"Hello Beautiful, how have you been?" He stood against the wall, leaning really, watching her as she approached and smiling like a cat who had just found the cream. It was a shame really, he was such a good natured guy, really sweet, and she was probably going to break his heart. She gave him a non committal reply and deflected the conversation ( Read more... )

Her first real job, kind of, and she was determined to make it work. I mean sure she had gotten it through nepotism, and sure it didn't pay her a wage per say but still it was a job and one she couldn't fuck up to badly at that. Polishing the bar with her clean white towel Sally smiled and looked out over Reliquary, she was a bartender at a bar and ( Read more... )

Sleep brought no peace, not even in Kid's battered old T, the one she had kept and slept in periodically when the nightmares got to be too much and she began to feel even more alone than usual. The drugs washed down with rum and meant to make it so comfortably numb, sat heavy in her stomach as the words played over and over in her head.

"Maybe you' ( Read more... )

I guess I should get going ( Read more... )

"I'm not in the mood..." Rolling over on her side, away from her husband, Sally hugged the blanket to herself and and tried to will away Dodger's obvious frustration. Well she wasn't in the mood, he was just going to have to understand, there was to much going on, to much uncertain. She should have known, shouldn't have expected it to go so easily ( Read more... )

Somewhere, on a mug at some tourist trap, she had once read the phrase, " You can pick your friends but you can't pick your family." How wrong that seemed these days, watching Gypsy make breakfast for the motley crew gathered around the breakfast table, or holding Dell's hand as Althea ran the ultrasound probe over her stomach. Life was becoming ( Read more... )

She is her father on the field of battle, guns blurring, bullets flying, bringer of death to all those who are enemies of the Oracles.  Working with Evangeline she pivots and ducks, reloading as the other mage comes up to fire then switching places when she needs to reload. How many souls does she dispatch in the fight, how much more blood stains ( Read more... )

 The words echoed like bell in the back of her skull.. "Or maybe you're just an albatross, Bad Luck Sally? That must be why everything goes pear shaped when you're around."

What was she doing here, with all these mages, trying to save a world that she felt she had no place in? No, that wasn't right, she had a place, she just to have faith, give up ( Read more... )

She woke up with a twinge of soreness and stretched her limbs slowly like a cat feeling each abused tendon pop and muscle uncramp. A slow smile crawled over her face, satisfaction peeping at the corners of her mouth as her left hand encountered the muscled chest next to her elicting a grumble from it's owner. With a roll he turned towards her, ( Read more... )

There were far to many people in the room but she understood why. They were here in case something went horribly wrong, in case the building wave crashed down suddenly threatening to sweep her out to sea. Still...there were far to many people here and not many of them she could call friend.

But there was Gypsy, Gypsy who was like a big sister, who ( Read more... )