August 12 2007

To: Thom
From: Leija
Date: Aug 12, 2007 9:26PM
Subject: <3

Just thinking about you.
If you're not up, hope you're sleeping well.

-L.

Who: Doc and Eva
When: Eveningish
Where: Eva's place

It's a date. The words echoed in Doc's head as he drove, one hand gripping the suicide knob on his steering wheel as the other punched a tape into the tapedeck and plucked a smoke from his lips, tapping ash away. He'd spoken to Eva a handful of minutes earlier, a last confirmation before hopping in the car and hoping his duties would be mindful of his need for a social life. It was going to be casual, she'd said, which let Doc breathe easy over not having to buy another new shirt.

Who: Chance to Kaysen
Where: Text Message
When: Early Afternoon

i know i said i'd only text for emergencies, though if it were a real emergency, i think it'd be faster to call, as texting takes more time, but in any case, this is considered by me to be an emergency (don't panic, i haven't overheard any discussion on the flavoring of brains in quite sometime) - but anyway i was watching tv and flipped by scifi channel and have you seen Pumpkinhead yet? cuz it was on, and if you haven't, we're totally watching it next time. 80's horror campfest - a fucking classic. even if you have seen it, we're watching it next movie night. we could hang out monday? or tuesday? or whenever. or not. anytime's cool. with me, i mean. we dont have to watch a movie. we can do anything. whenever. wow this is a long message. sorry. ttyl - c

who: melia and caleb
where: blackrocks
when: morning

Melia hadn't heard from the humans who'd pulled the bullet from her tail since they'd brought her back to the lake, and she wasn't exactly pining to see them again. She was happy relaxing in the water and letting herself mend. She wasn't as sick anymore and was getting better by the day, and although her tail still hurt, she was a little bit more mobile. That was why morning found her at her favorite rocky place, where she'd met Caleb and had found shiny things after that. It had finally dawned on her that she hadn't seen him or any shinies for a few days, so she'd meandered her way over and was searching the waters again in case she'd just missed them.

Caleb hadn't been as mobile himself in a while, so he'd not had time to drop shiny things in the water for Melia. So now that he was mobile, and had been out killing shit a good portion of the night, he'd decied to take a walk to black rocks and see if he could find the mermaid. The one other time he'd come looking she hadn't been there, but he was sort of glad about that. That had been the night he'd been drinking and wound up beat to shit--the effects of which were still apparent on his frame, but yeah. Probably best he hadn't run into her like that. He'd been bordering suicidally reckless that night. And she y'know. Ate people. Not the best combo. Either way, he had a few things to drop into the water for her that morning, since he'd missed a few days, and he kind of liked the habit of randomly dropping cheap jewelry into the lake just in case. He stood at the edge where he'd first seen her, held out his hand, and opened it, letting five round thin bangle bracelets drop into the slightly wavy water below. Then he sat down on the ledge and watched.