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2010-11-01 03:08 pm

Sunnydale AU: what do you say to that?

A few days after Cal receives the email from Sherlock, the inevitable happens.

Peter wakes Cal with the newspaper, discreetly seeing to it that Cal sees the article before his mother does.

Reed Chandler has been spotted.

There's a picture. He's with a girl. Her identity, the article says, has not yet been determined; Cal wonders numbly if she's still alive. The rest of the article is subtly indignant in tone; why, it asks, have the Chandlers been telling everyone that Reed is sick when he's well enough to be out enjoying himself with women closer to his son's age than his own?

Cal reads it slowly, then sets the paper down with stiff, exaggerated care and looks at Peter.
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2010-10-22 03:42 pm

Sunnydale AU: falling off the rope

As promised, Cal takes his new car out for a real drive the next day. He thinks about not going back, just driving and driving and leaving Sunnydale and his family far behind, but he knows it wouldn't work.

And not just because of the tracking device Peter will have installed by now, or the guard who caught up with him sometime in the first hour.

It's the same reason why he's going back home, instead of back to the Starks'. He knows he'd be welcome there as long as he needed to stay, but - he came out of his room in the first place because he couldn't hide forever, and that's what staying with Sherlock and Tony would be. Hiding. He can't do that, and he can't run, either.

(He also can't face up to what he knows he has to do. Not yet. Knowing he has to go back doesn't mean he can face the reason why.)

He gets home half an hour or so after nightfall, and hesitates in the foyer, unsure of where to go next.
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2010-06-25 09:02 pm

Sunnydale AU: Expert on Reality

1: in which Sherlock and Tony meet Cal somewhere unexpected
2: in which Cal meets Sherlock somewhere less unexpected, and shenanigans ensue
3: in which Sherlock stalks Peter Beardsley for perfectly logical reasons

4: in which Cal seeks independence
5: in which Sherlock pays Cal a visit

6: in which Obadiah Stane
7: in which Cal talks to Tony
8: in which Tony talks to Sherlock

9: in which Sherlock has a chance encounter

10: in which pizza

11: in which politics (and creepy, so much creepy)
12: in which friendship
13: in which Jarvis

14: in which Sherlock breaks into Cal's house just once more
15: in which Cal visits the Stark household

16: in which it is Cal's birthday
     i: out of your skull
     ii: grumpy and drunk
     iii: your security sucks

17: in which it isn't
18: in which it worked for Howard Stark
19: in which is it any wonder?

20: in which phone calls
21: in which school
22: in which vampires

23: in which Cal is disillusioned
24: in which Reed is impatient and Cal is sleepless, until he isn't
25: in which Cal calls Sherlock

26: in which Sherlock goes looking
27: in which Cal confronts his late father and compares scars with Sherlock
28: in which Sherlock visits New York and Jarvis calls Peter

29: in which Cal visits Tony and Peter calls Sherlock
30: in which Cal spends the day Tonysitting
31: in which Sherlock receives a call

32: in which that cannot possibly have happened
33: in which Sherlock returns
34: in which Sherlock calls Peter

35: in which Cal thinks
36: in which Tony visits him
37: in which Sherlock frets

38: in which dinner
39: in which Cal talks to Sherlock
40: in which Tony makes a speech
     (40a: interlude)
     (40b: diversion)

41: in which pizza, for real this time
42: in which Cal and Tina are d'aww

(intermission)

43: in which Sherlock is a bit of a creep
44: in which Cal and Tina watch movies and Cal's life sucks
45: in which Gracie means well

46: in which don't stalk my girlfriend!

47: graduation
48: celebration

49: in which James again
50: in which colleges are applied to and parents are discussed

51: in which Tina has an unfortunate encounter
52: in which Princess Tina makes her debut

53: in which Tina cancels a date
     53a: something is wrong
     53b: across the hallowed ground
     53c: understanding starts sinking in

54: in which a rational decision has been made

55: in which being a werewolf isn't the end of the world

56: in which Bella Swan's first day at Sunnydale High is very interesting indeed

57: in which Bella gives her new lab partner a ride home, and the rest of her afternoon turns up more questions than answers

58: in which Sherlock has a crush on a girl

(multiversal collision)

59: in which James is not a very good liar

60: in which hypothetical quandaries aren't

61: in which conclusions are inconclusive