[Follows THIS and THIS]When Tim woke up this time, it was to Billy and Mindy sitting beside his bed. Despite telling Jason he needed him to stay, he wasn't surprised to find his best friend making himself scarce when Billy was around. It was probably taking all of Jason's strength not to bitch Billy out loudly and angrily. Tim was just glad that ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS, THIS and THIS]Tim really had only agreed to let Mac give him cash for a bed because he knew there was a real chance she might smack him in the face, and he wasn't sure he wanted the headache. It was a miracle he had escaped without a black eye after all this as it was, so he didn't want to tempt fate. He also did really want to get ( Read more... )

LINK: Until a few weeks ago, Tim had started to lose track of time passing. It made no difference to him how quickly or slowly it passed anyway because one day just melted into the next. When he was sitting at home drinking with Jason, he was out drinking alone or ending up in random women's bed, often not even realising the fact until the morning ( Read more... )

Until a few weeks ago, Tim had started to lose track of time passing. It made no difference to him how quickly or slowly it passed anyway because one day just melted into the next. When he was sitting at home drinking with Jason, he was out drinking alone or ending up in random women's bed, often not even realising the fact until the morning. That ( Read more... )

Tim was lying sprawled on his back on the hotel bed, shirtless, legs hanging over the end as re-runs of Cops played on the little TV mounted on the wall. He was throwing peanuts up in the air and catching them in his mouth with ease. The interview was over and done with, and they would be home-bound by plane tomorrow afternoon. So far, Tim hadn't ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS and THIS]Tim managed to locate the letter crushed down the back of the sofa. He'd pretty much forgotten it after Mac left and eight episodes of The Simpsons back-to-back came on the TV. It was probably a miracle he even remembered to mention it to Sam. Mac in Copzilla mode had been a little unnverving, but Homer's hunger strike was ( Read more... )

Tim felt like the only thing he really could do to stop him wanting booze was fry his brain other ways. He was learning that pushing away the urge to reach for a beer was a lot harder than it seemed. In fact, it was terrible. So, he had taken to working out whenever he wanted one, which was basically all the time. He started going for runs twice, ( Read more... )

[Follows THIS, THIS, and THIS]Since Sam had arrived at the pulsing Panthers party on the other side of Dillon, Tim had been quiet. He had been waiting in the drive for her, his hands shoved deeply in his jacket pocket as he kicked at a rock by the letterbox. He hadn't said anything when he got in her car, just tugging his jacket tigher around his ( Read more... )

Before Jason had some to see him, Tim had been having a bad morning. He spent the night awake with bad stomach pains and then spent the morning throwing up again, though thankfully not blood this time. Enough for them to declare he had a mild fever, though, and enough to hook him up to another IV with antibitoics this time... just in case, but they ( Read more... )

The doctor was talking at him, but Tim wasn't really listening. Actually, it was more a fact he didn't particularly understand what was being said to him beyond the fact he wasn't allowed to eat or drink, so the bastard wanted to shove yet another needle in his gut to feed him. He already had two in his arm which were bandaged to cover the sight of ( Read more... )