The yelp of pain startled Cain Callahan as he looked up sharply from where he was focused on reading a book that he had bought in Vegas.  Sounds of pain wasn't something he was used to hearing around his house and so he instantly worried as he quickly pushed back the blankets, sliding out of bed.  "Claire?"  He called, hurrying towards the bathroom ( Read more... )

Someone else’s boy, you’ve had it so hard  //  Will you grow up to be you?  //  Or a sum of your parts just hanging in the air?  //  Someone else’s boy, tell me your convoluted stories through half-rotten mouth  //  I will decipher them, to tell the world of your heart  //  How beautiful things can come from the dark  //  If you could sweep up the ( Read more... )

"It's too hot outside to masturbate."  Cain stated as he walked into the house through the back door, muttering as he pulled the bottom of his white wife-beater to wipe at his brow.

Claire blinked up from the table where she was sitting with her laptop, looking completely and utterly confused.  "What the hell?"

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Photo Prompt

"Mother."

The use of such a title on someone's touch caused a sharp pang to the center of Claire's chest as she lifted her head in sharp surprise, her eyes falling upon her eldest son as he stood in the doorway of her sitting room.  She hadn't been told that she was getting company which probably meant that he had made sure that she ( Read more... )

don't want to reach for me do you  //  i mean nothing to you  //  the little things you give away  //  and now there will be no mistaking  //  the levees are breaking  //  all you've ever wanted  //  was someone to truly look up to you  //  and six feet / underwater, i do

( Based on spoilers and speculations from the next two episodes of Heroes )

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2) "We are men of action; lies do not become us." -Westley, The Princess Bride

Claire could go through her life lying about who she was and what she could do.  She didn't need to tell anyone beyond those who knew in her family, the adopted and the biological.  There was no reason to tell the handsome man and his charming daughter, both of who could ( Read more... )

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway...you rarely win, but sometimes you do.” -Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

It wasn't fair.

It made her wonder if maybe God was playing some kind of joke on her, if ( Read more... )

“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.” -Madeleine L'Engle

Human.

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(Clearly this is an alternate future, it's just been brewing in my head all day.)

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.” - T.S. Elliot

After awhile days started blending together and Claire decided that time could lose all sense of meaning when it simply didn't matter anymore.  A lot of things stopped mattering after awhile.

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