helen Magnus ( notanemptymotto )
Setting: London, 2010, The UK Sanctuary and the London Underground
Relative Time: 6: 43 pm.

It was growing dusk, Sally realized as she headed outside, resisting the urge to take a ( Read more... )

Title: I haven't slept in one month, and every time the sun's up it's a new yesterday
Characters: Sally Sparrow, Helen Magnus, (notanemptymotto )
Setting: London, 2010
Rating: PG-13

The moon was high, the sky was clear, and Sally Sparrow was wondering when it had become half four in the morning. She let loose a short string of mumbled expletives known only to the ( Read more... )

RP Sunday: Date Night (Tonight, get all fancied up (or dress down), and take a special someone/random stranger out for a night. Where are you going? What are you doing? Do I know you? How did you find my village? These are all important questions!)

Sally fidgeted in the hall. Ten minutes to seven, that was the time, wasn't it? For someone as ( Read more... )

Sometimes, Doctor? I really do hate you.

There's something funny about Doublemeat Palace.