The boat trip had been too long. Even though she'd been eating the barest minimum, and using her long acting insulin at increased doses, it hadn't been enough. Within days the sweet ketoacidotic smell on her breath was apparent to everyone, herself included. And it was only a couple of days after th...

Acacia blinked as suddenly people started appearing from nowhere, over the hills, around the corner. Why were they all here ? It was good to see Thea and Autumn though, friends from the team, their presence added a bizzarre sense of normalcy to the proceedings; she saw them every day, in all kinds o...

"Why on earth did you say that? You just tempted fate and there's something in there and if we go inside, it's going to claw us to death and wear our skin for hats!" "I- Fate doesn't exist!" Acacia uttered, indignant, though the scream had spooked her somewhat. She took a few st...

((Acacia Salinger continued from Orientation )) They had walked all night. Well, not quite, but it felt like a significant chunk of it, with only snatched hours of rest here and there. They had heard the announcement, names she recognised, read out on the list of the dead. Names she recognised read ...

((Apologies for the crappiest post I've ever written, but I just want to get Neill out of the way so as not to hold things up and then disappear til my exams are over)) Neill nodded enthusiastically as Ray suggested that they make a move. There was nothing about this situation that was making him fe...

God, this was an awkward conversation. The air had gone from relaxed to tense in seconds, and Neill was aware that he must have been contributing to that what with clenching his buttocks and his fists so that dirty nails dug into his palms. The guy seemed so... erratic. Proper off the wall, and Neil...

Neill didn't actually notice the boy, he was facing in the wrong direction as he came up behind them, and it wasn't until he caught Bobby and Ray's glances that he turned around. The song was drifting towards them, caught on snatched of wind, and Neill found himself frowning. This guy had an odour o...

He had no idea how he had suddenly come by such a bounty of luck. Admittedly, being cast away on an island full of murderers who until four days ago had been his graduating class was generally not in most people's definition of 'luck'. But how many people on the island could really say that they had...

((Helen's riding the line a little too close to inactivity for my liking, but I've written this so it occupies a single moment in time and shouldn't mess anything up. If it does, let me know and I'll fix it.)) Crap. Where the hell did they keep finding mortally wounded people from. And how had she s...

((Helen Wilson continued from The House of the Rising Sun )) Helen waved her right hand half heartedly at the suggestion of a roll call, reminiscent of the last few days at middle school, when you were the oldest kids, the ones who knew the most, and roll call was a formality that you just had to ge...

Half relieved, half nervous that Jackie agreed with her, Maddy hitched her bag up on her shoulder, adjusting it so that the machete was less obvious when she put it in her bag. It was a close call between making it obvious that they were armed and hoping that people would leave them alone in some ki...

Maddy started back again, standing up as what had been a gun pointed at her descended in to a full blown fight between Belle and Garrett. She put the bottle back in to her bag and stood up. And now he was running towards her with some kind of wooden sword that she didn't know the name of. Feeling le...

"I don't really do sticking..." Maddy, or 'Machete' as she was secretly elated to now be known as, said quietly. She glanced away, as Jackie added her two cents to the matter, and ambled off to one side. Maddy crouched down and retrieved one of the water bottles from her bag and gulped a m...

It couldn't be helped, as Rachel departed the scene, she began to struggle to hold in some very hysterical laughter. It was a mixture of the tambourine and dramatic departure of Rachel, the guy who had just pointed a gun at her offering to be her friend, and Pretty Girl suddenly erupting into effing...

Maddy grinned at Belle, kind of liking the nickname machete. It might make people afraid of her which would be so hilarious in it's irony, as even with a decent weapon she suspected she was one of the least threatening people on the island. Just as Rachel invited her to go along with her at the expe...