When he got home the apartment was pitch dark. He opened the door as quietly as he could and set his bag down on the ground. There were enough lights outside to guide him through the dark room.

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Muse: Peter Petrelli
Fandom: Heroes (If I Fell!verse)
WC: 178
Rigby is notalonelygirl and always used with love

They'd only gone to bed an hour or two before, after the rubes had drifted back to town, laughing and satisfied, and the lights had flickered out one by one. Lydia had fallen asleep almost immediately, a skill that had escaped her all her life but one she'd picked up recently as her body grasped for some sort of relief, however sporadic.

( She wasn't sure how long after Samuel followed, but he was asleep when she jerked awake, an instinct pulling her from the depths of dreamless slumber that was stronger than her tired body.Collapse )

Muse: Lydia
Fandom: Heroes
Words: 491
Notes: Based on RP with offering_hope

Saturday night

The arms of the small silver clock on the bedside table point at the 12 and 2.  It's 2am and something woke you.  A noise, a dream, thirst maybe.  It takes you a moment to remember where you are, why you're not in your own bed.   But since you're awake, you decide to go check on the girls sleeping on the patio.  They built tents out of blankets and beds out of patio furniture cushions.  You find your shorts and in your bare feet, you pad out to the kitchen where the patio door is open.  Your eyes are adjusted enough and as you lean to one side and peer through the screen, you can see that Annika is sound asleep, sprawled half across the cushion with her arms dangling over her head.  You can also see that Moira is not asleep.  In fact, she's wide awake and staring at the sky.

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Robert Di Ammazzi
OC
551

It's two in the morning and she can't sleep.  The sounds of sleep are spread thick over the evening, purple and an inky black.  She can't sleep.  It has been weeks since she slept sound, till the noise of the night didn't wake her with some imaginary noise.  There is a misery in wakefulness, a sort of resentment toward the sleeping world wrapped in their blankets and in their beds.  She is awake and she can not sleep.  She is awake and can not bear the settling of the house and the click and the rattle of the house and the street.  Of the breathing of the man next to her she listens intently.  Up and down she can feel it, not see it, his chest brushes against her arm when his lungs fill, when they release the brush is pulled back and a momentary glance of cold takes it's place.  Signs of life measured in hot and cold.

A slow and weary truck creeps. . .

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

There were reasons why Parker didn't let her team know more about her than necessary. There were reasons that she kept her life private, that she didn't want them to know where she was when she wasn't with them. It had nothing to do with not trusting them, and everything to do with a need to hide a side of her that they would never understand. Maybe she didn't give them enough credit, but it was just how she wanted it to be. She didn't want them to know.

Parker was a vampire slayer.

Parker
Leverage/BtVS
866

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1. Quotes

1) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

2) We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. - Fran 

3) Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. - Captain J. Brown

4) The seasons are shifting, The winter shades lifting,
The springtime is filling
Earth's children with mirth.
The daffodil yellow, The south wind so mellow,
The gentle rain falling,
Upon the green earth.
The song sparrow singing, New life quickly springing,
All nature is telling
A tale of rebirth:
The deep wells of being, Beyond each day's seeing,
O'er flowing with new Life,
Restoring the earth. - David E. Bumbaugh, "Spring", 1998 

5) Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu


2. Lyrics

1) Metric - “All Yours” // youtube link // lyrics

2) Sarah Blasko - “Perfect Now” // youtube link // lyrics

3) Portishead - “Glory Box” // youtube link // lyrics

4) Susie Suh - “Light On My Shoulder” // youtube link // lyrics

5) The Pixies - “Hey” // youtube link // lyrics


3. Random

1) 2 A.M.
2) It’s just a metaphor
3) A blood-red sky
4) Six degrees of separation
5) Carpe diem


4. Words

1) Success
2) Plans
3) Galaxy
4) Ego
5) Purpose


5. Pictures

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"The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying." - Howard Nemerov

Walking London's streets again and calling them home was something he hadn't thought to do. After New York, he was used to the traffic and the noise, at least, and if he missed the smell of greasepaint, popcorn and funnel cake that layered over the city's dirt and permeated the air where they'd made their new home at Coney Island, Edgar figured it was a fair enough trade off. The family they'd patched back together there, scattered among rides and acts, doing what they did because it was all they knew to do, hidden in plain sight again because the carnie code was higher than any price a tabloid could pay--it had always felt empty, like something was missing.

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Muse: Edgar
Fandom: Heroes
Words: 680
Notes: Based on RP in a Vampire Diaries/Heroes x-over. Lydia is thepainted_lady and mine to use for purposes of this. Sylar & Peter referred to are heroslayer and hadtobeahero, respectively.

1. Quotes

1) “Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well…” - Sir John Mortimer

2) “The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying.”  - Howard Nemerov

3) “Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.”  - M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

4) “Love is not blind - it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” - Julins Gordon 

5) “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” - T. E. Lawrence


2. Lyrics

1) Colbie Callait - “Fearless” // youtube link // lyrics

2) P!nk - “Fuckin’ Perfect” // youtube link // lyrics

3) Amanda Palmer - “Map of Tasmania” // youtube link // lyrics

4) Matthew West - “Family Tree” // youtube link // lyrics

5) The Weepies - “World Spins Madly On” // youtube link // lyrics


3. Random

1) I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.
2) If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
3) All right, you’re going the right way for a smacked bottom.
4) Uh…that’s okay, you can keep it.
5) Why do I get the feeling it doesn’t end there?


4. Words

1) Chocolate
2) Microphone
3) Charge
4) Needle
5) Revolt