Property Law

08/10/2011

Marking his territory. Marking Wes as his territory. Shit. Maybe he should start looking into that procedure they’ve got, the one that would remove his sense of shame. Be damn useful in the courtroom, so he could make a business case for it.


Outside In

08/10/2011

Sometimes, she thinks it was all a nightmare, that any minute now, she’ll wake up in Silverlake and Dennis will have breakfast ready for her. Then, before she’s even had her coffee, she’ll feel her head start to throb because it’s yet another message from the Powers that Be in full-on Gross-o-Vision, and boy howdy, does that seem better than the reality, which is that she’s probably never waking up at all.


Ouroboros/Oedipus

08/10/2011

Eventually, death turned on her, sharper than a serpent’s tooth, and once again, all should have been over. Once again, it wasn’t.


Morale Events

08/10/2011

“Teamwork. Efficiency. Survival. Success. One of these things is not like the other.” The disembodied voice paused for a moment, letting the words settle over the audience. In the sixth row back, three seats in from the aisle, Lilah Morgan surreptitiously studied her nails and ignored the lecture she knew by rote. Survive one Wolfram and Hart company morale retreat, you’ve got the tools to survive them all. Survive two, and you start to wish they’d alter the script a little.


Miss Ghost

08/10/2011

“Boo.”


Loaded Dice

08/10/2011

The dead will smile while you struggle against the inevitable.


Full Circle

08/10/2011

The usual wasn’t, well, usual. Fred stared at her breakfast: pancakes with sausages and bacon, eggs (scrambled), coffee (cream and sugar), toast (white). All the usual food and drink, brought by their usual waitress to their usual booth, nothing missing except her usual appetite and her usual companion.


Five Ways to Have a Happy Ending, and Not One of Them True

08/10/2011

Lilah couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment her priorities changed and she suddenly found herself willing to throw away a perfectly good career with a firm she loved and the best benefits package in this or any other dimension. She could, however, pinpoint at least a part of the reason; it was sleeping the sleep of the semi-just while she remained awake and considering her options.


Farther Than Russia

08/10/2011

The dreams start midway through his freshman year.


Family

08/10/2011

Jasmine digs her nails into his palms until she breaks his flesh, spilling his blood and taking his pain. It feels like the night they gave her form, created this vessel for the world.