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TruthsSeed


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Date: Nov 4, 2008
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
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The letter was simple really. But simple didn't make it any less difficult. Tommy sat curled in one of the giant chairs in the living room, like someone who wanted to curl up so small that he could disappear. His chin rested on his knees, the holes in his jeans letting him brush the stubble of blonde beard against the smoothness of his knee caps as he sat there. Arms wrapped around his legs with the letter clutched in one slightly quivering hand. It had come same day delivery from San Diego, the first letter from his mother in........years. When he'd contracted lycanthropy it was almost like he was the gay son who got AIDS. His father hadn't wanted anything to do with him anymore, and his mother had gone along with it. At first there had been some excitement with the letters arrival, but now there was only a huge gaping sadness.

Again he let his eyes drift over the words on the perfect crisp white stationary, and he imagined his mother writing it. In his memory she was still young, still the woman he remembered from the last time he'd seen her, when he was just sixteen. His beautiful mother who made cookies that tasted like bites of heaven and who always smelled like Dior perfume. Biting at the pillowy softness of his lower lip he tried to stop the memories that came flooding in.


My little Tommy,
           I know that we haven't spoken since you left home, but I have gotten your letters and read every one. I don't know how to say I'm sorry for the years that has passed and all the things I have missed in your life. Now though, I ask you to forgive us. Your father is in the hospital, and the doctors say that he won't make it much longer. He's asked to see you, though he won't write you himself to ask. Please come Tommy, please come and tell your father goodbye.
All the love in my heart,
                                      Mom


A slender finger was used to brush against the page where his mom had signed the short letter. When he was a child she had packed his lunches for school with little notes signed just that way. His fingertip traced her compact handwriting and he sighed. Already he knew that he would go. Even if his father was the person he feared most in the entire world, he would go. The man had been a bully, had pushed him around, teased and beaten on him to try to make him into the kind of man that he wanted him to be. Problem was that Tommy just wasn't that kind of man, and his father had never accepted that. Fingers clenched and the paper crinkled, even that little outburst was regretted. Sitting up straighter he pushed the paper against the bend of his knees, running a hand over it to straighten it out again.

Pale cornflower blue eyes looked around the empty living room, then those eyes closed and he let his senses pick up the scents and sounds from the rest of the house. The movements of his loved ones, his family, his Rodere. Inside he promised that he would come back, but deep down somewhere he wasn't sure if that was a promise he would be able to keep. Pushing to his feet he slunk towards the stairs to head up to his bedroom so that he could start packing. Quiet as a mouse he moved down the hall and through the door to his room. In the corner was the empty shell of his old traveling bag. A green Navy bag that had been his since the age of fourteen. Grabbing it he started going through the room for things he wanted to take. It wouldn't take long to pack, after all he was more of a church mouse than a pack rat.

Once the zipper was pulled on the bag he looked at the cell phone Barbie had given him, all members of the Rodere had one, only he rarely used his. With another long sigh he flopped down on the bed and started to make phonecalls. First he called Barbie and Milo, leaving them a message...

"Hey guys, it's Tommy, could you call a meeting? I need to talk to everyone about something important. The sooner, the better. Thanks." After a long pause he added, "love you both."

Knowing that they would get the group together he didn't bother the rest of the Rodere just yet. Next he called Beaver at the loft and left another message.

"Beaver, it's Tommy. My dads in the hospital and I have to go back to San Diego for awhile to try to help out my family. I'll talk to Karma about looking in on you. Don't worry, I won't be gone long."

It felt like a lie to his oldest friend. But what could he tell Beaver? That he might not ever be coming back to help him? That just seemed cruel. The last call would be to Sera....and that was the hardest call of all. The line at Thriteen Moons reached Blaise, who said Sera was out, so he tried her cell phone. Though she didn't pick up he felt a distinct aching pain in his chest when he heard her sweet voice on the answering machine. A single tear glided over the curve of his cheek, but his voice stayed that same soft melodic prescence as he left the message.

"Sera, I need to see you for coffee. Sometime in the next day or two if you can get away. Let me know when and where and I will be there."

Tommy swallowed hard as he hung up the phone. That was it, now he just had to see them in person and say his goodbyes. Gods, if the phone calls were that hard he couldn't imagine what seeing them would be like. But he had to. He had been riding the rails and running for so many years, and he finally had a family. He couldn't just leave without telling them where he was going. No matter how far away he went they would be with him, in his heart. He would carry them there until the end of time. Nothing could change that, or so he believed.



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Sera


Pet Psychic

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Date: Nov 4, 2008
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Sera was out on a case. Not the kind the police took. But the ones that required her special skills. Fingers brushed down the length of the short haired poodle. She didn't like poodles. Mostly because they looked strange to her. Muffy, as her owner called the thing, had been barking all night and it was odd for the behavior. So she had called Sera to see the dog. When she was with a client she always lowered the volume on her cell phone. It was no wonder she didn't hear Somewhere over the Rainbow when Tommy called.

 
After leaving the woman's house, she looked at the phone on the drive back to the shop, seeing a missed call from Tommy. His voice sounded the same as always. Nothing in it to give a hint at what was going on with him. Though what he did say troubled Sera. Saving the voicemail, she would text him back saying she was open now. They can meet at their coffee shop. She'd be at their normal table. Hoping no one was sitting there.


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