Bitte. He says it over and over like that somehow makes it better, over and over in the same language that his Ma used when she was changing his shitty diapers, over and over and it's breaking his goddamn heart. Jesus, he wishes it was anybody other than him who had to tell them, had to tell them that they've got to be locked back in, but it was ( Read more... )

[See his wiki for info on the prosthesis.  Timed to after the sun comes up today, find him on the beach with Bonnie and Dee.]

Sometimes, all it takes is catching some semblance of a break, like an angry dog on a chain and life decided to hand him a steak.  A dog would be a lot less suspicious of that steak, though.  If Gene hadn't come along, Joe ( Read more... )

Alec was gone. Saffron had found out that morning, and while disappearances were nothing new to her, they never got any easier. Just another reminder that the island had made her soft, to the point that she cared about people enough for it to crush her when they were gone. She knew she should have learned her lesson with Chris, and even though no ( Read more... )

Dated December 25, 2008:
On Christmas, the Easy Company officers host a party for their ever-growing "family."

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If there was one thing Devon knew about a good New Year's Eve party, it was when to keep an eye on the clock and to get everyone's attention. He'd stuck close to Ellie five minutes to, and when the last minute began to tick away and nobody had done anything about it, he decided to take on the mantle ( Read more... )

If you had been upstairs in the Compound or in the Hub at six in the evening of December 31, you might have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, or that you'd once again been whisked off to some strange, new place. Within the blink of an eye, the rooms had changed, sparkling instantly with festive decorations, and it was all so ( Read more... )

After Bill's debut, Joe visits him at the clinic and finds his item back where Bill appeared.  Ongoing.

That night, he and Gene fight, and then they don't.

Undoubtedly, this would get her in trouble from one person or another ( Read more... )

Trisha sat curled up in one of the big chairs in the rec room staring at the screen, mesmerized and lulled into a sleepy, sad, stupor by the glow of the old fashioned movies she'd always watched with Mom on Christmas. Right now, the Shirley Temple version of Little Princess was playing. Earlier she'd watched Miracle on 34th Street. She'd never ( Read more... )

She can't stay out and smoke in the snow all of the time, especially since Babe's started giving her shit every time she comes home and it takes her a few minutes to get her fingers moving, no matter how many times she points out that she hasn't lost use of them yet. It's started to occur to her that maybe he's just been colder than she ever has ( Read more... )