Dated April 15, 2011:
"Bill would kick my ass if I let you climb a dinosaur. You want me to get my ass kicked?"

Joe takes Max to see the dinosaurs, only because he knows if he doesn't, Max will go by himself.

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Britta waits until no one's around before she makes her way into the dance studio. At mid-afternoon on a Friday, she has the room free, the place empty until the evening class unless someone turns up to practice, and she prefers it that way for now. While she's been getting steadily better under River's tutelage (that girl is one intense taskmaster ( Read more... )

It had been so long a time since Jane had last been pregnant that she had nearly forgotten the ritual of it all. She was only glad to see that her illness had not been as severe this time and that she knew what was to come. Lydia was well-aware to note that Jane was growing bigger and had endless questions for her, ones that Jane answered to the ( Read more... )

Following a mishap with the blender and the quick outfit change that resulted from it, Ashby was back in the kitchen, cooking off the last bit of pancake batter and topping the last of the fruit tarts ( Read more... )

For the first time Logan was really starting to feel like the adult he was now. All that anger that had consumed him over the years was finally starting to fade away, and it was getting easier to focus on the future and forget the past ( Read more... )

There are drums beating out in the jungle. It's the native people of the island and they've come to reclaim what's theirs. All night and all day they've been playing and yelling and threatening Max and everyone who has taken over this place. Boom, boom, boom. Max can hear them even through the walls of the compound. He slinks down the halls, and ( Read more... )

It was all so beautiful ( Read more... )

Jack knew Dale had done a lot of paperwork but he'd never had any idea just what the man did. Now he knew. Housing, new people, vanished people, so many things. And it all needed to be kept in order. That appealed to him. Jack liked order.

Of course, Jack liked chaos, too. He found himself thinking of the excitement and thrill and danger of the ( Read more... )

Joe Dick decides the only way to convince Max he can't go home is to let him find out the hard way.

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I'm sitting in the sand.

I don't know how long I've been here.

I didn't run away, this time. We went home, after the fired died down, a small, wooden box of ashes held in Tom's hands. We had dinner. We sat in heavy, aching silence in the living room, Mike's absence hanging thick and suffocating between us. This home that had been warm and happy ( Read more... )