12.10.3. How To Save a Life - The Fray
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

[Co-written with agentfraser | Follows THIS]Harri let out a contented sigh as she arched her back and stretched her arms and legs out before she smiled and let Marc wrap ( Read more... )

[Co-written with agentsullivan | Set a couple of weeks after THIS]All Ali wanted was a goddamn effing coffee. She had thought today might be a safe day to brave the supermarket alone for the first time since she had Jamie, but it was a huge mistake. All other times either Andrew or Max had been with her but she was almost out of diapers and those bloody things ( Read more... )

9.9. "You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then ( Read more... )

Co-written with mrpublicity | Relates to THIS and THISHarri didn't go back to the conference. She didn't even go back to her hotel room. She made a call to her assistant to get her things packed up and brought back to New York, pleading family emergency. It didn't matter that most knew she had nothing to do with her family. She couldn't think of what else to ( Read more... )

Track 05. Don't give me that bullshit,
you know who I am
[‘One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces’ - Ben Folds Five]

Co-written with agentfraser

[Follows THIS]Harri stayed where she was, one hand braced against the sliding door as she tried to work out if it was easier to bolt, or to try and get some answers. "What the fuck am I doing here?! I'm here to give ( Read more... )

Co-written with agentfraser

[Follows THIS, THIS, THIS & THIS]

Marc hated LA. No, scratch that. He fucking despised it, and he meant that in the nicest way possible. It was just so unlike his inner self that he had never managed to find a shred of tolerance in him to like it. Not as James Campbell and certainly not as Marcus Fraser. He had been here two ( Read more... )

11.1.3. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” - Galileo Galilei

Co-written with agentfraserHarri sat at one of the tables near the back, half-finished coffee and muffin sitting in front of her. She was starting to tire of being the one to chase Marc, but he had requested a mutual meeting ground so here ( Read more... )

14. You're something beautiful // A contradiction // I wanna play the game // I want the friction
(Muse - ‘Time is Running Out’)

[Set Boxing Day | Follows THIS]

Co-written with agentfraserBrooding on the balcony with a smoke. It wasn't a scene uncommon for Marc. He had used to do it all the time at his own apartment back when he was on the rollercoaster ( Read more... )

18. There's no aphrodisiac like loneliness // You shouldn't leave me alone
(The Whitlams - ‘No Aphrodisiac’)

[Co-written with mrpublicity]Lachlan and Tara had left for Princeton very early that morning and Aiden found himself alone at home with Pat for the first time since he had been discharged from hospital. Pat's bad day yesterday seemed to blend right ( Read more... )

8.4. "I don't thinks it's proving anything Doc, as a matter of fact I don't even know what it means. It's just one of those things that gets in my head and keeps rolling around in there like a marble."
| Columbo

[Co-written with agentfraser]Harri had called Marc's office to find out if there was a window where their schedules would match, hoping to follow ( Read more... )