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Reference
Bits from "Brothers in Battle, Best of friends," by Babe Heffron and Bill Guarnere.
We were walking up beside a house to go occupy it, and as B company was leaving, they told us things had been pretty quiet. "The only action was a round of mortar shells on a nearby house," one of the troopers said. He kind of shrugged it off. We knew the ( Read more... ) -
[for Buck]
It used to be he'd walk the dogs over to the homestead in the evenings, at least every other night, but now they're making due with the long porch and clearing that opens past it. Joe himself sits off the end butted up against the stream, soaking his remaining foot with a crutch laid out next to him. Dee trots to the edge of the trees and whines ( Read more... ) -
[for Gene]
Willing as Joe is to dive headfirst into something, he'd put too much thought into this anniversary to fuck up the dinner. He knows his skill set pretty well: good soldier, decent carpenter--better mechanic--and knows how to read a fucking map, and cooking isn't exactly part of it. He can boil things until they're done and turn a can of tomato ( Read more... ) -
Post-Mardi Gras [for Bill]
He saved his second drink for after dropping Hera off at her mom's, and the ones that inevitably followed, so he was freshly flushed and toeing the line of drunk by the time Bill stumbled back into the house, sitting in the kitchen he'd helped to clean with bottles on the table, some waiting to be opened, others waiting to be cleaned out and put to ( Read more... ) -
[for Gene]
The shower cleans him inside and out, water pounding on his skull, creating enough white noise for him to think through. He's already been through the arguments, the concessions, contrition, which doesn't strike him as a fraction of enough. There's always more of that honesty he'd given Bill earlier, in a pathetic sense, I couldn't even get ( Read more... ) -
[for Homestead residents]
He'd woken up hung over and alone, rolled over to the strangely cold side of the bed, and wondered why he was still wearing his clothes from last night, his fake leg, his one shoe. He managed to change his shirt, before the lift and pull of the chain around his neck reminded him--Gene's tags clapping back against his chest and his own in his ( Read more... ) -
[for Bill and Chuck]
The vespa was a lot nicer than the wheelbarrow Joe had once imagined, but they were drunk and it was late in the evening, and the sentiment alone was enough to put a smile on his face and a helpless laugh in his chest, alternately shoving Bill and shushing them both as they stumble through the hall to the clinic--the compound is surprisingly less ( Read more... ) -
genderswitch [for Sharon]
Joe knows Gene won't kick him out of their bed while he's in this body--knows he's all-accepting and trying to prepare for what happens if it doesn't go away, but after that first night, and the day he's just had at the baseball game, his own feelings are so mixed and twisted to some new chemistry that he needs to get away from the homestead, the ( Read more... ) -
genderswitch [for Gene]
He's slept through it this time, the point where whatever powers the island changed his body, or took him out of it, or whatever it does to people. Maybe the shock of it isn't so bad the second time around, maybe he was just too deeply asleep to notice.
He. Not the best word for it when he wakes up, but that's still how he feels, even with the ( Read more... ) -
Between The Lines Meme
What this meme is all about is expanding on that, to better create a personal history that you can then use to better build personal development. To paraphrase Lindsay, "it's not intended to be a way of avoiding/handwaving actual threads but rather a way of kickstarting them and getting a better idea of where our characters stand with each other. ( Read more... )