#texas and fast food and sort of serious date

[rockingrobin69]

Winner

Beyond the farmhouse the fields lasted forever, stretching goldeny-crisp in the morning air. The sound of cows in the distance, the gentle gurgle of the stream, but—

“No chicken,” the man in the red cowboy hat said. “Noticed? Not roosters, no clacking, no nothing. Usually at this time there’d be a racket.”

Some clacking: just Malfoy’s boots, with the sharp, pointy edges that Harry couldn’t help but stare at indefinitely. Coming out of the barn, and the gleam of his hair in the morning light made something clench in Harry’s belly, too tight.

“All there,” Malfoy said and came closer. The crease between his eyebrows was familiar: the look of a puzzle. Harry lived for the mystery: Malfoy lived for this. The answers. He was sort of perfect, as a partner, at least.

“See? Just as I said. Chickens all there, roosters all in their place, but nothing. Like someone’s come and zipped their little beaks shut.”

Malfoy jotted something down in his notepad. “You say it began three days ago?”

“At sunrise. Everything suddenly went quiet. Thought, something this weird, I gotta tell my Marge, and then she called you folks.”

“Has anything like this ever happened before?” Harry asked. “We got reports from the neighbouring farms about something they call ‘the alligator’. Ever heard of it?”

Cowboy-hat went still. “Alligator, you say,” with an exaggerated tilt to his frown he definitely didn’t have before, “no, don’t think I have.”

“Hmm,” Malfoy tapped the notepad with his pen. “Well, thank you for your time, Mr. Griffin. If you remember anything else, please let us know.”

He nodded, chewed his bottom lip, opened his mouth, then closed it. Walked away to his truck, to the sound of a tractor in the next field and, still, no chickens.

“He knows something,” Harry said.

“Obviously.” Malfoy was already collecting his things in that little bag he always insisted on carrying. He looked so strange in those boots, in that shirt, so oddly different and blaringly himself and annoyingly, overwhelmingly handsome. It was too early in the morning, and Harry was losing his mind. Malfoy being a condescending arse shouldn’t make him feel like that.

“Obvious? What’s so obvious about this?”

The tip of Malfoy’s mouth tugged upwards. “You mean you didn’t notice the secret hatch in the barn?”

Oh, he forgot how absolutely brilliant Malfoy could be. Fighting his own grin: “Of course I noticed it.”

“And you noticed, I presume, the carving in the chicken coop that is probably the password to unlock it.”

“Naturally.”

“A bit tacky, if you asked me, but then of course I don’t farm chicken, so. ‘Winner winner, chicken dinner’ it is.”

Harry shrugged. “Got a charm to it. So, do we try it right now, or…”

“Potter,” Malfoy laughed, a hand out to stop Harry, already on his way back to the barn, “I was joking. There is no carving. Although I do think there should be a way to crack the hatch open, in the right time. Sunrise or sunset, I reckon. Sorry, I just—you’re too easy.”

The problem was that Harry really was. Too easy for him, too charmed and too out of it in the heat of Texan summer, too early in the morning. “You’re an arse.”

“Astute observation, Special Agent Potter. Now, we have some hours to kill before out next chance at the spells. How about we take a drive to the river, see if we can dig up anything more about that ‘alligator’ from the fishermen?”

“Sure thing, Dr. Malfoy. If you wear the hat again.”

He frowned. “It really doesn’t match the shape of my face.”

“There’s nothing wrong with your face,” Harry growled, somehow not for the first time since joining the Hex-files. “Come on, let’s go. The river’s not a bad idea, but you still owe me breakfast.”

“Anything for you, Potter.” With that tiny almost-smile that drove Harry mad.

*

“I’m just saying,” Harry started, arms waving—

“Say it, then, don’t spray it!” Malfoy dabbed his face with a napkin. The movement so gentle, so prim, it dragged a reluctant smile out of Harry; made for something inside him go warm. Distracting. “Honestly, Potter. Don’t pout. One must insist on at least some table manners.”

Harry flipped him off with a chip. “All I’m saying is, it’s connected. The fish disappearing, the alligator, the chicken going silent—there’s something that connects them all.”

“The chicken curse,” Malfoy said with a delicately-arched eyebrow.

“Something of the sort.”

“You don’t truly believe it, do you?” without the mocking Harry still half-expected. “The chicken conspiracy those farmers were talking about.”

Harry took his time with the plastic cup of soda. Let the last couple of days untangle in his head, collected the bits and pieces of information. “I think I might,” he said carefully. Malfoy nodded, and laid down a couple of napkins on the table.

“All right. Show me.”

He’d do that sometimes: when Harry built theories upon theories in his head, make him stop and lay it out. Then say something that would shake Harry’s world to the core, like you’re a bloody genius, Potter or it’s amazing how you can do that, all delivered in a neutral, level tone.

So Harry pulled out his wand and threw a covert Notice-Me-Not. Drew it all out: from the fish in the river to the wheat in the fields to the ever elusive ‘alligator’ whom, he suspected, wasn’t so much a wild animal at all. Malfoy took it in with his calculating look, and tipped his head slightly in the way that meant he was interested.

“All right,” when Harry was finished, “if alligator is code, what do you think it stands for?”

“I’m not sure yet,” he confessed, heart hammering in his chest. This was the moment when his old partner would laugh at him, or his boss start shouting, or his friends would roll their eyes.

Malfoy said: “Okay. Where do you want to start?”

And Harry thought, I love you. Swallowed it, distilled into something he could use, the way he’s been doing for weeks now, for months.

“I think we should go back to Mr. Griffin. Got this feeling we’ll find what we need there.”

“Your feelings are usually right,” Malfoy shrugged, and got up. “Shall we? Sunset’s in about twenty minutes. Give it another try.”

I love you, Harry thought again, nonsensically.

*

It turned out the hatch opened to a wardrobe, and in it were—

“Alligator costumes,” Malfoy, with his eyebrow, with his eyes only slightly round in surprise. “Part Animagi, I assume?”

Mr. Griffin shrugged. “How did you know it was me?”

“Special Agent Potter figured out your schedule had to do with the fish disappearing.”

“I didn’t mean to scare the chickens,” Mr. Griffin said sadly. “Do you think they’ll ever forgive me?”

“Probably,” Malfoy again, more gently than Harry thought he was capable. “Let’s go inside and think of a way to reverse this. Suppose no one was actually hurt. No harm, no fowl.”

Harry grabbed his wrist to stop him. “Malfoy,” a little choked with it, “want to have food tonight? With me. I mean, a meal. I mean, a date. I mean—”

“Yes,” Malfoy’s lip did that thing, this almost-smile that was the dearest thing in Harry’s heart. “Yes, Potter, I’ll go on a date with you.” After a moment: “But I’m not wearing the hat.”

“I think you look very charming in it.”

The tiniest of blushes. “Wherever you take me, they’d better not serve chicken.”

I love you, Harry thought. Grinned with his whole face, and raced Malfoy back to the ranch, where Mr. Griffin was going to undo the curse.

Another mystery solved. And something bigger, too, he thought: something much brighter.

For my dear @short666bread​ who gave me the coolest prompt from this list. Hey, you could do it too! 

[peachfaeryy]

Hi 🌙

It's my birthday right now. I'm 26 now.

1. What is my fondest childhood memory?

My fondest childhood memories definitely consist of the lovely people who I grew up with and derived my sense of humor/silliness from: my cousins Anna & Emily, Savannah -- my childhood best friend, and Kaleb, my eternal crush. These memories consist of them in elementary school, camp, and my grandma's house in San Antonio.

2. What is my favorite comfort food?

Probably nachos/chips/chips & queso.

3. What’s my favorite way to exercise?

Uh...DANCE.

4. Am I a morning person or a night owl?

I lean more towards night owl but I try to avoid both.

5. If I could have any superpower, what would it be?

The currency of youth.

6. Do I prefer cooking, baking, or neither?

I love both cooking and baking :) I find both extremely rewarding and cathartic.

7. Am I an introvert or an extrovert?

Ambivert strongly introvert-leaning.

8. What superhero do I find most relatable?

None, I detest all superheroes.

9. What is my favorite season of the year — and what do I love most about it?

Winter because it provides me with the most amount of physical comfort. I love sleeping in a very cold room, opening my windows with no AC on. Sitting in my car listening to music/eating with engine off. Less humidity. Food is tastier. Style is better.

10. Do I believe in the existence of angels?

Not particularly? Well, yes but I believe they have absolutely no role or effect on our world.

11. What are my favorite TV series?

American Crime Story (OJ & Versace), Fleabag, Atlanta...90 Day Fiance, Game of Thrones

12. What was the last movie I watched (or the last movie I enjoyed)?

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (let's gooOoo)

13. Am I a tidy person or a messy one?

I used to be very messy but not I'd consider myself pretty tidy. My nature is messy though.

14. Am I afraid of the dark?

Nah.

15. Am I more of a coffee person or a tea person?

Mostly coffee.

16. What talents do I possess that I’m proud of?

I don't have any natural-born talents but I suppose my ability to teach myself a new skill over time.

17. Do (or did) I like school?

I loved school and literally work at a school.

18. Did I go to the prom?

Unfortunately, yes.

19. What is my idea of a perfect date?

Definitely grabbing pizza at a nice restaurant.

20. Do I enjoy DIY or crafts?

Not at all, sounds awful, lol.

21. Do I forgive others easily?

Yes. But not so much anymore now that I'm older and more experienced. My instinct/nature is very forgiving.

22. Do I have a nickname — or did I ever have one?

None.

23. Do I have any phobias?

I'm scared of most anything anything everything...I'd say my daily fear is mistaking my razor for my toothbrush in the shower.

24. Have I ever met one of my heroes? If yes, who was it, and how did it go?

No?

25. Do I speak any other languages?

No, but I told myself I would learn Spanish before I die.

26. Have I ever traveled outside my native country?

Yes! I have been the Mexico and Ireland.

27. If money were no object, what would I want for my next birthday?

Maybe a trip to South Korea/Germany/Rhode Island

28. Have I ever been addicted to something?

Yes. But as far as substances? I'm addicted to Nsaid.

29. When I was a kid, what did I want to be when I grew up?

I wanted to be a wildlife photographer when I was a kid-kid.

30. Have I ever won something?

$75 with scratch offs

31. Have I ever narrowly escaped death (or serious injury)?

I'd say so, yes.

32. Do I prefer baths or showers?

Showers.

33. How am I feeling right now?

Changed.

34. Have I ever played any sports?

Soccer, Basketball, and cross-country

35. Do I prefer the beach or the mountains?

Beach, but I feel connected to both.

36. Do I prefer a Mac or a PC?

Uh...PC?

37. Do I prefer dogs or cats (or some other pet)?

Cats...I honestly do not like dogs at all.

38. Do I have any piercings or tattoos? Would I like to get any?

I have three tattoos: three rune, a sword, and a butterfly. All of which are on my arms.

39. Do I have kids?

Not right now.

40. Do I have siblings?

None.

41. What do I do on a typical Friday night?

Same thing I usually do: practice dance/choreo for a couple of hours. Read, cook, watch Youtube. If I’m going out, I’ll maybe grab dinner/hang with my friends. I MAY go to ~the club~ in a blue moon.

42. If I could go anywhere in the world with unlimited funds, where would I go?

SOUTH KOREA

43. What do I do to relax?

Shower, listen to music. Do my makeup for fun.

44. What do I do to wake up or boost my energy levels?

Blast Stray Kids

45. Would I rather have unlimited energy or unlimited money?

Unlimited money

46. Am I a collector of anything? If yes, how big is my collection?

I collect Kpop bullshit...(albums, photo cards, posters, etc.) essentially merch from my favorite artists.

47. What sort of gift would I want from my significant other on Valentine’s Day or on my birthday?

JUST flowers. All I care about it getting flowers on both of those days.

48. Which would I rather avoid — excess heat or extreme cold?

Excess heat.

49. Would movie genre would I rather watch: action, romance, fantasy, or horror?

Of those choices: horror. I also like a solid journey story.

50. Have I ever been on a diet? If yes, how did it go?

More like a mini eating disorder, lol? I went through phases where I only consumed 1500 calories.

51. If I could live anywhere for a month with whomever I choose, where would that be?

Greece with I suppose...someone I get along with.

52. Have I ever gone camping? Or do you look at a tent and think, “I feel like that’s the wonton wrapper, and I’m the filling.”

Yes, several times. I actually thoroughly enjoy camping.

53. What’s the last song I listened to?

Ribs -- Lorde

54. What’s my current obsession, and how much have I spent on it?

Anything kpop...hours. I’m talking hours and hours.

55. What’s a favorite book of mine?

We Need to Talk About Kevin

56. What should I be doing right now?

Sleeping.

57. What’s my best feature?

Physically? Boobs.

Personality? I would say kindness but that’s basic. Witty? Self-discipline.  

58. What’s the most expensive article of clothing (or shoes) that I own?

Damn...shoes...? $100?

59. What is one thing I could not live without?

Music. My one coping mechanism and literally the reason I’m alive and functional.

60. What’s one thing I can’t leave the house without (other than keys and my wallet)?

Phone... BC packet?

61. What’s one of my pet peeves?

Slow walkers

62. What wild animal would I love to have for a pet (as long as it didn’t eat anyone)?

Maybe like...a toucan?

63. What’s my favorite drink?

An ICE COLD fizzy SODA boiii

64. What’s my spirit animal, and do I own anything featuring that animal?

I guess I’m very cat-like. I used to have a lot of cat stuff, but not anymore...

65. What’s my favorite restaurant, and what’s my favorite splurge order?

I like basically any fast food joint. I’m also a sucker for Chili’s. I’m really basic. A splurge order for me would be ordering a margarita with my meal.

66. What’s my favorite movie — or the best one I’ve seen in the last three years?

I’ve been obsessed with We Need to Talk About Kevin, Pirates of the Caribbean...I’ve been wanting to rewatch Little Miss Sunshine

67. What’s a favorite hobby of mine?

Dancing :)

68. What’s my favorite go-to snack?

Health-wise: apples and peanut butter. But if I don’t care: chips

69. What are my must-haves for watching a movie in a theater?

True interest in the film

70. What’s my favorite kind of competition to watch (sports, cooking, etc.)?

Not really into competition shows.

71. Would I rather get an electric shock or get an intramuscular shot (tetanus, etc.)?

Electric shock?

72. What’s my dream car?

Bella’s shitty red truck let’s gooooo

73. What are the must-haves in the home of my dreams?

LOTS of open space, sunlight, heated bathroom floor

74. What’s my favorite sandwich?

Chicken salad, BLT, plain peanut butter

75. What’s my favorite kind of dinner? (comfort food, four-course, take-out Chinese…)

Comfort food

76. If I could change my eye and hair color, what color/s would I choose?

I would DEF change my eye color to a warm brown and my hair to very dark brown. I’m growing my natural hair out. I’m going dye-free right now.

77. Who is my favorite fictional character (or one of them)?

Jack Sparrow

78. What’s my longest relationship so far (other than family)?

4 years...

79. What is my star sign — or do I usually avoid that question?

I DO NOT care about this but I’m a Leo

80. What is my lucky number, or what is a favorite number of mine?

Uh? N/A

81. What city do I live in now, and what’s my favorite thing about it?

I still live in Denton and I detest it.

82. What state do I live in now, and what do I love about it?

Texas, its diversity.

83. If I had to move to a different state, where would I rather go?

New Mexico

84. Have I ever colored my hair? If yes, what’s my favorite hair color experiment so far?

Yes, most of my teen and adult life. But my “crazy” hair experiment right now is going dye-free and wearing my natural color.

85. Whom do I miss right now?

My 14-year-old self

86. Have I ever made a mistake that someone else refused to forgive me for?

Apparently.

87. Do I have a celebrity crush? If yes, who is it?

JOHNNY DEPP and all of Stray Kids lol. Jungkook?

88. If I could meet any celebrity for coffee/tea and a chat, who would it be?

Marina Diamandis

89. As desserts go, would I rather have ice cream or cheesecake?

Ice Cream

90. Would I rather live in a house or an apartment, and why?

A small house.

91. Would I rather live in a treehouse, a cave, or a submarine?

Treehouse

92. What is one big goal that I want to accomplish this year?

Move out of D*nton.

93. What do I want to do for a living?

I’m happy being a teacher, but ultimately I’d like to counsel kids.

94. When I feel sick, where do I usually feel it first or most noticeably?

My head.

95. What sort of smartphone do I use, and what made me choose it?

Uh? Android?

96. What’s one movie that I’ve watched repeatedly? What do I love about it?

I watch signs pretty frequently. Midsommar? I connect with its characters because they seem like real actual people? I’ve been wanting to rewatch the Lovely Bones.

100. If I could afford one, would I rather hire a chef, a personal assistant, or a housekeeper?

Housekeeper!

97. What is one food that I refuse to eat?

Liver

98. What exotic food would I be willing to try?

I’d be open to trying most any food.

99. What is one item on my bucket list, and what made me choose it?

I’m kind of working on it now. I want to put a few years in while I’m young and able to become a very good dancer. I know that to obtain that it IS going to take years. It’s something that’s really important to me because I’ve always wanted that for myself but never made actual steps to obtain/execute it. And ultimately, I want it because it allows me to feel like my true self.

[justlightlysedated]

don't you know the kids aren't alright

friendship malex edition™

one.

Michael had taken Maria at her word and only stayed over four times out of the week, probably because he spent the rest of the week with her inside of the bar.

But when the Airstream wasn't parked in the back of the Pony, it was back at the scrapyard.

Maria gets out of her truck and walks around to get the brown paper bag full of food and booze that she'd gotten together.

Liz had called her and told her that Michael had been hurt, and the gist that she'd gotten from the conversation was that it had been serious, and that Michael had insisted on being left alone.

Maria figures that it's early enough in their relationship that she shouldn't expect to be let into every single aspect of his life, but she didn't think there was any harm in offering a little company.

She shuts the door closed with her hip and makes her way around the Airstream towards the front.

She rounds the corner and then stops short when she hears Michael hissing.

She looks for him, and then ducks back towards the side of the Airstream, the back of her calf hitting the trailer hitch before she even realizes what she’s doing.

She had been expecting Michael to be alone, so it’s more than surprising that he’s not, but what’s more surprising than that is that he’s with Alex.

Thankfully, Michael was sitting with his back towards where she’d been walking from, because his gaze was focused over Alex’s head, but Alex’s gaze is focused in the space between them, where Michael had one of his arms propped up on a small table.

Michael hisses again, but this time she hears the click of something glass hitting something metal, and then Alex is exhaling loudly.

“I have no idea how you drove all the way here like that,” he says, and Maria can hear the sounds of something being unzipped.

“I’m multi talented,” Michael says, sounding like he’s talking through his teeth.

“You should’ve let Kyle stitch this up for you,” Alex says, and the words surprised Maria. 

She didn’t really question how Liz seemed to know so much about Michael. She had seen them in Texas. It seemed that in her quest to get Max Evans, Liz had made a friend in Michael.

And while she had known that Kyle had been making amends, especially where Alex was concerned, she hadn’t realized that he was someone that Michael hung around with as well.

Just like she hadn’t realized that Michael and Alex spent any time together.

“But now you’re stuck with my basic medical knowledge,” Alex continues, and Michael makes a low sound, almost like something scared him.

“Are you sure we can’t just stick a bandaid over them and be done with it?”

Alex makes a low amused sound, “Are you afraid of a tiny needle, Guerin?”

“No,” Michael says firmly and too fast to actually be believable. “But I’m definitely afraid of the mad man holding it.”

Alex doesn’t really reply to that, and there is a tense silence between them that Maria definitely doesn’t understand, but it’s broken up by Michael saying Alex’s name in a soft low tone, like he’s trying to be careful.

“Don’t,” Alex says, firmly. “It’s okay. I got what you meant, but I still have to do this. You don’t know the definition of keeping still and you’ll tear the gash open again, no matter how fast you heal.”

Michael just exhales and Maria doesn’t hear him say yes, but he must nod or something, because the next thing that she hears is Alex speaking again.

“This will all be over before you know it,” he says, and then Michael makes a low pained sound.

“If you don’t keep still, I’m going to tie you up,” Alex bites out, not sounding serious about the threat.

Michael inhales sharply, a small hitch of pain before he speaks, “Is that a promise?”

Alex makes a scoffing noise and Maria doesn’t have to be looking at him to know that he’s rolling his eyes.

“Just keep still,” Alex says. “I’m almost done.”

“Yes, Captain,” Michael drawls flirty, but serious.

There is silence for a few minutes where Maria thinks about making her presence known.

“Thank you,” Michael says in a low voice, almost too low for her to hear.

Alex makes a low questioning sound, and Michael inhales deeply before exhaling again, “If you hadn’t kept your head, I don’t know what would’ve happened.”

Alex doesn’t say anything for a second.

“Well, one of us has to be the cool, calm and collected one, and I hate to break it to you, Guerin, but it’s definitely not you.”

Michael makes a noise in protest, but they both fall into silence for a few minutes before Alex speaks again.

“There,” he says. “All done.”

She can hear him, most likely, moving to stand, the chair scraping backwards through the dirt and gravel as he does. She hears more zipper sounds and then the rattle of a bottle of pills.

“Liz says that these should help with the pain, but you can’t mix them,” he sounds a little resigned, like he knows that Michael is going to tell him that he doesn’t want to take them, but to both their surprise, she hears the rattle of the bottle and then the low sound of something being uncapped.

“You know I also mean acetone, right?” Alex asks, which makes Maria furrow her brow. Was that supposed to be some sort of code word for something?

She moves to take a look, and sees that Alex is standing, looking at Michael with a raised eyebrow as Michael tips his head back and swallows the pills he just took dry.

He shakes his head and then turns back to the big first aid kit that Maria had missed at her first sight of them, putting things away.

“Kyle is probably going to stop by tomorrow, if you would prefer to avoid that, but as long as you keep the stitches on for a couple of days, you should be fine.”

“Leaving already?” Michael asks something strange in his voice, and Alex stops what he’s doing to turn to face him, tilting his head to the side like he’s trying to puzzle Michael out.

“Yeah, you didn’t want me here in the first place, I know how not to overstay my welcome, and besides, there’s something that I have to do before it gets too late.”

Michael just nods his head, and doesn’t say anything else.

Maria stares as Alex closes the first aid kit and then exhales roughly as he turns back to face Michael, clenching his jaw.

“Listen, since I’m already here,” he says, and Michael tips his head back to look up at him. “I know that you said you didn’t want my help, but I still went ahead and continued to look through the files we got from Caulfield, and there is something that I think you’d like to see.”

Michael stares at Alex in silence for long enough that Maria would’ve found it uncomfortable but Alex just lets him, gaze steady right on Michael, like this is something completely normal that happens all the time.

“Okay,” Michael says, voice careful. “What is it?”

Alex reaches up into the front pocket of his military fatigues, and pulls something that Maria is pretty sure is a picture and hands it to Michael.

Maria moves to lean back against the Airstream feeling the hot metal at her back.

She wonders how Michael learned what had happened to his mother exactly, and if it had anything to do with Alex.

She hears a low noise, that sounds almost like a sob and a soft ‘hey’ coming from Alex, and she closes her eyes tightly, biting down on her bottom lip.

Michael had told her so many things the night that they had officially gotten together, but never once in the speech that he’d given her had he mentioned himself, not really.

She hears a sound like something dropping to the floor, and curiosity gets the better of her, enough that she sneaks another look, and then decides that maybe it will be better to wait until Michael comes to her.

She turns to head back towards her truck, trying to blink away the image of Alex kneeling on the floor and Michael, leaning over him, their foreheads pressed together, and she really hopes that she won’t have to add Alex along to the provision that Michael doesn’t kiss any Lindsay’s.

two.

Alex hadn’t helped to set up the lab, but he’d cleaned up the rest of the place, even going as far as to set up a training room for the aliens, where he had also set up a small space for Kyle to work out if he had to be here in the lab and couldn’t get to the gym.

Some of the equipment he’d brought was even better than the equipment at the gym in the hospital so Kyle found himself there most mornings.

This morning he walks into the room and promptly wishes that he had decided to use the gym at the hospital.

He had thought when he heard that Michael and Maria were dating that things would tone down between Michael and Alex, but no, Kyle still got the urge to ask them if they wanted him to leave the room every single time they were in the same room together.

They seemed to gravitate towards each other, and slowly shut everything else out like they were in their own world, when they both became focused on what the other was doing or saying.

Case and point, the fact that Kyle was able to walk into the room, that was dead silent, and that neither Michael nor Alex noticed that they weren’t alone.

Michael was too busy focused on keeping something that looked way too delicate and entirely too expensive in the air and Alex was too busy entirely focused on Michael and the stopwatch he had in one hand.

Michael makes a low pained sound, and then gasps, hands coming up to his head and Alex steps forward, easily catching what looked like a centrifuge, only grunting slightly as he sets it down on the floor at their feet and moves forward and stops Michael from curling forward, bracing him with his body.

“Come on, Guerin!” he says, as he tries to get Michael’s hands away from his head. “I know that you can do this!”

Michael shakes his head and his voice sounds thick with anger when he speaks. “No I fucking can’t, Alex! I need the acetone!”

“No, you don’t,” Alex snaps. “You’re dependent on that shit, and while I’m sure it does help you manage the pain, it’s not necessary! You know what you have to do!”

Michael drags his hands away from his face, and he looks at Alex, glaring so hard that Kyle is surprised that Alex doesn’t step away, and just gives Michael an unimpressed look instead.

“Yeah, well maybe terrified aliens were able to get themselves under control and use their powers on command after several hours of being tortured, maybe you should try some more of your family’s methods to really get this thing rolling.”

Kyle sees Alex’s reaction because he’s looking for it, unlike Michael, whose gaze moves to the side as he shakes his head, the way his eyes flash with an infinite sadness and pain that he hides beneath a steely look, and then takes a step away from Michael.

Michael’s gaze snaps back to him then, and Alex just nods his head once, before he’s stuffing the stopwatch back into one of his many pockets and then reaching for something at his back.

Kyle inhales sharply when he sees the gun and freezes along with Michael who goes so still that Kyle momentarily thinks that he unlocked a new ability to freeze at will.

Alex stands at attention, feet shoulder width, and he lifts his hand up, pointing the gun towards Michael, not dead center, but in his general direction, and Michael’s gaze goes hard and brutal, and then Alex is bending his arm and pointing the gun at his temple.

Michael’s face immediately loses all sort of hardness, as he seems to almost melt as he takes a staggering step towards Alex.

“Alex,” he says, voice questioning and shaking, and he looks like he’s two seconds away from somehow standing in the way of that bullet. “What are you doing?”

Alex gives him an impassive look. “A bullet can travel two thousand five hundred feet per second. The same principle applies here for holding something that weighs nearly two hundred pounds completely still for fifteen minutes. Only a little more advanced.”

Michael shakes his head a little, giving Alex a highly incredulous look, “You’re not planning on shooting yourself.”

Alex just blinks at Michael like he doesn’t see what’s so unbelievable about that.

“Alex!” Michael snaps. “Lower the gun.”

“Five,” Alex starts, and Michael furrows his brow like he doesn’t understand what Alex is doing until he takes the safety off the gun and continues with, “Four.”

Michael reaches out with one hand and Kyle can see that he tries to pull the gun away from Alex’s head, and Alex’s arms moves a little, but he still manages to keep a hold of the gun.

“Three.”

Michael moves towards Alex, and Alex takes a step backwards for each move Michael makes forward, keeping the distance between them equal.

“Two,” Alex keeps going, and Michael makes a low wordless noise, and then he shuts his eyes tight and holds both of his hands out towards Alex, and Kyle is more worried about the gun being pointed at Alex, even if he’s the one pointing it, and he’s about to make his presence known so that he doesn’t actually have to witness this, when the entire room starts vibrating, every single machine starts to shake, and even the walls seem like they’re trembling.

“One,” Alex says, finishing his countdown, finger on the trigger.

Kyle barely has time to do or say anything when there is the sound of the gun going off.

At the same time, every single thing in the room goes absolutely still, even the air feels like it’s still even though Kyle knows that that is impossible.

Alex is still standing on the other side of the room, and Kyle can smell the scent of singed hair in the air, but Alex looks otherwise unharmed, even though there seems to be a tiny explosion frozen right by his head.

Kyle’s eyes go to Michael, who is standing, breathing heavily, but in a steady rhythm, eyes open wide as he stares at where Alex is standing, both of his hands open in front of him, fingers barely trembling.

He twists both of his hands in the air and the explosion disappears into nothing, leaving behind a bullet frozen in the air.

Alex reaches up and plucks it out of the air like this is something that happens all of the time, and he hisses a little, probably because it’s hot, and then looks over to Michael.

“I honestly wasn’t expecting that to work that well,” he admits, and Michael drops his hands, exhaling roughly and the entire room seems to breathe out with him, taking all of the heavy tension with it.

“What the fuck were you expecting?” Michael asks, sounding angry, but not as much as before. 

“That you would manage to pull the gun away?” Alex says, sounding more like he’s asking a question than making a statement.

Michael stares at him in disbelief, and Kyle shares the sentiment.

“Now,” Alex continues, putting the gun back in it’s holster against his back. “The centrifuge please, holding that still for a half an hour should be easy after that display.”

Michael shakes his head a little, but does what Alex says, reaching out with one hand, and easily lifting the object even higher than he had it when Kyle had walked into the room.

Kyle moves then and sits down on the bench, deciding that he’s had enough of Michael and Alex for today.

He puts his headphones in, and ignores them as much as they seem to be ignoring him.

Curiosity does get the better of him, and he finds himself looking over and pausing his music while he jogs on the treadmill.

Michael keeps the centrifuge in the air, and doesn’t even seem to be breaking a sweat and there is a look on his face that seems something like wonder.

“Time,” Alex says, voice sounding so proud, smiling widely at Michael, that Kyle is surprised that he doesn’t just reach out and pull him into a hug.

Michael lowers the centrifuge carefully, and he exhales once it’s on the floor and turns to Alex, who raises an eyebrow at him in question.

“Fine,” Michael says. “You were right.”

Alex’s smile just widens, and Kyle can see the confused light in Michael’s eyes at the sight.

“I knew you could do it,” he says, reaching out and patting Michael on the arm. “And no acetone! I’m very proud of you.”

“Now,” continues turning towards a clipboard he has propped on the back wall, so he doesn’t see the way that Michael’s eyes go from confused to hungry within a millisecond.

There are plenty of things that he knows about Michael that he would prefer never to know, but the fact that he apparently has a praise kink was definitely at the top of that list.

Kyle turns the treadmill off, and makes enough noise as he’s leaving for them to know that they definitely weren’t alone.

three.

Isobel turns the corner expecting to find Michael alone so she finds herself stopping short, right next to the front of his truck when she hears him laughing, long and loud and delighted. Isobel tries to wrack her brain for the last time she’d heard Michael laugh like that. She’s seen him snicker at jokes and chuckle when he’s flirting and smirk a whole lot and smile, small but genuine when he's happy, but she can’t remember the last time he laughed like it was something that he couldn’t help.

“That was terrible,” she hears him gasping out between breaths.

She’s not expecting Alex Manes to be the one to snort and say, “Yeah, well you’re the one who laughed.”

She moves a little closer, and she can see them lying back in the back of the truck. Michael is lying flat, hands crossed behind his head, propping him up as he looks up at the sky. Alex is lying on his side, propped up on one hand, staring at Michael.

She hears Michael inhale deeply and then exhale, the cold air making a plume of smoke escape his mouth.

“How long?” he says, and she hears Alex sigh, and turn a little so that he’s looking out across Max’s backyard.

Isobel crouches down right by the front wheel, not really wanting to hear this conversation, but feeling like if she moves she’ll interrupt their conversation, and something about it feels important.

“A few weeks,” Alex says, sounding like he hadn’t actually wanted to speak.

She hears the truck moving as though someone moved, and Michael’s careful breathing.

“Just ask,” Alex says after a few seconds of silence.

Michael exhales loudly and then the truck moves again, and Isobel looks over to the back of the truck and she can see that they’re both sitting, facing Max’s backyard, and staring at the lights that make up Roswell.

They’re both quiet for long enough that Isobel’s legs start to fall asleep, and she thinks about making her presence known since it’s not like they’re talking about anything important.

She’s making to stand up when Michael speaks.

“Are you planning on coming back?” Michael asks, voice almost too low for her to hear.

“Yes,” Alex says with no hesitation, almost before Michael even finished speaking, and from the way she can see Michael turn to face him, she knows that Michael wasn’t expecting him to answer so fast. “Roswell has never been home, but there are still some people here that I care about.”

Alex doesn’t look at Michael as he says it, and Isobel can’t make out their faces, but there is something in Michael’s silence that feels too heavy for the words that Alex said.

"Tell me, Guerin," Alex says, breaking the silence. "What is the center of gravity?"

"The point in any solid where a single applied force could support it," Michael answers, speaking slowly, voice coloured in confusion.

"Actually," Alex says, and Isobel sees him turning to face Michael as well. "It's a v."

There is a second of silence where Isobel cannot believe that Alex just said that, and Michael's silence is heavy with judgement, and then Alex snickers, the sound falling out of his mouth, before he starts to giggle helplessly, and then Michael loses it completely, laughing hard and leaning to push Alex hard enough that he moves backwards and the truck moves with him.

"That's even more terrible than the last one," Michael says between laughter.

Isobel can see Alex well enough now, that when he smiles it looks so bright and happy that it could probably be seen from space. "Yeah, but you still laughed."

Michael just shakes his head, and Isobel wonders if he's ever going to tell Alex that he didn't laugh because the joke was funny, but because Alex found it funny.

four.

Liz is waiting for Michael by his truck since she already knows that Kyle will be taking Alex home and she doesn't like the idea of him driving home alone. 

She's looking up at the sky when she hears footsteps, and she turns towards the door and spots Alex walking out, his arm in a sling.

She almost calls out to him, but Michael walks out right behind him, and reaches out, stopping him right in front of Kyle’s car.

“Wait,” he says, and Alex turns around a little too roughly, pulling away from Michael’s hold and taking a step backwards.

“What is it, Guerin?”

Liz can just make out Michael's expression from her position, but his body language is easy to read, and his fists are clenched to his sides, and he keeps rocking on his heels, and he doesn't speak, he just continues to look at Alex, or well, at where Alex had told them that he'd gotten shot.

He had played it off, but he'd been gone for a few weeks, more than enough time to recover from the worst.

Alex sighs and opens his mouth, but Michael beats him to it.

"Can I see?" He asks, sounding both hesitant and determined.

Alex barely hesitates before he's pulling the sling over his head and then popping open the buttons of his shirt.

Michael moves closer then, eyes intent on Alex's shoulder.

Liz sees his hands unclench, fingers stretching out before he shakes them out a little, eyes so intent, like he's trying to heal Alex through his gaze alone.

As soon as she thinks it, Michael moves forward, hand raised.

Liz ducks down to avoid being seen as Alex looks around, one of his hands coming up to trap Michael's hand against his chest.

"What are you doing?" He asks, voice a low hiss that Liz almost doesn't hear.

"What do you think?" Michael snaps back, sounding a little exasperated.

"You can't do that," Alex says, and there is a sound, almost like a scuffle, before Alex speaks in a low urgent voice.

"Hey," he says, like he's trying to get Michael's attention. "I have a doctor's appointment in a few days and a miraculous recovery is going to be hard to explain. Otherwise I'd let you do it in a heartbeat. It's really uncomfortable."

Michael makes a low sound.

"I can always just go into your head and make you forget all about the pain," Michael suggests, but it sounds half hearted at best.

Alex makes a low humming sound, "Don't tempt me."

Michael just laughs low and amused, but doesn't say anything else. 

There's enough silence that Liz feels safe enough to straighten up and check if the coast is clear and she exhales softly when she sees them.

Michael has his forehead pressed to Alex's shoulder and Alex has one hand in his hair, and they don't seem to be doing anything but just breathing together.

They look so comfortable in each other's space that Liz realizes for the first time that maybe their previous relationship was more serious than she'd thought.

Kyle walks out of the building then and he makes a low aggrieved noise when he sees them.

"Come on," Kyle says, walking by them and hooking his arm around Alex's, dragging him along. "I want to get at least four hours of sleep."

Liz doesn’t bother to duck out of sight, since Kyle waves at her, but she’s distracted by Michael’s face as he watches Alex leave, something sad, but somehow sweet.

Liz keeps staring at him until he turns and catches her at it.

He raises an eyebrow at her, and she raises one back at him as he walks closer.

“Figured you’d want some company,” she tells him.

Michael just shrugs, but unlocks the truck with a flick of his wrist.

She gets into the passenger’s seat worrying her bottom lip between her teeth and waits until they’ve been on the road for a few minutes before she decides to say something.

“You don’t really talk about it, but if you ever do need to talk about Alex, or anything, I’m-”

“No offense, Liz,” Michael says, fingers tightening around the steering wheel. “But I really don’t want to talk about it.”

Liz makes a face at him. “Maybe talking about it will help you-”

The radio blasts loudly with static for one second before the tape clicks and starts playing a country song that Liz is pretty sure was made before she was born.

She just rolls her eyes and leans back in her seat.

five.

Jenna isn’t exactly sure how she got volunteered to chauffer Alex to the next Team Save Max meeting, but having Michael Guerin in the passenger’s side seat of the car wasn’t exactly one of the things mentioned when Liz had asked her for the favor.

The only good thing is that she doesn’t have to get out of the car or even call Alex.

Michael gets out of her car before it even properly stops, and she stares as he walks towards the front door, crouches down by the plant pot holding a ficus too shiny to actually be real, and digs around in the pot before he pulls out a shiny silver key covered in dirt.

Jenna watches him letting himself into Alex’s home like he pays rent there and wonders if everyone does that or if Michael is just a special case.

He’s rushing out of the house not even a full minute later, and he looks a little flustered, and a lot preoccupied. She stares at him as he walks past her car, and then realizes it and turns back around, getting into the backseat wordlessly.

His brow is furrowed, and Jenna can feel the discontent vibes and she wonders what the hell happened in the less than a minute that he was inside of Alex’s house.

Alex walks out of his house a couple of minutes later, and it doesn’t take a genius to know that that is definitely sex hair.

It also doesn’t take a genius to figure out that he is pissed the fuck off.

He waves at Jenna through the open passenger side door window, and then gets into the backseat pushing Michael aside.

Jenna seriously would like to curse out her libido for getting hooked on Liz Ortecho so badly that she said yes when Liz asked her to please pick Alex up.

She puts the car into drive and Alex turns to Michael and hisses in a low angry voice, “Do I really have to have a conversation with you about privacy?”

Jenna distinctly knows that this is not the way to get through to Michael Guerin.

“Maybe, if you had told me that you were dating someone, I wouldn’t have just walked in!” Michael answers back, voice coming out harsh and accusing.

“I’m not dating anyone,” Alex answers back through his teeth.

Jenna glances at the rearview mirror and she can see Michael giving Alex a pointed look.

Jenna can feel Alex rolling his eyes.

“You don’t have to be dating someone to have sex with them. You know that.”

Jenna can feel the unhappy vibes exuding from Michael.

“And besides, even if I was dating him. You still have no right to walk into my house uninvited!”

“That’s never been a problem before!” Michael snaps back.

Alex exhales loud and rough, and Jenna glances at the rearview mirror again to see him giving Michael a tired look.

“Things are different now.”

Michael doesn’t respond to that, and Alex doesn’t say anything else.

The rest of the drive passes in silence and once they get to the Crashdown, Alex gets out of the car, before Jenna even fully parks it, and it makes her hum a little thoughtfully.

She looks to see Michael still sitting in the backseat, staring as Alex walks into the diner with eyes that are entirely too big and wet for his face.

He looks really sad and upset, and Jenna distinctly remembers him kissing Maria goodnight the last time that she had seen them together.

“You’re actually an oblivious idiot,” she tells him, and Michael turns to her, giving her a confused look, and Jenna just shakes her head.

Trying to get Michael to understand something by force was an exercise in futility. She remembered Max failing at it more than once, and it looks like Alex has decided to just let him come to his own conclusions, but the problem is that she’s sure that Michael is coming to all of the wrong conclusions.

It might be worth it to stick around just to see the fallout.

“If you don’t get it, I’m not going to be the one to explain it to you,” Jenna replies before she gets out of the car and heads towards the diner.

six.

Max is setting the empty glasses down in the sink so that they’re out of the way when he sees Michael walking down the hall, fast enough to be suspicious.

Max follows after him after barely a moment’s consideration, and finds himself outside on the side of the house where all the cars are parked, Michael momentarily out of sight.

Max doesn’t have to search long to find him again, heading to the only car with a light on, Alex’s.

Max slows down and hides behind Kyle’s SUV, peering around the corner to see Michael slowing his walk as he gets closer to Alex, who is bent over the driver’s seat like he’s getting something out of the glove compartment.

“Not going to complain about the secret message if this is the sight I’m getting,” Michael drawls.

Alex moves to get out of the car, and Max can feel the unimpressed stare all the way where he’s standing.

“I have a present for you,” Alex says after a few minutes of silence where Michael moves to lean back against Alex’s car.

“Oh yeah,” Michael responds easily. “What’s so special that you couldn’t give it to me in front of everyone?”

Alex reaches inside of the car and pulls out a backpack, which he hands to Michael, zipper already open.

Michael gives the bag a confused look, but grabs it and takes a look inside.

Max practically feels the shock going through Michael as whatever it is that Alex has in the bag surprises the hell out of him.

He reaches into the bag, and Max can see the way whatever is inside lights up as he touches it reminding him of their pods.

Michael moves his shocked eyes from inside of the bag to Alex.

“What?” he asks, breathless, but a slight undercurrent of anger.

Alex inhales deeply, and he squares up like he’s preparing himself for a fight.

“Jim Valenti had that hidden in his cabin. I found it months ago when Kyle went to figure out if he had anything hidden out there and we found the bunker he had fully stocked for Rosa going through withdrawal. I wasn’t exactly sure what it was until you showed me what you had in your bunker.”

Michael looks back inside of the bag and then back at Alex.

“And you didn’t think to tell me that you had it then?”

Alex makes a low sound and takes a step towards Michael, and Michael takes a step backwards and Alex freezes.

“To be honest with you, no, I didn’t even think about telling you that I had it. I wasn’t exactly thinking about anything else but the fact that you’d been planning to leave the planet.”

Michael just scoffs low and disbelievingly shaking his head. “What does it matter to you if I want to leave or not?”

Alex just laughs hollowly and drags his hands through his hair.

“You ever get tired of reopening this wound?” Alex asks, rhetorically, and the words seem to surprise Michael who turns to look at him, brow furrowed.

Max starts thinking that maybe he shouldn’t be witnessing this conversation.

“I get that you’ve obviously moved on, and are happy with someone else, but none of that negates the fact that I care about you, and that I would be devastated if you went somewhere where I couldn’t find you.”

Michael’s face goes slack, and he just continues to look at Alex who turns and paces a little in place as he keeps talking.

“I had hoped that these last couple of months you would’ve figured that out by now, but obviously we’re never going to get on the same page, so here’s this.”

He turns back towards Michael. “I kept it out of some sick and twisted sense that as long as I had it, some part of you would still be mine, but it’s time to let go of that. And let go of any hope of someday. All I want is for you to be happy, and you are, and it still hurts that it’s not without me, but it’s the only thing that I have ever wanted for you.”

“Alex,” Michael says, shaking his head, eyes wide and wet as he takes a step towards him.

Alex just shakes his head. “It’s alright, you don’t have to keep explaining yourself. I get it, okay?”

Michael just stares at him not saying anything, and Alex turns away, blinking his eyes rapidly before he inhales deeply and turns back to Michael, a brittle smile on his face.

“Happy birthday, I had a fun time but I think that I-”

“I am happy,” Michael says, interrupting him, and Alex just exhales shakily, turning away from Michael momentarily. “And I like making Maria happy. We’re good together. She makes me feel needed and mattered, and I like that.”

Alex makes a low sound, almost like a sob, and he just says, “Guerin,” in a sharp voice, and Michael just shakes his head and moves closer, dropping the bag and reaching for Alex before he can move back.

“But I’m not in love with her, I like her a lot, and I hoped that it would’ve been enough, but it’s not, Alex. It’s not enough when being in the same room as you makes me feel so much more than I do when I’m alone with her.”

Max really desperately wishes that he had left when Alex had given Michael the backpack, so he turns around and sneaks away as quietly as he can, really not wanting to witness whatever was going to happen next.

“What are you trying to say?” he hears Alex asking, voice shaking a little.

“I’m saying that you should keep the bag,” Michael answers back, almost too low for Max to catch it.

“But you like Maria,” Alex says, pushing the words almost like a barrier between them,

“Yeah,” Michael admits easily. “But not as much as I like you.”

Max gets too far to hear anything else, but he turns at the door and catches a glimpse of them, standing still, foreheads pressed together.

He shakes his head and walks back inside of the house wondering why his siblings have to make love so complicated.

[canarhys]

valdangelo headcanons

hey guys. so... i reached 500 followers last night. and i’m really happy that you fuckers can deal with my dumbass posts because jesus, i never thought i’d get this far.

so in return for the amount of souls i have stocked up, i have redone the valdangelo headcanons i did for 100 followers a long time ago.

let’s fucking go.

• the two of them are meant for each other simply for the fact that nico sleeps all the time and eats so much junk food he has cavities while leo hasn’t slept for an entire month and hasn’t eaten in three days.

• they don’t like grand, fancy dates and instead go for drives through the city at night and hang outs at a fast food joint. (“nico stop saying mcdonald’s we’ve been eating there for the past week i’m starting to hallucinate ronald mcdonald.”)

• they don’t show much affection in public. usually it’s just hand-holding (it’s basically their second nature) and cheek kisses but when alone they’re touch-starved and cuddle all the fucking time.

• they play video games together obviously. when they compete (say, mario kart), it’s a ruckus because they’re both equally good so the entire camp watches and places bets because it’s so intense. when they play together, it’s usually nico on his nintendo 3ds playing pokémon with leo resting his head on his shoulder, making jokes and occasional pointers.

• i’m all for the idea that they two of them could hold conversations without even talking. nico and leo share a look, nod, and somehow they know what the other is implying. it’s insane.

• they get matching tattoos not just because it’s a couple thing but because it’s fun. they decide to get star tattoos on their ankles.

• nico: lend me a hand.

• leo: throws his prosthetic arm to him

• nico: thanks.

• i just love the thought of them having such funny ass laughs. nico cackles and it almost resembles a wicked witch. leo wheezes like a balloon losing air. also nico slaps people whenever he laughs while leo is stuck in a position for a fucking hour.

• and i just imagine when one is laughing the other is silently watching them with an adoring smile. despite the fact that the one laughing looks so fucking stupid.

• when they laugh at the same time it sounds like a hospital delivery room, ngl.

• they argue all the time but it’s over stupid shit like which superhero wins or who can be the most edgy/annoying. it’s all playful banter but it goes on for hours on end and everyone is about to kick them out.

• they’re fucking dorks; they watch jojo’s bizarre adventure and binge stupid instagram videos and recreate tik toks that are somehow worse than the original.

• they can’t give each other flowers because nico always ends up with lifeless, drooping ones and leo somehow manages to set all of them on fire so they just pack snacks and lunches for each other.

• they have to coax each other into taking care of themselves because they’re self-destructive little shits. nico often drags leo to bed when he’s working on a project. leo cooks nico healthy foods and forces him to brush his teeth. when one of them is sick, the other is by their side all the time.

• they share earbuds a lot. they both really like the arctic monkeys, they’re basically their soul band and whenever one of them is listening to them, the other senses it and immediately grabs the bud out of the other’s ear.

• i like the thought of them trying to be like buzzfeed unsolved and recording videos of themselves strolling through haunted houses and searching for cryptids but it would be so... disastrous.

• nico, playing don’t mine at night on a stereo at goatman’s bridge: come out, bitch.

• goatman: i’m fucking begging you to stop.

• leo, recording: fucking wheezing

• or they would try to be like game grumps and record themselves playing retro games like donkey kong or sonic but it also yields some fucked up results.

• leo, playing sonic adventure dx with tears in his eyes: screaming at the tv and trying not to have a nervous breakdown because the game is so fucking bad his brain functions have gone haywire

• nico: laughing so hard he knocked over twelve vases on the table

• they call each other by their last names a lot. it used to be an insult when they were arguing a lot back then, but now they use it as fun little nicknames with mild malice (unless one of them fucked up).

• they also have some personal ones for each other! nico calls leo “firebug” and “bombshell” and leo calls nico “sunshine” and “angel.” (they totally call each other “amor” and “bébé” as well.)

• they have small picnic dates at the strawberry fields in camp since leo loves strawberries to death and nico likes seeing leo’s adorable face as he eats them. usually they eat those along with chocolate dip and some milkshakes.

• leo has tried to teach nico how to cook in the past but it resulted in the inflammation of the argo ii’s kitchen and buford sending nico angry “glares” due to leo having to scrub off all the excess smog off of him.

• leo buys nico a fuck ton of hawaiian shirts as a joke but nico had worn all of them in less than a month and rocked all of them. leo now has taken the duty of buying as many as he can because damn, if his boyfriend didn’t look so cute.

• the two of them wear each other’s clothes all the time. leo uses the excuse “i’m cold” in order to achieve nico’s jacket or sweater. nico has started using it as well and leo hands him his hoodie or mittens. it’s cute.

• also i love the idea of them either wearing complementary clothing or drastically different ones, with no in-between. one day leo is wearing a soft rainbow-striped shirt under some overalls while nico wears a floral striped hawaiian tee, the next nico is in all black and leo is wearing a neon green jumpsuit. everyone gets whiplash from it.

• i feel like after the giant war and during apollo’s mortal quest, they go with him to indiana to search for meg. and they find themselves at the waystation and after the entire commodus fiasco, the two of them decide to stay and live there. both of them are going to visit chb in the summer but they like the thought of having normal lives and being normal teenagers, plus jo and emmie basically adopted them into the family and all of the kids there love them (especially georgina).

• at camp, they usually hang out in bunker nine or the hades cabin since both of them don’t like crowds and get overwhelmed by them. also they talk about conspiracy theories all the fucking time.

• leo: what if... in a parallel universe... we were straight...?

• nico: holy shit.

• they’re such horror movie fanatics. leo’s favorite is texas chainsaw massacre and nico has a heart for alien. both of them have confirmed that killer clowns from outer space is the best horror movie of all time and have watched it exactly thirty-six times.

• they both had serious discussions of which horror tropes their friends are. they are still categorizing to this day.

• nico: piper would be a final girl, that’s clear. what about jason?

• leo: first one who dies. that fucker is literally dead and hanging in a hotel.

• i also think the two of them love horror/thriller shows. stranger things, tales from the crypt, ash vs. evil dead. especially ash vs. evil dead. leo literally dressed up as ash for halloween, chainsaw hand and everything. nico, in turn, dressed up as a deadite.

• speaking of halloween, it’s like the culmination of their entire beings. because they both a) like dressing up, b) like free food, c) love halloween decor and shit, and d) love seeing each other’s happy faces during the holiday.

• both of them are incredibly dedicated to it, wearing black and orange and hanging up the majority of the decorations around camp. they buy the candy, organize the activities, and take a roll of what campers are dressing as so if someone is worried that they’ll have the same costume as another person, they can check with them. percy says they should get married on halloween just because they’re that into it.

• both of them hyper-fixate a lot. leo gets so invested in a project that he forgets to eat or sleep or even acknowledge anyone else around him, so nico makes sure to not disturb him unless it’s time for lunch or bed. he wraps his arms around leo as he works and buried his face in the crook of his neck and leo always smiles.

• leo does the same for nico, as the guy is incredibly invested in nerdy things that he tries not to tell anyone lest they make fun of him. so leo lets his boyfriend infodump as they lay in bed together, stroking his dark wavy hair and watching nico’s mouth move and continue to describe a dnd campaign he’s been watching recently. leo has to use all his will to stop him and get him to brush his teeth.

• they’re not really much to make future plans as they’re pretty pessimistic about everything due to their pasts but one day they found themselves discussing about getting an apartment or even a house together. leo said he’ll probably open a garage if they become the next caretakers of the waystation or even get a house and ask annabeth to help with the design. nico joked that they could have a floral shop there too since they’re both bad with flowers. and suddenly the conversation shifted to them planning a round-trip across the world on festus and one of them mentioned “kids.” then the two realized what they were doing and stopped, albeit hesitantly.

• i love the idea of persephone being a total mom to them (i don’t care about canon, she loves hades children no matter that her husband cheated) and having garden parties with them down in the underworld. she started teaching them how to take care of flowers better — which was sort of relevant since nico brought up the flower shop at home thing — and soon their blossoms almost stopped wilting or catching on fire.

• persephone: hey, you guys want some pomegranate?

• leo: yeah s—

• nico: n o w e ‘ r e g o o d .

• persephone wasn’t trying to trap leo in the underworld but nico couldn’t take chances.

• leo’s pretty good with instruments because of tool proficiency and is a master at the drums and guitar. nico actually has a nice singing voice and recently got into guitar as well, so you bet your ass that they have jam sessions constantly.

• leo is the gay that can drive while nico should not be within a steering wheel in any circumstance, so leo usually drives them to their dates. that, or they enlist the help of nico’s zombie chauffeur to drive them there.

• both of them share this soft and tender expression with each other that they don’t express towards other people, not even their other friends. it’s sort of like a face saved for them, for their little world and it’s cute.

• nico is way more touchy than leo and likes to wrap his arms around leo’s waist a lot. he often peppers his face with kisses and shit and leo gets really shy about it. when this happens, he nuzzles his face into nico’s shoulder or chest to stop his boyfriend but nico is resilient.

• i just... love valdangelo being so soft towards each other. every single banter they have they do with heart eyes and they usually just cuddle in content silence because they’re not big on talk, communicating better by actions. when they kiss, it’s like a perfect mix because nico is cold while leo is warm. they often lay in bed, smiling as their limbs are tangled together. maybe they’ll start up another conversation or game file. but for now, they like the quiet.

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If you ask players on the tournament circuit who they think are the best poker players in the world, T. J. Cloutier’s name always conies up.

Not because he’s won the Big One: He hasn’t… yet, although he’s come mighty close to winning it several times.

And not because he’s made the most money at the World Series … he hasn’t, although he was the first player to make more than $1 million at it without winning the main event.

T. J. Cloutier’s name is always mentioned because he is the player that they all respect and fear.

T. J. is one of the last of the legendary road gamblers whose numbers are, unfortunately, dwindling each year. He brings a wealth of experience, card skill, and natural ability to every game that he plays.

But more importantly, he always brings along his knowledge of the thousands of players that he has faced head up in the 21 years that he has made his living as a professionalpoker player.

And that sixth sense about what makes his opponents tick … that innate ability to put a player on a hand … is why his opponents fear him.

It is as though he is looking at you through an invisible microscope, knowing what you are thinking, detecting you tells, delving into the inner spaces of your mind … you know that he knows you, knows what you’re going to do next.

And he’s going to use his encyclopedic memory of how you play to beat you.

I got to know T. J. first through hearsay, then by talking with him and Tom McEvoy while we were working on this book, and finally by observing him in action. All three encounters have been awesome.

While T. J. and I were recording his life’s story, I somehow had the feeling that I was sitting at the feet of a master … a master of people.

And I knew that there was much that I could learn from the man whom Mansour Matloubi has called “the greatest living no-limit holdem player in the world.”

Here is his story.

T. J. Cloutier graduated from Jefferson High School in Daly City, CA, where he was a three-letter man. At 6'3" tall, he was the center on the basketball team, played football, and still holds the home run record in baseball.

So, were all the girls waiting in line for a date with him?

Well… when I was a senior, I dated Pat Kennedy, who later won the Miss California title,“ he modestly admits. We had a study group of 10 or 15 kids that ran around together, and high school came very easy to me.

It was when I got into college that I found out that you had to study.” T. J. entered the University of California at Berkeley on a baseball and football athletic scholarship and played for Cal in the Rose Bowl in 1959 as a sophomore.

But when his mother became ill, he dropped out of college to go to work and help his father pay some of her medical bills.

Then the army snapped him up, since he no longer was a draft-deferred student.

T. J. gained his first experience playing poker when he was a caddy at the Lake Merced and San Francisco Country Clubs. When he and the other caddies came in from taking their loops (caddying), they played a form of poker in the caddy shack.

One day, somebody passed around some “lucky bucks” from Artichoke Joe’s, a cardroom in San Francisco. For $15, he received a $20 buy-in for the lowball game. So, at the age of 17 years, T. J. started playing poker in a public cardroom and by the time he was 19 years old, he was playing head-up draw poker against Artichoke Joe himself.

“When I began playing, all the games were no-limit, including no-limit lowball without the joker and no-limit high draw poker,” he reflects.

“Then when I entered college, I played poker at the Kappa Alpha house with Joe Capp, the Cal quarterback who later played in the NFL, and Bobby Gonzalez, who became a supervisor in San Francisco. I found out that I had a knack for the game, although I lost everything I had at the time. I was honing my skills at observation and getting to know people. I’ve always had a sort of photographic memory for how people play their hands in certain situations. If you and I had played poker together five years ago, I wouldn’t remember your name, but I would remember your face and how you played your hands in different situations, your tendencies. It’s a visual memory thing; I’ve always been very observant throughout my entire life,”

So, you keep a book on players, I asked?

“No, it’s nothing that formal. It’s more like pages opening in a book in my mind. And that helps … especially in no-limit games.”

He then went on to play poker in the army, where he furthered his training at cards. When T. J. got out of the army, he walked into the office of the Montreal Allouettes and asked if he could try out with them.

After checking out his record at Cal, the general manager told him, “We’ll put you up for two weeks, and then you can come out and show us what you have.”

He went to one workout and made the team, after not having played any football for two years. The team paid his expenses until the training camp began, and he played first string tight end for the Allouettes until he was traded to the Toronto Argonauts.

Canadian football was a lot different from American football in those days. Thirteen Americans were suited up, along with 17 Canadians.

“My value was that my father was born in Canada, so I could play as a Canadian — an American - trained Canadian was just what they were looking for,”

The team had only 12 players going each way, leaving just six reserves, including the kickers and other special players. So, in addition to playing first string tight end, T. J. also was first backup to the defensive ends.

“It’s a rugged brand of football, wide open. When I was playing, you couldn’t block for a pass receiver once he caught the ball past the line of scrimmage. The field was 110 yards long, the end zones were 20 yards deep, and the field was wider. You had to make a first down in the first two downs or else kick the ball, since there were only three downs. It was a real fast game, and everybody was in motion all the time.”

Another different facet was that you couldn’t block for a punt receiver; once he caught the ball, he was on his own.

“You had to give the punt receiver five yards to catch the ball. So, the other team would circle him like the Indians circling the settlers, and as soon as he caught that ball, he was dead, flatter than a pancake,”

T. J. played Canadian football for five years … until his knees gave out. Then he received a call from Victoria when they were trying to form the Continental Football League.

Victoria offered him its coaching job, but he also would have to play.

“Are you kidding?” he asked. “If I could still play, I’d be playing for Montreal or Toronto.

“Of course, football wasn’t the only game in town: A cardroom in Vancouver, B.C., spread a poker game called “sousem,” a form of five-card stud. In sousem, a four-card straight or a four-card flush beats one pair, so it puts a lot of action into the game,“ T. J. explained.

“It was quite a game, no-limit. The only other game we played was no-limit ace-to five lowball.” And even that game wasn’t the only one in town. In Montreal, the Hebrew Businessmen’s Club spread five card studs. I was getting whipped pretty good, but it was all a part of the learning process,“ T. J. admits.

When he left Canada, T. J., his father, and his brother-in-law started Bets Quality Foods, an acronym for Bill, Ed, and Tom (T. J.’s first name), and later brought T. J.’s brother in with them.

“We used the money that I had left from football and my dad’s retirement to start the business. Our slogan was ‘Your Best Bet in Quality Foods.’ We bought a huge freezer from Foster’s, a big cafeteria chain in San Francisco, when they went out of business and rebuilt it in our warehouse to handle our frozen food. We had a big egg business, too, although you don’t make much money from eggs. But when you’re serving big hotels, you have to give them the eggs at a good price to keep their other business. I was working 16 hours a day — I would take orders, load trucks, and pick up and deliver products. Later, we merged with A & A Foods, and they stole us blind. My dad won an 11 -count court case against them, but the owners left the country.”

After suffering this bad beat, T. J. began delivering bread for Toscana and eventually wound up as night manager for Wonder Bread in San Francisco.

“My first wife and I split up about that time, and I ended up heading for Texas with $100 in my pocket,” he remembers.

That was in 1976. “I went to work for six months as a derrick man on the oil rigs down there. On my off days, I was playing poker. Pretty soon, I was making more money at poker than I was on the rigs… and I’d been freezing up there, anyway… so that’s how I moved into playing poker full time.”

He played no-limit hold'em in Longview, Texas, and pot limit hold'em in Shreveport, Los Angeles, 51 miles away.

T. J. had only played hold'em a few times before that. While he was playing lowball at the Cameo Club in Palo Alto, CA, a club across the street tried three times to start a hold'em game, but the police came in and busted them every time.

Because of the good games in Shreveport, T. J. moved mere to play poker every day at the Turf Club.

“The games much smaller than we’re playing now. On Sundays, they would have a big game run by an old gambler named Harlan Dean who was well known in all the gambling places. He used to be George Barnes’ partner in the bridge tournaments in Vegas, and he was one of the original holdem players. I ended up selling the chips, and if I got broke or something, he’d call up on a Sunday and ask, ‘Well, we’re broke, are we, or partner?’ And I’d say, ‘Well, Mr. Dean, I know you’re not broke, but I am.’ Then he’d say, ‘Well, you come on by today and I’ll give you some chips.’ And if I got loser in the game, I could have the chip rack because he didn’t want the game to end. That’s when I started playing real serious poker.”

In 1978, T. J. made his first trip to the World Series of Poker, although he didn’t play in the championship tournament until 1983 (the year that Tom McEvoy won it).

But the third year that he played for the World Championship (in 1985), he finished second to Bill Smith, with Berry Johnston taking third.

“When it got down to three-handed, Berry Johnston had the best hand, an A-K. I had an A-J. The flop came K-J little and we got it all in. On the turn, I caught a jack and drew out on him to put him out of the tournament. Then it got to two-handed and I had the lead against Bill,”

“But the key hand of the whole match happened when I had two nines and he had two kings. He moved in and I called him with my nines. He won the pot and doubled up. Now he had a big lead, and I started chopping back at him,”

There were 140 players that year, so there was $ 1,400,000 in chips; I got back to $350,000.

Then Bill came in with a little raise, and I looked at an ace in my hand … didn’t even look at the other card, but made it look like I had.

I just went over the top of him with the whole $350,000. I knew that he had to decide… if he made the wrong one, I’d be back even with him again.

He had started drinking, and he gave away money when he was drinking. He called. When I looked back at my hand, my kicker was a three. And Bill had two threes. They held up and he won the title.

He was one of the greatest players of all time, Bill Smith was. Bill was the tightest player you’d ever played in your life when he was sober.

And when he was halfway drunk, he was the best player I’d ever played with. But when he got past that halfway mark, he was the worst player I’d ever played with.

And you could always tell when he was past the halfway point because he started calling the flop. Say a flop came 7-4-10 — he would say, ‘21!’ or some other remark like that.

When he got up to take a walk, he would have a little hop in his step, a ‘git up in his getting’ we used to call it. And then you knew he was gone.

But he had such great timing on his hands when he was younger and wasn’t drunk… he was out of this world. He knew when to lay down three of a kind, when to call with a baby under pair with two or three over cards on the board.

He was a fabulous player, but he became an alcoholic and that was that. You never worried about Bill when he was sober because you knew that he played A-B-C — tight — and you knew where he was all the time.

The only time that you worried about him was when he was about halfway drunk, and then he’d play all the way to ‘H’. He’d make some fabulous plays, plays you couldn’t believe.

Bill Smith was a truly great player.

In those days, T. J. was living in Shreveport, playing poker every day. “In fact,” he said, “I was having a gay old time. I was single then and would go to the Louisiana Downs 100 out of the 105 days of the meet, and then go out and play poker every night. I learned more about poker in Shreveport than anywhere else in the world.”

There was a real good game on Sunday and a guy named Jim “Little Red” Ashee used to P% in it. He’s bigger than I am — about 6'5” tall and 300 Pounds, but they called him Little Red because he started playing there when he was about 16 or 17 years old.

“I learned more from just watching him play than any other way. It was like sitting at the feet of the master, except that the master was not instructing T. J.”

“I was actually absorbing what Red did, and then suiting those moves to my own style, which was aggressive at times and passive at other times. You can’t let them pigeon hole you, you know.”

“A lot of people think that Sarge Ferris was the best five card stud player in the world … well, when Red was 17 years old, he was playing with Sarge, Corky McCorquodale, Homer Marcotte … all the big names in five-card stud used to play in Shreveport. And Little Red beat them all the time.”

Marcotte was killed in Dallas. “He was called 'The Louisiana Man’ because wherever he went, he would say, “I’m the Louisiana Man.” He was shot dead by some guy about 5'5” tall in a Dallas bar back around 1978 over a $50 bar bill.

The little guy kept dunning Marcotte for the $50 and Homer kept saying, 'Don’t you know me? I’m the Louisiana Man. You don’t dun me for $50.’

Finally, this little guy had heard enough, went out to his car to get his gun, came back in, and shot Marcotte.

Anyway, when Sarge went out to Vegas and won all that money, he put up a bankroll for Red while the World Series was on so that if Red came out, he’d have the money to play against anybody that wanted to play him.

The only person I know of that they ever got a game on with was George Huber, and he didn’t last two hours against Red. Lost about $40,000 to him.

Of course, Red didn’t come out very often because he hated to fly. You’d almost have to give him a shot like Mister T on the old A-Team show just to get him on an airplane.

Red liked horses and sports betting, so all his money went there, and after he got into that, poker wasn’t fast enough for him. But at one time, he was very well respected in poker, especially in the South.

A lot of good holdem players came from the South, from the Sun Belt states. T. J. is one of the best of them.

“While I was living in Shreveport, I found out about a real good game in Dallas that was run by a man that I will call The Big Texan. It was a $5-$10-$25 no-limit holdem game with either a $500 or a $ 1,000 buy in. I used to drive the 200 miles from Shreveport three days a week to play in that game.”

The first 12 times that he played in the game, he won. Then, on his next visit, the Big Texan told T. J., “I’m dropping the latch on you. If you don’t give me half your play, you can’t play here anymore,”

So, T. J. gave him half his action for his next 10 visits … and he won all 10 times.

“Then one day I went down there and out of the blue, the Big Texan said to me, 'I’m out today.’ That rang a warning bell in my head. I knew that there was something going on, something was wrong. There were two new players in the game, so I just bought in for $500 in chips, played for about an hour, and hardly ever got into a pot. Then I left.”

That was around the time that Bill Smith and T. J. became friends. Bill’s wife, Cleta, was working at Mitsubishi Aircraft in New Orleans and introduced T. J. to Joy, whom he married in 1984.

“That’s the reason I moved to Dallas from Shreveport, not just because of the game but because Joy lived there. She was the personal secretary to the president of Mitsubishi,”

Joy Cloutier has one daughter from a previous marriage, whom T. J. put through Texas A & M where she received her training as a petroleum engineer.

Today, Joy travels with T. J. to most of the tournaments on the circuit.

“Joy is amazing. I don’t know what she does while I’m playing the tournaments, but the day does not have enough hours for her,”

Lyle Berman was T. J.’s first tournament backer. At the time, Berman was backing Jack Keller and another player. When the second player fell out of their arrangement, Berman asked around to find out who else he might back.

T. J.’s name was suggested, so he and Lyle spoke on the telephone and then met at the airport on their way to the Bicycle Club’s big tournament in 1989.

“He’s a super guy. At the Bike, he asked how much I needed to play the side games during the three days that we were there. 'Well, I guess about $10,000 would be plenty,’ I said. 'I’m giving you $30,000,’ he answered,”

“He wanted me to have plenty of money to play with in those ring games, so I wouldn’t be playing scared money. I’ve been lucky for him in side games and in tournaments. We’ve made a lot of money together,”

T. J.’s play at the World Series of Poker is always open to Lyle as a backer.

Lyle doesn’t get to many tournaments anymore, but he always makes it to the WSOP. As high as you’ve ever heard of in a poker game, Lyle plays it. He plays in that high game at the WSOP with Doyle and Chip and the Greek and the others.

And when they play high, Lyle’s as good a player as anyone alive. He’s one of the two or three people that play in that game who can really afford it.

But that’s not it: He’s a great card player, a brilliant poker player. He has no fear whatsoever, no matter how much you bet at him.

In fact, in the final game that he and Bob Stupak played before the Stratosphere thing, Stupak brought it in for $25,000. They were playing no-limit deuce-to-seven with no cap. Usually, they played with a $75,000 cap, which means that you can’t lose more than $75,000 on one hand, but that night they were playing the game with no cap.

Lyle called the bet with 2-3-5-7, drawing at the deuce-to-seven wheel. He drew one card while Stupak stood pat.

When all the shouting was over, Stupak had bet $390,000 on his hand, an 8-5 pat, which is a great hand in deuce-to-seven. But Lyle caught a six and made a seven on Stupak to win the pot.

“From what I understand, Stupak still owes Lyle some of that money.”

T. J. has three World Series titles, along with a lot of place wins at the WSOP. In fact, he was the first man to earn $1 million at the Series without winning the big one. When I asked which year, he won the limit Omaha title, he said:

“I’d have to go look at my bracelet. I’ve won 43 titles and I can’t keep them all straight. The only major tournament where I haven’t won the big title so far is the World Series, but I came in second to Bill Smith and placed fifth to Chan the year that he beat Eric Seidel for the championship.”

In 1994, T. J. won two WSOP tournaments during its silver anniversary, one in pot-limit hold'em and the other in Omaha high-low split.

In no-limit hold'em, you’ll recognize the faces at the final table more than in any other tournament because it’s the Cadillac of poker. I won the last $5,000 tournament held at the Stardust, the Stairway to the Stars.

That was the year that I won the last Diamond Jim Brady tournament at the Bicycle Club, and I told them before it started, 'I won the last one at the Stairway to the Stars, I won the last one at the Union Plaza, I won the last one at the Frontier … this place might blow up next week if I win the big one here, too.’

I wound up winning the Bike’s Diamond Jim Brady tournament three years in a row.

That was sort of a peak for me that I don’t think can ever be repeated.

The first year that I won the Diamond Jim Brady, Mansour Matloubi and I started head-up play with about even chips. I had played with him for about five hours that day at the final table and he never ran a bluff on anybody one time, not once.

He wanted to get down to the final two. When we got head-up, he bet me $120,000 on the final hand, and I called him with third pair in a New York split second because I knew that I had the best hand.

I’d been chipping away at him so bad that he decided to try to run a big bluff on me. And that was the end of it.

Then when Tuna Lund and I got head-up the next year at the Diamond Jim Brady, Tuna had $360,000 and I had $120,000. I chipped away at him and chipped away at him and chipped away at him.

Finally, he made a $50,000 bet on the end on one hand and I called him with a pair of nines. He said, 'You got me.’ And I answered, 'Wait a minute … before you show your hand, I’ll bet you have a Q-10 off suit.’

He turned it over and sure enough, that’s what he had. That was the key hand.

The third year I won the Diamond Jim Brady, it got down to Bobby Hoff and me, so I played a formidable player every year. But in this one, I had three-to-one chips on Hoff, not like the second year that I played when I came into the second day of the tournament with the low chips.

The key hand that year was when I had two nines against Hal Kant’s two eights, which doubled me up from $9,000 to $18,000 and then I just went from there.

While T. J. is competing in a tournament, he often plays side games, too, although there are times when he doesn’t play any side action at all. He also occasionally plays in the satellites.

“At the Hall of Fame, I had a run one year when I played in six super satellites and got a seat in four of them, and I played in six one-table satellites and won four of those. So, I won close to $35,000 on the side in the satellites,”

He loves playing satellites for big events. One year, Berman told him to play in every $10,000 one-table satellite for the WSOP that he could enter, because at that time T. J.’s record was one win for every three satellites he played.

You get some pretty weak fields in satellites, although at the big one they’re not usually as weak as they are for some of the other tournaments. In a $10,000 satellite, you get $2,000 in chips so you can play the game.

But you have only $200 or $300 in chips in the super satellites, so everybody’s just moving in all the time and you’ll get drawn out on a lot. If you only have that many chips, all of them are in jeopardy the first round that you play.

Or you’ll try to draw out on somebody else, whereas you wouldn’t try to do that with a big stack.

One year, I played in a $10,000 satellite at the Golden Nugget and five people moved in all of their chips on the first hand.

So, one guy ended up with $ 10,000 in chips after the first hand.

Some people advise limit players to play the satellites if they want to learn to play no-limit or pot-limit hold'em. T. J. disagrees with that approach.

“I disagree with that idea 100 percent. I think that you must play in a live game to learn how to play those games because satellites are played so differently from a regular game. About the only thing you get a feel for from satellites is the raise in limits,”

The thing that has made T. J. so successful at no-limit and pot-limit holdem is his observation powers.

I know what Joe Blow is going to do in this situation and in that situation. That’s what helps me. When I’m in a tournament with all strangers, after 15 or 20 minutes I’m going to know how they play.

Say what you want, but there are people who have that ability, and there are people who don’t have it. You’re either born with it or you aren’t.

I have a knack for picking up people tells and all the little things that they do. Caro has a book on tells, but I have my own book.

What about the young new breed of “scientific” players, I wondered.

There are several good players among the young bucks. Phil Hellmuth is still young and he’s a great player. Howard Lederer is another one. There’s also a kid from Los Angeles named David Oppenheimer who’s a very good limit player. Huck Seed’s a great young player, too.

He took on the best and beat them. A lot of the old timers say, 'Well, they haven’t been breaking yet. Let’s see what kind of players they are when they get broke,’

You see, all the top players have had big money and have been broke and have come back and been broke and then come back again.

They’re the top players, and that’s the nature of the game. But when your factor in how much money you have to make to meet your nut, you have to be pretty successful to just stay alive every year.

So, are these new players playing something like “formula” poker?

The guys I’ve mentioned are all very good young players. But all the rest of the new players seem to be the same type — they’ve read some books, and they all play the same way.

I don’t think that’s good, because I like to see them when they have a few moves to them, a little creativity, some moxie. But you just don’t see that among them. The old-type players like Doyle and James “Goodie” Roy and Buck Buchanan (who’s dead now), and maybe even guys like me, are dying out.

Everybody today is book-learned, but in the old days it was experience-play, where you had to learn your players. I played with a kid down in L. A. who can’t win a hand unless money is given to him.

But I’ve never seen him lose because somebody will get in the game and just give his money to him.

Any top player would see that this kid doesn’t play a hand unless it’s a huge, huge hand, so why would you even get involved with this man?

Those types of players can’t beat me out of any money unless I do it to myself.

Are these new, young players making “formula” plays and relying on what they learn from books because they don’t have the training ground available to them that the “vintage” players, the road gamblers, had?

We used to 'fade the white line,’ the white line of the highway going from game to game.

You don’t have to do that anymore because of all the cardrooms and casinos. In California, the new players learn limit poker and most of them don’t have a chance in no-limit.

They learn to play hands in limit holdem like second pair and draws, and you can get eaten alive in no-limit with that kind of play.

Plus, they only have one move when they play no-limit: They’re afraid to play out a hand. So, when they play no-limit, they just put in their whole stack in situations where an experienced player might make just a decent little raise and get more money out of a person.

You see, the whole idea in poker is to maximize the money that you can get out of a hand. But these new guys are ramming and jamming when they get a big hand, playing limit style.

They’re so afraid of the draw outs that they’re used to getting in limit that they just put in all their chips and put somebody to the test on every hand… which is not the way to do it, because people just throw their hands away.

Say that you have $10,000 in front of you. You have two queens and some guy bet $10,000 before the flop. He might have aces or kings or A-K. You’re going to throw your queens away.

Why takes the chance?

Just throw the hand away and wait to pick up another hand. These types of inexperienced bettors aren’t going to get paid on their good hands.

These are the types of things that road gamblers have learned; they aren’t things that you pick up from reading books at home.

I can remember one time in the World Series when I had two kings twice during the first two hours of the $ 10,000 championship tournament. Both times, I made a little raise and was re-raised, and I threw the kings away before the flop.

And both times, I was right: Mike Allen showed me aces on both hands. I knew the player and so I knew the kings weren’t any good. It’s very hard to lay down two kings; it’s easier to play queens because you can get away from them easier than you can two kings.

But then, I remember a time when I blew it at the Hall of Fame. There was one guy at the table that I didn’t know. It was the first hand that was dealt, and I was in the big blind with the K-9 of diamonds in an unraised pot. The flop came 7- 2-3 of diamonds.

This guy led off and bet from the number one seat, the fellow on the button called, and I raised right there. The guy in the one-seat moved all in, and the man on the button (who had turned a set) called.

Ordinarily, I would have thrown away my hand. The only player that I didn’t know was the guy who moved all in … and he had the A-J of diamonds in his hand. So, I went broke on the hand and went out first in that tournament.

Do beats like that cause players to steam, I wondered.

No, I never steam. I might steam on the inside, but I never let other players see it. But I remember one time when Phil Hellmuth got knocked out of the Diamond Jim Brady tournament.

A velvet rope was connected to two poles at each door so that people couldn’t wander into the room. Phil went on a dead sprint and tried to leap over that rope, caught his foot on rt, and went tumbling out into the room.

Another time during a limit holdem tournament at the Diamond Jim Brady, the whole room was completely packed, and you know how much noise there is in a tournament room like that.

A Mulatto girl came into the room wearing a dress with cross hatches down the back of it cut all the way down, real low. She was an beautiful woman. She walked over to talk with Jerry Buss, and the whole room went silent, totally silent.

When she finished talking with Jerry, the entire room started clapping … in the middle of the tournament. In contrast, I was in a tournament at the Normandie one time when I saw an older lady pick up her hand to look at it up closely, had a heart attack, and keeled over dead.

The two tables around her caused some commotion, but the other tables didn’t even stop playing… nobody even noticed. But this girl stopped the whole room!

Do players prepare for tournaments?

When I’m taking my shower in the morning, I think about a few things, devise a plan. Then my wife, who’s with me most of the time, gives me a kiss and says, 'I love you and good luck.’ Then she says, 'Now, concentrate and don’t do anything foolish. Catch some cards.’ It’s the same thing each time.

T. J. also plays in tournaments other than no-limit and pot-limit holdem, including seven-card stud, Omaha, Omaha high-low split, and lowball.

I never used to play stud tournaments, because being from Texas and seeing what things can be done with a deck, I never liked a game where the same person always gets the first card like they do in stud. I’ve run into enough cheats and mechanics in my lifetime who could win every pot if the right guy was dealing.

And, of course, most of the players in a stud tournament play the game every day, so I wouldn’t play in one. But we were back in Foxwoods and Phil talked me into playing the $5,000 satellite for the seven-card stud tournament, and I won it.

Then I finished fourth in the tournament, and he said, 'Now you’ve got to play in all the stud tournaments.’ So, in the first 12 stud tournaments that I played, I won one, had two seconds, two thirds, and a fourth-place finish.

Today, he no longer feels unkindly toward stud.

You that there’s nothing going on in stud tournaments like there used to be in some of the ring games. Except for the year that Larry Flynt played in the tournament at Binion’s when he tried to buy off the table. He had a big bet with Doyle, something like $1 million-to-$ 10,000 that Larry couldn’t win the tournament.

When it got down to three or four tables, Larry tried to buy off some of the players and did buy off some of them by getting them to throw off their chips to him.

But Jack Binion had gotten wind of it and he had Dewey Tomko watching the table for him from the side. He saw what was going on, and Larry Flynt was never allowed to come back and play in the WSOP. Of course, none of this poker stuff was in the movie about Flynt.

I was curious about how T. J. opened his repertoire of poker games to include Omaha and Omaha high-low split.

The first time that I ever played limit Omaha, I won the WSOP title. I had never played limit Omaha, although I had played a lot of pot-limit. But tournaments are tournaments. You use the same process in every game; you work yourself up to the final table.

Final table play is the same, no matter what the game is. So, if you have a knack for playing the final table, you have a chance to win. I know a lot of players who can get to the last table, but very few of them know how to play it once they get there.

Of the tournaments that T. J. has played over the years, there have been only two or three times when he hasn’t placed in the top three in at least one of them.

Usually, he scores at least one victory in each tournament. The Place finishes that he makes “pays the freight,” takes care of his tournament expenses

Is it difficult to maintain a stable relationship when you Play poker professionally?

My poker playing is my job, and I separate it from my life outside the poker room. I cannot understand people who can play poker three or four days in a row and then can’t wait to get right back to it again … they don’t have any other life.

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I used to play steady in Dallas, five days a week, strictly no-limit hold'em against the best players in the world. Players used to come from Vegas and everywhere else to play in that game.

At least once a week, we had over $100,000 on the table. This game was played every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; there was another game that was played on Tuesdays and Thursdays. You could play at noon every day, and then again at 7:00 that night.

So, I would play until 5:00 each night, go see a movie, and then go play the evening game, unless the first game was so good that I didn’t want to leave it. I followed that schedule for years; and I never played on the weekends.

When poker is your profession, you treat it like a job. But for some players, poker not only is their vocation, it’s their avocation as well. You need some balance.

When they are at their home in Dallas, T. J. doesn’t like to go out in the evenings. He enjoys golfing at the country club and then meeting his wife for dinner after he leaves the greens.

She likes antiquing and taking care of their home.

“Joy is my support. She never sits right by me at a tournament; she sits in the background. She’s right there and she knows that I know she’s there. I look over and smile at her, or if I’ve lost a hand, I’ll make a little expression that she recognizes. She doesn’t know anything about poker, but she knows that if I move all of my chips in and then get the pot back, I’ve won; but if I don’t, I’ve lost.”

She does all the book work and takes care of the business end of things.

When he and Joy went on their honeymoon, they spent a few days in New Orleans. While Joy went antiquing, T. J. went to the track and won $5,000 on the horses.

From there, they traveled to Tampa where they went to the dog races and won another $3,800.

“After all our expenses were paid, we came home $5,000 ahead,” he laughed.

In what other profession in the world, I thought, can you go out for an evening’s dinner and entertainment, play some poker along the way, and come home with more money than you started with?

“Yes, but in what other profession can you work all day long and come home losing for the day?!”

Considering that he is one the most feared players on the tournament circuit today, T. J. comes across as being quite modest about his accomplishments.

“I wouldn’t say that I’m modest, but I’m not the type to go around saying, 'I’m the Louisiana Man.’ I feel in my own bones that I can play with anyone, and I don’t fear anybody alive.”

That feeling of confidence without the drawback of ego involvement may be the combination that gives T. J. his edge at the poker table.

Like so manypoker playersand tournament winners that I have interviewed, T. J. admits that he doesn’t have that same edge in every gambling game that he has played.

Even the best has a few leaks in their gaming activities.

I’ve had a lot of holes that I’m trying to patch up. I love craps and over the years, I’ve lost a lot of money at it. I used to love to run to the crap table all the time and, of course, that hurts your side play because it’s so much faster than the poker.

But now if I play craps, I never go to the table with more than $400, no ATM card, nothing like that. I’ve made several scores of over $50,000 off of $500, but if I go to the table with $20,000, I don’t win a single bet!

So now, playing craps is a once-in-awhile thing for me,“ It’s just another of the lessons that T. J. has learned throughout his career. The rest of them, he has down pat.

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At Gryffindor Common Room

Riley: where were you?

Lucas: Hi Riles. What are you guys doing still up?

Riley: Did you found her?

Farkle: Did her friends hurt you?

Lucas: No. Why would you say that?

Farkle: well, your lips are swollen. So you either had a fight or-

Riley: or what?

Farkle: You found her did you?

Lucas: I did found her. And we talked and yes, we kissed.

Farkle: I knew it.

Riley: Wait a minute. She mocks you, makes a fool of you, makes you fail potions and now you kiss her? Are you crazy? Why would you kiss her?

Lucas: I didn’t fail potions, at least not yet. And I kissed her because... I think I’m inlove.

Riley: You can’t be serious!

Farkle: You don’t choose who you fall for. Is like your heart makes the call. Your brain doesn’t get a say in it.

Lucas: Exactly. I mean, I was so mad at her, like an angry bull, and then she looks at me with those eyes and I turn to this fluffy loving bunny and all I want is to be close to her and kiss her again.

Farkle: lets go to sleep. Is late and we have early classes tomorrow.

At transfiguration

McGonagal: Today you will turn this toad into a bunny. Is a gentle movement. Up, circle and down while you chant “cuniculi”.

Lucas: Seems easy.

Farkle: For you maybe. You know I don’t like transfiguration

Riley: Just because of the animagus blood on your family. I would kill to be animagus.

Farkle: yeah yeah. You wouldn’t say that if you turned into a toad or a worm or something gross.

Riley: Yeah... you’re probably right. I would love to become a bunny tho.

Farkle: Please, you wouldn’t last a day. Bunnys are food.

Riley: They are not

Lucas: That’s what my brother’s piton used to eat.

Riley: what does it eat now?

McGonagal: Would you three please stop bickering and focus on your task. I would hate to take points off from my own house.

At lunch Maya and Lucas keep on glancing towards eachother. They both smile and blush.

Zay: What are you doing?

Maya: Eating. What else would I be doing at lunch?

Zay: Don’t play dumb. I’m talking about you all smily and cute. You’re flirting!

Maya: I’m not. Shut up!

Zay: So... you and Texas muffin?

Maya: Maybe...

Zay: Has he asked you to the Yull ball?

Maya: Not yet. But I bet you he will.

Riley: I can’t believe you. She treats you like a pest and you still go after her. You must be under the influence of something.

Lucas: She’s so beautiful. And she’s not that mean once you get to know her.

Farkle: C’mon Riles. Cut him some slack. The man is inlove.

Riley: Please... I bet you she’ll put a hex on him. If she hasn’t done it.

Farkle: You are not sugesting...

Riley: Maybe she used a love spell or love potion.

Lucas: She wouldn’t do that.

Riley: Like she hasn’t mess with your potions before...

Farkle: She does has a point Luke. What if it’s true?

Lucas: I can’t believe you guys. I’m inlove and if you were really my friends you would be happy for me.

Farkle: We are your friends. That’s why we worry about your safety.

Lucas: I’m gonna ask her to be my girlfriend.

Riley: I can’t believe you. That girl has been nothing but trouble for you. I find it hard to believe you’ll fall for a bitch that fast. She’s playing with you.

Lucas: I’m not even going to answer that. Don’t you ever talk like that about her. I’m not hungry anymore.

Lucas left his table very angry. Maya notice and followed him, they reached the owlery.

Maya: Hey. What’s up?

Lucas: Owls. Of all shapes and colors.

Maya: I know dork. I mean, what’s up with you? Why are you upset?

Lucas: Have you talked to your friends about me?

Maya: Not really. Just Zay knows. And I didn’t even told him.

Lucas: When are you going to tell them about us?

Maya: I guess I was hopping they’ll notice on their own... you know... at the ball...

Lucas: Oh yes. The yull ball.

Maya: So... are you gonna ask me or should I ask you?

Lucas: Would it look bad if I wanted you to ask me?

Maya: No. Do you wanna be my date to the yull ball?

Lucas: No. I wanna be your boyfriend at the yull ball.

Maya: Wow. That was unexpected.

Lucas: So... is that a yes or a no?

Maya: Don’t you think is a little soon?

Lucas: Seriously? After everything I’m going through? Is this some sort of game to you?

Maya: Why are you acting like this? What’s the rush?

Lucas: I just ditched my friends for you! What more do you want from me?

Maya: I didn’t asked for anything! I really like you Lucas, but this is new for me. I need time to figure things out.

Lucas: what things?

Maya: I’ve never felt this... this things for anyone before. I don’t even know what it is. All I know is...

Lucas: what?

Maya: I wanna kiss you... all the time. And I think about you a lot and you make me blush. And I don’t blush!

Lucas: oh gosh. I wanna kiss you too. All the time. I go crazy thinking about you. I wanna kiss you right now so bad.

Maya: Then do it. Kiss me.

Lucas: Only if you say it.

Maya: Say what?

Lucas: That you’ll be my girlfriend.

Maya: Are you seriously not gonna kiss me until I accept?

Lucas: Yes.

Maya: That’s just mean.

Lucas: I learned from the best.

Maya: Fine. I give up, you win.

Lucas: What do I win?

Maya: I want to be your girlfriend, and I want those lips of yours on mine right now.

Lucas: your wish is my comand.

Lucas kissed her for a little while and then they parted ways to attend their next classes. Lucas didn’t speak to his friends all day untill after dinner.

Farkle: You’re still mad at us?

Lucas: A little. Is hard to be mad when you are so happy.

Riley: What’s got you so happy?

Lucas: She said yes!

Farkle: Yes to what?

Riley: The Yull ball of course.

Lucas: Not only the ball.

Farkle: You asked her! Didn’t you? You have a girlfriend!

Lucas: Yes, the most beautiful there is.

Riley: This is ridiculous.

Farkle: This is amazing. We have to celebrate this.

Riley: I’m too tired. I’m going to bed. See you guys tomorrow.

Lucas: At least one of you is happy for me.

Later that week, at breakfast

Farkle: So, what’s with your girlfriend?

Lucas: What do you mean?

Riley: He means that she’s acting like she doesn’t knows you.

Lucas: Well, she hasn’t told her friends about us yet. We’ll wait untill the yull ball next week to make the anouncement.

Farkle: oh... So, is a secret relationship for now?

Lucas: Yes. Well not so secret. Some people know.

Riley: Yeah... just us three I bet. You deserve better than to be someone’s dirty little secret Lucas.

Lucas: Its not like that

Riley: Yes it is! She hasn’t even look at you all morning. She’s been talking with that Billy guy all the time.

At potions Billy comes near the table where Maya and Lucas are doing their porions quietly

Billy: Hey Hart. Do you have an answer for me?

Maya: I already told you No.

Billy: C’mon. You gotta dance with someone

Maya: I will dance with someone. A very special someone.

Billy: Everyone knows you and I are going together to the ball.

Lucas: Dude, back the hell off. She already said no.

Billy: And what is the lap dog gonna do about it?

Lucas: How about kicking your ass?

Snape: Mr Ross, Mr Friar. My office, dettention after class!

Billy: This isn’t over Friar!

Lucas: You are in for hell a surprise!

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I need to know a cheap place around here that is under $80 for three people. I tried looking it up, but where I am staying at right now the Internet sucks on my phone. I'm 20, my parents are over 50. And we live in Cleveland, Tx So, I guess what I'm asking is if someone can look up a cheap place for me.""

Can you get auto insurance with policy dated back a couple days?

I got a ticket for 5 over, I have a clean record but no insurance, can I buy insurance that will back up that date. It was sat the 14th""

What does it cost too get sr 22 insurance?

just need to know a ball park fig

Do I need Liability insurance?

I live in So california, and just brought lots In Texas,Arkansas and Utah.The lots are vacant land. Im being told that laibility insurance might be wise. is there someone out there who knows for sure.""

Question about car insurance?

a friend of mine parked his car in another friends shed.The car was an 18 yrs old golf.The problem is that the car went on fire and took shed and all.When the owner of the shed checked his insurance he had it under insured.My question is though should the car insurance cover the building of the shed and its contents?The grand total would be 23000 euro.The shed and contents were only insured for 3000euro and the car was only insured for 800euro?

What to do when rental car got damaged and I dont have insurance?

I rented a car from Enterprise and declined their insurance. I had credit card insurance. However I made a blunder of not initiating the rental in that credit card. While driving the rental car the tire blew out and the car hit the median and there is some extensive damage to the car. I am in deep trouble now as my credit car insurance will not work as I didnt initiate the car rental in that card. Is there any way that I can salvage this situation? Please help!!

How much would lowering my mileage by 5k save me in california?

So being a teenager(19) and a male with a ticket I'm paying around 900 for insurance. Tickets my fault I accept the punishment. However, I switched jobs and After calculating distance I'm only going to be driving around 5000 miles rather than the 10 on my insurance. Just kind of curious how much the mileage drop could save me since my insurance agency isn't being much help.""

How much would I pay for car insurance?

I am a male, 24 years old (turn 25 in july), student.... what is the cheapest car insurance you think I can get?""

What's the song from the new progressive motorcycle insurance commercial?

it's a rock song

Gettng bike insurance in chennai?

am from chennai..want to take 2 wheeler bike insurance..used bike..2006 model pls advise me on best insurance company that offers reasonable rate.. i currently have united insurance policy,but feel it is costly""

Difference between term life insurance and permanent policies?

My insurance company is offering a term conversion credit if I switch to permanent insurance. What's in it for them, and what is permanent insurance? Whole life? Any benefits for me to change?""

How much will it cost to insure my business?

It's a grocery delivery business. I have a few drivers. I am concerned about the following: Protecting employees while they are driving/delivering, Protecting my customers from any negligence or criminal activity done by my employees, Insuring inexpensive (about $5k each) delivery cars""

Will simply getting an STI test raise insurance rates?

I was wondering if any doctors or insurance professionals know as fact if insurance rates will increase if someone goes to their primary care physician to get an STI screening, even if they test negative for everything.""

Cheapest car insurance company?

i am 27 years old have a pretty good driving record with only 2 violations (speeding, and stop sign) in the past few years. i have a 2000 chevy silverado (strip model, 2 wheel drive, nothing to steal on the inside with 120k on in only worth like 3,000) i only want liability no colision insurence. does anyone know what company through experiance gives the best quotes? i onlly need bear minumum on this truck and only drive it part time.""

Gerber life insurance company?

is this even worth doing has anyone ever done this...i need feed back and ideas i have a one year old little boy and i want him to have something to fall back on when he gets older, weather its college or whatever The insurance says they can cash it out for the premium. So should i sign up or just get him a savings account?""

Am having two different auto insurances on two different cars but are both in my name.Is it legal?

I have 2 cars, I just bought one cash. So I already have full coverage on one car and its paid for 6 months, and I want to add insurance on the other but with a different insurance company because it is cheaper and I will be getting only liability. Is it legal to be carrying different insurances or are they required to be both with the same company? I live in Texas! Thanks in advance!""

""I have a DUI, I had an SR-22 filed with my insurance company. My insurance never went up, is that normal?

Am I required to carry some sort of form?

""Im wanting car insurance, what would be the best one for me?""

I am buying my first car, and getting a 1996 BMW 318i , im 18 years old, have a restricted licence, havnt had any driving convinctions or crashes and I live in NZ, Im just wanting to know what insurance would be best for me either Full or 3rd party etc, and how much that would roughly cost""

How does car insurance work? do u have to pay for it monthly?

i'm buying my first car and am confused as to how car insurance works. i know its better to have insurance before driving your car off the lot but how does insurance work? do you pay insurance monthly liek you do for a car note?

Teenager's auto insurance?

i'm 17 and will soon be recieving a car from my aunt. it's a '92 poniac bonneville se. i want to figure out some insurance rates but some of the information they are asking for i'm not comfortable putting on the internet (like my soc. number). are there any teen drivers or parents of teen drivers would would be willing to share their rates and companies with me?

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Moped/car insurance question!?

hey i have just turned 16 and im thinking of getting a moped but what i want to know is if i had been riding a moped for a year, would i then have cheaper insurance when it came to insurning a car when im 17, seeing as i would of already experianced the road etc or would it make no difference? thanks""

Student health insurance?

I recently got acceptance from California State University,Fullerton for my master degree and i need to have a health insurace to enroll for classes. Medical benefit is at least US 250.000$ per condition The medical evacuation benefit is at least 10.000$ The repatriation benefit is at least 7500$ What is the cheapest company supplying this conditions for cheap?""

Does State Farm charge higher auto rates for older drivers?

Does a low deductible plus an older driver result in higher charges for auto insurance coverage for liability and collision rates? The driver also has a clean driving record.Thank you for your response.This is for North Carolina.

""Which is worse: increased taxes, or a high insurance premium?""

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2009-09-15-insurance-costs_N.htm for some reason, I'd pay any tax to fund socialized medicine thrown my way rather than pay $13,375 a year for a family of four. and you'd be crazy not to yourself. and besides...the tax would never be 4,824, which is the average a single person pays per year.""

Car insurance.. new driver 4x4?

Does insuring a larger car such as a 4x4 (not neccesarily a new one)... cost a lot more for a very new driver?? How much more?

How much money insurance can offer my car severely damage in accident 1999 Mitsubishi diamante 132000 mileage?

some one hit in front while i was waiting to traffic pass , i have aaa and they have state farm insurance.""

Finding the cheapest Medicare Supplemental Insurance?

I'm looking for a good resource to find Medicare Supplemental Insurance, including quotes. Can anyone help?""

How much does it cost to get a license to sell insurance?

How much does it cost to get a license to sell insurance?

""Moving to CO from another state in a month, how do I go about switching my car insurance? ?""

I'm under my dad's insurance now (AAA).. it's his and my car on his policy. I was told by them that once I cancel it, it'll take effect immediately and be taken off the policy. I'm moving to CO on the 18th of next month and want my new insurance (USAA) to take effect on that day. If I start my policy for that day and cancel the AAA the same day, will AAA pro-rate June's insurance so I don't have to pay for the full month since my car won't be insured by them for that whole month? I just don't want to get stuck paying the bill twice in one month for both companies.""

No car insurance california get fine reduced?

I bought a used car from the highway patrol (crown victoria) and i gor pulled over on the way home for no license plate. I got a ticket for no insurance how can i get it reduced or get out of it? I did get insurance the same day with Allstate when i got home. And dont leave a hole answers please

How much is insurance on a Vauxhall corsa for a 17 year old?

Im thinking of buying one so roughly how much would it cost for insurance?

What are my best options for self-employed health insurance with maternity in Illinois?

I am leaving a well paid corporate job with great benefits to work for myself. I was recently married and my wife wants to have children soon. She does not have benefits through her job so I need to ensure we are covered well. What are some great options for affordable health coverage in Illinois that includes maternity and what's the time frame before maternity coverage kicks in?

Question about pitbull insurance in VA?

How much is insurance for a pitbull in Virginia?

How can I become an Insurance claim adjuster in California?

Ive searched and searched for classes offered, or forming but there seem's to be non of that offered so how can i get my foot in the door to become a claim adjuster? it seems as if its a catch 22, because jobs that are hiring for trainee adjusters or in house adjusters need you to have experience but there seems to be no way to get your foot in the door. Ca someone guide me towards the right direction? Thanks""

Insurance for dummies(life insurance)?

Please help . I took out a life insurance policy about 8 years ago it is a whole life insurance policy and has some cash value .I recently discovered I have a group life insurance policy at work . Should I keep both or cash in the whole life insurance policy which is worth about 11,000 in coverage and 1,100 in cash value . The work policy is worth about 65,000 in coverage and 0 cash value""

Car insurance and finance question?

I bought my car on finance a month ago and had to have Fully Comprehensive insurance for it. It is very expensive - if I were to drop to third party F&F, would they find out? If they did what would happen?""

How do i take out a car of my insurance?

So my brothers car got repo and i wanted to take to out of my insurance but the lady says i cant wtf

What insurance companies will insure a dog in California with a prior bite history?

My two dogs were involved in a fight with another dog last year. All three dogs were bitten, and my homeowners' insurance paid out a claim. They have now sent a notice of non-renewal and I am having trouble finding an insurance company that will write a new policy. Does anyone have any suggestions for an insurance company or broker in California that can help? Thank you!""

No insurance and Pregnant in Florida?

Hey everyone.. im 19 and i just found out last night that there is a good chance of me being pregnant. I took two tests last night and they both came out with a faint pink line and a dark pink line. Now i dont have medical insurance, but im a part time student and i work full-time but my job doesnt offer any insurance coverage. Everyone keeps telling me that i need to go to the docot but i dont know what do do next if i dont have insurance. I' m in Orlando Florida so if anyone can help give me advice on what i should do next id realllllyy appreciate it. Thanks!""

Is it legal for car lot to hold my check from insurance?

I had a wreck a couple weeks ago and told me I could come pick up my check today from insurance. When I got there to fill out the paperwork and pick up the check they told me it wasn't ready and that they will have to send it to the car dealer (Express Credit Auto) so they can take out what I owe and they give me whats left which I do not have a car now and the check was to get me another car, which I told them and all they said was to use what is left to get another car by them. Which I just want my check so I can get my car, I told them I will still be paying my bill for the car but they then said it is illegal for the insurance to give me the check when they hold the lien to the car. I don't know what the legal side is, can anyone help me??""

Cheapest insurance for vauxhall corsa?

i brought one of those old cheap vauxhall corsa 1.2 L. for first car. anyone know where i can find cheap insurance? i tried all the comparisons sites, but there giving me stupid prices over 2500. the car is a old banger and its not gona cost no more then 300 to fix. am 24 years old.""

Is this typical for insurance for a 17 year old?!?

I just bought my first car Saturday. My dad went to the DMV to get it registered and insured. Then, he called our insurance company to get a quote for how much driver's insurance is for a 16 year old female. If you take driver's ed, watch a state farm video, and have a G.P.A above 3.0, comes to.... $88 A MONTH!!!! That's with driver's ed, and a G.P.A above 3.0! Now my parents are really upset, 'cuz that's thousands of extra dollars a year--not on gas, not on the vehicle itself...Just insurance! They're not sure I can get my license now b/c of it. This really frustrates me. I will be 17 in a couple months, and I really, really, really want to get my driver's license. I have a car, I'll buy the gas, but the insurance is astounding! So my question is, is $88 A MONTH typical for other companies/ or in other states (We're in AZ).""

Can you drive someone else's insured car without YOU having your own personal insurance in Ohio?

I'm 17 and i get my license the 26th. My mom is now paying off my car but i do not have insurance yet. Is it legal for me to drive hers or anyone else's car that has car ...show more

My friend and I got tickets for rolling right thru a stop sign. Will insurance go up even if we dont get a pt?

So, a line of cars got tickets for 'rolling right through a stop sign'. We are considering just paying the fine and taking traffic school, so then we wont get a pt on our licenses. But will the ticket still count toward raising insurance rates if we dont get the point? What do we do if we take the traffic school thing online? Do we need to take the certificate anywhere when we pass? We live in California.""

How much will my mom's car insurance go up after I crashed her car?

I'm almost 19, got my license about 8 months ago now. I was in a drive-thru going only 10 KM an hour at most and accidentally rear ended a car after I panicked and accelerated. My mom's car definitely had the most damage done. All of the other people involved only had slight dents or scratches. I think the damage is around $3000. I know my mom has really good insurance and I'm pretty sure it's no-fault (and it happened on a private property). How likely is it that her insurance will go up? Oh and for the record my mom has NEVER had a ticket or been involved in an accident before. Stupid me.""

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Parents of Teens Drivers insurance question?

I wanted to ask parents who have teen drivers. how much extra did it cost when you added your teen to your insurance??

How much is car insurance?

on average how much is car insurance for a female aged 17?

How long can you take leave for NJ short term disability?

I've been at my current job since December so I am ineligible for FMLA. However, I understand that short term disability for pregnancy gives you 4 weeks prior to your anticipated due date and then 6 weeks after. Is this correct? Can this amount of time change if your company uses a private insurance plan vs submitting directly through the state.""

How much would insurance cost me on this car?

im 22 heres the link thanks http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280280977518&_trksid=p2759.l1259

Car insurance quote?

I am a 17 year old boy in Texas I just bought a white 1999 Pontiac Grand Am GT 2 door Paid with Cash I've never had a ticket or anything on my record Does anyone know about how much my insurance will run?

Can you put a relative from another state on your insurance plan?

I live in North Carolina and my Dad lives in Texas. I am going to college close to my mother who current ly insures me. I am not going to have a car for probably 2-3 years, and will literally never drive my moms car when I am at home, but my mom is paying a large amount of money to be on her plan. The insurance people said that you have to be more than 100 miles away from her to be taken off because there is resonable doubt I would drive. I was wondering if state laws allow for me to be insured by my dads plan in Tx, if so, would it cost a lot to be on his? If thats not possible, is there anyway to be taken off my moms or to not be insured at all?""

Insurance for teens ?

I just recently got my g2 and I was just wondering if I can drive with out insurance and if not what are the consequences if I get caught by the police. And can I drive on the highway with out the assistance of an experienced driver. Btw I live in Ontario, Canada.""

What would the price of insurance be for a 16 year old male after going through drivers ed and taking the...?

behind the wheel license test through the school? I am getting my license in a couple of days and wondering how much it would cost just in case i have to pay for it. We have a 2004 trailblazer, a 1999 grand prix, and a 2000 ford ranger. I get good grades and im not sure what else you need to know. Im in az. Im wondering because i cant put my info on the internet for a quote so i just want a ballpark monthly price.""

How much does it cost for 2 door car insurance?

Getting my second car soon...found a 2006 honda civic LX...this is a 2 door car (coupe) verrryyy nice and I need to know what insurance would be monthly/yearly for this. I'm still on my parents insurance- 19. Female. No accidents; tickets. North Carolina. College Student. Please help. Thank you.

How much will my insurance go up in Georgia?

ok so i recently got a ticket for going 45 in a 25 in georgia i am 19 years old and i am living with my parents and i am on my parents insurance. i am insured on 4 cars full coverage 2005 dodge ram 2010 lexus hs250 a 2005 ford expedition and a 2011 ford mustang v6 this is my first ticket i have ever gotten that has given me points any help would be great thanks

Can i get classic car insurance?

I have a 65 mustang so i know for a fact it will qualify, but im 17 (18 in a couple of months) and i dont know for sure if they cover people my age. I know that it comes with restrictions but all i will be driving it for is to school and back so that doesn't concern me. also it would be helpful if anyone can reccomend a decent insurer.""

Can you help me with Car insurance?

I need a car insurer but I would like to deal with a UK call centre as I feel a bit more at ease, this is my first car,please help.""

How much will my auto insurance go up(rough idea) if I get a job where I would use my car?

Just curious what range it might fall in. My premium with state farm is very low, about $70 a month with full coverage on a 1994 3000GT. Milage would be like 125 a day.""

Can I save money by canceling my insurance and just driving my girlfriends car?

I got a DUI earlier this year, and naturally, my insurance rates went way up. I'm getting ready to move in with my girlfriend, and we are planning on selling one of the cars. If I sell my car, couldn't I just drive her car and not have to pay the high insurance rates? This seems underhanded and like I'm cheating the system. What are the rules and stipulations with this sort of situation.""

Car Insurance Question?

Hi, im 16 and 17 in August living in Ireland, and i'm thinking of buying either a Honda Civic 1999-2001 or a Honda integra 1998-2001 aswell, i'm a guy and i'm wondering how much it'll cost to insure either one of them, and also what car is better""

Cheapest Car insurance?

what's a good starter car insurance for someone who is just getting their license and dosnt want to spend alot. What is the cheapist insurance that you can get. All the comercials for car insurance say that their insurance is the best but i dont know which one accually is the best...

How good is military insurance(Tri-Care) for maternity care?

My husband is in the military. I've never used the insurance, but I will need it now that I'm 6.5 weeks pregnant. How's the coverage?""

16 year old insurance drive sports car?

I have found a Toyota Corolla that I REALLY love! It's the perfect car for me, cheap, low miles, good mpg. My only concern is it's a sports version. It will be my first car, so I have NO insurance right now, and I am wondering if they will even insure me for this. My brother has a ford mustang Coupe, and he is under liability. But I'm wondering what my place would be if I got a Toyota Corolla. Will I be able to be insured or not? Thanks for reading!""

How much would car insurance be for....?

a 16 year old driver in PA monthly? with a used car?

Looking for affordable health insurance for the sefl employed?

i cannot find any affordable insurance and i need assistance

Which company deals with indemnity title insurance for remortgaging?

I want to remortgage my property and have been given an offer by a lender, however I can't complete without indemnity title insurance. Norwich Union no longer does title insurance due to the credit crunch, is there anyone else who can help me?""

What auto insurance to get?

Im 17. Drive 1993 bmw 318is e36 black Car title is on my name Still live with parents Barely make 500 a month and still need to get new paint job and new tires. Ive calculated and turns out thats around 1k. So what auto insurance would be good for me? At least so it covers the damage done by me to other people.. not to expensive please. East Tennessee

Are insurance payments for turboed cars high?

I am 17 and I am going to get a car soon. I want to get a '95 Nissan 240sx with a sr20 swap from my dads friend. I know it seems like a lot of car for a 17 year old but I've driven turboed cars before and can handle the power, so please no rude comments. I really want this car but the only thing that concerns me is the insurance payments. Will they be really high because it is a turboed car? And because I'm only 17?""

I am looking for a srs surgeon who accepts insurance?

my employer now pays for surgery but i cant fing a surgeon who accepts insurance. any ideas?

Free health insurance for 20 year olds.?

Hi I am 20 years old and I need to see a doctor, Is there a health Insurance in California for me? Or is there a health insurance that I can see a doctor with while waiting for it to take affect, maybe an insurance that doesn't take 30 days to see if you qualify? please help me.""

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