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There are three people sitting out on the grass by the farm house.

Three people and a cake.

Three people and a cake, and some presents.

Three people, a cake, some presents and party equipment.

One of the paper blowers is already on fire.

Say this about the Frays: They can throw a party.

A single figure is trekking slowly up the road to the Cooper Farm as the sun begins to creep over the horizon. Though only awake for an hour, Ichigo feels as if he's been walking all night. Jane gave him directions to the farm when he told her he needed to get out of the city, but it still took him several days walk to get there. His other half was ( Read more... )

There is a radio, in Kansas, in Smallville, on a farm, in a bunker, in a room, by a crib.

It's crackling.

"Mel? ... Mel?"

Jo's out, disappeared somewhere. Dean's actually pretty OK with that, because seeing Jo want to do things, want to go places? More than just 'OK ( Read more... )

Steph left with Zinda on very near the first time the Aerie One showed itself at the farm since the birds left on vacation. That left Mel with her children - well, usual army of babysitters as well, but when it comes right down to it, just Mel and the girls ( Read more... )

Steph is sitting on the roof of the farmhouse, fingering the grooves worn in the ridge of the roof by dragon-landings and robots and griffins, and Thinking About Stuff.

At the wall where the farmhouse is afforded the least possible visibility from the more crowded areas of the farm, a quarter-lump of brick falls pointlessly to the ground. Mel, nursing her knuckles, glares at it ( Read more... )

You know how if you repeat a word often enough in your head, it loses all meaning and starts sounding like nonsense? You know the word has a definition and it should mean something to you but at that moment, there's nothing to it. It's blank and empty and just there ( Read more... )

This is all so far out of Katara's control ( Read more... )