Dodger hadn't always resided in the slums of Spitalfields.  He couldn't remember where he was born or even whether he was from London at all, but he'd done his fair share of moving about in his dozen or odd years of living on this earth.  Before joining Fagin's gang, he'd been one of the seemingly endless supply of street children roaming the ( Read more... )

The terrible thing about getting ready to die, Bilbo thought, is that there is really no good way to go about it on short notice. It was all very well to prepare for it in old age, tucked up snug and safe in one's own hobbit hole, but it was quite another to be faced with death on a battlefield where even a magic ring is of little practical use ( Read more... )

Not quite like clockwork, but reliable nonetheless, the island had unleashed its unique brand of mischief on the island once again. Ianto had been pleasantly surprised upon waking up that morning to find that he, for once, had not changed. There had been a ginger male in his bed, but that had been sorted out easily and enjoyably enough. Gwen was a ( Read more... )

There seemed to be a few advantages to waking up in an older body; kissing boys got easier and funner yet more confusing, bikinis seemed to fit her a hell of a lot better then they did before and she absolutely loved doing things. She could run faster, longer and more elegantly- gone were the days of tripping over her own awkward growing limbs. She ( Read more... )

Most of the time, Hiccup spent most of his daytime so active that he just fell into bed and let the world go black, Toothless curled up on the porch with only a thin wall between them. Without surprise nighttime raids, it had been easy to move into a pattern of going to bed at night and waking up when the sunrise sneaked through his window. Once ( Read more... )

Iroh was settling surprisingly well into life on the island. Though Azula's presence was...unpleasant, to say the least, and the absence of his bending left a void in his heart, he found there were plenty of things to enjoy about Tabula Rasa. The weather was pleasant, the people friendly and peace - actual, genuine peace - a delightful novelty ( Read more... )

There were twenty five upside down doors. There were fifteen upside down windows. There was one flying gazebo. And there was one very thoroughly bored fourteen year old girl lying upside down. Suffering her punishment in complete silence, well almost complete silence. Well, not very silently at all ( Read more... )

When Coraline had turned eleven Coraline had hugged Cain so tight she thought she might have broken him. When Coraline had turned twelve she had bounced on Adam's bed, kicking him in the side with her fet as she jumped excitedly and tried to get him up. When Coraline had turned thirteen she had thought of Sarah as mum. When Coraline had turned ( Read more... )

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There was one long table of food. There were three movies; the brilliant High School Musical 3, the amazing Indiana Jones and a truly terrifying horror movie. There were numerous bottles of nail varnish in a wide variety of colours. And most importantly there was one birthday girl and her name was Flick, or rather Felicity ( Read more... )