It isn't until he's halfway down the boardwalk one evening, hating that he's forgotten to put on any sunscreen, that Mace realizes he's started to take the sun for granted. He's not sure when it happened, can't pinpoint a day when he stopped looking up at the bright smear of light in wonderment, and simply accepted it was going to be there every ( Read more... )

Penny yawns and scrubs a hand over her face, sighing as she frowns down at her textbook. It's still fairly early in the evening, but it had been a long day, starting with her waking up at three for her shift at the bakery, then keeping busy with homework and class for the rest of the afternoon. The notes she's taking now on her reading, while not ( Read more... )

For a day Auggie almost forgot completely about, his birthday had been pretty nice. That was, of course, thanks in no small part to Annie's insistence in celebrating it, something he hasn't really done in a lot longer than he'd care to admit to ( Read more... )

The first time my dad took me hunting, I was a kid, still a few years off from double digits. It's not like I didn't know where meat came from, but I guess back then I still figured even the stuff my dad brought home was pretty much the same as the packaged meat my mom got at the store in its pink styrofoam and cling wrap. I knew it came from ( Read more... )

She was trapped. She was kneeling behind the chair as it happened again, as Hammer froze in place, and Billy came towards him with the death ray. She wanted to stand up and tell him no, that he didn’t have to do this, to ask him why he would even want to do this, but no sound comes out ( Read more... )

Sometimes, he really misses when life was fucking simple.

He's pretty much used to being in pain, by now. The nanobots (fucking nanobots healed the wound into a pretty neat white scar but the prosthetic chafes and his muscles complain. He limps. He falls. He's used to his hands being torn, arms and face being bruised. He stumbles. He feels ( Read more... )

Penny let out an aggravated sigh as she let her book fall into her lap, then stared up at the now very familiar ceiling. It had been a week since she'd been released from the clinic, but the only real difference had been that instead of lying in bed there, she'd been lying in one in her new room. She found it was an unwelcome change from the ( Read more... )

It’s all getting a bit ridiculous ( Read more... )

His leg feels like a goddamned log, and it's driving Mace insane ( Read more... )

Not quite like clockwork, but reliable nonetheless, the island had unleashed its unique brand of mischief on the island once again. Ianto had been pleasantly surprised upon waking up that morning to find that he, for once, had not changed. There had been a ginger male in his bed, but that had been sorted out easily and enjoyably enough. Gwen was a ( Read more... )