It had been a terribly long time since Jane had spent a good amount of time at the stables outside New Pemberley. She took care of her horses -- both hers and Mr. Darcy's and whomever was boarding at the time -- of course, but she did not see fit to linger. With the weather colder, she now visited more often ( 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... )

( Cut for Tron: Legacy spoilers )

Brad doesn't mind the snow but, sometimes, it's just better to be out of it ( Read more... )

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... )

It was like, way after three and Eric Cartman was starving. He hadn't eaten since eleven-thirty and after two hours of kicking ass on Wii Rock Band, he was totally wasting away like some kind of Auschwitz prisoner.

The kitchen shifts were totally bogus. He was hungry right now and nobody was around to make him anything. And he'd totally make ( Read more... )

There was something wrong with living quietly, peacefully, and that was that I didn't get out much. Didn't make friends, and didn't see much of the ones I had. You worked your way into a pattern and stuck to it, and it felt okay, and shit got done and everyone was happy ( Read more... )

It isn't until turbulence hits, both unexpected and not, that Kate finally allows herself herself to believe. Jack, despite all insistence to the contrary, was sold from the start. Even if he himself didn't know, she could tell. She saw what it did to him; what it did to them. He's always been a man of greater faith than he ever imagined he could ( Read more... )

Kate realized the other day that it's officially been four years. Honestly it's not really a date she pays much attention to. It feels like longer and every day of the past nine months have been some sort of sickening blend of too fast and too slow. Sam growing up way too fast and each day full of too many lulls and silence and the pressing grind ( Read more... )

First Ray, then Walt, and Brad finds himself wondering how long it's going to be before he wakes up and finds Nate or Terry gone, before he has to hold Nate through losing like that. Rather than loss, there's an anger in Brad that he finds himself uncertain what to do with. It doesn't pass. Things are solid between the four of them, better than ( Read more... )