Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-eight
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Drama, Romance
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,900

( The rain pattered against the window of her cell. Others found the sound lonely, but she loved it. It was the beat of God's heart. )

Title: Turn the Page: Chapter Twenty-seven
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 2,500

( It's the crumpled pieces of paper forgotten in my pocket that hold the most important information. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-six
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 2,400

( She prayed like the rest of us ask about the weather. It was mundane, every day, but necessary. I think someone answered her prayers, but like the weather, wasn't always what she expected. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-five
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,800
A/N: For those overfed and bored before the flat screen souls, a little Christmas present. Love yah! *awkward sideways hug*

( She was my lady of the mist. Her hair held droplets of water, like trickles of life blood running around her face. The fog swirled in her pale eyes, hiding her soul from me. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-four
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 3,100

( Night is the place to hide. To conceal our secrets, our unspoken desires, our triumphs of the flesh. Her dark blue suit is like the night, covering all this from the world's prying eyes, only the peek of a pale pink silk blouse teasing at our shadowed truths. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 22
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 3,000

( She welcomed the rain. She could walk between the falling drops, silver bars that could never hold her again. She was free. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty-one
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: M
Word Count: 3,100

( When the day dawned, the rains had stopped, but dark puddles spotted the streets, marking my way back to her. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter Twenty
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: MA
Word Count: 4,700

( When the first rains came to California, the earth opened, absorbing all the water it could, but it overflowed quickly, gurgling in the drains and running in sheets down the streets. There was a smell, of damp loam and washed leaves, that had been gone for ages. Now it rose from the wet soil, coiling like smoke, to meet my senses. The first rain was always my release, cleansing my city and making it new. I raised my face to the deluge and was cleaned as well. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 19
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Romance, Drama
Rating: T
Word Count: 3,200

( My first lullaby was a mournful prayer for my sister, my brother, the mother who was not mine, sung by an old woman. A lamination for the dead that became the song of my life. )

Title: Turn the Page ~ Chapter 18
Author: bugs
Genre: AU, Drama, Romance
Rating: T+
Word Count: 3,600

( There was rarely thunder and lightning in California, but tonight the humidity created a pressure in her chest, echoing the roll of thunder. The sudden flash of light in the sky blinded her. )