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MOVED

2007-04-03T22:33:44Z

Just thought I'd let you all know that I've now moved - I can be found over at chasingthrills now!

Please please can all of you add me at that journal, I will add you all eventually when I go through my flist!

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eternal_dreams2 @ 2006-11-25T00:04:00

2006-11-25T00:04:00Z

I have a requeeest! Do any of you lovely people on my flist have 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'? (The song from the Wizard of Oz). I have hunted for it, but cannot find it for the life of me!

I had something else to say as well, and now I can't remember. Gahhhh!

(It's not her, she's nothing to do with it! I'm the one you want! It's me!!)

2006-11-23T21:36:14Z

I'm loosing the plot. I'm typing up biology notes and have just written,

"The death rate is the number of live deaths per time unit (e.g. 100 per year)"

Someone shoot me nowwww.... (or do my bio notes for me!)

Anyways... I have discovered I know next to nothing about maths, and can't remember ANYTHING to do with waves and optics from physics! The only subjects I'm pretty confident in are Chemistry and Modern Studies (and bit of Biology/Computing). I'm now scared abotu the prelims, this week has gone so fast and I only have one left! Arghhh!

On a brighter note, I LOVE Kerry Ellis as Elphaba! I have a -coughbootcough- of her and her Defying Gravity is AWESOME. She makes it seem so effortless!

I've also watched this week's NCIS and Veronica Mars and would to a wee episode summery but can't really be bothered!

-goes back to biology notes-

(I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had)

2006-11-19T11:57:59Z

I decided yesterday that I was going to write to Helen, Idina, Martin and Kerry so I've got letters all written and stuff and some stamps to send those letters and for SAE's. But i couldn't find any sensibly sized envelopes!! I went to 2 post offices which were both shut yesterday, and one shop had TINY envelopes and the other had HUGE ones. So I'm off into town letter to get envelopes so I can mail my letters. Oh and pick up my physics revision book, but obviously the former is more important!

I'm also very tempted to write to the US National tour cast as a whole and tell them that they're awesome, and as for a play bill cause apparently they do that - thanks stonedregrets! But I wouldn't know what to saaaaay or how the hell I mail to the US AND include a SAE with enough postage for a playbill.... would they even reply to the UK!? But Sho and Megan are awesome!

I think I'll consider writing if I actually get any response from London! Cause that would rock so much!

eternal_dreams2 @ 2006-09-22T18:37:00

2006-09-22T17:40:19Z

Stolen from agatha2460

IF YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST ...
I want to know 20 things about you. I don't care if we've never talked, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. I really don't. You are obviously on my list, so let me know with whom I am friends! JUST HIT REPLY.

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:

HERE COMES THE FUN ...

1. Do we know each other outside of Live Journal?
2. Whats your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/intresting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if i asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

eternal_dreams2 @ 2006-09-01T18:25:00

2006-09-01T17:28:09Z

I've just done a friends cut. Just so you all know, I've not cut you cause I don't like you, it's cause I never speak to you/don't even know who you are!

If you feel you should be added/want to be readded/think i've deleted you in a mistake please comment to this post and I shall readd you!

Fic: Just Open Your Eyes

2006-08-19T14:11:35Z

Title: Just Open Your Eyes

Rating: PG-13

Length: 782 Words

Fandom/Pairing:NCIS, Kate/Gibbs

Author: Rach; eternal_dreams2

Warnings: Spoilers for 2x23 Twilight; Character Death

Author's Note: Nothing is mine, except the writing. Charaters are Bellisario's, lyrics are Snow Patrol's. Many thanks to Sammie binglexjells for the beta. Please please comment if you like/don't like it.

“The anger swells in my guts
And I won't feel these slices and cuts
I want so much to open your eyes
Cos I need you to look into mine”

Open Your Eyes – Snow Patrol

~*~

Bang.

Squelch.

Thud.

Silence - pure, suffocating silence.

Instinctively he falls to his knees, arms sheltering his head, fingers interlaced at the top of his neck, listening for more gunfire. His heart constricts, bile rising in his throat as he listens frantically for a sound (the scuff of a shoe, the scrape of a limb, a slow breath) so that he knows she’s ok. He hears nothing, only the pounding of his heart in his chest and the deep shaky breaths he identifies as his own. He counts to ten (1…2…3…4…5…) in his head, then slowly rolls over, lying on his side, using his hands to push himself up into an awkward sitting position.

That’s when he sees her. She rests on her side, right arm tucked under her cheek, left splayed at an un-natural angle behind her. Her legs are twisted; the right bent completely at the knee, drawn right in against her body, the left resting against it, bent slightly at the knee. She could almost pass for sleeping if it wasn’t for the ever-expanding halo of vibrant crimson blood seeping out from under her head.

He swallows, forcing the vomit rising in his throat back into his stomach. Control yourself marine, he thinks, staring at her fallen form. He shuffles towards her slowly and extends a shaking hand, resting it on her shoulder, turning her carefully over. She’s still warm. Ducky would have my guts for this, disturbing his crime scene, he thinks, remembering the time he pushed a young French cop off a cliff. But this is Kate; it’s different. So very different. He smoothes the curtain of hair away from her pale face, his eyes half closed, not wanting to see her like… like this. Her once warm brown eyes are closed, the lids shut tightly over them. Her lips are turned upwards in an almost imperceptible smile. She was smiling when he killed her.

“Katie…” he breathes, his eyes avoiding the large red welt in the centre of her forehead. His hand rests on the pale flesh of her cheek, feeling the warmth seep into his skin. The irrational part of him wills her to open her eyes, for her lids to flutter slowly, and then slowly open, for the warm brown orbs to gaze up at him, filled with confusion for a brief moment. He wills her to sits up, to laugh at him for his worry, for her to giggle softly when he tells her how worried he was, for her to find it absurd that he thought she… she’d gone.

He hears the wail of sirens in the background, the pitch increasing as he they get closer and closer. His eyes blur, causing him to blink fiercely. Marines don’t cry, come on; suck it up!

“C’mon sweetheart.” He says squeezing her shoulder even though he knows it’s useless. The sound of footsteps on the stairs behind him echo louder and louder until the strong wooden door crashes open. He turns around, staring into the familiar face wearing a mask of worry.

“Ducky…” He whispers, his hand still resting on her shoulder, feeling the warmth seep from her into him. He closes his deep blue eyes, willing the transition to be the other way around, for him to channel come of his warmth into her. Ducky slowly walks towards him, his face ashen, tears visible in his eyes.

“Oh Caitlin…” Ducky sighs, dropping to his knees to crouch beside her. A shaking hand rests at the curve of her jaw, feeling for the absent pulse. He sighs again, harder this time, allowing the hand to fall back and rest uselessly on his knee.

“She’s gone Duck,” He says, his voice wavering slightly, “That fucking sonofabitch…” He tailed off mid-sentence, unsure of how to put his grief and anger into words. Ducky nods slowly, turning away and slowly clambering to his feet. He doesn’t notice the older man’s departure, doesn’t notice him going to collect the gurney and sheets to protect her from the stares and hushed voices; instead, continuing to inspect her pale face. He memorises the curve of her jaw, her pretty features, the way her hair falls into her face so that he never forgets how she looks.

“I’m sorry…” He whispers, so quietly that he was unsure if it was ever said. He sinks his teeth into a quivering lip, and is startled when he feels moisture pouring down his cheeks. He realises he is crying.

eternal_dreams2 @ 2006-07-12T17:33:00

2006-07-12T16:51:24Z

Title: Five Things That Never Happened to Gibbs and Kate;(i) Saviour

Rating: T (subject to change)

Length: 1094 Words

Fandom/Pairing:NCIS, Kate/Gibbs

Author: Rach; eternal_dreams2

Author's Note: None of the characters belong to me, I'm just borrowing. This fic is part one of a five part fic for 5_nevers This chapter contains spoilers for 2x23 Twilight and is an alternate ending for that. Many thanks to Sammie (binglexjells) for the beta. Please comment if you enjoy it, and even if you don't!

“Shooter!” she shouts, diving forward, her body going into a spasm as the bullet impacts into her chest. A deathly silence fills the air as her body slumps and hits the rough surface of the roof, limbs splayed everywhere. He spins, his heart clenching, and fires his pistol at the source of the bullet, unloading the entire clip of his weapon. He hears Tony behind him, his gun firing a torrent of bullets at the terrorist. He watches – with a slight sense of satisfaction – the body fall from his hiding place in some kind of steel structure, his chest dotted with red wounds. He feels his stomach constrict as he turns around and sees her still fallen form, her deep brown hair fanned out around her face.

“Katie…” he breathes, stumbling the short distance to where she lay, slipping his empty pistol into the holster on his waist. He reaches out a shaking hand and gently rolls her over, terrified of what damage he’s going to see.

“Katie?” He whispers again, his voice quieter, cracking slightly at the end. A soft groan escapes her lips as her eyelids flutter and her warm brown eyes gaze up at him, blinking as a look of confusion flashes briefly across her face. He releases a breath he wasn’t even aware he was holding, a small smile creeping onto his face.

“Ouuuch…” she groans, rubbing her side where the small metal round lay, embedded into the Kevlar of her vest. He reaches down and grasps her smaller hand in his and helps her to her feet, his hand resting on her right arm, helping keep her upright.

“You ok Kate?” Tony asks the relief evident on his face, as he steps towards them, looking around cautiously for more threats, his gun still grasped loosely in one hand.

“Tony, I’ve just been shot at point blank range!” She moaned, shooting a mock glare at him, tightly holding onto Gibbs’ arm, her body contorting with pain every time she took a breath. Tony chuckles, his familiar big, teeth-flashing grin reappearing on his face,

“You did good Kate!” He says, his tone completely serious, as his brown eyes lock with hers for a moment. She smiles softly at him, her grasp still tight on Gibbs’ forearm. Gibbs’ nods slowly, his eyes squinting slightly as he sees a flash of light out the corner of his eye, a red light dancing over the wall. Dread fills his stomach; his body going into a cold sweat as he watches it come to rest on Kate’s forehead, a bright imperfection on her soft clear skin. The light from a sniper’s scope.

“Get down now DiNozzo!” He shouts, reaching out blindly to push Tony to the ground while leaping forward and pulling Kate down, covering her petite frame with his much larger one, his torso pressed right against hers, his weight on his hands resting on either side of her face. She gazes up at him, brown eyes locking with blue, as they hear the impact of the round in the concrete wall behind them. Instinctively she clenches her body, her face burrowing into his shoulder, inhaling the scent of sawdust mixed with coffee that was so Gibbs; as he closes his eyes, holding his breath as they hear the round whoosh past their heads.

“Tony?” she says, her voice shaking, as she attempts to peer over the top of Gibbs, “Tony are you ok?”

“Yeah…” a familiar voice says faintly, “Gee Boss… you sure do shove hard… I think I’ve broken something” The voice adds, while coughing violently.

Gibbs chuckles, “S’better than having your brains blown out DiNozzo!”

“True boss… very true…”

Kate giggles softly, her face still pressed into Gibbs’ shoulder, her hair into his face, the fruity smell of her shampoo filling his nostrils.

“Katie?” he whispers, rolling sideways carefully, so he is lying beside her, “You ok?”

“Uhuh…” she responds, nodding slowly, a look of shock on her face, “Gibbs… who… what was that?” she asks, biting her lip nervously, her brown eyes filled with worry as she gazed up at him, “It wasn’t...” she stops, both of them knowing who she was talking about.

“I… I don’t know…” He says, even though they both know that it was, while crawling over to sit against the low wall beside them, his back towards the shooter. Kate follows, her body flat against the ground as she slides quickly, landing snug against the wall, the rough bricks cutting into her exposed flesh. She pulls herself into a sitting position, wincing as the movement causes pain to shoot through her bruised torso, a small gasp emitting from her mouth. Her face contorts in an expression of pain as she carefully feels along her ribs, checking for further injures.

“Ari set us up.” Kate states, staring at a small scuff mark on the rough concrete of the roof, “He lured us to this roof top so he could,” she pauses, exhaling slowly, “So he could shoot me.” Her eyes remained fixed on the spot, blinking quickly, her mouth twitching, her chin raised defiantly in a bid to stop the hot tears she could feel pricking at the corner of her eyes. Gibbs stretches out a hand, and carefully rests it on her shoulder, turning her around to face him. She looks down, inspecting the black flats that decorated her feet, their small bows dirty and frayed after the gun fight on the roof.

“I’ll protect you Katie…” he whispers, so quietly that her ears strain to hear it. She lets out a strangled sob, a solitary tear leaking out of the corner of her eye, as he rests his arm around her shoulders and pulls her into an awkward half hug, her small frame rested against his side. She closes her eyes, silent tears streaming down her cheeks, as she lets out a soft chuckle,

“I meant to be protecting you remember?”

“Protection Detail’s over” He says, smiling at her, as he gets to his feet, extending a rough hand towards her. She returns the smile, her eyes sparkling with unshed tears as she reaches up and encases his rough hand in her soft one. Her breath hitches as he pulls her to her feet – the movement causing her chest muscles to protest.

“Let’s go home Katie.” He whispers, his arm wrapped carefully around her waist, a hand resting on the curve of her hip; as they he leads her slowly across the roof, the sun setting in the evening sky above them.

eternal_dreams2 @ 2006-06-25T13:05:00

2006-06-25T12:14:08Z

-happy sigh- Gemma's party was amazing. Things were a little hinky at the start, but after a while it was so good! We sat for hours by a fire in her garden, squashed into not enough chairs, attempting to play dares but nobody could think of any good ones! We were all frozen cause we'd had a water fight (Scott got me with the hose twice, Liam with a water pistol 4 times and Bob with a cup 6 times. I was dripping!) so we were all wrapped in blankets. There was only one seat left, and me and Alex didn't have one, so he had the idea that I sat on his knee. I just though that I'd kinda perch there, while he sat back, but he first had his arm around my shoulder, then pulled me into a hug with his arms around my waist. It was so warm and comfy and just nice ♥ Apparently we looked like a couple, but we're not. Unfortunately!

We all went to bed about 4, the guys in a tent in the garden (held down with paint brushes cause i forgot the pegs!) and the girls in the house, after a gossip session in the girls part of course! The next morning (today) we woke up at 6 (!!!!!!!!!!) and attempted to watch a DVD, but the player fucked up, so we sat and talked, watching the music channel while Ryan and Andrew played guitar. Eventually we migrated outside and sat on the trampoline!

The best part was when me, gemma, jonny, jo, cat, andrew, scott and eililh were on the trampoline, and andrew was making up random songs! Him and Scott came up with the trampoline song! It was hilaaaarious!

I love my friends ♥

I am SO tiiiired though

eternal_dreams2 @ 2006-04-17T11:42:00

2006-04-17T10:48:39Z

Hmm... -is bored- I didn't do much yesterday, except cut the grass (oooh! exciting stuuuff) -rollseyes- I don't think I'm doing anything today either. Might revise some physics, I have a NAB on wednesday -hides- Should be ok, i got 36/40 on the practise. I just object to the teacher making the real McCoy months after the practise, aaaaand after we started a new unit only because most of the class complained?! I bet you 10p that they all do worse than they would have, cause they get cofused with the new stuff <_<. Ugh... school tomorrow... can't be bothered at aaaall. Have Maths first! I predict mr Thomson is gonna go mad. I've forgotten everything, and w have our 3rd year exam coming up. Faaaaaaaaaantastic!