Scott isn't really expecting anybody to show. If anybody does, it'll probably be students from class-- he offered 'em a whopping letter increase in their grade to bribe them, and of course the permanent esteem of their favorite professor into the bargain-- though it's possible some people might stumble in on a whim, lured by the promise of free ( Read more... )

According to all the literature, you weren't supposed to make any big changes in the first year of recovery. That might be all fine and good in the world she came from, Pamela thinks, but with the way the island is...well, it's bullshit. People come and go, there's snow, she's heard you can wake up as a dude. Those are some pretty major changes. So ( Read more... )

Dated December 12, 2009:
While out walking in the snow, Rahne finds her first item, a harsh reminder of what she was back home. In no state to do so herself, the few people who find her help her take care of it.

[ HERE | In progress | PG-13]

October 31, 2009:
Nico and Chase give up on pretending not to be interested in each other and sleep together at the Halloween party. Afterward, the two try to figure out what happens next.

[ HERE | In progress| PG-13]

Normally, though Charlie loves snow. He grew up in Upstate New York, so he figures that it's kind of a requirement. He worries about Edmund, though. He knows what he went hrough. He does his best to keep him warm. Today, he built a snowman outside their hut (he spends less and less time at his own hut), stayed out in the snow until his cheeks ( Read more... )

Dated November 26, 2009:
True Believers!

Thanksgiving is a time-honoured tradition North and South of the border, but when the annual celebration follows at the heels of recent dramas, can our intrepid heroes keep it together long enough to finish dessert -- or is a reenactment of CIVIL WAR in everyone's future?

[ HERE | Ongoing | PG]

The shelf in the rec room isn't a complete dick to her. Okay, so some of the titles it gives up are bogus. She's not interested in books about alcoholism or coping with being handicapped. One was about losing limbs...that didn't even apply to her. Every now and again it would offer up a normal book, smooth and solid to the touch but fucking useless ( Read more... )

Pepper couldn't remember the last time she felt so harried. Planning something this large on what was essentially short notice would have been taxing back home, but was all the more difficult on the island, which lacked most of the conveniences that made party planning actually enjoyable ( Read more... )

If you pay attention, life's basically just this on-going education. Unoriginal, I know, but cut me some slack, I'm still learning. There's a lot left I haven't figured out and a lot I probably never will, but I've picked up plenty along the way, and one of the biggies is this: there's a huge difference between growing up and being a grown-up. ( Read more... )

If there was anything Kiden shouldn't have been concerned with at that very moment, it was numbers ( Read more... )