There were some things that never got old... some things that a guy knew he could fall back on no matter what. Mace liked those things. He liked knowing that he and Capa were going to fight pretty much every day. Might've sounded weird to somebody else - and he was pretty damn sure Searle would've medicated him if he'd known - but it worked for ( Read more... )

"You're not being funny, you know ( Read more... )

So it looks like Rollie's plans for medical outreach services are a go, which means he needs to get on the ball about getting the thing organised. It's his baby and his baby only so he doesn't expect anyone else to take on any of it, which puts him alone in the clinic with a half empty suitcase going through some of the supplies. It probably looks ( Read more... )

It was too late at night (or early in the morning) for Cameron to pretend she'd just come down to the clinic to clean the wound on her arm. Unable to sleep, the clinic was the only place that felt comfortable to her, and if she was lucky, maybe she could rest her head on the desk and doze off ( Read more... )

Impatient had never been a word to describe Annie particularly well, and you'd still never know it to look at her now, but waiting for her injuries to heal was harder than she would've wanted. It had nothing to do with any pain she was in, really, but more her usually dominant arm (or lack thereof) making everything much more difficult, from ( Read more... )

The printing on the note Martha was affixing to the bulletin board was admirably legible. Having moved aside some old fliers, she pinned the paper to the board, smoothed one hand over it, and stepped back to read it for the twentieth time that day:

WANTED: Platonic male companion for research and adventure. Must be level-headed, good under ( Read more... )

Jim hasn't had what anyone would call a good night's sleep since the first night he'd arrived, and that much only because he'd been too tired and hurt to do much else. He sleeps in snatches, and days later the sounds of the compound that should be regular still aren't; they wake him, his hand reaching for a bat that isn't there and hitting sheets ( Read more... )

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