“So, do you want the good news? Or the bad news?” “Maybourne. How lovely to see you in my home,” Jack said sourly. He bounced lightly on the balls of his feet to entertain Elijah. “Is this going to raise my blood pressure?” “Maybe?” Maybourne said, wrinkling his nose as he obviously thought things over. “Yeah, part of this is going to do it’s best to make your head explode.”
“Janet, what have you got for us?” Daniel asked. Jack twitched towards the babies before stepping back as Daniel slanted him a speaking glance. The babies were lying in a portable crib that the medical department had pulled out of some dusty storeroom, and he had to suppress a sneeze as a small waft of dust trickled down from some crevasse in the legs. “Both babies are healthy, and in the weight range to be newborns,” Fraiser reported.
Reading Time: 6 MinutesChapter 2 Once again, Daniel found himself questioning why he decided that being a kindergarten teacher was his calling. Oh, don’t get him wrong; he loved teaching the children; it was their parents that wore him out. It was either their racist and/or anti LGBTQ+ views or…
The Sakura trees that lined the large quad were in full bloom, their mild scent drifting along the warm summer breeze. Their delicate blossoms fluttered down to cover the paved paths below, carpeting them in brilliant white which stood stark against the verdant lawns.
“Sir, I’m back, and I need a secure security team up in the parking lot. I’ve got someone who needs the brig.” “Am I going to get in trouble with the President?” Hammond asked before covering the phone as he called for Harriman to send a detachment of security up to the parking lot. “Only if the Trust complains,” Jack said with a shrug when Hammond got back on the line. “And I don’t think they’re going to want to let the President know who their guest was.”
The prodigal Colonel returns to the city and brings his dad along for the ride. Weir and Ellis have fits with varying degrees of hysteria. John and Rodney celebrate. Patrick is amused.
In which arrangements are made, explanations are given, and a family grows a little.
“Are you pleased with the results?” Hank questioned Charles. “Now, I have.” Charles said, pleased with the results about the evaluation and after the evaluation was over. “Did you have to tell Scott to go home? Is that mean that he is no longer the Senior Guide in your school?” Hank asked.
Draco had always wanted a friendship with Harry and was able to admit at least privately that his acting up was nothing more than jealousy and resentment for what he now knew to be an uninformed decision on Potter’s part. Besides, in Draco’s opinion, one of them had to go first, and therefore it might as well be him. So, Harry officially had a place inside his Occlumency shields, a place that not even his mother or his Godfather enjoyed.
Eddie Diaz has been at the 118 since the man he replaced came online as a Guide in response to a wish baby delivery. When the man comes back on the job after six months of paternity leave and training, he realizes that never registering with the Burton Foundation after leaving the Army was one of the biggest mistakes of his life. Fortunately, Buck is the bold sort.
Patrick throws his weight around and John gets a little more than he bargained for.
“You two are good together,” Carter said. When Rodney glanced at her, she shrugged. “The Colonel and Daniel are much the same.” “We had good role models,” Rodney said with a shrug of his own.
Master of Death Harry Potter lived a long life and met Death as an old friend. But instead of his Next Great Adventure, he started his old one again. But he couldn’t stop the first great tragedy of his life, and on that Halloween night, Death came to visit and offered Harry an adventure in a galaxy far, far away. Obi-Wan Kenobi had only been back from the war on Melida-Daan for a few weeks. He was still on probation and not being treated well by many in the Temple. Until a rift in space opened and he caught the baby that fell through it.
Chris sat cross-legged on the floor of the meditation room in T’Pau’s home. She’d offered it when she discovered that Sentinels and Guides meditated regularly. It had fascinated her, which had amused Chris.
Reading Time: 9 Minutes“Leave that.” She stopped him from picking up another biscuit. She led him to an open area in front of the window. Two large, flat cushions were sitting on a woven rug. Satü settled onto the navy blue cushion and left the cream cushion for Harry to…
Weir thinks she’s won. Rodney thinks Weir is a twat. John thinks Earth is a shit-show but it’s one he fully intends to weaponize for his own benefit.
Two days later, Chris and Len were waiting to beam aboard the Vulcan ship. The Khio’ri-Tor—the Star Traveler—was T’Pau’s personal ship. According to Commander Spock, his great-aunt would, from time to time, travel to places she’d heard mentioned or read about in her extensive library. Just to see it in person.
In which the inexplicable … remains inexplicable. But that’s OK, because Buck and Eddie are back together. And together, they can do anything.
Evan finds something surprising on his way down the mountain. And Eddie finds things way too familiar. But they’ve almost found their way back to each other.
Reading Time: 9 MinutesIt hadn’t even been a week since his last visit to the Hospital Wing. Harry wasn’t sure if that was a commentary on the safety of the school as a whole, or on his life? It was probably both. Two other beds were in use. A first…
