Lj is purging inactive accounts; I'm making this entry in the hope it will save all the Sloane ficlets and rps which are still very dear to me. 

Anger can be a very useful motivation for one's employees, and downright invaluable in one's enemies. Naturally, one needs a little finesse and a sense of balance in either scenario. It simply won't do to let the anger in a subordinate reach a boiling point at just the moment where you don't need it to. On the other hand, cultivating a long ( Read more... )

What are ten things that no one knows about you, and that you will not willingly tell anyone about?

*meta, since he wouldn't even write most of them down in a locked entry*1) Laura/Irina was not the only time Arvin cheated on Emily. It was, however, the only affair he had, and so the only sexual relationship he thinks of as a betrayal; the other ( Read more... )

In retrospect, it strikes him that the only person he ever tried to explain it to had been Sydney ( Read more... )

*locked ( Read more... )

I had not seen her in decades. Photos, surveillance tapes, yes, but not the woman herself. She had contacted me through the versatile Mr. Sark, but in a way, I had felt her presence before. After all, I saw Jack and Sydney on a daily basis at work, and her fingerprints on them were unmistakable ( Read more... )

It's not the torture, or the fact he had to order his best friend to cut of one of his fingers, or that the appendix in question is currently being reattached by a surgeon which means Arvin can't be elsewhere, taking her of the incredible mess that is SD-6 right now: no, what really makes him feel oddly helpless and at the same time indignant are ( Read more... )

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. - Sappho"So Irina is alive," I said to Elena Derevko, pretending only mild interest ( Read more... )

I must confess that as a part of motivating the students, I ordered the Latin translation of the first novel. It improves Ms. Rowling's prose while retaining her estimable ability to keep up suspense. It seems to work, too; following the adventure of Harrius is easier for teenagers than working one's way through Cicero at his most egomaniac ( Read more... )

My dear Marcus ( Read more... )