Vanquished

The cold hits Juliet’s skin like a physical blow as Kate moves off from on top of her. For a second, Kate freezes mid-movement, then she slowly comes to rest at Juliet’s side on the narrow bed. The cold is immediately replaced by the warmth of a human body next to her. But Juliet knows better than to get too comfortable, ( Read more... )

Keep It Precious

The world twists and turns and bends at the edges and suddenly nothing’s like before. The ground shakes and there’s a steadily intensifying drum in your ears.

She slips and falls and suddenly she is gone and the world stops turning and shaking and everything just freezes for a moment. She’s gone and you’re still there ( Read more... )

“What do you think you’re doing?”

Juliet’s voice startles Kate and her hand snaps back from the item she’s holding. The hard-book cover of Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’ falls to the ground with a dull thud.

Earlier, when she’d watched Juliet leave and then cautiously stepped into the blonde’s tent after another quick glance over her shoulder, ( Read more... )

Something worth running from

Kate used to count the days she already spent on the island. She’s pretty sure everyone used to do it one way or another and whenever she carved yet another  mark into the bark of her tree, a pleasant sensation of accomplishment would wash over her. So she was still trapped here, but hey, look at how many days ( Read more... )

Prologue

The trees look strange at night. Unfamiliar dark shapes, like black remnants of creatures frozen in place at the time of their sudden, collective death. Nothing moves, not a branch, not a leaf. The quiet stillness scares her. It’s like she’s been dropped into the surreal surroundings of a painting. The only living, breathing thing ( Read more... )

The Hour When The Ship Comes In

Kate finds Juliet at the top of a cliff with waves crashing against black rocks far down below. She doesn’t really know how she ended up looking for Juliet; she tells herself it’s because she wants to see for herself that she isn’t up to something dangerous.

Juliet hasn’t been with them for long and Kate’s ( Read more... )

When Olivia opens her mailbox that morning, jumbling out come three letters: Two invoices and one plain, white envelope with nothing on it but her name, her adress and a stamp. She turns it over and over in her hand, trying to figure out whom it’s from. The adress is typed, so she can’t figure it out just by the handwriting.

Shrugging, she ( Read more... )

Smiles

Do you know how many different smiles you are using everyday?

First, there’s the greeting smile you use when simple words won’t be enough. When you feel that you won’t reach your goal by relying on your verbal skills. This smile has been directed at all of us, I think. It’s been directed at Nick, at Warrick, at Sofia, Brass, Greg and ( Read more... )

Prologue - JJ

You look at her back as she walk away and it takes everything you have not to cry out to her. To tell her that you were wrong. That you don’t love him. You love her.

But you don’t, because you lost the right to do so the second your words placed that fathomless sadness in her eyes and made her professional mask slam into ( Read more... )