With the check in my purse I sat silently on a cold plastic seat on the tube. The noise and the shaking transport were welcome as distractions. I switched...
The migraine that had been percolating since morning had deteriorated to a rhythmic insistent buzzing in my head and no amount of aspirin, and I'd taken rather...
The lovely lieutenant was there already, spot on time and efficient as always, just coming out of the telephone box across from the security desk. She'd been...
Duo was watching closely. "Maybe this is a bad idea." I closed the book. "Did I hurt you very much?" His eyes flickered, before he smiled a bit. "You only...
OOC: Thanks to Nikky for the loan of her character, Robert. It was fun to work with you. IC: I called Sally from a pay phone in the lobby of a small hotel on...
"Are we about to kiss?" "Uh." God yes. Please yes. "Yeah, I think." "Okay." But he didn't move. He just sat there for a minute, looking more like he was...
"I don't know why I'm here." But I did know. I went there on a fool's errand, seeking some kind of release or closure, or possibly it was a final separation...
I opened the door quietly, toeing off my shoes and kicking them aside. It was only eleven, but Wufei was the kind of person who got grumpy after nine. I left...
So I'd been summoned. Bloody hell. The game was up and Zechs was livid. I'd heard that cold hiss in his voice twice before and on both occasions the bloke...
"... as good as dead ..." God damn me for a fool, I should have seen this coming. Jack Dawkins was scum and always had been. Dangerous scum. A wave of...
Now be a good boy and die, you bastard. It might've been a better idea to stay and make certain that Zechs did die, but I'd had more than enough of him and his...
Damn, I didn't want him to go. We'd made some headway. Big headway. It felt good, and natural, like Heero had finally decided he was ready to make that leap...
Good news, all-- I finally got off my lazy butt and completed our new webpage. We moved from geocities to tripod, where the formatting is blessedly simpler....
Freedom. A disgustingly relative term; one that I find most people do not truly bother to analyze or even define. What IS freedom? Is it choice? Anarchy?...
"It's a big bed." How did I ever work up the nerve to offer? Why in hell *had* I? After everything, Treize, the knife, the bead of scarlet the bloomed when...
He turned me down. The ruddy, little bastard actually told me no and tossed me out on my bloody arse. Of all the possible scenarios I'd imagined *that* was...
"You're back." I opened the door to Heero for the second time in a night, letting my eyes run over him, afraid to believe what they were telling me. He rubbed...
"To what do I owe this pleasure, Mr. Yuy?" I allow a small smile to play across my face; it would be foolish to assume that his appearance here is pure...
Lucy caught up with me half a block away from the restaurant, arms full of packages and a too bright smile on her glossy lips. I'd never seen Lucy in makeup...
I caught my breath. She looked... I'd had a lot of occasion over my life to wonder why I'd ever been drawn to Zechs in the first place. He was handsome, sure....
I woke up feeling hung-over from a truly horrible night's sleep. Heero had already gone, a fact that left me both disappointed and relieved. Mostly relieved....
Breathe. Fight the drugs and wake up. There are things to do. Jack. Noin. You have a child. Don't die yet, you piece of garbage. Breathe. "Don't make me...
Simon, et al, sorry it took me so long to keep it moving. Things get busy and then it's hard to be inspired, but here we go. Claire IC: "I never intended...
It hurts; oh, it hurts. I had wondered if it were going to, and now I can say with surety: it does. I do not know what the rules for visitation are at this...
What defect did I have in my personality that prompted me to give my heart to exactly the wrong people? This wasn't a new question; I'd asked myself hundreds...
I lost myself in the rush hour traffic. I didn't think about Treize or the rest of the disaster last night. I didn't think about Heero or what I was going to...
"I don't understand about these things," he admitted. Was I any better? Then he touched my lip with the tips of his fingers. "I don't know if I should." I...
I never did get back to sleep after the dream. I couldn't let go of it. Every time I closed my eyes there was Heero's face, on the brink of giving up to it...
I do not know how I arrived home in my taxi, or when; all that I know is that when I did, I went into my bed and slept for what seemed to be a very long time...
Relena leaned back into the plush armchair and dangled her arms off the edges. Exhaustion from a long day at the politicians desk descended as the vid screen...