Kestrel comes into the room, wearily, locking the door behind her ( Read more... )

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Kestrel comes in from outside.

She should be cold. But instead she's just numb. Not a numb-from-cold... just numbShe does not stop in the bar at all, heading straight from the door from the lake to the stairwell, and upstairs, and to the room ( Read more... )

For once, Kestrel is the first one awake.

Possibly because she's awake in the middle of the night. Not even night, anymore. It's 4:30 in the morning, and she doesn't know why she is awake, simply that she isFor a while, there is no thought. Eventually, her eyes open, and she is more than notsleeping; she is awake enough to know that she is awake ( Read more... )

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Kestrel leads the boys upstairs, still grinning, and locks the door behind them once they're in the room.

"So... there was a party downstairs already... any ideas for a party up here, then?"

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She pulls Darien upstairs, and somehow they don't drop any of his presents. There's a huge smile on her face, and she hardly notices the tears still on her cheeks.

'Bren, love, Darien's back, and whatever you have out, put it away, we're coming inside.'

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After a while, Kestrel pulls herself away from the door, and conveniently misses the fact that Meg has been turned into a butterflyKes slowly heads upstairs, feeling cold, and is irritated with herself when she realizes that two of the room's blankets were left downstairs by the fireplace ( Read more... )

There's a small box, of sorts. Looks like it's probably a CD, as there are very few other things that size and shape.

Upon removing the red and silver wrapping paper, the gift reveals itself, indeed, to be a CD.

Flogging Molly - Within A Mile Of Home

There's a note, as well.

Charlie ( Read more... )

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She leads Darien upstairs, locking the door behind them, strips his shirt off efficiently - after all, it was already unbuttoned - and gently pushes him to the bed.

"Lie down, love..."

She smiles, but her eyes are still worried.

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It's been weeks more, now, and she's starting to give up hope.

She even went so far as to go out to dinner with Jack, the accountant, her coworker's brother. That... hadn't really gone well. At all ( Read more... )

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It's been over a month, and she still hasn't been able to go back.

She hadn't tried, that first week or so. Despite having talked to Angela at Thanksgiving that was Angela, wasn't it? Please let that have been Angela she'd still been so worried about Shannon, and Felix, and the baby. But... she missed Darien, and ( Read more... )