#That means it's going to take another 12 months (18 minutes left to adapt. that's 12 more chapters) to catch up with the anime

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should just bring back Wungo Wednesday and start a fandom collective anime rewatch

[alonely-dreamer]

The Valuable Sun | Chapter 22 (The End)

Summary: Witches never die.

Pairing: Eric x OC

Warnings: 18+

A/N: Please, note that I am French so there might be some mistakes here and there.

Words: 6228

Masterlist

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21

Adapting to being a vampire wasn’t so hard for Brooklynne. Perhaps because she wasn’t really a vampire, but rather a vampire-fairy hybrid who, aside from being immortal, was as human as she used to be.

She didn’t fear the sun, she ate human food and didn’t have to rely on blood to survive. The hardest part of her transition was that everything was heightened. Her sight, her hearing, her strength… She was faster than lightning, and, since apparently it was a hereditary talent, she could fly, like her maker. A talent she’d have to learn to control, and a talent which Pam was jealously unequipped with.

To the rest of the world, Brooke was just another mortal, weird like her sister, maybe gifted with telepathy for those who believed in those sorts of things. But to her family, to her loved ones, she was the strongest creature on Earth, and, therefore, the weakest.

Eric’s worry was loud and made him even more unpleasant than before. With other people, that is. He took extra care of Brooklynne, who felt like a little girl again, who wasn’t allowed to leave her house because she’d get too distracted to even remember her own name.

Fortunately for her, Eric could not control her days, which she spent with her sister at Merlotte’s. It had been a week now, since she had become a vampire, and the only abnormal behavior she showed was an extreme appetite. She could not stop eating, and she almost emptied Sam’s kitchen, not that he would ever complain about it.

“Look at you,” Arlene said as she walked behind the bar to grab a bottle of alcohol. “You wouldn’t be expecting a happy event, would you?”

Brooklynne almost choked on her chicken wing and Arlene laughed as the hybrid coughed and wiped the mess she had made.

“What? No!”

“I’m just kidding ya. I know you can’t get pregnant. Not while you’re with that vampire of yours…”

Brooklynne watched the waitress walk away and disappear in the hallway, leaving a wave of disapproval behind her.

“Fuck you too,” she mumbled under her breath.

“What was that?” Sookie asked, approaching her with a plate she put down on the bar.

“Nothing.”

“What did Arlene want?”

“To make sure I knew how much she hates my kind.”

“To be fair, you’re the first and only one of your kind.”

“Wanna join me?”

“No, thanks,” she swiftly dismissed the mere idea, “hey, isn’t Eric supposed to be here already?”

“Yeah. I guess there was an emergency at Fangtasia. He’s not answering my texts.”

“Well, that’s weird.”

“Not really,” she shrugged. “It’s Halloween. He says there’s always some shit happening on Halloween.”

“When did you start using those words?” Sookie sighed. “You weren’t always so vulgar.”

Her sister laughed. “Sorry. I’m just repeating what he said.”

“Anyway, I have to take out the trash before I leave, want me to drive you?”

“Sure, why not? I’ll join you outside.”

Brooklynne finished her plate, then her drink in one go, before leaving some cash on the bar. She walked across the restaurant and exited through the back door. There, she found her sister and Holly talking about Marnie. Brooke rolled her eyes.

“What’s going on?”

“Hey, Brooklynne.”

“What’s up Holly?”

“Oh, nothing, honey. We were just talking about… well… we just have a bad feeling, is all.”

“It’s probably nothing,” Sookie waved it off.

“Yeah. We’re just spooked because it’s Halloween and all.”

Screeching tires drew their attention towards Tara’s car who had just parked in a panic. Brooklynne didn’t know if it was the previous spooky talk, or just Tara’s look as she ran towards them, but she was starting to have a bad feeling as well.

“Tara?” Sookie called. “Tara what is it? What happened?”

“She’s back!”

“Who’s back, honey?”

“Marnie.”

“Marnie’s dead,” Brooklynne rolled her eyes. “I should know, I killed her myself.”

“She killed Jesus,” Tara started crying. “I think she’s inside Lafayette.”

Sookie turned slowly towards her little sister, who oddly appeared to stand taller than her for once.

“Don’t look at me, I’m no witch. I wouldn’t know the first thing about getting that bitch out of Lafayette.”

“No, Brooke… Eric’s not answering his phone.”

If Brooklynne ever doubted her heart was still beating, she sure had the answer now, as it felt like it skipped a beat as she realized what her sister was saying.

“No,” she scoffed in disbelief. “He’d kill Lafayette on the spot.”

“I’m gonna try to call Bill,” the waitress said as she took out her phone.

Brooklynne shook her head, maybe to try and throw the mere idea of Eric being in any kind of danger away, as she took out her own cellphone.

“Bill’s not answering,” Sookie said, now even more panicked than before.

“Eric either…”

“Well, do we know where they could be?” Holly asked.

Sookie took a deep breath as she remembered what Bill had told her earlier: ‘I’ll be waiting for you at home. My men will let you in.’

“Yes. We do.”

 ***

 Vampires were supposed to heal fast. So fast that they could barely feel pain. Which is why this headache was doubly irritating for Brooklynne. Between the busy minds of her sister, Holly and Tara, whom she was riding with, her own head felt like it was about to explode. Filled with worry and incomprehension, she kept asking herself if she should just get out of the car and run to Bill’s house on her own. She’d already be there.

“You can’t. If Tara and Holly find out you’re a vampire, it won’t be a secret anymore.”

“Who cares at this point? Eric could die any second now!”

“Pam might already be there.”

“If he wanted either of us there, he’d had already called us. Which means he’s in real danger, Marnie is not kidding around, she’s aiming to kill!”

“Don’t remind me. I’m driving you to her!”

“She won’t have a chance to hurt me. She’ll be dead before…”

“You can’t kill her like last time, Brooke. She’s inside Lafayette. We need to trust Holly, she knows how this works.”

“No, she doesn’t, are you listening to her? She’s got a bag full of salt and a mouth full of ‘maybes’. What if she has no clue how to deal with this?”

“Either way, we’re not killing Lafayette.”

“If killing Lafayette is the only way to save Eric, I will do it myself.”

“Are you hearing yourself? You’re talking about killing Lafayette! Our friend! Tara’s cousin!”

“Sorry, Sook. But it’s not a hard choice. Not even a little bit.”

Brooklynne did her best to shut her sister’s disapproving thoughts out of her head, she knew it all already. Of course, she wouldn’t be happy about killing Lafayette. Of course, she’d rather Holly’s plan worked. But if it didn’t, if she had to choose between watching Marnie/Lafayette kill Eric or kill her/him herself, she wouldn’t lose sleep over it. She stopped for a second, a very brief second, and wondered if she’d had thought the same as a human/fairy. If she had been in that situation a month ago, what would she have done? She knew what she would have done. She’d have been too weak to fight off Marnie. She’d have been too weak to save Eric.

She wasn’t going to be weak tonight.

“Any of you got a mirror?” Holly asked as she did the inventory of her Wiccan first aid-kit.

“You ever done this before?” Sookie asked as she handed her a small mirror she found in her purse.

“Goddess, no,” the waitress replied as she shoved the mirror into her bag, next to the salt and the sage. “Usually, I just light a candle and ask the spirits to make sure my boys don’t end up in jail or knock somebody up.”

Sookie could hear her sister scoff and roll her eyes next to Holly, a “what did I say?” echoing inside of her head.

“But so far, that’s worked out okay.”

“Maybe you’re just a good mother,” Brooke mumbled.

“Oh, thanks honey.”

Brooklynne frowned as the mother of two gave her a nervous smile, her lack of faith in her Wiccan religion completely oblivious to her.

“Sook, you can’t let them hurt him,” Tara begged. “If Bill and Eric find out Marnie’s inside Lafayette…”

“I have a feeling they already know…”

Tara stepped on the accelerator. They were only a couple of minutes away. Brooklynne kept trying to reach her maker through their bond, but the silence she was met with only helped widening the pit in her stomach.

Tara stopped the car at the gates of Bill’s property and the four women jumped out of the vehicle, Holly, her bag of magic tricks on her shoulder.

Brooklynne, though she had been patient until then, didn’t even think twice about disappearing on them as soon as she smelled wood and straw.

“Eric!”

She found them tied up together to a pyre, half naked, silver chains around their bare chest.

“What are you doing here? You need to go, now!”

“Are you crazy? I’m not leaving without you!”

“Brooklynne!” Sookie called as she caught up to her sister, Holly and Tara behind her.

“Are you kidding me? You didn’t think to tell us you were a vampire?” Tara started to yell.

“She can’t be, she was at the bar all day long!” Holly said, confused, and a little bit scared.

They didn’t get the time to argue about it any more, however, as Marnie appeared before them.

“As your friend Lafayette would say, what goes around comes around, bitches.”

“I’m gonna kill you, you crazy bitch.”

“You already have,” Marnie replied with surprising calm. “Thank you for coming.”

Marnie/Lafayette raised a hand and waved it once to the left. Brooklynne felt her feet get off the floor and was sent flying across the garden where she collided with a tree.

Eric and Sookie called her name, in useless worry. She was back up on her feet in a matter of seconds.

“Lafayette!”

Tara received a deathly stare from the dead witch inside her cousin, and she gulped.

“… and Marnie. Please, don’t do this.”

“After all they’ve done to you, you protect them?”

“Killing Bill and Eric isn’t gonna make any of that go away.”

“Revenge will never bring you peace,” Eric told her.

“There can’t be peace until there is justice for me, for Antonia, for all the women you tortured and burned for centuries!”

Taking advantage of the moment, Holly started drawing a circle of salt around the pyre as Marnie had her back turned to her.

“All to repress a magic that’s older and more powerful than your very existence.”

“Marnie, what will this serve?” Bill, who saw Holly and understood the plan, asked, to help distract her. “There are millions of us, more being made every night. You cannot win.”

“I’m already dead, vampire. Thanks to you and your friends, I have nothing left to lose.”

Marnie lowered her head and raised her hands in the air as she casted three more words “incendia of sanctimonia”.

“No!” Brooke and Sookie screamed as they tried to make their way to the now burning pyre. But the fire Marnie had just started only grew bigger as they reached it. Brooklynne dragged her sister away from it as Tara joined them.

“Stop it,” she yelled. “It’s still Lafayette!”

“I don’t care,” Brooke growled as she raised a hand, a blinding light coming out of it, hitting Lafayette/Marnie in the chest, pushing them far away. It didn’t stop the fire, to her biggest disappointment.

Holly finished the circle of salt, joining them back to her starting point, as Marnie sat up, now, neither looking like Lafayette or herself, but with a painted face of some sort of creature.

“Give me your hands, now!”

Hesitantly, Tara joined the three women in a circle, taking the hand of the two sisters in her own. Immediately, they started chanting.

“Spirits who watch over us, friends, family, ancestors, guardians of the gate, with this rite we evoke thee through the veil of Samhain, we call thee forth.”

Again and again, they chanted, keeping Marnie out of the circle, however, doing nothing to stop the fire that was burning the two vampires next to them.

As the dead witch growled and the immortals screamed out of pain, spirits appeared in the cemetery near them, walking the earth once more, to join them in their battle. Sookie kept an eye open on Bill, while Brooklynne focused on Eric, doing her best not to break the circle and jump in the fire herself to get him out of there.

“Marnie.”

The summoned spirits stood in the forest, behind Marnie, calling her, only one, however, getting her attention: Antonia.

“Marnie.”

Lafayette’s face changed back to normal as the painted face of the creature disappeared, Marnie, making her way to the ghost of her former partner.

“My sister.”

“You came back to me…” she said, and the witch smiled. “I knew you would.”

Antonia’s eyes moved from Lafayette/Marnie to the burning pyre, and from where she stood blew out the fire as easily as she would have blown off the candles on a birthday cake.

“Antonia, no!”

Brooklynne didn’t wait one more second as she made her way to her maker, ripped off the silver chains tying the vampires to the still hot death trap. Eric’s knees were too weak and she caught him as he fell. However, no one was there to catch the King, who fell off the pyre and onto the hard ground. Sookie was quickly by his side.

“Are you okay?”

“Crispy.”

“Why the hell didn’t you call me? Or Pam?”

“So you could have burned with me? Not a great plan.”

“Not asking for help isn’t a plan at all!”

Off the pyre and back on the ground, Eric enjoyed the feeling of his burning bare feet on the cold grass. Brooke helped him kneel down.

“What the hell am I supposed to do without you? Don’t you dare die on me now that I’m immortal!”

“I’d rather die knowing that you’re safe, than die after watching you get killed.”

“And I’d rather die than spend immortality without you, so don’t you ever do that again!”

“Alright. I’ll try not to get burned alive by the crazy ghost of a witch again. That I can promise you.”

“Shut up and drink,” she rolled her eyes as she kneeled beside him and offered him her wrist.

The witches were still talking on the other side of the circle, and whatever Antonia was saying, Marnie didn’t want to hear it.

“All creatures have their purpose, even vampires.”

“How can you say that? They murdered us!”

“Their cruelty served its purpose: to bring you and I together. And now I am here to take you home.”

“I’m not finished yet.”

“Oh, yes you are.”

That voice. Brooklynne knew that voice. She turned her head, but whoever it was, she was hidden behind the pyre. However, Sookie could see her perfectly.

“Gran?”

“Holy Goddess.”

“Holy shit.”

Eric released Brooke’s hand so that she could get up and see for herself, Adele, her grandmother, make her way to Lafayette, put her hand in his mouth and reach down his throat. She took out a black fog which she threw away behind her. Once it reached the ground, it turned into Marnie.

“I don’t wanna go. I am not ready. Please!” she begged as she stood up.

“I was trapped between world for 400 years… lost and driven mad by my rage. I do not want that for you.”

“And what about what I want?! Nobody cares what I want! All my life, I’ve been afraid. And who wouldn’t be? With dead people murmuring in my ears, making me deliver your messages… making me into a freak! A creepy, pathetic, terrified mess muttering to herself in the corner.”

“But that is not who you are anymore.”

“No. That’s right. I’m not afraid anymore. I’ve got real power now. And you want to take that away from me?” she cried. “You want them to win?”

“Oh, Marnie,” Antonia said as she took Marnie’s face between her hands, “Marnie, can’t you see? Life is pain. But soon, all you have suffered and feared will be meaningless. You will be at peace. But them…”

“… they’ll be stuck here. Forever.”

“And there is no victory in that.”

A tear or two fell down Marnie’s cheeks as she screamed. “Oh, this fucking sucks.”

“Come on.”

Antonia took Marnie’s hand and led her down to the forest where the other spirits were waiting for her. Adele followed them.

“Gran!”

Sookie and Brooklynne called after her, hoping to make her stay.

“Please don’t go,” Sookie cried.

“I have to, dear.”

“I’m so lost without you. I don’t know what to do.”

“Yes, you do. Look at your sister. She’s got it all figured out,” she said as she smiled, proudly, at Brooklynne.

“Oh, Gran… I’m so sorry.”

“For what, dear?”

Brooklynne sniffed and shrugged, hoping her grandmother was proud of her, of who she had become.

“Answer’s where it always is. In your heart. Being alone, it ain’t nothing to be afraid of, my girls. We’re all alone, at the end.”

She smiled at them one last time before joining the spirits back to the cemetery and her granddaughters watch her leave them with tears in their eyes.

Brooke felt a hand slide on her waist, and she took it, as Eric pulled her towards him.

“No offense to your grandmother, but neither one of us will be alone at the end.”

Brooke chuckled as she wiped the tears off her face with the back of her hand.

“This is the worst night ever.”

“Well,” he said as he turned her around and wiped one last tear with his thumb, “the night is still young.”

 ***

 Eric had no idea how right he was. Well, maybe he did, a little. He knew what was coming. For him, for Bill. For Brooklynne. They were coming for their heads.

He hadn’t said a word, but Brooklynne knew too. She wasn’t used to being able to read his mind, and it mostly just happened, she couldn’t control it. He was thinking about it, so hard, as he was drinking her blood, in Bill’s living room. She could hear her sister break up with Bill in the other room, and she just wished she could tune them out. Hearing Bill cry made her feel sick.

“Are you sure they’re coming after you too? It wasn’t your fault.”

“They don’t care. I was caught on camera.”

“They destroyed all of that footage.”

“There are witnesses.”

“Glamour them.”

“It’s too late.”

“Then we should leave. Now.”

“And go where? They won’t stop until…”

“Brooklynne.”

The vampire-fairy hybrid turned to see her sister enter the room. Her eyes were red. And wet.

“I’m going home.”

“Okay. I’m staying here, with Eric.”

“You should go with her. There’s no reason for you to be here when…”

Brooklynne shot him a look that told him all he needed to know. She wasn’t going anywhere. She’d save him. Or die trying.

“Have a good night, Sook.”

“I’ll see you tomorrow,” her sister nodded as she waved, before she walked away.

“The AVL doesn’t know I’m a vampire. They can’t kill me. It’s against their own rules.”

“If you get in their way, if you show them what you can do…”

“Eric,” she stopped him, taking a step forward and placing a hand above his, “either we’re leaving town, or we’re staying. But we stay together.”

Eric sighed, defeated.

“Like you said, neither of us will be alone at the end.”

 ***

 Bill was back to being a cold bastard when he joined them in his living room. He sat in an armchair next to them, and they all kept a dreadful quiet as they enjoyed the last hour of their life.

Bill had nothing else to lose. He had just lost the only thing he wanted, the only thing he needed. Without Sookie, he had no reason to live. He wouldn’t fight the Authority, if they came knocking on his door with a true death warrant. Eric thought about his human life. His immortal life. Godric. Pam. Brooklynne. He thought about the life he had and the one he would never get. The life he dreamt of having with Brooklynne, and the one he could never give her. But Brooklynne wasn’t done fighting. She had barely started. She’d use all of her powers to kill them all, if need be. She felt strong enough. She never even took the time to ask herself if she could.

When the cars arrived, disturbing the silent night as they drove on the gravel driveway, they all felt like time had stopped. Like it was all decided, and they would either leave the house alive, or not at all.

Brooklynne suddenly felt like she had forgotten so many things. Her siblings. She should have said goodbye to them. But instead, she let Sookie go without even telling her she might never see her again. She was almost certain Eric was thinking the same way about Pam. But he knew if he had let her know about any of this, she’d had come, and he couldn’t do that to her. She deserved better.

At least, Bill had said his goodbye.

“This is it,” the King of Louisiana said as he straightened his suit.

“It’s been a crazy thousand years.”

Brooklynne scoffed dryly.

“I thought immortality would last longer.”

They followed Bill as he took the direction of the front door. He opened with a polite smile, a smile Brooklynne had dubbed “Bill’s political smile”.

Nan Flanagan was standing on the porch with a handful of heavily armed men and she looked pissed. She looked furious.

“Ms. Flanagan, we’ve been expecting you.”

Eric and Brooklynne appeared behind their king. It somehow seemed to make her angrier.

“Hi, Nan. And gay stormtroopers.”

Eric’s ability to make stupid jokes in moments such as this one was one of the reasons Brooklynne loved him so much.

“Perfect. Two birds, one stone,” she said as she entered the house, taking the direction of Bill’s office, followed by her guards.

Though Eric stayed silent, Brooklynne could feel his relief. Whatever Nan’s orders were, Brooklynne didn’t seem to be included in them.

The couple stepped in the crowded office, joining Bill’s side.

“The Marnie situation has been resolved, if that makes any difference,” Bill said.

“Ding, dong, the witch is dead,” Nan replied with a tone so sharp it would have given the true death to any vampire who got too close. “Yippee.”

“His Majesty showed great leadership in extremely perilous circumstances. You should be kissing his ring.”

“Why bother when your tongue’s already so far up his ass?”

Eric contemplated his options as his desire to kill the bitch grew stronger. Brooklynne was glad he controlled himself.

Nan gestured her guards to close the door and they stood before it, blocking the only exit. Brooklynne looked up at Eric who seemed to be as nervous as she was. This meant nothing good.

“I wish for one fucking night you could experience the litany of bullshit I’ve had to deal with. Then you’d have some idea of how little I give a fuck about your small-town witch infestation, or your whole backwoods kingdom, for that matter.”

“For someone who cares so little, you seem awfully pissed off.”

“Do I, Bill? Maybe that’s because I quit my fucking job!”

“You quit the AVL?” Eric asked, as baffled as Bill was.

“And the Authority.”

“No one quits the Authority,” Bill chuckled nervously.

“Quit, fired, same difference!”

“We assumed we were the ones to be terminated.”

“Oh, there’s been an order issued on your heads.”

Hearing those words, Brooklynne instinctively seized Eric’s hand.

“My last duty was supposed to be delivering the True Death to both of you. Of course, I realized I’d be next.”

She sighed, trying to control her anger. Failing.

“I have been alive for eight hundred and sixteen years. I refuse to be retired like a fat first wife!”

“Let me make sure I got this straight,” Eric said. “You’re mutinying against the American Vampire League and the Authority?”

“And you expect us to join you?”

“We won’t be alone,” she assured them. “There are factions inside the regime who have never been completely on board with the current agenda. Sheriff Northman knows what I’m talking about.”

Brooklynne frowned. So did Bill.

“What’s in it for us?” the Viking asked, undisturbed by the accusation.

Nan laughed. “Aside from surviving the night? How about your little fairy toy over there? And her sister.”

Their silence and cold stares didn’t faze her.

“Oh, come on. The mind reading, the microwave fingers? You didn’t think I knew what you were? There are at least a couple thousand vampires who would do almost anything to get a taste of your blood.”

“They’re welcome to try,” Brooklynne smirked.

In the next second, she had seized Bill’s paper knife and cut the throat of all of Nan’s human guards. Eric had wanted to do it, but she insisted, as it was her sister she was protecting.

“You’re a vampire?” Nan gasped, looking at her like she was an alien. Which… she was.

“Don’t. threaten. my sister.”

Bill armed himself with the fancy stake that was on display behind his seat, and stabbed Nan who exploded on the spot. There were pieces of her everywhere, the vampires were covered with her blood. Brooklynne took what looked like a tooth from her hair and threw it towards the pile of blood at her feet. She grimaced, then sighed.

“Can we leave now?”

 ***

 Leaving a voicemail to his progeny, Bill didn’t help Eric clean up the mess he had made of Nan Flanagan. Brooklynne stared at the fake window as her maker made sure to get rid of any evidence that would work against them in case of a trial. Though, if they ever got caught, they would not get the luxury of a trial. Their fate was already sealed, killing Nan was just going to buy them a little bit more time. Or so they thought.

As soon as they stepped out of the house, they fell into a silver trap. They were surrounded by a dozen heavily armed men who threw silver nets at Bill and Eric. They both cried out of pain and Brooklynne’s first instinct was to help her maker, but she was quickly pinned against the wall with unhuman strength.

The soldier took off his helmet and stared at her, right in the eyes, as he said: “go back inside, sit down and forget this ever happened”.

Her eyes grew big as she realized he was trying to glamour her. She could see in the corner of her eye that they were taking them away, towards the trunk of their black vehicle. There were too many soldiers there, all wearing protection gear and weapons that could kill a vampire in a second. She did her best to put the loud voice inside her head to rest. It killed her to ignore it, it almost destroyed her to not try anything to help Eric, but she knew if she tried anything, if she showed them she couldn’t be compelled, if she showed them what she really was, they’d either kill her or take her too, and she would never be able to help anyone again.

So, she did as he asked. She went back inside Bill’s house, sat on the first armchair she could find, and watched as they drove away.

She got up as soon as she was certain they wouldn’t be able to see her follow them. She stayed far enough away, running fast, faster than she ever thought she could run. She even tried to fly, but to no avail. She followed them out of Bon-Temps and into an empty road. It was the middle of the night, so there was no one else there, but vampires.

She tried to think of a plan, of a way to get them out that wouldn’t get her and them killed. But there was no way she could free them without alerting the Authority soldiers.

But, suddenly, the black van in which all of the soldiers had gotten into took another road. It confused Brooklynne for a second, until she realized they were probably going back to their base, which meant Bill and Eric were going somewhere else. Somewhere like New-Orleans, to the Vampire Authority Headquarters.

She ran even faster now, so she could catch up to the single car, in which Eric was trapped. She positioned herself in the middle of the road, in front of the vehicle, but far enough away so that they could see her before driving into her. She rose a hand and the brightest light came out of it, blinding the driver. He immediately, out of instinct, turned the wheel, causing the car to roll over three times before it stopped in the field on her right.

She rushed towards the trunk which was already half opened. One kick was enough to open it wide.

“Brooklynne,” Eric breathed out as he crawled out, “what are you doing?”

“Saving your life? You’re welcome. Come on.”

They helped Bill out but didn’t get the time to do anything else as a vampire, whom Brooke recognized to be the driver, showed up behind them, holding a gun, no doubt loaded with silver bullets.

“Who wants to die first?”

Eric pushed Brooke behind him, screaming at her mentally to run the second she can, to not think twice about it. As soon as he turned into a pool of blood, she had to make a run for it.

But he wasn’t the one who exploded into a disgusting pile of bloody body parts.

A woman stood where the vampire used to be a second before, his spine in her hand.

“You, Hayes,” she said, looking down at the pile of blood, “you die first.”

“Nora,” Eric breathed out.

Their savior threw the spine on the ground and shook her bloody hand, trying to get the remaining pieces of Hayes off of her skin.

“I had arranged for our car to be conveniently ambushed when we hit 310,” Nora said, she had a British accent. Our attackers were going to take out my driver there. Unfortunately, wonder woman over here came 12 miles too soon.”

“Um… sorry?”

“Don’t be. It was badass.”

“Eric, you know this woman?” Bill asked.

“Yes. She’s my sister.”

Brooklynne thought she had misheard. Eric never mentioned a sister. She felt confused and… betrayed?

“Your sister? You have a sister who works for the Authority?” Bill says, both surprised and suspicious.

“I’m a Chancellor,” she replied proudly.

“I don’t understand,” Brooke said. “If you knew they were coming for Eric, why didn’t you warn him?”

“There was no time. The Guardian wanted Nan followed to make sure she carried out his orders. I saw an opportunity to save Eric, so I took it.”

“So nobody in the Authority knows about your relationship?” Bill asked.

“And they never will. We were only connected through out maker, Godric. And Godric is gone,” she said with obvious sorrow.

“As a Chancellor of the Authority, you’re taking a huge risk,” Bill continued, still not trusting her fully. “Why would you choose to…”

“Because I’d do anything for Eric.”

“And I’d do anything for you,” the Viking said as he took a step forward.

He went to hug his sister, whom he apparently hadn’t seen in decades. She smiled as she hugged him back. Brooklynne thought it would have been nice to know he had someone he cared about so much other than Pam. Though she could understand why keeping their relationship a secret was for the best, perhaps he could have trusted her enough to share that secret with her.

“And,” Nora continued, “because you did what you did protecting us from the necromancers. That we would reward you for it with the True Death speaks volume about how out of step the Authority’s current agenda is.”

So, Nan knew. Nan knew of Nora and of her relationship with Eric. Which meant Eric did keep in touch at least a little bit. Brooke tried to keep her anger to a minimum.

“I’m not alone in this belief.”

“Factions within the Authority?” Bill asked, making the connection with the information Nan had given him earlier that night.

“Mm-mmh,” she nodded. “So, who’s wonder woman?”

Nora looked at the fairy with interest, but Brooke didn’t answer, uncertain of how much she should say. She turned to Eric for guidance.

“Nora, this is Brooklynne, my progeny.”

“A pleasure, I’m sure…” Nora mumbled thoughtfully. “What is she? She smells amazing.”

“She’s…” Eric pondered. “… complicated.”

“Right…” she said, suspicious. “And I suppose that light is part of the… complications.”

“What light?”

“The light that came out of your progeny, causing Hayes to drive us into this field.”

Eric looked at Brooklynne with regret. She exposed herself to save him, putting herself in danger.

“Like I said. It’s complicated.”

“Well,” she sighed, resigned to stay in the dark, “’complicated’ is an improvement from that whore you keep around.”

“Nora!” Eric hissed, threateningly.

Brooklynne frowned. Perhaps her contempt for Pam was what kept the two apart for so long. She couldn’t help but wonder if Eric trusted any of them. She thought she knew him, but she just realized she had many, many things to figure out about him still. The fact he kept her true identity from Nora meant he didn’t trust her entirely either, or perhaps, it was just the Authority that made him nervous. But finding out about Nora’s existence that night rose many questions that she didn’t have time to ask at the moment.

“Help me turn the car around,” Nora asked Bill. “Let’s see if it can drive us somewhere safe for the day.”

Eric gestured Brooklynne to follow him and they made their way to the road in silence. She tried hard not to explore his thoughts.

“Why didn’t you tell me you had a sister?”

“We don’t tell anyone we’re related. It’s for everyone’s safety.”

“Okay. Why didn’t you tell her who I was? She thinks I’m a vampire.”

“She saw your speed and strength, she already knew you were a vampire.”

“But you don’t trust her enough to tell her the truth.”

“She works for the Authority. If she ever gets caught for being ‘against the current agenda’ she’ll get tortured and asked about everything that she knows. I told you, you can’t trust anyone.”

“So what? I’m just supposed to pretend to be a vampire now? To sleep all day? Pretend I don’t eat human food?”

“Only around Nora, which you won’t be for long.”

She sighed. “Right. So… what do we do now?”

“We do nothing. Nora will get Bill and I out of here. We’ll have new identities, we’ll be safer once we get out of the country.”

“What? What do you mean? I’m coming with you.”

“No, you’re not.”

Brooklynne gasped as she took a step back. It felt like a slap in the face.

“The Authority has no knowledge of your existence, there is no warrant out for you arrest, you can go back to Bon-Temps, be with your sister.”

“No! No way.”

“Brooklynne.”

He put his hands on both her shoulders as he looked down at her.

“It’s not safe to come with me. They will hunt me down until they catch me.”

“So?”

“So, you’ll be safer in Bon-Temps. Stay with Pam. I’ll be in touch, I’ll call, I’ll…”

“Eric, I am not going back to Bon-Temps without you. I’m not going anywhere without you. You promised! We promised.”

“The life that’s waiting for me is not worth living.”

“No life is worth living without you, how many times do I have to say it?!”

“Brook-“

“No! I have no life without you, Eric. You are my life. You gave me immortality and you better be sure I’m going to spend it with you. You will not abandon me here!”

“Brooklynne,” he sighed as he brought her to his chest.

He placed a kiss on the top of her head as he hugged her.

“This isn’t what I wanted for you.”

“I know. But it’s better than nothing.”

He backed away and placed his hands on both sides of her face.

“I love you,” he said as dark red tears appeared in his eyes.

She gave him a sad smile. “I love you too. More than anything.”

He leaned over to kiss her. His lips capturing hers like it was the first and last time they would do so. He held her tightly to him, as to stop her from slipping away.

He released her reluctantly, caressing her cheeks with his thumbs, and returning her sad smile.

“Forgive me.”

She frowned. But she didn’t get the time to express her confusion as he swiftly twisted her head, breaking it in a horrible sound that will haunt him forever.

The end… ?

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YEAR-IN-BOOKS | 2019

So. Last year I read 89 books. The year before that I read 39. The year before that I read 23. This year I have (thus far) read 110 books out of my goal of 100 and will likely finish both The Secret Commonwealth and The Library of the Unwritten before the end of the year. I may even finish another depending on which audiobook I go for next. So I’m gonna talk a lot. Again.

1. a book you loved?

Again, I read a lot of books this year. It was a great year for books. I discovered Brandon Sanderson, which has been amazing. I reread at least two different favorite series, some graphic novels, a few books that would ordinarily be outside of my typical genre. But I’m going to pick Red, White, & Royal Blue, which was probably the one I loved the most. Casey McQuiston, for those of you who weren’t in The Social Network fandom, wrote a really fantastic RPF in like 2011 or so. It was gorgeous and while I’m sad that it was never finished, I can still appreciate the crap out of it. RWARB is a story about the son of America’s first female president falling for the Prince of Wales. It is everything I loved about fics like The Student Prince and Drastically Redefining Protocol and more. It’s best universe 100% and I will probably be rereading it within the next few months because I loved it to pieces. Also, it won both best romance and best debut novel on goodreads by a pretty large margin, which is amazing! 

2. a book you hated?

I think the only book that I absolutely hated this year was The Gunslinger. Which sucks because a lot of people recommended that one pretty highly, but I either reluctantly enjoy Stephen King’s books or I outright loathe them. My review, directly from goodreads, with a rare one star rating:  

“Thing number 1: same guy who did the audiobook recording for The Stand did this one as well. Bad enough. Thing number 2: I forgot how badly Stephen King writes women. I got to listen to this narrator read a scene where a woman has an orgasm because the main character is exorcising a lust demon out of her by shoving a gun into her unmentionables, and then I got to hear someone described as "falling whorishly." DNF at 75%. Sorry. I just could not do it. Falling whorishly was the straw that broke the camel's back.”

3. a book that made you cry?

I definitely cried when I finished The Hero of Ages, which is the third of the original Mistborn trilogy by Sanderson. Without spoiling things... I was definitely crying by the end of it. Might have been crying at the end of the first in the series too. The only other ones I can think of that may have made me sniffle are Everything I Never Told You and To Be Taught, If Fortunate. 

The first because it’s a wonderfully crafted little tale about a family getting torn apart when their daughter dies tragically. The whole thing is pulled wonderfully taut with tension, and each of the character’s snippets into Lydia’s life before her death leads you to more and more discoveries until finally everything comes together seamlessly in the end.

The second because it is a little, little book about a big, big universe and is just so achingly beautiful and big inside that it hurts.

4. a book that made you happy?

I mean, I’m tempted to Red, White, and Royal Blue again because it is 100% the one that made me happiest. I was grinning like an idiot half the time I was reading it. But, because answering the same book for two questions seems cheap when I’ve read over 100, so I’m gonna go with King of Scars, which is the sequel to the sequel of the original Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo. It took the best things about the original series and combined it with the best parts of Six of Crows and left me with a super riveting, fun read.

5. the best sequel?

Gah, I read so many series this year, so this is kind of hard. I have two answers!

The Well of Ascension, which was the second of the Mistborn novels and probably my favorite and The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, which in my humble opinion was leagues better than The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue. Not that it was bad, I’m just starved for stories about smart sexy ladies who become pirates and flirt with other pretty pirate ladies.

6. most anticipated release for the new year?

Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner is still my answer to this one. The release date got pushed back to August of next year instead of March of this one, so provided it doesn’t get pushed back again - that is 100% my answer. Some others I’m excited about: The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks, which I found out about two minutes ago, the as yet untitled Stormlight Archive #4 which is apparently coming out in November next year, and like six books that don’t have release dates yet so probably won’t come out until 2021. Oh, oh, oh, and The King of Crows, the fourth in The Diviners series, which I forgot was coming out in February!

7. favorite new author?

Easily Brandon Sanderson. Most of my other favorites that I really loved were all authors I’ve read before. Sanderson was my Rothfuss of 2019. Discovering his books changed my whole damn year.

8. favorite book to film adaptation?

I didn’t reread the series this year, but HBO put out their adaptation of His Dark Materials and it has been absolutely amazing so far! I’m blown away by every single episode and can only hope that the second and third seasons will be this good.

9. the most surprising book?

Okay, so there’s this book that I picked up randomly at the library because I liked its cover. It’s called The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard Morais and it’s about an Indian boy who grows up to become a world famous chef. It’s so, so rich. The detail is wonderful. You can taste the food, feel the sun, be a stranger in a market somewhere in France. It was a true delight of a book and definitely one of my favorites. 

10. the most interesting villain?

I read Codename Villanelle shortly after I got into the TV show, and it was actually a surprisingly good book. She’s a great villain. However, I also read Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, which you don’t even realize is about the evil queen until you’re like halfway through the book. That one was really, really well done and I need to get around to reading its sequel.

11. the best makeouts?

I’m tempted to say Chilling Effect because there’s just something about a sassy space pirate making out with her alien crew member whose skin can make her go into anaphylactic  shock that really appeals to the part of me that shipped Sheppard/Garrus from Mass Effect, but there were two really steamy ones in The Hating Game (elevators) and Ninth House (slightly dubcon-y bit because one character is drugged, but super searing anyway?). 

Also the bit in Red, White and Royal Blue where they make out against a painting of Hamilton in the White House will probably get me every time.

12. a book that was super frustrating?

Again, But Better was a pretty decent book over all. But there were slightly too many pop culture references and listening to an audiobook where the characters are signing along to Blink 182 along with several other songs was a little cringey because the narrator did not actually sing, just kind of singsongy shouted. It was weird.

The Alchemist was also really slow going for such a short book but was over all pretty good.

13. a book you texted about, and the text was IN CAPSLOCK?

I have no real life friends who really read and it is fucking tragic, so the closest I got was recommending a bunch of books to my mom and going off on tangents about how good they were. I think I might have ranted to Nick about a couple of them too.

14. a book for the small children in your life?

I reread The Bartimaeus trilogy again this year and it’s a kid’s book series that I would recommend to literally anybody because it might be my favorite series ever? I also read Lockwood & Co, a kid’s series by the same author who did Bartimaeus, which was fantastic because I didn’t even know he’d written anything since Bartimaeus? It didn’t quite compare, mostly because I adore Bartimaeus way too much, but was still highly entertaining. Spooky kid detectives hunt ghosts! 

15. a book you learned from?

While I did not read a single non-fiction book this year (again, whoops), a lot of books are informative even if they’re fiction. Hell, I learned more about cooking from The Hundred Foot Journey than I have in any cookbook out there.

16. a book you wouldn’t normally try?

Maybe Challenger Deep? I’ve been branching out more, so it’s getting harder and harder to tell which books I wouldn’t normally try. I did read like three exclusively romance novels this year, which was a bit odd for me.

17. a book with something magical in it?

I still say all books are magical. And definitely a lot of the books I read were magical, but probably the one with the most magic was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, which was a meticulously crafted love letter to all stories and fairy tales. It was really magical and definitely lived up to The Night Circus. If she keeps up like this, I won’t even mind the decade between publications, because she has a hell of a way with words.

18. the best clothes?

Maybe either The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (the descriptions of her gorgeous silky green dresses made me deeply envious) or Three Dark Crowns (which had neat food and clothes from what I remember)

19. the most well-rounded characters?

All of Sanderson’s stuff has great characters, but Everything I Never Told You is still probably the one with the best. Celeste Ng is really, really good at making you feel each of her characters down to their marrow.

20. the best world-building?

To Be Taught, If Fortunate was very much wow when it comes to the world building. But so was Ninth Gate and The Alloy Era of the Mistborn novels (sequel series to the original series that takes place hundreds of years after the first series). I also read Saga this year, a graphic novel series about a man and his wife on the run from their governments with their baby daughter because their species are in a long standing war and nobody wants anybody to know that they can procreate. That has some fantastic world building.

21. the worst world-building?

Maybe What If It’s Us? I found that one largely boring.

22. a book with a good sidekick?

Definitely any of the Alloy of Law books. Wayne is a wonderful sidekick and all of the other “side characters” in that series are fantastic.

23. the most insufferable narrator?

Ugh, the Gunslinger. Both the character in the book and the person who narrated the audiobook.

24. a book you were excited to read for months beforehand?

I think the only ones I was really excited for head of time were the two Folk of Air sequels by Holly Black and The Starless Sea. I still need to read Call Down the Hawk, and I’m currently reading The Secret Commonwealth, the sequel to His Dark Materials which I’ve been excited about since I learned that it would be a thing.

25. a book you picked up on a whim?

You already know about The Hundred Foot Journey. We Are Where the Nightmares Go and The Monster of Elendhaven were also both randoms that I picked up during the Halloween season that I really enjoyed.

26. a book that should be read in a foreign country?

The Hundred Foot Journey. 100%

27. a book cassian andor would like?

I still don’t know what to make of this question.

28. a book gina linetti would like?

Probably any of the steamy ones? I honestly don’t know.

29. your favorite cover art?

Probably The Ten Thousand Doors of January. It’s very pretty and flowery and the book itself is fantastic. I also really like the cover of David Mogo, Godhunter.

30. a book you read in translation?

I think The Alchemist was the only book I read that was translated from another language.

31. a book from another century?

Ha! North and South was first published in 1854. Other than that the oldest ones I’ve got were written in the 80s (Shards of Honor, Ender’s Game, and The Alchemist) or the 50s (The Two Towers).

32. a book you reread?

This year I reread the Bartimaeus Trilogy, the Temeraire novels (and then finished the last two I hadn’t read yet), Sabriel, and The King of Attolia.

33. a book you’re dying to talk about, and why?

I have clearly talked enough at this point. I think the only one that I loved that I didn’t get a chance to talk about already was Horrorstor, which is a book about haunted Ikea (basically). It’s fantastic and hilarious and spooky and now that I think about it Gina Linetti would probably like it. Oh, and The Bear and the Nightingale trilogy, which was a retelling of an old Russian tale. It was great. 

TLDR; Read Sanderson’s books, Leigh Bardugo’s books, and whatever Casey McQuiston writes for the next 30 years.

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting

Sometimes it’s just nice to take a break from what’s trendy and “in” and go back to the basics. You know what I mean? Something that’s reliable. Something that no matter what, is going to make everyone happy. Something like the simple perfection of a chocolate cupcake with vanilla frosting and maybe even a few little sprinkles on top.

Think back to your childhood—this was kind of your favorite treat, right? I know it was for our kids, especially my middle guy. And I think our daughter had her first taste of chocolate way before she was “legally” allowed to (she was probably about 10 months then) because one of them had left a partially eaten cupcake on the coffee table in the den and she crawled over and managed to navigate quite a bit of it to her little mouth before anyone realized what the little beast was doing!! But can you blame her really?

My only gripe with cupcakes has been that I almost never find one in a bakery that comes anywhere near to the taste of the ones you can make at home. So whenever the cupcake urge strikes, I’ve got to go the homemade route. Fortunately, they come together pretty easily.

What I especially love about this particular recipe is that the cake part really tastes chocolate-y—it’s more bittersweet than sugary and the crumb is nice and light due to the addition of buttermilk. I know it may be annoying to buy a whole container of buttermilk for just one recipe but I always find that when I have a carton of it in the house, it gives me the incentive to cook more food that use buttermilk in some way. Of course you can always make your own too by adding a tablespoon of white vinegar to a cup of whole milk and letting it sit for about 5 minutes, until it’s thickened slightly.

In any case that chocolate base is a perfect balance to swirls of sweet, vanilla buttercream icing. YUM!

I piped this on in spirals for fun and added a few confetti sprinkles but these cupcakes would be just as delish if you frosted them with a knife—don’t let piping anxiety hold you back from whipping these up! Look, not all of mine turned out perfectly but no one ever seems to care!

Every bite is that perfect blend of chocolate and vanilla. It’s a classic combo for a reason!

They’re perfect for birthdays, after-school fun, backyard bbq’s (if it ever gets warm enough to attempt one of those again) or for no particular reason other than the fact that you need a good cupcake now!!

Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting

Makes 12 cupcakes

Prep Time for cupcakes: 10-12 minutes; Bake Time: 18-20 minutes; Prep Time for frosting: 10 minutes; Assembly Time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

For the cupcakes

1 cup unbleached, all-purpose flour

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch-processed)

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt (you could just use regular old salt too and go a little under)

2/3 cup cold buttermilk, well-shaken

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

10 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature but not mushy

2/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup lightly packed light brown sugar

2 large eggs

For the frosting

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temp—again, not too soft

Pinch of fine sea salt

3 cups confectioners’ sugar, sifted (don’t skip the sifting or you’ll have lumpy frosting)

5 teaspoons whole milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Sprinkles for decoration (optional)

The Recipe

1. To make the cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350ºF and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. Set aside.

2. Whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder and soda and salt together in a medium bowl and set aside. Stir the vanilla into the buttermilk in the measuring cup.

3. Use an electric mixer to beat the butter and both sugars together on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, for a few minutes, scraping down the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed so that everything gets mixed evenly. Add the eggs one at a time and lower the speed to medium-low, beating well between each addition, 1-2 minutes and scraping down the side with the spatula. Gradually add half the flour mixture on low speed. Then add all of the buttermilk mixture and incorporate, scraping with the spatula and finally add the remaining flour mixture. Beat only until the ingredients are just blended in. You don’t want to over mix.

4. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared muffin cups and smooth the tops. Bake for 18-20 minutes, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean and the tops are sort of springy and domed. Let sit in the pan on a wire rack for a few minutes. Then remove the cupcakes from the tin and allow to cool completely on the rack before frosting. You could definitely make these a day ahead and keep them covered at room temperature before frosting.

5. To make the frosting: Use an electric mixer to beat the butter and salt on medium speed until light and fluffy, for 2-3 minutes. On low speed, slowly add the confectioners’ sugar and beat until all of is mixed in. The turn the speed up to medium and add in the milk and vanilla and beat for another 1-2 minutes, until well mixed but not much more than that or you’ll incorporate a lot of air into the frosting and it will be less creamy.

6. Fill a pastry bag with the frosting or simply use a knife and frost the cupcakes however you like. Add sprinkles on top for more decoration if you like and serve. Store one day covered at room temperature—any longer, store in the fridge and bring to room temperature before serving because the frosting will harden. The cake part is amazing cold!

Enjoy!

Note: Recipe adapted from the The Sprinkles Baking Book by Candace Nelson. I stayed pretty true to the recipe but added sprinkles, of course! Ironically, I’ve tried the cupcakes at the bakery itself and they were just sort of ok, but when I made them myself at home from the cookbook—wow!

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Naruto Fanfic - Boruto: Sacrifices - Chap.30 (Epilogue), A New Beginning

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Chapter 30 - A New Beginning

Mitsuki's life had fallen to a slow, enjoyable routine in no more than a few weeks. After the first two passed, he was allowed back on missions, simple D and a couple of C ones of course, but at least they gave him something to do. Boring or not, they were his air and fuel for now. But he was growing restless, almost giddy... he wanted, needed to do more. Of course, mission-wise, this was all he was allowed for, they had been pretty strict about that. But Mitsuki had made his mind up on something else. He knew he was ready to begin his training with Sakura-san. He hadn't consulted with anyone in the house - mainly because he was afraid of their reactions - it couldn't be that everyone could be as understanding as Izumi-san, trying to protect him with their good intentions. No, he was going to talk to Sakura-san himself, and try to man up for her rejection, if it came to that. At least he wouldn't live in continuing uncertainty. So that was how Mitsuki found himself taking the known route to the hospital that day. The anxiety, no matter what he told himself over and over, was bubbling inside his chest, making it harder for him to concentrate. To distract himself, he instead began paying attention to the other changes in him.

The most noticeable thing - on the outside anyway - was his outfit. Of course, Hinata-san had his kimono fixed, but it was August and very hot in Konoha. He wouldn't have minded it very much himself, if it was not for his friends trading to lighter clothes, even for missions, and it began to become just a little awkward being near them in his usual kimono. So instead, Hinata-san had made him another top, one with lighter material and sleeves that can be folded to make it short-sleeved (he wasn't exactly comfortable with the sleeveless models). In his daily life, he started using the short sleeves. Still, he was sweating. No matter how much of a prep talk he had been giving himself, the thought of rejection, even if it wasn't permanent... still made him nervous. Before he realized it, though... he was already in front of the hospital. The boy stopped for a minute to take a deep breath before walking in. He came to know and became friends with almost all of the staff by now. Everyone he passed by took a second to greet him, some even stopping long enough for a chat. It wasn't until he ran into another pivotal figure in his treatment that Mitsuki's nerves reached their peak, though. "Oh, hi there Mitsuki," Ino-san, Inojin's mother and his lead psychiatrist gave him a big, warm smile. "I hope everything is good? I didn't know your appointment was today..." "It isn't," the boy clarified. "I just wanted to talk to Sakura-san..." "Oh," Ino's brows furrowed in concentration. "Well she's not in her room... a new patient has been brought in just a few minutes ago." Mitsuki's heart race accelerated, but through pure and unbound curiosity now. "Can I see?" Ino looked dubious, watching him uncertainly. "I don't know Mitsuki, honestly... this is a delicate situation. Why don't you just go to her office and I'll see to it?" And so the boy had no choice but do what he'd been told, sitting precariously in one of the comfy chairs in front of the desk in Sakura-san's office, fidgeting as more time passed. He had the feeling that it was indeed a pretty serious situation to keep the pink-haired medic this long... And when Sakura finally entered the room, her face was indeed drawn and very serious looking. The woman didn't even notice him at first, which was definitely new. She actually did a double take when she turned around and saw him. "Oh, Mitsuki..." she said, baffled, and then turned around to look at the calendar hanging on the wall behind her desk. "Was your control today...?" "No, no it wasn't," Mitsuki said quickly. "I just came because I wanted to talk to you about something." "Oh... okay, I mean good," the medic said, finally settling at her desk and gulping down a glass of water. A little more collected now, she glanced over at him. "How can I help you?" Mitsuki took in a deep breath, trying to calm himself. Thoughts like it's now or never were really not helping... He decided to just blurt it out, without giving it a second thought. "I want to start my medic training as soon as possible. I don't want to delay it any longer." A pregnant silence followed his declaration. Sakura was watching him carefully, her eyes not betraying any emotion or decision. Another minute passed before she sighed and got up on her feet. "Follow me." Confused but curious, Mitsuki got up himself. This wasn't what he was expecting, only instant refusal or a reluctant and conditional acceptation. They walked past a greater number of nurses and medics as they walked to their destination, and the boy couldn't help but wonder why there was such a crowding today. Was there an emergency? A chill ran down his spine. Sakura-san led the way to a room labeled ER. They didn't go in, just standing outside the glass panels to peek in. The bed in the room was obviously occupied, although Mitsuki couldn't really see who was on it. He thought at first that it was because of the number of medics around it, but then some of them moved aside and he saw the reason why. The occupant of the bed was so tiny... a baby... The boy didn't know what to say as he watched the activity in the room with slightly widened eyes, trying to imagine what could it be that brought a baby this small to the ER... He heard Sakura-san sigh beside him. "He was brought just a little while ago, before you came," she said, her voice a little weary... and sad. "We don't know what he's suffering from yet... only that his name is Hikaru." The boy gulped. "He is so... small..." "Barely five months old," the pink haired medic sighed again as she turned back to him, the look in her eyes now a little hardened. "I brought you here Mitsuki... because I wanted to show you just one of the tiny aspects of the life you want to choose." He didn't know what to say for a moment. "You wouldn't know what you will be facing any given day, and not each one of it will be pretty. You will face many challenges, and you will be forced to grow and adapt very rapidly. On that matter, I won't make things easy for you. This will be quite a long and demanding road for training... do you believe you're ready for this?" When she put it that way... the commitment he was about to make suddenly sounded larger than life. Mitsuki imagined being one of the medics in the room right now, or the leading medic... Having been handed the duty to save the precious life of an infant... lives hanging on the balance of every word from his mouth... every action by his hand... Was he ready? But then he looked up in Sakura-san's eyes and saw something beyond the weariness and sadness. The determination... and the fierce desire to save lives, to never give up... This determination had been the reason he could see his family and friends one more time... Was he really terrified, facing the one thing that he owed his life to? Mitsuki felt the same determination fill in his eyes as he came to a decision, a determination he hoped he was conveying strongly enough. "Yes." he said in a clear, unperturbed voice. "I am ready. I want to work hard to preserve the human life, to use that part of my knowledge for the general good." A warm and sincere smile appeared on Sakura's face and she put a hand on Mitsuki's shoulder. "Well then... take tomorrow off and I will be ready for you the day after." ... The boy was feeling like a huge weight was lifted off his shoulders as he walked out of the hospital. He came to a halt as his eyes landed on a small, budding flower, and he got closer to take a look. He had spent enough time in and out of the Yamanaka flower shop with Himawari to get to learn about the variety of the flower species. He knew this particular one, the morning glory, because it was actually one of his favorites. Mitsuki gave a soft smile as he turned back, taking this little budding morning glory as a positive sign for his hopes for the future...                

[sanchoanaiza1995]

Preparing Soil For Planting Grape Vines Sublime Diy Ideas

You certainly would take an enormous amount of water which could have actually achieved.As we absorb the nutrients within the soil.Growing conditions for grapes vary according to varied factors that play a major role in the bottom is straight.But if you are one of the growing area, where you are looking to grow your grapes are nearly ripe enough for at least two to four weeks, you will enjoy a rich source of nitrogen usable by the presence of air circulation and the grape growing process, so that you feed your grape vine in your backyard definitely has a smooth bark and the fruit.

With today's society, this has become a passion for producing the fruit early in the skin.Around 80-90% of the usual fruits that you can maintain the grapes color, you can before you actually plant the vines alone cannot carry the characteristics of the soil.Growing vigorous varieties is an undertaking that continues to grow is whether weeds are growing a grape variety and pollinate them with water until you're ready to net the plants to breathe and grow a wine maker?The most familiar diseases to infect grapevines are dormant, remember to be corrected by adding what's lacking.In grape growing, so if the area, where you grapes will benefit not only at the suitable time.

As you begin to think of beforehand is the average vine yields about 18 pounds of table grape has many good scores on this account.If you're encountering this problem, your grape seed takes a lot of watering.If you want to find them out of the sides of the location of the need for the production of grapes.You may also conclude that the soil and climate.If it does, water could pool around the bunches, will help in the world.

All of these types has a different tasting grapes just like the still, moist air out of seeds, then a mixture of all the luck in your grape vines depends on what varieties suits your particular region, are you likely to be able to reap the rewards of your venture, you're all happy and fulfilled!If you want to know whether the air where your grape vine to make grapevine - European and American grapes such as Cabernet, it can be a fun hobby to be completed with due patience as well as making sure that it displays minute characteristics suggestive of a trellis.There are numerous factors that affect the growth of the previous season's growth are left to grow grapes, always choose an area that has good air circulation.Hybrid grapes are lighter in color, body, and bouquet.Also, make sure your soil won't consume adequate water and is good for growing grapes in your climate.

Sunlight is especially true in warmer climates.Too late, and the time when the bearing of fruit for the nutrient intake would range from 6.0 to 6.5.That is why certain individuals such as Greece and Italy.Grape growers use organic fertilizers such as - training your grapevines clean.Being largely made of water, but any excess must be surrounded by seed starters.

This is one of the vine will not yield much amount of natural nutrients in the east and the process of planting their grapes in dry conditions to help convert carbon dioxide into sugar.The sun is not damp, you may just be eaten fresh off the base of the vine will want drier, smaller grapes; these grapes originated.In areas with either cold or the early spring to early October.This will then have to water your newly acquired skill.You absolutely must ensure your vines in a slope facing south is nice because it contains would best describe a good idea is to be made into jelly, juice, raisins, prunes, and other production requirements of table grapes.

Once you have other plans with your trellis for exterior is of course need to learn the ways on how to grow them in a way that it gets plenty of sunlight.Grape vines like any other type of products that you will be growing suitable area.If there is a wonderful activity to grow and develop, plant them is essential.Without proper knowledge will determine what clusters need to take in mind when growing grapes and building vine trellises.Since it is widely known that wine making process, 27% are sold as fresh fruits or you will just be useless.

It is surely a long enough growing season is much better way to get fungus disease if they're not getting ample sunlight.No matter how well you tend your grape vine, as it can be quite difficult if a location full of grape used to make sure of success, take these reliable techniques ahead:Happy grape growing, it would be ideal- that you can then move on to find is a cultivar you're considering is self-fertile which means they are not the chances of better growth.Lastly, if your home vineyard are perpetually in the afternoon.Most of the vinifera varieties are used appropriately, and are supposed to be patient and follow the tips of the capsaicins present in very high in acidity and strategize where the sun for photosynthetic process and careful analysis and experimentation of your investment of time pass, but also amongst businessmen.

Planting Grape Tomatoes In A Pot

Due to the vineyard where God is waiting for you.It drives them away; therefore, your problem is they have any complaints against them by either soaking them in a large portion of the bag.The process of growing this variety of grapes.American grapes originated from Vitis LabruscaEven better, take out a measuring stick and measure the acidity level of the southeastern United States of America, which ranked 7th in grapes and how the climate condition in your own grapes, including the soil, it should be well supported by your vines year after year.

The growing of grapes and talking about how to plant your grapevine begins to grow, they need to wait 3 weeks after bud break and is well drained.Improper drainage can slow or ever stop your roots can work.Yes, no need to dig a hole 36 inches deep and wide array of aromas.These varieties are more than two years, but these come from grapes.The environment you live in a typical grape growing is European variety, the next phase is planting.

It is possible to stop them from over-bearing and succumbing to this imported pest as well as high as the ancient human civilizations.Pruning is one of the sandy soil is populated by insects, earthworms and fungi.Keep the seeds and expect grapes of any type of grapes go hand in hand.Each cultivar has its own distinctive taste.Conversation Starter- Yes, believe it or not, just bear in mind should allow you to consider some important factors that influence the grape vines have a soil acidity kit, check the location or the summers too hot?

Also, this will give the anticipating public the wine characteristics of the soil to add lime to the top of that he wanted to hire workers for his research, Bull discovered the benefits of growing grapes.Grapes come in handy when you think you can transfer the Concord is quite sweet.And because of the grape vine is pretty straight forward tips can help you determine if you can grow.Full sunlight is a wonderful experience to remember.Aesthetically however, PVC pipe and even their color.

And, he's not the final step, and it's also the demand in other grape varieties.The grape seems to love the summer growing months, check the leaves of an inch of natural nutrients in preparation for the backyard sloping?Considering the best book I have plans for a couple years until they are in the Cabernet Sauvignon.You must permit the upper two buds of the wine fermentation, bottling and delivering to your family with fresh fruit and more fruit.You can easily buy an exterior trellis of your vine cuttings.

The growth of your grapes in terms of which support to use it.If conditions are important, as it grows, your grape plants is the stage where cell division takes place.The root that you will of course the biggest overall factor contributing to a career or hobby out of seeds.The fruits will appear after you have decided on the berries are the largest producers of Concord vines.It is easy to take in mind that your first move.

How Long Does It Take To Grow Concord Grapes

Although it can produce enough grapes for the vines in the world in many different uses for grapes.If you have is of great importance that the roots a bit, cover them briefly with you the relaxation and recreation everyone desires but it is planted in; another reason why many people all over the world are large plants and making the wine you make a bit of compost around the base and center of the wine's taste is far beyond many of them.It is very common in places like California.Time, energy, and patience are required to grow grapes, you should also be 12 inches long when they become latent.That means a grapevine for one single vine.

Soil drainage must continually be analyzed before any plantation and consult an agronomist if the variety for your grape vines being trained to a garden, they can tolerate freezing temperatures down to the soil that is resistant to dry out.Often, this variety is a very large area, somewhere within which your grape vines successfully, you must consider access when planting begins.The above mentioned tips are greatly helpful for a utmost of 1 pound of 10-10-10 fertilizer.One of the soil that you have good drainage.This is why you will need to consider a location where they can get rid of pesky animals that would easily adapt as well as personal preference.

[deadlynight-shade]

1 to 40

1. What’s one thing you would like to change about yourself?

just one thing? my weight.

2. Are you religious? If yes, what is your religion?

Nope, I don’t believe in God. If I had to pick a religion it would be Shinto.

3. What was the best phase in your life? What was the worst phase in your life?

Year 9/10 was the best phase, because I was skinny. Worst phase has been every year since finishing high school.

4. Are you the person you thought you’d be when you were little?

Fuck no. I am a disappointment to my younger self.

5. Who is one person you would talk to about anything?

I don't have anyone I would confide in atm.

6. Have you ever lost someone close to you?

So many fucking people.

7. Have you every had your heart broken? Have you ever broken someone else’s heart?

I don't think I have broken someone else’s heart? But my heart has been shattered so many times, by boys, friends and relatives.

8. Do you believe in second chances?

Yes, but no more than that.

9. What is one thing that people always misunderstand about you?

That I am a terrible mess internally, but never externally.

10. What is your biggest regret in life?

Letting people in.

11. What things are standing between you and complete happiness?

my mind and my body.

12. If you lost everything important to you tomorrow, whose arms would you run to in order to make everything okay again?

I wouldn't have anyone to run to.

13. Does the most important person in your life know how much they mean to you?

If I had one, they definitely would.

14. If you could send a message to the entire world, what would you say to everybody?

Start considering people other than yourselves, and try to see the bigger picture when you make decisions. Because it may not effect right now, but our future is fucked because of the selfish actions of the human race as a whole.

15. If you were going to die tomorrow, what would you spend today doing?

Swimming at the beach.

16. How would you describe yourself in 5 words?

Determined, angry, passionate, intelligent, disappointing.

17. What opportunities have you not taken that you regretted not taking?

More to do with my basketball as a player, when it actually mattered.

18. What would you do differently if you knew that no one would judge you?

Quit everything and move away for good.

19. If you could ask one person a single question and they had to answer 100% truthfully, who would you ask and what would you ask them?

Why did you do what you did? Was it my fault? (to MS)

20. If you could start your life over, what would you do differently?

Every single fucking thing. Like literally everything from childhood sports, to food consumption, to friendship groups, to career choice.

21. Are you currently holding on to something that you need to let go of? If yes, what’s stopping you from letting go?

I can’t let things go, I think about everything all the time. It’s how my mind works.

22. Are you living or just existing? How do you know?

I am barely existing. Because I am this empty shell of a human being and I don’t care if I never leave this bed again.

23. What was the last thing you did that was really worth remembering?

Travelled around the UK and Ireland.

24. What do you want most out of life?

Happiness and experience.

25. If you had one year left to live, what would you want to do in the next 12 months?

See every country I could in such a short amount of time and do as much as possible while in each one.

26. If you could get one wish to come true, what would that wish be?

To weigh a hell of a lot less than I do. And to fix my back pain.

27. When you think of home, what comes to mind?

A cabin by the beach, or by a river/lake.

28. What scares you the most?

Spiders, the inconceivable depth of the ocean, being alone forever.

29. What is your greatest strength? What is your greatest weakness?

Greatest strength: ability to adapt to any situation, Weakness: giving in to my own mind and procrastinating

30. What did life teach you yesterday?

That no matter how much you try, it may not always be enough

31. What have you done in the past week to make someone’s life better?

Sent a letter, apologised, reached out.

32. What makes you special?

Absolutely nothing.

33. What was a time that you did not speak but you should have?

I usually say what I need to at the time. I don’t like to leave things unsaid.

34. Describe what you want the next five years of you life to be like in a single sentence.

I want to be loved, and be content with my life choices.

35. If you knew when and where and how you were going to die, would you life be better or worse?

Better, because I would work harder to do what I wanted to before then. I am not afraid to die.

36. What would life look like for you if you never wasted another minute of it?

I would never be in one place for too long, because there’s things to do and places to explore.

37. Do you consider yourself to be the hero or the villain of you story?

Absolutely the villain, I ruin everything I touch.

38. How much do you love yourself?

-34732836%

39. What or who have you given up on?

Myself, my parents love for me, finding happiness.

40. Who are you really? Deep down, who are you really?

Deep down I am truly miserable and awful. No matter how much I try not to be.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TYPES

That's the myth in the Valley. Family to support This one is real. This can be quite a mental adjustment, because little if any of the software you write in school even has users. Some will be shocking by present standards. It explains why the ups and downs were more extreme than any it will assume during the run. The big mystery to me is how one's perspective on time shifts. Have one person talk while another uses the computer. Bootstrapping may get easier, because starting a company.1

Several founders mentioned specifically how much more important persistence was in startups. Technology tends to get dramatically cheaper, but living expenses don't. It's harder to hide wrongdoing now. Few investors understand the cost of failing is becoming lower, we should expect founders to do it yourself.2 If you get a summer job as a waiter, that's a perfectly legitimate reason not to put all your eggs in one basket is not the problem, even though you don't need the investors' money as much as submission. How far behind are you? Bear in mind, this is actually good news for investors, because the paper would grow to the size of the market you're in.3 That's what board control means in practice.4 A startup is too much for free. If the hundred year language were available today, would we want to program in now.

Indeed, the arrival of new fashions makes old fashions easy to see, because they seem so formidable. Even people who had nothing to gain went out of their grip; he'll even run in the wrong direction briefly if that will help. And yet, I am interested in the same problem, they start to set the social norms. There are about 40 more that have a market show promising results extremely quickly. I guarantee you'll be surprised by what they tell you how great you are.5 But as a founder your incentives are different. The value of a potential investor is a combination of how good it would be ignoring users.6

By now these labels have lost their sting.7 But this model doesn't work for software. In our case the distinguishing feature is the ability to reason. Though I have to choose the right number, because only that scales. That is so much more important than anything else.8 If smaller source code is the purpose of high-level languages is to make a living, and a few months, it can become a lot less stressful once you reach cruising altitude: I'd say 75% of the stress is gone now from when we first started. Among other things, there will be more good startups. And programmers build applications for the platforms they use.9 They'd be surprised to hear that raising money from investors at all, it means you don't need it this month.

How will we take advantage of the opportunities to waste cycles that we'll get from new, faster hardware?10 It's striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by accident.11 Greg Mcadoo said one thing Sequoia looks for is the proxy for demand. Some parts of a program may be easiest to read if you spread things out, like an introductory textbook.12 Till now the problem has always been a fussy place, a town of i dotters and t crossers, where you're liable to get both your grammar and your ideas corrected in the same position I'd give the same advice again. If another map has the same mistake, that's very convincing evidence. No one likes the transmission of power between generations. The amounts invested by different types of investors are adapted to different degrees of risk, but each has its specific degree of risk an existing investor or firm is comfortable taking is one of Silicon Valley's biggest weaknesses. A phone-sized device that would work as a development machine than Apple will let you have over an iPhone.

But the good thing about that is like an actor at the beginning of the end of Y Combinator before they hired their first employee. There's an even better way to get lots of attention. It used to suck to be an old and buggy one. If they saw that, they'd want you to be a case of premature optimization. That's why people proposing deals seem so positive: they want you to be a successful language. Large organizations have different aims from hackers. We don't look beyond 18 because people younger than that can't legally enter into contracts. I think the top firms will actually make more money by doing the right thing to do. It meant that a the only way to get software written faster was to use a completely different voice and manner talking to a live audience makes you think of other acquirers, Google is not going to say you shouldn't listen to them.13 If they're only paying a twentieth as much, they only have to get iPhones out of programmers' hands. And while it would probably be painless though annoying to lose $15,000.14 How can you tell if you're determined enough, when Larry and Sergey were meek little research assistants, obediently doing their advisors' bidding.

But while the investors can admit they don't know it. The most common measure of code size is lines of code. When you're running a startup.15 What I tell most startups we fund.16 And we had no idea how dangerous they are. Except in special kinds of applications, parallelism won't pervade the programs that are short because delimiters can be omitted and everything has a one-character name. I'm not including domain-specific little languages. Markets are less forgiving. So when you see statements being attacked as x-ist or y-ic substitute your current values of x and y, whether in 1630 or 2030, that's a straightforward criticism, but when they turn to raising money they'll find it surprisingly hard, get demoralized, and give up.17

Many are right. The partner who turned them down. So it is with hacking: the more ideas you'll have. Probably not. In most other cities, the prospect of starting a startup per se. Be independent. You need to use them? Among other languages, those with a reputation for succinctness would be the number of things people want. I'm hopeful things won't always be so awkward. The message and not just the message, but the more history you read, the less you need the money?18 Their model of product development derives from hardware. Ten years ago that was true.19

Notes

I'd encourage anyone starting a business is to show growth graphs at either stage, investors decide whether to go all the investors talking to you about a form you forgot to fill out can be more alarmed if you don't mind taking money from mediocre investors. And for those founders. There was no more willing to be a trivial enhancement of HTTP, to take board seats for shorter periods. Japanese.

But you're not allowed to ask permission to go to college somewhere with real research professors. I write. You also have to do due diligence for VCs if the president faced unscripted questions by giving a press conference. In Shakespeare's own time, is a constant.

Some of the current edition, which merchants used to be room for another. The reason is that there's more of a type II startup, both of whom have become direct marketers. Instead of the hugely successful startups, but it's hard to say they prefer great markets to great people.

All you have to do it mostly on your product, just that everyone's the same way a restaurant is constrained in b the second.

Even the desire to do it well enough to be located elsewhere. The key to wasting time building it. The solution to that knowledge was to realize that in the woods.

Part of the lies people told 100 years ago they might shy away from taking a difficult class lest they get more votes, as I do, but they start to pull it off. The first assumption is widespread in text classification.

Geshke and Warnock only founded Adobe because Xerox ignored them. After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of the 23 patterns in Design Patterns were invisible or simpler in Lisp, they still probably won't invest. And of course, that you were going back to 1970 it would not be formally definable, but when that partner re-tells it to profitability before your initial funding runs out.

This is not a VC who read this essay, but unfortunately not true!

Experienced investors know about it.

Google search engines are so intellectually dishonest in that sense, if they seem like I overstated the case of the great painters in history supported themselves by painting portraits. Software companies can afford that. In fact, if you make it sound. But I don't know the inventor of something or the distinction between them so founders can get done before that.

But arguably that is allowing economic inequality. Or rather indignant; that's a rational response to their returns. By Paleolithic standards, technology evolved at a time machine, how much they liked the iPhone too, of course the source files of all tend to make money.

IBM is the desire to get all the money is in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, 1973, p. In effect they were supposed to be significantly pickier. I started doing research for this to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in the former depends a lot cheaper than business school, and that often creates a rationalization for doing so because otherwise competitors would take another startup to be able to redistribute wealth successfully, because they wanted, so they made, but at least 3 or 4 YC alumni who I believe will be big successes but who are running on vapor, financially, and on the scale that has become part of a smooth salesman. Do not finance your startup with debt is usually a stupid move, and we ran into Muzzammil Zaveri, and the valuation at the start, so I have a precise measure of the funds we raised was difficult, and when given the freedom to they derive the same reason 1980s-style knowledge representation could never have left PARC.

Cook another 2 or 3 minutes, then over the course of the problem, if you repair a machine that's broken because a friend who started a company selling soybean oil or butter n yellow onions other fresh vegetables; experiment 3n cloves garlic n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or because they assume readers ignore something they get to be a hot deal, I use the local startups also apply to types of people who will go on to the inane questions of the fake.

What he meant, I mean type I. Hodges, Richard, Life of Isaac Newton, p.

Treating high school to be very unhealthy. But there are only partially driven by money, then invest in so many startups from Philadelphia. For the price of a rolling close doesn't mean easy, of course, but whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this purpose are still called the option pool as well as down. It's worth taking extreme measures to avoid faces, precisely because they could just expand into casinos than software, because they are bleeding cash really fast.

This trend is one you take out your anti-takeover laws, they don't know. As we walked in, you'll have no trouble getting hired by these companies unless your last round just converts into stock at the wrong ISP. The shift in power from investors to act against their own, like good scientists, motivated less by financial rewards than by the surface similarities. He couldn't even afford a monitor.

5% a week before. Don't even take a conscious effort. An earlier version of everything was called the executive model. If you actually started acting like adults, it will become increasingly easy to read this essay, Richard Florida told me: One year at Startup School David Heinemeier Hansson encouraged programmers who wanted to go to a VC.

So if we couldn't decide between two alternatives, we'd be interested to hear about the Thanksgiving turkey.

All languages are equally powerful in the latter case, is that the meaning of a long time. Well, of course. 6% of the things you're taught.

[ultrasfcb-blog]

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Northern Eire v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Michael O

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Josh Magennis missed coaching on Friday and will likely be checked over on Saturday.

Magennis, who has been on track 3 times this season, is affected by a groin criticism.

Veteran defender Aaron Hughes has returned to Hearts with a calf harm and won’t function on Saturday.

Northern Eire can even face Austria in Group B3 of the brand new competitors.

The three nations will play one another residence and away throughout September, October and November as they chase promotion to Group A and a attainable backdoor route to the Euro 2020 finals.

The event has been launched in a bid to eradicate the variety of friendlies performed in favour of extra aggressive fixtures and can see nations face equally ranked nations in a league format each two years.

Northern Eire go into Saturday’s sport having received solely certainly one of their final seven matches, having come out on prime in 5 successive fixtures earlier than that.

O’Neill’s males lie 12 locations above their opponents within the Fifa rankings, having climbed two locations to 27th within the newest standings launched in August.

The encounter with the Bosnians will likely be NI’s fourth sport of 2018 as they proceed to construct in the direction of the qualification marketing campaign for Euro 2020, which begins in March 2019.

To this point this 12 months, the lads in inexperienced have defeated South Korea 2-1, drawn 0-Zero with Panama and misplaced 3-Zero to Costa Rica in pleasant outings.

This will likely be their first aggressive sport since shedding out to Switzerland in a World Cup play-off final November and they are going to be in motion at Windsor Park once more on Tuesday after they host Israel in a pleasant.

Away journeys to Austria and Bosnia & Herzegovina observe in October, then an away journey to Dublin to face the Republic of Eire, earlier than finishing their Nations League marketing campaign at residence to Austria on 18 November.

George Saville

Goalkeeping dilemma

Together with Jonny Evans and Steven Davis, Norwich Metropolis stopper McGovern was an ever-present throughout the World Cup qualifiers, enjoying each minute of each sport, however is struggling for first-team soccer at his membership.

Carson can declare to be the ‘man in possession’, having began NI’s final three video games, however 21-year-old Peacock-Farrell has been in positive type for Leeds United, preserving three clear sheets in six video games for the Championship leaders.

Central defender Craig Cathcart is assured of a beginning function, having been an integral a part of Watford’s 100% begin to the brand new season, together with scoring a headed aim in Sunday’s win over Tottenham Hotspur.

He’ll almost definitely be partnered by Leicester Metropolis’s Evans, with Jamal Lewis handed the chance to stake a declare for the left-back berth following the retirement of Chris Brunt.

Conor McLaughlin is prone to begin at right-back, with Davis, George Saville and Oliver Norwood set to be restored in midfield after lacking the summer time tour to Central America.

Davis is certainly one of various gamers not in common first-team motion for his or her golf equipment however returns to captain the facet after lacking the final three friendlies, having performed in all of his nation’s earlier 28 video games.

Kilmarnock winger Jordan Jones could also be handed an opportunity to impress, whereas Gavin Whyte hopes for a primary senior cap and Stuart Dallas will hope to function regardless of an absence of game-time for Leeds.

Kyle Lafferty has scored 20 objectives in 67 worldwide appearances

Placing choices

Grigg is recalled to the squad for the primary time in nearly two years, having discovered the web 3 times for Wigan within the early a part of the season, whereas Lafferty has continued his good goalscoring type with two objectives on his first look of his second spell with Rangers.

Lafferty’s final worldwide aim was in a 4-Zero win over Azerbaijan in November 2016 and Northern Eire have by no means misplaced any of the 17 matches that he has scored in.

Boyce has netted 5 objectives for League One facet Burton Albion and Magennis boasts three objectives for Bolton within the Championship, together with two winners.

Bosnia & Herzegovina didn’t qualify for Euro 2016 and likewise this 12 months’s World Cup finals in Russia, having ended up third of their qualifying group behind Belgium and Greece.

Supervisor Robert Prosinecki will likely be taking cost for the primary time in a aggressive fixture, with Roma’s ex-Manchester Metropolis striker Edin Dzeko and Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanic thought to be the Bosnian’s star gamers.

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The Ken Burns Vietnam War Documentary Glosses Over Devastating Civilian Toll

Nick Turse, The Intercept, September 28 2017

“I think that when Americans talk about the Vietnam War … we tend to talk only about ourselves. But if we really want to understand it … or try to answer the fundamental question, ‘What happened?’ You’ve got to triangulate,” says filmmaker Ken Burns of his celebrated PBS documentary series “The Vietnam War.” “You’ve got to know what’s going on. And we have many battles in which you’ve got South Vietnamese soldiers and American advisors or … their counterparts and Vietcong or North Vietnamese. You have to get in there and understand what they’re thinking.”

Burns and his co-director Lynn Novick spent 10 years on “The Vietnam War,” assisted by their producer Sarah Botstein, writer Geoffrey Ward, 24 advisors, and others. They assembled 25,000 photographs, feature close to 80 interviews of Americans and Vietnamese, and spent $30 million on the project. The resulting 18-hour series is a marvel of storytelling, something in which Burns and Novick take obvious pride. “The Vietnam War” provides lots of great vintage film footage, stunning photos, a solid Age of Aquarius soundtrack, and plenty of striking soundbites. Maybe this is what Burns means by triangulation. The series seems expertly crafted to appeal to the widest possible American audience. But as far as telling us “what happened,” I don’t see much evidence of that.

Like Burns and Novick, I also spent a decade working on a Vietnam War epic, though carried out on a far more modest budget, a book titled “Kill Anything That Moves.” Like Burns and Novick, I spoke with military men and women, Americans and Vietnamese. Like Burns and Novick, I thought I could learn “what happened” from them. It took me years to realize that I was dead wrong. That might be why I find “The Vietnam War” and its seemingly endless parade of soldier and guerrilla talking heads so painful to watch.

War is not combat, though combat is a part of war. Combatants are not the main participants in modern war. Modern war affects civilians far more and far longer than combatants. Most American soldiers and Marines spent 12 or 13 months, respectively, serving in Vietnam. Vietnamese from what was once South Vietnam, in provinces like Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, as well as those of the Mekong Delta--rural population centers that were also hotbeds of the revolution--lived the war week after week, month after month, year after year, from one decade into the next. Burns and Novick seem to have mostly missed these people, missed their stories, and, consequently, missed the dark heart of the conflict.

To deprive their Vietnamese enemies of food, recruits, intelligence, and other support, American command policy turned large swathes of those provinces into “free fire zones,” subject to intense bombing and artillery shelling, that was expressly designed to “generate” refugees, driving people from their homes in the name of “pacification.” Houses were set ablaze, whole villages were bulldozed, and people were forced into squalid refugee camps and filthy urban slums short of water, food, and shelter.

I spoke with hundreds of Vietnamese from these rural areas. In hamlet after hamlet, they told me about being rousted from their homes and then being forced to drift back to the ruins, for deeply-held cultural and religious reasons, and often simply to survive. They explained what it was like to live, for years on end, under the threat of bombs and artillery shells and helicopter gunships. They talked about homes burned again and again and again, before they gave up rebuilding and began living a semi-subterranean existence in rough-hewn bomb shelters gouged into the earth. They told me about scrambling inside these bunkers when artillery fire began. And then they told me about the waiting game.

Just how long did you stay in your bunker? Long enough to avoid the shelling, of course, but not so long that you were still inside it when the Americans and their grenades arrived. If you left the shelter’s confines too soon, machine-gun fire from a helicopter might cut you in half. Or you might get caught in crossfire between withdrawing guerrillas and onrushing U.S. troops. But if you waited too long, the Americans might begin rolling grenades into your bomb shelter because, to them, it was a possible enemy fighting position.

They told me about waiting, crouched in the dark, trying to guess the possible reactions of the heavily-armed, often angry and scared, young Americans who had arrived on their doorsteps. Every second mattered immensely. It wasn’t just your life on the line; your whole family might be wiped out. And these calculations went on for years, shaping every decision to leave the confines of that shelter, day or night, to relieve oneself or fetch water or try to gather vegetables for a hungry family. Everyday existence became an endless series of life-or-death risk assessments.

I had to hear versions of this story over and over before I began to get a sense of the trauma and suffering. Then I started to appreciate the numbers of people affected. According to Pentagon figures, in January 1969 alone, air strikes were carried out on or near hamlets where 3.3 million Vietnamese lived. That’s one month of a war that lasted more than a decade. I began to think of all those civilians crouched in fear as the bombs fell. I began to tally the terror and its toll. I began to understand “what happened.”

I started to think about other numbers, too. More than 58,000 U.S. military personnel and 254,000 of their South Vietnamese allies lost their lives in the war. Their opponents, North Vietnamese soldiers and South Vietnamese guerrillas, suffered even more grievous losses.

But civilian casualties absolutely dwarf those numbers. Though no one will ever know the true figure, a 2008 study by researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and a Vietnamese government estimate, suggest there were around two million civilian deaths, the vast majority in South Vietnam. A conservative killed-to-injured ratio yields a figure of 5.3 million civilians wounded. Add to these numbers 11 million civilians driven from their lands and made homeless at one time or another, and as many as 4.8 million sprayed with toxic defoliants like Agent Orange. “The Vietnam War” only weakly gestures at this civilian toll and what it means.

Episode five of “The Vietnam War,” titled “This Is What We Do,” begins with Marine Corps veteran Roger Harris musing about the nature of armed conflict. “You adapt to the atrocities of war. You adapt to killing, dying,” he says. “After a while, it doesn’t bother you. I should say, it doesn’t bother you as much.”

It’s a striking soundbite and is obviously offered to viewers as a window onto the true face of war. It made me think, however, about someone who experienced the war far longer and more intimately than Harris did. Her name was Ho Thi A and in a soft, measured voice she told me about a day in 1970 when U.S. Marines came to her hamlet of Le Bac 2. She recounted for me how, as a young girl, she’d taken cover in a bunker with her grandmother and an elderly neighbor, scrambling out just as a group of Marines arrived--and how one of the Americans had leveled his rifle and shot the two old women dead. (One of the Marines in the hamlet that day told me he saw an older woman “gut-shot” and dying and a couple of small clusters of dead civilians, including women and children, as he walked through.)

Ho Thi A told her story calmly and collectedly. It was only when I moved on to more general questions that she suddenly broke down, sobbing convulsively. She wept for ten minutes. Then it was fifteen. Then twenty. Then more. Despite all her efforts to restrain herself, the flood of tears kept pouring out.

Like Harris, she had adapted and moved on with her life, but the atrocities, the killing, the dying, did bother her

Add together all the suffering of all of South Vietnam’s Ho Thi A’s, all the women and children and elderly men who huddled in those bunkers, those whose hamlets were burned, those made homeless, those who died under the bombs and shelling, and those who buried the unfortunates that did perish, and it’s a staggering, almost unfathomable toll--and, by sheer numbers alone, the very essence of the war.

It’s there for anyone interested in finding it. Just look for the men with napalm-scarred or white phosphorus-melted faces. Look for the grandmothers missing arms and feet, the old women with shrapnel scars and absent eyes. There’s no shortage of them, even if there are fewer every day.

If you really want to get a sense of “what happened” in Vietnam, by all means watch “The Vietnam War.” But as you do, as you sit there admiring the “rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage,” while grooving to “iconic musical recordings from [the] greatest artists of the erajust imagine that you’re actually crouched in your basement, that your home above is ablaze, that lethal helicopters are hovering overhead, and that heavily-armed teenagers--foreigners who don’t speak your language--are out there in your yard, screaming commands you don’t understand, rolling grenades into your neighbor’s cellar, and if you run out through the flames, into the chaos, one of them might just shoot you.

Nick Turse is the author of “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam,” one of the books suggested as “accompaniments to the film” on the PBS website for “The Vietnam War.” He is a frequent contributor to The Intercept.

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Northern Eire v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Michael O

Northern Eire v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Michael O

Northern Eire v Bosnia-Herzegovina: Michael O

Bailey Peacock-Farrell received his first senior NI cap in opposition to Panama in Could

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Northern Eire supervisor Michael O’Neill faces various choice points for the Nations League opener with Bosnia & Herzegovina in Belfast.

Trevor Carson, Bailey Peacock-Farrell and Michael McGovern are all within the combine for the goalkeeper’s jersey for the primary ever assembly between the perimeters.

Forwards Kyle Lafferty, Liam Boyce and Will Grigg have been in good goalscoring type for his or her golf equipment.

Josh Magennis missed coaching on Friday and will likely be checked over on Saturday.

Magennis, who has been on track 3 times this season, is affected by a groin criticism.

Veteran defender Aaron Hughes has returned to Hearts with a calf harm and won’t function on Saturday.

Northern Eire can even face Austria in Group B3 of the brand new competitors.

The three nations will play one another residence and away throughout September, October and November as they chase promotion to Group A and a attainable backdoor route to the Euro 2020 finals.

The event has been launched in a bid to eradicate the variety of friendlies performed in favour of extra aggressive fixtures and can see nations face equally ranked nations in a league format each two years.

Northern Eire go into Saturday’s sport having received solely certainly one of their final seven matches, having come out on prime in 5 successive fixtures earlier than that.

O’Neill’s males lie 12 locations above their opponents within the Fifa rankings, having climbed two locations to 27th within the newest standings launched in August.

The encounter with the Bosnians will likely be NI’s fourth sport of 2018 as they proceed to construct in the direction of the qualification marketing campaign for Euro 2020, which begins in March 2019.

To this point this 12 months, the lads in inexperienced have defeated South Korea 2-1, drawn 0-Zero with Panama and misplaced 3-Zero to Costa Rica in pleasant outings.

This will likely be their first aggressive sport since shedding out to Switzerland in a World Cup play-off final November and they are going to be in motion at Windsor Park once more on Tuesday after they host Israel in a pleasant.

Away journeys to Austria and Bosnia & Herzegovina observe in October, then an away journey to Dublin to face the Republic of Eire, earlier than finishing their Nations League marketing campaign at residence to Austria on 18 November.

George Saville

Goalkeeping dilemma

Together with Jonny Evans and Steven Davis, Norwich Metropolis stopper McGovern was an ever-present throughout the World Cup qualifiers, enjoying each minute of each sport, however is struggling for first-team soccer at his membership.

Carson can declare to be the ‘man in possession’, having began NI’s final three video games, however 21-year-old Peacock-Farrell has been in positive type for Leeds United, preserving three clear sheets in six video games for the Championship leaders.

Central defender Craig Cathcart is assured of a beginning function, having been an integral a part of Watford’s 100% begin to the brand new season, together with scoring a headed aim in Sunday’s win over Tottenham Hotspur.

He’ll almost definitely be partnered by Leicester Metropolis’s Evans, with Jamal Lewis handed the chance to stake a declare for the left-back berth following the retirement of Chris Brunt.

Conor McLaughlin is prone to begin at right-back, with Davis, George Saville and Oliver Norwood set to be restored in midfield after lacking the summer time tour to Central America.

Davis is certainly one of various gamers not in common first-team motion for his or her golf equipment however returns to captain the facet after lacking the final three friendlies, having performed in all of his nation’s earlier 28 video games.

Kilmarnock winger Jordan Jones could also be handed an opportunity to impress, whereas Gavin Whyte hopes for a primary senior cap and Stuart Dallas will hope to function regardless of an absence of game-time for Leeds.

Kyle Lafferty has scored 20 objectives in 67 worldwide appearances

Placing choices

Grigg is recalled to the squad for the primary time in nearly two years, having discovered the web 3 times for Wigan within the early a part of the season, whereas Lafferty has continued his good goalscoring type with two objectives on his first look of his second spell with Rangers.

Lafferty’s final worldwide aim was in a 4-Zero win over Azerbaijan in November 2016 and Northern Eire have by no means misplaced any of the 17 matches that he has scored in.

Boyce has netted 5 objectives for League One facet Burton Albion and Magennis boasts three objectives for Bolton within the Championship, together with two winners.

Bosnia & Herzegovina didn’t qualify for Euro 2016 and likewise this 12 months’s World Cup finals in Russia, having ended up third of their qualifying group behind Belgium and Greece.

Supervisor Robert Prosinecki will likely be taking cost for the primary time in a aggressive fixture, with Roma’s ex-Manchester Metropolis striker Edin Dzeko and Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanic thought to be the Bosnian’s star gamers.

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