Title: Er... It's bad, I'll change it (but i'll warn you first!)
Rating: Erm... PG-13? Some swearing, violence
Premise: Four years later, their lives are relatively normal, but bad memories can linger for a long time. Jim angst- WAI!!
A/N: Wow, you actually clicked? THANK YOU!! Now, before you think this is a Mary Sue (and I s'pose it looks that way, what with the first words of the second paragraph being "The girl") I have to tell you- it's NOT! This is just the easiest way to present the story, rather than just telling it as a random memory. Ok. Right. On with it, before the A/N becomes longer than the actual, ridiculously short chapter. ^.^;
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This summer had been a hot one, almost dangerously so. Grass yellowed and grew stiff, reaching upwards like paper knives to the unforgiving star that gave this place chance life. The streets were nearly empty of people, even in the cities, and the few that were out tended to mingle towards bars, restaurants, and any other places with air conditioning. There was one person who did not, making her way along the baking sidewalk with some sense of purpose other than to relieve the dust in her throat.
The girl had dark, shoulder length hair and mauve eyes. She was a bit skinnier than average, but not unhealthily so. She was not beautiful, and she was not ugly or plain. She stopped her unhurried pace along the sidewalk and pulled a couple of folded papers out of a pocket. She brushed back a flyaway strand of hair from her face as she scanned the e-mail again. She looked up and began to walk again, presently turning a corner and finding herself before a large building. The words on the building matched those on the second sheet she held in her hand: Starwind and Hawking Enterprises.
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Please review! Next chapter soon- I just need to iron some more out.
Rating: Erm... PG-13? Some swearing, violence
Premise: Four years later, their lives are relatively normal, but bad memories can linger for a long time. Jim angst- WAI!!
A/N: Wow, you actually clicked? THANK YOU!! Now, before you think this is a Mary Sue (and I s'pose it looks that way, what with the first words of the second paragraph being "The girl") I have to tell you- it's NOT! This is just the easiest way to present the story, rather than just telling it as a random memory. Ok. Right. On with it, before the A/N becomes longer than the actual, ridiculously short chapter. ^.^;
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This summer had been a hot one, almost dangerously so. Grass yellowed and grew stiff, reaching upwards like paper knives to the unforgiving star that gave this place chance life. The streets were nearly empty of people, even in the cities, and the few that were out tended to mingle towards bars, restaurants, and any other places with air conditioning. There was one person who did not, making her way along the baking sidewalk with some sense of purpose other than to relieve the dust in her throat.
The girl had dark, shoulder length hair and mauve eyes. She was a bit skinnier than average, but not unhealthily so. She was not beautiful, and she was not ugly or plain. She stopped her unhurried pace along the sidewalk and pulled a couple of folded papers out of a pocket. She brushed back a flyaway strand of hair from her face as she scanned the e-mail again. She looked up and began to walk again, presently turning a corner and finding herself before a large building. The words on the building matched those on the second sheet she held in her hand: Starwind and Hawking Enterprises.
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Please review! Next chapter soon- I just need to iron some more out.