The thing with babies was, they grew - and they grew fastDevon and Ellie were doctors, they knew the rate Madeline would be growing at, when her check-ups were needed, when her milestones - both medical and personal - were coming up. Together, they were an intelligent pair of parents who would do anything for the kid they loved with everything they ( Read more... )

The months-long stalemate was finally over. Sure, Zoe would have appreciated it more if the bookshelf had given up the goods two days ago for maximum verbal punnage, but it was better late than never.

In her hands was what she had been after when she had wound up on this island. Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace.What a perfect way to spend ( Read more... )

Sometimes, the pie maker had a day that could only ever be described as greatThese sorts of days were few and far between for Ned, though the length between the good days had rapidly diminished over the past year. He tended to miss his family often, or his friends, and it wasn't hard to bring down the day for a man who spent nearly twenty years in ( Read more... )

The Hub. Late for the serious drinkers, early for the night crowd looking to relax, but either way Robin's already been drinking for hours that afternoon on his own. In fact, he'd been so drunk when he'd walked into the Hub that he'd stumbled into a stool and simply put his head down on the surface of the bar for a good fifteen minutes, breathing ( Read more... )

Dana Scully was not the kind of woman who, after coming to on the floor of the local morgue (drooling, her face pressed against the cold tile), promptly got to her feet, announee-lined back to the hotel bar and casino. For one thing, Dana Scully did not drool. She didn't gamble, either, and she rarely drank. On a more professional note, a qualified ( Read more... )

Dated March 18, 2010:
Grigg and Eden do much of nothing at all, in an oddly sweet and mildly defensive sort of way. Jane Austen would be proud.

[ HERE | Ongoing | PG]

At one point in my life, I knew that there would come a time when I wouldn't be able to protect John anymore. The lessons that I taught him and the war that I warned him of were going to be his and his alone. I thought that maybe I would die for him. Cameron tells me that isn't the case, but she didn't exactly predict this little shift. I knew one ( Read more... )

Saint Patrick's Day had always been a holiday that had a lot of fanfare back in Scranton. Considering there was little to do than go to bars and a good amount of people there were Irish, that wasn't necessarily surprising in the least. Jim hadn't really thought much of the holiday himself since he came to the island, mostly because there'd been not ( Read more... )

"Say cheese ( Read more... )

Occasionally, the power of suggestion was a very strong motivator in making Juliet's decisions for her. Someone implied that she could dress her best and maybe she went out and empowered herself. She woke up every day on a beautiful sunny Island with a beach and eventually she was going to go dip a toe in the water ( Read more... )