It was distinctly unfair, Pepper thought, that when she made the inexplicable leap to island life, she should be propelled forward on her timeline rather than pulled back. Was she truly 37 today? Should she bother marking the day at all? Regardless, she wasn't pleased to be that much closer to 40 ( Read more... )

Dated October 19, 2008 (because yeah, some of us kinda suck at links):
Alex gets broken up with. And drunk. The boys are less than helpful.

[ HERE | Completed | PG-ish?]

This is BBC One signing off to say Sam. Sam, are you there?He's not listening to the record anymore, not minding the old recordings that he's found, not listening to the way something keeps pulling at him. It's the doctor's voice and then it's Maya's and then his Mum's and everything in between and he is, for one of the first times, deliberately ( Read more... )

If there was one thing Devon knew about a good New Year's Eve party, it was when to keep an eye on the clock and to get everyone's attention. He'd stuck close to Ellie five minutes to, and when the last minute began to tick away and nobody had done anything about it, he decided to take on the mantle ( Read more... )

Sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile
She loves him, she loves him but just for a short while...The first time the jukebox had played that song for him, had been the same day Gene had turned up on the island. It filled the rec room, the sound booming and echoing off the walls. It was suspicious, and Gene narrowed his eyes at the machine ( Read more... )

Dated November 16, 2008:
Waaaaay back in mid-November, Pepper and Sam have a date. There is food and wine and unfinished construction. There may be even more if Sam gets lucky.

[ HERE | Ongoing | Rated PG]

"You are definitely not an artist," Martha muttered from her place at one of the long tables in the rec room. A cardboard box had appeared a few days prior, and she currently had some of its contents spread across the tabletop: Coloured papers, glitter, glue, sequins and other crafty bits. Creating Christmas cards had seemed like an ace idea at ( Read more... )

The cold hasn't gone away.

The rest of the island seems to be enjoying it, for the most part, from what she's overheard -- all winter coats and snowball fights and seasonal-bloody-cheer -- and Alex wants to tell herself that that's a good sign, that there are some signs of life still even in the wasteland, but she can't quite manage the belief. ( Read more... )

Hailing from Southern California, Shari's experience with snow was limited, at best. She'd spent some Christmases in the Lake Tahoe area with her family, and had been on a couple of skiing trips, but she'd always spent most of her time indoors by the fireplace and had never really understood the concept of enjoying snow. The cold didn't agree ( Read more... )

The chance meeting in the garden with Jo Grant had been rather more fruitful than Evey had expected.  They'd got to chatting and eventually decided that a bonfire in honor of Guy Fawkes Night was just the thing.  Jo seemed to have slightly more positive associations with the holiday, with more fireworks and less explosions, but Evey didn't begrudge ( Read more... )