I finally got to rescue Jay! *Cheers* Unfortunately he wasn't rescued intact. Either way, things should now start getting better for poor Jay and Black's plans are about to unravel in his hands. Hope everyone...scary and hurt and she hated it, but at least she was better off than Jay was. Amber sighed, wishing she could relax now, but it wouldn't happen until she was with her sister and Jay was there, too.

Yay for finally finishing this chapter! It's been nearly finished since before I caught my cold and I just didn't feel good enough to get it done until now. I figure that I have 8 to 10 chapters left on...fell asleep before Master Boles had walked out of the room. His dreams were all of Black's dank little hideouts, of being Jay while he was tortured and of a little girl being raped in front of his eyes.

This was hard to write, especially the first part of it. Poor Jay! T____T (And I seriously apologize to and for poor little Amber, too. *cringes*) I had to write this in short little chunks because it... There was no way that Black would be able to stand against them all, no matter what he did to Jay, Amber or anyone else. Emma wouldn't let him escape, not after everything that had happened so far.

My Mom has gone home and I'm almost caught up at work, thus you have Interlude-ness! What can I say? The plot has a lot that has to happen before regularly scheduled comfort-sex and normal smut times,...idly as they fell asleep whether Gabe would ever sleep in the bed he'd been given. He didn't think so. The thought made him smile as he dropped off to the sound of Gabe starting to snore. Part 15

Ahhh…! So nice to get back to this story again! XD This was half written before the audit stress last week but I couldn't get back to it until today. Unfortunately, my Mom is coming to visit tomorrow so... one that made him reassess a lot of the Master / slave interactions he'd observed before. Not that it mattered right now. He was safe and they were going to rescue Jay. Two-Part Interlude

This is an odd, very, very, VERY dark story. Every so often the prompt 'everyone is terrified' pops into my head. I usually push it away and write other things because, frankly, I've got way plenty stories... Merton thought as the whistle of the blade approached. The very last thing he saw was Lucius' boots from the corner of his eye. It made him smile. Then he wasn't thinking anymore and it was all over.

Another world-building sketch—that grew way beyond its intended length—from my Matriarchal world. In this one, we see Anwyn at fifteen, meet another character that’s going to show up in the big story,... She was way too mischievous for Spyros, but that kiss did make him wonder what a night would have been like. Maybe she’d come back to visit with Iola again someday. It would be worth it if she did…

Yeah…I’m not sure where this one came from. *scratches head* Some of you know already that I’m very much a switch (probably TMI for others), but well, this character (who refused to name himself or anyone...was fun.” “Right, well, I need this by 10:00,” the boss said, giving him a stack of papers. “Think you can do it?” “Sure,” he said, “just let me know what I need to do and I’ll find a way to get it done.”

Such a hard chapter to write! Odd that when I’m super-busy and lacking in time, with a huge deadline looming that I know I’m not going to make, it’s Alik and his trauma that forced its way to the front...He headed out of the office with his normal determined stride. Alix smiled and went back to work on the paperwork. If she was left alone for another half hour she might just get this all done today.

Filing is so damned dangerous when you’re a writer. This is another set of characters that appeared while I was filing. They were interesting enough that I had to write them down and get them out of my...moaned under his fingers and tongue, the whole affair hadn’t been that bad. He’d removed a rival to his power and his boy was finally fully his. A few hundred deaths was a small price to pay for that.