Looking back, Michael knew he would betray them. From that first moment when he asked Tweener to lift the watch off Geary, he knew in some small, shuttered corner of his mind that it was a bad idea. The kid was young...he didn’t understand a thing about cold calculation, and he understood even less about loyalty ( Read more... )

To: Rachel Gibson (my_strappyshoes@livejournal.com)
From: Aldo West (fish40@gmail.com)
Subject: News from The Company

( [EMAIL TEXT WITHIN] )

I think the polite term for it is ‘perfectionist,’ but to put it honestly I’m almost impossible to please. Satisfied...I never did know the meaning of the word, not really. All my life I’ve been struggling for better, for greater things. First I wanted to grow up and take care of myself and I did. Then I wanted to go to school and be the best, so I ( Read more... )

( SPOILERS FOR S2 FINALE BENEATH THE CUT )

"I'm waiting for the world to fall
I'm waiting for the scene to change
I'm waiting when the colors come
I'm waiting to let my world come undone"I don’t trust easily, at least not these days. I can’t afford to...my brother’s life and my own are riding on the line. Linc and LJ are, at the moment, all I have to trust ( Read more... )

There are worse things you can do to a man besides killing him...though for most people, that’s one of the most popular ways to destroy. Still, people are made of more than that...jobs, friends, actions, even souls if you’re the religious type ( Read more... )

( It was just a postscript...a ridiculous moment of normalcy in an otherwise psychotic life he`d forged for himself, and he was so grateful for it he had to cover his mouth to keep from laughing. )

When I was growing up, Linc got into a fair amount of trouble...when we were apart, I’d get stuck in a foster home when he wasn’t there to take care of me. I only ever resented that about him...that he never seemed to understand that I only ever felt safe when we were together ( Read more... )

( You think that you can hear silence if you sit in a room with the television off, no radio, not even the A/C running. )

‘The truth will set you free’...if it were that easy, trust me...my life would be a hell of a lot different ( Read more... )