"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

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She’d forgiven him for the stunt, even though it had yet to take place…but she was still wicked pissed at him. It was probably why they were having sex so often.

( WARNING: some sexual content beneath the cut... )

NOTE: Ziyah is zee_ali and is used with some permission and great love. Carbone is mindisthemagic and all mine. Takes place tonight just after this.

Escape is based on this.

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.He didn’t expect the next breath to come, but it did…and with it, the sun came ( Read more... )

Backdated to yesterday. Follows this and this. Sassy is no_substitution and used with permission and lots of love and cookies. But not better than Sassy's cookies. ;p

“…been examined by you, the audience. One by one, you can check to make sure the cuffs are securely in place before we lock him in. After that, we’ll all retire to the courthouse…”Tommy stood in ( Read more... )

NOTE: Effie is effiecat and is used without permission, but copious heaping helpings of love. Channing is what_its_not and Kyle is inside_mydreams, both of whom belong to me so I can murderlize them at will. :P“Seriously, how many innocent gummy bears had to sacrifice their lives for that thing ( Read more... )

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

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He’s doing this. There’s a lot of ways to say it, with you’re fucked and you’re going to die being the top among them. It all boils down to the fact that he can’t get out of it, one way or another. He will ( Read more... )

He spits another piece of ice into the crimson-stained drain, mouth numb and still somehow burning with agony as he contemplates the sight of his own blood marring the sterile white of his kitchen sink, offset by the coffee-stained white of the tooth he lost in the earlier fight ( Read more... )

NOTE: Set three years into the future. Baileigh is deep_red_bells and used with love and by request.

“So how long are you here?”

“Maybe a week?” Tommy replied, grinning as three year old Mayilia as she toddled past, giggling as another little girl with a familiar head of thick, dark curls chased her down.

“Daddy! Daddy, we play tag!!”“I see that, babe!” he ( Read more... )

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be ( Read more... )

Parallel lines, move so fast,
toward the same point,
infinity is as near as it is farHe was getting her ready for bed when it came over him. Staring down at her on the changing table, his sweet little girl in her pretty lavender jammies, kicking her feet and staring up at him with her mother’s wide, warm eyes. It almost suffocated him for a moment ( Read more... )

You were laying on the carpet
Like you're satin in a coffin
You said, "Do you believe what you're saying?"
Yeah, right now, but not that often

NOTE: takes place February 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM. All muses referenced are present at the event with confirmation of their muns, and used with greatest of love. :PHe’d been here before…in the old days, when ( Read more... )