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Blue Bloods: Chapter Twenty-Three - Attraction

"What in the ever loving hell was that?"

Jesse felt Steve's question as much as hearing it. Her melted body draped over his chest, pooled on either side of him. He gently cradled handfuls of her; by the sensation they parts she would normally smack him for touching. At the moment any contact, any sensation, proved she still lived rather than being in some nightmarish hell.

"A scream." She spoke without thinking, but her voice sound...

Drag.Race: Chapter Thirty - Higher Standards

Micah lay on the couch in his office, watching his beloved Ophilia. She sat at his desk... her desk now, cluttered with work the way all her workspaces eventually wound up. There was something she wasn't telling him, but at this moment, here in his office, he couldn't bring himself to care. He was here, she was here, and nothing else mattered.

She fidgeted, and gleaming blades, each at least eighteen inches long, slid from the tips of he...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Twenty-Two - Scream

Centurion cradled Siren's still form in his arms and wept. With a thousand tiny fingers of his mind he held her wounds closed, but it hadn't been enough. He'd reached in and forced her heart to beat, pushed air into her lungs, but her face remained still and slack beneath her sheltering mask. He pulled her to him and rocked back and forth, unable to contain his grief.

Rubble crunched, but he didn't care if someone snuck up and stuck a kn...

Drag.Race: Chapter Twenty-Nine - Ink

Misty lay her hand on Micah's head, brushing his hair back from his face. In the presence of so much Power flying about the room, his hair had grown thick and black, replacing his usual buzz cut with a head full of wavy black hair that hung down to his shoulders. She admired the perfect formation of his features, the way his body was muscular and manly without being grotesque. Power flowed, and Micah shuddered, shifted, and opened his eyes. 2024-03-01 06:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Blue Bloods: Chapter Twenty-One - Card Reader

Steve stumbled along in darkness, following Jesse's scent more than her hand. He heard her dodge left past a squeaking cart. He followed, caroming off the wall before he righted himself.

"Hang in there, Steve. We're to the elevator. It should be here soon."

"I hear it. Needs maintenance." Even with the cotton in his ears, every little sound rapped his skull with a drumstick. His own words each echoed endlessly, until he couldn't th...

Drag.Race: Chapter Twenty-Eight - Death

Ricardo and X looked on as the great dragon's head slithered down to his prey once more. Their daughter lay in the clutches of something neither of them could hope to fight and survive. Ricardo slipped his hand into X's, and in a voice so low he could barely hear himself, said, "I have loved you since I met you, mi corazon."

X held his hand in a grip both powerful and gentle. "Back at you, Ricky."

There was a brief calm in...

Hit a wall

Hey there!

I want to apologize for being a little late with the latest advanced chapter of Blue Bloods, as well as being slow off the mark with the 'next steps' of alternate-viewpoint Diary chapters and eBooks.

Some time last weekend I kind of hit a wall in terms of how much I could do how fast, and wound up being barely able to keep up with the Diary, let alone the other stuff. Not an excuse, just wanted to let you know I didn't f...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Twenty - Transitional Rooms

Drew's phone vibrated against her hip just as the elevator doors slid open. She checked the screen, but the caller ID read 'blocked'. She stepped in and punched the button for the fourth floor without looking. The doors slid shut, the elevator started to rise with the same lurch she'd felt every time she'd come to the hospital since the rain of fire. Charlie had stuck around just long enough to get the elevators working again, although only th...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Nineteen - Heroes

Katrina watched as Damien ran a final check on his video equipment. Her heart raced in counterpoint to the bursts of gunfire in the distance. Her phone jangled in her ear. She tapped the case secured to her hip.

"Dammit, Eduardo, I told you I'd call you when I had the video ready! You're going to get me killed ringing my phone one of these days!"

"You're supposed to turn it off." Damien's voice was harsh, but she saw the ghost of a...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Eighteen - Break Room

Rumbling construction equipment woke Jack from a sound sleep. He debated the pros and cons of going to the window to investigate for a bit before he remembered. A wondering smile crept across his face, and he rolled slowly out of bed and walked carefully to the window. He tried to wipe the idiot grin off his face, but it wouldn't leave. His legs didn't hurt or wobble. The curtain opened with a twitch of his hand, a hand that didn't ache or sli...

Drag.Race: Chapter Twenty-Seven - Pain

The universe was pain and weight and fatigue. The only hope was enough pain to end it all. Micah couldn't remember how long he'd trudged, step after step, through the snow. Vaguely he realized he felt no snow under his feet now. Instead, his feet rested on smooth, polished wood. Apparently the soles of his boots had worn through.

The Morrigan's voice echoed through the room, "Now, Wyrm, you have something of Ours."

A voice of scale...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Seventeen - Directions

Deep within her warm, dark cocoon, Grace dreamed of music. The achingly sweet refrains she pulled from her cello. The fierce beat of a marching band. The quiet melody of a stream. The insistent pulse of a heartbeat. The false cacophony of a city, thousands of sounds blending into a melodious whole. The painfully loud and deep ululations of planets whipping around their stars. The crunchy pounding of the universe itself, collapsing into chaos b...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Sixteen - Blood

Angela leaned against a door, trying to remember why she stood in the emergency room. She remembered nothing but blur of bodies, triage, and emergency surgery. It started an hour or so after the rain of fire and still hadn't let up. She stared blearily around the room, trying to figure out where all the patients had gone. The hiss of the automatic doors pulled her gaze around toward the exterior doors; another wave of injuries coming in. The p...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Fifteen - Rest

One moment Grace clutched the heaving seat of the water taxi as the cabbie tried to fight his way up the enormous tsunami. The next moment, the wave broke, flipping the tiny boat end for end, slamming it down, crushing it into matchsticks in an instant. She clung to the seat cushion, hoping it would float, but the force of the turbulent water tore it from her grasp.

As the furious water whipped her around, she tumbled end over end until ...

Blue Bloods: Chapter Fourteen - Burning

Walker stared in awe at the passing celestial visitor. Most of the world couldn’t see what saw just now. Most of the world wouldn’t believe it if they could. He wished he had a video camera, but all the work he had done so far was related to patching a section of the space station’s hull until it was reasonably airtight. Scrounging for electronics would come later. If there was a later.

He checked his suit again. Power had gotten l...

Chapter Thirteen - Bad Day

Steve was having a bad day. First, he got roped into a no-booze party by Charlie. Then he got knocked off the roof by a helicopter blade. Finally, he woke up in the back parking lot naked, with a topless Angela holding his junk and crying.

OK, that last wouldn’t be too bad if he could just remember how he got here and why the fire alarm was going off. A header off the roof would leave him with some marks. It was more likely to leave hi...

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty-Six - Misty

...Misty stared at Mic. She didn't have time for a visit. Drake would be free of the blessed bamboo soon, and when he was, he would be furious. He would kill her if he caught up to her.

Mic pulled her to him. Their lips met, the heat of the kiss searing its way down her spine, etching itself into her memory, mocking the void's attempts to erase it. She pulled away desperate moments later, wishing she could spend all eternity in Mic's emb...

Chapter Twelve - Demolition

Katrina slid her hand under Damien’s shirt, and the world chose that moment to go insane. Something smashed through the theater screen, leaving fire and smoke in its wake. The screams from the film mixed with screams from the crowd as whatever it was careened through the back wall of the theater as well.

Damien threw himself on top of her, wrenching her hand back painfully. His weight bore both of them to the sticky, sugar scented floo...

Chapter Eleven - Angie

Angela leapt down the emergency stairs one flight at a time. A tiny voice inside of her screamed that she would break a leg, but the sheer exhilaration of her tiny moments of freefall eclipsed that tiny voice utterly. By the time she reached the bottom floor, she forgot why she’d run down the steps. Her head spun gently from her race down the stairs, and she giggled with the sheer joy of being alive.

A big gray plate made up part of th...

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty-Five - Challenge

Tee straightened, turning as she did to face the entrance of the museum. Captured in the light of a single spot, an intruder stood staring straight into the beam that highlighted him. By the way he ignored her motion, he hadn't seen her yet. A sudden undeniable impulse washed through her like a tide. She stepped forward, her work shoes making a soft yet unmistakable squeak against the hard wood floor.

The man's gaze snapped to her. He lo...

Chapter Ten - Gravity

Jesse bounced to her feet like a rubber ball. The shrapnel from the exploding helicopter had already gone past, so standing was relatively safe. Something had yanked Steve clear of her a moment after he knocked her down. That left only two of them on the roof with any serious paramedic experience.

Charlie had attacked the blazing wreckage with a pair of fire extinguishers. He looked for all the world like some bad gun fu firefighter. Ang...

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty-Four - Sanctum

Phil stacked the last of the papers neatly on Micah's desk. She didn't want to think about the compromises she'd made, but she'd bought another month. This one was the last, though. If the museum didn't find a new source of income, a big one, in the next thirty days, the vultures would descend. Her life's work, her life with Micah, would be torn apart and sold off piece by piece to cover their debts.

The thought of Micah drew her gaze to...

Chapter Nine - Reaction

Charlie screamed 'Incoming!' Reflexes Drew didn’t know she had made her throw herself to the ground. In midair, before she hit the ground, one thought filled her mind. I am going to beat him to a pulp for that. Concrete and tarmac coated the roof of the hospital; her dive for cover would ruin Jesse’s jeans and shirt.

When the helicopter exploded, all thoughts of vengeance went out of her head. She twisted like a cat mid fall...

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty-Three - Bargain

Micah trudged through a dark, leafless forest. Ice covered every branch, a relic of the storm he'd weathered on the way here. He couldn’t tell for sure how far north he'd come; the storm took away all sense of direction until he could only follow the prompts of the imp on his shoulder. He couldn't say how long he'd walked. Long enough that the bare branches tearing at his clothes didn't do more than turn rags into tatters.

He spared a ...

Chapter Eight - Elevation

Charlie finished setting up the sound system. “This party is going to be out of this world. Pun intended.”

Angela threw a carrot at him. She’d been hovering around the food since some of the napkins blew off the roof. Mostly she’d been trying to make sure nothing else would blow away, but Charlie had given that up as a bad deal after watching things for thirty seconds. They’d lose some of the paper goods, no way to avoid that. ...

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty-Two - Encounters

Ricardo flitted through the darkened museum, uncomfortable in his new outfit. Haute couture was his normal mode, and he had learned to appreciate the convenience of island casual clothing, but he'd never worn business attire before. For the thousandth time he ran a hand across his blouse, tugged his skirt down straight, and made sure his hair remained tied back in its bun.

There was nothing else for it. He wasn't a brave pixie, but his D...

Chapter Seven - Awareness

Grace looked across the bay. To get to the consulate or the airport, she needed to cross half of Hong Kong. To do that required taking a taxi, in which case she would still be stuck in traffic when Phil realized her intentions and moved to intercept her. The other possibility, one she knew Phil wouldn’t think of, was the bay. Most Westerners thought of the water taxis as a tourist gimmick, but deep inside Grace wasn’t really a Westerner. 2024-01-31 04:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty-One - Calls to Battle

The Morrigan looked down on her minion from her obsidian throne. She felt good; it had been too long since she replaced the body she used here in her stronghold. She’d swathed her new body in crimson silk, and rubies dangled from her ears, her neck, and her wrists. Intrigued, she hardened a plane of air until it reflected her image back to her. The little minion who stood at her feet was right. The body she wore now appeared beautiful and te...

Chapter Six - First Impact

John Walker looked across the gap between himself and the shuttle. He’d waited half an hour since they signed off. He ran through his check again; everything showed up as functioning normally. He had plenty of time on his suit, but Atlantis had to get out of the way before the meteor came through. Simple physics meant they had to start moving within ninety minutes.

Walker checked the satellite again. The screen still wasn’t working. ...

Drag.Race, Chapter Twenty - Foreclosure

X slid silently through a space that wasn't there. The owner and creator of the non-place was a being of power, and like all such beings, he had his secrets. Secret places, secret things. X was the master of hidden things, and finding hidden things meant finding hidden places, even when those places didn't exist.

A waft of magic brushed across X's face, and he froze. Someone had removed something from the hidden cache. If he wasn't caref...