It was rare that One needed to leave his home for anything. The island he had made his training grounds was self-sufficient and off the radar. The quiet was no problem, either. Certainly, it was more pleasant there now that Two—or Dos as he preferred to call himself—was sufficiently trained and beginning to work in the field. He had a job in two weeks that One intended to drop in on, just to test the young man. He hoped his student survived until then. In the meantime, though, visiting the mainland had become necessary because Dos had left behind quite a bit of damage that needed repair. Perhaps One had been excessive in his fina
Angel and Mulberry's 1st Date by ThespianWaltz, literature
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Angel and Mulberry's 1st Date
Angel couldn't really remember the last time she had felt this nervous. Maybe, when she thought about it, when it had been back in medical school and it had been the finals. They were supposed to operate on a patient (a doll in this case) and flat lining meant you had failed, depending on what the patient suffered from.
Angel remembered how she had nearly panicked when the patient had flat lined at once on her turn. It turned out the teaching doctors had decided to pull a prank on the students to make them "loosen up". In a way, she supposed now, it had helped. Back then, she had almost cried.
'Well... Better do my best not to burst into te
The asteroid storm had been a bad one; the Schwarzwald pirate fleet's flagship, Aufbegehren, was heavily damaged, and the three ships were having to stall in mid-space for emergency repairs since the closest space station was a week's travel behind them and currently had several arrest warrants for the space pirates.
"It looks bad, Isauria." Alex informed the admiral via comlink as he examined a side bay of the ship. The window, made of a steel-strength polymer, was cracked. A small asteroid had come barreling through and hit the ship's broadside, damaging it and setting off emergency protocols as the ship lost oxygen. Luckily, all the are