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[gavin62truck]

[ Millitimed to shortly before Carlotta's wedding:

"I just wanna see you tonight. That's all."

"I solemnly swear I never touched Katherine Barlow, so help me God."

"I'm glad you got your peace of mind, but this really ain't about you, Tommy. It ain't about puttin' your mind at ease. An' I don't need you fightin' my battles for me." ]

[OOC: Sexual content in OOM.]

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[onceaviking]

 IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet. 



(Outside and back in: warning for adult content: sex and blood)
(tinytag: Eric Northman)

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[smallgayjew]

Over at a booth in a corner is a student. You can tell he's a student because there's a stack of books next to him and a half-written essay under his head.

Under his head because he's currently asleep on top of it.

Possibly snoring. (Just a bit.)

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[for_his_friends]

Remus had actually been quietly relieved when he and James and Sirius (who had invited themselves along) had got to the phone booth nearest James' house and found that it looked nothing like the one Noriko had shown him. And since they couldn't quite figure out what they were meant to do with what they found (even with Sirius' best attempts to remember phones from his Muggle Studies classes), Remus couldn't call Angela.

That relief had lasted the five seconds is took for Sirius to declare, "'S'all right. Prongs can ask Evans about it."

And the shock of Sirius voluntarily suggesting that they involve Lily in anything has been great enough that Remus had nodded without meaning to (which, as much as Remus would like to give Sirius credit for trying to be more mature about the Evans Situation, was probably at least part of his intent). So Aether, the Potters' owl, had been off to Milton with James' letter within the hour.

Lily, bless her, had at least written back to Remus rather than James, and apparently given Aether very strict directions about delivery, as he flew right past James and wouldn't let go of the letter till Remus had hold of the other edge. ("She bribes him with bacon," James said, knowingly and with a certain fondness in his tone that makes Sirius roll his eyes behind James' back.)

The letter begins What have they got you into this time?, but it does detail the steps needed to place a call, and Lily even enclosed the right Muggle coins. She has also included her own telephone number if he wants to practice.

Which is all good and well.

But he still has no idea what to say.

So, one teenage boy, staring at a letter, thinking.

Help?


[OOC: Slowtime, please? Mun's brain is shot. Thanks!]

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[acts_of_gord]

People who know Gordon well know that he has two children, a wife, most of the population of Earth depending on him, and frequent sleep-shattering nightmares. He might not talk about most of that, but he has them all. It's part of being Gordon Freeman.

People who don't know him well... eh, well, they'll know that he's the tall guy with the green eyes and the thick glasses, if only because people who know him but not very well generally know that he carries a crowbar stuck through his belt at all times. Also guns. There's generally one or more about his person in some way, shape or form. Today it's not one of the standard sorts of firearm, it's a big glowing-barreled thing with three pinchy arms on one end and the kind of stock that suggests it's best wielded by someone with wrists of solid iron. He's taking it apart and going over some of the pieces at one of the tables in the Bar, because the Bar is a good place to go when the nightmares get to be enough of a problem that even holding Alyx or soothing the kids doesn't help. And, well, work is better than drinking, but if he needs to, he can do either at Milliways.

People who don't know him at all? They're probably just going to get Looked At, if they talk to him. He's not always the best when it comes to being verbal. Still, they're welcome to try. Who knows, he might change his mind about the talking thing.

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Specials:

Deep Strike
(Jägermeister and Cinnamon Schnapps)
The Monolith
(Gin, Lime Juice, Vermouth)
Just As Planned
(Frozen Cuervo Margarita with Blue Curacao)
Promethium
(Tequila and Bhut Jolokia Hot Sauce)
The Greater Good
(Club Soda)

Don't Look At Me Like That
I Found A Page In The Book Of Recipes That Looked Interesting

... hey, if you'd spent as long today studying how to build and operate radio towers capable of signaling ships in orbit, you'd take the first opportunity to think of something else that came along too.

OOM: Italy, November 1943

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

[You were meant for more than this, you know.
So, do you two ... fondue?
I thought you were smaller.
Just tell me I'm not wearing tights.
It wasn't that. I had faith.]



[tiny tag: james buchanan "bucky" barnes]

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[wordofa_sayre]

The door opens a bare crack, letting through the sound of voices raised in anger.

"Uncle Edward, I am going back to the Old Kingdom, and I don't care what either you or Father has to say about it--"

"Nicholas, I am tired of having this argument with you. We will discuss it further after we return from Dorrance's house party, but for now I don't want to hear another word."

"Fine!"


He storms through the door, slamming it shut behind him, then stops dead in his tracks, staring at the room in front of him.



"... brilliant," Nick Sayre breathes, and a sudden grin wreathes his face.

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[cibopathic]

 Out of Milliways: 

Is chicken soup good for your health?
Not if you're the chicken.

[  warnings for:  restaurant safety and sanitation violations  ]