((Lauren Rowe continued from Borrowed Time )) Time was running out. That's what she had told herself, that's what she still believed. And yet, time hadn't ended for her, not yet, and despite the growing urgency that kept her moving, one step after another, she had nothing to show for it all. She'd t...

David lowered the flute from his lips. Saved by the dentist appointment, it looked like. Genie's dentist appointment. Well, as saved as he was going to get from having to make up a Legend of Zelda theme rendition on the flute, that was. "See ya," he managed after Genie as she hurried down ...

David shrugged back. The roll-up piano was pretty awesome, though he might have been impressed more by one of those large floor pianos that people played with their feet. But that was hardly a reasonable expectation, and Megan's piano keyboard thing was awesome enough as it was. He rummaged in his b...

A grin slid back onto David's face. Maybe today'd be a good day after all. It wasn't such a faux pas anyway, he guessed, at least from the way that Genie was talking his ear off. "Yeah," he started, about to turn around and set down his backpack to search it for his flute. They could impro...

Whoops. As Genie's piece fell apart, David wondered if maybe he'd done something wrong. Distract a player from their craft? Heresy! Eh, he'd have to deal with the consequences later. He stood a little self-consciously as she cleared her spit valve, offending hand in his pocket, just waiting for her ...

(( David Cordell : Pregame Start)) That sound. That trumpet, man. He could hear it all the way from across campus. Well, that did it. He had to know what kind of mischief was up. He was pretty close to the sound as it was, so it'd only take him a couple minutes. Wasn't like he had class. His friends...

(( Jason Lin : pregame start)) Jason walked onto the track, feeling the porous surface yield slightly underneath his feet. Then he slapped Dan on the back. "Hey, man." He grinned lopsidedly. "Nice to see another Asian doing a run today, eh?" Squinting across the track, he was pre...

Wayne woke to feel Dorothy shaking him. "I'm up," he managed, somewhat blearily. "Thanks, Dot. Dorothy." He wasn't supposed to be on nickname terms with her. As she exchanged places with him and sought the comfort of sleep, he shook the tiredness off and just stood there for a mo...

Wayne had almost tried to grab her, too. When Nancy darted past all three of them, that had been his first instinct. To stop her, to lock her arms, something, anything that could have made her wait and just let Asha get through to her. He could have done something right; he could have done something...

But would she hurt them? There it was again. The static, the panic overtaking him. Worst of all was something new - a brief, twisted sense of vindication. He'd been right. People had started killing. Wayne could feel his hand on the side of his leg, the side not facing the girl, the fabric of his pa...

((Wayne Cox continued from Time steals us all away one day, does it not? )) "Judging from the smell," he said, "old ones." Wayne crossed his arms and leaned them on the back of Asha's couch, not willing to sit down just yet. He wasn't usually the sort for libraries. They reminded...

((Melanie Beckett continued from How Can I Take Off This Mask? )) Now she was alone. Astrid would laugh at her if she knew how she'd gotten here. Mel could almost see the way that Astrid's lip would curl, that glint of condescension in her eye. The thought was comforting. The only option for her wou...

Serena had leveled the gun and pronounced the sentence and Mel had opened her mouth in response. To say something, to object, to bring up something that seemed that have mattered at the time. But then things changed. She'd always reacted on impulse. This time, she hadn't. The moment of hesitation sh...

When the impact came, Mel felt it - there was no fight in him. Alvaro stayed down. He didn't get back up. It almost seemed like he wasn't really trying. Maybe that made sense, somehow. Maybe he'd frozen up, maybe he was trying to reason out why he'd done it, maybe he'd just given up. Or maybe he was...

"Get out?" The words leapt from her mouth in incredulous disbelief. And then, Mel leapt too, forwards, pushing off the ground with all the energy that she had into a full out sprint. Maybe she'd been real shocked when Alvaro had offed Irene - just like that, in one instant, because she'd f...