After replacing the covers over the ‘girl’ in her bed Tracy snuck out of her house and sat on the step.

“Good morning Baltimore,” she murmured, feeling hopeful that, after the confusing phone call the previous night, she and Link were going to be ok, but she couldn’t quite smile. Link had confused her and there was the small matter of sneaking ( Read more... )

( A little too…big for me. )

For Mel who likes my Trink and for anybody that ever needed a port in a storm.

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“Trace I’m gonna have to make a move.” She smiled at him, not her usual broad grin but something decidedly flirtier. It was a smile she gave only to him.

“Make any move you like, just don’t let my folks catch you.” There was a faint rumble in the distance, it was the ( Read more... )

Tracy was tucked under Link’s arm as they lay on his bed with Elvis serenading them.

“The girls at school all really like you.”

“Yeah I guess.” It really wasn’t news to Link. He used to take a great deal of pride from the fact that he was the most popular guy in school, the local heartthrob, but since he met Tracy it had mattered less and ( Read more... )

( Tracy woke first on Christmas morning and wondered, just for a second, why she was in the living room, then she heard a snore, an unfamiliar snore. )

Link sat up and pulled back the covers for Tracy, trying not to think about the fact that, for most if not all intents and purposes, they were getting in bed together…and would be in a heap of trouble if her parents found them like this. Tracy kissed him, the way she hadn’t been able to do earlier, and then, as much as Link respected her parents… ( Read more... )

Link couldn’t sleep. It wasn’t that he was uncomfortable, the sofa was as comfy as his bed, it wasn’t even the fact that he was sleeping in a house that wasn’t his own for the first time…it was the smell of the Christmas tree he’d watched Tracy decorate with her mother, the dim outline of the presents underneath it…one of which was for him, the ( Read more... )

( 'You live next to a joke shop?' )

For disclaimer and link to LYIO see chapters 1 and 2....I advise reading or re-reading the first three chapter before this...click on the nonnaverse tag...

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Tracy pulled out of Link’s arms embarrassed and saw that she’d dirtied Link’s shirt with her hands, dirtied and bloodied, he followed her gaze and blanched slightly when he recognised the ( Read more... )

“Wilbur are they back yet?”

“Calm down baby…it’s snowy, he’ll be driving slow. Besides, it’s not even late.” Link’s car pulled into the street, the well cared for ’57 Cadillac’s engine noise was a sound they were very used to hearing. “They’re back now.” The time between the young couple getting inside and them joining Tracy’s parents was as long ( Read more... )