Outside Thames House, London
MI5 Central HQ
5:45 A.M. local timeSitting in the back of the rental car, Tom Quinn folds his hands in his lap and watches Brittany Colefield and Dana Scully advance on the doorstep of Thames House. He almost wants to smile, knowing MI5 and MI6 will be thrown when the young woman they had hoped never to see again shows ( Read more... )

Have you ever regretted a wish you made?
Write a drabble on the word 'beautiful.'Thames House looms large in the distance: landmark to one friend's betrayal by his own country, location to another's attempted martyrdom. The three of them sit in the car together, staring at it. Dana Scully has already gone on ahead, perhaps sensing that they need a ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the middle of the flight, he pours himself a drink ( Read more... )

Jimmy McCarron stood at the back of the Concorde, pouring himself a drink. Brittany was out cold at his and Michael's urging, and the ex-CIB agent was having some conversation with his old friend Tom Quinn, while Lex Richards was, as usual, communing with the technical gods. McCarron chuckled, unbuttoning another button on his collar. He didn't ( Read more... )

What does the word 'love' mean to you?At this precise moment, as the Air Force jet screams into the air from LAX, love to Jimmy McCarron means being willing to step in front of the bullet that will likely be aimed at Tom Quinn when he returns to England and die for him. If he survives that, love means shoving Brittany Colefield out of the way of ( Read more... )

Describe what your "happily ever after" would be like.Reading the prompt, McCarron gives one of his trademark cynical chuckles. "Brittany and Michael must be having a field day with this one," he says to himself, knowing that his close friends' belief in such things is the foundation of their lives and of their success. Sure, it might have been ( Read more... )

Written from Brittany Colefield's POV. Brittany, Michael and McCarron confront each other after Jimmy tells Brittany he loves her.It was quiet, simple, understated as love was laid to rest. After speaking with Darius, I'd come home and told Michael everything that had happened - that Jimmy had said he loved me and that I thought I loved him, too, ( Read more... )

Emboldened by his new friendship with Faith, McCarron makes one last ditch effort to keep Brittany from leaving L.A. and ends up dropping the bombshell that will change his, Michael's and Brittany's lives forever.

( Acts of God and Man )

What's the furthest away you've ever been from the place you were born? How did you get there? Why did you go? Did you return or even want to come back to where you came from?I was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in New York, so the farthest I've ever been is where I am right now - Los Angeles. As to how I got here, it is a long story which I ( Read more... )

Feeling complacent after his evening with T.J. and Faith, McCarron returned to his apartment and grabbed the phone off the kitchen counter as he moved through to the bedroom. He dialed Brittany and Michael's apartment, remembering his promise to Michael from the other night. He intended to keep it, and to keep his fledgling friendship with the ( Read more... )