The current mood in the Compound (And quite likely on the island as a whole) is that of barely controlled panic. Yesterday morning, an inordinately large number of residents disappeared, blinked out of existence as easily as they'd arrived, many of them right in front of loved ones. It's a situation bad enough on its own, but there's precedent ( Read more... )

As if the unending rain wasn't bad enough, now there was the matter of a whole mess of people just vanishing, all at once. They were there one second, and then gone the next. It was extremely disconcerting, even for someone who had lived on the island as long as River had ( Read more... )

She should have been relieved. Happy. Ecstatic, even. But what she felt was panic. The clinic staff had lost two of its' best doctors, Grey was now in charge, and it was only a matter of time before it became quite clear what a complete hack Sadie Harris had turned out to be. Her father was right: she wasn't cut out for this, and she never would be ( Read more... )

According to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, when we're dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we move through five distinct stages of grief. The order might shift and we all express our loss in different ways, but the steps remain the same.It's been a while since Meredith's done this, standing in front of the bookshelf and carefully scanning row after ( Read more... )

For Tom Hansen, this was the night where everything changed...It wasn't one night. One moment. It was a collection of minutes. Of days, ticking down to one. For all intents and purposes, things should have been going great. He was drawing again, a growing mess of sketches and half-finished plans tacked to the walls of his borrowed hut, a pencil ( Read more... )

The facts were these: for the first time in a long Charlotte Charles found herself to be in something of a situation. As far as situations it was a relatively minor one. No bones were broken, no bodies whose murderer was on the lamb and needed to be found ( Read more... )

We hear a lot of talk about what happens when we grow up - the ways we'll change, the lessons we'll learn. How we'll become calmer, better, more rational people. We'll do good. We'll get things right.Meredith generally prefers it if babies are kept on the other side of a window from her. It's not that she dislikes children, although there's always ( Read more... )

Ronon was gone.

When he wasn't there when she woke up yesterday morning, she thought maybe he got up early for his ITF business and didn't want to wake her. So she didn't worry too much until she realized that his gun and most of his knives were still there in their hut. Ronon never went anywhere without his weapons. That was when the possibility ( Read more... )

With the sun's last rays dwindling in the sky and all manner of friend and volunteer being so wonderfully helpful, Jane believed that New Pemberley was well-equipped for the evening's festivities. She had the loveliest of help from her friends who only deserved the most effusive words of praise for their tasks in helping with chairs, tables, and ( Read more... )

Sam liked the Hub for a variety of reasons. For one, the barkeep poured generously. For another, what he poured didn't taste like shit even if it wasn't the same as the stuff back home. Lastly, it wasn't usually frequented by people he knew -- like Dean and Jess and Neil -- who hung out in the Winchester more than here. If Sam was going to get ( Read more... )