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Early mornings - Tom has been doing early mornings for years now. Between the Army, the Realm, and - and the world changes, all at once, one idiotic tumble down a hill in the post apocolyptic badlands of the US - and then there were infants, and the ITF and honestly, really, now sometimes the only time they got sex was in those precious hours ( Read more... ) -
since it falls unto my lot that I should rise and you should not
When the light was just starting to creep out of the sky, they put a torch to dry drift wood and watched it go up. Tom had helped build the pyre mostly because it seemed like the only thing he could do, stacking wood and slotting things together. Someone had wrapped Mike in white linen, but before Tom and Neil had gone to the clinic and touched ( Read more... ) -
Kara
And day bled into night. That alone seemed impossible. Tom had heard people laughing earlier that afternoon and...how was that even possible? Night came on same as always and other people's lives went on and Mike was on a table in the clinic and he had been dead for some time ( Read more... ) -
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There were some things that Tom Hobbes did simply because he felt they should be done. He knocked on wood, he made sure the girls had fresh cut flowers in their hair a few times a week, he set aside a few evenings a month with Neil or with Mike or with both, and he sung in the shower, despite requests to the contrary ( Read more... ) -
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It's a nice night on the Island, but these days, most nights are. It's the kind of calm spell that put him on edge, always waiting for the inevitable passage out of the eye of the storm. Maybe it was for that reason that when Tom checked his watch for the fifth time, toes going pruny where they were hanging down into the water, he was less ( Read more... ) -
Tom/Neil AU - NYC
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It felt like days like this were rare, now. For once, the mid summer humidity peeled back to reveal a stunningly clear and pleasant evening and a sunset that was sending arms of color out across the sky. The girls had gone with Abby for dinner, and Mike and Neil were off at the Winchester and would be for most of the night. After training that ( Read more... ) -
Baby, it's cold outside...
In the late evening light, Tom poured a glass of Island wine and poked his head in on the girls one last time. Sound asleep and had been for more than an hour - the insanity at Christmas Eve dinner had exhausted them, leaving them dead to the world for the duration. The wide eyed excitement and insomnia would come next year, or the year after. ( Read more... )