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135 - "I loved you, I've never loved anyone else. I never shall, that's the truth."
(Letter written but never given to Bella Swan)
While Rosalie claims she did love another when she was human, Emmett never has. He has been devoted to his wife since she asked Carlisle to change him into a vampire... to save him ( Read more... ) -
139 - "If I don't feel sorry for myself, who will?"
"Seriously, Spike. You're getting as broody as Angel can be these days."
He looked up to see Buffy frowning at him as she got weapons ready for their last fight against The First and the whole army of uber-vamps. Right now, Buffy was the only person who gave a fuck about him, and she was going off about how he was behaving ( Read more... ) -
136 - "Every parting from you is like a little eternity."
"Do not leave me," Evelia Synclare whispered to Griogair before she kissed him, arms wrapped around him tightly as if that alone would stop him from returning to his estate. In her heart, she knew he would have to go, though, just as she would have to return home to care for her father ( Read more... ) -
#138: Experts never know, it takes outsiders
"Well, experts never know - it takes outsiders to know." You know that phrase about you can't see the forests for the trees? That happens sometimes and it helps to have others to see it. Fresh eyes that don't really know what they're lookin' at to see what you've spent hours trying to see. It wasn't UNIT or Torchwood that noticed the stars going ( Read more... ) -
Prompt 137 - No more hesitating
"No more hesitating for you!"Gwen had assumed that LISA had quit working because it was time for it to. It was inevitable being technology as well as a prototype. That theory had been revised, however, after she'd taken it to Cal Poly to the Professor that had been her original contact with the unit. After weeks of tests, he determined that there ( Read more... ) -
September Topics
You may write responses to as many of the posted quotes as you like, but you are required to reply to at least one during each calendar month to maintain active status unless you asked for a hiatus.
SEPTEMBER TOPICS
Quotes for the month of September are from the 1940 classic, Waterloo BridgePlease write your ficlet(s) based on one or more of the ( Read more... ) -
Prompt 134
When some people find out that what we do as hunters doesn't include sporting for wild game, they want in on the action; they think it’s a life of thrills, kills, and chills, and it excites them. But what they don't know is that most of us don't have a family, we don't have friends, and we're always traveling from one place to another because we ( Read more... ) -
132 - "What can I do to you? I'm only a shadow."
132 - "What can I do to you? I'm only a shadow." - 'Singin' in the Rain'Despite my understandably obsessive focus on privacy, there have been over the years a few individuals other than my love who have discovered or been privy to my secret. Such things are unavoidable, and I am not too stoic to confess that even I, from time to time, enjoy the ( Read more... ) -
131 - "Dignity. Always, dignity."
131 - "Dignity. Always, dignity." - 'Singin' in the Rain'It is not easy to keep one's chin up and one's upper lip quite stiff when laying on a wheeled ambulance gurney with an oxygen mask strapped to one's face. However, as I recall the incident, I believe I was doing an admirable job of both. My friend and colleague Rupert Giles may very well ( Read more... ) -
131 - "Dignity. Always, dignity."
"She accused me of not behaving like a human."
Emmett just looked at me and laughed. Never in my life had I wanted to hit him more than I did in that moment. "You're not human. Didn't Bella get that ( Read more... )