Since receiving the scuba equipment, Mathias hasn't really had a chance to use it as much as he'd like. He's put on the fins and the mask a few times, done some shallow dives without the tank and it's only now that he's somehow conned the box into giving him a wet suit that he's strapped on a tank and headed out into deeper waters ( Read more... )

'Lying low' wasn't exactly the phrasing Billy would use for what he'd been doing since he showed up, but he wasn't exactly flying high, either. His first day was spent mostly catching up with Kate and figuring things out-- where to sleep, where to eat, where to get sinfully ugly clothes. Wrapping his mind around what was happening was Billy's top ( Read more... )

It's not that Jude doesn't know anything about plants.  He understands, the way everyone understands, that they need sunlight and water, and some earth to stick down into, and loads of time just sitting there before anything really comes of them.  And he understands that the little shoots in the strawberry planter aren't anything he can identify ( Read more... )

Dated 21 December 2009:
This is so completely unfair, he thinks, that life can be so fucking easy for Jude, that he can simply do this as if it's nothing at all and that Max will let him.

Max always lets him.

When Max and Jude find themselves trapped beneath the mistletoe, only one of them is happy about it.

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The flat sound of fabric being ripped is like a vent for Jude's frustrations, a sound he could imagine occurring within him when he sits down with his pencils and grinds his teeth at the blank sheets of paper he carries everywhere with him, by now, just waiting for something to jump out at him--the tree with the perfect gesture, a bird with wings ( Read more... )

Daisy occasionally likes to balk at tradition. Take, for instance, the fact that now that the club is closed, she could drink herself to a nice little mood at night because she doesn't have to wait on tables anymore. Instead, though, she's got a bottle of liquor that she's smuggled away from the club (she'll make it up to Helen somehow) and is ( Read more... )

Dated October 28, 2009:
In search of inspiration, Jude meets Jack Crew in the kitchen and finally gets himself a sodding job.

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Max Carrigan has never been what you would call athletic. There was a prevailing attitude at his high school that if you wanted to attract girls, sports were an easy way to do it, but Max had always found it easier to simply be himself, and to better result than any of those sad fuckers on the football team. He stayed active enough, though, all ( Read more... )

Maybe it's that Donna's missing home. There's got to be a reason that she's sitting in the rec room, her legs over the arm of the chair she's sitting sideways in as she flips through a comic book. No, not any of the ones that are full of now and unhappy, but the ones that have Alan Scott as the Green Lantern and the world sort of seemed a brighter ( Read more... )

Dated August 24, 2009:
Max and Jude inexplicably wake up back in Sadie's loft in New York on Christmas Eve. Unsurprisingly, they're not very sorry about it.

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