The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

All in all, Lucy probably shouldn't have been surprised. It was the way of things on the island, that they were good for a while, steady, and then everything bad happened all at once; she'd long since stopped trying to convince herself that anything else was possible. To be ready for it, at least on some level, meant that it would be easier to take ( Read more... )

During her time at Dunder Mifflin Scranton, Karen had done a lot of stupid things. Moving there just for Jim had been toward the top of the list, as was trying to make herself believe he wasn't really in love with Pam, he just had a crush on her. Still, Jim and Pam had turned into two of her best friends, and she still missed them an incredible ( Read more... )

The box had appeared in his hut the day before. Gideon had been on the island long enough to expect this shit - random gifts from this place or whoever ran it, with no rhyme or reason to it. He knew at this point it was like the place just waved shiny things in front of them to not go insane, but he wasn't of a mind to actually discard whatever he ( Read more... )

If you had been upstairs in the Compound or in the Hub at six in the evening of December 31, you might have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, or that you'd once again been whisked off to some strange, new place. Within the blink of an eye, the rooms had changed, sparkling instantly with festive decorations, and it was all so ( Read more... )

Dated early December, 2010:
Gideon helps Eden look for a movie to watch and the two discuss the holidays and the films that come with it.

[ HERE | in progress | PG-13]

( Cut for Tron: Legacy spoilers )

Even with all the parties that I helped coordinate throughout the year, Tabula Rasa Day had become my favorite. I'm not sure who started the tradition, but civic-minded as I'd become, I appreciated the idea of us having our own, self-determined tradition that celebrated not some holiday brought from another culture, but us as a community. Half ( Read more... )

Gideon was not an animal person.

It was a fact that hadn't changed since he came here, despite plenty of the fuckers running around the island. Still, he made exceptions when the animals were owned by people he actually gave a shit about, Eden's most of all. He'd gotten used to Origami by now and tolerated Mr. Muggles (though the urge to punt him ( Read more... )

There's nothing about this place that's easy to get used to. Lexie has known - or, at least, suspected - as much from the beginning, since she showed up a month ago, but still, she finds that it often hits her all over again, not any less noteworthy. Oh, it isn't like she doesn't try, being well aware that moping about how much things suck isn't ( Read more... )