If asked, Veronica Mars was going to the ball because there was nothing better to do on a Thursday night on a tropical island in the middle of nowhere ( Read more... )

Angela takes over a portion of the rec room to work on costumes, and Ros, driven to desperation by boredom, volunteers to help. Angela is her warm and friendly self, but she soon realizes that this has no effect on Ros, who likes to talk as if she were a users manual to some complicated machine. They do talk about Adam a little, and how he's ( Read more... )

If you couldn't depend on anything, you fell back on habits you couldn't break. You put your left shoe on before your right. You brushed your teeth at the same time every day. You told your wife that you loved her every time you left a room. You put the same things in your pocket every morning. You ran ( Read more... )

There was a point in the extraordinarily early morning in which Reese found herself wandering out of the dorms (she hated them and usually crashed on a couch somewhere not there) and into the kitchen. Blind coffee-making was done by routine, before she could even see straight. The clothes box had given her pajamas that were almost too colorful ( Read more... )

Kim sighed heavily ( Read more... )

Jesus it's been a hell of a month. Maybe Rollie's just been spoiled by his time on the island, as much as anyone can be spoiled by being deposited on a desert island, or maybe it really has been that damn busy ever since the whole place turned into some crazy jungle. It certainly feels like he's handling more patients and more illnesses and more ( Read more... )

As surgeons, we spend much of our lives indoors. Seventy hour shifts, buried deep in the O.R., emerging in the middle of the night. We get our sunlight from patient's windows. And the occasional ferryboat ride. Nature isn't something we really do.In just over two month's time, Meredith had acclimated to living on a magical tropical island in the ( Read more... )

There were things that Ros Myers would categorise as utterly unbelievable. Likely not some of the things the average person would think of as such, but then she wasn't average. She'd never been average. She'd foiled terrorist attacks, broken a cell of extremists in Baghdad, she'd survived almost being drowned in the Thames barrier, being drugged ( Read more... )

Ros arrives on the island strapped to a water torture chair. Adam finds her, and eventually manages to free her and convince her that she's not mad. Mostly.