When he got home the apartment was pitch dark. He opened the door as quietly as he could and set his bag down on the ground. There were enough lights outside to guide him through the dark room.

( Peter took off his shoes and pulled off his paramedic uniform )

They'd only gone to bed an hour or two before, after the rubes had drifted back to town, laughing and satisfied, and the lights had flickered out one by one. Lydia had fallen asleep almost immediately, a skill that had escaped her all her life but one she'd picked up recently as her body grasped for some sort of relief, however sporadic.

( She wasn't sure how long after Samuel followed, but he was asleep when she jerked awake, an instinct pulling her from the depths of dreamless slumber that was stronger than her tired body. )

Title / Prompt: Metric - 'All Yours'
Character: Danny (Danno) Williams
Warnings: May be considered to be bashing a certain well-known series of books and movies. Sorry to any fans of it! Also, first non-work thing I've written in about half a year and I'm pretty sure it shows...
Pairings: McGarrett/Danny
Your character's fandom: Hawaii Five-O
Word ( Read more... )

Saturday night

The arms of the small silver clock on the bedside table point at the 12 and 2.  It's 2am and something woke you.  A noise, a dream, thirst maybe.  It takes you a moment to remember where you are, why you're not in your own bed.   But since you're awake, you decide to go check on the girls sleeping on the patio.  They built tents ( Read more... )

Lisbeth Salander
Fandom: Millennium Trilogy
Word Count:  800
Notes:  Set post-canon

It's two in the morning and she can't sleep.  The sounds of sleep are spread thick over the evening, purple and an inky black.  She can't sleep.  It has been weeks since she slept sound, till the noise of the night didn't wake her with some imaginary noise.  There ( Read more... )

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." ~Martin Luther King, Jr ( Read more... )

Mod is SO SORRY, but she's in school and this semester has been insanely busy. Please don't forget that you can drop any prompt requests/suggestions here. ;)

1. Quotes1) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need ( Read more... )

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”

( Spoilers through 614: Mannequin 3: The Reckoning )

Dean Winchester ( Read more... )

"The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying." - Howard Nemerov ( Read more... )

1. Quotes

1) “Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well…” - Sir John Mortimer

2) “The only way ( Read more... )