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Gabrielle wasn't one to give up on a challenge. She'd always had to cook the meals while traveling with Xena since the warrior could only be relied upon to burn a piece of meat. Oh sure, she'd been horrible at hunting, but she could at least cook ( Read more... )

Dated September 17, 2010:
After dating for three weeks, Alexis decides she's ready to let Cooper show her his room. Cooper exhibits a shocking and admirable amount of restraint.

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Though her mother always insisted on tucking her into bed, it was Tony who would sneak into her room after dark and read to her, the sound of his voice often the only way to lull her to sleep. When she was at her youngest, he read from Grimm's fairy tales, barring none of the gory details, but she didn't mind. They were more interesting that way. ( Read more... )

Dated August 27, 2010:
After asking her out at the roller disco, Cooper and Alexis go on their first date. Cooper even gets to meet Daddy Castle at the end of the night.

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If it's not one thing, it's another.

Everything's been pretty good on the island recently. The weather's good, his leg's healed up and he's been dating. Which is weird. Cooper never really dated at home; there were a lot of girls (and some of them even screwed him) but he's never really been the 'boyfriend' type. He's been on a handful of ( Read more... )

When that stupid box in the basement had given Kate ballet slippers only two days after her arrival, she'd rolled her eyes and tossed them into the bag she'd been filling with clothes at the time. She'd found tiny shorts and tights in the best patterns ever. Even better than she'd been able to get back home. And there was no shortage of tank tops ( Read more... )

Sitting in the rec room, Claudia was flipping through a computer programming book which she'd just pulled from the book shelves. She wasn't really learning anything from it. It seemed about ten years old, but it was kinda cool to be looking through something that dealt with vintage programming ( Read more... )

Make no mistake: Disco was super cheesy. That doesn't mean that it wasn't also super fun. The whole point of the movement was being free and ridiculous, and even after living through the backlash in the Eighties when everyone conveniently forgot they'd been disco fiends, I had to give all those dancing queens credit for knowing how to have a good ( Read more... )

Dated July 25th, 2010:
"Nobody's ever bought me flowers," says Cooper, blinking a little and, reflexively, covering the bruising on the side of his face with one hand as he straightens up, pushing up against the pillow. He breaks into a reflexive smile, though ( Read more... )