Title: Best Kept Secret
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Rating: NC-17 for sex, violence and lots of f-bombs. The pr0n begins almost immediately, so be warned. :)
Pairing: Katie Bell/Marcus Flint.
Disclaimer: They're Jo's, and I'm borrowing without permission. I'll return her toys when I'm done with them.
Spoilers: Takes place after DH, minus the Epilogue of Doom; it is dead to me.
Summary: Katie Bell has just been promoted to the first string players of Puddlemere United. Unfortunately, this also seems to be the occasion her stalker needed to up the ante.

Title: The Edge of Dawn
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: The Wizard of Oz belongs to Frank Baum originally and the modifications belong to SciFi.
Rating: NC-17 for language and lovingly rendered sex.
Pairing: DG/Cain, Azkadellia/OMCx2
Warnings: This takes place after the SciFi movie.
Summary: Smoke and mirrors, lost hope and dreams. Some realms are meant to be saved, and others are meant to be destroyed.

I'm still shaken, even though it's four hours later and I KNOW it wasn't true and it was just a dream. But I can't shake the quiet horror that woke me up.

It started with what I thought was going to be some kind of funny mashup. I mean, there was Captain Jack Harkness and Jayne conferring over a job and I was there as part of the dream, too. I think I was Gwen, though I was dressed in the outfit I had to buy for my Ohio interview when Delta lost my luggage. Minus the bra for some reason, because I was holding it and needed to put it on but I refused to do it in front of the boys. (Brain, seriously, we need to talk. Gwen? Hopefully it was S2 or COE Gwen, because S1 Torchwood was the Gwen Show and I hated her then...) Jayne was acting like he had a secret he didn't want to discuss, and stalked off somewhere.

And then I was me, and Jay was there, too. We were on a station that had its own internal sea with a beach and tides, and the entire Firefly cast was there for the job. No more Jack, tho. Or if he was, I had no idea where he was. We were looking for Kaylee, who was missing, and Maddy. Kaylee had been babysitting Maddy during the job we all did, and they were both missing. And then I saw Jayne, still looking almost guilty, and the dream flashed to what happened the night before. A very drunk Jayne had sex with Kaylee (Again, brain, WTF? I'm not down with that ship at all!) and left her tangled up in some setting even though she was screaming at him that she was stuck and couldn't get out of it and the tide was coming in. And she had been babysitting Maddy, so she was somewhere around there. The dream flashed to the present, where the crew was fishing Kaylee out of the sea, still tangled in the netting, and they supposed she had stumbled into the netting, fell over the dock and drowned. But where was Maddy?? Jay and I were looking down at her crib, which was more like the hotel crib she had been sleeping in at the hotel in Wisconsin (Iowa used a pack and play) and not hers at home. But she was blue and still, wet hair all tangled. Jay was telling me this must be how our friends (IRL) must have felt when they miscarried, and I just looked at him numbly, crying. I knew she was sick, but it was just an ear infection, nothing serious since she has Augmentin now. And then I picked her up, and she was wet and cold and stiff, and it was so obvious that she had drowned and was dead, too.

My eyes snapped open then. No screaming, no thrashing, just awake. Jay was sleeping, snoring away, and our monitor is turned up high enough I can hear the radiator tick on in Maddy's room. I reach over him to hit the button for the video, but she's so swathed in blankets it was hard to see. Just as I push my blankets back and maneuver around Indy, Maddy made a noise as she stirred in her sleep.

Didn't matter. Ten minutes later, still wide awake and mentally shaking, I get up and check on her anyway. She is fine, of course, and I woke Jay when I crawled back into bed. I only told him the last part, the horrible part, and he just mumbled it was a dream and she's fine.

WTF, brain. Why would you do this to me? I'm still all shaky inside, even though I've had a lot of cuddles and she's fine and she's banging away on her toys as I type this.

Brain, you are FIRED. Stop with the freaky ass dreams already!

We've hit the two thirds mark! Not sure if I'll get a chance to post anything later today or tomorrow. Hopefully by next week I'll be back on my usual Monday night posting schedule.


Title: The Edge of Dawn
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: The Wizard of Oz belongs to Frank Baum originally and the modifications belong to SciFi.
Rating: NC-17 for language and lovingly rendered sex.
Pairing: DG/Cain, Azkadellia/OMCx2
Warnings: This takes place after the SciFi movie.
Summary: Smoke and mirrors, lost hope and dreams. Some realms are meant to be saved, and others are meant to be destroyed.

Title: Best Kept Secret
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Rating: NC-17 for sex and lots of f-bombs. The pr0n begins almost immediately, so be warned. :)
Pairing: Katie Bell/Marcus Flint.
Disclaimer: They're Jo's, and I'm borrowing without permission. I'll return her toys when I'm done with them.
Spoilers: Takes place after DH, minus the Epilogue of Doom. That Epilogue is dead to me.
Summary: Katie Bell has just been promoted to the first string players of Puddlemere United. Unfortunately, this also seems to be the occasion her stalker needed to up the ante.

Title: Unknown Constellations
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Rating: Hard R for descriptions of violence and nasty language.
Pairing: Nick/Cassie implied, no action past kissing. (We all saw this movie, right? I didn't make this up!)
Disclaimer: I'm borrowing the characters from the movie Push without permission. I'm aware there are comics but haven't read them yet. Beta'd by the ever fabulous mynuet.
Spoilers: This takes place three years after the movie. But if you haven't seen the movie, you wouldn't want to read this anyway. :)
Summary: Nick was snatched up by Division, and Cassie finally Sees where he is. This sets into motion a whole chain of events she didn't See in the first place...

Title: Scent of the Ocean
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Joss is boss. I just enjoy playing with his toys.
Rating:
Warnings: Post-BDM.
Summary: Jayne had never been much into book learning. He was a hands-on, practical kind of man. He learned by doing, he remembered by being.
Author's Note: Written for the Fall Challenge at rayne_shippers. I received prompt #26 - Aroma.

We were home for Halloween. While I had my own wankage to report at the time, Maddy was also a little crankier than usual that day, and was hard to settle to sleep. While in the airports on Sunday (Islip to Philly to Charlotte to Milwaukee), while Maddy was walking and crawling and climbing around, I soon discovered why. While she was climbing up my chest, a huge grin on her face, I saw a brand new tooth on her lower jaw had broken through. And now it's explained! Maddy is never a fussbudget for no reason, I'm just not always swift enough to catch it. Especially since she's not always drooling when teething, and at least there was no sign of ear infection this time.

Oh, and if you missed it, Maddy is now a walker at 13 months! She does 8-10 steps like a drunken sailor before squatting down or plopping down, but she's definitely proud of herself, laughing as she walks from one place to another. Crawling is still faster at this point, but she's definitely getting the hang of walking without cruising. Woot!

Maddy is a trouper. The Philly to Charlotte flight was late taking off by half an hour, so we RAN across the airport to catch the next flight in the ten minutes we had. I'm not sure if it's a smaller airport or we were really that fast or what, but we made it! And that late flight had really slow inflight service, too, because they were slow in getting me juice I could give Maddy. I was quick on the Cheerios, but she snarfed the juice we had too fast that it ran out and she was wailing for more. That was the only time she really wailed on any of the five flights to and from Wisconsin.

So. Yes. Wisconsin. It was a second visit to my prior interview so I can meet a few more ppl I haven't met the last time I was there. Turns out there's another mixed Viet doc there, and she was at Sunday's dinner. She was talking about all the Hmong shops in the area so I can get some authentic ingredients to make stuff. Which of course led Jay to point out that I rarely cook at this point. (Tho I'd like to, really!) But with everything in town ten minutes away, I may actually be able to make something. Just not with mung beans, because Jay loathes every incarnation of it that he's tried so far. :) It's a Catholic hospital system, and I met with one of the Sisters that is kind of like the ethical director, and we discussed some of the serious bits regarding my role with patients and the regulations for Catholic care. And it's not a hard line stance like the hospital I did my peds rotation in, which was a pleasant surprise. They had mentioned that at my first interview, but to have the sister candidly discuss the reality the kids face and not put a kibosh on what can and cannot be discussed is awesome. There's also end of life stuff that comes into play (suicide attempts, any consults on end of life cafe, etc) that jives well with what I think. So the serious part of the day was full of yay to know that we kinda fall in line with each other.

Then there was much with the tours. We toured the convent (beautiful artwork and history and architecture) and I discovered that my impression of very austere devotional lives isn't quite the case. They're Packers fans, and have one of their TV rooms decorated and with a big screen TV. They even do fantasy football, which blew my mind. :D We went to tour the Y and the day care centers at the Y and at one of the buildings affiliated with the hospital (that we kinda liked better), which took a lot of time so we wound up missing the zoo, which we had wanted to tour. We also met with the HR coordinator regarding some financial questions that were raised at our lunch interview, then off to dinner for a social/interview dinner at a really posh place in the area.

So, yeah. I'll be making some other ppl very unhappy this week. But Jay and I are going to really read through the contract we only skimmed before, and I'm going to sign it.

Next up, house hunting across state lines...

Landed safely, but missing Jay's glasses. :(

In milwaukee airport on our way home...

Landed safely in wisconsin. Maddy did okay... Cried during the second flight because we didn't get her juice fast enough.

Last round of flights... Here we go again...

Yay for feeling calm now. :)

So I tried dressing Maddy up a bit for Halloween. She's Gir from Invader Zim, which was really done by getting the green Gir onesie over brown pants. Yeah, I totally do costumes well. :D

( Because she wouldn't let me get good pics of the outfit, you get some bonus ones, too... )

I decide to call my mom today. (I know, I know, horrible idea...) It's been probably a month or so since my last call. She trolls my Facebook page looking at my updates and of course never comments on the updates or photos. Or calls me. Heaven forbid my mother actually calls ME for a change, right?

So she asks how Maddy is doing, and I am all jazzed to tell her that she's a walker now. Of course, she goes about eight to ten steps maximum at a time, but our thirteen month old is a walker. woo!

but then she starts asking what we plan to do with our house when we move. Because it's worth half of what we paid for it, we figure we'll rent it. Of course we can't rent it for as much as we pay out in mortgage every month because the rental prices around here are much lower than our hella expensive monthly payments. While she decides to launch into lecture mode to tell me that it makes no sense to pay for someone to live in my house and we'll lose money, I tell her that I"m not discussing it with her. No less than six times. I counted, too. At one point I shout over her that we lose money every which way because our house is worth so little and I AM NOT DISCUSSING THIS WITH YOU RIGHT NOW.

After the sixth time, she says "Okay, then. Bye." And hangs up.

So pissed at her right now. I can't even tell you.

When I'm calmer, I'm posting pics of Maddy.

Dressed maddy like Gir from Invader Zim for Halloween!

This is so far past when I planned to post this week that it's early for next week. lol.


Title: The Edge of Dawn
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: The Wizard of Oz belongs to Frank Baum originally and the modifications belong to SciFi.
Rating: NC-17 for language and lovingly rendered sex.
Pairing: DG/Cain, Azkadellia/OMCx2
Warnings: This takes place after the SciFi movie.
Summary: Smoke and mirrors, lost hope and dreams. Some realms are meant to be saved, and others are meant to be destroyed.

I think I need a K/M icon...

Title: Best Kept Secret
Author: Eustacia Vye
Author's e-mail: eustacia_vye28@hotmail.com
Rating: NC-17 for sex and lots of f-bombs. The pr0n begins almost immediately, so be warned. :)
Pairing: Katie Bell/Marcus Flint.
Disclaimer: They're Jo's, and I'm borrowing without permission. I'll return her toys when I'm done with them.
Spoilers: Takes place after DH, minus the Epilogue of Doom. That Epilogue is dead to me.
Summary: Katie Bell has just been promoted to the first string players of Puddlemere United. Unfortunately, this also seems to be the occasion her stalker needed to up the ante.

Internet is back... Oh, how I missed it. lol