Previous | Chapter Listing | Next I Love You, I’ll Kill You; Enigma He was notably different. Sometimes, she still wondered if the differences were all in her head. There was no sense in asking him how he was doing. Ezio only ever smiled in that way that didn’t reach his eyes, and insist he was fine. Cassandra didn’t want to see him lying anymore, so she’d stopped asking. He sat in his wheelchair by the window. Anymore, Ezio was always by the window. Drake was at the table, typing away at something on his laptop-probably his next bestseller, if luck was on his side-and Cassandra was two seats over,…

Previous | Chapter Listing | Next Landslide, Fleetwood Mac. “I’m not as upset about us breaking up as I expected to be,” Morgyn said, walking alongside Ezio. He was doing better, and tomorrow, Dr. Williams said that he could come home. Morgyn was excited for that. It’d be nice having him home, where he belonged, instead of here in the hospital, where it smelled and felt all kinds of wrong. Morgyn had eventually deduced this wrongness was the sage’s latent necromancy, suddenly no longer being so latent. Morgyn wasn’t sure what to make of that. Primarily, Morgyn didn’t think about it. “That’s good, at least,” Ezio said. “There’s no sense…

You Give Love a Bad Name; Bon Jovi Previous | Chapter Listing | Next They were, of course, avoiding each other. Caleb wasn’t surprised by this, considering how things had ended the last time they’d spoken. He was still somewhat disappointed by it. Or maybe that wasn’t the right word. Now, there seemed to be a lot of unspoken things between them, things that one or the other of them, or perhaps both, had no idea how to address, how to word. Morgyn got that look in those green eyes, and Caleb knew there was a lot behind them that the sage didn’t know how to say. And it hurt,…

We All Sleep Alone, Cher Previous | Chapter Listing | Next She didn’t trust her anymore. Truth be told, she’d never trusted her in the first place. Aine was dangerous, and Sitkamose had never believed otherwise. The question at the moment was simply what exactly it was that Aine was up to. Sitkamose hadn’t figured that out yet, though not for lack of trying. She had to give the woman this much, she was trickier than Sitkamose had been expecting. She was a worthy enough opponent, to be fair, if one Sitkamose wished she could skip. More disturbing was how Ra didn’t seem to be concerned about this. Aine could…

Forgotten, Linkin Park Previous | Chapter Listing | Next Drake was almost afraid to ask. Most recently, Ezio had been quieter more frequently, and for much longer than usual. Drake had only been there for a few hours, but the silence felt stifling and uncomfortable. Ezio had laid against him, and seemed to have decided he wasn’t moving from that spot. Ezio hadn’t moved, nor said anything. Drake figured out that he had a habit of overthinking things, and it merely served to work him up into an internal frenzy for nothing. As much as it felt like he should be able to do so, Drake had never proven capable…

Let You Down; Three Days Grace. Previous | Chapter Listing | Next The only thing he could say he knew for sure was that the house was in Brindleton Bay. Drake wasn’t so sure about moving Ezio out of San Myshuno, given he seemed to love the city so much, but Drake supposed visiting it wasn’t entirely out of the question. And besides, maybe the close proximity to the ocean would be good for him, too. Ezio did also love the ocean, and maybe the change to a slower-paced environment would be good, too. Maybe for all of them, really. Drake shuffled down the hospital hallway, back towards Ezio’s room.…

Return to Moonland; Au5 Previous | Chapter Listing | Next Sometimes, he wished he could simply turn it off, just like Morgyn had. His tendency to feel things, that is. It was pesky and currently rather painful, and Ezio had little interest in hurting any more than he already had. He wondered, sometimes, if there was a way to control it, in a sense. To reach a point where you weren’t bothered by anything anymore. At the moment at least, it was quite bothersome and upsetting, and Ezio wasn’t entirely sure what to do with all of it. He’d dealt with a great many things in his life, but this…

Endlessly, She Said; AFI Previous | Chapter Listing | Next “This is in our price range, got some decent space,” Cassandra said, nodding at the screen. She and Drake were flipping through house listings on his laptop. There were some options, at least, and she was going to speak with a realtor later to see what they could afford and how much in loan they could get. There was a lot to think about suddenly. Everyone was trying not to make it sound like this was a big deal, but, it kind of was, and that reality made it harder to hide the tripping over it they were all doing.…

Summit; Skrillex, Ellie Goulding Previous | Chapter Listing | Next “I thought my heart was going to quit with his.” Drake snorted. “Yeah, mine tried, too,” he said. So far, though, Ezio had gone stable again, and remained that way. Ethren hadn’t gone back to wherever he’d come from, but Morgyn wasn’t quite ready to talk to him just yet and had been ignoring he was there. He seemed to understand, so Morgyn didn’t try to explain anything to him. Instead, the brunet was sitting in one of the waiting areas, talking to Drake. Cassandra had gone to make cocoa. Liberty had to go to work, unfortunately, but Morgyn wouldn’t…

Eternal; Evanescence Previous | Chapter Listing | Next Mortain, France; 1770 That was painful. The only reason why, probably, was because Ezio had gotten in Jean’s way like that. It wasn’t as if Ezio cared too much. The worst, he figured, that happened was, Jean finally killed him, and truth be told, that might be some kind of a blessing. Ezio had nothing left to live for, anyway. Well, except him. It was a wonder why he’d even bothered fighting through Ezio’s instinctive snarling at him. Ezio could be a little terrifying, when he chose to be. Then, he was still a half-grown boy back then, and wasn’t terribly skilled…