[A few days after this.]

The note she gets is three words long.

I'm sorry.
--SamMac spends a solid minute reading and re-reading it before she folds it back up, the edges crumpling a little, and presses it flat against Bar. It melts into the wood; she keeps her hand against the bartop for a few more seconds, blinking furiously, before she lifts ( Read more... )

As per backroom post, comment with your character's name (past, present, or uh, future?) and I will tell you:

1) how [insert pup of your choice here]'s opinion of the named character has changed over time, or
2) why [insert pup of your choice here] does or does not get along/like/other with the named pup.

Ze Pups Een Question:
Sylar (watchmakers_son)
Mac (q_in_trainingEllen ( Read more... )

Their decorations are still up; the Mackenzie family, as a rule, keeps a death grip on the holiday season until their Christmas tree starts shedding needles like a family dog ( Read more... )

[After this.]

( One week. )

( OOM: Show Me the Monkey. Contains spoilers. )

"Hello?"

"Cindy? It's Mom. I'm afraid I've got some bad news, honey."

It could have been worse. Her great-aunt was old, pretty much never seen outside of occasional birthday and Christmas cards, and -- the small, uncharitable spike from junior year that still needles her in the side every so often -- it's not like she was Mac's real great-aunt ( Read more... )

Sam and Natalie Mackenzie insist on getting an early start for Mac's first day on campus, and she's so jittery that she agrees to it without protest. It's not like it's that big a deal; Hearst is barely any farther from her house than Neptune High. But...it's college. New teachers -- professors, she has to keep correcting herself. New classes ( Read more... )

Dog Beach is twice as crowded now that the summer's almost over, everybody trying to get in their last hurrah before school starts up again. Her mom and dad had all but shoved Mac out the door when they found her curled up with her PowerBook for the tenth day straight -- no change from the past few summers, but they'd convinced themselves that the ( Read more... )

Aw, Mac's journal is feeling so left out of the memespam love.

So! Ask any of mine a question -- Wash (flybywash), Mac (q_in_training), Mercer (mercurialist), or Sam the Shoulder Angel (its_a_robe) -- and they'll answer honestly. Or, alternately, tell me something about them that I don't know.

When she wakes, caught in the sudden complete alertness of adrenaline overload, Mac can think of a couple reasons why, even if she can't remember them ( Read more... )