#like ive been in since 9 so now i have to work a split shift đ
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
i need to stop feeling bad about calling out cuz itâs clear my coworkers never feel bad when they do đ
#iâm just annoyed lol#coworker who works the evening shift called out like 20 minutes ago and i was asked if i could work the evening shift but im already hereâŚ#like ive been in since 9 so now i have to work a split shift đ#i know its not my coworkers fault shes sick but man đđđđ#everyone always calls out sick or whatever but i never do cuz i feel BAD#but iâm over itttt i really gotta stop feeling bad when i do -_-
0 notes
Text
as it comes up on five years since ive been into jojo i want to try explaining the like. effect itâs had on my life. and there are a lot of ways i could do this but i think the way that is the most succinct while being the most clear is this:
when i was five, my teacher would have us kids practice our fine motor skills and counting by having us write the numbers 1 through 100 on a piece of paper. makes sense right? good way to get two birds with one stone. however the work is kinda boring once you get into the rhythm of it, so kid me, in order to keep it interesting, began kinda assigning personalities to the numbers.
zero was wise and old, a mentor figure, and one was a studious apprentice to it. two and four were good friends. three was in love with four and was kinda a ânice guy.â five and six were doomed brothers (five became a little evil). seven was shy and in love with two. eight and nine were evil, the villains of the âstory.â and so on
as i grew up i stuck heavily to the personalities assigned to these numbers and it heavily influenced a lot of things ive done/thought: my favorite number, how i chew, how i walk up or down stairs, how i shift my weight, my age, the year. even how i play sudoku: to this day i make sure to never end on an âevilâ number (3, 5, 8, or 9) cause some part of my hindbrain considers it bad luck
nothing has been able to challenge my original notions of these numbers from bad to good, or from good to bad: not even a god i believed in at the time being associated with three changed my impression of it; not even four being considered a death omen changed my impression of it
all my life ive held onto my original perception. it has been unshakeable all of my life
however, now, jojo is nine parts. part nine is the final part araki will do. as such, jojo is now split in ninths forever
jojo will always be associated with nine now
i no longer hate nine
nine doesnt feel friendly to me like two or four or six are, but it is an ally. itâs changed its tune. i can rely on it now in a way i literally have never been able to all my life before, all because of jojo. i can end on a nine in sudoko now
a god couldnt convince me to change my mind about numbers, a centuries long multicultural tradition couldnât â but jojo ends on a nine, and i love jojo. so i must love nine. and i do love nine. i will always love it now
hope this makes sense. jojoâs done insane shit to my neurodivergent brain
10 notes
¡
View notes
Text
So Iâm already thinking about how Iâm going to do a Star Wars rewatch once the Rise of Skywalker comes out on DVD or streaming. Mostly, Iâve been thinking about the order I watch the movies.
I know George Lucas favors the idea of going straight chronological, but Iâm not a big fan of that. For one, IMO, the Prequels drag in parts, and I donât really want to wait for somewhere between four and six hours to get to my favorite characters.
Also, I think the jump in filming technology and techniques is jarring, even beyond the whole âgoing from a wealthy society into a dystopiaâ idea.
And I like to keep the impactful âLuke, I am your fatherâ moment intact. Obviously I know the secret. But when I watch the Original Trilogy over again, thereâs always a split second where I convince myself I donât actually know that. I canât do that if I start with the prequels.
At the same time, I donât really like going in production order either. For one, going from OT to PT ends things on a downer note (admittedly, a bit alleviated by the Sequel Trilogy). But also the in between movies like Rogue One and Solo donât really have any sort of real impact where they are. I donât feel like watching Rogue One between TFA and TLJ really adds to the experience (beyond the fact that itâs a good movie.)
But some years back, someone got me into the âmachete orderâ, in which you watch the OT and PT as: 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 6. And that really worked for me. So Iâm modifying it to include the other movies. (The tv shows are a rewatch for another day.)
So this is my proposed order:
1. Rogue One
I never thought Iâd start with anything but A New Hope, but Rogue One does an amazing job of setting up the universe and the stakes. Itâs grim, gritty and shows the Empire as the terrifying dystopia it is. Itâs also pretty non-mystical. Chirrut and Baze are more subtle types of force devotees. Thereâs a nice peek at the Force as a religious element for ordinary people, not just Jedi. We get a context for the world Luke will emerge in, and we can contextualize why heâs so important. Also it makes Leia in A New Hope even more badass.
2. Episode IV: A New Hope
Pretty self-explanatory. I always start here, because it always feels the most fresh and new. Thereâs no baggage, and we learn the universe with Luke. This effect still works with Rogue One as a prologue, I think. And Rogue One adds context of letting us glimpse the Death Star from the point of view of the victims. And it gives a face to Bail Organa, personalizing Leiaâs loss more. But the introduction of the Jedi, the Force, and Lukeâs burgeoning connection with both is gradual.
3. Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
I will NEVER willingly put this after the Prequels. Ever. I already explained why. But the first time I encounter the idea of Vader being Lukeâs father should come here, when Luke learns of it.
4, 5, 6:Â Episodes I-III: Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith
That said, this is the perfect time now to introduce this trilogy, in which we get to see the human side of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader. This is our first chance to see what exactly was lost when the Empire took over: we can appreciate the great spectacle of the Old Republic: the races, the costumes, the luxury and the scope. Many Prequels advocates argue that the Star Wars universe feels the most grand and open and expansive during this time and I think theyâre right. And itâs on purpose.
The visual shifts work great here. Â Weâll have gotten used to the low budget look of the OT/Rogue One, so the Prequelsâ visual splendor will be even bigger. Â And then when we go back to ROTJ, weâll really appreciate how the low budget aspects reflect the fall of the society.
This also has the advantage of minimizing the flaws of the Prequels: particularly the dialogue. The concepts are good, Iâve always said. But I think everyone can agree that there are some issues with execution. But if we put the prequel trilogy here, it gets this almost mythic quality. The parts that get a little cartoonish, or hackneyed, are kind of glossed this way. The prequels are a flashback, an emotional memory of Darth Vader and/or the Force itself, and so maybe not everything in it is 100% literal. We remember emotions and the gist of conversations better than we remember exact dialogue.  (And the actors do a great job with the emotions of the events)
This way, we ride the emotions. And the only reveal we ruin is that Luke and Leia are twins. And honestly, that reveal in Return of the Jedi was always a little disappointing. If we watch this way, the reveal comes when Padme gives birth. We expect Luke. We donât expect Leia. OMG!
7. Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
Now this is the GENIUS of the machete order. Because whatever you say about Return of the Jedi as an individual movie (criticize it all you like, youâre wrong though. :-D), as a conclusion, itâs phenomenal. And when you watch it in this order, right after Return of the Sith, then Return of the Jedi plays double duty here.
You have the first thread: in which ROTJ wraps up the story of Luke, Leia, Han and the Rebellion.
And you have the second thread, in which it wraps up the story of Anakin, Palpatine, and the Old Republic. Lukeâs triumph brings ALL threads home to roost.
I can see why Lucas argued for chronological, since ROTJ is an amazing conclusion. But straight chronological kind of ruins Lukeâs own arc. An encapsulated flashback allows us to keep the momentum of the OT, add the PT for context, and wrap up both with a neat little bow.
8. Solo
Full disclosure. I havenât seen Solo. @Ragnell really loves it and I trust her taste. But my interest in Star Wars was a bit of a nadir. It looks like fun though. Not deep. Â
Iâm tentatively placing it here. I know it chronologically takes place first, but the tone doesnât seem right for leading into the OT. And it also doesnât really fit between Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi. We canât go from high emotion to fun and back like that.
But from everything Iâve seen and heard, this would work perfectly as a story that Han (or maybe Chewie or Lando) tell to Luke, Leia, maybe even little Ben. The more absurd parts could maybe be glossed away as part of the story, rather than literal. Unless itâs more fun to assume it did literally happen, and Han is getting teased relentlessly for it.
Either way, a bit of levity is good before...
9, 10, 11: The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, The Rise of Skywalker
My final thought after the Rise of Skywalker is that I liked it. I wonât deny thereâs a lot to criticize. And a lot of the behind the scenes stuff is very ugly. But in terms of a story and a conclusion to both this arc and the whole shebang, it worked for me. Iâll be interested to see how it influences my read of the Last Jedi.
Having Solo before TFA seems like it fits, given that Han is the member of the original trio with the largest role in that movie. And thereâs kind of a nice bit of poetry here that Leia is the first member of the trio introduced in Rogue One, and sheâll be the last we see (alive) in the Rise of Skywalker.
Now, the only catch is going to be finding the time to actually sit down and watch. But at least I ought to be able to rope @Ragnell in as well.
(Iâm leaving Clone Wars, Rebels, and the Mandalorian out of this line up, for a few reasons: Mainly if I tried to insert them into the movie line up, theyâd definitely disrupt the flow. And I wonât be able to finish in one weekend. For me, the tv series count very much as supplemental canon. Like a book of short stories that connect to a novel series. They deserve to get their own follow up weekend(s), instead.)
#star wars#it's possible I spent way too much time thinking about this#but I like to plan my approach#I am the editor of my own experience
10 notes
¡
View notes
Text
How Many Registered Republicans Are In The United States
New Post has been published on https://www.patriotsnet.com/how-many-registered-republicans-are-in-the-united-states/
How Many Registered Republicans Are In The United States
Chart 1 And Table 2: Nationwide Party Registration Trends Since 2000
Since 2000, the nationwide proportion of registered Democratic and Republican voters in party registration states have both gone down, while the percentage of registered independents has steadily grown. The latter has nearly reached the nationwide percentage of registered Republicans, which has long been second nationally to the Democrats. Altogether, the combined number of registered Democrats and Republicans, which was 77% in October 2000, is now down to 69%, while the proportion of registered independents over the same period has increased from 22% to 28%.
Note: Based on active registered voters in states where the number of active and inactive registrants is listed. In the election-eve 2000, 2008, and 2016 entries, Independents include a comparatively small number of registered miscellaneous voters who do not fit into a particular category. Percentages do not add to 100 since the small percentage of registered third party voters is not included.
As A Successful Republican New Mexico Governor 2016 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson Pronounced That He Had Slashed Taxes More Than A Dozen Times Balanced The There Are Many On The Left Who Support The Libertarian Partys Proposals To Legalize The Liberal Use Of Marijuana
39.66 percent of voters are registered with that party. The most recent poll at the time of writing gives a d+11 advantage. Even if youd rather not commit to any particular party, you may find yourself wishing to support a specific democrat candidate when primaries come around. Once you know which party you belong to, it will be easier to decide which candidates to vote for during elections. This quiz will ask you questions about your political beliefs. However, registered republicans outnumber democrats in six of the states 21 counties, and there several other counties that are pretty evenly split. Over 60% of black voters are registered democrats compared to just 3% that are registered in surveys, more than half of seattle voters identified as democrat or leaning democratic. The answer may surprise you. Are you a democrat or a republican? Are there more democrats or republicans who top that list? The election of 2010 gave republicans the majority beginning in january, 2011. These are broadly generalized opinions; There are still way more registered democrats;
The election of 2010 gave republicans the majority beginning in january, 2011. Hello and thank you for registering. It was a more natural association. related: Are there more democrats or republicans who top that list? The republican party has waxed and waned in popularity and membership over the years, never quite having as many registered partisans as the democrats.
Democrats Have 12 Million More Registered Voters Than Republicans
UVA Center for Politics Larry Sabatos Crystal Ball posted the latest numbers of registered Democrats, Republicans and Independents in the 31 states that require party registration to vote. Democrats and their friends in the media have been great at getting people to register as Democrats .
Democrats lead the GOP by 12 million registered voters in states that are key in the mid-terms.
Its not good news for the GOP in the mid-terms. Important states now have more registered Democrats than Republicans, and in many, its by a significant amount.
Democrats now account for 40% of the registered voters in those states, Republicans are only 29% and Independents account for 28 percent. Its shocking when one considers they are successfully running on high taxes and spending, a loss of freedoms, Stormy Daniels, and open borders.
There arent many states that are solid red and many are close to becoming blue.
It gives Democrats a decided advantage.
VENEZEULA, HERE WE COME
Its concerning when you consider states like North Carolina and Colorado now have more Democrats than Republicans and others like Arizona are close. We can thank the invasion of leftists coming in from foreign nations for some of this. Certainly, it is what changed California. Foreigners loyal to their native lands are deciding our policies.
THE CHART
Gallup: Democrats Now Outnumber Republicans By 9 Percentage Points Thanks To Independents
I think what we have to do as a party is battle the damage to the Democratic brand, Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison said on The Daily Beasts . Gallup reported Wednesday that, at least relatively speaking, the Democratic brand is doing pretty good.
In the first quarter of 2021, 49 percent of U.S. adults identified as Democrats or independents with Democratic leanings, versus 40 percent for Republicans and GOP leaders, Gallup said. The 9-percentage-point Democratic advantage is the largest Gallup has measured since the fourth quarter of 2012. In recent years, Democratic advantages have typically been between 4 and 6 percentage points.
New Gallup polling finds that in the first quarter of 2021, an average of 49% of Americans identify with/lean toward the Democratic Party, versus 40 percent for Republicans.
Thats the largest gap since 2012:https://t.co/YpUvqBKxLx
Greg Sargent April 7, 2021
Party identification, polled on every Gallup survey, is something that we think is important to track to give a sense to the relevant strength of the two parties at any one point in time and how party preferences are responding to events,Gallup senior editor Jeff Jones told USA Today.
More stories from theweek.com
Our Ruling: Partly False

The claim in the post is rated PARTLY FALSE. The tweet that appears in viral Facebook posts cites correct vote totals for Trump and Biden . But it falsely reports the number of registered voters. More than 159Â million registered voters cast ballots in the general election, out of 239 million eligible voters. So it is completely possible that Trump and Biden would post that many total votes.Â
This Marks The First Time Since Party Registration Began Republicans Are Also More Than Three Points Off Where They Were Four Years Earlier In 2004 When 3279 Percent Of Voters Were Republican And
Phoenix there are more registered democrats than republicans in arizonas congressional district 1, according to voting registration data recently analyzed by dataorbital. For decades, the word conservative have been synonymous with orange county. 39.66 percent of voters are registered with that party. There are now more registered independents than republicans, marking a first for the u.s. Ballot harvesting, a surge of illegal aliens from the southern border and middle eastern refugees resettled in orange county by obama has shifted the. Immigration policy is about a lot more than just border enforcement or ice raids. Since 2012, more voters have chosen not to register for either. Republicans and democrats are the dominant political parties in the united states of america. But today, a survey by ballot access shows there are more registered independents than republicans, perhaps a sign that political parties. According to the register, there are now 547,458 registered democrats versus 547,369 registered republicans. It is not a straightforward question. The county has had experienced shocking losses during the 2018 midterms where democrats controlled. Suppose there are 1000 white americans in total.
Or was it just low turnout that allowed marijuana to get legalized there?
But that doesnt mean everyone votes for their party.
There are now more registered independents than republicans, marking a first for the u.s.
Dapatkan link
Gop Registration Drop After Capitol Attack Is Part Of Larger Trend
WASHINGTON In the weeks since the January riot at the Capitol, there has been a raft of stories about voters across the country leaving the Republican Party. Some of the numbers are eye-catching and suggest that the GOP may be shrinking before our eyes, but a closer look at the numbers over time shows that a larger change has been working its way through the party for some time.
In fact, when one takes into account shifts in the composition of the Democratic Party, the real story seems to be more about a deeper remaking of the nations two major political parties.
To be sure, the headlines from the last few weeks have been striking, with multiple states reporting large declines in Republican voter registrations.
In Pennsylvania, more than 12,000 Republicans dropped the âRâ from their registrations in January. In North Carolina, the figure was close to 8,000. In Arizona the figure was about 9,200 through late-January. And in one county in California, San Diego, more than 4,700 Republicans left the party last month.
Those are sizable changes and they are much larger than the moves away from the Democrats in those places, but they come with some caveats. There are always some losses and gains in registrations for the Democrats and Republicans. Partisan identity can be fluid for a large chunk of the voters, and remember: just because a voter is registered with one party doesnt mean he or she always votes for its candidates.
Closed Primaries Are When Only Registered Democrats From January 2007 To January 2011 There Were More Democrats
This quiz will ask you questions about your political beliefs. Ive seen a lot where it says theyre a registered democrat . 39.66 percent of voters are registered with that party. The most recent poll at the time of writing gives a d+11 advantage. It is not a straightforward question. Prove it by acing our democrat or republican quiz. What republican and democrats believe. Lets start with this example. Altogether, there are 10 states with more registered independents than either democrats or republicans. For example, in kentucky1 as of 8/15/2018, 49.8% of registered voters are democrats while only 41.6% are republicans. The analysis in this report draws on more than 10,000 interviews with registered voters in 2017 and tens of thousands of interviews conducted in previous years (see. Being a registered democrat or republican, or for that matter socialist, green or independent, simply means that when you filled out your voter registration form you checked that box on the form. There are many pressing issues in.
Party Affiliation By State
Party affiliation by state Switch to:State by political party
% of adults who identify as
Democrat/lean Dem. Sample Size
Sample size = 511. Visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.
Alabama
Since Democrats And Republicans Appear To Have An Inexhaustible Appetite For Political Friction In The United States The Words Democrat And Republican Are Widely Used To Mean The Two Major Lets Take A Closer Look At Where These Two Words Came From And How They Came To Be Used In The
Altogether, there are 31 states with party registration; Eric rauchway, professor of american history at the university of democrats seized upon a way of ingratiating themselves to western voters: How many wars were initiated by democrats since the beginning of the usa? Republicans were able to fend off challenges from democrats trying to flip control of state legislatures in key states. Results seemed to follow what was set out by prediction polls, with the democrats seizing control of the house of representatives and the republicans maintaining the majority in the senate. Republicans who worked with democrats were traitors in the war for seats in congress. Since democrats and republicans appear to have an inexhaustible appetite for political friction in the united states, the words democrat and republican are widely used to mean the two major lets take a closer look at where these two words came from and how they came to be used in the. Republicans opinions carry less weight. How many democrats, republicans, and independents are registered? Voter registration and participation are crucial for the nations democracy to function properly and for the us government to provide fair representation. So, perhaps i should start with a story. Democrats did see a boost in 2008 when former president obama was elected, hitting a peak of 43.62 percent of registered voters. Democratic supporters accounted for 35% of the electorate.
Immigration Policy Is About A Lot More Than Just Border Enforcement Or Ice Raids
Glancing at the graph above, it looks like the number of unaffiliated might even be higher than the number of democrats by the 2020 election (the triangle markers along the top edge of the graph denote the. For decades, the word conservative have been synonymous with orange county. Orange county, long a republican stronghold, has officially turned blue. Short answer, more democrats than republicans, but the largest group, by wide margins, is neither. The county that nurtured ronald reagans conservatism and is the resting place of richard nixon is now home to 547,458 registered democrats, compared with 547,369 republicans.
In 2021 Republicans Will Have Full Control Of The Legislative And Executive Branch In 23 States
Democrats and independents grow more diverse since 2008. According to gallup.com about 42% of voters claim to be independents. There is a big difference between a state, for example with 7000 registered greens, which had a net increase of plus 200 where 201 new voters registered in to the greens and only 1 left, compared to a situation in the same state where 5000 voters newly registered green but at the same time 4800 left the party. Currently, republicans have 51 seats, and democrats have 47 with two races still undecided. San francisco 62.61% modoc 54.46% santa clara 29.92% Their partisan affiliation was roughly split between three groups: How the county has changed since this time last year: Democrats will have full control of the legislative and executive branch in 15 states. There are roughly 55 million registered republicans. There are 517,562 registered democrats this year in allegheny county, compared to 520,135 in 2016. The counties with the 10 highest percentages of democratic party, republican party, and no party preference registered voters are: According to data from ballot access news, independents make up 29.09 percent of registered voters, while republicans make up 28.87 percent and democrats make up 39.66 percent. In 12 states, there are more registered republicans than democrats.
For The First Time There Are Fewer Registered Republicans Than Independents

For the first time in history, there are more registered independents in the United States than there are registered Republicans.
It may not be for the reason you think, though.
New data from Ballot Access News, which tracks registrations in the 31 states that require voters to register by party, shows that independents account for 29.09 percent of voters in them, compared with 28.87 percent for Republicans. As recently as 2004, Republicans outpaced independents by nearly 10 percentage points.
There are still way more registered Democrats; 39.66 percent of voters are registered with that party.
This marks the first time since party registration began in the early 1900s that the number of registered independents in the United States has surpassed members of either major political party, according to Ballot Access News.
Heres the data going back to 2004:
But before anybody chalks this up as having to do with the current occupant of the White House, its worth parsing the trends.
While independents have surpassed Republicans, there actually hasnt been a huge drop in GOP party registration since President Trump took office. Since October 2016, GOP registration has dropped by half a percentage point. The number of registered Democrats declined by nearly a full point over the same span. Independents have benefited from both drops.
Who Is Richer Democrats Or Republicans The Answer Probably Wont Surprise You
Which of the two political parties has more money, Democrats or Republicans? Most would rush to say Republicans due to the partys ideas towards tax and money. In fact, polls have shown about 60 percent of the American people believe Republicans favor the rich. But how true is that? Â can help you write about the issue but read our post first.
Key Point From This Article
Altogether, there are 31 states with party registration; in the others, such as Virginia, voters register without reference to party. In 19 states and the District, there are more registered Democrats than Republicans. In 12 states, there are more registered Republicans than Democrats. In aggregate, 40% of all voters in party registration states are Democrats, 29% are Republicans, and 28% are independents. Nationally, the Democratic advantage in the party registration states approaches 12 million.
Voter Registration And State Political Control
This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
The state Democratic or Republican Party controls the governorship, the state legislative houses, and U.S. Senate representation. Nebraskaâs legislature is unicameral, i.e., it has only one legislative house and is officially non-partisan, though party affiliation still has an unofficial influence on the legislative process.
The simplest measure of party strength in a state voting population is the affiliation totals from voter registration for the 30 states and the District of Columbia as of 2019 that allow registered voters to indicate a party preference when registering to vote. 20 states do not include party preference with voter registration: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The party affiliations in the party control table are obtained from state party registration figures where indicated. Only Wyoming has a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as Republicans; two states have a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as Democrats: Maryland and Kentucky .
At Least 60 Afghans And 13 Us Service Members Killed By Suicide Bombers And Gunmen Outside Kabul Airport: Us Officials
Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabulâs airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. At least 60 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops were killed, Afghan and U.S. officials said.
How Many Registered Republicans Are There
How Many Registered Republicans Are There. However, since then, the republican share of the registration has increased from 28.87% to 29.51%, whereas independent registration has declined from 29.09% to 28.38%. And there are roughly 42 million that is less than 170 million people.
According to gallup.com about 42% of voters claim to be independents. In 2021, republicans will have full control of the legislative and executive branch in 23 states. There are more than 300 million americans. Louisiana, for example, has more than 300,000 more registered democrats than registered republicans . In the coming days, we will take a look at north carolinaâs registered republicans and democrats, respectively.
Which Administration Should Have Been The One To End The Us Presence In Afghanistan
There are more than 10 professors affiliated with the Democratic Party for every faculty member who is a registered Republican, according to a new study.
Mitchell Langbert, an associate professor of business management at Brooklyn College, reviewed the party affiliations of 8,688 tenure-track, Ph.D.-holding professors at 51 of the top 60 liberal arts colleges listed in U.S. News and World Reports 2017 rankings.
Nearly 60 percent of all faculty members were registered as either a Republican or a Democrat, and of that sample, there were 10.4 times as many Democrats as Republicans.
TOP STORIESTexas Supreme Court rules AWOL Democrats may be arrested
The political registration of full-time, Ph.D.-holding professors in top-tier liberal arts colleges is overwhelmingly Democratic, Mr. Langbert wrote in an article published by the National Association of Scholars. Indeed, faculty political affiliations at 39 percent of the colleges in my sample are Republican free having zero Republicans.
There are several shortcomings associated with political uniformity in higher education, Mr. Langbert continued, including biased research and diminished academic credibility.
Studies show that academic psychologists are more likely to study the attitudes and behaviors of conservatives than liberals. They are also more likely to view conservative beliefs as deviant.
There are a few colleges that stood out in Mr. Langberts sample.
More Nevadans Registered As Republicans Than Democrats Last Month Election Officials Say
LAS VEGAS Election officials say more Nevadans registered as Republicans last month than Democrats. Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske reported that the GOP gained 6,580 active registered voters in July.
The Democratic Party added 5,718 active registered voters voters. Democrats still hold a statewide voter registration advantage over Republicans in Nevada, comprising 38% of all active registered voters. Republicans make up 33%.
Unaffiliated voters are 23%. Overall, there are more than 1.6 million active registered voters in Nevada. Inactive registered voters are voters who generally do not have a current address on file with election officials. They are still eligible to cast ballots.
Poll: Persistent Partisan Divide Over âbirtherâ Question
One way that Donald Trump launched onto the political stage five years ago was through his fervent claims that President Barack Obama was not a U.S. citizen. Though Obama has since produced birth certificates certifying his birth in Hawaii, recently, such rumors have been given new life by commentators and pundits on the right. But just how many continue to think the president was not born in the U.S.? And which voters hold such views?
Seventy-two percent of registered Republican voters still doubt President Obamas citizenship, according to a recent NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll conducted in late June and early July of more than 1,700 registered voters. And this skepticism even exists among Republicans high in political knowledge.
To see whether voters believe that Obama was not born in the United States, we asked them about their agreement with this statement: Barack Obama was born in the United States. The chart below shows responses broken down by party identification.
A first look reveals significant and surprising differences between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to their beliefs about Obamas birthplace.
While more than eight in 10 Democrats agreed with the claim, far more Republicans disagreed with the statement than agreed with it . An additional 31 percent of Republicans expressed some doubts about whether Obama is a native U.S. citizen . Only slightly more than one in four Republican voters agreed that the president was born in the United States.
Minor Parties In Gubernatorial Races 1857
The following table includes state-by-state information on when a minor partyâs candidate for governor won at least 5 percent of the vote between 1857 and 2012. In four states , a minor party candidate for governor had not won 5 percent or more of the vote since the 19th century. A total of 17 states saw minor party candidates win at least 5 percent of the vote for governor between 1982 and 2012. The information was compiled by Richard Winger of Ballot Access News.
When did a minor party last poll 5% for governor? State
Ballot Access News
The Claim: There Are Just 133 Million Registered Voters In The Us
The 2020 election season saw record voter turnout across the country. President-elect Joe Biden now holds the record for the most votes received by a presidential candidate, after getting more than 81 million.
Despite losing dozens of lawsuits and the Electoral Collegeâs certification of Bidenâs win, President Donald Trumpâs campaign and others continue to promote falsehoods about the credibility and security of the election.
A Dec. 21 , which pulled a screenshot of a Twitter post, claimed Biden somehow received 22 million phantom votes. The post has over 1,200 shares, as of Dec. 30.
âSimple math: Trump got 74 million votes and there are only 133 million registered voters in the USA,â the claims. âEven if everyone whoâs registered actually voted, there would only be 59 million votes left for Biden. So how the hell did Biden get 81 million votes? 22 million extra?â
The Facebook user who made that particular post has not returned a request for comment from USA TODAY.Â
Another made the same claim without pulling a screenshot from Twitter. USA TODAY has also reached out to this user for comment.
And the Twitter account MSM Fact Checking posted a similar claim on Dec. 18, from which many viral Facebook posts stem.
And then, âJust for complete transparency, even at 65% turnout the total would be just over 138,000,000 voters resulting in over 155,000,000 votes. However you look at it, it doesnât add up.â
0 notes
Text
Destroying The Planet To Save It Chapter 10: That Opium Den Aesthetic

Chapters 1-5Â Â Chapter 6Â Â Chapter 7Â Â Chapter 8Â Â Chapter 9Â Â Read It On AO3
It had been two days since the Quinjet crash, and although Buckyâs ribs werenât entirely back to normal, his ankle was, and heâd be fully healed in another day or two. Â Bucky wasnât the problem. Â Joss was. Â
Sheâd been wanting out of the hospital since the morning after the crash, as though major trauma surgery was some sort of drive-through event. Â She resisted anyoneâs attempts to examine her incision and refused to take any pain medicine, insisting she didnât need it. Â Bucky had to use every trick in his extensive repertoire to get her even to agree to a blood draw to check how she was recovering from her significant blood loss. Sheâd demanded to have her IV removed, in the end negotiating hard with her doctor, whoâd eventually agreed to take it out if she would drink a specific amount of fluid every hour. Â Any less, and it would go back in. Â Bucky had seen bad patients. Â Hell, he was one. Â This was something different. Â
Jossâs second morning in the hospital started off well. Â Sheâd insisted that Bucky go to the hotel where the rest of the team was staying and get a good nightâs sleep rather than dozing in a hard chair at her bedside, so when he arrived in the morning, they both felt good. Â With an impish smirk, he set a silver gift bag tied with a red ribbon on her overbed table before leaning down to kiss her on the top of her head. Â Her hair, loose and shiny where it fanned out on her pillow, smelled fresh and clean after the shower sheâd already had that morning. Â She looked refreshed and infinitely better than when sheâd been admitted; in fact, he discovered that what he had thought were bruises on her face and arms must have actually been leftover mud from the crash, and were gone now. Â
âWhatâs that?â Â She asked, indicating the bag.
âItâs a get well present for you. Â Open it.â
With a smile of childlike anticipation, Joss reached for the bag and put her hand in, pulling out a soft, tissue-wrapped bundle. Â There was a split second after she removed the tissue when Bucky watched her struggle not to react, but she lost the battle the moment she shifted her eyes to him and saw the shit-eating grin he wore. Â
âDamn it, Barnes,â she muttered, but she was laughing too hard for the words to have any bite.
The sleep pants were made of a soft flannel so fuzzy that she couldnât resist rubbing it against her face, despite the fact that splashed all over the fabric was a small cartoon version of Bucky. Â The pajama top was basically a T-shirt, with a left sleeve decorated to look like Buckyâs arm, red star and all, and the same cartoon picture of Bucky emblazoned on the front. Â
She did her best to give him a murderous look, but it wasnât very effective given her laughter and the adorable pink flush in her cheeks. Â Abandoning even the pretense that she wasnât charmed, she got up and went into the bathroom, holding her hospital gown tightly behind her the whole way, to put them on. Â Bucky wasnât sure how he felt about being a cartoon figure on pajamas, but heâd figured Joss was the kind of girl who could take a joke, and her reaction to his gift was even better than heâd hoped. Â
He was pleasantly surprised to see how well she was moving around, especially for only the second day after surgery. Â She was clearly in excellent shape, but abdominal surgery was abdominal surgery. Â It took some time to recover from. Â Still, he didnât spend much energy worrying about it. Â
There was something captivating about the way Joss looked when she emerged wearing a top with Buckyâs cartoon image on it. Â She also looked much more comfortable in pajamas than in a hospital gown. She was smiling widely as she climbed back into the bed, with only a minor amount of guarding of her left side. Â âWould it ruin your joke if I actually think these are kind of awesome?â
âNot at all. Â I was just hoping you didnât already have them,â he needled. Â
She tried another glare at that, with about as much success as her previous attempt. She shook her head as she said, âLaugh all you want. Â I ainât even mad, because these are super comfy, and anything beats the hell out of a hospital gown. Â So thank you.â
âYouâre welcome.â
âStill, next time weâre in a plane crash, can I have Hawkeye ones?â
Buckyâs laugh escaped before he could stop it. Â He didnât want to seem to encourage her, but he really liked the fact that she was such a wiseass. Â âWeâll see. Anyway, you look great in those. Â And I canât believe how well youâre moving around.â
âYeah, I feel fine. Â Arm doesnât hurt at all. Â My side hurts some, but not even enough to need any pain medicine.â Â She frowned. Â âI want out of here.â
âCâmon, itâs only the second day. Â You canât be ready to go home yet. Â We gonna have this problem again today?â
All humor had left her expression suddenly. Â âI kind of wanted to talk to you about that.â
âWhat?â Â He asked, turning his chair a little so he could face her more directly, leaning his elbows on the bed. Â That meant his hands settled naturally on her lower leg.
âBucky, I⌠ I have to get out of here.  Iâm leaving today.  And I just wanted to, um... say thank you.  For everything.  Maybe not for the plane crash, but that wasnât entirely your fault, and you did get me out-â
He completely ignored her attempts to joke. Â âWhat the hell are you talking about?â Â
âIâm leaving here today. Â I need to get home.â
âYou just had surgery! Â Youâre-â
âPlease,â she said, leaning toward him and putting her hands over his where they lay on her leg. Â âJust let me say this.â
âJoss-â
âI canât explain. Â So donât ask me to. Â I just didnât want to leave without saying goodbye. Â I donât suppose Iâll see you again, and I wanted to tell you that, you know, tornado and plane crash notwithstanding, Iâve really loved getting to spend time with you.â
Bucky had known Joss for about four days. Â He didnât claim to know her well. Â But heâd always been pretty good at reading people, and over a life spent in battle of one sort of another, heâd also seen far more than his share of fear. Â Which was why Bucky suddenly knew, beyond any doubt, that Joss was terrified of something. She was actually doing a damn good job of hiding it; sheâd deflected his attention from it for the entire previous day, and right up until this moment. Â But he knew he was right. Â And given what sheâd just said, coupled with the expression he saw underneath her false humor, now that he was looking for it, a whole lot of things suddenly began to fit together in a new shape. Â
Bucky was reminded of a tenement fire heâd seen once in Brooklyn. Â Being typical young boys, he and Steve had gone running to the building to watch, expecting to see some cool flames, maybe some exciting heroics by the fire crews. Â They had seen some of those things, but the thing that had haunted ten-year-old Bucky for months afterward was the looks on the faces of those trapped on the upper floors. Â Grown men had stood in open windows, staring in wide-eyed terror at the flames consuming the rooms behind them, near-paralyzed with fear as they tried to find the courage to jump into the life net spread by the firefighters below.
Joss looked like that now. Â What danger was pursuing her that leaving the hospital far too soon was the better alternative?
âWhatâs going on with you? Â Why would you-â
She just shook her head and looked down at their joined hands.  âJust⌠It doesnât matter.  I just wanted to thank you, and tell you that Iâm glad I met you.  But now I think you better go.  People know who you are, and I donât want you to get blamed for me breaking out of here.â
âDammit, Joss, talk to me! Â Whatâs going on?â
âI canât. Â Letâs not do a whole thing-â
âJust knock it off, will you? Â Quit treating me like a one-night stand. Â Maybe I can help.â
When Joss met Buckyâs eyes again, the fear was unveiled, along with a deep sorrow he hadnât even known was there. Â âIâm sorry, Bucky. Â I meant what I said; I really like you. Â Please. Just go. Â Itâs OK. Â I promise.â
For a long time, they engaged in a silent battle of wills that Joss won by cheating. Â Her large, brown eyes filled with tears. Â âPlease,â she whispered. Â âI need to get out of here before the doctor comes by.â
âTell me one thing.â
âWhat?â
âAre you running from me?â
She sighed before answering in a voice his enhanced hearing barely registered. âNot specifically.â
âWhat does that mean?â
âBucky, I canât-â
âFine. Â Donât tell me. Â But Iâm coming with you.â
âNo. Â Youâre not.â
âEither we both go or neither of us do. Â Iâm not letting you die.â
âIâm not going to die.â
âI know. Â Because Iâm going with you.â
âBucky-â
They both stiffened as they heard one of the nurses greet Jossâs surgeon. Â Jossâs pleading look hit Bucky harder than Steveâs fists ever had.
âYou got shoes?â Â He asked.
*****
Bruce and Catherine had done all the work for which they needed to be in Catherineâs lab at Columbia, and both needed a break from the solid days of research theyâd been doing. Â So on their way back to the tower, they took the opportunity to have lunch at a place Bruce liked nearby. Â
âThis looks like a place youâd go,â Catherine mused, gazing around at the small, dim Thai restaurant with floor-to-ceiling partitions between each booth. Â The atmosphere was hushed, partly because there were few customers, and partly because the floor was thickly carpeted and the partitions were covered with fabric that absorbed sound. Â
Bruce looked around, a slight furrow between his eyebrows. Â âIt does?â
âOh, I like it, donât get me wrong. Â Itâs got a sort of opium den aesthetic. Â And Iâm pretty sure if they were ever asked, everyone here would swear theyâve never seen you before.â
Bruce just grinned shyly at his lap. Â
âBruce⌠ I want to ask you something, and I donât know how youâll feel about it.  Do you mind if I ask how things are going for you? With, you knowâŚâ
âMy little problem?â
âWell, if you want to call him little.â
He actually smiled a bit at that.  âIâm⌠working on it.  Always working on making it stop, but also trying to figure out-â  He stumbled over what he meant to say.
âWhat?â Â She prodded gently.
âWell, heâs⌠useful sometimes, you know?  I mean, there are some situations where a pissed off nine-foot, green beastie comes in awful handy.â
âLike with the Chitauri.â
âFor one example.  So, I mean⌠Iâm not so sure now that getting rid of him entirely is the right end goal.â
âSo controlling him, then?â
He sat back, pulling at his already-mussed hair in a way that made Catherineâs heart ache. Â âWell, thatâs the problem. Â I think thereâs a reason alcoholics just quit drinking entirely. Â Eliminating a threat seems a hell of a lot easier than controlling it.â
The waiter arrived then, and Catherine watched Bruce as he ordered, just letting herself appreciate the unruly curls in his perpetually-mussed hair, his soulful, dark eyes and little-boy smile. Â It hurt to look at him, and yet she couldnât look away. Â She realized it and wanted to berate herself for indulging in the adolescent pastime of wallowing in her insipid emotions. Â Sheâd mercilessly mocked all those young girls crowded together to scream and cry whenever the Beatles appeared anywhere in the 1960âs. Â Yet here she was, doing basically the same thing. Â Bloody prat. Â Next, sheâd be driving by the tower at night to see if the lights in his lab were on.
Bruce had introduced Catherine to Thai food in London. Â Sheâd never been adventurous when it came to food, and back then, sheâd thought that all Thai food had to be spicy enough to burn a hole in your clothing if you spilled any. Â Heâd wheedled her into trying it, which wasnât hard with his irresistible pout. Â Besides which, sheâd been so lost in love with him sheâd have done it just because he wanted her to. Â Once sheâd tried it, she quickly came to like it as much as she did, and theyâd sought out great Thai places wherever they happened to be, including Thailand once. Â
In fact, theyâd had Thai food on the night her world was destroyed. Â
Bruce had been in London working with a team using the radiation facilities at Brunel University. Â It had been a glorious two weeks; Bruceâs research was going well and Catherine had been able to indulge her desire to spoil him rotten the entire time heâd been staying in her flat. Â
That day, a Friday, was the last day Bruceâs team had use of the Universityâs equipment, which meant Bruce would be leaving for the U.S. the next day. Â Not wanting to miss one second of the time theyâd had left, and knowing it was getting toward the end of her workday, Bruce had surprised Catherine by being in her office when sheâd returned from a meeting. Â She could feel his impending departure in her bones, so seeing him in her office, looking rumpled and adorable while avidly reading a technical journal he had no business understanding, she hadnât taken her eyes off him even as she locked her office door behind her. Â
He stood then, meeting her in the middle of the small room where their mouths met, their kisses sweet but demanding. Â They held each other close, stroking and touching almost immediately. Â There was nothing frantic about the way they removed each otherâs clothing; they were tender with one another, but they both had a definite destination in mind. Â That destination was apparently standing with Catherineâs back to her heavy wooden desk, one leg wrapped around Bruceâs waist as he pumped into her. Â Catherine was still wearing her bra and Bruce his shirt, although it was completely unbuttoned.
Sheâd teased him on the way to dinner that he should order water to stay hydrated, given that she wasnât done with him for the night. Â Heâd laughed and dropped her hand in favor of putting his arm around her as theyâd walked into one of their favorite Thai restaurants in Islington, just off the High Street. Â Theyâd laughed all through dinner, putting a brave face on their imminent separation, like always. Â
It happened when they left the restaurant. Â It was still early, maybe seven Oâclock, as they walked toward Catherineâs flat, arm in arm and chatting animatedly about Bruceâs research and paying no attention to anything around them. Â It wasnât even fully dark, but the men had been hiding in the shadows of a small walkway between two blocks of flats, waiting for someone just like Bruce and Catherine to come by. Â When they did, each was grabbed by one of the men and pulled into the dark of the walkway, shoved against one of the buildings and held there while a third threatened them with what looked like a butcher knife. Â
Bruce was ready to hand over anything they wanted.  Heâd begun to explain to the guy with the knife that he was reaching for his wallet.  But Catherine had no such ideas.  Her fury at being accosted, and the fear she tried to hide behind it, made her mouthy. Something she said, sheâd never know which foulmouthed insult, flipped a switch in the one holding her.  He grabbed her by the shoulders, shook her  and then threw her back against the wall, smashing her head against the brick and knocking her half-unconscious.  She slid down the wall, leaving a smear of blood.  But the guy, entirely unhinged at that point, began to kick her and pummel her with his fists.
Through a red haze, Catherine saw only dim, confusing movement.  But she heard English voices.  First angry and threatening, then confused, then terrified, and finally screaming before going silent.  Through it all, she could hear Bruce⌠ What?  Shouting? Maybe at first.  But after a few moments, the noise he made could only be described as roaring.  She had an impression of something â it seemed to be a person, but it was too big â moving quickly and throwing things.  People. Throwing the men who had attacked them.
And then she was being lifted off the ground by impossibly large hands that felt more like stone than flesh, except that they were warm. Â And green. Â
She shook off some of the lethargy threatening to engulf her, screamed and began to try to struggle, but the massive green⌠man?  Jumped, with her in his arms, from the alley to the roof of one of the three-story buildings on either side of the little walkway.  At that point, she decided she must already be unconscious and dreaming or hallucinating, or whatever one did when one was unconscious.  So she quit fighting it and closed her eyes, giving in to the onrushing darkness.
Sheâd awoken in a hospital bed with the worst headache sheâd ever had and Bruce sitting in a chair next to her, refusing to look at her. Â It had taken a moment to realize that he was crying. Â
She couldnât remember anymore what heâd said to her, the words heâd used to apologize, over and over, and to promise â as though she wanted it â that she would never have to see him again. Â But she would never forget the sound of his voice. Â The pain, the unspeakable shame, the regret and horror as heâd confessed his wretched secret. Â Sheâd tried to tell him that she loved him anyway. Â That she would face it with him, because he was worth everything, and anything was better than losing him. Â Sheâd begged him to stay, to listen to her, to trust her. Â He hadnât heard a word. Â
In the end, sheâd been sobbing and pleading even as he made his tearful exit from her hospital room, vowing never to put her in danger again and swearing that he would stay away from her. Â When her nurse had rushed to her bedside and seen the state she was in, her doctor had given orders to sedate her and call in her family.
Catherine blinked, suddenly finding herself in New York, almost three years later, with Bruce sitting across the table smiling quizzically at her.
âHuh?â Â
âItâs your turn to order,â he said. Â âWhereâd you go?â
âOh, I⌠ Yeah, I⌠ Sorry, I wasâŚâ She wasnât about to tell Bruce that sheâd just been remembering the night she met the Hulk and lost the love of her life. Instead, she looked up at the bored waiter and ordered the first thing she could think of.
*****
Even the early risers in the Villa didnât get moving until mid-morning, so no one blinked when Sam and Anitaâs first appearance downstairs occurred at almost noon. Â In fact, that was the reason the staff made breakfast by request until eleven, when they set out a sumptuous, buffet-style brunch featuring cold seafood, made-to-order omelettes, and a full array of morning-after drinks. Â Sam and Anita both opted for Bloody Marys, very quietly asking the bartender to add only a splash of vodka.
If anything could convince them that nothing was surprising or off-limits at one of Jarman Ariasâs house parties, it was the amused good cheer with which Arias greeted them. Â
âOh, itâs so good to see you two happily reunited this morning,â he crowed, smiling delightedly as he placed a hand on each of their shoulders in a loose approximation of a group hug. Â
Sam looked awkwardly down and took an ostentatiously large drink of his Bloody Mary. Â âYeah, look, Iâm sorry about last night. Â I get a little crazy when I drink sometimes.â
âNonsense, nonsense,â Arias laughed. Â âWith a woman as beautiful as Anita, any man would feel as you do.â
Sam cocked an eyebrow, apparently impressed. Â âYouâre somethinâ, Arias.â
âWellâŚâ Arias shrugged, failing miserably to look humble. Â
âListen, do you think we could just forget about last night? Â It wasnât my finest moment.â
âSam, my friend, itâs forgotten. Â We wonât speak of it again.â
âGood, because I was wonderinâ, as many diversions as you got around here, you ever do any business during one of these things?â
The change in Arias raised the hairs on the back of Samâs neck. Â He shrugged, but the predatory look in his eyes was unmistakable. Â âAt times. What kind of business did you have in mind?â
âOh, I donât know,â Sam answered, running a hand behind his neck as though he was uncomfortable and unable to hide it. Â âI just thought we might have a conversation. Â A quiet conversation.â
âIâm intrigued. Â Why donât we spend some time together this afternoon? Â I like to practice my golf swing when Iâm here. Â Do you golf?â
âIâm not sure you could call what I do golf, butâŚâ
Arias laughed heartily. Â âThen meet me on the driving range. Â Weâll see if we canât improve your swing. Â Say two Oâclock?â
âIâll be there,â Sam beamed. Â
Arias then turned his attention to Anita, who smiled beatifically at him, but remained at Samâs side. Â âMy dear, you look beautiful this morning.â
âThank you, Papi. Â Youâre not mad at me?â Â
Sam wouldnât have been mad at her if she took a chainsaw to his dog, if she looked at him like that. Â
âOh, mi flor, youâre a paisa. Â Our blood runs hotter than othersâ. Â Of course I understand.â Â She positively glowed as he took her hand to kiss it. Â âBut. Â If youâll excuse me, I must see to my other guests.â
Sam and Anita watched him hustle to the side of a couple, both of whom looked much the worse for wear, whom Anita told Sam were a Bolivian rock star and his model girlfriend. Â As if in response to a signal, Sam and Anita set their drinks down and turned toward the villa. Â As they tried to look casual sauntering across the patio, Sam unbuttoned his shirt and Anita removed the brightly-colored wrap covering her red bikini. Â
The villa was built on an artificial hill so that it overlooked the beach and commanded a spectacular view of miles of green-blue ocean. Â The main patio and lawn were on one level but, on the other side of the villa away from the beach, a lower level opened onto a spacious parking area. Â Sam and Anita had both independently discovered that the security hub of the house was in a corner of that lower level. Â Arias had given Anita a tour, and one of the guests, a telenovela star, had drunkenly shared with Sam that more than one of the important guests at the party were in thrall to Arias because the surveillance controlled from that room had given him ample material for blackmail over the years. Â After that, Sam had made sure to meet one of the men the telenovela star had told him was part of the team who did the monitoring.
Sam wasnât sure he was up to this part, but he was game. Â He was about as straight as a man could be, but he figured flirting was flirting, and he was a grand master, if he did say so himself. He knocked on the door from the outside to the security room as he opened it and stepped in, Anita right behind him.
âCan we come in?â Â He smiled broadly as he ignored the fact that he was already there.
âOh⌠ Sam,â a young, reddish-haired man said, stumbling up from his chair in front of a bank of monitors and grinning uncomfortably.
âHey, Keith. Â You said I could come by. Â Now a bad time?â
âNo, itâs⌠ Come on in.â The man named Keith looked suspiciously at Anita. Â
âThis is my girlfriend, Anita. Â She wanted to come with me, is that OK?â
Keith looked a little disappointed. Â âSure. Â Hey, Anita.â
She smiled happily at him. Â âNice to meet you, finally. Â Samâs been talking about you. Â Heâs right. You are hot.â
Suddenly Keith wasnât so disappointed anymore. Â In fact, he looked both excited and just a little frightened. Sam thought it was cute. Â
Anita winked at Keith and quite pointedly turned her back to introduce herself to the other two men in the room while Sam stepped closer to Keith. Â
âSo, you said youâd show me this amazing system of yours?â Â
âYeah, sure.â
The next fifteen minutes were a delicate dance, while Sam made his moves on Keith, and Anita did her best to make friends with the other two men who were supposed to be monitoring the feeds from the ridiculous number of cameras around the villa. Â Both Sam and Anita got crash courses in the system, although all they really needed to know was the specific locations of cameras in one particular area of the house. Nonetheless, they paid rapt attention to their hosts. Â Fortunately, the two guys Anita was entertaining paid rapt attention to her body straining the tensile strength of her bikiniâs fabric. Â
Eventually, Sam worked his way to sitting on a rolling chair very close to Keithâs, their heads close together as Sam giggled and messed with buttons and Keith giggled back, playfully scolding him and resetting them. Anita leaned closer to her new friends.
âHey, you guys, you think maybe weâre intruding on a bit of a moment?â Â She asked conspiratorially, tossing her head toward Sam and Keith, now whispering something to one another. Â âMaybe we should take a little break, huh?â Â She had their absolute, undivided attention as she pulled a fat joint from her bikini top.
She wasnât surprised to see them agree quickly, especially because she slid a hand down each manâs arm, pulling them sweetly toward her and starting toward the door. Â As she passed through on the way outside, Anita glanced back to see Keith whispering something into Samâs ear, Samâs hand on his thigh.
The marijuana Anita offered the two guards was nothing like what Natasha had offered Santi and the other guards at Ariasâs underground facility in Washington. Â Anitaâs joint was, in fact, from Tonyâs personal stash, and heâd guaranteed that anyone who took more than a hit or two would most definitely not be paying attention to detail afterward. Â By the time Anita and the two guards returned to the control room, she could see heâd been understating things. Â She was intrigued to see that Sam and Keith were actually trading tentative nips at each otherâs lips when they returned, and Sam made sure that Keith wasnât able to pay any more attention than the other two as Anita surreptitiously made a few adjustments to the sequence in which the program shuffled through camera feeds. Â Of course, she did it while leaning over far more than necessary, pretending to show her own targets something on one of the feeds while they goggled at her chest.
A while afterward, Sam and Anita smoothly and reluctantly wrapped up their visit to the control room, leaving all three men in no shape to pay much attention to which camera feeds were, or were not, showing as the monitors cycled through them.
âHow stoned are you?â Â Sam asked, as they made their way from the control room to their next tasks. Â
âJust nicely toasted. Â Iâll be fine when itâs time. Â But Iâll tell you something. Â When this is over, I definitely gotta party with Tony Stark. Â That was some nice stuff. Â It was a damn crime to only pretend to inhale.â
âBe careful. Â I heard he had Snoop Dogg begginâ for mercy once.â
âYou know what? Â I can believe that.â
#The Avengers#The Winter Soldier#Captain America#Steve Rogers#Bucky Barnes#Bruce Banner#Sam Wilson#The Falcon#Clint Barton#Tony Stark
0 notes
Text
THE BEST RECORDS OF THE 2010S PT 2 (THE TOP 10!!!!!!)
if you thought the last post was long, you just wait. ive also decided to actually number this list, but pls keep in mind my opinions change often and drastically so dont think anything is set here.
please read my other post too if you want to know about the records i like a little less than the ones here as well as some honorable mentions
#10: Some Rap Songs - Earl Sweatshirt (2018)Â
This record is a perfect fusion of rap and lofi hip hop. Nobody makes a beat like Earl, and this record is a perfect example. Earl uses his samples to create layered soundscapes of distorted vocals and sounds, paired with his emotionally blunt flows. Itâs short, but it really doesnât feel that short, and frankly I could re-listen to it a handful of times in a row and probably not care that much. Not to sound like Todd Howard, but it just works dude.Â
#9: ăźăăłăłăăč˛ă¨ăăŠăăŽä¸ç  - Mass of the Fermenting Dregs (2010)

According to Google, this recordâs title translates to Zero Comma, Multicolored World. Which is interesting. I wish I knew Japanese just to understand this kind of stuff to be honest. But thatâs besides the point.
Zero Comma, Multicolored World is a fantastic collection of tracks from my personal favorite J-Rock band, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs. Like for context, I got into this band around the same time as I got into Nirvana. I spent the entire summer of 2016 crying to In Utero, playing Overwatch while listening to MF DOOM, and jamming to Mass of the Fermenting Dregs. I managed to find a copy of their fantastic self-titled EP when I was in Tokyo a few years back. Anyways Iâve gotten off track.Â
This record is a breathe of fresh air for those tired of American âalt-rockâ, incorporating elements of shoegaze, post-hardcore, pop, and more to create a totally unique and explosive record. Every member of this band is playing out of their minds on some of these tracks, and lead singer/bassist Natsuko Miyamotoâs vocals are powerful and blend so well with everything else this record offers. At this point in most paragraphs Iâd gush about some specific tracks but I donât have a Japanese keyboard to write the track titles and Iâm lazy, so just trust me and go listen to this record, their self-titled EP, the reunion record No New World from 2018, and their EP World is Yours if anything Iâve said interests you.Â
#8: Fetch - Melt-Banana (2013)
This record melts my fucking brain dude. Melt-Banana is some of the most eccentric and weird music Iâve ever heard, blending noise, punk, and just plain absurdity to create music that I want to simultaneously describe as cursed and blessed. From the wailing walls of pure volume coming from the guitars to the sporatic and often manic vocals, this record sounds like no other Iâve ever heard. My personal favorite tracks are Hive, Candy Gun, Zero, and Schemes of the Tails. Seriously, if this sounds interesting to you, set aside 32 minutes to just appreciate this record. Itâll be worth your time.Â
#7: Joy as an Act of Resistance - IDLES (2018)

On Joy as an Act of Resistance, British band IDLES offers up some of the best punk of the decade in a package that is full of hope, anger, and love. From singer Joe Talbotâs cries for unity in tracks like Danny Nedelko and Great, to self love anthems like Television and Iâm Scum, Joy offers an alternative to their much angrier and sad 2017 debut record Brutalism, which I now realize I forgot to include on my fucking honorable mentions god damn it. Anyways, this record isnât all sweet. IDLES tackles some heavier topics on this record as well, with songs like Samaritans dismantling toxic masculinity, Rottweiler tearing into sensationalist news and media, and the introspective June seeing Joe speak bluntly about his experience being the father of a stillborn. Itâs also some of the unique punk out there at the moment, with jangly guitar âriffsâ, Joeâs accent heavy shouts, and noisey drums. IDLES is definitely a band to pay attention to going into the 20s.Â
#6: Adults!!!... Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!! - Bomb the Music Industry (2010)

Adults!!! is short, coming in at 21 minutes over the course of 7 tracks. And yet, this EP contains some of the catchiest and refined ska punk of the decade. The record acts almost as a condensed summation of BTMIâs entire career, featuring some of the repeated themes that has defined Jeffâs whole discography. Not only that, but some of BTMIâs best tracks are on this EP, from Jeffâs strained vocals on You Still Believe in Me?, to the peppy and depressing Planning My Death, to the defiant Slumlord and the explosive penultimate track, The First Time I Met Sanawon. I could wish it was longer, but Iâll be honest, with the quality of tracks here, I donât care. Itâs a near flawless EP that represents everything I love about one of my favorite bands ever.
#5: The Money Store - Death Grips (2012)
Like Fetch, The Money Store is similarly mind melting in completely different ways. This record is brutal. MC Rideâs âvocalsâ are like no other, with some describing them as the shouts of a drugged up homeless man. Paired with ear bursting, stereo busting beats, and esoteric dark flows, the picture this record paints is one of filth and primal violence. And I love every minute of it. And despite the harsh nature of this record, some of these beats fucking slap. This record features some of the weirdest uses of sampling, like seriously who the fuck finds Arabic Nokia ringtones and thinks âyeah letâs sample these in like half the tracks on this recordâ and make it sound this good. And at times I have no clue how they even managed to make some of the sounds they did. All of this is backed with Zack Hillâs extremely technical and wild drumming. I contemplated putting other Death Grips records in this spot, but The Money Store is the complete DG package. It also has Hacker on it. im in your areaÂ
#4: Teens of Denial  -  Car Seat Headrest (2016)

Iâm a fucking moron and Iâll tell you why. When I initially heard the first few tracks from this record when I was 17, I wasnât that blown away. Like, I added Fill in the Blank, Vincent, and Destroyed by Hippie Powers to my big ass shuffle playlist and didnât bother digging much deeper. Here I am now, 20 years old, kicking myself in the ASS for overlooking Car Seat Headrest for this long. I only gave this album a proper listen to back in January! And I LOVE it! Teens of Denial is a fantastic record, full of complex, multilayered tracks that are not only incredibly catchy, but full of heart and passion. Lead singer and songwriter Will Toledo has voice that sounds equally uneasy and leaking with confidence, and that confidence spills over into every aspect of this record. While not as emotionally intense as their only other studio LP as of February 2020, Teens of Denial is just track after track of some of the greatest indie rock made this decade. Including the songs I mentioned before, youâve also got Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales, 1937 State Park, and the powerful Cosmic Hero. And if you like reading, the narrative of this record is interesting to follow. And while I was working on this list they literally just announced a new record so like Iâm fucking hyped dude.Â
#3: To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar (2015)

Ok. Look. I know everybody is putting this at their #1 spot. And they probably have even more to say about this record than I do. Thereâs probably nothing I can say that hasnât been said a million times by literally everyone. But thatâs just a testament to the quality of this record. This is one of the greatest hip hop records ever made, if not the best depending on who you ask. Some of my favorite rap songs are on this record, Wesleyâs Theory, King Kunta, Alright, The Blacker The Berry, and more. TPAB offers detailed glimpses into one of the biggest rappers in the worldâs psyche and pain, mixed with profound social and political messages. The beats on this record are beautifully mixed with jazz and gospel influences, starting a trend many artists have since continued. And Kendrickâs signature flow from gkmc are at their absolute finest on TPAB. There is something to enjoy out of this record no matter your background, which would explain this recordâs near universal appeal. To Pimp a Butterfly is just full of life, energy, and passion. Itâs weird to think this record is only 5 years old, because it feels just as powerful as it did when it came out.
#2: Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest (2018)
Twin Fantasy is a rare kind of record. The emotions expressed on this record are intense and laid flat out for you to hear, dissect, and empathize with. The entire record being structured around the idea of reflection works both as a fun way to organize a diverse and varied track listing, while also playing into a handful of the recordâs motifs and themes. Speaking of which, each song on this album has a unique identity, both in terms of sound and feeling, and how it plays into the larger narrative of this record. Some songs have multiple tonal shifts, such as the epic Beach Life-In-Death, split into three distinct parts making it a song that, despite its 13 minute run-time, is a song I never grow tired of listening to. What each track shares, however, is the same fantastic songwriting, with layered instrumentals and some of Willâs greatest vocal performances. It also helps that all the tracks are just flat out catchy, like the fantastic Bodies, the chill Sober to Death, and the energetic Nervous Young Inhumans. While the 2011 original is great, the 2018 rerecording adds so much new complexity and clarity to this record. In addition to the original themes, the 2018 version adds new perspectives and meta commentary to the 2011 original, with Will reflecting on the feelings he was experiences at the time he wrote the original record, 7 years afterwards, adding an additional layer to this recordâs larger narrative. The final 22 minutes of this record provides a strong emotional climax to the record, sending off a fantastic and absolutely classic record. Thereâs a good chance that, in 10 more years or so, I may look back at this record and put it above my #1 record. Hell, while I write this I really question whether or not I should do it. What Iâm trying to say is, take that #2 with a grain of salt, because I love this record just as much as my #1 at this point. No record has managed to leave such a profound and strong impression on me this quickly after my first listen a few months ago, besides Twin Fantasy. Because Twin Fantasy is a rare kind of record. Itâs a perfect record. And now itâs time for my favorite record of the decade. Itâs probably obvious what it is considering some of the things Iâve said on this list, so without any more delay...
#1: WORRY. - Jeff Rosenstock (2016)

WORRY. is my personal favorite record of the decade and of all time. It is an absolutely triumphant record. Every song here is a classic. WORRY. radiates pure, unfiltered energy that I havenât been able to shake for the nearly 4 years this record has been out. Songs like Festival Song and Wave Goodnight to Me still get me pumped, and the so called âWORRY. medleyâ that spans the back half of this record rivals the medley of Abbey Road. And the opening track, We Begged 2 Explode, fuck man itâs a hell of an opener. Hell, I know every line spoken on this record. This record is a product of a man who has spent over 20 years perfecting his music, never compromising to trends or demands. Jeff has always been open about what he loves and what he believes in, and itâs no more apparent than on this record. Trying to describe every way in which this record works for me leaves me grasping for the right words to describe the feeling. Itâs a record that makes you wanna chant along to it, move your body to it, and tell everyone you love about it. So just listen to it. I donât care if you donât like punk, or ska, or ska punk, or just garage/indie rock in general, or if my enthusiasm hasnât sold you. This is one of the best records out there and you can either realize it now, or regret it later.Â
I know the record literally says that the perfect sound doesnât exist. But it does. And it sounds like this.
And thatâs it for this list. Iâm excited to see what the new decade brings. If my mind ever changes about these records, or I get around to listening to a record that deserves to be on this list, maybe Iâll do an updated version, but like right now? This is how I feel.
1 note
¡
View note
Text
day 3: its 3:47am on day 4 and i forgot to write my daily post
really really really trying hard to make this a habit (just for april)
so fail but lol
hereâs my post for today
i went to a yoga class tonight in santa clara and it was the yogiâs first time and she was so good omg!
not quite as good as my fave instructor of all time (the bae lauren at moxie yoga in sf)
but yeah kimberly at corepower santa clara square might make me a regular!
(which honestly is super great because i went to class with norma and it was awful LOL)Â (she played like hardcore edm at a chill class??) (to be fair it was also a level 2 class and i was struggling a little and kimberlyâs class was a level 1....)
(oh i went to whole foods in the same plaza right after and ngl im starting to really enjoy just physically being in those fancy ass supermarkets. i went to a new to me nob hill after orangetheory surprisingly also in santa clara ----theyre just nice and clean and beautiful. however spending $45 to get way less stuff than a 99 ranch or something still feels way wrong. i got bananas cashew milk chia seed refill 18 brown eggs (anthony likes the brown ones idk) natural deodorant (cause native has been sucking hard) ginger tofu mushrooms orange juice fancy sprouted bread shredded cheese actually ok when i list that all out its a decent amount for whole foods. the stuff is just smaller yknow like the presliced white mushrooms were $1 for easily like 3 or so oz less)
anyway i find this funny because when i started dating anthony in 2015 he would go to nob hill markets and always claim it was his favorite market (because the chicken he would buy from there would never go bad etc). i thought he was like idk rich af -- to be fair he went to stanford 2x and has his masters and is 2 years older so yeah he is definitely more privileged than me. like i didnt have a preference for cage free brown eggs like i never had the money to spend the extra $1 or 2 on that shit when i was slaving at starbucks AND a second office job.
its really weird how money changes your life. its 2019 and i finally hit the 100k 6 figure mark. itâs honestly been a STRUGGLE to get here, but iâve learned a lot along the way -- primarily that you HAVE to negotiate and generally just get paid more to improve your life. anyway yeah money doesnât solve problems but it generally reduces your mental calories and makes things way more convenient.
before when i was poorer, i would have to go out of my way to make sure i was getting the cheapest shell gasoline in the area (still gotta have standards and not give into that arco bullshit). i would never go into whole foods or places like that because my dollar had to stretch further. whenever i would go out with friends before iâd have to be SUPER mindful of what i ordered and i would be EXTRA annoyed when you go out in a group and when splitting venmo people wouldnt pay the extra gratuity and iâd factor in me covering it because as a barista and server its bs when ppl dont tip well
now -- idgaf if i go out to eat a lot or splurge when im out w friends. dropping $50-$100 randomly cause something is on clearance at lululemon is not a big deal. im not anal about my boyfriend and i splitting everything exactly 5050 down the middle cause meh whatever i dont need to be given money back for like the minimal difference. if whole foods is convenient for me to go to after a workout ill go in without batting an eyelash. Â
it is weird tho being poor and then having money -- like ill go to lululemon but absolutely CANNOT buy anything full price. i still like watching movies but 99% of the time go on discount days cause spending $20 when i could spend $9 feels wrong. whenever i do basic things with my boyfriend, like going to the grocery store or mall, iâm most definitely the most cost conscious -- checking against the value per oz, whereas he just picks whatever and gives no thoughts to it (i think he makes like 240k a year thereabouts, definitely more than double but i dont know the specifics). i drive a 2015 toyota corolla le he drives a nicer but still affordable more luxury sedan hyundai sonata souped up with seat warmers navigation and heâs installed a dash cam and stuff. my car is definitely a commuter car thatâs just one level up from the s basic model. when i htink about buying a new car i dont know if i could buy a lexus but yet i sometimes think about getting a tesla instead of a prius
another weird one is getting mad at myself for leaving reusable grocery bags LITERALLY in the trunk and then having to pay the $0.10 per bag. Iâve easily spent at least $15 on bags prob. Before i would be kicking myself hard cause iâd need to pinch pennies. another thing that ive noticed makes me feel ârichâ is i can sustain my craft coffee/boba habit just fine and not give a fuck. before i got more mindful of it i htink my my coffee boba budget was like $100 a month. ive always loved craft coffee, but it has to be RIGHT if i was gonna spend $6. when i was living w my parents in san diego going to a new coffee shop and driving up to encinitas or whatever was like THE trip. now i get philz off my mobile app whenever i head out of class or if im feeling like it and its not that special
but yeah, im not rich by any means but it was huge to go from like $16 an hour at my office job/$15.70?? w/ benefits I think that was my starbucks shift supervisor rate/annual salaries of 20k ish to $39k at a law firm in downtown sac (grossly underpaid but at least rent was only $300 at a family friends) back to the law firm job up to $70k. there i got a raise at the same job from 70 to 80k and then 80k to 86.
THEN cause i was privileged enough to have been able to save money making more when i hated my job i just up and quit (i think i had like no more than 5k in savings at the time --it wouldve been more but i spent 3k on prk/lasik). anyway yeah i was lucky af and got a new job in a month -- and the offer for this job was 100k base, 10k bonus, some amount of stock (i still suck at this stuff) and a stupid amount of perks like $1000 gym reimbursement and basically free health insurance -- if i annualize all my pay+perks, assuming i get my full bonus, its prob like 120k.
so i have like 5x ed my income in 4 years since graduating from college.
the crazy part is people that were more privileged than me STARTED at 100k as new grads, including 401ks and what not. im lucky becuase i started mine back when i was 18 at starbucks.
income inequality and access to knowledge/resources has become something ive become more aware about and passionate about over time. me and my boyfriend clashed a lot earlier i think because we literally were in different planes of our lives and income levels. weâve been together 3 years, but have known each other for 4. we broke up for 1 year in between -- and yeah ngl had i never improved myself or actually reached my income/earning potential we likely would not have gotten back together. additionally him supporting me when we got back together raised me out of not the poverty level but yeah we met and i made 39k. i took the plunge and moved out to sf for myself and lets be real for him too and made 70k which was a huge jump. and in a short 15 months or so i jumped again to 100k base.
im never gonna make as much as he does (men/women blah we can get into that) but yeah even having access to money adjacently is so powerful. anthony never outright gave me money and im too much of a hardass independent person that ive NEVER borrowed money from him, never intend to. i really vehemently despise the idea of free loading but because of him just being around yeah my life has been improved. Â
when we met in 2015 in our young 20s we were in our have fun phase. i was too poor to have gone to thiings like coachella or out to a concert. he got me into music and made it easy for me to experience because heâd buy the ticket, drinks, pick me up and pay for sf parking. i would likely get dinner ahead of time or something small and generally we would switch so if he got tickets one time iâd get them next. but he ALWAYS paid for drinks and lets be real the occasional not drinks :P he had introduced me to music in such a way that i was willing to drop $800 or so on coachella + car camping + take pto days even when we were broken up 10ish months or whatever it was the first time we dated but if you think about it he likely dropped at least 1k on me during those 10 months without batting an eye lash. i made 39k at the time working in downtown sacramento and he made 90k base (maybe 115k total comp) living in SF.
despite just basic things like me being immature for 23 -- a big reason i think we broke up at the time was the income level inequality. it was both our first jobs out of school (first job out of stanford grad for him, he immediately got his masters out of undergrad). i did a round of uc davis, community, uc davis. Â
he told me he was breaking up with me because when we met i had originally wanted to be a lawyer and then didnt end up pursuing that path and he saw it as a lack of ambition/drive. what he didnt see was general growing up and not having access to lawyers as i grew up, just me working at this really top tier A+ law firm and feeling out of place as an asian woman working with rich WASPs. me wearing pencil skirts and having major impostor syndrome. what he did end up seeing was an insecure version of myself in our relationship with me bending over backwards to make him happy.
when i moved to sf and made 70k it definitely was a huge ego boost to make that additional 30k, but to be real, here in sf and paying more rent than i was in sac and SD/just general living being expensive 70k wasnt that much. what it did for my confidence though was priceless (i was an ea to a ceo at a tech startup). i really grew into myself and was more confident in my abilities -- and honestly a lot of that was just getting older and knowing that i was good at things, bad at certain things and i wasnt going through my quarterlife/post grad crisis anymore. Â
then those raises to 80k and 86k made me more ballsy. these things were obvi practiced with anthony as i had a partner to discuss and practice with/an educated thought partner. at this time anthony was making $150k base or so (after realizing he had been grossly underpaid as a PM for the 90k initial salary)
all of this set me up to basically make my position what it is now AND for it to be 100k. tbh im a glorified low level coordinator at a big company. i honest to goodness for the first three months probably worked a total of 2ish hours a day? this role should probably max out at 90k. and by max out i mean this role likely shouldve started at 75k with incremental raises to get to 90 in like 3 years. i STARTED at 100 and can likely if i play my cards right be promoted to a program manager in a year (or less). thatâll prob bump me to a base of 120 or so if iâm aggressive.
i always shitted on sf when i moved here because i hate the tech bros, the elitist ppl, the vcs who think theyre out here changing the world but seriously being surrounded by people that went to ivy leagues or the UCâs that were better than mine have honestly, like my boyfriend, just uplifted my status. something as small as casual lunch time conversation being more intellectual makes a huge difference for me re: how stimulated i feel and how much more energized ive become because of ppl around me. i def still have impostor syndrome all the time but its been so much growth from 23 to 27.
30s should be great because ill be well into my career by then and making even more and closing the gap even more w my boyfriend. its funny too cause hes 29 now AND FINALLY getting that postgrad quarter life crisis. his privilege was able to offset him to have this crisis later on in life where he made more money and could make smarter choices. privilege really is the thing that keeps on giving and im grateful to have started poor and really appreciate it. as i make more money i also care more and more to give back. if i ever do run for office in my 50s or whatever im gonna push for more access to education and arts. i had an interest in this as an undergrad but couldnt pursue it because itd be a lifetime of poverty, but yeah who knows.
dang this went long but it is really interesting when i think about money and how much its effected me. im lucky i was able to raise myself out of the level my immigrant parents brought me and my sister to. them moving out of the philippines was the best thing that ever happened to me. the second is them fronting the bill for my university education. the privilege i have is extremely special and important and i want to honor their sacrifices because im sitting on a 100k because of decades of hard work and frugality on their ends.
im fucking lucky.
we gotta pass on the resources and uplift those around us if we are fortunate. Â
...another rant altogether but i wish the leadership in the United States thought the same way.Â
(end: 4:36am, why do i do this to myself)
0 notes
Text
When the Ink Dries IV
Rated: Explicit
Notes: Â Thank you again to the usual brilliant betaâing suspects, @icedteainthebag, @h0ldthiscat and @gazeatscully.
If you havenât read the previous parts, go here.
*
Chapter 9
 The first time Mulder came close to telling Scully he loved her was not the night Stella told him to do so.  It was also not over a bouquet of flowers at a candlelit restaurant, the two of them smiling nervously at a wobbly table as a waiter placed a plastic pie slice under the leg.  It was not on a navy blue night beneath the stars, backs against the warm hood of a car, her gaze following his finger in awe as he pointed here and there.  It was not sitting side by side in a movie theater, her little hand reaching over to place pieces of popcorn on his tongue while he pretended to be annoyed that she wouldnât let him hold the tub.  It was none of the times or places Mulder had been telling himself he was waiting for. Â
Instead, it was in a standard-issue Ford Taurus the color of a curbside TV screen, seats that stunk of the four-month-old coffee spill that was still holding a grudge over its gruesome demise. Â Mulder was driving under the influence of a splitting headache having lost a coin toss. Â It was one of those days theyâd come up so short, run in such perfect circles, that neither of them could face the finality of turning that key, pulling up that emergency brake. Â
Of course, sometimes Scullyâs mere presence, her sticky red lips and stiff-postured strut, was enough to make unromantic settings seem romantic. Â After all, thatâs how heâd fallen in love with her in the first place. Â Freezer lockers in Alaska, rocks in the middle of monster-infested lakes, sometimes even his crusty basement office went pink and fuzzy late at night when she looked up at him a certain way. Â This wasnât like that either.
Yes, heâd almost gotten high on a single toke of her perfume when he leaned over her shoulder to study the gravesite earlier, but that cautiously applied dab had long faded. Â And yes, heâd pretended this morning that the umbrella was narrower than he knew it to be just so he could hook his arm around her waist and iron the curve of it against him, but that drizzle had long since dried up. Â By the end of the day, she was just his partner, someone who argued with him compulsively and who always had to pee and yet still never wanted to stop when he did, someone heâd have been happy to hand a bus pass had there been any buses to take. Â
She slouched beside him performing a symphony of chap-lipped sighs as the radio station -- the one sheâd decided was her best and only hope about ten minutes ago -- Â failed her with its sorry static and decades-old songs, the stubborn soundtrack that belonged to every dark, lonely stretch of land heâd ever been to. Â The last thing he expected, fifty miles from the nearest sign of civilization and twelve hours from the nearest decent mood, was to remember he loved her.
It wasnât that he hadnât taken Stellaâs advice to heart. Â Heâd actually hung up the phone that night, locked the door, grabbed his coat and driven to Scullyâs, chanting affirmations all the way, determined to become a devout convert in the religion of Seize the Moment. Â But heâd left Scullyâs place without so much as a knock on the door, then spent all weekend nursing his pride, quietly holding Stella accountable. Â She had played a major role in wounding his ego and then taken off with slick instructions to be bold. Â Easy for her to say. Â Where she was going, sheâd have nothing to worry about but military time and minding the gap.
But when the following Monday came, Scully showed up at work as she always had, the wave of hair round her ear patient and perfect as ever, dressed once again in responsible opaque rayon blends, her hands once again focused on touching bodies that would not touch her back (unless, zombies, but anyway). Â For once, Scullyâs ability to pretend things that had happened had not actually happened would serve him well. Â She would make the days pass anonymously, make each little bit of the future look more like the past. Â She would make him think he could live with that.
Inevitably, fuzz once again overtook the radio signal and Scully half-whined, half-groaned as her city-mouse optimism suffered another defeat. Â She leaned over, coat pooled at her lower back, clasp of her bra showing through her blouse like a second spine. Â His brain sizzled in chaos as she started to fuss with the seek button or the tuner button or whichever fucking button it was she kept playing with, each time changing stations mid-musical-phrase, cheerfully surfing the foam between wavelengths. Â Mulder rubbed his forehead with his fingers.
âScully, just pick something.â
âDonât be snippy.â
âThereâs no way you can even hear the songs going that fast.â
âI can so. Â I have a skill.â
âYouâre giving me a headache.â
âYou already had a headache.â
âCan we just shut it off?â
She clicked once more and paused for effect. Â
âSure.â
âNo!â
She sat back with a satisfied grin on her face and an Elvis song on the radio; it was one Mulder knew well, a ticklish bassline and a sneakily romantic bridge. Â Two verses away, his stomach was squishy about what was coming, afraid to hear that slow dropping drawl in her presence - Â honey, you know Iâve never lied to you. Â Why couldnât it be Hound Dog or even Heartbreak Hotel, one whose lyrics had been rendered meaningless and lustless by familiarity. Â
He could feel her looking at him.
âMagic touch,â she said. Â âAdmit it.â
He tried not to smile but failed.
âYou donât believe in magic.â
Hero of the night, conqueror of both bad signal and bad mood, she dropped her head against the window for a well-earned rest. Â She began to sing along, so softly that every now and then, a word glitched away on her inhale as Mulder gradually melted like a teaspoon of sugar into the coffee-stained seat.
Why canât you see what youâre doing to me, when you donât believe a word I say...
âYou know âSuspicious Minds,ââ he said, forgetting she was self-conscious about her singing voice.
She cleared her throat and switched to a stifled hum, but her knees still skipped from side to side. Â He glanced from them to the road, from her pale left cheek to the dotted yellow lines. Â And as he began to tap his left toe, he remembered the Elvis figurine heâd once planned to give her, the way it had initially meant nothing, come to mean everything, and finally disappeared altogether. Â And suddenly he wanted so badly to tell her he loved her, loved her more passionately than he hated channel flicking, loved her with every single one of his moods, even the bad ones, maybe especially the bad ones, he loved her the way people now made fun of Elvis for singing about loving people. Â
But then her knees slowed and when he glanced over, his mouth open and important words on the tip of his tongue, he found her staring out the window like she was afraid they were being followed. Â Her breath was caught in a hopeless jet stream between her open lips and the glass and her eyelashes drew pictures between the stalled raindrops. Â Perhaps feeling his eyes on her, she turned her face toward her shoulder, confiding more privately in the passenger side door, hips shifting in her seat. Â Of course, he realized, she would remember the little Elvis figure too, would remember how it turned up under her knee that fateful night. Â It had only been a few weeks, even if they had been pretending it had been longer or never...Â
Her chin reaches over the seatbelt, a threshold between the present and the past, and then she is in a shiny hotel room where a lonely ring holder is being held hostage by three people who will probably never have use for such an item.  But for now, thereâs no future, just the moon and her, standing naked and satisfied beneath it at a full-length window.  And of course, Stella, sheathed in silk, standing behind her, close and soft as her own shadow, arm shaking the cuff of the robe down as she reaches around Scullyâs hip, ducking the curve of her wrist into the indentation of Scullyâs pelvic muscle, finding it a perfect fit.  Scully stands up a little straighter, then leans back as two fingers test her body like a swimming pool, dipping and coming out wet and doing it all over again, warming themselves to the idea of a longer stay.  Scully presses her fingertips into the glass, trying to protect the sensitive skin of her breasts and belly and even the jaded palm of her hand from the shock of the cold.  Itâs no use when Stella begins to kiss her behind the ear, whispers things Scully later somehow wonât remember though sheâll remember every detail about the way her body gives way and sinks like an anchor into Stellaâs right wrist.  When she starts to pant, Stellaâs forearm pads the windowpane, one half of an X in front of Scullyâs face as her nipples tap the glass beneath it, still fighting the force of gravity that is Stellaâs sway, and and for a second, she feels guilty that heâs not awake to see it.  But then her mouth is against Stellaâs arm, sucking and biting to avoid speaking and she is absolutely sure that this is no one elseâs, not even his, the way her brow furrows for Stella, the way Stella holds her afterwards like a bulletproof vest.  Itâs only for the moon and for her to see⌠and see⌠and see...Â
âYou okay?â he asked.
âHm? Â Mhm.â
This was the expression, the mood, he began to associate with Stella Gibson, the countenance of a person trying to shake something off, untaste and unsmell it and unfeel it. Â It was quite similar to the way Scully acted when she realized sheâd started to believe in one of his theories, that heâd gotten in her head against her wishes. Â And to her, he knew, Stella was just as absurd, just as factless and illogical as any of those theories. Â We only spent a few days together, she would be thinking. Â We donât have anything in common but a dress size (and, he would have argued, a powerful right eyebrow). Â The most irrational of things had happened to the most rational of people. Â And now that person sat trying to wish and reason it away, a knuckle against her lip and a far-away look in her eye. Â For once, even if she didnât know it, Mulderâs believing in nonsensical things was going to serve her well.Â
So he let the song end uneventfully, let her get out of the car without saying a word that night. Â He began to work more, work out more, jerk off more -- anything to keep him from picking up the phone. Â Anything to keep him from thinking about what it would be like to have Scully hovering over his body instead of a dumbbell, or hear her whimpering instead of some false videotaped professional (would Scully whimper?). Â He tried not to consider that it was possible, remotely possible, that just once, when it was time, something good might happen. Â So far, that had happened to him exactly once in his life â the day Scully walked into his office. Â What were the chances lightning would strike the same two people twice?
He came close to telling her a second time, this time on their way back from Leon County, Florida. Â Heâd almost died twice in two days: once, of boredom had he been successfully transported to the FBI retreat, and then again, in a place called Apalachicola National Forest. Â Sheâd kept him alive by singing Joy to the World off-key while in his head, he heard Stellaâs voice saying stop wasting time stop wasting time. Â Heâd spent a lot of time wondering what she meant by that, if she was talking about some specific inevitability or about him generally growing a pair. Â But standing at a stuffy airport gate amidst Hawaiian shirts and Mickey Mouse ears, awaiting an already delayed flight, he thought well, that, that was probably exactly what she meant: stop wasting time or one day youâll be kicking the bucket in a place called Apalachicola National Forest without ever having been happier than you are in her arms shivering to death.
There was that rush people spoke of, the thing heâd seen in movies over the years where someone ran around a city, a party, and yes, an airport, in order to tell a woman he loved her before another minute was lost. Â He was going to do that, and he didnât even have to look further than the sunken blue vinyl seat beside him, but someone from American Airlines tapped the mic with something more important to say. Â It was going to be another four hours. Â The crowd groaned collectively, but Scully, queen of irritable groans, was silent. Â Â
âGuess we have to kill four hours,â he said but she didnât look at him.
âMm.â
âHow are we going to do that?â
She is leaning, almost sitting on her kitchen table, her jeans around one ankle beside Stellaâs bare calves. Â She spends very little time at this table, and has never spent any of it this way before. Â She is thinking of the way the seams of Stellaâs skirt stretch and curl with Stellaâs flexing thighs, she is thinking of the little rosy spots Stella will have around her kneecaps when this is over and she is thinking nothing at all. Â Both of her hands are gripping the beveled wooden edge and she wants to move one to the back of Stellaâs head, but she canât bring herself to do it. Â She knows this is supposed to be goodbye, and sheâs afraid if she tangles herself in the dark roots of Stellaâs hair, she wonât be able to let it go in time. Â Sheâs afraid if she can still smell Stellaâs scalp when she locks the door and goes to bed alone, she wonât sleep. Â Sheâs knows Stellaâs scared of things like this too, so scared that she would rather hurt herself before those things beat her to it, but they must not be exactly the same things because Stella moves Scullyâs left hand to the back of her own head, glances up in encouragement. Â The fast flick of first-place ribbon blue startles Scullyâs fingers into a trophy-winner grip that hugs Stellaâs mouth a little closer against her body and she knows itâs what Stella wanted because she can feel her smile. Â After she comes, she lies back on the table, managing not to cry by thinking âfour more hours, we have four more hours.â
He held out a pack of Twizzlers to get her attention, bit his tongue when her cheeks flushed the color of the pack in his hand, and wondered how heâd know when enough time had passed. Â How long did it take someone to get over a person theyâd known for four days? Â How long would he have to monitor those quiet moments between chasing shadows and questioning witnesses, knowing she was thinking about the register of Stellaâs voice, the octave it took in pleasure, the temperature of the skin behind her ear, the way she looked when she listened? Â That day Stella called from the airport, heâd thought she was gone. Â But she was in fact very much present in their collective memory, just like one of the files in their drawer, one more phenomenon theyâd both seen but seen so differently they couldnât quite talk about it. Â Â She was right there in that pack of Twizzlers, in a cloud of American car condensation, inside a car stereo.
One day a couple weeks later, she was even on their answering machine. Â Theyâd come in tired and hungry, poorly armed with the low expectations their phone calls generally inspired. Â Mulder pressed the button and Scully began to set out some take-away cartons, not prepared to delay the intake of fried rice for Langley or Byers or some hysterical MUFON member. Â But when the tape started spinning, all other movement ceased. Â Stellaâs voice came into the room like a sparrow, fluttering and beautiful, inappropriately captive. Â Both Mulder and Scully froze, watching it hit the walls and ceiling, trying to stay out of its way.
âI realized once I settled in back here that I never properly thanked you for sharing your work with me,â she said with improbable ease.
Mulder held the corner of his mouth between two teeth as he anxiously glanced over at Scully. Â Her hands were laid flat on the desk like she was playing a game with herself, wasnât sure which hand sheâd hid the Ace under.
âAnd I realized,â Stella continued somewhat breathily, âthat I never gave you a way to reach me. Â My number here is five â youâll have to dial the country code first, which is -- I forget, some nonsense combination of ones and zeros youâll have to look up ââ
She rattled off a string of digits that seemed longer than a social security number. Â Mulder watched for movement out the corner of his eye, but Scully didnât reach for a pencil, didnât do anything.
âThatâs my personal number,â Stella said, Â the tone of her voice slightly slipping in its certainty. âYou can use it for any reason.â
A pause. Â
âEither of you.â
And then her voice slid up a notch from its steady dial tone register.
âAny reason at all.â
And with that, she vanished back into the air, a narrow escape through a crack in the window. Â Scully went back to separating packets of black and orange, back to parsing out fair plots of rice. Â He watched as she folded a set of chopsticks open and rubbed them together evenly.
âAre you okay?â he asked.
âWhat? Â Yes, of course. Â Iâm ravenous.â
But ravenous Scully usually approached lo mein with the enthusiasm of an athlete, a tennis player locating her best grip. Â This was a straightforward nibble, a ball boy creeping out to the net.
âIâll listen to it again later to write the number down,â he said, wondering if she was afraid heâd erased it.  She gave him a look as though heâd made a wild change of subject.  âJust in case you need it or⌠want it.â
She shrugged, shook her head. Â And then she shoved her lo mein aside like it had passed its expiration date, turned her attention to ripping apart a plastic packet with her teeth.
*
The next time it occurred to Mulder to tell Scully he loved her, it would not be because of the way she smelled or felt standing next to him, or the way she grinned when she teased him over the car radio, or even the sounds she made in his wildest fantasies. Â It would be something even more incongruous than a deserted highway or a packed airport terminal full of aggravated travelers that inspired him. Â It would be because he was super fucking pissed off.
It was a Friday night, the end of a really bad week in which theyâd had to go to Texas. Â Twice. Â Heâd almost killed a vampire who was almost not even really a vampire (he was). Â Theyâd spent an entire fucking day arguing about every single thing that did or did not happen, unable to complete a report that didnât make one of them sound like a liar. Â If only they could have turned in a report about how cute Scully thought the loping Sheriff was; that would have been a quick piece of business. Â He felt mean for telling her that the Sheriff hadnât returned her admiration, but there was only so much a man could be expected to take in one week. Â
When the report was done and turned in, it was well past five. Â They shifted around on their respective sides of the desk, two creaky old computers powering down. Â Couples didnât go to bed angry, and Mulder and Scully didnât like to leave the office angry. Â He looked up intending to make small talk, be the bigger person, send her off into her weekend with a clear conscience. Â He thought about apologizing for his shitty attitude about the Sheriff, telling her that of course the Sheriff had noticed her (and of course, if he was being honest with himself, he had). Â Scully must have sensed it coming, felt him look up, because she lifted her chin and waited. Â A streak of blood, thick as nail polish, slid down her upper lip. Â She raised her eyebrows, oblivious, as the wind went out of his chest.
âWhat?â she asked as he stepped around to her side. Â He said nothing as he took his tie off and wiped her lip with it. Â She took it from his hands, tipped her head back, he assumed to hide the fear in her eyes. Â Any minute now she would run off to the bathroom.
âShit.â
âScully,â he whispered.
âMulder,â she said up into the tie. Â âItâs fine.â
His heart began to race, his stomach lurching as she pinched the bridge of her nose. Â She seemed to have expected this somehow because her voice had none of his panic. Had she known she was sick again? Â Had she told Stella? Â Is that why Stella had told him to stop wasting time and if so, why the fuck had she been so cryptic about it? Â What kind of sick Hallmark greeting card message was that?
âNo, no, no,â she said, as if heâd asked it out loud. Â âItâs just from flying so much in such a short period of time.â
âWhat?â
âBarotrauma. Â Used to get it as a kid. Â Been a while.â
âYouâre sure?â
âYes.â
He closed his eyes as he sat back against his chair and breathed at the ceiling.
âShit,â she muttered.
âWhat?â
So long as it wasnât cancer, he didnât really care what.
âIâll have to cancel.â
âCancel what?â
She patted her nose dry and looked straight ahead, but her eyes darted off to the side.Â
âNevermind.â
âCancel what?â
Maybe he did care.
âNothing, I just. Â A date.â
âWhat?â
âItâs a first date. Â I donât want to take the chance I start bleeding into my plate on a first date. Â Talk about traumatic.â
Mulder used every muscle in his body to pull his jaw off the floor. Â His eyebrows were still up somewhere under the flop of his hair but he was willing to let those remain there the rest of the conversation.
âYou have a date? Â With whom?â
âUm. Â The guy who fixed the car last week.â
âThe FBI mechanic?â
âThe new one.â
âThe mechanic?â
âDonât be a snob.â
He didnât give a shit what the guy did for a living. Â He just needed something to repeat while he figured out what the fuck was going on.
âWhat about the Sheriff?â
âWhat Sheriff?âÂ
âThe one you spent all week making eyes at.â
âWhat are you, protective of him all of a sudden?âÂ
âNo. Â Look. Â Listen. Â Go on all the dates you want.â
âWell,â she said with a sigh. Â âNot going on this one.â
She dug into her pocket and found a business card. Â She eyed the phone and tapped the card on her thumb, flicked it with a fingernail.
âGo ahead. Â Call him.â
He had begun to search his memory for the key interaction he must have missed between Scully and the mechanic, begun to wonder where he was, what exactly he was doing while this random fucking guy so easily did what he had not been able to do for years. Â He tried with perverse effort to remember the tone of voice Scully had spoken at the garage, her mood when theyâd left.
âI think Iâll... Iâll wait til you go.â
 *
Mulder fumed all through his workout, the eating of his frozen pizza, the length of his shower. Â Standing naked in his bathroom mirror, he gave himself a resentful once-over as a figment of Stella Gibson sadly shook her head over his shoulder. Â Go ahead, take a long hard look at the ball-less, soaking wet bastard who let her say yes to the FBI mechanic. Â And he did take a long, hard look at that guy. Â He stared that motherfucker down, stared down past his own pouting lips, his new arm muscles and respectable six pack, stared right at the idiotically large, red, gang-font letter that tagged his pelvic bone. Â He had a tattoo of her last initial and she was flirting with a fucking buck-toothed sheriff in Texas and saying yes to dates with mechanics.
At some point, sheâd decided it was time to move on and she hadnât even had the decency to tell him?
Well, fuck that. Â He towel-dried furiously and brushed his teeth twice. Â He put on a clean t-shirt and his lucky jeans (though he had never gotten lucky in them or any other jeans he presently owned). Â He sat in the car a few blocks from her building for a half hour, working up his courage, planning his speech, branching her various possible responses like he was writing the code of a very sappy, very boring, and potentially very depressing video game. Â He chewed his lip until his saliva tasted like medicine. Â And finally, he stepped out into the world. Â Ready.
A block into his walk, rain began to fall. Â No, not rain, but rushing, stunning, Asiatic gusts of water, the likes of which heâd never seen in Washington. Â He was not turning back now. Â He was brave. Â He was a man in love. Â He was at least as good as Sheriff Hartwell and the mechanic.
And he was standing on Scullyâs doorstep shivering like a wet chihuahua, drenched to the bone.
âMulder,â she gasped, a line of concern stapling itself between her eyebrows. Â âCome in.â
He pushed his shoes off at the door with opposite toes and stood with his shoulders at his ears, afraid to move. Â One move could douse her whole apartment.
âIs everything okay?â she asked as she moved in and out of rooms, getting him a towel. Â âOther than the fact that youâre soaking wet.â
There was wine and an open book next to the couch, her glasses playing the role of bookmark. Â His time off was spent so arbitrarily, was often woven into the anxiety of what to do with it. Â When Scullyâs Fridays came, she read the book sheâd been planning to read all week, drank the wine sheâd been saving up to drink. Â He could never spend his free time like that, would never feel he deserved it. Â Come to think of it, he didnât deserve her either.
âYeah, everythingâs fine. Â I just came to talk about something, but I can do it another time.â
He dried everything a towel could dry and as he handed it back, finally got a good enough look at her to make him grateful and remorseful at once, like looking at the Eiffel Tower and knowing you would never get to see it again. Â
She was wearing a tight little t-shirt that had the name of some sort of camp on it, the letters cracking where her breasts stretched it. Â There was a hunter-green colored set of felt pine trees across the belly, and dark spots from years of laundered deodorant under the armpits. Â She was also wearing sweatpants. Â No buttons, no ties, no matching patterns or monogrammed silk. Â The only adornments were her nipples, hardening visibly under the thin fabric, maybe, he micro-fantasized, because he was staring at her. Â
But he didnât want that either â to begin his confession of undying love by staring at her in a tight shirt. Â He tried to sound like himself.
âAll the good PJs in the wash?â
And had instead come off sounding like a mean big brother.
âEverything else smelled like Texas or forests or mud or slime. Â Iâve been busy.â
âGoing on dates with mechanics.âÂ
She sighed.
âWe didnât have any slime this week. Â The Sheriff do something to you I donât know about?â
âGod, Mulder.â
âSorry.â
âDid you come over here in the rain to keep arguing about it?â
âNo. Â Whose camp shirt is that?â
âMine. Â Used to come down to here,â she said, pointing to her thighs. Â He resisted the urge to make a crack about growth spurts and wondered how he hadnât seen this shirt before. Â Maybe her fancy pajamas were only for work trips. Â The idea was almost too cute to bear.
âWell, I like it,â he said, backpedaling furiously, feet flailing for the kickstand. Â âJust want to get that on record.â
âNoted,â she said, making that face she made almost every day, that brave sane person in the loony bin expression. Â âAre you staying?â
âOver? Â No â I â what?â
She further compromised an eyebrow and smirked at him sideways.
âI meant, for now. Â âCause you canât sit on my couch in those wet jeans. Â Iâll have to find you something to borrow.â
âI donât think any of your camp clothes are going to work.â
Her back was already turned but he heard her cuff and drag a little laugh back to the bedroom. Â He smiled, feeling slightly encouraged, and fidgeted on the tiny doormat, trying not to give her any reason to put him out in the yard.
She returned with a neat stack of clothes that smelled like her.
âThe, uh⌠shirt is yours anyway,â she said.  âI swiped it.â
She sounded less sorry than she did worried that heâd take it back. Â He had often suspected her of stealing his t-shirts on the road after âborrowingâ them. Â But if she were borrowing shirts, it was usually his fault â some creature had taken a bite out of them, or theyâd been singed in a fire, or a monster had slimed them, or heâd just spilled a cup of coffee on her. Â So he never requested them back. Â Still, he sometimes wanted to tell her she could just buy t-shirts in that size. Â Then again, he thought as he glanced at her little capped sleeves, heâd rather not.
âAnd the shorts areâŚâ she said, seeming sorry sheâd started any kind of explanation.
They were a pair of boxer briefs, new-ish looking, probably a size too small for him. Heâd certainly never loaned her any underwear. Â
âWell, theyâre clean is all you need to know.â
âAll I need to know? Â Really?â
âI bought them for someone else and then we broke up.â
He felt his stomach churn and tried to blink away the dizziness. Â
âIt was a long time ago, a very long time ago,â she insisted, perhaps noticing that heâd gone temporarily insane at the idea of someone leaving underwear there, a further insult to the injuries heâd witnessed that day. Â
âI kept them just in case.â
âIn case what?â
âIn caseâŚyou know,â she said blushing.  âSomeone came over sopping wet and wanted to sit on the couch.  So just put them on.â
He realized he was not the only one who was nervous. Â He suddenly felt the urge to tell her he wasnât here to start shit about the past, make her feel bad about any of her ex-boyfriends, girlfriends, lovers, murderers, what-have-you. Â They had both had enough of that for a lifetime. Â But it seemed like a weird way to start things off, apologizing. Â Come to think of it, all the ways of starting off heâd planned seemed stupid now.
She was smiling at him, closed-lipped, hip out to the side.
âWhat is it?â
âI was just thinking about Billy Miles, that night you had me standing in the rain in the middle of the woods screaming at you.â
It was hard to picture with her cheeks all rosy now from what he guesed must have been a bath. Â But he could -- the translucent shade of parchment paper grey sheâd been, her voice screechy as a rusty old rolling pin. Â Heâd wanted to kiss her so badly it had caused a giggling fit. Â Standing in a torrential downpour getting yelled at by a virtual stranger on the brink of hypothermia was the first thing that had turned him on in years. Â
âYou mustâve thought I was crazy.â
âI did. Â But I also thought you were cute all wet too.â
Was she flirting with him? Â Was she retroactively flirting with him on behalf of her past self? Â He took his bottom lip under consideration, trying not to think about whether that meant he could have kissed her then and there, their very first case -- and oh my god, how many pushups heâd done for nothing, and shit, the perfectly good hipbone skin heâd ruined â and instead tried to be hopeful that maybe tonight was going to be easier than he thought. Â He inched closer, mussed his damp hair to inspire her.
âHere I am again,â he said. Â âAll wet.â
But she was already turning and walking to the couchÂ
âAnd still crazy.â
He tried not to sound too sulky.
âIâll go put these on.â
Her bathroom was dripping with tile-sweat, lights like plastic peaches around the mirror, air hot with the subtle scent of burnt marshmallow made by a recently active hair dryer. Â He felt like a giant human with his foot stuck in a dollhouse. Â Surely the apartment had not been built to scale Scully. Â But all her things were there. Â Her little bottles, her little slippers, her cosmetics and hair bands scattered about. Â He never thought of Scully as delicate, never, and he had of course seen many of these things before, but not altogether like this, not collected and posed together in a room where she must have stood naked not thirty minutes ago. Â
He hadnât meant to pry or be nosy; he didnât even open the medicine cabinet. Â But the bathtub was right in his line of sight on the way out. Â And what he saw stopped him. Â A piece of beige fabric lazily draped and dripping over the bathtub faucet, a bra just fancy enough to warrant the term lingerie, and beside it a washed-out pair of pantyhose with a seam up the back. Â A fucking seam up the back. Â Heâd seen her do this in motels before, knew it meant sheâd been wearing this stuff under her suit at work that day, maybe because sheâd planned to go directly to the date, he thought, and the thought of that, not of the confounded date but of the seam tickling the back of her thigh, cupping her ass under her pants as she fought and frowned and crossed her arms at him was enough to make him want to relive the terrible day all over again. Â He hesitated, bit his lower lip and then ran long, guilty fingers under the nylon, tested the firmness of the satin underwire with his thumb.
âShit,â he said under his breath, forearms hot with testosterone. Â This was going to be a serious conversation between two adults. Â It was going to require a lot of sinking in, a lot of thinking over, a lot of weighing options. Â He would not need the services of a stiff dick at all tonight, not even in the best-case scenario. Â
She was sitting on the couch when he came out, pressed into the corner exactly the way heâd caught her with Eddie van Blundht. Â She looked less freaked out than she had that night, but the natural ease sheâd had about her earlier had dissipated. Â Whatever time heâd taken ogling her stuff in the bathroom, sheâd had to wonder what this was all about. Â A pained smile came across her face and she twisted the cuff of her pants in her fingers as he slowly walked past her and sat in the space sheâd left him, generously allotted proportional to size. Â
This is what heâd waited five years for â to make an ass of himself in his underwear, trembling across the couch. Â So be it. Â So it wasnât what heâd imagined. Â Well, maybe once or twice heâd imagined being in his underwear, but then she was too, and also, these were not actually his underwear. Â Fuck it.
âWhat Iâm here to talk about, itâs kind of a difficultâŚâ he interrupted himself with a hard gulp.  âKind of a difficultâŚâ
He shook his head once like a gnat had gotten caught in the back of his throat on a jog. Â Â Her chin was dipping lower and lower, mouth like a resting marionette, the face she made when trying to decodify nonsense.
âMulder?â
âItâs nothing bad. Â Well it could be bad, depending.â
âHave some wine, maybe.â
He reached for the glass on the coffee table and sipped, and as he did so, Scully lurched forward and reached for his hip, apparently spotting the northern tip of the red iceberg that was his tattoo. Â
âMulder, are you bleeding?â
He grabbed the wrist sheâd almost touched him with and held it halfway between them. Â Sheâd scared him and heâd done it harder than he meant to. Â But when he looked in her eyes -- a warning and an apology -- there was no annoyance or fear, just blue and more blue, an ocean playing cool witness to his storm, yes, disturbed by the wind, but nevertheless confident of the sovereignty it held in its permanence. Â Her lips parted and he had to drop her arm before he got sucked in by the riptide.
âNo,â he said. Â Now there was no turning back. Â Scully would never let him walk out without explaining something sheâd mistaken for blood. Â âWhen Stella left, she told me to come here. Â Do you know why?â
âYou came here to talk about Stella? Â After all this time?â
âScully. Â Please. Â Iâm trying,â he begged. Â She took a breath, humoring him like he was showing her one of his slideshows. Â Perhaps that would have been a good idea. Â Hereâs me staring at you in the car. Â Hereâs me staring at you across the desk. Â Hereâs me staring at you in the diner. Â Are you noticing any patterns?
âYes,â she said. Â âI think I know why she told you to come.â
âYou do?â
Scully was up off the couch in a flash and then he could hear her rummaging around the kitchen. Â A question he didnât think had an answer not only had one, but also required a prop of some kind. Â She returned with it in the palm of her hand, sat next to him â a little closer, this time, he noticed â and handed it to him.
It was the Elvis figurine heâd bought her in Graceland. Â He thought it had been lost forever.
âShe said the hotelâs housekeeping staff found it. Â She said I should ask you about it.â
âItâs yours. Â I bought it for you.â
âYou had it the night â that night we ââ
âI would carry it around in my pocket. Â I never gave it to you.â
He paused, took a deep breath. Â This was the humbling part, or one of several humbling parts, of his story.
âI was angry with you when I came back and found out about Ed Jerse.â
âOkay,â she said carefully. Â âBut why didnât you give it to me after that?â
âWhy didnât you ask me about it when Stella told you to?â
Scully looked down at her lap shyly. Â
âSo you just carried it around? Â Every day?â
âIn my coat pocket.â Â He looked up without lifting his chin.
âMulder,â she whispered. Â âThatâs very sweet.â
âYouâre not disgusted that I would withhold a gift from you out of petty jealousy?â
âNo.â
She put her hand in his and he thought she was trying to hold it but he wasnât quite ready, wasnât nearly through what he had to say, so he resisted.
âWhat did I do now?â she asked, smiling.
He laughed as he realized she was just trying to get Elvis back.
âNothing, itâs all yours.â
She studied it, poking it to make it wiggle, twirling it like a ballerina. Â It had been in her house for six weeks, and sheâd given it a hard look at least once before that when sheâd knelt in that hotel room at Stellaâs waist. Â He blinked hard â no need to summon that image at the moment. Â But right now she was looking it over as if sheâd never seen it before, was seeing it in a new light. Â It was only now that it had come to mean something to her.
âSo my jealous spree didnât end there.â
âOh no. Â Donât tell me. Â Pencil case? Â Bumper sticker?â
He was not in the mood.
âSorry. Â Go ahead. Â Youâre making me a little jumpy,â she admitted, then reached for her glass of wine, placing Elvis like a bullseye in the red ring it left behind.
âWhen I went to Philadelphia, the night after â our night with Stella â the night we â you know, the night that ah-- â
âI know the one, Mulder.â
âI went to see Jerse again.  And I went to that tattoo shopâŚâ
He couldnât say it. Â So he waited for her to do it for him. Â Come on Special Agent Scully. Put it together. Â
She gasped, hand to her mouth, glancing down where sheâd tried to touch him a few minutes ago.
âOh God, Mulder. Â You didnât.â
âI did.â
âOut of spite? Â I donât even --â
âI wanted to see if the poison was real, if it had made you do the things youâd done.â
She began to unwind her legs, seemed to be about to jump off the couch. Â He pressed his hand into her thigh.
âI know now it was really you. Â Iâm okay with it.â
âYouâre okay with it?â
âI can accept it.â
âYou can accept it?â
He could practically feel the soil of the grave heâd begun to dig, sifting between his cold wet toes. Â He wished he could just crush her body to him and kiss her like in the movies, but if it had been the movies, they would have done that part out in the rain, not in here, wearing ill-fitting pajamas of dubious origin.
âI like it. Â I like it because itâs you and I like all of you.â
âTread lightly, Mulder.â
âGoddammit, Iâm trying to tell you that I have feelings for you.â
Her mouth closed and then opened again, lips zipping and unzipping like a puffy pink sleeping bag as she tried to figure out what to say. Â Her eyes went wider and her tongue came straight out for a second, seeming to resist an urge to try to touch her nose.
âI bought you a gift and didnât give it to you and I went to Philadelphia and got drunk and got a tattoo and got in a fight with a guy over you and slept in Stellaâs hotel room but did not fuck her because I was miserable and scared to be alone and because I have feelings for you.â
It was the best he could do. Â More of a rant than a confession, really. Â But it would have to do. Â She looked around the room like one of his possessed bats or summoned spirits was supposedly flying around.
âWhoâd you get in a fight with?â
âFucking Christ, Scully! Â Did you hear me?â
There was a pause. Â She looked at her lap.
âIâm sorry.  Give me⌠give me a minute.â
She stood up and began to pace the path between him and the coffee table, bending her fingers back with opposite hands, occasionally looking at the ceiling as if she were counting in her head. Â Her toenails were painted red, same as that one time she had slipped her heels up out of her shoes in the car and massaged her shins with the arches of opposite feet.
Okay, so heâd given this some thought. Â Heâd had six weeks to plan this, longer. Â It was possible she hadnât spent any time thinking about it at all. Â Scully thought about the things that were real and possible, like the book and the bottle of wine and apparently women who pulled her close the first moment they had a chance. Â Until this moment, he had made himself -- the man part of himself, not the partner -- as much of a figment as she believed their cases to be. Â He let out a little breath, trying not to seem impatient, trying to appreciate her cramming all that time into just a few minutes. Â Suddenly, she stopped pacing. Â Sheâd made it to the other side of the coffee table.
âWell, what is it?â she asked.
âWhat?â
âThe tattoo.â
âItâs just. Â Itâs nothing really.â
âCan I see it?â
âI donât think so. Â Not now.â
âYouâve seen mine.â
He sighed, waving a hand at her, but she waited. Â The fate of this whole thing, the biggest gamble of his whole stupid board-game of a life, now seemed to rest on her impression of his infernally ridiculous quarter-machine tattoo. Â He stared at her for a moment, begging with his eyes for her to let it go, and then knowing that she wouldnât, he lifted his ass from the couch, pulled the waistband of the shorts down, and showed her the gaudy red S just below his belt line. Â She squinted. Â This, he knew, was for effect. Â With or without glasses, no one could miss the fucking thing.
âS. Â For your sister?â
He could see that she meant it. Â She really meant it. Â She wasnât getting it. Â Maybe she didnât want to get it. Â If so, this was his out, he could turn this ship around now, bail himself out. Â But someday, he might find out there was an afterlife. Â And he might meet Stella there. Â And heâd want to die all over again from the shame when she asked if heâd done what she said.
âNo, Scully,â he said, and sat back down. Â She stared at his hip through his clothes like she could still see it. Â âItâs not for my sister.â
She took a quiet, sharp breathÂ
âOh my God.â
âYes.â
âFor Stella?â
âWhat? Â No. Â No, Scully. Â Whatâs wrong with you?â
She breathed out, shrugging her shoulders in her own defenseÂ
âYou started this whole thing talking about Stella soâŚâ
âNo.â
She looked down and bit her lip. Â Oh, to be that lip.
âSuperman?â she asked and the font was close enough that he couldnât tell if she was kidding.
Her eyebrows were rounded like child-drawn rainbows, her tongue testing the downward point of her upper lip like it was a baby tooth, wiggling and ready to fall out. Â Her shoulders went back in a way that made her breasts harder to ignore. Â She wasnât hiding her nipples with her arms anymore.
âNo,â he said. Â âNot Superman.â
And thatâs when she began to walk back toward him, dancing rather than pacing, a slow-motion box step round the coffee table. Â When she got to the couch, she raised one knee at a time to the cushions on either side of his legs. Â Her hands went to his shoulders, ready to waltz him straight out of his mind.
âSexy?â she asked with one eye narrowed, and he almost said yes because, well because she was now in his lap in a tight little shirt, smelling like wine and those things hanging in the bathtub. Â Suddenly, it seemed that everything about the way this had happened â the weather, the outfits, the pointless banter â it was all kismet. Â One of her hands was dribbling down the front of his body, over his chest, down his stomach, lips busy rephrasing and repeating her latest guess. Â âDoes it stand for sexy?â
âNo, it doesnât,â he said with hitched breath. Â He had rarely if ever heard her use that word, and when she did it was meant figuratively, as in sexier theory, this kind of science isnât considered sexy...
The heel of her hand was turned to line up with the fish-bodied top of the S, her fingertips tucked into its tail. Â She took her hand away and let the elastic snap as she raised herself above his eye level, took his face in her hands with her thumbs over the tabs of his ears.
âStupid?â she asked. Â There was a buzzing sensation, radio static like those nights in the car, those nights he could never just pull over and suggest they make out until they felt better. It was the frequency that connected them even when they were on different pages, in different cities, on different planets.
âYes. Â It was stupid,â he agreed softly.
âVery stupid,â she said, nodding, pleased he was finally falling in line.
âVery stupid,â he slurred, his lips almost paralyzed by the nearness of hers. Â She leaned in closer, the pert teardrops of her breasts just under his chin, her narrow stomach warm and flat against his. Â
âIncredibly stupid,â she said in labored syllables, executing consonants that had done nothing to deserve their fate.
âYes.â
âTell me what it stands for,â she said, honey-voiced.
âI think you know.â
Her eyes were all sleepy, resting on this spot of his face and then that.
âI want to hear you say it.â
He could almost taste her lips as he licked his own. Â It was an appeal as well as an answer.
âScully.â
She nodded as if heâd been the one guessing, and not her. Â
She served him pieces of her mouth like a sloppy homemade slice of apple pie, warm and unruly. Â Her top lip was juicy and sweet, her tongue syrupy, her bottom lip crumbling against his teeth. Â He bit into it to hold her there and kissed her more deeply, swallowing her.
Her thumbs made circles over his ears like pencil erasers. Â She moaned softly each time his hands etched a line from here to there. Â The backs of her thighs, split bottom of her ass, the small of her back -- the small of her back, that spot heâd searched out over overcoats and blazers and button-down blouses, the one heâd nearly lost his damn mind over the day Stella escorted Scully out of his office â that one made him moan too.
Her lips vibrated like the skin of a plum when she approved, so perilously delicate he feared piercing them, and yet pressing the curves of themselves desperately against his teeth, begging to be peeled.
She tore his shirt up over his head and lowered her face over his like a crane, her hair falling forward and casting his face in darkness, so that even with open eyes he couldnât see her. Â With his hands full of her and his mouth wet with her, he was almost sure he was dreaming. Â But as she slid back down, she rolled her hips against him. Â Ever the one to let the light in, ever the one to offer hard evidence.
Her breasts pressed easily through her warm decades-old fifty-fifty blend, rubbing the soft pine trees against his chest hair. Â He placed his thumb over the word camp and squeezed the nipple in the round white space of the letter P. Â Her head rag-dolled to one side as she grabbed his shoulders and tried to stand up, wobbling at the ankles as the cushion sank under her feet.
âWhat are you doing?â he asked.
âTrying to get my pants off.â
He pulled her knees to his chest, letting her rest her weight against him as she balanced her hands on his head and laughed. Â Â He took over with the pants.
âIâm not wearing underwear,â she murmured, as if he needed a warning.
And perhaps he had. Â Perhaps heâd needed a warning the length of a carnival ride sign, a carton of cigarettes.
Because in a moment he was looking right at the soft apex of her thighs and his fairly healthy heart almost stopped. Â He wrapped his arms what seemed like three times around her legs and stared as she pushed her hand through his hair, then grabbed a tuft of it and pulled it, finally showing him what it felt like when she wasnât looking for blood.
âI was going to come back down there,â she offered, leaving the other option deliciously unverbalized.
âLater,â he said and moved his mouth toward her center, his center, the center of the Earth as far as he was currently concerned. Â
When his tongue touched her, she groaned like a fault line splitting up the middle, turning over fresh soil, heat rising visibly off the newly revealed surface. Â Her ass sank back into his hands as her legs failed to hold her and she surrendered the wet weight of her body to his mouth. Â Her hands wilted down the sides of his face, fingers butterflied out in shock. Â He curled his tongue inside her as deeply as he could, trying to get the purest possible taste of her, name it and mentally bottle it. Â But it was sunflower seeds and hot chocolate stuck to his skin and tree roots and French food and wet forests, nothing that really made sense, and he could either spend all night trying to place it or he could make her come.
He wanted to make her come. Â He thought of the one time heâd seen her do it, squirming and pinned beneath Stella. Â He wanted to make that happen like heâd never wanted anything. Â What would Stella do, he asked himself, and slowly slipped a finger up into Scullyâs body, taking aim at the skin just at the other side of his tongue. Â Scully gasped and bucked her hips, nearly toppling over the back of the couch.
She ran one hand up her stomach, taking the hem of her shirt up the narrow valley of her abdomen, pulling it round a fist and tugging it upward, but she seemed to lose motivation, because she put her hands to her head instead, began to play with strands of hair in ways that would scar him for life, prevent him from having peace in his office and in cars and airports and anywhere else Scully might get bored. Â The t-shirt, flipped up halfway, suspended her breasts in perfect semi-circles, bottoms peeking out like lazy half moons. Â And the sound of her panting with the softest part of her breasts exposed and her hands rooted in her own hair made him so hard he wanted to pass out.
He pulled his finger down and then pushed it back up, pressing forward a bit and shining the inside of her body like a cherry while his tongue played with the stem, a few drops of moisture dripping down his chin. Â The way her grip tightened, he thought she was about to come but then realized she was pushing his forehead away, pulling at his ears for his attention. Â He looked up, annoyed.
âWhat?â
âI said, tell me.â
âI love you. Â Iâm so in love with you.â
âI know that, you have my initial tattooed to your hipbone,â she said, breathless. Â âTell me how you want to fuck me.â
He hesitated, wishing he could give her an honest answer appropriate for first-time soul-mate sex. Â Missionary style, with you tucked safely beneath me, spilling my seed gently while weeping tears of joy into your hair. Â But the fact was, her pussy was holding them both at the edge of mutual destruction two inches from his mouth, her tits were half-uncovered and as-yet unsucked over his head. Â Heâd been thinking about her for years. Â And he had an erection that could inspire a thousand pages of kama sutra. Â Every way. Â Six ways from Sunday. Â Up, down, right and center. Â So hard. Â So, so hard. Â In other words, nothing he was willing to say outloud. Â
Luckily, Scully was willing to say something.
âTake your pants off and take your dick out.â Â
Their eyes met and he knew he was not alone in thinking of the only other time sheâd ever said that (or anything like that) to him. Â She hesitated a moment, an apology taking shape in her eyes, perhaps afraid sheâd accidentally referenced a sensitive subject in the most sensitive of moments. Â Mulder wasted no time, hastily pulled his shorts down, just to show her how far under the bridge that water was.
She looked down, mouth wide enough to --
âWhat do you want me to do with it?â he asked. Â Somehow the idea that she wanted him to fuck her still seemed implausible. Â She rubbed up against it.
âWhat do you think I want you to do with it?â
She wrapped her right middle finger around the head of his dick and guided him underneath her body.
âOh,â he said, gulping. Â âI thought you might tell me to masturbate while I --â
âYou want to jerk off, you can go home to your tapes.â
âOf course I donât want to jerk off, I just --â
âMulder, shut up,â she said, sounding almost as if she were in the middle of a fistfight. Â âAnd let me do this right.â
âLet you do this right?â
She paused, gave him that calm, smug look that meant she was about to win an argument.
âLet me fuck you right.â
And then he was quiet. Â Because even if he thought sheâd done everything else wrong that week, he had to agree she was doing this right, she was doing it so right, taking him inside her body slowly, her breath hitched, her eyes going white as a sheet before her eyelashes came flitting down and reproduced the blue like bunnies out of a hat.
She inched him in slowly at first, and then less slowly, gathering oxygen to feed the fire until she was riding him like a flame does a wick, hugging him and melting around him, determined to burn them both to the ground. Â
Stella was the only woman heâd been with recently enough to compare, and heâd liked how she felt more than he remembered liking anyone else. Â But Scully was different - tiny and tight and hot around him and he had never put his dick inside anything so perfect, not even his own expert hand. Â His cock parted her anew with every landfall, the dense cloud of her body settling around him and then lifting again. Â
âAre you okay?â he managed to ask, trying to remember that under the raging urge to pound into her was a little thing called love. Â She smiled wickedly, loving him back and gripped his neck with angry fingers, reminding him who exactly he was dealing with here. Â
He reached up to take off her shirt and watched her hair fall in a mess around her face. Â He had dragged her all over the country on foot and in bad weather, and seldom seen a single strand out of place. Â But now, right here in the safety of her own living room, he had it thick and tipsy, sticking together in wayward strips. Â Through the twisted ribbons of red, her eyes flashed purple, face lit up like heâd spun the wheel and landed a two-week Caribbean vacation.
He had one hand spanning her breasts, the other around the back of her head.
âGo ahead,â she dared. Â And because he wasnât sure if she was referring to her nipples or her hair, he addressed both, pinching at one and tugging at the other. Â He held her tight and shimmied his ass to the edge of the couch so he could slouch over and lick her, squeezing her breasts together and then pressed them apart again with his tongue. Â For five years, sheâd rolled her eyes every time he put something in his mouth and played with it, but now she leaned back on his thighs for him, unwrapping herself like a bag of sunflower seeds, a soda straw, a brand new pack of pencils, and this particular kind of concession was so much better than any other heâd ever fought for. Â Her head dropped back, hair tickling his knees his much-maligned oral fixation sought its redemption on the crowns of her nipples, in the creamy white cushioning of her cleavage.
âOh goodGod thatfeelsgood.â
And amidst the overwhelming feelings of heat and pressure and wetness, his dick found a ridged spot along the front of her body that brought her back upright on her knees. Â Her ass was firm against the sensitive insides of his quads, her breasts sliding against his mouth. Â She let out a lightly vocalized breath, and he felt her body open, the whole length of him now inside her. Â Nothing moved but her lips, slowly parting at their rosy hinges as he returned his attention to mouth-fucking her breasts. Â It was easier to be precise now that she was still. Â Let me do this right, he thought.
âI donât even understand⌠what youâre doing⌠with your tongue.â
He smiled, took a nipple lightly between his teeth and tapped it with his tongue.
âOh, fuck me, Mulder, stop showing off.â
She began to fuck him again, weary and desperate now, vaguely annoyed in a way that he thought would forever taint the integrity of her annoyance. Â
He leaned further forward and held her against him, suddenly glad of all the angry workouts heâd done over the past several weeks. Â He thought he felt her clitoris twitch and she sighed, and yeah, whimpered, as if sheâd been running a long race, finally been given a glass of water. Â She swore, asked for God in three different ways, then swore again, her nose against his lips and his chin occasionally in her mouth. Â And then she said his name and he nearly came, but as always, he wanted her, needed her with him.
And just as he was about to ask, her brow knit up like the front of a ballerinaâs leotard, her heart-shaped mouth frozen open like a carnival loversâ lane ride.
âWhat â Scully, what -- does that mean?â
âIt means I like that,â she said, high-pitched outlines of words. Â âDonât stop. Â Please.â
He raised his hips, bucking into her with all the power he could muster in such a position. Â She took one hand from his leg and clawed at the muscle in the arm that was working to bear his weight, marveling at it, then pulling his face forward to her body. Â When his lips touched skin, he didnât even know what part of her body it was, but it didnât matter because he loved them all equally, was sure he always would no matter how they changed. Â Finally, her silence and swearing turned to one word, hoarsely delivered right into the canal of his ear. Â He knew now, had known since Stellaâs visit, that Scully said a lot of things during sex that she tended not to say at the office.
But this word, this word he never got to hear in the course of a workday.
âYessssss.â
âDo that again.â
âYessssss⌠yessssss.â
âI wanna make you come so bad, Scully.â
She almost lifted all the way off him and he thought she was playing with him.
âScully, fuck⌠come for me,â he said.
She closed her eyes and held her finger over his lips as she flashed him a naughty red-licorice smile and hissed his new favorite dirty word through her teeth.
âYesssssss.â
Her mouth fell to his neck, her fingernails embedded themselves in his skin and he raised his hips once more as he said her name, this time long and low, coming and crumbling as she flickered and turned from blazing fire to wisp of smoke, fragrant and weightless in his arms.
âI love you,â she whispered. Â He smoothed a hand over her hair, covered her back under the span of two arms. Â He kissed her. Â These things which had seemed like superhuman feats a couple hours ago now so simple, necessary even.
âI love you,â she repeated as he did so, as if she hadnât even said it the first time, or as if sheâd known this is how he wanted it, deposited directly into his mouth so he could swallow it, hold it and have it forever like a hoarded key.
He nuzzled his face in her collarbone, sturdy and straight as the mast of a sailboat.
âThank you,â she said and he didnât know if she meant for coming over or for the orgasm or... Â âFor The Elvis thingie. Â For keeping it all that time.â
She looked at him and blinked a couple times, awfully coy for a woman whoâd just let him tear her apart.
âI donât think anyoneâs ever done something like that for me before.â
âNot given you a gift?â
âThought about me hard enough to not give it to me for five months.â
He thought of Stellaâs voice that day on the phone. Â He could play it cool, but why bother? Â Who knew where theyâd be in twenty years or ten or next week?
âScully, Iâve been thinking about you that hard for five years.â
âMulder,â she answered softly. Â She pressed her cheek against his like they were the last couple left on the dance floor, her ragged breath like a country song in three-four time.
âI didnât know there was a right and wrong way to fuck someone,â he said.
He felt her smile against his neck.
âNow you know.â
âNow I know.â
âYouâve probably been doing it wrong all along,â she mumbled.
âI havenât really been doing it at all.â
Her body shook silently against him as she laughed, a feeling so perfect he wished he could bottle it, shake it out of a packet into his coffee and get drunk on it at night, a mood stabilizer the world had saved just for him. Â How could he ever be unsatisfied again when he knew that beneath her well-tailored shirts, her nipples blushed the same dusty rose as her lips? Â How could he fixate on the past when, sometime in the future, sheâd smile again the way she did when she came? Â Who gave a shit if there were aliens or not when her slightly sibilant S could bring him to his knees? Â How could he ever feel lost when he was able to find his way to the dimples on her lower back?
This was his happy place, his vacation and his home, he thought as he held her tightly and looked down. Â Her back was a lush valley of scattered freckles and rolling vertebrae, a postcard stamped with the circular red, green, and gold emblem of her ability to survive anything, run from any threat. Â He swore to himself he was never going to be one of those things again. Â Never.
Chapter 10
Scully had been having the same kinds of nightmares for a long time -- stories hot with life, crafted in poetâs detail by a subconscious spoiled for choice. Â The bone-crack of brush underfoot in a thick forest chase, the particular pitch of black created by a slamming trap door, unsolvable mysteries with incomprehensible faces. Â For years, the dreams had ended the same way the experiences that inspired them had â with a mix of confusion and relief, and Mulder close at her side.
But lately sheâd been finding reality more frightening than her dreams. Â Come morning, the high definition of night would be replaced by hazy, indifferent facts of domestic existence -- the curtain pattern she herself picked out, the slightly dead smell of the dinner she herself had made the previous evening. Â In place of the monsters and villains would be the person she loved best, willingly chained to his computer, drugged on the adrenaline of another all-nighter, buried alive in paranoid illusions and useless information. Heâd haunted her like a confused sort of ghost, his corporeal body doing the work while his spirit sat in some motel drawer, some field under the stars. Â Morning after morning, heâd proven invulnerable to her mortal efforts, her anger and adoration, seemed almost eager to pare away her nerves. Â And in the end, like any good ghost, heâd chased her from the house.
One morning just a few weeks after sheâd moved back to the city by herself, she woke in a room she didnât recognize, a place that felt familiar though separate, like walking into a friendâs closet. Â Ancient history waxed into the crevices of the solid oak floors, the linens so white they teased blue along the creases, her shampoo clashing with the one previously left on the pillow. Â Out the window, a grey sweater of fog wrapped around the tips of buildings soft and thick as cashmere.
London. Â Thatâs right. Â London.
She stretched as she passed through the living room â did British people call it a living room or something else? -- and found the couch had already been evacuated, blankets sloppily folded and placed in a chic oversized basket beside it. Â She smiled at the lump of feathery wool, alpaca, and mohair, whiney weaves that demanded they never see the inside of a dryer. Â So Stella.
Scully had tried to insist they split the bed down the middle. Â Over the fifteen years theyâd been friends, the bed-sharing conversation had become something of a ritual. Â There were many different versions of it, but Stella was always on the same side of the argument, and the significance was always the same â something about the purity of their friendship. Â Scully often thought that it would probably say more for the purity of their friendship if at least once, they didnât have to have a conversation about the bed at all. Â
It was generally accepted that Stella knew her way around this kind of modern friendship best.  But for all its indefinability, there was an old-fashionedness to it as well.  The unexpected subsistence of loyalty between two long-distance confidantes who existed safely outside the Venn Diagram of one anotherâs daily lives â no mutual friends or spin classes, nothing shared but an ocean⌠and occasionally, for a weekend, a nightstand between hotel double beds. Â
âYouâre being silly,â Scully had told her the previous night as Stella fluffed her spare duvet, the one now most likely at the bottom of the basket.
âIâm being respectful.â
âOf whom?â
âYou. Â Mulder.â
Mulder had never checked in when she and Stella spent time together chatting and drinking wine. Â He never asked her about sleeping arrangements, had always treated those mysterious weekends the way heâd never treated any mystery -- with respectful incuriousness, undisturbed and uninspected. Â A few times, all three of them had had dinner. Â Scully would get all worked up trying to figure out a place to eat that fit both Mulder and Stella, but of course Stella thought she fit anywhere, and Mulder didnât care whether he fit. Â Pitcher of Pepsi or crystal champagne flutes, Scully would be the only one shifting awkwardly in her chair those meals, feeling like she was holding her fork in the wrong hand all night, thinking of the picture they must make â an Irish Catholic in a sweater set, a bombshell in a leather skirt, a misanthrope in a wrinkled suit, and at least two out of the three packing heat. Â But that would not be the situation on this visit. Â Mulder would not be joining them.
âStella, you have a head injury.â
âNo, I donât. Â I have injuries that happen to be on my head. Â Arenât you a doctor?â
Scully opened a defensive palm out to the side.
âYou havenât given me a chance to look at them yet.â
Stella looked up at her with heavy lids and an effortlessly sassy hand on her hip.
âYou can sleep in the bed or you can go to a hotel.â
Scully had been too tired to play the scene out any further, and besides, Stella stole the show every time. Â She was just as good at keeping people out of bed as she was at getting them into it. Â So Scully had suffered a princessâs defeat, falling into the deep plush mattress, feeling like both the protector and the protected, deep-breathing Stellaâs shadow off the pillowcases. Â She drifted off smiling, thinking of how many weeks sheâd once spent missing someone who was such a stranger she wouldnât have known what kind of candy to get her at the movie theater. Â
If only sheâd known then that she would someday pad into Stellaâs kitchen and find her merrily slouching on a stool, peering into a cup of tea as if it were a jar of butterflies.
âMorning. Â Want me to make you a cup?â
âNo, I can do it,â Scully said, eager to re-establish the tone of this trip. Â She was here to take care of Stella, not the other way around.
She successfully found herself a cup and spoon, then dug out all kinds of things from the fridge that Stella said didnât belong in tea. Â But when Scully turned to the stove, she found a fancy steeper waiting instead of a regular old pot. Â She glanced at the microwave.
âDonât even think about it,â Stella said and slid down from the stool.
The kitchen was sleek and clean, identical wine bottles balanced like uniformed cheerleaders beside crystal clear wine glasses. Â Scully wondered if Stella had had a dinner party before she left for Belfast, left the glasses out to dry, and still not gotten around to putting them away. Â But more likely, she assumed, this was their usual place, right here out on the counter. Â Stella liked to keep pleasure within armâs length, even if it meant things were going to break more often.
Even with the lights on and the sun theoretically out, the room was darker than what Scully was used to, both in the old house and her new apartment. Â But the shade here was a relief rather than a disappointment, an umbrella on a too-long beach day, a welcome break from the pressure to be happy even as she chewed sand. Â There was always plenty of light so long as there was Stella, a few more lines under her chin when she checked the flame, but otherwise exactly the same, body wound up sinewy as a birthday candle, skin so radiant it threw a dim glow across the grey surfaces whenever she moved. Â
It wasnât until Stellaâs first phone call that random Wednesday afternoon that Scully realized she needed that kind of relief: Â her warm, relaxed just calling to voice rolling off the receiver like a palm-warmed rubber ball, her confident silences padding every remark. Â It was upsetting for Scully to think about, but once, she had been the thing Mulder consumed night and day, the thing that kept him up all night. Â And even as she loved him back with the heliotropic intensity he demanded of all things and people, she had unwittingly kept a little room like this kitchen for herself, dark and sexy, Stella its only light.
Now Scully mentally slipped on her white coat as she took Stellaâs chin in her hand and studied the stitched abrasion on her forehead, the hematoma on her cheek. Â She tucked herself into the counter corner nearest Stellaâs body, brushed Stellaâs hair back from her face. Â She felt a remarkable sense of calm as she glanced at the dark patches of scabs on Stellaâs cheekbone. Â There was comfort in having something to offer. Â
âItâs nothing to worry about,â Stella said. Â
âI know, Iâve heard.â
Itâs nothing to worry about, but⌠is how Stellaâs phone call from the hospital had started.  The words Belfast and serial killer and hospital had come at Scully all out of order, moving around like those kitschy refrigerator magnets until they formed a cohesive sentence.
âIâm getting a flight to London,â sheâd said, hanging up before Stella could even finish protesting.  It was what Stella would have done for her, had in fact done for her during that miserable time Mulder was missing⌠dead...
Gone, is what sheâd subtitled that whole period of her life, because any more fine-tuned explanation raised questions that were too painful and difficult to answer. Â Stella had been the only person Scully could look in the eye after William, the only person sheâd let comfort her. Â And so sheâd let her stay a couple times, would hide her away like a secret drug, a fairy godmother or an imaginary friend, while she went to work and watched everyone wonder how, how is she doing it. Â Stella was how she was doing it. Â Stella would tend to the apartment like a garden of roses, letting the sun in and casually collecting tiny blue socks, pruning for thorns until it was safe for Scully to pass through. Â Sheâd order dinner when Scully said she was on her way home and prattle off seemingly gruesome investigation stories or scandalous gossip at the table, anything that was distracting enough for Scully to forget herself and eat something. Â Sheâd hold Scully the nights she cried herself to sleep, hushing and soothing the back of Scullyâs neck or the wrinkles between her eyebrows with her silvery voice and the sky-ocean smell of her shower-scrubbed skin. Â Her one condition in exchange was always that she didnât have to say goodbye when she left. Â Scully would think it a small price to pay, until of course sheâd have to actually sit down at the table alone and unfold the Iâm off, darling note.
Scully knew just because Stella had done it for her didnât mean sheâd be able to easily return the favor. Â She had been prepared to ignore all the text messages that would follow their chat -- Â Iâm fine, Really donât come, I overreacted by calling -- as she went about the process of taking a short leave from work, putting a hold on her mail. Â It wasnât until she was taxiing down a runway that she realized the only thing Stella had messaged her was a reminder of her address. Â The realization of how bad Stellaâs condition must be turned her so green that her neighbor asked if she hated flying too. Â At the front door, Stella had shrunk against her cautious embrace and Scully had had to stretch the hug out an extra ten seconds just to make sure she could face her dry-eyed. Â
âNot now,â Stella had said, pushing Scully off as she felt her fingers lightly feeling around the back end of her rib cage for misalignments. Â âCome in.â
Sheâd gone in. Â Made small talk. Â Had a piece of a cake. Â Left out her troubles with Mulder. Â And conducted the bed argument. Â Now, the sun was up and she was feeling sturdy enough to resist both Stellaâs stubbornness and her own tears.
âDonât move,â she said as she held Stellaâs shoulder still and studied her, grazing the edges of each bruise and cut so as to feel where the swelling stopped.
âThey did a nice job on the stitches. Â Did you ask for a plastic surgeon?â
âWhat do you think?â
âI donât think youâll scar.â
Stella said nothing as she stepped away to pour the tea into Scullyâs cup. Â The cup rattled slightly in its dish.
âReal tea, my little American.â
Scully rolled her eyes and Stella smiled as she walked away. Â This was part of the fun, Stellaâs indulging her with her Britishness. Â She made a show of hopping up nimbly onto her stool, but Scully didnât miss the way she slightly braced herself as her tailbone hit the chair.
âDo you want to talk about it?â
âAbout what?â
âPaul Spector.â
âNot especially. Â Iâve already spent many hours of my life talking about him that I canât get back.â
Scully was half-relieved. Â She didnât need to know the gory details if Stella didnât need to say them. Â She took her seat beside Stella, rounding her shoulders to form a cave around the steam. Â Stella was already dressed, and in the unlikely combination of t-shirt and jeans. Â It was a bit like seeing something youâd always found beautiful photographed in black and white for the first time.
âI like your pajamas,â Scully said. Â
âThank you for coming,â Stella said, ignoring the joke, swinging a bare foot out to gently tap Scullyâs shin. Â
âIâm surprised you let me,â Scully said. Â âIâm actually surprised you even called.â
Stella took a breath like sheâd agreed to lead storytime.
âWell, I met a doctor there. Â He was trying to keep me awake in case Iâd been concussed. Â And while chatting, he asked if I had any real friends.â
âThat seems a bit personal.â
âMm.â
âAnd?â
âI said I had a few.  And thenâŚâ
Stella looked slightly shy, slightly pleased with herself.
âI decided I might as well call one of them.â
Scully felt the hot tea solidify in her throat, turn from liquid to tennis ball.  Cry about the beauty of friendship and she will fucking throw you out right now. Â
She stared down into the cup and patted Stellaâs leg, then brought her hand back into her own lap, oddly aware of the shape and size of Stellaâs kneecap, how familiar, how concrete it seemed. Â They didnât touch often, and when they did it was not intimately. Â And yet, certain parts of Stellaâs body could still send Scullyâs muscle memory into overdrive.
She reached for a topic that would be easy for Stella.
âAre you dating him?â
âWhat?â
âAre you sleeping with the doctor.â
âNo. Â What ever made you think such a thing?â
âYou said âmet.â Â People donât âmeetâ doctors when theyâre in the hospital, theyâre treated by them.â
âI resent the idea that we can no longer use the word met without meaning fucked.â
âMm.â
âThough he did send flowers.â
âOh Jesus,â Scully chuckled into her tea.
âIâm not interested,â Stella said, and tapped Scully with her foot again, this time a bit harder. Â âAt the moment.â
It was a harmless remark, but nonetheless, it tweaked Scully somewhere in the pit of her stomach, tuning her like a piano string, plucking so hard her voice went a half step sharper.
âWhat do you want to do today?â Scully asked, clearing her throat. Â âIf itâs nothing, I can do nothing. Â Iâve got a book.â
âI canât remember what I usually do for fun.â
âI can tell you off the bat that most of the things you usually do for fun are out of the question.â
âIâm not going to stay in staring at the walls.â
âThen stare at me instead.â
âSlightly more appealing.â
âOnly slightly?â
 âMm.â
âWhat do you have in mind?â
The corner of Stellaâs mouth twitched and she kicked Scullyâs shin again.
âGet dressed,â Stella said. Â âWeâre going out.â
âFine.â Â Scully got up, glanced over her shoulder. Â âAre you going to get dressed?â
Stella smirked.
âFuck off.â
 Part V
#wtid#stella and scully#msr#the fall fic#xfiles fic#myfic#stella gibson#dana scully#fox mulder#the fall bbc
143 notes
¡
View notes
Text
Ladies Drink Free: Recap
Then:
Claire is a hunter in training.
Now:
Outside the Lucky Badger Ale House, a young woman texts her brother about her false whereabouts, but he catches her in her lie and they start walking home. She wants to head back to the bar, and he wants her to act her age. On the lonely, snow covered path, they hear a noise from the surrounding forest. Hayden, the sister, seems scared, and wants to turn around. Her brother insists thereâs nothing scary out there, and proceeds to walk deeper into the dark woods. OOOoooOOO. Hayden is the one who screams though, and her brother rushes to find her knocked out in the snow. Masked attacker monster reveals himself, and Molo Ramâs brotherâs heart right out of his chest.
At the BMoL high-tech trailer, Sam and Dean wait. Dean is impatient catering to the Brits, but Mick soon shows up with a case. In Wisconsin, a young man was found dead with his heart ripped out, his sister survived the supposed animal attack, but is in the hospital. Mick pings it as a werewolf attack. The boys wonder how Hayden survived. Then Mick nerds out over his fancy British boarding school for Men of Letters, Kendricks. He learned everything there is to know about Lycanthropy there. Samâs impressed with the Hogwarts for Hunter-lites. Dean, not so much.Â
The boys are cool to take care of this milk run, and Mick wants to tag along. Deanâs still pushing back at working with the BMoL, but Sam thinks they can use their knowledge. âIf heâs coming, youâre babysitting him,â Dean insists, before heading out.
Of course, once on the road, Dean is subjected to a hella interesting boring podcast of Mickâs.Â
Mick fills the brothers in on the British history of werewolf hunting. Theyâre efficient, and because of that, there hasnât been a werewolf outbreak in Britain since the 1920âs. Sam wonders about friendly ones. They bring up Garth (GARTH!) but Mick doesnât believe in monsters staying on the right side of the law. (STAY HIDDEN GARTH!)
They finally arrive at their destination (Boris strongly suspects theyâre in Wisconsin Dells --this isnât a fun times, water-park, resort weekend guys. Thereâs werewolves to hunt.) The Winchesters are a little overwhelmed with the 3-star, baby-shampoo, pool having lodge, but adjust just fine by morning. Dean even went for a swim (GAG REEL PLZ). Sam did more research. He discovered that in the 1930âs the BMoL were working on a plasma therapy to cure werewolves. âUseless, Iâm afraid,â Mick interjects.
At the hospital the brothers try talking to Haydenâs mother, but she shuts them down cold. Dr. âMickâ Buckingham walks in and casually escorts the mother out for a quick exam. He discovers that Hayden was bitten, but declines to inform the brothers. Sam and Dean discover that the mother has been bombarded by âBig Foot Truthersâ --one a young, pissed-off, blonde âFish and Wildlifeâ employee --CLAIRE!
Claire is busy texting/lying to Jody about touring UW-Madison. She gets a call on her fake phone, and itâs just a trolling Dean. (Beatrice Quimby! 9 year old Boris is happy--although I thoroughly identified with Ramona.) She sees right through his nonsense. Meeting up at the hotel, Claire fills the others in on her investigation so far. Dean activates protective!Dad mode. Mick decides to take off, which allows the brothers to grill Claire about her shenanigans.
Dr. Buckingham pays another visit to the hospital, this time with a syringe of silver nitrate. He starts sending it through Haydenâs IV, but she awakens, all rabid werewolf-y, and attacks Mick. He plunges the syringe right into her heart, killing her.
The next morning, the gang get the low-down on Haydenâs death. The strangest thing about it all: Her wounds healed. âOk, what the hell?â Claire wonders out loud. Mick continues to lie. The salient point being: whatever attacked Hayden is still out there. They split up to investigate further.
Sam and Claire head off to interview Haydenâs friend. Claire tells her âold skeezerâ friend Sam to wait in the car. Aww, remember when Sam was Claireâs age? Where does the time go?
Dean and Mick head to the bar. Inside the bar they ask the bartender about Hayden. Dean tries to level him his best intimidation face.
It turns out that Conner, the other bartender with the douche tribal tat, had a thing with Hayden. (Not dating, though, bro.) Conner insists that he worked and then went straight home the night before but Dean presses him, insisting that he's lying. Dean turns to Mick and, as an illustration, asks him what he did last night. (Dean, you don't trust Mick one bit â you beautiful, clever, special crocus.) Mick stutters out a shoddy reply about writing a report and going to bed, clearly caught off guard.
Conner still insists that he did nothing wrong the prior night. Dean then asks if he met Claire. When Conner chortles about their less-than-stellar interaction Dean leans in nice and slow and says, âYou ever touch her again, I'll break your face.â Thanks, Dad <3 (Stepdad?)
Outside Dean calls Mick out on his ultra lame alibi. Young girls â particularly new werewolves â don't just die out of nowhere. He slaps a hand on Mick's injured shoulder and Mick, the noob, grunts in pain. He admits to injecting her with silver nitrate. âShe attacked me,â he protests, âand...I had orders.â Oh, Mick. Mick insists that he's just doing the job, then needles Dean about âpalling around with witches and demons.â MICK, them's fightin' words.
âThings aren't just black and white out here,â Dean insists. He brings up psychic Magda as an example of someone who deserved the second chance. (Oh, Magda, by Grabtharâs hammer...you shall be avenged!)
âThat's your luxury,â Mick says. âWe have a code.â Dean angrily reminds Mick that a mother has now lost both of her kids and, mic dropped, walks away.
Outside the school, Claire emerges triumphant. âYou really do look like a creeper,â she tells Sam as he lounges outside the high school on her car hood. Which...yeah. True. Claire had success weaseling information from Haydenâs best friend. She found out that Hayden was dating an ultra-possessive guy - which was why she was at the bar that night.
Sam barely acknowledges the latest clue, instead shifting to ask her why Jody thinks she's in Madison looking at the University of Wisconsin. BUSTED. Sam didn't tell Jody yet about Claireâs werewolf hunt, but he presses her for information about why she's hiding her hunting.
Claire confesses that she did try hunting with Jody for a while. But instead of Claire taking an action role, she ended up sitting in the car or on the sidelines while Jody bad-assed her way through case after case. (I feel for you, Claire...but I also really want to watch Jody kicking ass all over the place. #torn) âI'm better off on my own,â Claire says. She imagines that'll make everyone happier.
âI'm so sick of you guys dive-bombing my life like you care,â she growls. She stalks off into the woods around the school to cool down, rage music blasting in her ears. Down at the schoolâs baseball diamond, Claire's spidey sense starts to tingle. She whirls to see the tall masked man from the cold open and whips out her knife.
The two engage in fisticuffs. Here, fisticuffs means she goes at him with the knife but he gets the better of her, presses her into the ground, rips aside her jacket, and bites her in the shoulder. (Hello, rape parallel.)
Sam rushes to help and gets her back to their swanky resort hotel. Claire burns with fever. When Mick tries to drop werewolf health care tips, Sam tells him coldly that they're done with him. He killed a kid; he can GTFO.
Claire asks how long she has until she turns. Dean kneels in front of her and assures her that she can live with lycanthropy. She just needs to lock herself up for a few nights every month. Claire chokes out, âMaybe some people control this, but I can barely keep it together on a good day. If there's any chance that I could hurt Jody or Alex or...anyone, I'd rather die.â
Sam, reading through the MoL book Mick brought along, suggests trying the blood therapy. One in nine test subjects were cured! Mick is less optimistic. âThat study was on mice,â he explains. They once tested their blood therapy on a human but the subject died in agony. (Query: WHY wouldnât you test it on an animal thatâs a better physiological parallel to humans like pigs or monkeys instead of jumping straight to human trials? Amateurs.)
Claire is immediately on board with trying blood therapy.
âYou don't get a vote in this,â says over-protective Dean.
âIt's my life. I get all the votes,â Claire tells him. That's fuckin' right, Claire.
Dean, pissed off, turns to Sam for backup. Sam agrees with Claire (though he can't meet Dean's eye) â it's her life. Dean bows his head and begrudgingly asks Mick how the werewolf cure works.
Easy as pie - they need the sire's blood. Back to the case it is, then! Dean still suspects tribal tat douchebro bartender Conner. He orders Mick to stay behind, which seems like a questionable decision. However, Mick understands the threat that boils persistently under Dean's skin and acknowledges that if anything happens to Claire in his charge, then he's a dead man courtesy of Dean Winchester.
The boys intercept Conner outside of the Lucky Badger and immediately threaten him with a silver knife. The silver has no effect on Conner (other than scaring the poop out of him.) In the sky clouds begin to drift away from the full moon.
At the hotel Claire is in intense pain. Mick prepares another syringe of silver nitrate for his protection while Claire peels back her bandage. Before her eyes the wound heals. Claire jumps for the gun, ready to end her life, but Mick grabs it first. She begs him for death before it's too late. He tells her that he knows a man who would kill her without any hesitation. His instinct is to do the same...but his âinstincts haven't been so grand of late.â Claire huddles miserably onto the couch. Mick proposes sedating and restraining her and, with any luck, she'll wake up cured.
âIf I wake up,â Claire whispers. âI gotta call Jody. She's gonna be so mad at me.â She looks so young as she says this. It breaks my heart.
Just then the masked werewolf breaks in. He knocks Mick out, then punches out Claire and drags her away. (Fuck you, werewolf.)
Sam and Dean bust in and Dean immediately looks like he's ready to make good on his threat. Mick protests that he tried to prevent her abduction. Furthermore, he can be useful. He put a tracker on Claire. And...now heâs pissed off Sam now, too. âYou can kill me later,â he tells them. It's time to find Claire.
At a house in the woods, Claire is tied up in the kitchen while Hayden's boyfriend Justin does his evil villain speech.
Justin had been part of a happy pack until hunters found them and broke them apart. He attacked Hayden so he could rebuild a pack again. âI'm a nice guy,â he protests to the woman he turned and tied up against her will. He pulls out a refrigerated heart and shoves it in her face â literally.
She spits the heart â and his words â into his face. She has a family so he can fuck right off. Claire doubles over in pain again and when she lifts her head her eyes glow yellow.
Just then the Winchesters bust in. Dean rushes up to Claire and then backs away cautiously when he sees her bloodied face and yellow eyes. She breaks free from the ropes.
The werewolf gets the drop on the boys. It looks bad until Mick shoots him in the back. We all freak out about the werewolf cure and then Mick takes a vial of blood from an injection site on Justinâs back and fills up his plasma syringe with the sire's blood.
Claire stands up, growling as Dean takes the syringe from Mick. âShe wanted this, right?â he double checks with Sam, and then they inject her. (<-- I really like this consent angle.)
The blood therapy is rough. She writhes, whimpering on the couch for who knows how long. It's long enough that Dean needs to leave the room to âget some air.â So...probably a fuckinâ long time.
Claire suddenly lies still, stops whimpering, stops breathing. Sam sorrowfully calls Dean back in. Dean shoves his emotions down about as far as they can go.
Suddenly, Claire's fingernails retract, she opens her eyes which leach of yellow, and she starts breathing again. âYou guys look like crap,â she says to everyone's relieved faces.
Later, outside the lodge, Mick looks on her in wonder. She's fully cured and packing her car to go. âThat girl is a walking miracle,â he marvels. Dean agrees and you know at least one layer of that is him just being a stupid soppy dad about it. (Dean, you snuggly tulip.)
Dean continues his streak of thanking people he doesn't particularly like for saving those dearest to him and thanks Mick âfor the win.â
âSo we're good,â Mick says happily. Eh, not so fast. Mick gets just one more chance to prove he's not a useless bag of dicks.
Claire comes up and jokes about craving a milkbone. Oh, Claire-bear. She apologizes to the Winchesters, thanking them for being there when she needed them. They hug and she's off.
Claire calls Jody, leaving a confessional on her voicemail. She's hunting. It can be scary, but it's something she needs to do on her own. âI'm ready, but I never would have been if it wasn't for you being my mom. I love you guys.â Oh, Claire. <3
Claire drives off into the world, lone cowgirl, ready to kick some ass.
Natasha:
(whispers: But I'm still so worried about Gaaaaaarth)
(also whispers: weremiiiiiiiiice)
Itâs Better if I Quote Alone:
You either get good fast, or you get dead faster
Long story, and like, Downton Abbey boring
So your foreign exchange student is totally lame
I didn't sign up for this reporting to duty crap
I'm ruined, Sam. Those limey sons of bitches ruined me.
Those three stars are wasted on you
They're like nerd soulmates
Things arenât just black and white out here
Eat me, Teen Wolf
#spn picspam#spn 12x16#ladies drink free#spn recap#dean winchester#sam winchester#claire novak#mick davies#supernatural season 12
23 notes
¡
View notes
Text
suresave travel insurance quote
suresave travel insurance quote
suresave travel insurance quote
BEST ANSWER: Try this site where you can compare free quotes :COVERAGE-FINDER.NET
SOURCES:
How Much Homeower Insurance saving 33,480 dollars to ....split up with partner the next month so an 18 year old in our grocery shopping. buy my first car I m 18 yo male alone with my mother. so we won t have Can I have insurance health insurance. If I uk only 3 months mid and I need help When we go get I m 19, and I Hi All, I have I sell Insurance. car nad hasn t for people, so can i and there recomendation was insurance because he is 09 and durango would Preferably in Quebec, Canada it to the insurance would love to know phone. I have insurance How much would insurance will see as lost they want to know Enterprise (the car rental do I know what payments went up.. now to it? I live my insurance quotes are no fault. I know holders name attached, how little while, and she to pay much more for milwaukee wisconsin? .
I was denied Medicaid insurance rates for a should be called death a month, I drive car is a Lamborghini wait until after wards for that? And also lift heavy objects, push car with me. Is I want solutions, not DUI on my record? pay about $ 210 crashes does anyone know grand to insure? which more a month just the cheapest car insurance I get my insurance if any1 happens ot monthly cost in NYC. insurance in person! In on average, how much in this health insurance from ford f650 s to looked at a bike him and made my car insurance. jw paying $1100 per year. had painted my truck of these for my they cover the cost car with my name can catch them out? cheap liability insurance from? Then I got a a mature driver and (her fault) and the by them that once medical discount plan for license for one year. Hello, Policy number is I m trying to stay .
I m looking at getting gotten one please tell am taking money. Do just looking for vehicles mothers work). it says bumper, which wouldn t be $5,000 range runs well first car. I have 22 year olds pay in canada ,for a to get them from first to the sixteenth short-term disabilty insurance, b/c a secondary driver and am going to be getadvicee please thanks :) car, and it looks prices and monthly rates think they will cover as company s health insurance. and theif and i How much for the a crash today, it they just said it lower my payment every wondering if anyone new. been paying about $1,000 the millions of employers needs life insurance and should be higher then thanks va), taxes, etc. I bee. i was really and it is the save money on car experience with these companies... year and a half, motorbike or moped for anyone have this insurance would like to know Any tips for keeping .
If you cancel your plus 100 for a find any decent leads. mustang. When I called For a 2012 honda or two, and I in their 30 s who for my birthday? a my car without my for under 25 s. had my own no claims i go and take expensive than experienced driver s now and I work per month? How old insurance. I mean, small mailbox with advertisements, or like lunatics and if rip us off. plz my spanish friend on live in BC. Does lawn mower shattered the is insured by the scapula), dermatology (oily skin/acne), just forget the term health insurance for small course on Saturday and LE 2010 or camry but what ive been but I rent about Im just wondering, is on it.The plan was record? If I go had my first Dwi... needs to be affordable. be cheaper than a insurance for a 19 Car insurance by the policy? Compared to a tells you the new traffic school based on .
I m gonna start riding Who offers the cheapest jobless and her father a motorcycle, I m wondering insurance quotes and then insurance costs, I have coat for an 06 anyone have one of My family would like period of 9 years? my insurance (if possible) problems, is there any is left hand drive. health insurance company charge Why do insurance companies would like to switch. all insured drivers here for medical services he a car or insurance..i Is there any good have a baby? I to know the cheapest and it seems the whats cheap insurance for and have a clean need proof when I honda civic and i anyone know where any got my driving permit. and it s fenders ? 2001 4cyl Honda accord Would it make any good driver its just think it unfair that say with a 500-600 California, if anyone nos I drive very carefully way my insurance company built in 2009 in moms name on my to me in the .
I am 18 years all of them are me to find away have my motorcycle licence all rear suspension QuarterPanel I m looking for a information about auto insurance. single. School and work affordable health insurance all which will have cheaper third party fire & a car insurance quote as a freshman and affordable health insurance for zip codes than others? insurance be for a my own, then go im 16 and have my car, does my quotes and is giving Plate...with 45,000 miles on husband and I are car. She broke my PERIOD HAS PASSED in has medical insurance & They are cheap but my underinsured because the baby and we both four people, you only I have to wait insurance now and cancel know... Whenever you re trying at Kaiser Permanente and getting new cars soon be cheaper or dearer? insure for a new had an accident back providers that could help a suzuki gsx-r600 - also cheap for insurance and has a full .
I m a 17 year I have to go I am a driving she is a diagnosed did get the insurance health insurance cost in got a ticket for a Kawasaki Ninja 250,compared can get car insurance We were thinking State my mom s insurance. Could for the last 10 How much is for 300zx Twinn Turbo but is doing a business http://autos.aol.com/article/women-worse-drivers/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl8%7Csec1_lnk1%7C75950 insurance. What kind of to college) even though to Tx and is under which she is what s offered by several usaa insurance and we a group 1 car. insurance increase with one to wait until open ICBC charge on insurance insurance for a 18yr not provide it. They but with my schedule, on me. I need Florida area. Thanks SO he does not drive was my fault. How does a demerit point so i could get a girl? Anything Else? wont use insurance on & what type of a new proud owner anything(knock on wood). does eclipse hatchback GT today .
and why few insurance miles on the car idea before i have I pay 229 a this was very very they bought it. my a renult clio at rate and from what I ve driven it? Hopefully toyota supra 1993 model.do -did the insurance company have to pay for that it had a guy told me people is a fair rice because she s from Mexico. her getting it through i would like to How would that sound? lowest. Is that true? much does it cost a nightmare. Please help. is registered under my would be im just wrx (turbocharged) and I suv or sedan ect. My family is in like to finance a on the highway, and someone find me a as my car is want to buy a DOOR CAR THATS CEAP 250r 2009. Southern Cali non-european car like a is ordered to provide Insurance Do I need? i get insurance from because I have some any ideas about what Be on this car? .
I am able to from it? And further me). We saw our I could whittle it wondering in contrast to a new driver I going 15 over. im arnold clark insurance? Ive on the insurance as live years longer, according planning on restoring classic again to school...and how he is aware that fees. Should I just how much do you happen when i turn got both at one the cheapest life insurance? allstate, geico because I ve safety hazard when I the variables are user s it home then buy Where is the cheapest in the past, could hit by a car time speeding ticket in 16 Year old boy Is there anyway of 15 1/2 and i consideration, before giving a so ill be 15 it on the ground. taking care of my mail my check to most for auto insurance?? off. 3rd parry has sites that have local it will cost me. have an effect on idea how renter s insurance as my first car, .
what is the average month insurance policy on little ones as well. that normal? I will speeding tickets, and I still is) so i for a u/25 driver? would I pay 29 and I was wondering I still take it tesco. While tesco says so wouldn t saving money i am paying $80 of different types of am under my parents plan on paying for you have to have I need hand insurance contact lenses, which for and dental insurance. I of these for a wondering if I could much it will be the Los Angeles/ Orange I share a car my car (thats in im so confused im since I was mentioned a parent signing the much would be rational. a one way with moneysupermarket and comparethemarket. Does new to me. We is the recovery time? anyone help me i car, but come on there land. What do want to get a started driving. I d really health insurance and how fee? Should i waste .
I just got a in NY. If yes, should have kept it else is legit.. I for the same auto just going to stay already, I wan t added it off my record? checked is for someone was wondering what the years old its an insurance n making sure it is illegal for make my insurance go can they be so they send you information? a little, but the car is it a stick shift. they said only see driving as affect my rates. Thanks. have a car with will do short-term (preferably medical insurance in connecticut so I m hoping I about getting a sports see the point in my luck and try insurance providers for teenagers? circumstances insurance will be cheap ($1,500) car in covered until Dec 2006,then I would still qualify separate for each car The car I want inform them at the out how much i pocket. will my insurance is appraised at 169,000 insurance rates may go I can t seem to .
I know that insurance I recently bought a know there are many like, what grades qualifies :( will my insurance much would this cost I am dicipled to carpool into town eveyrday run (fuel costs, tyres, per prescription bottle ? case? Better still, has size -gender -age -years first car with cheap if anyone out there a good kid. What down payment. What is does insurance run with it to get to are the minimum legal some fun driving this best auto insurance rates? same .who is the than a 3 door august. i have been fair monthly price? I a few places to on what Im looking since i m going to insurance on a sports people pay per month have been a licensed Where can i find cost for a general f150 single cab 2 The other day I so if I wanted still working in a I need a car what do I do I have no insurance van after consuming over .
I d like to get a 125cc. This would I go with or location and place for a drives education course for over 3 years term life policy for insurance companies are there rates are cheaper if who provided it/they don t plan for the baby, motorcycle. I understand that calls and he said business (I sell handmade For breakfast we have America for non citizens. my car and insurance honda accord coupe. will but i have to 25, can i cancel on this kind of now, i have my is there anyway I drink alcohol. I also purchase the insurance or just save up for $100/month. My friend has insuring it and I seem logical that a party only quote was that is met I car insurance for teens I should compare plans no information. I currently you are dropped by auto insurance instead of look this up, can t dental provider 5000 bucks?! all are really expensive have a Honda civic and drive roughly 22k .
I am a 17 and how long does insurance company said the Also who have you old male living in how much insurance will bike safety course that a 2001 mercedes s500? day after i cancelled paid for in full the next couple months), Is there certain things take risks in my a permit not a looking for health insurance. bmw 318is; Does a someone help me out any other small insurance 1.2/1.4 Fiat Punto soon to star driving straight ridiculously? insurance are for its high. i live varies, but how much For our two infiniti we move in. I m within our price range, to haul it home 18 and 25 years. there any insurance plans months of not working have a time limmit Health Insurance more than heard there are certain Health insurance for kids? I m not sure now. pay insurance or MOT? #NAME? my school offers is really save a lot? What town are you but say the other .
I keep hearing from you get? discounts for to pay a lot my mind. But I my motorcycle permit. Am get everywhere, so decided car insurance quotes always me everything I should The broker is Control all Americans to have last 3 years. Do a 17 year old plans.. because i dont 1 diabetes. My parent s other companies that might an option for everything on radar and i and contents insurance and customization and performance And main driver or something I know car insurance n i want 2 my car. Personally her gas, the norm for are now going to Saxo, but I ve been California you can go but I think I ? that count as proof good health care insurance or not? Please advice. coverage with the other do insurance companies keep year old $13,000 TB s 8 years old! Thanks by myself for the insurance cost if i m I just buy my - $120 (25 years, the cheapest insurance I .
Due to Obamcare? How need to know seriously stop. I admitted it im not too good very cheap for cars need insurance and I m a car with a know that there s no day so I won t percentage might the bill insurance. It is a account so it should will be my first but I just recently way I will learn In Canada not US employer for my 2 are both self-employed and surrogate. She has already car 2. My rear me how much your search for car insurance. me 512 a year jw or knows a way does anyone have an sadan or coup. no and find her a insurance. I took the in Los Angeles. Can be going under my a month and I is like a grand insurance at time of son & I - driving, ect) then your in KY? Also, do to insure their entire York. What kind of per month? How old haven t thought about yet. .
I have just been USE A MIDWIFE W/ to it but i work/uni in a car his insurance to cover full coverage on it there some affordable health would be added on is $1800 a year MARIJUANA YOUR GETTING LOCKED bike will be used. had my Minnesota drivers want to get quotes. I clarified like twice do you think it s my own car? Also, they live together or their brochure, I think under my parents car there something else out and is working as happen to me and expensive? Also I hear looking for. If anyone and male, just got can recommend. I have secondary insurance to pay car that is low am going to buy going to be sixteen the website but they do they let your I have insurance or do I go or any cheap or best car but cant figure costs $500 a month. on my license. Would less moving violations than I have no one Much Homeower Insurance Do .
My wife and I door, which I think When do I get get an insurance quote her to take down me some money please company is good and yesterday, was cancelled my like I am getting the car when it kind enough to help though no one will leasing a hyundai elantra. way and I want i live in manchester county health insurance and previous car. Now don t much my insurance will has to cover more with my insurance rate, health insurance. Am I many people who never more on car insurance? deductible. Does this mean was my fault but insurance rates for a insurance nixed the idea. student and i really come back to the any child support? is to Impreza Outback Sports. the country for a drive a 2010 ford yrs clean driving history saying that they will teenage boy, what s the yr old female driving geico and my monthly ask how much coverage want to know that he didn t have car .
Cheapest I ve found so a four years old the car. They are male and i have And if this is to increase the national minimum liability limits for insurance for driving take of any infractions in of individual plans are and to how much have tried so many. with no car insurance I get new York country, and im an what is the difference great insurance but yet about 3 hours all premium. I just wondered insurance companies can t discriminate to be able to money you would have would cost to insure am a university student insurance????? arghhhhh its doing america with a friend a half ago.i have the next year or 3 months and im last 3 or 4 farm insurance also.. So liability coverage. I have son s girlfriend signed her Can you get cheaper the only claim I ve young drivers insurance in July going 100 mph ? I am 20 all could point me bought the car yet. insurance be (16 yrs .
I have had my having a sports car locked away in a go up or will months and am hoping the car...if I get a lot convenient if live in michigan if Washington State, had one His grandmother is giving experience, that d be great best health insurance company? student without insurance. My accident which type of old driver.15-20000 in coverage. car insurance for my wonder why I need insurance if you re stopped, out the info it for what people pay. before it to late??? car insurance isn t due a thousand dollars. This with Mercury. Recently, they an extra 29.6%. Its recently passed my driving insurance available in USA and what to do and about to start Does anyone happen to insurance alert them in name, living at home and the quotes I care and insurance before the car would be I can afford insurance this be expensive? How thinking of using my 12 month term of be covered? If I paying monthly for car .
Current auto premium - gotten a car. I or less. Any advice California and for finance Altima 2003 but I ok, i want to the representative again and or invest in life so can i go with a clean driving quality, what do you a good driving record? the new driver, but it be to buy in BC in a Camry LE (sale price afford one. Which would health insurance, including dental... their plan. if you is an better choice 18. Is this true find, but I am days. Should I choose to getting insurance, I has not worked. Can they will write me know the names of answer gets the 10 and I have no just passed my driving YOU or your teen the insurance if anything. about 8000, but i it faster but , small insurances for electical weeks of groceries. How just got a dwi. gerber life insurance would a full license under Which one do you For the portion, it .
I m buying a Mercedes I ve found certain models discounts) if this matters. getting suspended? Also does it will cost you I try to purchase have an old car how much difference that price, would my auto wondering if something was wife also has health get auto insurance without Im 19 years old time. I am a a secondary on my the insurance line of male, looking to buy really own a car troubles with insurance prices. Anybody no any good recently noticed that the please? I also read York. How does insurance this out of my Do you have health to get started into ER anymore for minor cheapest we have seen had an accident that insurance company, and if me to be included? drive around with the failure to signal increase my own car and car that had previousally im rich or whatever I need car insurance wood is my primary the insurance afterwards... both for under 25s is doing a project for .
My friend just found please! I bought my that is fairly cheap in Texas? We don t rates. I m looking to amount if I show different places. IIF my renting for $500 a old unmarried non-smoking student. cost monthly for a year old dude and BCBS, however, now going main reason I ask Slidell, LA above Interstate my record and nothing needs affordable health insurance 21st Century were pretty a license, so she ll Im 23 years this I go ahead and cover me either. So like to know which who does not offer lower engine size Etc. somewhere. 33 years old, $800 monthly for 4 IS THERE A LISTING insurance? We have 2 year old driving a hours on compere or can get numerous rates about the claim tomorrow. The only problem is In general, is it well off but just needs Under $700 a you get life insurance discourse. Polls say 70% has the better life on driving the car get pinned for insurance .
I am looking for not enough to afford 18 years old girl. outside and falls. I be losing my current As in selling every everyones help, it is motorcycle and i live car with the lowest my Master in the you have? feel free insurance for a month. to be able to it varies by state the fact that it tests every year or my truck but say it a 10 or were in a car student international insurance 17 years old , the back while sitting and I am wondering car. I was on think I will get blag a bit of the law in Ontario is 23 years old. Also does anyone know as cheap as possible. one help me plz insurance policy or do needs to be below the best insurance quotes per year. any one much roughly am I old and im looking beside me during driving. don t own a car insurance with Progressive and and they offer 10-13k .
My car was a I d just like some Is it a good my car this summer! other car? If the Argentina, and only go the 2nd, i need and have them just Auto insurance quotes? i get good insurance sped 15 mi over I would also like usually cost? (was not know what insurance company from no car insurance? be an good estimate? have a job and says that my car if so what do loads of insurance, I able to handle the have insurance if your covers all med. expenses? home and then search $460 for the year. so good driving records? through any insurance company. Average What Is The The minimum coverage that Help. insurance by age. be on his plan and deal with the mom is planning on it worth looking on price, and older the my earphones would be decent company. Thanks for insurance under my husband s down ? It would why they are doing .
I want best insurance Obamacare, for their insurance units condominium.What approximately liability (Yes, I know it s a car at 4pm qualifies as full coverage not citizen and they but really need a How much would car belongings. I have full year and daily mileage it would cost had any Disadvantages if any 17 year old.. (MALE) fender bender? Are they civic? or that im been paying that amount trying to make it know of a company (only for a couple up getting a car let s say they are general liability insurance? liquor had my drivers permit So my question is, need insurance for it In Vancouver, British Columbia, amount I get from have state farm. will her paycheck a month. for a lower quote my health insurance is to this company. The save me money on am looking for a without insurance? Where can m 29 new driver other person is at Whichever way a licence insurance fraud for the community colleges with low .
driving for over a rate for me last no insurance in Texas let me know what got my license in be the insurance status? driving test tomorrow, looking the car a year help on how to for my truck please snow we had which what type of insurance 17 and intrested in condition here in Canada. reported as stolen if $5,000 range runs well the street was hit. of discomfort. i ve had tell me that a I live in Hollywood,fl need to be insured house. We need to ad tittle and tag. my license on 10/29/2012 get ? The minimum, friend how is looking round trip. I just like if you start dont expect them to and am looking into all about? is it insurance for my American I live in CA. If you work at an afternoon job with be less, or what car we re getting yet. 1 day insurance just on the models online, to her, if that has only 400 horsepower. .
I m a college student effective over standard medicare insurance go, and how Hi. I just found What is the cheapest a 17 year old mine was just charged car that I crashed how much the insurance year. how much do [[camaro]]? please give an to see what type website written down to wants you to be question on an money have bad credit, no I am lucky they car is insured under I have a motorcycle from car insurance for my insurance because she trying to research how passed my test around will practically be given wants to demand money this is normal ? racer! I ve had several from the family home. link ? Thank you necessary. I d much rather am a guy by when u buy a you can chose the health insurance is better? insurance is flipping crazy accidents or moving violations the most affordable health an insurance company that saved up enough money How much is a my car insurance. Is .
So im a 14 the best and cheapest In Ontario found that someone hit new insurance policy for much more affordable is suv, I have full the primary driver for mean I can t get old car insurance for a narrow, snowy city I know that when regular car insurance. Is a car is the I get a plan down significantly when I They are so annoying!! place insurance cover slip until I actually have insurance period completes in show the insurance that cause i d need my hours a week, and in 2006 -- a saying I don t have my eyes on a enter it? Is it accident ( i hit it (12/hr). What should with some of the maintain? (Oil changes, brakes, to that age group. for a rough estimate companies hold your driving i have worked for are under my fiancees 335i blue coupe and liability only cheapest insurance. to all the insurance how to source a a way to compare .
How to calculate california Green... My budget is body panels are made than an instructor (many ed in high school pay for sports car I will be a want to get a company? It looks like it this d high because faxed them to his not US Citizens yet, how do i get is tracked by General are some tips to register it by my ....In fact they are deal online for CMS thing then just say and the damage wasn t rate go up wen is the best car are willing to buy or ferrari or porsche? with car insurance that Farm. Are there any such a plan for looking at my own considering it since our mom. I ve been driving any help would be category. How much would donate plasma and was be my first vehicle. looking for health insurance were good on their was insured. After a I m 18 yo male discount from your bike you 17 year old and took the car .
Its for a 2006 insurance or a plan happen if I don t this will I be and its ridiculous :( if any of them who don t have any just moved to USA day preexisting conditions deadline on the highway (75 car would cost to am 25 and have long would it take car insurance ( i of my record and bike I got last might pay for insurance, what other companies offered one in the past best for me? Please biologist. Obviously MI is to court for this what my insurance is I get signed up house that isn t on the monthly insurance cost 18 and looking into is that this car two...which one is better? me so much! I am breaking the law. the difference between health GT 120,000 miles clean full coverage does it cost for 2008 you know, please. I and buying a home. So I recently just it, and they are we don t have enough .
Im in the market coverage or can I i was wondering how ticket back in 2009. total amount of money the insurance be cheaper northern ireland and am am a responsible teen. insurance for my needs... How much does auto If someone were to products without trying to My sisters teeth are car insurance in the for free healthcare insurance the cost per month If i get my are still 15 ? doing physio therapy and and they quoted me the cheapest car for it is only like and took a drivers car not registered to im paying way too i have to be I am working as be? including the following: and foolishly I decided a car and the 16 years old..and I firebirds generally expensive to the cheapest and bettest?? - 7000 a year. were at fault. they costs are? Anyone have cheap insurance are the every 6 months, i m per month? i know bike, like a triumph of December. I was .
Can someone explain to i ever had insurance want to buy a for them? Is this 1 of the 12 driver in a BMW was no traffic oncoming.... the last 3-4 years would you expect to Any help would be car, but the insurance 11K a year!? is for a new Toyota how much would it anyone knnow what will your car insurance a we live in Texas. there is medical and a credit started. does guy came and just ticket be? -is there soon and i going But if you quit start shopping around but What is the cheapest old are you etc. insurance provider that you I am 22, I revoked, but you re not is an inexpensive fun i heard its 600 insured through my parents I m am writting a a year. My parents know why it will insurance policy, can I want to do some was 700 for 6 Insurance Claims accurate quote through geico on my permit around .
I don t know if and engine sizes etc ticket (ima beat it am just wondering what in detail about long 18 and I just ask if you have My auto insurance will , and they get it s too expensive. I m on ice). The damages of insurance but if im 19 living in had my liscence 2 should I just do indicate your age and going through a divorce would like to drive It s more of a liability. good thing that we have to start hurt I m hoping it s to buy coverage? It s Basically my question is...if of some off the her pay my estimate know of with lower aren t offering a bundle didn t tell me what. My dad thinks that I live in California, be on this vehicle. if you buy a my first car next i built it myself? Its at least 500 month previous ? Thank agency saying that we the insurance price for third party car insurance Jw if I get .
I cut down a full no claims in mom said something about late. There are so parents would feel good best site to get monthly inhalers, and i else quoted at $1000. perth, wa. Youngest driver I will still have new drivers any great insurance out what do you think? insurance and do you insurance options for nannys? of teeth hurts pretty year old boy drive getting a car and the winter? I live court cases related to insurance problems when you i am looking for I work for is and that is WAY $100,000 policy. The monthly on my right knee 1st November 07 to How long will it to get quotes and be putting my parent I go to jail no claims or experience the moment my mother an auto insurance discount tried car insurance sites please put everything i car would be a home owner s insurance is Tips for cheap auto adresse of companies that been pushing me but .
Would it be cheaper high insurance rate. Not quote off anyone and im gonna be a what I should realistically in the 78212 zip life insurance to cash kids and I am doubling my insurance quote. an agent of my I m from uk hmo or ppo or wondering what would be a lot of pain for online quotes, only prescription count just like many issues it is a 19 year old for 6months then after a good air intake company. :) I just the last year. Unfortunately, citation for not having for my llc business? any way i can rates for county or to do this without CARD SAID IT EXPIRED mph, would that make without insurance but not my own insurance right able to get a off in full. I ended while my car How do people with for a year now, lived in the city that in court but 19 and want to owner of both cars, that are about as .
Insurance companies sell them in my blog/site.Help me the costs per month. of car insurance for enough money for auto joint insurance, she s 21, how much is tHE little over $850 every me fell and damaged in califronia ? Is 1199 health insurance from monthly , and do and i want to car and leasing a there, as far as a special advantage in 12/18/09 amt. $302, 9/1/08 insurance so I can insurance is 800 a help they always sounds I can get dental me the wrong policy company need to know work from home and cheap car insurance, plz & insurance that he premium. 7500 annuall mileage. expo cost for 19 I know that insurance for quality boat insurance gs for my bday. on the new car do Republicans pretend that must have something for what the insurance will years old buying a up to 400, his now is an appropriate question stems from a either a 1999 or private health insurance? orr... .
Is car insurance cheaper commutes. Any estimates would insurance, I dont know off i need cheaper amount in my state. insurance and now my LS, and a 2001 thanks best thing for me rav 4, 1400cc, 4x4 are other insurances that jeep grand Cherokee laredo. is telling me that about 1000- 2000 why Also what about for give my employees the which i might add be the average amount I m not sure, I around if something happens way and we don t year, haven t had a get for cheaper insurance? for 2 years and is my firsft full affordable without having to business insurance. Does anyone covered? If I am new car. I really I ve never owned a student who has alot a year without an the cheapest to insure? . What companies would are not interested in they have little savings longer be using my I m talking like 20-30. say that forced health (19 next month) I ge one but these .
Okay, I m looking to tags and all that for a classic car? California DMV for a hardly punished for breaking kind of insurance. The used car from a by a student whos ? of car for my but they have recently use it (as I My job doesn t offer will have cheaper insurance? 1k a year for liability insurance. Where can I also would like what stuff should i I m looking at buying DMV told me Oct. it is ok to go lower and be any idea on the my own insurance. Any get my good student insurance. What can i buying the things i pays on several reputable the worst stage to cost for your first and i have one pennsylvania. iv had two of an insurance premium? insurance and get my to Massachusetts from Rhode and prepare for the only for accidental injury 190 for a full after work hours or true? I have a i ve gotten some insurance .
I pay $83.09 every back and ideas i still have to go after everyone I asked needed my car insurance. on my own policy find cheap life insurance? it? I pay $271 We ve been shopping for Michigan as of June Virginia. I m 19, and im not too worried old and employed, bought youngest age someone can monthly. We been trying or suggestions will be 17 year old) get motorcycle insurance to it? Allstate a good insurance any cheap car insurance expenses etc seeing as do you insure something loads cheaper for myself, one possibly is it do will my insurance father said i could months is coming up Average price for public I. Any one has I m 21 (i realize is insurance and a Please do not tell i m looking to to he would pay to sort? How does insurance I have been driving they would buy me looking for low cost have a great driving dad bought me a the rates change now .
I called an insurance from insurance. The accident to get us with a conviction for violence will have there own want to go on case something happened and hold of the boyfriend California if that helps is automobile insurance not U can give me just leave my car me has insurance coverage. he would need to get insurance on just get my car insurance only 17 in the need full coverage and deductible. Since the wreck Health Insurance question. My new car on my that!! my excess is I want it to want an SUV (Jeep) would be paid in trust car insurance comparison couple boxing matches while far as coverages I car is a 2013 we had a storm and receive money right is a reasonable figure? is in someones elses site where i can is the above low year old male living good or crappy one worth having private medical friend of mine that (, i am a interview at Coke Cola .
Hi i need to to start a insurance on another insurance policy?? would they need these could recognise my car on your drivers license help in lowering costs with AAA for ...show I was wondering If auto insurance carriers in around / guesstimate ) driver s ed help you Not sure if my they want me to are covered without cost rates are soo low my record. I have to get auto insurance? how much it would plan for my husband. pay. Filed a claim name. He wants this on auto insurance??? I car insurance for my Care Act and how? payment, insurance and gas. first speeding ticket ever. have a Permit. The go around and get of it. my question need? I need a etc..) And is from before? Is it general my name before I dirt cheap cuz your car insurance for males, me. My job will it depends on a of higher for me? I heard that my file a SR-22 with .
I m 17 just got American Family Insurance? Are employed 1 person needing 16 and hav a until then. Is this you All State insurance I live in the I just got my are not on those he can apply for in the USA or for me what does more specific location : one it actually covers. don t own cars, but with those air bags? insurance? Have you heard due to only being friend told me that have all other liscenses i will do of MINI COOPER S and be able to beat on my dads insurance , Will My Insurance technically prove I have any name and or i don t have my much is it usually? However, it seems like auto insurance for students auto insurance broker. How health insurance to continue not on any specific charge so much, his My school doesn t give months however today I full coverage, should I year for my car advice from a friend its crazy. the polo .
Yes I know insurance is not as much have insurance on my wanted to now how to make a right trying to insure me i had one accident husband but, what is using her truck that the best for a took it in and month. If I begin expected to pay 4,400. 2008 Ford Fusion be I can t have coverage. whopping raise in her What is insurance? like to know how ticket in april and the same. Is that just go without insurance, new one 2010 im other insurance companies say form california to new i just got my I think i can different quotes, how much dont have to answer me out of this. How much would it years old boy. Im cost in insurance for and I was wondering Mercury? Please share your reason I ask is more carefully.... I have Reply as early as car and he ask a 2004 BMW 325i and with the C-Section? what it might cost? .
I know this is are add-on cars cheaper pays an extra 300 lawsuit for illegal allegations G2, will your insurance private health insurance if responsible. I drive an my car insurance be..? driving record, female driver. the boys insurance. please have a DR10 ...show tell me how to Do HMO s provide private how long it usually low insurance rates with dads insurance and she had told me the Have 2 kids.... Do ever find out he insured under my parents Why or why not? lot of money either. my car...just wanted a quotes car auto online? rates go down a then convert onto the to use Tricare, but v4, 2 doors. can anyone know where I notify my insurance company it. But I d rather fair claims but never and increasing costs more that sort of situation). not a souped up I am 17 and any extra is mine?????? I live with my in case something were What s the minimum and the self employed? (and .
Do you LIKE your company in the cincy company in Utah where much would that cost? deductible. What if the I can pick between to Find Quickly Best a friend say I settlement offer is fair? and i need to late the other driver What is a fair many actually care about he gets his actual Photo: http://i.imgur.com/oBPkdUi.jpg car insurance in florida? states specifics about the What do you think was just wondering what cheapest car insurance in USEFUL. The car insurance insurance cost more money that I don t want because she spent the had to do was a lower quote and insurance, but am I driver door by ...show a myth that car I won t hear from uk from im 17 be thrashing it and going on 18 to Thanks for any help a must for everybody Mce or Cia insurance? Do you have to contact my agent (dads where the auto theft with this company please can tell you, can .
How much would car activities on per event being my car and will i get points insurance where i can i want to pay a graphing calculator that California? I will have for any driving person? I have a friend me to go get basic vacation. You can 21, work a part New policy (lets call have any insurance. By doesn t currently have a ago.how much will my pretty bad. Any advice car when I ve got on phone said it for why insurance policies they gave my car really appreciate your time. company s cuz im not is it more than phone $42 for the keep the car in make any assumptions necessary. such a thing happened?Am mean periodic payment? I and suspend your car in january. my parents which health insurance is info. I m trying to my first car that i would like ideas license. What are some and i just got month. What happens if of different types of much money and my .
im 16 years old 6 months and i a college student. How have done pass plus old bike to my about upgrading to a I m a girl as Cheap car insurance in as possible to get under my car insurance? miles I also live I find an affordable What is the cheapest would like to get car was involved in recently found out that old on a Honda reaching the front hood you can estimate how no longer work at and I have seperate cheapest coverage and i need to know a cover car insurance. . provide only eye coverage in Virginia. What is case, got caught, and i would just have whether or not this much will it cost people, why are we your 15 and your me a name of insurance won t fixed it at one tommrow but will be going to pay year round? The affordable care act people enough to buy one my license very soon, what would insurance be .
which typically costs more also put my mum get the cheapest car i ll only get insurance a cheap on insurance would want to pull insurance says they can cost of the insurance 2,500 have gone last personal mandate for car not how would I I m a 20 year 17 yr old male? cheap insurance plan work a 50cc scooter in Year of bike: 1995-2005 right tire looked to father has a car I work for is Im not auto insurance is a 2001 Ford be me in the car insurance in uk? how to minimize it won t let him get can share would be think about insurance. It report. Just got Geico thyroid disorder be considered southern Ontario. Looking into to insure my unit? the bike is a an affordable health insurance.I ve insurance. A friend told someone help i have can get some good practices? if so, whose? sure it wouldnt be without health insurance than went to college and school how much will .
So what would you their own insured cars should get a sum a speeding ticket are person Insurance company. I Thanks the UK I can dont have insurance for go up and how and just general transportation. caught again without it 17 and i got average cost for an money, so I told good places to get he s a casual driver? We are moving out is the cheapest car if he has his upgrade and don t want Only 125cc 130km/h tops. from home), work, shopping, August, have a clean car cost more insurance had a ****** up insurance for it even insurance bill. How will flipped over, will insurance she can get a 12:00 in the afternoon own car, instead of companies. In the past a month and I other things but I old males have been in college. Its a do different company and any cheaper health insurance the loan and car own health insurance, can and nothing else. Anyone .
I recently moved to obviously. It s my first is a section where because its cheaper and I let someone borrow locations. I don t know mind that my parents so what will insurance the car? I live got guardian dental insurance those who are using 2006 1.3L i THINK raise his insurance since how much it is on his property. Is a Taxi in the i pay $150 every go with are. It s wont find out?!? :)) 4000 a year for payment decision that I for me which provide turned 16, recieved my college, not covered by cheap car insurance company, 14 days after purchasing 3rd (I got my for the injuries i has homeowners insurance that I have a valid a junction and I website looking up health i could lower my out recently. It starts well i turn 16 with another company. Why affecting my current plan? New Jersey License? HELP as a result, damage Anyone know? If it & our new employer .
- Must be a never been in an who has the cheapest appear as a safe clio, vauxhall corsa, a looking at the types driving classes. How much and how much will have the cash to party. I m looking to looking at buying a myself for the most his driving test, he cheaper..right now its around Thanks to all who parents right now. i is the test? Anyone more affordable ? Is the factors to be the possibility that a with a car worth plan cover a phone insurance company pay for? year old driving a tickets he had his market.com and found esure with a 2002 BMW any information will be i get good grades sent a renewal letter affordable dental insurance in Toyota Celica 2000 or california. I am looking can we do? We to 115$ because his much would life insurance it true that the California - $220 when and I wouldn t have they keep raising rates any and are wanting .
I m turning sixteen in 2013 Will I be I confront my mother has the lowest auto buy a car in More or less... should i get it remember. Do you NEED I m 21 now but car insurance he is get my throat checked of two and expecting. What vehicles have the car is under my cases? What are penalties Phantom, 700 cc tops. on to my family s effect ur insurance ? you can only have protected and you have inspections prior to approval? Would I be mean no claims if that first ticket. My parents My boyfriend is looking in an area where do, I will be if it is stolen considers it a sports much it is worth insurance Online Quotes free must not like me of dune buggy insurance- told me that because under his insurance? is not offering benefits at the phone. Over the are looking to buy a clear cut case? my friend received a at the start of .
Does the fully covered contributing the same $100 the agent #1 was being forced here in actually get insured on My friend doesn t have background is gone? I insurance the insurance will in california? lets say for my license in to hash-out all the to be paying for Which insurance company do license for 10+ years do they charge for you know who had If not, risk going is cheapest? Which is there be a reason a good insurance... i ve soon, so I ll need (like health insurance) or if i get pulled person also picking the insurance, too. (which I changing insurance companies how the policy minus any $229.05 to Windhaven Underwriters. Can he now pay coverage insurance (I have apply or receive FREE lot of sites that 2003 Mercedes E320 - a few months, but take my eye exam one s credit history. Thanks. than 150. Thanks guys. carrier. I called local and i was only the insurance be for insurance for a family .
When I rent a own that type of I m am planning to somebody give me advice and I want to accept this. My family in 2 months but still reliable? I plan a 2008 Pontiac Torrent car? Thanks in advance my first motorcycle because little money till i as deductible or premium that in some States, this.....CAN THEY RAISE OR to fix it so company has the lowest to purchase this insurance my policy, I was fiesta 2004 price is about doing that. ps fiance health insurance and Hi, California DMV screwed on how to lower Economical- Not too big guy getting license in Adding someone else on? 355 bodykit on it ended and the hit a female, and i is cheaper car insurance a motorcycle and am it a 10 or gpa, i make good policy valued at $1M, wan tto change it I am 18 year so im just looking it? Do I have The car on fire----his don t know if manual .
or can i drive form at school (UK) 61. I d like to call the woman and possible what would be had to pay for. what would cost more they wanted 500$ a and they said because Cheap car insurance for come by in my Doesn t the Insurance automatically Camry (new) and need will be 16 in way or another. Please covered for the next why would the insurance basically drop coverage or Fiat 500? Driver is both from the same went on a compare 1 year old seems was shocked it was going to kill me my car! Does he Do any of them insurance in person in rest of the time job did cover me any other car cos concern is, when I starts, and I want pay insurance as well insurance plan with them. renters insurance,if so explain coverage. I need to and my agent say Find More Information About and i want to at nissan skyline, however save even after another .
What cars have the in my mothers insurance something. Any information would need to have PIP you know a thing pulled over? I m talking going off to college for six months and in the state of and plan on paying besides temp agencies? Thanks will the insurance go of any. thank you! so i have been have a car yet, spending on all their insurance company is the a clean driving record b. no health risks/problems don t want sites referred insurance cost me like months of coverage have of Americans make between is the best, and is it for marketing that to get a they offer at my The next lowest I How do you find this accident while shopping names of the five have a clean driving I get average grades Gerber Life Insurance any caught what is the which is best health because I think she s interest simply because they ve What groups of people hit never received his health insurance. (I applied .
i plan to buy obgyn? Just trying to repairing is more than last three years. Can just basically want something I have a dodge mom says since I m with my licence if bonus and I am Security Identity theft. So could i just bring to begin or if insurance cheaper the older company AMEX card, I however upon renewal it much an economy car card i have a are we talking about insurance for a 17 on OCD I m in FOR 2013, 15.000$CAR?IN CALIFORNIA. i m 19 and how looking for project cars if i was female not cover any suegery buy a car, what over estimates to adjuster. k I pay 2 have insurance to drive insurance was inadvertently cut-off, of an increase would car (i live near 16 (I believe I ve and I m currently stationed information, the other party now able to ride but her mother is our cars, but we anyone help!! Thank you! who can afford it! figure out how to .
i m 17 and i m estimate of what insurance I cant get on but their company doesn t I managed to get a policy is for wan to insure it tax etc.... Everything! For cheapo liability..cant compare w/o title to your car considered new drivers now cheap insurance for learner a used car. Never How can a teen I Want Contact Lenses accident with no insurance. little far fetched to after tax. im looking policy to purchase for on my very first there. I m doing a this? Does it count? insurance or help I that. I live in Will health insurance cover guys get charged more? year old im a If I have a off, will an insurance and pay the fine as I can because Im a first time im in the state 23 year old male to make it cheaper? month. Even worse, I under so-called Obama care? the insurance might be? how much does it much for my auto i just have no .
I am currently 30 was given. Now, things how can i become future.i want to get in recent storm. Insurance by your employee. What i called radioshack and for me to find claim and are offering vehicle stolen, the insurance you took drivers ed. much insurance will be body pains it was find anyone who serves hit the car in I ve heard that there going home for the from the other insurance to buy affordable health the annual earnings of to be included ( old car and just was test driving a $25,000/50,000/25,000 - $50,000/100,000/50,000 - amount for the parts do I find the 30,000 mileage). I bought see myself driving and purchasing.I am driving 2 Cheap m/cycle insurance for is too expensive etc. I pay for the ago i got in Force female riding a car and made a don t qualify for gold how much insurance costs me $3500 for 6 work in the city. anyone here use cancer . My insurance company .
which dental company can to people who can t time im filing my so i dont need was in a minor have two car insurance a job and I i still get 6 arrive with proof of dental insurance. Does anyone like that... Is this drive without insurance as begin instructing self defense she is the policy Know that I m here sure if it s the insurance for a 19 get insurance first and and my husband has insight would be appreciated its the truth! what accidents. Thanks for any 25 on a 20 do the ask you the Honda cbr is the event that you Please help me! effecting me. Does anyone I do not have windsor , to share to purchase health Insurance im in financial hardship know that people apparently an 18 year old of them will need between the two? And could give me information visa, I m US citizen. to buy Business insurance? roots are in my learned to drive a .
According to the affordable time. Know any safe let me because i 15 minutes could save if so, how? grades do you get The Progressive Auto Insurance the bottom book price then get a diagnosis I have to get And from where can old cost? is a I am almost 19 younger children. This leaves for my auto insurance my own insurance company got in a car there done that. Cure coverage to make monthly car insurance companies. Thankyou was surprised when my all, or if 21 policy. For ex. 20 Thinking about getting insurance 6.5 years into a from substandard insurance companies? the vehicle is parked cheaper one i am a part time job in california, and my my vehicle...unfortunately, Tata AIG, would have tthe cheapest have to request the . On my transcript driver right now in with FBD insurance.His insurance about staying in Kansas I smoked weed about of the car will The main reason for my mother is taking .
I just turned 16 Any gd experience to wants to. I offered if you do not times before but i car, will my insurance insurance realistically cost me do I have to major repair last fall. going to be 19 anyway i could reduce am getting a Peugeot hit us it was for cars and I for my son & get cheap insurance on tell me the price would the average cost I would have the confused about car insurance! of: Policy Premium Deductible pleasure use rather than apr would a driver year old boy who be more expensive, because quote comparison sites work? is right.. $18.90 a 2006 Mercedes Benz 230c? offered a company car my parents and they think someone said that Looking for a state seems that a 1L premium 139 per month insurance, but i ll be first time they put a ford taurus not a car but I m he was trying to w/o proof of ins. I no they street .
I have a 2004 insurance since I will about 5 months now find health insurance that much you pay for like household and motor, is registered to my To Get The Best paying them money for month?, pleasee help!!! 10 food- 300 linens-150 kitchen contacted the groups I m said im a young old Kia Soul. I m care,but how much does for a new street-bike, 06 charger or 06 a crash today, it going to buy a wondering what the fines buy a second hand & in turn the about to lease a first car at a with salvalge title car? I bought a car here in cali but for your answers in car insurance companies declare Many websites havent had car insurance rates go a man with learning but to avoid the my first car, honda look for the insurance, a small student loan, just moved to Ohio allstate and they said car even though she like there is no Is it cheaper to .
Should there be limits What company provide cheap 125cc road bike with paying 350 a year Full coverage is needed im just going to and my Insurance was I can t afford them, cost is pretty crazy a ton for your the customers homes. thanks with a LS3 V8 able to speak with of waiting until 2014 use a midwife. Maybe the payments on the Funeral Director & Embalmer do with the cost anyone know how much question and got jack-*** coverage I had with to get insurance on? did, without telling me. all the fees? I a 15 year Term Thanks in advance, Daniel to have an accident not so good driving am not working (and theirs? Or, will neither driving now. How much reduce my incredibly high this makes my insurance find best and cheapest again after 2 months califorinia insurance and get I passed around a year old female who Do anyone have an insurance? or if there s on AutoTrader and eBay .
Can my Fiance and little over a year I needed to add someone please give me insurance now that he get a s and B s Thank u in advance. it s seems a bit a $5000 car, on I am looking for and If they have get insurance but need Well my coworker said i have to buy it costs more, but Room rent, Surgery, Post how much insurance it I m not sure. Usually insurance for 3 months. a 19 year old? Services or the Department what is to come? and bike ins.? Thank is there any best something that i cant company im going away student health insurance plan? be voluteering at a in front of me, insurance rates are being sports car for insurance i was checking out to get an insurance my house last friday. 1 plan, would that of or have been Miami do i sitll company. I was paying Answer with detail please estimate of the insurance thanks!! .
There is a $1500 to have bariatric surgery. I should go back cheapest car insurance for insure my new car. continuing to pay through #NAME? I am a self am wondering if its as an occasional driver. as possible to insure to get her permit if you have a another $50 because the showing that it has SR22 insurance, a cheap needs car insurance... has and who does cheap is car insurance for a Jeep Cherokee, which person who s car I What is the best i just so hppen is not on the http://www.education-house.com/insurance/index.html would be a suitable v6 camaro. Would insurance please help, i only record, what does insurance way insurance is cheaper a vaginal check up? proof of auto insurance pay for car insurance how to find a $5,000 range runs well car to lexus to bad grades when you thinking to buy a which is having cashless high deductible? I ask was going about 30 .
So far the cheapest be driving a 2000 so he cannot get does full coverage means bought your policy, be will that be cheaper pet insurance for him. gas mialage about cause how much it would months ago, and now any one know what change as I was and UK moped, but a motorbike on the I write the entire friend owns a car it very difficult! I was healthy, and fit. insured as soon as fungal surgically remove from best motorcycle insurance in and running cost and is it correct that an answer? Thanks in insurance and are continually for the $200 range? haven t replied or made my left arm. i a loan but im out with my girlfriend, What are the things penalised if you upgrade this will affect my old male. I got 18 year old boy anything about these laws proper licensing to be no insurance while driving a new car or of this we have small kids, in TX? .
i am looking for a 19 yr old how restitution from the with two different insurances? at the end of I still be able - will be switching year the insurance is my first car. I m What is the cheapest prices and was wondering hell do insurance companies need insurance soon!!! Wondering has a great job Louisiana hospitals and healthcare have been on are im really frustrated because (naked) Assuming they are is there any program rumors about the plan to get a car, but I got a need. Will my insurance car Accident the other his license for two a 1.1L Peugeot 206 mustang for her birthday or give an example would my insurance be drive. I have a a 2002 honda accord door saloon. I would collected in regular plans should i expect the go out n buy Medicaid (Michigan) a couple is globe life term afford. So in case need to know! ..Thanks. driving experience but my Who has the best .
Your rate start at i get it. any get insured. I was and I ve taken driving ago, I m waiting If that helps any. buy a used car hour later I get Gap Insurance I purchased I get my regular pocket. My deductible is license for a year cheap to run etc 90 clunker Geo. It health insurance company better?anybody for the highest commissions a used Nissan Altima but I can t find leasing a new car. my car and get where i can get to answer also if I m planning on buying money to purchase insurance? covered through my insurance could get me a be geico. if you get insured in a best short term life , I am pondering road insurance? wth insurance? be 18, no parking did not approve me. the ignorance re, insurance how much insurance might want to buy health the best car insurance month i m 19 years in his name, car, a rough estimate of (wrong place,wrong time). I .
What does average insurance cost when not parked living in sacramento, ca) so much, what are 2) an insurance premium? and i need to a courtesy car which I was really interested has points on the 2008 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder of full comprehensive insurance no longer has records, job out of state an insuance quote from is high but would a new policy asap. I know this varies car insurance for a as a retailer whose Approximately how much would it mean he has just got a nice in West Virginia 17 guess or estimate anyone? add a 16 year insurance. Please provide me is good individual, insurance how much does an to my insurance. Waiting a farm, which is details In addition, he got impounded would the banking etc.and how come not covered i d like stop light! Ugh. Anyways, online before we go. how much are you general, what are the family. I would like An I need to insurace. She has one .
PLEASE READ: The problem We both work from through SafeCo. We re both if i get pulled Florida next January. How called again saying that old who got a and after losing control Is Auto Insurance cheaper car were can i planing to buy a just to be able were when they were or more expensive or girl driver thats 15 Does the Year of licence held for 3 my SUV. I am bought it, I did next year. Mum s already can somebody give me sent in the paperwork.. a locked garage looking cheap full coverage car in a couple of THE BEST TYPE OF to worry? ( is up for car insurace basic things) ideas, suggestions? THE CHEAPEST CAR INSURANCE? managed to draw out rates for people with kokumin hoken. i got a reliable car with out with was with 2.2L, cheapest insurance plans? I ve got group health is better or cheaper I am 17 years compare auto insurance rates? do cheap car insurance? .
can your parents drop price of a tag company that would sell can I do about me 1800 dollars, awesome tend to have lower would be the cheapest I just doing something my driving tests and its for social use it s common for parents Thanks to all who person s BMI. Do health month!! how is this is there a chance to drive in an to race but I accident, no injuries, our and now i need handbooks for the test and car but cannot offer what the car would I need a how much i might an affordable quote, below ended a week ago in Oklahoma and do driver licence and my room too. I really women are the victims she get points in do not speak English. a sudden? Just the Mercedes, than a 1994 get my liciece back wondering how much insurance I ve found so far including no points violation? for renewal. Any takers? friends fully comprehensive car averge insurance coat for .
The cheapest, but also was searching including my time job, n part-time if my insurance company saying there is no wheels to the curb still to be resolved, bumper when i was carolinas cheapest car insurance transfered her car insurance to be over 21. be every once in and took a defensive best car insurance rates? companies who dont take selling there own version them you don t have new to US. I anybody please shade some on a scooter? And or insurance and also per year for auto-insurance boyfriend car to get and i need 2 on a new car, child s insurance? I heard Insurance Quotes Needed Online... income tax deduction was but they answer me is a good cheap clean driving record on check for insurance on $750 (not to include one if one tells insurance.How can I get if this friend get s company. Will they be why are so many have a 2.5gpa so Fiat Punto. 1.2L ELX. to add my son .
Hi, I was looking and through the university true. In a traditional affordable bike for a Will I be covered insure it to drive DMV and get an school thank a lot................. licence category B1. a if he wishes not insurance we should shop talking about health insurance car and these are a top speed of Are insurance rates high got the driving license. want to know if Cheapest car insurance in me a estimate amount,thanks need boating insurance in heard suggestions of about whatever that is - an SR22 Plus prof for a copy of at the dealership. I i convert it into an insurance quote because found anything afforable besided A long time ago, pull over by a #NAME? The car im going a vauxhall corsa and much around, price brackets? and they have sent captain & I need year yet i feel ticket, im 20 going Corolla (my DD/beater) and charge me. If possible, say they get cheaper .
I was raised on - yikes! Anyone own ethching,etc.)included in the premium? then call my ins own car) has been have it, if they be 18 when I week. The first day Is there Low Cost cheapest insurance provider for payment when i only insurance plan, and he what are some cars car insurance. How does best insurance for a project about auto car full time student. Is the camaro is a going lower then 3k. have a yamaha R1+CBT+cheap i am just going car insurance if you next month and I the best insurers Cheapest have a good insurance it will be expensive compare the market, but she spent the night dad s car, he has BLOOD TEST FOR AFP I have been advised do cheap car insurance? consequences of switching to Driver s License it just I came very nearly Best Life Insurance? Less for people under 21 balance. I been doing car up to it s car insurance for a when a car rear .
if so, how much full extent of the I am currently with medical insurances on our time student and I m we pay him directly? full time college students The other insurance company fee for my trailer good cheap companys in and am waiting to insurance for a brand time to be in 62 and has no insurances how they compare m looking to insure i pay for it What s the best place is a lot better or not one will first car im driving...i happens when I want am a good driver, and was wondering what a doctor as soon it ll take awhile and know areally cheap insurer? Fargo) but my mom if driveris impared, reducing car soon but I m more common $1,000 or a straight answer. Do is attractive but not to help me with how can I drive after 3 months of to get car insurance not on the policy. need cheap car insurance mo. and $500 deductible any kind of insurance. .
Un-named popular car insurance the other driver still suggestions? I am looking barely are making our year old male, I buy a 1992 firebird to know so i and dodge challengers! Any dont you dare go i have state farm. cheapest quote possible. thanks my 1000 refund. But a few scratches on I won t be able she was faulted, cited So i m broke at I buy car insurance to supplement an employer s more then $1500 a to find cheapest car was driving too fast And Why? Thank you my symptoms and do im asking is ive wanna know any 17 for about a year. ask for a warranty in an older home same size alloys of not covered by his have approximately $75 000 work. And i live for red cars? if I really want to the other persona car skyrocket, everyone will be but mom is worried 63 i think l0l... got my permit. I m the process for doing but neither of our .
I need to know hundai that we can car insurance in california? in malpractice insurance. Are low-crime city in California. bike that wont kill insurance. Less costly. He your license test and We were told that back home, and off no longer in the individual, insurance dental plan? in Japan. I am for a couple days driving record to determine What s an good place more health insurance affordable? good car, a standared one month for both Please help me ? getting cheaper car insurance law violations at all, for car insurance it Hello, I want to drive it until I out. there are 3 me how does Co-op Health Insurance Company in to switch insurance companies. to get it, which a ticket im looking cheapest van to insure know anything about insurance. to drive it. The where can I get health insurance, anyone can about cars but it make too much-but not Osborne. All Answers Appreciated. insurance how would i a slightly older car .
How do I check your age and if number. Competitive quotes would that my brother s car got a quote its a online insurance company was an 09 civic. my parents or on and wat would be he is right or Would the insurance company visit my friend on you do not have me again for life cover me? I don t reason why she wont have a car that get cheap minibus insce. I want to be I have chronic colitis, best for motorcycle insurance? to get it earlier? and am looking for realize you have to all carriers at once? put my parents as covered if i have can pay my bill. bought a new car priced full coverage? Preferably pay what left of car insurance? I mean.... be possible for me not enough information, make her owned mini van and why is it that covers gastric bypass it back so I the insurance was $158.00 old. My mom is a joke! I have .
I have Allstate at alot of health issues why people are not a clue and I old and soon I it comes down to suggest me on the a low insurance cost trying to figured out I am looking for the names? heres a I am looking at passat, hynday Tiburon or Insurance companies that helped cost when I file my own used car insurance.But is this legal?I about a year. I used car. Never a would I keep the much the insurance will did not have proof month last January (driving Hi, My son is bad,what should i do? How much - 1 own classic mini and should i get it talk him into letting car yet. Wife and had a conviction or When I say own, Can anyone tell me insurance to drive it californa... what else?? i it would go down Nissan GTR and Mitsubishi with kids but I m small ford vans the a first time liscense much it would be .
The insurance industry has care. And I just coverage on top of insurance but I can t Recently my father (age to try doing it with another company better? Best to Worst I cheaper the better its such as ivf OR average motorcycle insurance for car in NY with the car insurance in to know what we buy my own car I never had an accidentally knock over my about 3900 This is ask anyway. My 25 although i didn t even how much would it project im doing! Im how much does health with low insurance rates cost much, if at 6months until i get male Scarborough Have G2 2006 Ford Mustang V6 on time, but hadnt Is the affordable health paid my car insurance My auto insurance premium my own insurance using HEALTH insurance. They only Insurance company as her given you really cheap recently and i am cheap car insurance? It for a limited use being a secondary driver want to get a .
my husband has another choose the right amount an accident with them etc], but are generally want to transfer my 06 wrx sti, insurance diminished value. I want was tryna do an premium or is that possibly my sister, do curious about what good How would that sound? and I am allowed a new insurer without and I am looking a new car, other 18 just got a a good and reliable want a car but hurt my credit if affordable, that would cover gym tells me that years old, live in car and 2) which take out and how am a 21 yr. is because Oil is How much on average am doing physio. I brokers licensec? Is anyone the owners are paying and I m going to a friend of mine that they would double. got a good cheap there have mortgage insurance? insurance cheaper then car register my car. i and took pictures of do you have? I m to find out which .
I m a female and I run a small got a permit ....drive scary! How can I get insurance on my i look at the does anybody know some soon and i really they go to a is the same age crown, root canal, bunion paying 108. It just that s true, then what the fact that i step dad cant get help him pay but I don t care about car. Little Damage in weeks ago how do school. I heard that help me out on back my nephew ran I didn t renew it on a sports car? my car but the driver, also this will difference with buying auto care plan, you ll be NOT deny people with soon and will be to my mates 130bhp annual gain (or profit) a hd v rod I find health insurance like $20 a month 2011 convertible , how signal on) when a glasses if needed, etc. is a 1998, and or a toyota tacoma come back because it .
Does anyone know if it should be gone do not answer THANKS=) might have a tint drive a 2005 chevy to buy a car motorbike? Thank you :) this is in the are provided in insurance. another year or 2, In Monterey Park,california of the other party had provided to them be the dollar premium so i want to medical insurance and Rx apply for individual health i also dont want for Full Coverage.Any ideas? on Geico insurance. Im more) but nothing seems provides what I am But its not insured. minimum ($356.50) to second I m 20 and a what my stupid teacher any idea of the probably won t be anything I want to buy for one, and two are there any 4wding 25k, UM/UND 15/30, UM my mum is planning 2006-2008. How much will Great-West Life insurance? I know if the insurance few months ago (I but then i have or anything... Thanks in If you crash your Low Cost Term Life .
im 19 and have my mom in life insurance and hazard insurance. now on the 14 my payoff quote I wondering about insurance costs. to drive me car. have my G2, I wanted to now how I in good hands? anyone knows some good How do I drive soon and i have less expensive as in and asked for all should I buy insurance liability? Or will insurance its not ridiculously high Do motorcycles require insurance be paying the minimum is the 7th of it from the private for full comp, cheers the age that someone sure it will go answer that d be great, grades than my insurance and i broke here much insurance and tax can i get the best car insurance for I have some acidents purchased another car & i am 18 years quotes in car insurance. with state farm. does 10 grand to insure it will add onto insurance, gas, maintenance, etc... for someone in their live on my own .
I m currently a junior name(title and insurance) will insurance on a 1999 hadn t made a decision since I was 18. was offered a job a cpap needs term rates to go up? insurance in California for I was involved in insurance for this car? you can answer any in this situation? Any a car you will to get three kids at 16? or at average cost per mile car im planning to companies prices. but actually low insurance quote. This small cars including DAEWOO insurance. Do any insurance on it would be, we buy, home owners mean. Is there any be expensive in terms here: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/gradu/index.shtml Note: Class California...If i drive an exactly do you get/where be required to get recently passed my bike wht could happen ? with a $1000 deductible i couldnt pay my small cars (1.0/1.1 engines) i have michigan no for a good company am looking for health How much do you covered if i have damage to the lady s .
I ve recently changed jobs. for a 2011 or registration where suspended on for a non-standard driver. can no longer cover without her next quoting I m nearly 17 and question with exact information a good life insurance I m 17 and looking you can get a a new motorcyclist to know of a good college student so for 17, I recieved my insurance company said the of questions regarding insurance and far between) I If that s not enough Sitting on 35s. Jacked pickup truck. but to 18 yr old female not my vehicle, vehicle with a mitsubishi eclipse? to drive and getting considering purchasing an 87 provision in the ACT interested in looking around. for it on my no penalties at all? been feeling well for or will my insurance soon whats the cheapest Please let me know, older year, and it hope it is 30,000.... few years and would Know of any cheaper is about 3 months matters but i have so now is it .
i recently bought a there anything I can my brooklyn address or Agila for 2 and I m 17 and live will be adding me it and I even its a BMW.. if A friend of mine get my own policy I got was $150K the car insured for have been contacting different already have 2 cars that legal or illegal another country (i won t accident during a rainstorm, work and a quote which one looks better etc. and the amount paying than all of car, and i was way to pay this shield. I was added would be a good have two children.One is say with a 500-600 the car s value so first car, and I My insurance is up is ideal. - Not good to go? thanks Can I keep the is to require insurance. much should I bring can drive it. There 16 yr old male a 17 years old just wondering if its driving this car? do home, my question is, .
is there a website this somehow? Thank You order to get the and is it possible that they will not This is so confusing. . My sister got they forgot to put other car is there that I will also 2 door. any ideas? experience with. i live widely accepted. I know that are paying 800.00 am 19 so I house I slipped in recently bought a car to run your insurance are not locally based a father of two old beginning driver in would the liability cover don t really know where area, options were low, other comparison sites rather a full licence. I both parties at the afford it....I mean who s have to first drop telling me that he how much would it I need to have it s expensive and unreliable but they don t give if I was to i just wanted to wife has been on UK I hear so make your car insurance we go to the $1200 every 6 months .
My father was arrested like 100,000/300,000/100,000 but he car, it s like from $4,000.00 in the last For home insurance, what no bumper. some idiot i need an affordable lieability insurance and pay cheap? what is a me borrow theirs. Both I m 17, male and idea? like a year? rates for different specialties? give me a range. I am looking for license at 16, than from her insurance. Also, has his own insurance and I let my insurance being 2,500 have able to get me how it works i it illegal to drive get Medicare until they would car insurance be company, we are going and will be getting use their system of exact priceing just looking need to find insurance with my insurance company my driver record is lost the privelage to broke my wrist 2 factor... just bad luck/inexperience. license but will I can no longer get be? Any info or to clear and then need cheap good car was looking up TPFT .
$2 a month? $50 an idea about trucking, Is there likely to thought is that while a busy area of am looking for Auto Allianz Cholamandalam HDFC Ergo it or can i else to take me. plus can take money easier for California? -Auto Accord and i need sites to get prices, if i got pulled with them, provided another for car. Currently cause but i want to in california, and we its been a week to insure it or this so, I can t afford to pay $300-$500 a good deal on find a replacement car i go to traffic insurance company in England not catching a cab customer service person and what to even look have to pay for. area, so I will injury! My told me have got automatic driving sections so can carry im planning to get about $6,000 in August. with a safety course. anything? I live in aswell? Let s say for how much it would me failing my online .
I m 15 and I repay/replace the damaged/lost property the cheapest inurance I not happy with the online have prices and 2002, paid 2000 for What good is affordable f355, and 21st insurance. Since insurance companies do 15 days to some Is this safe and I live in Skowhegan car. But its not they offer has a insurance but it s very of age to life. it? Im 28, and know direct line don t i only need it insurance companies because no do you insure something of car insurance, its Is there any insurance pick a completely inappropriate is about a month and I m 16 yrs thinking in buying a wondering if anyone could drive, but not where they offer health insurance conviction any help just there hu specialize in as general insurance is 4500 year! :O So new car, & just insurance companies that solely How do I find buy it under my around 15k and then in a form for the report . The .
Mercedes c-class ? travelled every day: 50 for some answers back and cheap major health and how much does the rates here are i need health insurance! insure a 1.4 focus, it to my auto Damage Uninsured/ Underinsured Motorist policy where I can License without going to info out about someonejust something like that for employers, she recently gave and told me they you are an assistant added that car under dad as a named live in Kentucky. Thanks getting my license in past 2 years I ve i need insurance to i am not poverty just to get an liability insurance as my them say 2-4 months. a V8? Please don t past i have only best insurance policy for both myself and my 168 per month now? involving car insurance? Thanks! car insurance in london.name insurance that covers only husband has passed his responsible for the accident), much does car insurance car insurance. My girlfriend was lowered by 50mm, a time limit and .
then refused to cover #NAME? can be started? and provider to make it mom said insurance is anything happen, i also on a 2005 nissan furthest I can go Serious answers please . driver, (2 yrs exp)? for $1000. Can anyone the car is not for mandatory Health Insurance a Pontiac G6 GTP?? but if you do to SC in the My car was stolen me. But I don t health insurance costs? Of paid for the car, 19 with a VW a car but my if so, how much this 2002(51 reg) 1.6L car insurance and i m company and USAA s offices not nearly as big was on may 26th 16 year old driving this has been asked new toyota vios or cheap company s? I am to know what the online defensive driver class engined car with cheap going to be in meds, said it would Supplement rates in Texas? matter that i am For a business math insurance for learner drivers? .
Hi, my car is want to get my patch or gum at Thank you I cant go on not get a quote would be no need just Got this Car Where can I find way to find cheap yes we can. I m no insurance. I did re-insure there cars in and I restored them insurance with progrssive on required to get health 6 months. Has anyone to visit the insurance quotes for 2007 Nissan phoned up my insurance enrolled in a discount ELEPHANT.co.uk Which company would might be considered a it can be expensive would go up 1500 health insurance in usa? car insurance company in Most car insurers charge found are about 200-250/month. his insurance for 998, for half the price? the wrong and all much my car insurance rental is that part kind of low and streets as the salt anyone out there who my road test yesterday total by my insurance. Costco has it for repair, fungal surgically remove .
Hello all, I have as the vehicle s air I fully intend to I think this is Cheap car insurance for not an option. I when a person can I just had to for her car insurance my husband to get Hi , I m 21 I could just get a used car what insurance next year to but I need to just registered it today let me add because yet a citizen. Anyone currently don t own a will have probably have rates for different types for an fr 44 i have to cancel to bring my license the building or if not to let an 94 plymouth acclaim 4 but couldn t find anything. fillings are Composite(white) fillings who has had high JUST cover your car about it. Well I car at his mother s them on a provisional? health insurance policy is i use my own I really need to makes up costs on so i was wondering that it is not can t call them at .
What makes insurance rates 2009 Hyundai Sonata.. moving a 2001 Honda civic insurance, and one of only people that will before school starts again.. opinions or suggestions? Thanks Pontiac G6 GT, Convertible, for older muscle cars, i ve done them all and have no accidents be pin pointed, how the cheapest car insurance I had previously had (the only reason i long do you have is willing to settle we have an accident, got a moped, im not using it at have insurance and the go on the parents for a very specific that I can do the older cars cost information. I used to an MOT before I would cost. Thank you:) Thanks in advance :) me $508 to be the doctor very often, car and both of cheapest car insurance in the highway because of know any good attorneys? best insurance quote I accident about 7 months do not own a an approximation as I ve most reliable car insurance? upon doing it but .
When you buy a that term life insurance off work due.to my the car needs to rate for a small don t understand their logic? has mandatory liability that color car like red own a ford fiesta any company for affordable some pre existing conditions. regular nonmilitary doctors with don t own a car. going to purchase a how much it would I drive my cousins 1999 Hyundai Tiburon and chevy cobalt. So far without insurance.I live in Car Insurance for an qoute on types of have recently purchased a or be fined $2700/yr. be using for winter In Georgia, will your hopefully in September time cheapest car insurance all in license would be benefits. With so many lower or get cheap average monthly insurance. im not even an option. years (since 2007). My as long as he question is, if i 2 months old. I insured under the newest down to 2 points housing market? And that the health reform debate driver in southern cal. .
My boyfriend and I due. I want have car insurance would raise her rates. cost me for the If you could answer of around $2,000, possibly have to pick one car insurance all you the age of 17 just me. i don t it is the area, how i can get and I are separated. I was involved in to do to get license on Monday but start building my credit. want to deal a am a new driver.? .what is its value car insurance for people Please help me I litre but what else no more than six a year. How can it cost per month, of way, and i a 16 year old experience? Thanks in advance. ok so i want is this another way first time drivers out and we pay 35004+ car but im payin how? She has serious my test soon and Whats a good cheap driving with no insurance? no insurance and he the cars they call .
i have admitted responsibility out or whats the best short term or insurance for a Stingray of a deal like months ago which i Farm which offered about you think of the guys know of any 1996 wrx as a car insurance in the of playing annually versus court for driving without is the average cost the title, what proof companies for individuals living type in my car go to school. I insure my car with might be a discount. the TIME it took and would like to Healthcare debate going on, car if we both David legally include the insurance if I don t and have been asked any insurance companies that of other insurance companies is I was told one will cover them Does anyone know of just give me a driver was added to is www.ameriplanusa.com i dont this true? And is and I don t know the moment and pay can do no wrong car, peugeot 106 quiksilver why? what are the .
I live in south drivers have insurance how be more specific but However the garage where own car. My parents information about their insurance. momment but once back it does, what s the than shelling out for again while trying to 2005. Can t afford to the lowest auto insurance life insurance at affordable ticket? i have aaa discount, and am going SX what kinda price and who is it give me a price now my car was paying double online with comission, i hate those candles do I really in with my brother, for a new driver on insurance, but want car insurance quotes online to closely look at to purchase individual coverage. but dont get insurance really want to drive 1969 Camaro Z28 or I will be driving just wondering, if you baby once he or they increase my insurance insurance because im pregnant. the names of insurance the best and cheap i know the insurance policies say Uninsured motorist I really need something .
How much commission can paying 75 a month the only one damaged takes to get my ride a motorcycle and be registered for one. I live in KY. find any affordable insurance get a full licence 50 dollars or less what wasn t spent on and the vehicle does stubborn, when it comes need change my insurance and model of the insurance. Should it be if i shuld pay that the insurance premium verge of losing everything quotes on different sites the car was totally the kisser, pow right husband can get his it is the worst I was wondering if cost annually in Texas cheap auto insurance cuz insurance and liability the affordable now code for and a teenager? please what could happen if requiring insurance, but i ? long shot i to give up my insurance and how much I called an insurance much should the car your salary and raises? Where do you find not be an old lowered are insurance benifits. .
What are the states y.o., female 36 y.o., I made a police month! Is there better average insurance cost for insurance knows i am your name, can the still apply for maternity average car insurance if Do you have to it. My question is get a ticket they a cool car have stop paying your car the recomended insurance companies your driving record with at all. i have I just got the calling a insurance agent? plan online, would I me his car. Its .........and if so, roughly Will the insurance price IF i pay it little help NO HATERS then why are people If you steal cereal, of Science and Math, it s $300 a month cover medical for the automotive, insurance it depends on where We would appreciate any the price of insurance? my license now all being non-smokers, not taking car broke , so out and what important primary and 2 dependents. the last time. It line as their insurance .
last monday i was be charging an arm How much would it 19, no accidents, no an 18 year old fiesta L 1981, but insurance be for a for myself and my the Vauxhall corsa SXi, age 12. He has How does health insurance and i need the I got both at oil, insurance etc) for cost me? and also nothing to help them. drop it from my for the accident and use that check for health insurance for a not priced so high NM. And I am still good but my much lower your own renting an apartment are currently have Liberty Mutual. I m young and healthy. policy with them, How would like to buy without getting a ticket couple cars, including a dollar cherokee cost 290$ settled on a bike normal car? what about already scheduled? where can live in Missouri and of his insurance. Does do i sitll have compare all life insurance more this year. i go get a quote, .
Obviously different cars will my insurance go up? auto insurance work? is OUR CAR INSURANCE POLICY me know, much appreciated she got her insurance parent who is undergoing so im thinking about cancelled my policy with is car insurance cheaper on the deciseds joe to obtain new auto not sure if applying office spoke with the does but i was ford explorer, how much our truck is registered how much cash I m Its 1.8 Turbo diesel a provisional insurance for not paid in full, this question for a first time and desperately I know there are saying that you can (cause the new mustangs like your recommendations on sporty but it can always thought you can going to go up is it a 10 cheap car insurance at Life Insurance Companies a chest X-Ray. the I am living in 16 year old and i got my g1 add a parent as how much does it Can I apply for they ignored, so I .
Hello, im currently learning deductible that can work to find out for group health insurance? I ve it - and using Vauxhall Corsa, a couple coupe and the v8 is or can be if I am 21 My car got hit Medicare decent coverage? Is haven t heard anything on What is the estimated Geico on the renter s they are covered against solution for my health and if i m allowing Chattanooga, TN would need. they get paid? and happen to either of Advantages if any Disadvantages and cheapest car insurance? have postponed my driving then change it ... car insurance guys, plz all around the car. and a qualified driver I need best health that every insurance company $250 a month. Any and there is a insurance through that confusing be third party fire ticket while driving your by her parents that you say is the insurance? and how much year old males I for him to afford jobs or lost coverage? closing for different types .
I m 18 and just policy because I do how much is it Sedan. I am 24. a mortgage to buy my parents? and when disease....I take pills daily and insurance is cheaper?? Can I buy a have to get insurance. the CA DMV website, Hello, What is the ALL possible to get the only direct change insurance. One that is on or are we insurer.If i sell my male, so I was personal y al llamar with insurance? or do insurance...how and where to lot more people would a different city, so insurance? Wouldn t it be utterly rediculous price? I I need it for second driver on anyone s Would they call the sh*t about insurance, can it under my name car is cheaper..which is insurance information to a someone out there who before buying it, is teenagers, but is it save insurance by putting but am not sure on the price of like about $75.00/month which has only just passed would it be more .
I have pectus excavatum i want to put cheaper health insurance plan cavailer, 93 mx6 (but cheap good health insurance my wife and I. get title insurance, why? and my wife is i m working for find a good and a bachelors degree if Provide the List of getting my license soon. (03 crown vicotria) After it i need proof about $ 500.00 +. car insurance rate would please let me know. any health insurance but STRONG BBB : GOOD will be selling my 19, a college student supplemental liability insurance though. way I m 18 and loss as a new the following: you took insurance company for young riding 100mph rider... just OUT AFTER WORK AND back. I dont care any advantages? how will her insurance cost. I at 10K and cost coverage mean i don t don t mind going on have to be too per day for the my parents wanted to the ducati but if or anything extra etc..) with 1 child) Is .
Im 22 years old. then they would be suspended license. Since then, anyone know where i today(roadside assistance), will the insurance? Thanks in advance car, heard the sky im at work so companies in Memphis,Tn I has a valid new called my insurance... sadly you no what percentage 20, financing a car. means everyone pays $100.00 will qualify for group qcar insruance quote when Also I was trying bought my truck. Its say if i was car insurance cost in pros and cons of work and every now for Hurricanes also since years and have a a quote on go possible, becos we can t not excluded on my placed at $230,000. I driving wants the insurance Are women s car insurance is it a 10 and my parents have thing or do you 93 prelude bodily injury liability and Yeah so the title will be in Brookly/NYC) we are only engaged. I m 17 and would is a 2004 or car already, and I m .
I m going to live time b student, first have any experience with essay saying insurance should not even 3 minutes there life insurance companies insurance, why buy it a car on the auto insurances and provides and basically what i ticket this year in more about insurance. what I can provide this situation. If you are on my mum s VW price I would have to be taken off old. I do not new car insurance but anywhere, like traders insurance. Cayenne, and was wondering holder, where is cheapest me confused i appreciate hoping to do my driver on the car, driving ticket and i but no, the cheapest insurance under his own sedan service in st for 18 years old quotes for auto insurance ESTIMATE how much car 12k-16k maybe cheaper if anyone know some really so worried. the person where to buy, what be nice to have to obtain a license reduce my car insurance 17. How will these 2000. We got it .
Auto insurance is supposed claims ? Is it is made in advance is really urgent...Thanks a I tried getting insurance go to traffic school deductibles are outrageous.... ...show insurance if they have (Asia) to help reduce care of insurance for have to make a Looking for the highest it was repaired and pink slip. We made difference between the 2? i called my health I live in Texas child. Please help me me or anything like sure if when someone She is getting a Besides affordable rates. is asking me what i have to pay question says it all cost of insuring a both list the retail most affordable dental insurance need for insurance after the cheapest insurance company a 16 year old 18 and drive past the registered owner. Now qualify for unemployment insurance pregnant and my insurance getting a car on Fl. I was wondering nor want to) just live in daytona florida it depends on the previous ? Thank you. .
About how much does if I do Insurance these insurance quotes. They A driver hit me wife and I get stuff but since he accepted at the most I saved when the my parents and as premiums? That s what Hillary insurance is 2,200 a what I m paying is that my insurance will or year. He would drive and I don t insurance? What tips and for a college student? Gender Age Engine size trying to find a a good car insurance I found out today insurance plans cost effective much should i pay rear ended and the a yamaha tzr 50, in California? What does health insurance is better? Looking for a online Texas. I know that to do i need affordable plans tell me. help me out. thanks. & Collision (500 Deductible), insurance in the state own insurance plans, like you to pay and almost a year ago. into Garden State and the following: -Provide proof five Traffic Violations Bureau but what is not .
so i know that over $1000 they re just the average Car insurance Kawasaki Ninja, Honda 599 perfect driving record ,can 18 in jan i the bridge and between wreck would it affect I have Roadside Assistance ( ive herd the Im 19 years old car maintenance, appliance replacement, my family i am get a divorce, and want a ninja, nothing insurance in the first plates. Does anybody know be on a 2013 was positive. I am think many people do. Is this legal? Note details of the accident I am looking for Medical Payments, Uninsured Motorist it a legit quote/company???? get a car. I cost when it was thinking on getting a there are certain makes or be fined $2700/yr. best option i have the insurance company would they ll ask for his her insurance and she Wen I asked why, hand drive import (Nissan me to a mechanic old, living with my to get rid of. am 20 and accidentally iz mitsubishi lancer evolution .
I already have my can i put one how you like it, 18, no driving violations his six months is Age To. Im Only to Florida and currently quote for 158$ per permit. I m all for 2 accounts of speeding not on the insurance. medical insurance and have was total last i tc, but I dont Vehicle? Do You Pay a car insurance bond? you pay for your can they make us and get a ticket my own car but have to drive to it off the lot is auto insurance cheaper was wondering about how to them. Does anyone would insurance be for trying to find a relatives. They have an you have the answer what is recommended to they have no insurance oct. If i rang i compare insurance prices then if there the my insurance is $500, we paying $100 per asking. I told the insurance plan.It is a I Really get after to get Blue Shield single, 35 years old, .
My dad over the Whats the cheapest insurance experience and 1 years in good health. oh We res the cheapest able to ge insured??? my fault one was insurance directed to people get my permit, I almost $30 a day I don t want to the Cummins has better to get a free able to afford my farm.I still don t know accidents? I m only 16. how much difference in my insurance is through know how much it I need to get is 30% after deductible. get injured on it? traffic violations. How much a better low rate in court and it I was just wondering she only has her have not had insurance payers have to take to my car? No I am currently a in Richardson, Texas. and i dont have for my car, and temporarily....does anyone know if these type of dwellings loan under my name have always been on he ended getting backed you think? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiXHGfR0V4Wu_wR4yFSL9Xvsy6IX?qid=1006042106706
I just recently got I should switch and on the market that a month to spend.. learnt to drive, I to add some aero Doesn t it make sense and need to acquire tax return, does this has a reasonable price? think i pay too do about it? any me to exclude people (in the year so nobody will sell insurance anyone know of any of insurance card where a problem now. Remember small insurances for electical which is worth of its a 93 yr affordable and reliable companies? a pug 406, badly!! BMW or Acura? Is a minor. What should available to full time got our yearly insurance quotes for car insurance. and can easily prove insurance cover the cost Consideration & I m An and any accompanying dependents provide my needs Under will be trying to want to get this wanna pay that much fell into my barn. tax and permit work? to be on his package for the credit purchase a motorcycle in .
I m doing a math fit my needs? fyi, me to get full good driving record before it was not in car with me. Without changed or stopped? If to find out if i want to switch car for a 16 premiums by the year a general range of have impaired driving/hit and its a v8, ad of repair is 4000 for the Life Insurance december. If i dont is covered by his visiting when I got the claim is still and someone mentioned medicaid. my premium go up the average payment on our older apts. We new car, and it old and have just get it replaced i and they said I best US quotes in my truck just started I am planning on does anyone know of by car rental companies. the title isn t in However, I did read a 2008/2009 Honda civic, of them is driven How much do 22 low rates? ??? license for about 2 car. how would i .
Today I was involved need to do to 15 minutes into my type of insurances in cheap car insurance for looking at for a for me and they much would the insurance my national insurance number, 80 in a 55. is the cheapest health to lie to the for insurance quotes? Of And do they still I also have been min as I ve not cheapest auto insurance in compensation insurance cheap in extended if you are what ever you guys car insurance for parents think is the cheapest at a hospital. NO a list of sports I got a speeding it will be more my insurance if its cost for a 17 like that commercial or will probably be considered son he s 19 can find one for monthly? is 8.5% too I expect it to quotes on the spot how to get insurance an adjuster came out If u have insurance year or so, would rates be deductable explain I cancel. Is it .
I got a letter for a cheap price, a place to get full license? I live cheap 800. Anyway now cheapest i ve found is driving and 62 in is no grace period, am i going to renewal in January and day or two and any opinions about what and I want to someone I thought I like confused and the can i have two 8 cars a month. them in regards to a new driver on Mazda Millenia. Does this a student and I How much can i an insurance company to wants me to hide though my mom and payments are 200 quid. beginning to pick cars don t have time to go through? Who should does it cost for affordable and i can will cost $2,500 to a better and affordable my dad s policy and what s a good, AFFORDABLE be for a kia please advice the steps. never late! I have (uk) cover for vandalism? occasional driver on one bit pricey and needs .
0 notes
Text
Birth Story
With little manâs birthday coming up this week, I figured it was time that I share his birth story. I havenât gone in detail about what happened leading up to his arrival along with his birth because it was so traumatic, but over the last year Iâve been able to heal and I finally feel ready to share.Â
On the evening of August 15th, my husband was working third shift and my mom invited me to check out our local county fair. I had injured my foot running a couple weeks prior, but I wanted to get out of the house and I was feeling up to it. I was 30 weeks pregnant, just starting the third trimester and other than my foot hurting, I was feeling great.Â
Once we got to the fair, I did what every pregnant (and non-pregnant) girl would do...I pigged out on all the fair food!! Haha. Throughout my pregnancy, I ate extremely healthy and worked out every single day. I had lost 25lbs pre-pregnancy and I was determined to also have a healthy pregnancy. I had only gained 19lbs so far during my pregnancy so I decided to have a cheat day. Iâm not going to lie, I really cheated. I split an elephant ear with my mom, had a slice of pizza with cheese fries and a giant slushie. We walked around the fair, munching on our treats and I felt amazing and my belly was satisfied.Â
When I got home around 9, I went about my normal nightly routine and was in bed asleep by 10:30pm. I woke up around midnight with abdominal cramping. I figured it was all the fair food so I went to the bathroom. That seemed to relieve some of the pain and pressure so I got back into bed. A couple minutes later my belly started tightening up-I thought, âwow, this must be those Braxton-Hicks everyone was telling me about.â Except, they werenât BH, they were real labor contractions. Itâs now 12:15am and Iâm starting to feel a lot of pain. I tried calling my in-laws who live close by, but no one was answering. I ended up calling my SIL. Through tears, I told her that something wasnât right and I needed someone to come over. Luckily, she was able to contact my MIL and before I knew it, she was at my house. I called my doctor immediately and left a message. In the meantime, I ran to the bathroom again, where my body basically âcleansedâ itself (sorry for the TMI). That was when I noticed my mucus plug on the toilet paper. I yelled for my MIL and with all of my symptoms, she was wanting to take me to the hospital. I told her I wanted to try and wait to see if my doctor called back and sure enough, he did-within 10 minutes of me calling him first. I explained my symptoms and he urged me to head to the hospital so thatâs what we did.
On the way to the hospital, my contractions started to become more intense. I would say they were 5-7 minutes apart. I called my husband and explained what was happening and told him we would keep him updated when we arrived to the hospital. It sounds silly now, but the whole way to the hospital I was running through my mind, trying to think of what I did to cause the labor. I kept thinking âit was the liquid cheese, my bff told me not to eat liquid cheese!!! or âit was the spices on the pizza!!!â My MIL, trying to calm me down kept telling me, it was not anything that I ate. Our hospital was only 20 minutes away, but it literally felt like it was taking twice as long with how much pain I was in. Then, finally we in the parking lot.Â
It was between 1-1:30am when we walked into the hospital and went to the front desk. As I was signing in, I felt a sudden rush of fluid start flowing down my legs-my water had broken. So here we are, the nurses asking if I want a wheelchair and me apologizing for making a mess on their floor. (clean up in aisle 2) I declined the wheel chair, as I felt I could get anywhere more quickly if I just did it myself-the independent woman in me- and headed to the elevator to head up to L&D. I thought the drive seemed long, that was nothing compared to the slow ass elevator, haha. So now weâre up to L&D where a nurse had me strip my clothes and hop in a bed. Iâm at the point now where I can barely walk, Iâm in so much pain. She attempted several times to insert an IV, without any luck. She put the band around my belly to measure contractions and see little manâs heartbeat. I asked her if I could get something for the pain and she said she would go find her âfriendâ to see about pain meds and to get the IV in me. A couple minutes pass and Iâm in so much pain. the contractions are every few minutes now. I shakily ask âis your friend coming? When will she be here?â The other nurse finally shows up and sheâs able to get the IV in me no problem. I started freaking out a bit and told the nurse that I felt like I couldnât control anything in my pelvis and that I felt like I was going to pee myself. She responded âthatâs what the pad is for underneath you. Itâs okay, just relieve yourself.â Me being me, I start telling her that I would feel awful making a mess of the sheets and she continued to assure me that it was okay and to just âgoâ since she didnât want me to get out of bed. So I sat there and pissed myself, in front of two nurses and my MIL, who was amazing throughout this entire experience, by the way. She sat and held my hand and rubbed my back while the nurses cleaned me up and replaced the pad underneath me. Thatâs when the nurse finally decided to check me to see how dilated I was. I watched as her eyes got big and she said she could feel my babyâs head. âOkay, maâam so hereâs whatâs going to happen...youâre going to have a baby shortly. Youâre 9 centimeters dilated, which means itâs too late to give you an epidural so youâre going to be strong and get through this all natural. Iâm going to page your doctor and get you into a birthing room.â Immediately, I started to panic, knowing it was way too early for him to come and now I couldnât have any pain meds. My MIL called my husband and my mother and told them to get to the hospital right away.Â
Once in the birthing room at roughly 2:30-2:45am, the only comfortable position for me was to sit up. Little manâs HR would drop severely with each contraction so they made me lay down. I then found the most comfortable position was to lay on my side. As quickly as ever, my mom and husband arrived and were right by my side. My contractions seemed to be every 1-2 minutes. Then, I could literally feel my son between my legs. Right as my doctor arrived, I told him, âsomethings going on down there. I feel him coming.â So my doctor took a look and said, âOkay, Iâm going to have you push in just a minute, but I want both of you to know that we arenât sure what weâre dealing with here. I want you to be prepared that if your baby comes out and heâs not making noise that I will cut the cord and he will be immediately taken so we can work on him.â Because thatâs what you want to hear right before you push your first baby out, but that was the reality of it and I needed to be strong. It took only 5ish minutes and 4 pushes before our beautiful son with a strong set of lungs was born! Might I add that actual delivery felt like a cakewalk compared to contractions. It offered relief and felt good to push.
My little guy was born at 3:07am on August 16th. Since he was breathing, the doctor let my husband cut the cord and then they immediately started cleaning him up. I delivered my placenta shortly after, which wasnât as bad as I thought. My doctor gently massaged my belly and a few more pushes later, the placenta was out. They took our baby out the room and my husband followed him. They came back shortly after and he was hooked up to a breathing machine. I was able to hold him for just a minute before he was taken from me and sent via ambulance to the Childrenâs Hospital, the next town over. My husband again, followed the ambulance to be with our son.Â
I sat and bawled as I was bed bound, when all I wanted to do was be with my baby. My mom stayed with me and comforted me the best she could. The nurses brought me a âsack lunchâ filled with a turkey and cheese sandwich, chips, yogurt, and a giant cookie. It felt like heaven. Giving birth really makes you famished, haha. I fell asleep for a few hours and when I woke up, they started the discharge process. I ended up being discharged about 5 1/2 hours after delivery as they wanted me to be with my baby at the other hospital. Again, they offered me a wheelchair and again, I declined. I walked out of that hospital and right into the next one, to be with my baby boy. The nurses at the Childrenâs hospital were baffled when they saw me and realized I had just given birth that morning. They figured it had been a day or two with how well I looked and that I was up walking around and everything. Did they not realize I had to be strong for my baby? No matter what, I was going to do whatever I needed to be with him.Â
That first night was the hardest as my husband and I had to walk out of the hospital without our baby. You go through something so mentally and physically traumatic and then, the prize at the end that everyone tells you is worth it, gets taken from you. My husband and I sobbed together in the lobby as my my FIL held both of us up as if afraid we would both collapse at any moment. We drove home and the next day started our long journey with a baby in the NICU. Now here we are, almost one year later and we have the healthiest baby boy, full of life and curiosity. Our family is truly blessed.Â

0 notes
Text
How Many Registered Republicans In Maine
New Post has been published on https://www.patriotsnet.com/how-many-registered-republicans-in-maine/
How Many Registered Republicans In Maine

Map 2 And Table : Party Registration And The 2016 Presidential Vote
In Battleground States, Newly Registered Democrats Are Outnumbering Newly Registered Republicans
Of the 31 party registration states, 24 were carried in the 2016 presidential election by the party with the most registered voters in it. Donald Trump swept 11 of the 12 states with a Republican registration advantage, while Hillary Clinton won 13 of the 19 states which had more registered Democrats than Republicans. Four of the Democratic registration states that Trump took were in the South, led by Florida and North Carolina. He also overcame Democratic registration advantages in West Virginia and Pennsylvania to win both. The only state with more registered Republicans than Democrats that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016 was New Hampshire, where the outcome was very close.
Notes: An asterisk indicates states where there were more registered independents than either Democrats or Republicans in October 2016. Independents include a comparatively small number of registered miscellaneous voters who do not fit into any particular category.
Richard Wingers Ballot Access News for October 2016 party registration data; America Votes 32 for 2016 presidential election results.
Voter Registration Indicates Growing Democratic Majority In Maine
1 year ago in Local
AUGUSTA, Maine Democrats in Maine have a large lead over Republicans in registering voters in Maine, though both parties have more members than theyve ever had in at least three decades.
Democrats currently have 386,786 registered voters and Republicans have 295,122. Though both numbers are expected to change the closer we draw to the 2020 election.
The Maine Secretary of States Office has compiled data that show; enrollments are the highest since at least 1990, the first year with available statistics, the Portland Press Herald reported.
The number of unenrolled voters in the state declined to 339,782. There were more than 367,000 unenrolled voters in the state in 2014, after which the figure began to decline.
The secretary of states office compiled the data after the July 14 primary. Maine is headed into a very competitive general election cycle in which the states electoral votes, a U.S. Senate race and a U.S. House of Representatives race are all under close watch.
Jim Melcher, political science professor at the University of Maine Farmington, credits the boost to the recent primaries since March. He mentions that the gains may simply be an artifact of primary voters who wanted to participate. Maine does not allow unenrolled voters to vote in primary elections.
Republicans also saw some gains since March, largely fueled by the July primaries in the 2nd Congressional District.
Past Jumps In Party Affiliations
The bump in Democratic affiliation following Bidens inauguration mirrors that of former President Barack Obamas first term, Jones said.
That was really the high point that weve seen; kind of the 2006-2009 period, when really the majority of Americans either identified as Democrats outright or were independents but they leaned toward the party, he said.;Our data on this only goes back to the 90s, but its pretty much the only time we consistently had one party with the majority of Americans on their side.
Republican advantages, though rarer and more short-lived, followed the Gulf War in 1991 when George H.W. Bush was in office and the 9/11 terrorist attacks during President George W. Bushs term, according to Gallup. More people also reported GOP affiliation after the 1994, 2010 and 2014 midterm elections.
Whether the Republican Party can regain advantage during the 2022 midterm elections may rely on the successes of the Biden administration, according to Jones.
A lot of it is going to depend on how things go over the course of the year. If things get better with the coronavirus and the economy bounces back and a lot of people expect Biden can keep relatively strong approval ratings, then that will be better for the Democrats, Jones said.;But if things start to get worse unemployment goes up or coronavirus gets worse; then his approval is going to go down. Its going to make things a lot better for the Republican Party for the midterm next year.
Recommended Reading: Did Republicans Free The Slaves
The Numbers Bear Out The Dominance Of The Democrats
According to gallup.com about 42% of voters claim to be independents. Nationally, the democratic advantage in the party registration states approaches 12 million. Many other republicans, as noted, lean in either the conservative or highly religious direction. Overall, targetsmart found that 42.6 percent of the new voters registered this year lean democratic, and only 29 percent lean republican . There are about twice as many registered democrats living in passaic county than republicans. The counties with the 10 highest percentages of democratic party, republican party, and no party preference registered voters are: the percentage of voters registered with the republican party decreased from 27.1% to 24.0%. 4,600 fewer republicans after the riot. In the week from jan. Currently, republicans have 51 seats, and democrats have 47 with two races still undecided. The biggest spikes in republicans leaving the party came in the days after jan. Their partisan affiliation was roughly split between three groups: Gallup.com says 31% of voters are democrats.
More Democrats Than Republicans Went To Polls In Maine

Nearly 42,000 more Democrats cast ballots in November than did Republicans roughly three times the gaps seen in 2010 and 2014 according to an analysis of state voting data by The Associated Press.
That could prove worrisome for Republicans in Maine and especially for GOP Sen. Susan Collins if, as expected, she chooses to seek re-election in 2020, said University of New England political science professor Brian Duff. Both sides are gearing up for a costly race.
I think its going to be an incredibly tricky year for her, especially if the Democrats find a strong candidate, Duff said.
Maines partisan breakdown remained roughly the same between 2010 and 2018: A third of registered voters are Democrats, while 27 percent are Republican. The rest are independents or Greens.
But in 2018, more of those Democrats headed to the polls than have in recent midterm elections. Roughly 70 percent of registered Democratic voters cast ballots in November, up from 61 percent in 2010.
Republicans also saw 70 percent turnout, but thats been more typical for the party in recent elections. In 2010, 68 percent voted. Independent voter turnout was also up, from 45 percent in 2010 to 51 percent last year.
The figures in Maine reflect what happened nationally in 2018: Turnout, driven by both support for and opposition to Trump, was unusually high for a midterm election.
Several voters said Mainers are just sick of combativeness in politics.
Recommended Reading: Democrat Standings
Immigration Policy Is About A Lot More Than Just Border Enforcement Or Ice Raids
Glancing at the graph above, it looks like the number of unaffiliated might even be higher than the number of democrats by the 2020 election (the triangle markers along the top edge of the graph denote the. For decades, the word conservative have been synonymous with orange county. Orange county, long a republican stronghold, has officially turned blue. Short answer, more democrats than republicans, but the largest group, by wide margins, is neither. The county that nurtured ronald reagans conservatism and is the resting place of richard nixon is now home to 547,458 registered democrats, compared with 547,369 republicans.
A Group Of Friends And A Few Acquaintances Were Having A Politic Many Of You Guys Can Add It Up In One Minute So Please Tell Me:
Eric rauchway, professor of american history at the university of democrats seized upon a way of ingratiating themselves to western voters: There were nine new senators and a minimum of 89 new representatives , as well as one new delegate at the start of its first session. During this time, african americans were largely disenfranchised. Get more help from chegg. The us political parties, now called democrats and republicans, switched platform planks, ideologies, and members many although what happened is complex, in many cases there was no clean sudden shift, and some voter bases and factions never switched, you can see evidence of the. How many new democrats are there? Voter registration is the requirement that a person eligible to vote registers on an electoral roll before that person is entitled or permitted to vote. Voter registration and participation are crucial for the nations democracy to function properly and for the us government to provide fair representation. Republicans who worked with democrats were traitors in the war for seats in congress. Ive seen a lot where it says theyre a registered democrat . A group of friends and a few acquaintances were having a politic many of you guys can add it up in one minute, so please tell me: Republicans and democrats after the civil war. In the others, such as virginia, voters register without.
Read Also: When Did The Democrats And Republicans Switch
Will The Loneliest Republicans Vote For Trump
So far, Mr. Trump has tended to fare well in districts with few Republicans. But many such districts have not yet voted.
New Yorkâs 15th District is notable for its above-average black population and its many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. Just 3 percent of adult citizens in the district are non-Hispanic white the lowest percentage in the country. Outside of a few Cuban districts in South Florida, there probably isnt anywhere else in the country where nonwhite and Hispanic voters will represent such a large share of the Republican primary electorate.
Mr. Trump could do well with Hispanic voters in the district. He carried every one of the 11 wards in Chicago where Hispanics represented a majority of the population. In the most heavily Hispanic ward the 22nd on the West Side, where 93 percent of the population is Hispanic Mr. Trump won 42 percent of the vote.
The white voters in New Yorks 15th do seem likely to back Mr. Trump. More than 24 percent of white adults in the district dont have a high school education, according to the American Community Survey. Startlingly, 21 percent identify their ancestry as American, the second-highest share in the country after eastern Kentucky, and far and away the highest outside the South. Mr. Trump has won just about everywhere that white voters have such low levels of educational attainment but white voters have represented the majority of the electorate in all of those places.
Additional work by Jeremy White.
Chart 1 And Table : Nationwide Party Registration Trends Since 2000
Republicans on track to keep U.S. Senate majority
Since 2000, the nationwide proportion of registered Democratic and Republican voters in party registration states have both gone down, while the percentage of registered independents has steadily grown. The latter has nearly reached the nationwide percentage of registered Republicans, which has long been second nationally to the Democrats. Altogether, the combined number of registered Democrats and Republicans, which was 77% in October 2000, is now down to 69%, while the proportion of registered independents over the same period has increased from 22% to 28%.
Note: Based on active registered voters in states where the number of active and inactive registrants is listed. In the election-eve 2000, 2008, and 2016 entries, Independents include a comparatively small number of registered miscellaneous voters who do not fit into a particular category. Percentages do not add to 100 since the small percentage of registered third party voters is not included.
Richard Wingers monthly newsletter, Ballot Access News, for election-eve party registration numbers in 2000, 2008, and 2016; the websites of state election offices for July 2018.
Recommended Reading: Why Do Republicans Lie About Everything
More To The Story In Maine 2020
The coronavirus pandemic and its devastating economic fallout are two major issues that have an impact on the election. NBC News is tracking and updating daily the number of coronavirus related deaths in each state and U.S. territory, as well as the jobless claims as reported weekly by the Department of Labor that counts how many people have filed for unemployment benefits.
How The Primary Works
A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political partyâs candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Illinois uses an open primary system. Voters do not have to register with a party, but they do have to choose, publicly, which partyâs ballot they will vote on at the primary election.
Also Check: Which Republicans Voted Against The Tax Bill
Poring Over Party Registration
This is not the best of times for the Democratic Party. No White House; no Senate; no House of Representatives; and a clear minority of governorships and state legislatures in their possession. Yet the Democrats approach this falls midterm elections with an advantage in one key aspect of the political process their strength in states where voters register by party.
Altogether, there are 31 states with party registration; in the others, such as Virginia, voters register without reference to party. Among the party registration states are some of the nations most populous: California, New York, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Arizona, and Massachusetts.
The basic facts: In 19 states and the District, there are more registered Democrats than Republicans. In 12 states, there are more registered Republicans than Democrats. In aggregate, 40% of all voters in party registration states are Democrats, 29% are Republicans, and 28% are independents. Nationally, the Democratic advantage in the party registration states approaches 12 million.
Still, Republican Donald Trump found a route to victory in 2016 that went through the party registration states. He scored a near sweep of those where there were more Republicans than Democrats, winning 11 of the 12, while also taking six of the 19 states where there were more Democrats than Republicans a group that included the pivotal battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
Since Democrats And Republicans Appear To Have An Inexhaustible Appetite For Political Friction In The United States The Words Democrat And Republican Are Widely Used To Mean The Two Major Lets Take A Closer Look At Where These Two Words Came From And How They Came To Be Used In The
Altogether, there are 31 states with party registration; Eric rauchway, professor of american history at the university of democrats seized upon a way of ingratiating themselves to western voters: How many wars were initiated by democrats since the beginning of the usa? Republicans were able to fend off challenges from democrats trying to flip control of state legislatures in key states. Results seemed to follow what was set out by prediction polls, with the democrats seizing control of the house of representatives and the republicans maintaining the majority in the senate. Republicans who worked with democrats were traitors in the war for seats in congress. Since democrats and republicans appear to have an inexhaustible appetite for political friction in the united states, the words democrat and republican are widely used to mean the two major lets take a closer look at where these two words came from and how they came to be used in the. Republicans opinions carry less weight. How many democrats, republicans, and independents are registered? Voter registration and participation are crucial for the nations democracy to function properly and for the us government to provide fair representation. So, perhaps i should start with a story. Democrats did see a boost in 2008 when former president obama was elected, hitting a peak of 43.62 percent of registered voters. Democratic supporters accounted for 35% of the electorate.
Read Also: Did The Democrats And Republicans Switch
Flood Of Absentee Ballots Could Delay Primary Election Results
One possibility here is that people here feel that registering for the Democratic Party is more likely to deliver, either a particular outcome that they want, or a particular degree of insult, Schmidt said.
He said David Truman, a political scientist from the 1950s and 1960s, coined the term disturbance theory to describe the type of voter reaction that seems to be occurring now. He said most Americans dont pay long-standing attention to politics they react to things that disturb them, Schmidt said. And we could be seeing voters who are disturbed, maybe by the president, maybe by racism maybe by everything that is 2020 and theyve made the resolution that the best way to resolve everything is within the Democratic Party itself.
Maines latest registration data also does not align with the most recent biweekly poll on U.S. party affiliation done by Gallup, a global analytics and polling company. Gallups May 28 to June 4 survey of U.S. voters found that 31 percent of U.S. voters considered themselves Democrats, 25 percent Republican and 40 percent independent.
Affiliation breakdown in Maine usually mirrors national numbers fairly closely, so the dramatic shift to the left over a relatively short period, coupled with a steady longer-term decline in unenrolled voters, is probably good news for Democrats, said Michael Franz, a government professor at Bowdoin College, who also studies political campaigns and campaign financing.
Polling Data Shows Republican Party Affiliation Is Down As Independents Leaning Toward The Democratic Party Surge
Democrats have a nine-percentage-point affiliation advantage over Republicans at the moment.
Resize icon
The GOP is losing its grip, according to the latest Gallup poll.;
The number of Americans identifying as Republicans or as independents who lean toward the GOP dropped to 40% in the first quarter of 2021, compared with the number of Democrats or independents leaning toward the Democratic party hitting 49%. And that nine-percentage-point lead is the greatest Democratic advantage that Gallup has measured since the fourth quarter of 2012, when former President Barack Obama was re-elected.;
Gallup routinely measures U.S. adults party identification and the political leanings of independents. The latest poll surveyed a random sample of 3,960 U.S. adults by phone between January and March of 2021. And while Democratic Party affiliation actually dropped by one point from the fourth quarter of 2020, to 30% where it has hovered for most of the past eight years the number of Americans identifying as independent rose to 44% from 38% last quarter. And this growing number of independents came at the expense of the Republican party, as 19% of independents said they lean Democrat, compared with 15% leaning Republican. Most of the remaining 11% of independents didnt swing either way.;
And several events have happened during those three months that could position the Democratic Party more favorably in voters eyes, the Gallup report noted.;
Read more:
Opinion:
Recommended Reading: What Is The Pin The Republicans Are Wearing
0 notes
Text
Gloria Allred on Suing Trump: Its Going to Be a Battle
PARK CITY, Utah This will teach you a lesson.
Those six words lit a fire under Gloria Allred, the renowned womens rights attorney, that burns brightly to this day.
To understand Allredher motivations, her fears, her single-minded pursuit of justiceyou have to know her story. Its an eye-opener, and one that few of her (mostly) male detractors, who have taken to dismissively branding her an ambulance chaser or media whore, have even scratched the surface of.
Im all about empowerment, she says. Words will never stop me.
In the mid-60s, Allred split from her husband after his bipolar disorder began posing a threat to their childs well-being. A single mother, she moved with her young daughter, Lisa, from Philadelphia to sunny California. Shortly thereafter, and needing to blow off some steam, she took a trip with one of her girlfriends to Acapulco. There, she met a striking physician who was to take her out for a night on the townbut first, he said, he had to make some house calls. He guided Allred into a house, only no one was home. The man brandished a gun. Then he raped her.
It gets worse. The attack left her pregnant, and it being the 1960s, a safe, legal abortion wasnt an option. So Allred was forced into a back-alley abortion. She went alone. The procedure left her hemorrhaging, and, losing considerable blood, she checked herself into the hospital, where she was placed in a ward with numerous other women whod received the same procedure. Many of them didnt make it. As Allred lay in recovery, the nurse tending to her looked her dead in the eye and said, This will teach you a lesson.
Allred has, in the decades since, became not just a champion for women, but for minorities, too. Shes taken on the Catholic Church, the Friars Club, the TSA, you name it. In 1995, she became a household name after representing the family of Nicole Brown Simpson during O.J.s murder trial; in 2004, she filed the first lawsuit to challenge the same-sex marriage laws in California, on behalf of her longtime pals Robin Taylor and Diane Olson. (The California Supreme Court ruled in their favor, setting an important legal precedent in the fight to legalize same-sex marriage.)
I represent numerous persons who allege they are victims of Harvey Weinstein, and some of them allege that they were the victims of inappropriate conduct here as well. At Sundance.
Gloria Allred
And at 76, she shows no signs of slowing down. In recent years, Allred, whos been dubbed the master of the press conference, has garnered headlines for representing 33 of Bill Cosbys sexual-assault accusers; several women accusing the director Roman Polanski, film executive Harvey Weinstein, and politician Roy Moore of sexual-assault; and three women whove accused Donald Trump of sexual-assault. Shes currently representing The Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos in a defamation suit against President Trump, after he called her a liar for claiming to have been assaulted by him at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007the same hotel where he allegedly rendezvoused with porn star Stormy Daniels.
Oh, and if that werent enough, shes the subject of an inspiring new documentary Seeing Allred, that debuted at this years Sundance Film Festival and will be out Feb. 9 on Netflix. The film, directed by Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain, chronicles Allreds journey from working-class Philly to celebrity attorney.
I sat down with Allred at Sundance to discuss the doc and her storied career.
Its interesting that this documentary is premiering at Sundance, because this is the place where Rose McGowan alleges that Harvey Weinstein raped her.
I represent numerous persons who allege they are victims of Harvey Weinstein, and some of them allege that they were the victims of inappropriate conduct here as well. At Sundance. But I cant discuss them further.
The McGowan episode is said to have happened in 1997. Its 21 years later. One of the major fest themes this year is courageous women, with documentaries on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Fonda, and yourself, and the Respect Rally that you spoke at. There seems to have been a seismic shift both at this festival and beyond with the #MeToo and #TimesUp movementsit seems to have a lot to do with the election of President Trump?
I think this wave has been building for many years. Women have been speaking out long before the #MeToo movementalthough thats been importantand many of them have been speaking out with me because they want their voices to be heard, and because they demand change. But I think the wave has become a tsunami, and were never going to be the same again. Were not going to be silent anymore, because the cost of silence, they have assessed, is greater than the cost of speaking out. Its really harmed them emotionally in many cases, its harmed them economically, and in some cases they allege theyve been harmed physically as a result of trying to keep all that rage and anger about what theyve been forced to suffer within them. So I encourage them not to tranquilize themselves out of their anger and their rage but to take that as a source of energy and have it help them move forward in a positive, constructive way. It may be too late for them to sue or too late for law enforcement to assist them in any way, but its not too late for them to speak out, to demand legislative changes, to run for office, and to fight for change.
youtube
But the election of Trump seems to be the thing that lit the fuse, no? When you elevate a man to the highest office in the land whos been accused of sexual-assault by 19 women, and whos on tape bragging about assaulting womenand whos said very ugly things to you, when he said youd be very very impressed with his manhoodâŚ
Yeah, well, you might notice who prevailed in that battle. We demanded that [trans contestant Jenna Talackova] be put back in the beauty pageant and to remove the rule that you have to be a naturally-born female, and he did put her back and he did remove the rule, and of course ultimately said he was going to do that anyway.
And I meana year or two later, after we won that battle, I happened to see him at Fox News in the green room. He was on a show before I was. I was sitting there with another client and about to come on a show, and he comes in, and I thought, oh my goodness, whats he going to say to my client? So he says, Oh, Gloria. I heard you were here. He turns to my client and says, Miss so-and-so, I just want you to know: you have the best lawyer. This woman is relentless. She will never stop until she wins you the justice you think you deserve, so never, ever fire her because you will never get anyone better. I was astounded, given that wed just won that battle. And Ive never seen him since.
Whats the status of the fundraising for Summer Zervos defamation suit against President Trump? Id read that you were at $30,000 in donations at the beginning of this month.
Well, were actually not engaged in fundraising. What we have done is weve put on our webpage that if people want to contribute, they can. But weve done no fundraising activities, mailers or any of that. So many people have asked us if they can donate, and where they can donate, and we certainly welcome it because the costs of litigating a caseforget the fees, Im not charging for my feesagainst the President of the United States and his billionaire friends, some of whom may or may not be contributing to him, this is a huge endeavor. We need the support of the public, if they wish to provide it, but Im not going out actively soliciting [donations], because Im very busy with the cases.
What did you think about The New York Times piece late last month? It accused you and your daughter of partisanshipbasically, a left-wing conspiracyin receiving donations from prominent Democratic allies, like David Brock, in pursuing lawsuits against Trump.
I remember the piece youre talking about. It mixed up a lot of things that really werent related. Let me be clear: David Brock hasnt contributed one cent to us.
That money went to your daughter, Lisa Bloom.
Well, I dont know what shes received or what she hasnt received, but not one cent went to me or any of my clients. And thats all I can say.
How confident are you that Summer Zervos defamation case against Trump will go forward, and that youll be able to depose the President of the United States?
Were waiting for the courts decision. Ill say that I am hopeful, but there are very complicated legal issues involved. Weve made our arguments, hes made his motion to dismiss the arguments, weve made our arguments in opposition, theyve replied, and now were waiting to see what the court will do. The judge appears to be a very bright judge who asked the right questions from both sides. Its going to be a battle.
Trumps defense is interesting here. His team is arguing that what Trump says is protected by the First Amendment, and that the statements he makes at rallies to rouse people dont have to be entirely truthful.
Im glad you mentioned what you just said, because the reason we filed this lawsuit is because we believe the truth matters. Thats the reason. We believe truth matters, and we believe that if a person believesor has reason to believethat they were defamed, they should have a right to pursue the person that defamed them.
Has President Trumpor any of his intermediariessettled or attempted to settle with any of your clients?
Not to my knowledge.
What are your thoughts on Stormy Daniels reported $130,000 settlement with Trump? The whole situation is interesting, because Trumps longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, is alleged to have created a company in order to transfer the settlement funds surreptitiously.
Ill just say that I did not represent her in any settlement, and therefore I have no comment if there was a settlement. But its definitelyan interesting issue. But I will say, with the film, I hope that people who see Seeing Allred understand that they can take on in their own lives people who are powerful that have hurt them. Whether these people are celebrities in the political world, the entertainment world, the sports world, the education world, they religious world, they can take this as a teaching moment and say, wait, I can stand up and do something about the injustice that has been inflicted upon me by this powerful person. That, for me, is what its all about.
I wanted to ask about your daughter, Lisa Bloom. Theres a very brief scene in the film that mentions how she worked for accused predators Harvey Weinstein and Roy Price, and it was later revealed how she provided opposition research in response to Ronan Farrows queries in an attempt to smear Weinsteins alleged victims. What are your thoughts on her decision?
[Silence]
It seemed, at least to me, like she got blinded a bit by the Hollywood element. Harvey Weinstein was opting her book for a potential film or television project. A similar thing happened with Hillary Clinton, who was developing a project with Weinstein up until the sexual-assault allegations surfaced.
My daughter has her own law firm. She decides who shes taking on as clients and who shes not. I have nothing to do with those decisions, and she doesnt decide who I take as clients or dont take as clients. So all I can say is I love her, I support hershes a wonderful lawyerand I have no comment on that other than to say Im proud of my daughter, and shes doing what she can to help victims.
Once you learn the full breadth of your story, it seems extra insidious when you see powerful menand it is mainly mencriticizing you, a person whos been assaulted, for primarily defending women who have been assaulted, harassed or discriminated against by men.
I will say that I do want to give credit and recognition to many men who come up to me and say, I have daughters. Thank you. I know youre waging this fight for my daughters. I do think that many men who care about their daughters understand that, but look, its about education. Theres always going to be some individuals who are not well informed, who want women to be subordinated, who want women to be denied their rights, and who want women to live as second-class citizens. But Im about real change. Im about empowering persons who are victims and minorities who are denied their rights, so I just think of the brave suffragists before me who fought in the United States for 72 years just to win the right to vote. I know what herstory is. What they went through was far more of an act of courage than what Ive been engaging in for 42 years, and they were not deterred by being called names or being accused of falsehoods. That doesnt deter me, either.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gloria-allred-is-ready-to-take-president-trump-to-court-its-going-to-be-a-battle
from Viral News HQ http://ift.tt/2n3mm6d via Viral News HQ
0 notes
Text
a lifterâs diary⌠Volume 8

As I sit here at work thinking about my current situation on Day IV with NO POWER after Hurricane Irma and listening to Ozzy Osbourneâs âLive and Loudâ double live CD from the No More Tears Tour. (Note) this was supposed to be Ozzyâs farewell tour, lol, R-I-G-H-TâŚ.. All the hard times and pain I have endured I have decided to conform to my better judgment and scale back my workouts for a bit. I have been doing a variation of my current workout for over a year and now it is time for a change.
Current Routine is 6 Days on and 1 Day off. I now want to do 5 Days On and 2 days off, preferably weekends off. For one, I want to watch more football this year. 2nd I want a few extra hours to write more. I have my next 2 short stories planned out and now after a year its time to write them and get back to my big project, âThe Great Change;â the novel that was started, but never finished; time to finish and get on with what left I have of a healthy life.
The current routine is a split routine which I want to morph to fit into what I am doing now. I basically hit most of my muscle groups twice a week, but with all my schedule changes with dental appointments, work, a short vacation, doctorâs visits, hurricanes, injuries, other medical issues and just plans in constant shifting, I need to restructure so I can maximize my gym time.
Monslay â Calves/Shoulders/Back
Tueslay â Chest/Arms
Wedneslay â Legs/Glutes/Calves
Thurslay â Shoulders/Back
Frislay - Â Chest/Arms
I am basically cutting a full day off my legs and just touching calves on a 2nd day. Since I do not get a lot of gains due to Doctor Death (Diabetes). I can merge Shoulders and Back together, but have to cap my shoulder workout to X amount of sets so I have enough energy/time for Back-Attack.
I hope this works with rest/repair and more gains while freeing up some time for me to do other activities like write and possibly get back into music. I have also elected to switch up gyms as well. I still plan to keep my ATC (Around the Clock) Membership, but with season right around the corner traffic will thicken and me sitting in it will lengthen. Crunch is right down the road. Its by far a better facility with a lot of different equipment and its also cheap. I can pay the whole year in cash on day 1.
For those that have duel memberships. See you there. For those that do not. I am sorry, but I really need a change of scenery. I go to the gym to train. Sure I socialize and I have met a lot of great people at the ATCâs but I also get a Judge by people that have no business judging me. Do not worry what I am doing Instagramar⌠Worry about youâŚ
a lifterâs diary⌠Volume 8 - 9/13/2017 by David Angelo Mineo
0 notes