Ned was never the sort of person to confess to needing someone as much as he did Chuck, and he certainly could go for some time without her by his side. He never begrudged her having friends or hobbies - that would, simply, be a stupid thing to do - and he was actually quite fond of her ability to befriend any and everyone she came across ( Read more... )

The facts were these: Charlotte Charles, better known as the girl named Chuck, and the pie maker named Ned had only just partaken in a conversation that many may have considered life changing. Perhaps Ned or Chuck would consider it so as well, but to be completely honest, the giddy pair were only putting a label on something they both knew to be a ( Read more... )

Like with very many things throughout the years they'd spent together, Digby was the first to notice ( Read more... )

It had been three days, four hours and give or take ten minutes since Ned and Chuck had woken up to what was now deemed a proper heatwave where there should have been snow. There was nothing for it but to survive the best they could in their hut, which, when one came right down to it, involved as few clothes as possible. This was not the problem, ( Read more... )

At this very moment, young Ned (who was not, in fact, regularly quite so young) was considerably much happier than he ever was during his childhood ( Read more... )

It didn't take Ned long at all to head out the compound after Olive told him of her and Chuck's discussion - rather, their conversation that happened to revolve around secrets and the telling of them. Two such secrets were plenty, but it was the third that had Ned almost on the run once he heard it. He couldn't stand the thought of Chuck alone for ( Read more... )

At this very moment, it had been two months, thirteen days and twenty-one hours since Ned had arrived quite abruptly on Tabula Rasa. Had the girl named Chuck not been there to greet him nor Olive Snook and Digby not arrived soon after, the pie maker would not have been as content as he was. (Of course, for a given value of content. One can never be ( Read more... )