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[MW] Kingdom Come
Tom doesn't usually dream.
Or at least he doesn't remember them. Or maybe he really doesn't. That has more to do with the fact that he rarely sleeps deeply -- that's a survival habit -- than with any mental unbalance.
Probably.
He's pretty sure.
He's never been big on dreams, anyway. His always seem to involve being naked on the first day of school.
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[WL] Futurefic
[OOC: I'm resisting the urge to call this future "Five Years Gone future." There are no zombies in the Heroes-verse, and no time travel in the WL-verse. So far as we know, anyway.]
Tom managed to stay in Chicago for two weeks after the military surrounded the city. Two weeks after the military arrived, and a week after negotiations started, and ( Read more... ) -
[MW] Pennsylvania
It takes a long time to get anywhere by foot, especially when you're constantly looking over your shoulder for hordes of the undead. It's been nearly two months since Tom left Detroit at a dead run, heading East. Now he's nearing Philadelphia, backpack over his shoulder, gun stuffed in his waistband, and he's really looking forward to finding ( Read more... ) -
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"Smoking's terrible for your health, you know. And if you get lung cancer, the company health plan won't cover it."
Beat.
"And it'll probably make you taste terrible, too."
"Lung cancer isn't really top on my list of worries right now, Bob." Tom sighs, stubs out the cigarrette, and tosses it away. "And the company health plan doesn't exist anymore."
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Pity poor Tom.
Tom has lived in Detroit, MI, most of his life, with four years out in Iowa at Grinnell College studying comp sci. He moved back to Detroit after college and got a job at a broadcasting company. Which, you know, sounds pretty cool -- except that Tom was just a lowly code monkey, working on software for the company's financial ( Read more... )