( Prompt Table for Old Fashioned Word at 125prompts )

His first partner had been Vera. For six years she'd stuck with him before a life with Theani called to her instead. From one illegal life to the next. Despite it had hurt when she’d left, we was still proud of her ( Read more... )

Tyn slept on the sofa in the engine room under Jairdan's jacket, just like she had on her first (well, second) night on the ship, back when she was 16. It was almost 10 years later now and Jairdan had known three jackets since ( Read more... )

The ship is in a content silence. All she can hear is the thrum of their ship that has a perfectly working and newly upgraded engine and it's a sweet sound which makes her smile. She can't sleep, but not in a bad way. For once she was more or less content with her thoughts ( Read more... )

On the day before Vera was due back, Jairdan did everything. The engine was more perfect than it had ever been in the last few years - the only work he'd managed to do so far. In the morning he went shopping and re-stocked on everything edible. He handed in the finances and even sat in a cafe for breakfast, practically daring the passing ( Read more... )

While he had never been exactly overjoyed with Theani joining them for a weekend or even a week, he was soon sure that he preferred that over the alternative ( Read more... )

It’s strange to wake up and find him next to you, just watching. She’s never known him to do that, not ever. He hardly ever does nothing, and even then ‘nothing’ to him is reading a book or sending a communication to Vera or Amelia ( Read more... )

Sometimes she wonders for a split second - and it's always only a split second because she dislikes wasting her time on such ponderings -when will she stop blushing at the slightest of touches ( Read more... )

She wondered how they could all dress like that while they witnessed what was going on around them. They would stop during their smoke or coffee breaks and watch, silently, as yet another one who used to be just like them was dragged away, kicking and screaming by Enforcers. All for answering the question of a passer-by if that stranger just ( Read more... )

A young woman, dressed in scruffy jeans and a dark singlet walked purposely down the driveway. She was barefoot and her long hair was out from the ponytail she often wore it in, making him smile - a grimace - one he didn't often make ( Read more... )