She was so tired. Her whole body hurt and ached in places that she had never thought existed. The pain had stretched and hurt her, changed her inside and out but this time she wasn't broken inside, this time she was happy. Delighted even. This time at the end of it all she had two beautiful little fairhaired children crying angrily at her or ( Read more... )

Even if they did have electricity, Beverly had gotten used to not staying up late at home, because of the lack of light. Humans got adjusted to situations fairly quickly, Deanna had always said. Not adjusting meant that there was either something wrong with you or that you were too damned stubborn ( Read more... )

Asleep on the couch. That would be her excuse on how she didn't see them appear, how the hat appeared on her head, the question-mark umbrella by her side.

She didn't hear the crackling news broadcasts that took place in the pouring rain, the sound of the Doctor - her Doctor's raised over the thrum of air car. Ace was dreaming of the TARDIS, of ( Read more... )

For all that it was said that the truth was a cleansing experience, Jamie Madrox hadn't showered in two days.

He was hungry, he was emotionally exhausted, and God did he smell. While being holed up in his hut had seemed like a good idea, it didn't really work all that well in practice. His hair - already too long by a couple of inches - hung in ( Read more... )

When the sun goes down
In the sleepy little town
Oh, the world keeps spinning
And the planets turn aroundThe Doctor's feet hit the pavement of the roof with a solid double thunk--one Chuck Taylor after the other. He had realized that he'd never been up here before, at least not for very long, and if he was going to be perfectly honest with himself ( Read more... )

After the fight with House, Jack decides he just needs some time. He doesn't stray far from civilization as he thinks both deep and shallow thoughts of the man he's become in two years on the island.

On the 13th, he goes to visit Ace, and finds something no one was ever meant to see.
On the 14, he stops to talk to Toshikoto thank her for walking ( Read more... )

When most people think about the nature of love, they turn to platitudes better suited for the romance section of a Hallmark store. For them, love is about a fat little baby and a quiver full of heart-tipped arrows, shooting people with the implicit feeling that love is supposed to hurt for all that it's reported to feel good. They think of roses ( Read more... )

Despite the pain, or maybe because of it, Daniel almost felt home again. It had been a long time since he’d had a concussion and an even longer time since he’d had a broken bone. Still, by the time he’d gotten to the clinic, he’d already been able to give his own diagnosis. The concussion was easy. The headache, the nausea, the way he couldn’t keep ( Read more... )

Gil didn't dream, because he wasn't asleep. This was just the inert state of a body that had taken all it could possibly take and a mind that could no longer sustain the necessary level of fury to drag it along willing or not. But that sort of thing couldn't last forever, and when Gil opened his eyes the world he saw was... rather more different ( Read more... )

Three days since he'd gotten out of the damn clinic and sometimes Tony wondered if he should have stayed in there. Tired all of the time, he slept a great deal. Unfortunately both the malaria and the drugs gave him dreams that were way too vivid. Way too vivid and way too messy ( Read more... )