The world was in such a rush to speed her by, Jane found, that time passed and it passed until the point that she was but thirty-eight weeks pregnant with child as of the next day and standing there with a hand upon her rounded (quite rounded) stomach, she was lost in the thoughts of what precisely was meant to happen ( Read more... )

Stu had got up early and done up breakfast. He had coffee and juice and fruit and all that, but what he was hankerin' for and finally done up was some thick ham steaks from a shank he'd smoked himelf, grits, red eye gravy, eggs and bacon, biscuits that was almost as good as his mama's, but missin' Abby's touch, and some white gravy with sausage. It ( Read more... )

There was something about hard work. Something about it that made a woman feel like she was doing something with her life, and that's why Shadow was currently straddling a piece of wood as thick around as her thigh ( Read more... )

I find that I have been ever in a mood as of late. I sleep poorly, I eat poorly, I train poorly. I imagine that it all traces to our weekend at home, which should have been restful and peaceful, but instead seems to have instigated all types of chaos where there was none prior ( Read more... )

The last time Stu'd been this big, he hadn't had a care in the world. His daddy was fine and fit, his brothers were both alive and mama held everything together with biscuits and gravy. His daddy had been a dentist way back when, and they hadn't been rich, but they'd been closer than Stu'd ever come near again in his life ( Read more... )

Having taken a moment to realize that she looked more like Miss Fanny Gardiner of Layton Hall than Mrs. Bennet, mother of five daughters and married these twenty-two years, she found that she liked the idea very much indeed, and she would not question how it had happened that she regained her smooth, dark hair and slim, girlish figure ( Read more... )

Jack had nothing better to do, so he was shooting pool. The girl he was playing against had dark hair and a tattoo on her bicep and was just the sort of person you didn't mess with. He could tell she was sharking him, but there wasn't anything to play for really. Her name was Faith and she ruled the table. Jack found himself standing against the ( Read more... )

The Doctor had taken Jay's band idea semi-seriously, and so he had gone around the house drumming on available spaces and countertops and things until Chase had told him to stop it and Atalanta had started howling a little and then there had been Sarah Jane knocking on the ceiling ( Read more... )

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Stu 'bout done had a heart attack when he couldn't wake up Jane. It only got worse when he went to get Darcy to help take her to the clinic and found him in the same shape. He didn't want to leave neither of them, but he needed help, so his next best bet was the treehouse. Finding Gwen and her fella, Ace, Dr. Chase and the Doctor and Sarah Jane in ( Read more... )