As she had expected, Helena had been spending a lot of time in the hospital this Christmas vacation.  She loved to see her mother, make no mistake about that, but it was getting to be too much.  When one is spending large portions of every day pretty much stranded in a hospital next to one's ill mother, yeah, it gets to you ( Read more... )

Amongst the many relatively random things of which Trevor had taken careful note since meeting Zachary Bosch was the fact that Zach had very little to do with coffee. From that stemmed the fact that he likely would have had far less to do with it if he hadn't, for whatever reason, started spending so much time around Trevor. Because no one spent ( Read more... )

Usagi drawing is normal. Usagi drawing in class? Also normal. Usagi getting detention as a result ( Read more... )

It's really nothing particularly new to find Dane off in a corner at lunch time. If anything is to be said for most cafeteria tables, after all, it's that they aren't really made to be easily handicap accessible. There are few things more entertaining, in a mildly sadistic sort of way, than watching someone who isn't used to maneuvering injuries ( Read more... )

Ami found herself looking around campus. Aimlessly, really. And lonely. She had been separated from her friends, everyone she knew... Only to try and start over again in a strange place. She nibbled at her bottom lip in worry, pulling her sweater a bit tighter around her form. She wasn't lost, at least not yet, finding herself in front of the ( Read more... )

Brian has packed up a few tools and walked over to Tony's house to work on a science project - a fairly simple one. However, he is used to the partners he is assigned for such things just letting him do the work and smiling blankly when they got good grades in class, so the idea of actual teamwork was intriguing. Not that he couldn't just do the ( Read more... )

What ho, St Jude's! There's a tall young man in a neatly pressed uniform with no sign of ties around his head or blazer inside out. Shocking! He looks like the kind who will inevitably succumb to a life of wearing tweed, peering over his glasses and living in libraries. Surely this cannot be the Rupert Giles you all met before summer? Except it ( Read more... )

"Aaah, I'm Usagi! It's nice to meet you ( Read more... )

Friday afternoon drags on longer than it really needs to, Martel feels, but that's probably got more to do with what hasn't happened yet than what already has. He finds Maria unsurprisingly quickly, and - as agreed - collects her keys from her. (And obligingly takes care not to lengthen his strides 'til she has to run to keep up with him, because ( Read more... )

Monday morning, and Martel ('Aloysius Martel' on all the forms and the teachers given to addressing their students by surname regardless of preference are automatically the ones he prefers - it's always been the way) is ready and out of the house earlier than he really needs to be. He usually manages to get a ride home from Maria ('manages'), but ( Read more... )