"You don't know that, Bob! The likelihood of being able to build something with the capability of 21st century technology here is impossible. The tools just aren't available and you know it. You know it ( Read more... )

After working with David for two years, Jill had grown used to the irritation she often felt when dealing with him. It was part of the package that was David Sandstrom. Good looks, a big brain, all the charm in the world when he chose to use it, and the most irritating personality quirks in the entire world. In fact, if she ever walked away from ( Read more... )

There were times when David missed coffee. Not that there wasn't coffee here, but he missed lattes, the kind you could walk in and order and have in five minutes with the milk steamed and a little cardboard sleeve for the cup and then drink on the way to work ( Read more... )

Walks were something that David never used to do much of. But in the absence of a car and no bicycle, you had to adapt or die, or at least adapt or not get much of anywhere and be even more bored into the bargain ( Read more... )

This had never really been Temperance Brennan's thing.

When there were meetings to be held, there was someone else to do it. Goodman, for one. Or at larger digs, there was usually some coordinator who translated her findings and directions for the scientifically disinclined. Teaching was different. Students didn't come to be carefully ( Read more... )

David sank back onto the couch with a sigh. There were books in his hands. There were more on the couch next to him.

This was one time when the bookshelf's sadism wasn't entirely unwanted.

Coma And The Persistent Vegetative State. Biochemistry for Clinical Medicine. Histological Observations on Sleeping Sickness and Other Trypanosome Infections ( Read more... )

When the shaking in her hands started to get worse, Jill pretended not to notice it, she pretended not to pay attention to how things began to shake harder when she picked them up or how papers fluttered from her grip. It was nerves or it was the heat or it was her anxiety and Jill was completely unwilling to admit that it might have something to ( Read more... )

For Jill's birthday, David makes her dinner and takes her down to the beach to eat it in a private sort of clearing. In the end, their plans to go slow get thrown out the window and they don't get much eating done.

[Dated to May 3, rated adult and FTB.]

One hundred and fifty-one days and Bob still hasn't been more than one hundred yards away from the Compound, just far enough to acquire some samples of the local vegetation and soil to examine in the lab in the hopes it would give them some clue as to where they are and how to get home, but not too far. Maybe not even far enough ( Read more... )

Over three months now. Well, ninety-four days and approximately two hours to be slightly more exact ( Read more... )