Something happened between Helen and Kate and Helen wasn't entirely sure what it was. She did know that once Declan showed, Kate was quick to bolt from their beach picnic and it bothered Helen, somewhat. It was mostly amusing, though, because Kate was so completely gone on Declan that there didn't really appear to be anyone else in the world. ( Read more... )

( state of the pups )

Helen had been supposed to meet Juliet for breakfast at the Winchester on Saturday morning and when she hadn't showed, she'd gone to her hut. She was...gone. No sign of her things, no sign of her, nothing. She'd asked one of her neighbors, a silver-haired fellow named Jack O'Neill, and the two of them had searched for a while before Jack said ( Read more... )

( state of the pups )

Nikola's arrival still had her reeling. She'd been dying for Christ's sake and there was apparently nothing anyone could do about it. Nikola was still obsessed with that puzzle, too, so he had to have been rattled to the core and truly thought she was on death's door to be that worried about it. And Adam. Adam. Alive and wreaking havoc like he ( Read more... )

State of Me: I haven't been as active as usual because I applied for a promotion in our Seattle field office and I've been doing a series of interviews for it. I'm hesitant to pick up a lot of threads until I know for sure whether or not I'm going to be moving 3,000 miles away from home in the next three weeks :-\

( sotp )

Something strange was afoot on the island and Helen wanted to keep as quiet as possible as to keep from blurting out something or other she shouldn't. She'd done well enough, spending most of the day in private research in order to brush up on animal surgical techniques. She spent a few hours in the Council office as well, handling a few items of ( Read more... )

( sotp )

It hadn't been a very long flight from Old City to the sleepy little city on the California coast that Helen had picked for their holiday and she was grateful; even the short flight had knocked her out that night. She did wake up bright and early the next morning though, well before Will was awake, and she brewed coffee for him and tea for her, ( Read more... )

Council Bid - May 2011 ( Read more... )