"It would appear that your desire to speak to me is getting in the way of something I like to call 'the pursuit of riches happiness.' If you leave a name, number, slice of cake in my doorway, and how much you'll be paying me if I return your call, I might just."

~BEEP~

"I'm a very important man, you know," Valentine said, conversationally, to the spaniel at his feet. "I had a tower. And it was an excellent tower, at that. Huge. Hundreds of rooms, staircases that went nowhere in particular. Windows! Plenty of windows. Though... maybe not quite enough windows, come to think about it. Hindsight is always 20/20 you ( Read more... )

And that was that! With the holiday season over, things had gotten a little more quiet around the home of Valentine, Namine, and little Mr. Bojangles ( Read more... )

T'was the night before Christmas
And in Valentine's flat,
A Very Important Man was stirring--
No, setting a trap.

( I don't even know. )

Valentine was a very important man. He had a ( Read more... )

Valentine had gone and gotten himself a job ( Read more... )

Valentine hadn't spent the entirety of his time in the real world thus far simply sitting in front of a mirror, making faces at himself.

Simply most of it. The rest of that time was spent on the beach with a trio of juggling balls, busking for spare change. Lunch money, it had accounted to. There was enough money in Jason's bank account to cover ( Read more... )

( If you asked Kairi what it was like, being a Princess of Heart, she would laugh and tell you she'd been short-changed... )

Packing. There was packing to be done, if Valentine was going to be headed back to his own world to seek out the MirrorMask ( Read more... )

Valentine had gone to bed last night, a new grief for a baby girl in a floppy coat fresh in his chest alongside that other pain, the one for the girl with the huge blue eyes that he'd given his heart to before. He hadn't suspected when he went to sleep that he'd dream again, or that it would be as vibrant as the dream that had come before, after ( Read more... )