Dated December 17th, 2009:
After months of avoiding it, Webster returns to therapy.

[ HERE | Faded | PG]

Dated February 1st, 2010:
Spurred on by the thought of moving on with something to try and find temporary happiness, McCoy makes an effort with Chase. Except, things don't exactly work so well.

[ HERE | Complete | PG-13]

Sometimes Chase walked outside as soon as she got up in the morning, before getting dressed, before even getting the sleep out of her eyes... just to breathe the fresh air and remind herself of one of the few things that was better here than in Gotham. This morning, as she padded out her front door in bare feet and her robe, she noticed something ( Read more... )

Cameron hated hospitals. Miniature hospitals with different names did not change their basic function, and that meant he was still stuck in an uncomfortable bed, wrapped up nearly enough to be buried, with a permanent buzzing in his ears ( Read more... )

The bruising is turning out to be pretty spectacular. After his shower, he wiped enough clear space on the mirror to examine them; the ring of fingerprint shaped ones around his neck (courtesy of Spock), mottling that goes through purple, yellow and green across belly and ribs (thanks, Nero). He probed gently with his fingers and then he wrapped ( Read more... )

"Everything you can imagine is real."
      -Pablo PicassoIt was entirely possible that Spencer Reid was suffering from a psychotic break. Given that sliding into mental illness had long been his greatest fear, he probably should have been a little bit more worried about that possibility. Thoughts of his mother should have been plaguing him- ( Read more... )

With Sweets having mysteriously vanished like so many others, Chase was making an effort to spend some more time in the psych office, mostly concerned with ensuring that any loose ends were tied up and any orphaned patients divvied up appropriately among those left - and she had less patients than either Chase or Devlin ( Read more... )

Perhaps God owes us an explanation...He'd weathered the cheerful mockery of the bookcase on more than one occasion since his arrival. On this day, feeling particularly brave, he waltzed up to the shelves with his most commanding of swaggers, said a little prayer and pulled a volume at random from the shelves ( Read more... )

After almost four months on the island, Chase had given up any ideas that the whole thing was in her head. At this point, even if it was, it didn't matter. As such, she was trying to get back to some semblance of normalcy, but around here, that was easier said that done. Even the few patients she had were a far cry from the kinds of cases she'd ( Read more... )

When all was said and done, it looked like something out of a storybook ( Read more... )