Ophelia is waiting ( Read more... )

On the other side of the island, dinosaurs roamed the earth. Well, the island if they were actually going to get anywhere near technical about this, but Jurassic Island was pretty much bound to be derivative and Crichton could do gorillas and dinosaurs and Castle liked to think he was better than that. He'd get there one day ( Read more... )

Geoffrey's of an age when he doesn't necessarily do much to celebrate his birthday anymore. (Well, he'll probably demand birthday sex later, but he also demands non-birthday sex so that won't be much of a change. And actually, he doesn't generally have to demand sex at all. Sex just happens ( Read more... )

She was holding onto sleep. The part of her that knew something was wrong, that this wasn't a place she was supposed to be, that there could be danger was screaming in the back of her mind, but she shoved it down and away to hold onto those last moments of sleep. Because somewhere in her awareness, she knew she was lying on a beach, her back on the ( Read more... )

Davos supposed that he had been lucky. Certainly Harry had been keen to mention how his wounds could have been far worse. In the week straight after his injury he had been bed ridden, his arms and legs bound and raised, but he was now free to move around unsupervised, if painfully and only with padding and crutches ( Read more... )

Old paper makes a certain kind of noise when it burns. Dry to begin with, any remaining hint of moisture is sucked out of it all at once with a crack, and then there is a fragile, crispy sort of sound as the edge begin to curl in and finally the whole thing is consumed into little bits of ash ( Read more... )

All play and no work made Hawkeye Pierce a dull (and frequently hungover) boy. In general, he preferred to avoid the vast majority of things that one might potentially call work, but when it came to the medical, he found that he got twitchy if he didn't have a regular supply of people to cut open. He'd known that for some while, but when he found ( Read more... )

With the sun's last rays dwindling in the sky and all manner of friend and volunteer being so wonderfully helpful, Jane believed that New Pemberley was well-equipped for the evening's festivities. She had the loveliest of help from her friends who only deserved the most effusive words of praise for their tasks in helping with chairs, tables, and ( Read more... )

As with any normal person on the planet, I highly enjoyed time off, sitting around, doing nothing but just...being. Thinking. Musing on the important things in life. Though I highly doubt that anything of great note ever came from an idle person's mind, because my thoughts had swiftly drifted towards either senseless things or otherwise, very ( Read more... )

River spent a lot of time talking and reading to baby Zoe, because she had read that was the best way to help her develop her own cognitive skills. She never spoke to her, or any other child, in a manner different from how she spoke to anyone else, but she did make a point of reading to her from classic children's literature as well as from River' ( Read more... )