Meredith's not a big fan of her birthday, less so than usual today, although she honestly doesn't care much about turning thirty. A year's a year and the only thing this birthday means to her is another way of marking how long she's been away from Seattle, which would suck enough even if she were in a better mood ( Read more... )

Pepper couldn't remember the last time she felt so harried. Planning something this large on what was essentially short notice would have been taxing back home, but was all the more difficult on the island, which lacked most of the conveniences that made party planning actually enjoyable ( Read more... )

It was late, and Maureen was walking back to Bohemia after a performance at the club. She had no idea where she'd put the sandals she'd been wearing when she'd come in earlier that night - after searching all over the dressing room area she'd finally given up, and so she was teetering on the path in stilettos. Okay, not teetering, really - she ( Read more... )

Days it had been now, and though Henry Percy had certainly heard a good deal about this place, he had yet to see much of it at all. Even the trip from the beach to the clinic, and one clinic to the other, had passed almost in a daze, contrary to how excruciating the rest of the time had been. He had never been one prone to lying still, to spending ( Read more... )

It was his own fault, really. This was the sort of thing Owen should have seen coming from a mile away. If he hadn't been so fucking naive, then maybe, just maybe, when he'd seen the reel of film marked "Torchwood Episode 1x10: Out of Time" on the bookshelf, it wouldn't have thrown him for such a loop.

If fucking House and the other bloke from the ( Read more... )

Mother made bread when she was upset. I was not upset. I was just making bread. Honest. No, really.

It had been over a month after I'd confused the heck out of poor Bridge, and he'd asked that we stop dating and go back to just being friends. I'd agreed, because... that's what he'd wanted. And if he was happy, I was happy. We were still friends. We ( Read more... )

It wouldn't be a surprise to anyone to find that Jack had fallen for a girl. It wouldn't be a surprise to find he'd fallen for anyone, if a person knew him well enough. Blondes were a weak spot, but so were brunettes and gingers. Tall, short, curvy, thin, male, female, and that was excluding the majority of the beings in the galaxy...

The ( Read more... )

The whole Island was currently one big fairy tale apparently out to undo Sally Harper at a primitive level ( Read more... )

Today promised to be a calm day in the clinic. There wasn't much on Jennifer's agenda in terms of appointments, other than Sansa Stark penciled in later in the afternoon to bring Eddara in for a well-child checkup. Of course, that didn't mean there wouldn't be walk-ins to take care of--the usual burns, cuts, and dinosaur bites--but most Sundays ( Read more... )

Growing up, we develop habits. Routines. What starts a matter of choice or convenience becomes rote. What used to be simply practical is now pattern. In surgery, it makes us more efficient, more thorough. Better at what we do. And that's often true out in the real world, too.It's painful. That's the part Meredith's not supposed to say, the thing ( Read more... )