If everything's under control, you're going too slow. - Mario Andretti

Millie looked around the half-put-together nursery.  The crib had been installed upon delivery, but the mattress and linens weren’t on yet.  The changing table needed to be assembled, there were curtains for hanging and toys that needed a toy chest to go in.  The only part ( Read more... )

“Hey, hey, hey, easy does it,” Millie barked at the two crime scene technicians who were flipping over a king-size mattress that was at the sight of a bloody double-homicide.

The two detectives, both junior to her in rank, rolled their eyes.

“You got a problem?”  Millie walked over, fingerprint brush in hand.  “Let me tell you something.  Don ( Read more... )

Roleplay a scene where your muse is trying on clothes. It can be shopping, wedding gown, closet cleaning out, trying on a new style…whatever.

Late May 2008

Millie stood in front of the mirror, pushing the babydoll-style t-shirt over her stomach.  It didn't look bad on her. It was just...snug.

"I'm faaat," she moaned.  "This doesn't fit me any more. ( Read more... )

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Truthfully, I’m not that great of a cook. My mom always cooked but I was never the sit-in-the-kitchen-watching-patiently kind of girl. I was the tomboy chasing my little brother out in the yard kind of girl. I’d run in to hurriedly chow down on the sopon de pollo con arroz or the frijoles negros, sopping it all up with huge flour tortillas, but I ( Read more... )

“Millie…”

She looked across the bed to meet his eyes.  His were bloodshot, hair flopping over his brow.  He looked a little rough and she knew that she didn’t look much better.  It had been a long week, an even longer month-months.  The months were starting to blur and she still couldn’t believe that the last two years had passed like they had.  ( Read more... )

As of now, this journal follows two timelines -- one takes place at the_bigshow, and all entries that fall in that universe will be tagged as such. The other timeline, for couples_therapy, follows the timeline begun at the RPG lawandorder_siu, and will be tagged accordingly as well.

...why, yes, I AM ecstatic. I found Paula Garces' MySpace page, and on it was a video of a couple of her important scenes from the SVU episode "Name" -- if you've seen the original episode, you can tell that the scenes are longer than what the final episode was pared down to. Anyway, because Millie's such a "small" character in the L&O verse, I ( Read more... )

Roleplay Prompt: You are acting alone, and someone comes around while you are committing the theft.

OOC: Open to anyone on Millie's f-list.

The elevator dings and Millie gets out at the eleventh floor of One Police Plaza.

She rarely has the time to come up from the crime lab on days like this - days when even after being put on ‘light duty’ by ( Read more... )