Cal's canon, The Fix, is a fairly complicated one. It's a satire, so the plot takes a lot of twists and turns and things tend to get laid on pretty thick. This, for me, is all made more interesting by the fact that I do not have access to the entire canon. The Fix was not particularly popular when it debuted in London in 1997; the American debut ( Read more... )

Cal is at a table, as usual, with a raktajino, also as usual. What is slightly less usual is that he isn't really indulging in the people-watching that, in Milliways, is never boring. Instead, he's looking a bit thoughtful, his gaze somewhere off in the middle distance.

Cal is at a table in the middle of Milliways, as per usual. He also has his usual mug of raktajino.

Slightly less usual is the small scarlet feather he's studying, twirling it contemplatively between his fingers.

Today, Cal is vomit-free.

He has a small scarlet feather in his hair, though. He hasn't noticed it yet.

He's at a table with a cup of coffee, half-watching the crowd.

When Milliways pops up in the shelter today, Cal immediately forgoes cleaning off his shirt in favor of swapping it out for a fresh one.

He loves the shelter, but he hates when the animals puke on him.

This time, he understands what's going on right away. A dream that isn't a dream, a meeting place between worlds more tenuous than Milliways. A way to make peace with those he has lost.

He knows whose turn it is this year before he even looks, and when he does look, and sees the familiar figure in the wheelchair he remembers so vividly

(It had ( Read more... )

Cal has summoned the vidscreen back up and been quietly asking a few questions; now he's contemplating it in silence when Sam approaches. He takes in Cal and the vidscreen - and a room key on the Bar - and looks at Cal inquiringly, the better to let him start this particular conversation ( Read more... )

When Cal and Sam arrived from Milliways, they lost no time in hitting the shower: sand in the bed isn't much fun for anyone, after all.

So now the bottom of Cal's tub is finely coated with sand, but the bed is comfortably sand-free for post-coital lounging.

Shortly after his conversation with Tom Riddle, Cal leaves Milliways. His Door drops him at his original intended destination - the video store down the street ( Read more... )

It's been a full couple of days for Cal; the weather is bad at home and things at Milliways have been eventful. His primary concern at the moment is Hermione, and doing what he can for her. After his visit to her cell, he'd decided that part of that involved talking to Tom Riddle. Nothing confrontational, just - sounding him out. Making sure ( Read more... )