There was a big problem with Annie going on a cross-country road trip without ever getting to her destination ( Read more... )

After leaving Fandom more than a week ago, Annie had finally, finally made it to Denver. All she had to do was get her stuff and get things settled and then she could go home and sleep for days. She had to admit that after all of this she was more than a little happy to get here, where she could spend some time where things were normal ( Read more... )

Technically, Flo was no more. Technically. As it turned out, it was easier saying "Kiss my grits" than it was to explain smacking a customer who you thought was getting handsy but was really only reaching to accept a ketchup bottle from the kind person at the next table while your ass just so happened to be in the way. So, long story short, Annie ( Read more... )

When the uniform they gave Annie still had the nametag attached, she'd kept it on for some reason she couldn't explain. Well, that wasn't true. It was because if her nametag said "FLO," people were going to call her Flo ( Read more... )

Hitchhiking was a bad idea. Annie would never speak of it to anyone. Ever ( Read more... )

Somewhere in Missouri, the bus broke down. Whatever happened- it's not like Annie knew- was going to be taken care of on the side of the road, and luckily they were in walking distance to a little truck stop area so that they could walk half a mile and get something to eat while they waited ( Read more... )

Success! It was a sign of how bad things had been that Annie was ready to burst into tears of happiness to just get on the bus that would take her from Baltimore to Denver. All she had to do was make it till Wednesday morning, and she'd be safe at home. Easy peasy ( Read more... )

Did you know that hotels outside of Fandom were a little wary of giving solitary seventeen-year-old girls rooms for the night? Because they were. Annie had discovered this, especially when she made it back to a hotel in Lexington Park around midnight. They really only gave it to her because she burst into tears when they told her no at first ( Read more... )

Through no fault of her own, Annie missed her flight. The cab had dropped her off at the wrong terminal, and then by the time she'd managed to get to the right terminal, the lines had been insanely long, and then she'd tried to be nice and let a family go ahead of her because they were worried about missing their flight, only there were like ten ( Read more... )

Annie felt really bad about leaving. Really bad. But she just wasn't the person that dealt with things like people disappearing and multiverses and things like that. One day she probably would have a tax accountant or whatever these auditor things were, but she dealt with normal things, like good grades and worlds that were totally intact. So, ( Read more... )