Max feels pretty sure that he's supposed to still be scared after Halloween, and he wouldn't tell Bill or another grown-up because he'd probably get into trouble, but it was kind of awesome. There was this giant toy clown and it was totally scary and it was totally going to eat him but then Wolf came and he was like a super hero. He was like Jason ( Read more... )

Not two weeks since Damian's arrival, and already Tabula Rasa has exhausted its nonexistent charm. Between public records and the local newspaper, he's pieced together a working history of the place, and come away dissatisfied. While the dalliance with dull detective work would have surely pleased Grayson, the man wasn't here -- at least, not ( Read more... )

The test of a true leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause of their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so. His friends couldn't even endure their own petty squabbling about their fornication habits, which of course was their own shortcoming, but Sheldon could not help but find some truth ( Read more... )

Dated October 1st, 2011:
"I can go run and get a doctor, but that would mean leaving you..." he said.

Somehow, she ends up with a fistful of his shirt, pulling him close to her, even as she's bending and crying out again.

"Don't leave me."

Martha goes into labour too far from the clinic and the burden of delivering the baby falls to Aidan.

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Wolf's head hurts ( Read more... )

Karen has been looking for Rollie all morning. She's got Josiah with her, dragging him along in his cart. She's been having a one-sided conversation abotu whether 'Josie' or 'Joe' or 'Joey' suits him best but, mostly, she's been doing it to cover her rising sense of panic. Ainsley disappeared and so did Shadow; Karen's old enough to know that ( Read more... )

The initiation of the new girl, it seemed, was to find something dead and roll around in it. Jack had brought Loki home from Daniel's now vacant hut and had given the dogs some time to get to know one another. However, the first chance they had to go run around had them coming home smelling like nothing Jack wanted near the hut. Loki was by far the ( Read more... )

Max has been crying for days. Not in public or around other people because he's not a baby and he hates crying around anyone who isn't Joe. And Joe's gone. Joe promised to take care of him and now he's gone. Max loved him and the stupid island took him away. And it'll take Jason away and then Bill and then Coraline and there won't be anyone else to ( Read more... )

Some children are born completely without imagination. They may look like they imagine, but what they're actually doing is going through the motions and following in footsteps. They make no discoveries of their own ( Read more... )

Skipping his next to last day of classes is pretty pointless as far as rebellion goes, but Jason doesn't care, he'll take it.

He'd left the hut that morning with an extra burst of speed, one hint of a female voice on the other side of Bucky's door enough to tell him that Bucky was too occupied to care what direction he took off in, and so, when ( Read more... )