6.28. I know that we'll have a ball
If we get down and go out and just lose it all
I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go
Let's go way out spaced out and losing all control
I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Co-written with shoothetargetFox had left Wesley back at their apartment while he whined about his sausage-less McMuffin. She hadn't wanted to put up with ( Read more... )

5.1. "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
H. G. Wells

Co-written with doesntwaltz & notskywalkerIt was a weeknight, so The Bondi wasn't very busy except for a steady trickle of musicians coming into jam with others, and a few people having some casual drinks after work. Luke was up in New York for a few days to get the paperwork done, so while he wasn't ( Read more... )

5.16. "Your brother is in a bad hour here and the only way through this is you."
Pride and Glory

Co-written with a68whiskeyThere was a light snow laying that morning from a fall the night before. It was cold, but nothing that Mike couldn't handle. He rubbed his hands together and blew on them, shaking some snow off his heavy booty as he watched the familiar ( Read more... )

3.3. "Happiness isn't what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
Garth Brooks

Co-written with a68whiskey

( Thought I better sacrifce some of my lunch break to come make sure ya' hadn't deceased on me. Lucky I ain't the squeamish sort or you'd be putting me right off my ration of... something brown and squishy. Bonus, though, actually got a mini Mars Bar today... )

3.1. "The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain."
Jennifer Aniston

Co-written with doesntwaltz
[Follows THIS and THIS]Rob felt like a piece of shit, but he didn't care. The medic had said he could get out of bed to make a phone call if he was up to it. It wasn't a question of whether he was up to it. It wasn't a question ( Read more... )

2.3. "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
Jimi Hendrix

Co-written with doesntwaltz | Tuesday 08/09/2009
[Follows THIS]It was five in the morning, and Rob was going to hell. Directly to hell. The sun was barely just starting to rise, and he was about to ring the buzzer of an apartment housing ( Read more... )

2.2. "I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together."
Julia Roberts

[Follows THIS, THIS and THIS]It wasn't foreign for Rob to occasionally have nights of restless sleep accompanied by the odd ( Read more... )

1.30. And though my love is rare
And though my love is true
Hey I'm just scared
That we may fall through
'I'm Like A Bird' - Nelly Furtado

Co-written with doesntwaltz
[Follows THIS and THIS]The truth was Leila had agonised over the choice of bar for a long time. Ever since Rob had left it up to her. She knew the City, or at least some of it, but that didn't ( Read more... )

1.15. "The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control, you're not."
Grey's Anatomy

Co-written with doesntwaltz
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1.2. "Never underestimate the power of passion."
Eve Sawyer

Co-written with doesntwaltz [Follows THIS, THIS and THIS]The jury was still out on whether Rob liked New York or not. It seemed everyone he actually met who was in New York, or knew New York wanted to point him in the direction of a bar. He had names of bars coming out his butt by this point, and a ( Read more... )