The room was quiet. Ed Straker lay on the bed stretched and relaxed, then opened his eyes and froze. This was not his room. Yet there was the touch of familiarity to the place. Touches of memory flashed through his mind too fast to really comprehend. He got up, let his body go through the familiar motions of arising and got a shock as he looked in the mirror. He…
dragon “The problem with meeting at Maxim’s in Paris is that I have no idea what Maxim’s looks like and it gets very turn of the century when I try to imagine it.” (sigh) “Don’t snort. It’s … “ Straker “Unladylike?” dragon (snort) “Very.” (giggle) Straker “Hmm. That probably explains a lt.” (looking around at the chandeliers, white table clothes and attentive, well dressed waiters) “The period suits you.” dragon…
WARNING: major character death! MIT Jack Harkness lounged at the back of the lecture room while the man he observed tried not to tear out his silken pale hair. Lt. Ed Straker scowled at the blackboard, which was actually a deep green, and erased about a page of arcane mathematical hieroglyphs to start his calculations over again from the point where they kept going wrong, as far as he could…
Sometime in the late 70’s in Moscow. Fix me a drink, make it a strong one, Hey comrade, a drink, make it a long one, My hands are shaking and my feet are numb, My head is aching and the bar’s going round, And I’m so down, in this foreign town; Alec Freeman downed another double vodka shot, his smile never reaching his eyes but the drunken Russian…
Rini-chan looked at the tiny flash drive in her hand. Then she looked at the USB port someone had installed in the back of one of Ford’s computers. She read the instructions in her other hand, stuck the drive in the port and pushed the tiny jeweled button on the end that wasn’t connected. The entire thing lit up as it did whatever it was programmed to do. “Mom, if…
Time: Somewhere around 1985 and 2302. Place: England He remembered running. Something was behind him, chasing him. He remembered cussing mentally because somewhere in his headlong run, he’d lost his gun. Gun. Why would he carry a gun? Why would he be upset that he had lost one? He lay there in the crisp white room, between crisp white sheets and listened to the beep, beep, beep of the…
Ed reached into his stubborn adherence to who and what he was, fighting the insidious voice in his head. Yes, he would love to have a weapon to use against the aliens, something to chase them away and make them never come back again. But what he saw in this monster’s eyes, in Virginia’s; no. This was not the way, to become more of a monster than he already was….
WARNINGS: slight sexual innuendos, some violence 16:30 The drive to the docks took longer than expected. Traffic was heavy as they went through town to arrive at the correct area. The SHADO mobile unit was equipped to go overland and was slow by comparison on the road. Davidson, one of Ford’s people, greeted Straker as he joined the mobile crew. “We’re still not triangulated. Ferrales is working on it. Ford’s…
23:56 pm Ford poked his head into Straker’s office looking worried. Not all that unusual. “Yes?” Ed responded quickly. “Security, sir. Col. Freeman left the premises over an hour ago. His car’s in the lot still, along with his gun sitting on the bonnet.” Galvanized Ed was on the phone to security for a full report. Within minutes he was at the scene and was as baffled as his security…
For several days, Alec Freeman had felt eyes on him; someone watching him until he could have jumped out of his skin at being addressed by a friend. The feeling preyed on his usually steel nerves. Even his boss, Ed Straker, had noticed there was something amiss. “Alec, you’re jumpy.” Ed eyed him curiously. He let out a brief laugh, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. “Yeah. I’ve felt…