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forever-rogue · 4 years

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I would like 6 & 9 from the List 1 autumn scene prompts with Frankie🥺

6. Getting caught in autumn showers & 9. Cuddling to keep warm

Oh, okay 🥺 it’s really soft hours, huh? I hope you enjoy!

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“Is this...is this not an excessive amount of apples and pumpkins?” Frankie’s attempt at being serious was in vain as he looked at his with that silly grin you adored so much. He was currently trailing behind you, lugging a wagon full of pumpkins and apples that the two of you had spent hours meticulously picking out.

You’d offered to help, but he insisted he could handle it, and you weren’t going to stop him. You already had given him plenty of sweet kisses in advance and promised to bake all of his favorite treats later, including Dutch Apple Pie, which you intended on making later with your haul of freshly picked apples.

“Francisco, mi amor,” you spun your heel, a small cloud of dust welling up and coating your boats as you turned to him, “this is just the beginning! The pumpkins are going to be for decorating the porch and house, we’ll have to get more to carve right before Halloween so they’ll be fresh and perfectly spooky, and the apples are for baking. Trust me, there will be plenty more to come! It’s the best time of the year. Let me thrive without judgement!”

“I should have known,” he grinned as you bounced over and kissed him, just as a crack of thunder boomed through the sky. You almost jumped into his arms at the sudden interruption, having failed to notice how dark and gray the sky had gotten in your excitement at picking all the pumpkins. His arm instinctively wrapped around your waist as he held you close and secure, “we better get going. Looks like it’s going to start pouring any second.”

“Good idea,” you agreed as you spotted the lightening in the distance, “I don’t want to get caught in that. Tally ho, Mr. Morales, let’s get out of here and get home so I can start baking.”

“Lead the way Mrs. Morales,” he gave your bum a pat as you made a delighted sound of surprise, leading the way back to the main part of the patch in order to pay for your new treasures and get going home before the storm.

But just as you and Frankie finished paying and got ready to head back to the parking lot, the sky seemed to open up and ran poured down in buckets. You shot Frankie a worried face before the two of you broke into laughter. Ever the dutiful and caring husband, Frankie pulled off his thick, flannel jacket and draped it around your shoulders to keep you warm. You were about to insist that he keep it, but already knowing your concern, he just shook his head as you walked towards his truck.

You were close behind, trying to stay as dry as possible, which appeared to be an insurmountable task as the two of you loaded everything into bed of his truck. Once everything was loaded up, you grabbed the wagon and started to pull it back to put it away, as Frankie watched you with an are you sure face. You kissed his cheek before telling him to get in start the truck and blast the heater.

Frankie did as you instructed, climbing in and letting the engine roar to life as he turned around and watched you. A small smile was on his face as he watched you almost skip back to turn the wagon, chatting animatedly with the worker who took if from you. Gods, he was so in love you - every little thing you did was like magic to him.

“Hey stalker,” you teased as you ran back over and jumped into the truck, cuddling up as close to him as possible. He arched an eyebrow as he gave you an amused look before starting to drive, “I saw you watching me! You can’t hide anything from your wife, you know.”

“Ahh,” he commented as he wrapped his arm your shoulders, the other one remaining steadily on the wheel, “could that be because I happen to be crazy about you?”

“Hmm,” you murmured as you felt your eyes started to get heavy, resting your head on top of his shoulder, “I’m more crazy about you. I love you to the moon and to Saturn.”

“I love you more,” were the last soft words you heard from him before you nodded off.

The next time your eyes opened, you were parked in the driveway of your house, watching as Frankie carried everything inside. You opened the door and hopped out, checking to see if there was anything you could do to help.

“You should have woken me up to let me help,” you pouted at him as he shook his head, “it was a lot.”

“And you were sleeping,” he reminded you, “so I let you sleep.”

“Have I ever told you that I don’t deserve you?” you asked as you gently pressed your lips to his. He just shrugged, trying to play it cool and not let the tinge of pink rising in his cheeks get too hot, “because I don’t. You’re much too good to me.”

“It’s me that doesn’t deserve you,” he insisted softly, that little bit of self doubt he always seemed to have welling up. You put your hand on his cheek and made sure his soft, brown eyes were looking into yours. You loved him more than life itself and you would do anything to get him to see that, to know how important special he was.

“Francisco,” you said softly, his name falling from your lips with reverence, “stop that right now. I love you. You deserve me, this everything, everything and then some, okay? I don’t want you to ever doubt that. If you do, tell me and I will give you a hundred million reasons why I love you.”

“Okay,” he agreed gently, pressing a kiss to your temple, “what’s reason 28?”

“I love when you speak in Spanish to me,” you admitted as he took your hand to lead you inside and out of the little bit of drizzle, “especiallywhenwehavesex.”

“Hmm? I’m sorry, what was that list bit?” he teased, knowing full well what you just said. You shook your head and stuck out your tongue before darting into the house with Frankie hot on your heels. You only made it half into the living room before he caught up, his arms wrapping around your waist as he pulled you into his body.

“Francisco!” you were almost breathless from giggles as he held you close, resting his chin on top of your shoulder peppering you in kisses, adding a few tickles in, “cheater!”

You quickly fell onto the plush carpet, Frankie following you, but managing to keep himself from crushing you. He was staring back at you with a look of pure adoration and you couldn’t help but lean up and kiss him, “now what were you saying?”

“I’m not repeating what I said,” you insisted, sticking out your tongue as your cheeks warmed up, “but reason 847 that I love you is because you manage to make everything fun. Even the boring stuff like doing laundry or bring in groceries...well pumpkins and apples in this case.”

“Always,” he promised, “I’ll do anything to keep a smile on that pretty face.”

“Wanna do me a favor?” you asked as he eagerly nodded, “get off of me so I can change out of these wet clothes? You should do the same.”

“I suppose you’re right,” he stood up and offered you his hand to help hoist you to your feet, “we’ll get warm and then...movie marathon?”

“Only if hot coco is involved,” you insisted as you walked to your bedroom to get clean clothes.

“As if there was any other option,” he snorted as you nodded in agreement, “and then maybe we can bake tonight...”

“And by we you mean me? I bake and you sit on the counter and watch and eat half the ingredients?” you raised an eyebrow as he picked two pairs of his pajama pants, handing one to you, knowing full well that you loved wearing them as much as him. You eagerly took them, slipping off your wet jean before sliding them on, along with one of his tshirts. He followed suit, stopping only to give you a kiss.

“That is precisely what I mean,” he agreed as you feigned a dramatic sigh, “what do you say, honey bee?”

“You could ask me just about anything and I’d say yes,” you agreed, “you got me to marry you after all, didn’t you?”

“And here I was thinking all that was all because you loved me...”

“Alas,” you teased, “the truth hurts. It was all just because you’re so convincing. Totally not because I love you or anything.”

“I’m hurt,” he said as you dragged him into the living room, eager to cuddle up and get under a mountain of fluffy blankets, “truly.”

“Nah,” you said as you flopped on the couch and made room for him, “I’ll make it up to you. Dutch Apple Pie.”

“Honey Bee,” he also stopped in his tracks on the way to the kitchen to begin make your hot coco, “do you mean it?”

“Of course, mi amor,” you turned back to offer him a soft smile, “what do you think all the apples are for? I’ll bake you all the pies in the world, if that’s what you wanted.”

“You....I love you,” you watched his smile only grow as he took down your favorite mugs from the cabinet, busying himself with getting the stuff together, “mini marshmallows?”

“Of course,” you called over your shoulder, “scary movies or cheesy holiday movies?”

“What does my honey bee want?” he asked as you thought for a moment, starting to scroll through Netflix.

“Cheesy scary holiday movies?” you suggested as a laugh met your ears.

“Perfect!” he agreed as you settled back and waited for him to join, “just like you!”

“And you!” you insisted, “te amo!”

“Con todo!”

#frankie morales #frankie morales x reader #pedro pascal #pedro pascal x reader #frankie 'catfish' morales #triple frontier

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crazyfreckledginger · 6 years

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I Brought Back Up

Owner of this beautiful fanart

Continuation of Meeting At A Gala

The reader has a tamed tiger called Shiva, she is also the Autobots protégé.

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3rd Person PoV

"They're so many of them!" Nightwing called out, whilst knocking down one of Bane's men.

"What do we do?" Red Robin asked, coming back to back with the other vigilantes.

"We fight!" Batman says, punching another one.

"It's only a matter of time before we get our asses handed to us!!" Red Hood yelled.

"Time is the only thing we need!" the Dark Knight himself retorted.

"Wha-"

"Just follow my orders!" He barked.

After half an hour, the five men became exhausted and very injured from the fight and were quickly pinned to the ground.

"Fuck!" Red Hood, muttered under his breath.

One of Bane's men, tired of Red Hood's agitation, shot him in the leg, freeing a loud groan from the masked man.

"Kill them!" Bane gestured to the vigilantes in front of them. A few of his men prepared themselves to shot each of them in the head when a bright red light projected the men forwards. A loud roaring sound could also be heard. These two figures fought off men in a very short space of time.

Your PoV

Knocking out all of the men before they could shot any one of them, I heard a loud roar. Turning around, I saw Shiva, who was attempting to jump onto another rooftop. Looking in the area she was trying to get to, I saw a goon escaping. Without any second thought, I ran after him.

Dick's PoV

"What was that?" He asked catching his breath.

"That was back up!" Batman stated.

"You brought back up?" Jason partially yelled.

"I brought back up!" He answered. Facing the rooftop the figure ran onto, I distinguished little aura's of red light and a loud thump, the scenery then became completely inert. After a few seconds, I heard another loud thump coming from behind me. Turning around quickly I saw the figure holding a fistful of a goon's shirt.

"Took you long enough" Batman huffed.

"A thank you will be enough B!" She said, letting go of the man.

"Who is she?" Robin asked.

Your PoV

"Well, you know the girl you met at a gala a little while back..." I hinted.

"Ooooh! I never knew your favorite color was red!" Red Hood tried to flirt. A sudden roar pierced the air. Turning around, I saw Shiva showing her fangs while pacing at the level of my legs.

"It's ok honey!" I scratched her head, earning a satisfied purr from her throat. Turning back to Red Hood I said

"Your flirting skills work better when you are not half dead!" I stated bluntly.

"How did you tame that tiger?" Robin asked curiously.

"Long story." I simply answered.

"We should probably get going!" Red Robin intervened.

"Scarlet, you're coming with us," Batman said.

"Scarlet heh?" Red Hood said.

"Witch, Scarlet Witch!" I said sighing.

"I'll send you the coordinates to the base, do you need a ride?" Batman asked, turning to me.

"No don't worry about it, I've got it handled," I stated. "Shiva, let's go!" I said, before jumping off the building into an alleyway, Shiva on my tail (ha get it... Ok i'll stop).

"Coordinates received!" My phone said.

Looking up I saw 5 figures jump to another building. After waiting a few minutesa pick up truck drove up to us. Letting Shiva in the back seat, I went into the driver's seat and took my phone out of my pocket, while the doors closed and the engine started.

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At the Batcave...

Bruce PoV

Getting Jason out of the Batmobile, I heard familiar motorcycle engines come into the Batcave. Carrying Jason to the medical room, Alfred quickly followed me with a tray of all the necessary equipment for healing Jason. Dick, Tim, and Damian went to change into casual clothes, while I was in front of the Batcomputer. Minutes later, the sound of an unfamiliar, more aggressive engine resonated in the cave. Turning around, I saw a grey pick up truck. It stopped abruptly, out came (Y/N) and her tiger.

"Howdy!" she joked. Her tiger right behind her. "Good evening Miss (Y/N)!" Alfred exclaimed behind me.

Your PoV

"Hi, Alfred" I smiled at him. Soon after followed Dick, Tim, and Damian in casual clothing. I waved at them, Dick winked back at me, Tim awkwardly waved back at me with blushed cheeks and Damian smiled at me. Jason came out a few minutes later, limping slightly.

"Hey, babe!" He waved. Shiva growled. I scratched her scalp to calm her down.

"So do you want to get some food and get to know each other better?" He flirted. I blushed slightly at his statement. Then a louder growl and metallic noises echoed through the cave. "Oh no!" I exclaimed wide eyed. Looking towards the boys in front of me, them too with wide eyes and a scared if not terrified expression on their faces. I turned around quickly towards my pick up truck that turned into it's humanoid shape.

"You feelin' lucky punk?" He said pointing his canons to Jason.

Dick let out the girliest scream I have ever heard, Tim became pale and Damian froze.

"WOAH WOAH WOAH IRONHIDE PUT THE GUNS DOWN NOW!!!!" I yelled at him. He hesitated for a second then reluctantly put them down.

Bruce seemed both amused and curious by the situation he was witnessing whilst Alfred had shock written all over his face.

"Ironhide.calm.down" I articulated. He simply huffed in response then turned his attention back to Jason and warned.

"Don't even flirt with her or you'll regret ever crossing her path!"

"IRONHIDE!!" I stopped. "Stop it!"

"Wo-a-t-is-th-at?" Tim stuttered

"He's my friend" I tried to find the right word. Deliberately coughing behind me, I corrected: "Family, more like family than anything else".

"He's a Transformer!" Bruce informed.

"A what?" Dick squeaked out.

"He won't hurt you, Dick, will you?" I looked back at Ironhide.

Sighing, he answered, "I won't unless she tells me otherwise!"

"So you're ok with them killing people but not me killing people!?" Jason pointed out to Bruce.

"Well, they've been here for millions of years, protecting Earth from threats, twice since I know (Y/N)!" He stated. "Anyway, it's not as if I can do anything about it!" He eyed Ironhide.

"So you're how old?" Damian asked.

"Well I'm billion human years old you might say, we are very difficult to kill, but we have no equivalent of a notion of time since our existence in the universe. We are evaluated according to our ranking: what we have fought against and our level of skill and expertise," he explained.

"Eeeh what?" Damian asked scrunching his nose.

"Basically they don't have an age and they are ranked according to how skilled they are." I abbreviated.

"And what wars they have fought!" Bruce added.

"Yes!" I smiled at him.

"Sohewontkillus?" Dick blurts out.

"No!" I giggled.

"These are the humans that you work with sometimes?" Ironhide asked in disbelief.

"Yes! People get scared sometimes Ironhide, I think it's kinda cute!" I mumbled the next part. The boys obviously heard what I said, Dick blushed and the three glared at him.

"(Y/N) I thought you were supposed to help me understand humans, now I am confused again" He described.

I simply laughed as he started walking around cautiously around the cave, inspecting every detail.

"Yeah, he doesn't' understand why people get scared!" I informed.

"Why?" Jason asked as I walked towards the batcomputer, Shiva still at the level of my leg, the four boys still staying at a distance from the feline.

"They are aliens from Cybertron, the planet they live on. They lived at peace a long time ago, feeding their power off uncivilized planets. Until one ancestor did just the opposite, turning against his brothers and creating a rebellion. Wanting all of the power for himself, he attempted to kill them unsuccessfully but manage to destroy their planet. He disappeared until he was spotted here on Earth." I explained to the boys, looking at me curious by the fascinating story I was telling. "They don't have a home, so I took them in, we protect each other and always have each others' back!" I finished.

"How comes they are still some if the planet was destroyed?" Dick asked.

"They've been on Earth since human civilization was created, but they were kept a secret and only known about if the need arisen. They've fought by our side since the start. Some since Merlin's age, some of my other 'family members' have fought in the First and Second World War, against the Nazis, preventing the atomic bomb from destroying entire countries and so many other wars that would have badly affected us if they weren't here for us!" I ended.

"Woah!" Dick, Jason, and Tim said at the same time.

"What was that about no killing Jason?" Bruce smirked.

"Whatever!" He mumbled.

"(Y/N), Bumblebee and Jazz are looking for us!" Ironhide said, looking up from a screen that was on his arm.

"They can come in if they want!" Bruce proposed.

"Are they hostile?" Dick asked narrowing his eyes in a suspicious manner.

"Not unless I tell them otherwise!" I laughed.

Soon enough the rumbling of two sports cars, one yellow and black, the other a grey silverish color came in then transformed rapidly.

"You ok (Y/N)?" Jazz asked crouching down next to me to inspect me, while Bee bro fisted Ironhide.

"Ok that's actually really cool" Jason gestured while the other 3 agreed.

"Nice guns!" Jazz signaled to Jason.

"Thanks, man!" Jason piped up.

"Watch it Jazz, Bruce doesn't like guns or killing!" I informed him.

"Oh, that's sad!" Jazz ad Ironhide said simultaneously.

Jason and I laughed while Bee snickered and Damian slightly smiled.

"So if you didn't grasp it yet, no one knows about them so could you keep it to yourselves?" I asked persuasively.

"Sure!" All of them said.

"(Y/N) we should probably get going!" Bee said.

"Ok!" I simply agreed as they changed back into their car forms.

"Bye guys!" I waved at them "Shiva, come let's go!" We started walking back.

"WAIT!!!" Jason yelled from behind me. I turned around.

"Do you think we could, you know hang out? Get something to eat?" He asked desperately, his brothers head popping out from behind me.

"Not over my dead body!!" Ironhide answered behind us.

"Yes, that would be nice!" I smiled shyly, ignoring Ironhide.

"Cool!" All the boys said.

Getting in Bee, while making sure Shiva was in Ironhide, I waved to them when we started driving away from the cave. The brothers, Bruce and Alfred waved back to me.

When we got into the forest outside Bruce's cave, we made our way back to our base.

Tagging: @lumifuer

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just-horrible-things · 3 years

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‘Verse: @whump-sprite‘s dystopian modern fantasy

I don’t know what this is. Angst, probably? Two kids having a weird and shitty time.

Caution for childhood bullying.

Liam - Childhood 2 [First | Next]

Cassie doesn’t tell on Liam, but she also doesn't leave him alone after that.

Liam, get my coat for me.

Liam, let me copy your answers.

Liam, tell my mum I'm at your house.

Liam, I want your candy bar.

Liam, I don't want to walk my cousin's dog, you do it.

If you don't, I'll tell everyone your secret.

"Liam's got a secret," Tess crows, eager like a magpie that's spotted roadkill. "What is it? What's the secret, Cassie, tell me, you can tell me anything. Tell me, tell me, tell me!" Liam thinks he's done for. Cassie will cave and tell Tess, if not now then sooner or later, and Tess will tell everyone else.

But Cassie doesn't tell.

Liam, carry this.

Liam, do my homework, I don't want to.

Liam, tell the teacher I went home sick.

And strangest of all, Liam, break this for me.

She brings him things to destroy. Cans like the first time. Plastic boxes. A metal comb.

They stop using the alley behind the gym. There’s too often other kids back there. And no one else can know. Instead, Cassie takes Liam to a spot she knows in the woods behind the hospital. In a gully there’s a broken down truck, tipped over nearly but not quite on its side, being slowly eaten by the weeds. The kids climb down and sit in its shadow, where no one could see them without being right on top of them, and they’d definitely hear anyone coming through the undergrowth.

"How did it get here? " Liam wonders, putting his hand up into the space where the tyre ought to be. "What's it matter, " Cassie answers, scratches on her arms from pushing through the briars. "Here, do this one."

She always has something, usually several things. More cans. Pens. Pencils. A hubcap once, that he can only manage to put finger dents in. China mugs. A mirror -- "that's ten years of bad luck, " she says, smugly cruel. "For you too," Liam snaps. "No it isn't." "Yes it is. " "No it isn't, it was you broke it!" "Yes it is." "No it isn't! " "Yes it is, I'd know!" “How would you know?” “Because I’m magic, I know all about curses and bad luck.” “You don’t,” Cassie says, because she has to get the last word in. But Liam knows she believes him, he can see it in her worried eyes.

It doesn’t stop her. She gives him a book and he tears it in half with his two hands. Quarters to bend. Saucers smuggled in her coat pockets from her mom’s house.

Liam hates it. The more he does it the easier it gets, and he is scared of the magic, scared that if he keeps calling it up then some day soon he won't be able to make it go away again and it will be in his hands always, destroying everything he touches.

But, "if you don't, I'll tell," Cassie says, and Liam does everything she says.

"Is he your boyfriend?" teases Molly at recess. "Don't be stupid," says Cassie, tossing her hair in a way that doesn't quite manage not to look self conscious. "I would never ever let him be my boyfriend. Never in a million years. He's gross." "Then why'd you always let him follow us around? He's annoying." "Because he'll do anything I say." "Not anything," Molly challenges. "Yeah anything. Liam!” Cassie calls, “Liam, stand on one leg." "I don't wanna," Liam grouches.

Cassie gives him a Look, the Look moms give when their patience is running out. A Look that says Liam, don't make me look bad in front of my friends.

"Do it," she says. She doesn't say or I'll tell, but Liam hears it anyway. Reluctantly he gets up, and he stands on one leg. There is a round of giggles. "Happy?" he grumbles. He can feel his magic shift inside him, answering to the unwelcome stir of anger. "Is he for real?" asks Bee. "For real. Liam, put your hand on your head."

The magic seethes under his skin, trying to rush to his palms. But he puts one hand on his head. The other one is still tucked safely into his clothes, tangled in a pocket lining where it can do no damage. He wobbles where he stands. There’s more laughter.

Sometimes he hates Cassie so much he wants to split her skull like a soda can. It will be her fault if his magic comes rushing out of him like a terrible river and kills her dead. Her fault for making him use it, making it stronger.

But his magic doesn't come rushing out of him to kill Cassie. He still has it under control. Somehow.

"Make him quack like a duck," giggles Molly. "No," says Tess, always crueler, "make him cluck like a chicken. That's what you are, aren't you, chicken boy? Cluck, cluck, cluck." Cassie can hardly stop laughing enough to say "go on, Liam. Cluck cluck!"

Liam takes his hand off his head and shoves it under his coat so that no one can see if he makes sparks like Cassie saw that first day. He puts his other foot back down on the floor too. "No," he says. "No, I won't." "Liam--" Cassie starts, but Liam is already running. Away, far away, or they'll see, they'll all see and it won't matter what Cassie says because they'll all know.

He runs to the toilets, like he always used to, where the girls can't follow him, and he hides until Mr Watton sends Alfie to come find him, and then he lets himself get dragged to Math and fumbles his way through the rest of his classes,and at the end of the day he runs all the way home so that Cassie can't catch up to him.

His mom makes him try to explain over dinner, but he can't, not really.

"You have to stop doing what that girl says," she scolds, and Liam can't tell her that he can't. Then he'd have to admit that Cassie knows, and then he’d have to admit that he did the one thing he must never, ever do and he did magic where someone could see.

And kept doing it.

Did it yesterday. Still does it whenever Cassie asks.

“Okay,” he mumbles into his peas, feeling dirty inside.

He avoids Cassie for days after that.

But it’s only when he stops following her around that he realises why he was following her around in the first place.

They’re popular, Cassie and Tess and especially Bee. Popular means that the boys avoid them, and most of the girls who play rough avoid them. Most of Liam’s other bullies avoid them.

Once he’s out of their protective shadow, Liam gets cornered in the playground after school and he gets pushed down over and over until his palms and knees are bloody. He gets cornered in the toilets and pushed up against the wall. He gets his lunch knocked out of his hands, and because he runs away he goes hungry.

Back to how things were before.

At the weekend he is safe at home. He gets in trouble for having ripped the knees of his school pants again, but it’s only a small trouble. Mostly his parents let him be alone and he is glad.

But on Monday morning the boys are waiting for him outside the gates, and they don’t catch him but Liam gets in trouble for being late again, and at the lockers someone elbows him in the stomach hard enough that he can’t breathe, and after all that he goes crawling back to Cassie.

He tries to make nice, but she’s cold to him all day, and she doesn’t stop Tess from saying nasty things about how Liam is going to be expelled if he doesn’t stop missing class. It hurts because the teachers have threatened the same thing. Liam’s parents would be so, so angry if it happened.

But Cassie lets Liam walk out with her at the end of the day, and as they pass the gates she asks “Do you wanna go out in the woods with me?” Liam bites his lip. “I don’t wanna do the thing,” he says. And Cassie looks like she’s going to get angry with him again, but after a minute she says “Okay.”

So they hike out past the hospital, and they push through the briars and they sit in the shadow of the dead truck and they don’t talk.

Cassie has a lighter and instead of having Liam break things for her she sets fire to sticks and leaves and candy wrappers from her pocket. Some of the wrappers burn blue and green and both children watch rapt in wide-eyed fascination.

Cassie doesn’t say she’s sorry, but she doesn’t make Liam say he’s sorry either.

[Next]

#my writing #my ocs #liam holloway #some kid called cassie I guess #cassie is a little shit but I feel bad for her too #she has already learned #that if you have an advantage you have to press it #also: watch me try to write americanisms #hopefully I haven't messed it up too badly!

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Palm Springs: A Southern California resident has been hospitalized after being stung by bees bigger than 100 times. The Barren plan Sun reported Saturday that the person was as soon as transported to a wisely being facility after being stung in Banning. The California Division of Forestry and Fire Security said the person was as soon as stung around 12: 25 p.m. Saturday in the city about 23 miles west of Palm Springs. Authorities said one other person had a little want of stings and refused therapy by responders on the scene about 1 mile north of Interstate 10. The second victim drove to the wisely being facility. Neither of the victims was as soon as identified and their scientific conditions were now not identified Saturday.

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Estes Park: Flora and fauna officers are warning of us to retain their distance from elk sooner or later of their mating season after a bull charged of us, knocked a girl down and a glorious deal of times butted her with its antlers. A video on 9News.com confirmed the elk working toward of us and knocking the girl down Thursday stop to the visitor heart in Estes Park stop to Rocky Mountain National Park. The girl escaped after public works employee Brian Berg drove a pickup on the sidewalk and acquired between her and the elk. The elk then rammed the front of the truck. A spokesman for Colorado Parks and Flora and fauna, Jason Clay, told KDVR-TV that bull elks aggressively wrestle over their breeding rights. He said of us must give elk plan even in developed areas and allow them to cross away on their possess.

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Southbury: Officials said a hiker who was as soon as knocked to the ground by a gloomy endure has been treated for nonlife-threatening injuries. Connecticut Environmental Conservation Police said a 38-year-frail Newtown man was as soon as knocked down by a gloomy endure whereas mountaineering stop to Lake Zoar on Saturday. The man was as soon as able to get away, and the endure took off into the woods. The man was as soon as taken to Danbury Clinical institution and has since been released. Environmental police possess now not been able to search out the endure. Flora and fauna biologists possess living up a trap in the plan. Division of Energy and Environmental Security officers are encouraging the final public to retain their distance in the occasion that they gape a endure.

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New Fortress: County Executive Matt Meyer was as soon as the featured speaker at an match Friday sooner or later of which dozens of county cops confirmed up to say over ongoing contract negotiations between the federal government and the local police union. The county police’s contract expired in March, and negotiations had been underway for nearly just a few year. The negotiations are at loggerheads over wisely being care charges. Friday was as soon as on the very least the second time cops roasted Meyer in public. In July, his face was as soon as placed on a immense inflatable rat out of doors the county’s ice cream competition by picketing police. Jonathan Yard, president of Fraternal Affirm of Police Lodge 5, has said the county has offered contract provides that would perhaps presumably consequence in an overall loss of wisely being care benefits for officers and increased wisely being care charges. Meyer has said every officer was as soon as offered a raise. New Fortress County employs bigger than 300 cops, and the department is one amongst the most costly aspects of local government.

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Washington: Residents voiced their considerations about living conditions at a Southeast D.C. condo advanced on Friday evening, WUSA-TV reported. For years, tenants of the Congress Park condo advanced in D.C.’s Congress Heights neighborhood possess complained about mildew and rodent droppings of their housing units. D.C. Councilmember Trayon White held a gathering on the Malcolm X Replacement Center to listen to to considerations about the voice of the housing advanced. The councilmember was as soon as joined by representatives of the D.C. Division of Client and Regulatory Affairs and the D.C. Situation of enterprise of the Attorney Usual as wisely. White admitted the residents’ considerations in Congress Park would perhaps even just still be addressed immediate. However, tenants did now not get a sort of solutions from Congress Park’s property owner and supervisor Friday evening. D.C. tax recordsdata enlighten a neighborhood named “Southeast Washington Pattern Friends LP” owns Congress Park, but they did now not appear like on the assembly. The property supervisor, Edgewood Management of Gaithersburg, Maryland, moreover looked as if it would be absent on the assembly. WUSA-TV emailed the corporate to request a observation relating to the complaints residents possess made about repairs at Congress Park.

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Titusville: Carrying gloves to set at bay enamel and claws, firefighters gingerly extricated a cat from the engine compartment of a Mercedes-Benz on Friday morning. The tom cat rescue came about at a home on Las Palmas Drive, in a neighborhood north of La Cita Country Club. The grey cat, Suba Mae, escaped injury, Titusville Fire Battalion Chief Greg Sutton said. “The owner states that she believes the cat bought out an open door final evening,” Sutton said. “The cat’s now not an outdoor cat. And when she went out having a interrogate, she heard the cat meowing beneath the auto.” After being alerted by Suba Mae’s meows, his owner called an emergency dispatcher for aid. “As we tried to get the cat from underneath (the auto), it moved additional and possess was sort of caught. That’s when we had to open the hood and get in that formula to get the cat out,” Sutton said.”It’s something various each day. Most of us mediate cats are getting caught in timber — and I mediate we’ve had as many in cars as we’ve had in the timber,” he said.

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Atlanta: A Georgia-based entirely church neighborhood has returned sacred land in Ohio to the Wyandotte Nation. The Atlanta Journal-Structure reported that the United Methodist Church World Ministries transferred the deed sooner or later of a Sept. 21 ceremony and procession. The land had been held in belief for 176 years by the ministries neighborhood, based entirely in Atlanta. The land – about 3 acres – involves a stone church that dates to 1824 and a cemetery in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The manager of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, Billy Buddy, called the land switch “enormous.” He said students, tribal contributors and elders possess visited the positioning to possess a connection to their ancestral land and history. The Wyandotte Nation involves bigger than 6,600 tribal electorate. Most dwell in Oklahoma.

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Honolulu: An legal reliable representing a neighborhood of Hawaii residents adverse to sort in an Oahu beach park said he plans to opinion a court docket injunction against the venture. The Honolulu Essential person-Advertiser reported Sunday that Tim Vandeveer has filed a lawsuit and expects to purchase additional lawful action against sort inside Waimanalo Bay Sea inch Park. About 140 demonstrators opposing the improvement gathered Saturday on the park’s woodland plan identified as Sherwood Forest, which covers 74 acres. A city spokesman said Honolulu desires to obvious a local to draw a multipurpose field, playground and 11-stall automobile parking zone on the positioning. The official said the $1.43 million venture is a compromise from the city’s 2012 belief to draw a $32 million sports activities advanced and 470-stall automobile parking zone.

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Boise: Officials from Idaho and Taiwan possess signed a two-year, $576 million deal calling for Taiwan flour mills to steal Idaho wheat. The Idaho Press reported the deal requires the purchase of 1.8 million metric many of wheat. Kuo-Shu Fan, director overall of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Situation of enterprise, said Taiwan is Idaho’s second-largest agricultural export destination and Idaho is Taiwan’s sixth-largest export destination. Gov. Brad Runt said he'll lead his first official commerce mission as governor in October to Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. He said the Taiwan Flour Mills Association has introduced delegations to Idaho since 1970. The volume of wheat that Taiwan mills will purchase over the next two years is such as the amount purchased all around the final two years.

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Tinley Park: Two Chicago-plan nonprofit organizations possess collaborated to draw handmade beds for underprivileged formative years and are shopping for more volunteers. David King, president of the Oak Forest chapter of Sleep in Magnificent Peace, said that he and volunteers possess built about 100 beds for formative years in want since he took over the neighborhood in March. Steve Vick, vice president of Tinley Park Lions Club, told the Day-to-day Southtown the neighborhood decided to associate with King’s group and aid them with establishing beds to worth their 70th anniversary. King well-known that Schillings in Mokena donated the inch for building the beds. However other sources, akin to pillows and comforters, were purchased. Vick said their neighborhood is repeatedly shopping for contemporary contributors. He well-known they meet on the third Tuesday of every and every month.

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Evansville: Officials said work will doubtless be completed in November on a venture for permitting the cross of a restored World Battle II naval vessel to a more outstanding space along the Ohio River in downtown Evansville. Crews are in actuality building a company heart and barges so the LST 325 troop touchdown ship can cross to the feeble space of the Tropicana Evansville on line casino boat. Evansville Port Authority chairman Pat Wathen told the Evansville Courier & Press that the $3.6 million venture is on course and inside price range after excessive preliminary building bids delayed work. The ship took fragment in the 1944 D-Day landings in France and has been based entirely in Evansville since 2005. LST 325 board member Chris Donahue said the ship’s cross is deliberate for April.

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Des Moines: The Rev. William Joensen has been ordained because the 10th bishop to lead the Roman Catholic Diocese of Des Moines. The Des Moines Register reported that bigger than 1,500 parishioners witnessed the ordination Friday at St. Francis of Assisi Church in West Des Moines, the diocese’s largest. Pope Francis chosen Joensen, 59, an Iowa native, to interchange feeble Bishop Richard Pates, who retired after conserving the role for bigger than a decade. In his inaugural address, Joensen addressed young of us, asserting that “one of the significant church’s actions in the previous merit reproach” and that reproach of that by younger parishioners was as soon as to be expected. However he implored them to “be open to the info passed down from technology to technology.”

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Emporia: Emporia Narrate College students who are too exhausted to get home can now discover beds on campus. The college is placing in two sleeping pods designed by a San Diego-based entirely company. The soundproof rooms are relatively of wider than a twin bed, with a nightstand and a charging voice. Curtains and window blinds provide privacy. College spokeswoman Gwen Larson said students in overall are seen sleeping in public locations akin to chairs or with their head on a table. She said the sleep pods are safer locations for better sleep. One pod was as soon as installed just as of late in the campus library and one other will doubtless be installed at Memorial Union. The Kansas Metropolis Essential person reported students stationed stop to each and every pod will take a look at students in and be determined that that the majority effective one student at a time is utilizing the sleeping pod.

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Wurtland: An in a single day fire in a barn has killed thousands of animals in conjunction with 3,000 quails. News retailers reported the fire broke out at Bonzo Farm early Saturday. A assertion from Greenup Volunteer Fire Division said more than one fire departments responded to the blaze, which enthusiastic several barns. Raceland Police said moreover the quails, 1,000 chukars and 100 chickens were moreover killed in the blaze. Neighbor Kayla Wilburn said she would perhaps even undoubtedly feel the warmth from the fire at her home and the flames were about 80 feet in the air. The trigger of the fire is beneath investigation. Bonzo Farm was as soon as purchased by the Bonzo family around 1906. Wilburn said the barn was as soon as an emblem in the neighborhood.

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Belle Chasse: The federal government is giving a Louisiana parish a $4 million grant to aid enhance the water infrastructure. In a news release, the Division of Commerce says the cash is being given to Plaquemines Parish to present protection to firms from pure mess ups. The grant from the Division’s Economic Pattern Administration will hunch toward building of a recent raw water intake pump voice for the Belle Chasse Water Treatment Plant. The cash comes from a teach federal program designed to aid pay for disaster aid and recovery because Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, as wisely as wildfires and other pure mess ups. The grant would perhaps even just still be matched with bigger than $1 million in local cash.

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East Machias: An environmental neighborhood said this can release thousands of salmon correct into a river next month as fragment of an effort to aid grow the population of the species. The Downeast Salmon Federation said about 250,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon will doubtless be released into the East Machias River. The venture is fragment of the World Year of the Salmon effort that is taking plan in various nations. The Atlantic salmon is a highlight of conservation in Maine since it’s listed beneath the Endangered Species Act in the US. The fish were as soon as great in U.S. rivers, but populations plummeted because of dams, overfishing and pollution. They now return to perfect a handful of rivers in Maine, in conjunction with the Penobscot River, numbering in overall in the a complete bunch.

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Assateague Island National Seashore: An Assateague Island horse died over the weekend after being struck by an official park automobile, constant with a National Park Provider news release. The incident came about Sunday morning when a chestnut mare identified as Connie’s Lady was as soon as standing on the curve of Bayberry Drive in the predawn hours. Officials said a park automobile struck the horse’s hindquarter before daybreak. The park employee was as soon as now not injured in the collision, constant with the discharge, and the incident remains beneath investigation. Connie’s Lady was as soon as born in April 2018 to mare Ms. Macky, with the doubtless sire being Yankee. The National Park Provider said her band frequented the developed plan and campground of Assateague Island National Seashore and Assateague Island Narrate Park. Connie’s Lady is the 34th Assateague Island horse to be hit by a automobile and killed since 1982, the park said, with one other 17 injured in automobile collisions.

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Lawrence: Crews are starting the job of restoring service to the roughly 150 homes and firms whose gasoline service was as soon as disconnected after a leak. Columbia Gas said Saturday all residents displaced by the leak can now return to their homes. Technicians will birth going door-to-door to draw security assessments and relight gasoline appliances. Town is still reeling from a unfavorable assortment of gasoline explosions and fires a year ago. The corporate said Friday’s leak was as soon as an remoted incident in the side road and there was as soon as no affect to customers’ homes.

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Southfield: Oakland County wisely being officers are confirming two contemporary circumstances of rabies in skunks indicate in Southfield and Troy. The confirmations educate a legend final week that a skunk’s carcass moreover indicate in Southfield, supreme north of Detroit, tested obvious for rabies. In March, officers said a skunk in Rochester Hills was as soon as confirmed to possess rabies. Rochester Hills is northeast of Southfield. Residents are counseled to preserve a ways off from skunks, bats, raccoons, foxes, and stray cats and dogs. Rabies symptoms in animals consist of overall illness, swallowing problems and excessive drooling, sluggish and novel circulate, no obvious disaster of folks and aggression. It'll also be deadly to folks after symptoms birth to happen. Deaths will also be completed without with a vaccine administered straight after publicity.

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St. Paul: Police said there were six drug overdoses in the city in the span of just a few hours final weekend. The police department said in a Fb put up Saturday that investigators suspect in some circumstances of us thought they were utilizing cocaine on the replacement hand it’s doubtless fentanyl or one other drug was as soon as mixed in. KARE-TV reported that the six overdoses came about over a 21/2-hour duration. The incidents caused police to subject an alert to remind the final public of us can’t be prosecuted for looking out for aid for someone who overdoses.

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Starkville: Agriculture consultants said most of this year’s corn slit in Mississippi is in dazzling-to-lawful condition. The Mississippi Narrate College Extension Provider said in a news release that the voice’s farmers planted 35% more acres in corn this year in contrast to 2018. Corn planting was as soon as delayed by two to three weeks because of heavy rains sooner or later of the spring. The extension service said when corn can’t be planted on the linked old time, farmers in overall swap to soybeans. However, this year’s market outlook was as soon as stronger for corn. The news release said the voice’s corn harvest was as soon as sluggish in August because of a later-maturing slit, on the replacement hand it has long gone immediate in September. The U.S. Division of Agriculture estimated most of Mississippi’s corn slit is in dazzling-to-lawful condition. Fair 7% is taken into story wonderful, and 12% is either sad or very sad.

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St. Louis: The St. Louis Wheel, a 200-foot-great Ferris wheel, opened Monday at Union Space, where a recent aquarium advanced is expected to open in December. The Ferris wheel lights up with 1.6 million LED lights. It involves 42 climate-controlled gondolas that can retain up to eight of us each and every. Rides final about 15 minutes and fee $15 for adults and $10 for formative years. The redevelopment of the feeble prepare voice advanced moreover involves an 18-gap mini-golf route, a carousel and an frail-long-established soda fountain. Union Space for years housed a shopping heart. However its reputation waned, prompting redevelopment into an aquarium and other points of interest.

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Billings: A semi hauling a trailer fleshy of roping steers caught fire on Interstate 94 in southern Montana, but now not one amongst the cattle was as soon as injured. The Montana Highway Patrol told The Billings Gazette the motive force was as soon as able to safely purchase away all 103 head of cattle. House residents, some of them on horseback, helped preserve them off the side road till someone volunteered the exercise of a stop-by pen. The cattle had been loaded in Billings on Monday morning and had traveled about 85 miles when one other motorist spotted the fire in the front axle and acquired the motive force to drag over stop to Hysham. The fire in the break melted fragment of the trailer. Trooper Richard Drake said the motorist aged a fireplace extinguisher whereas the motive force unloaded the steers, that are aged in rodeo competitions.

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Louisville: The Formative years Hunter Training Roar scheduled for Oct. 13 at Platte River Narrate Park provides rivals a chance to hone their shooting abilities and be taught more about wildlife, survival abilities and hunter accountability. The rivals is for youths ages 11 and older who possess successfully completed hunter training and now not yet graduated from excessive college. The project will feature archery, shotgun, muzzleloader, hunter security path, orienteering and a hunter accountability examination. Competitors can register on-line at OutdoorNebraska.org. Contact Christy Christiansen at 402-471-5547 or [email protected] for more data. The project will doubtless be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Roger G. Sykes Out of doorways Heritage Training Complex. The park sits southeast of Ashland and west of Louisville.

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Las Vegas: Police are investigating a damage-in and vandalism on the Republican Celebration’s headquarters for metro Las Vegas. Officials said a glass door was as soon as kicked in Friday evening, papers were strewn inside the workplace and a espresso-maker was as soon as lacking. Nevada Republican Celebration Chairman Michael J. McDonald said he hoped that these to blame were apprehended “before they commit any other acts of violence …” McDonald said he suspected that “leftist activists” were gradual the damage-in, but Clark County Republican Celebration Chair Dave Sajdak he didn’t mediate the damage-in was as soon as politically motivated.

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Concord: As the autumn trying season will get underway, the New Hampshire Food Bank is again amassing donated deer and moose meat for distribution to bigger than 425 food pantries, soup kitchens and other facilities. Closing year, the Hunt for the Hungry program took in bigger than 2,000 kilos of meat. Hunters who participate on this device must process the meat and possess it stamped by a USDA popular butcher. Bruce Wilson, the food monetary institution’s director of operations, said such donations get a mountainous want. He said venison is extremely unique. The food monetary institution is now not accepting endure, bird or wild game birds. Deer season for archers began earlier this month; the season for firearms starts in November. Moose trying season starts in October.

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Atlantic Metropolis: A lightning strike precipitated energy to cross out in numerous Atlantic Metropolis casinos for several hours early Sunday. Atlantic Metropolis Electrical told the Press of Atlantic Metropolis a energy line was as soon as struck rapidly after 1 a.m., leaving about 9,400 customers without energy. Town’s fire department said it responded to calls from Bally’s Atlantic Metropolis, Borgata Resort On line casino & Spa, Ocean On line casino Resort and Resorts On line casino Resort where patrons were caught in elevators. Workers at Harrah’s were able to get a person out of a caught elevator. Gamblers went on social media to report strolling thru darkened on line casino floors. They were unlikely to lose cash from slot machines due to the the outage. The machines exercise battery-operated, uninterruptible energy provides. Loyalty program playing cards moreover legend all play.

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Albuquerque: Authorities said bronze shoes at a veterans’ memorial intended to of us who served in the U.S. war on terror had been stolen. New Mexico Veterans Memorial Foundation vice president James Lehner said the bronze shoes were stolen Friday evening. Michael Burd with the New Mexico Veterans Memorial Board of Directors said the five pairs of bronze shoes are worth thousands of bucks. Lehner says thieves moreover took an M16 and helmet that was as soon as on the Vietnam memorial. Albuquerque police and the New Mexico Veterans Memorial said no arrests had been made.

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New York Metropolis: Hundreds of runners took fragment in the annual Tunnel to Towers 5K Flee and Dawdle on Sunday. The bustle retraces the footsteps of Stephen Siller, a firefighter who was as soon as killed on 9/11 after working in fleshy equipment thru the Battery Tunnel to ground zero. A foundation in Siller’s establish raises cash for wounded veterans and households of fallen first responders.

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Greenville: Dan Gerlach, the meantime chancellor of East Carolina College, was as soon as placed on administrative leave after photos were printed of him at a bar with students. College of North Carolina Period in-between President Invoice Roper said in a assertion that Gerlach was as soon as placed on leave “in gentle of studies from this previous weekend.” Gerlach said in a assertion on Sunday that he went to a local pub with two adult male acquaintances on Sept. 25. The assertion said movies and photos shared on social media enlighten him “interacting with college-veteran young adults and taking selfies.” The agenda for a determined telephone assembly of the UNC Board of Governors on Tuesday involves a closed assembly to focus on about an govt personnel subject. It’s now not obvious if that dialogue considerations Gerlach, who was as soon as appointed in April.

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Minot: Sara Medalen, who helps grade college students combating reading and arithmetic, has been named the North Dakota Teacher of the Year for 2020. Medalen is a reading and math interventionist at Minot’s Sunnyside Elementary College. Medalen moreover started capabilities to aid reading, leadership sort, and bodily fitness. Gov. Doug Burgum and Narrate College Superintendent Kirsten Baesler announced the award Monday. Baesler and Burgum will retain a celebration for Medalen in mid-October.

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Toledo: The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of administrators voted to rename Toledo Advise Airport after Toledo native and retired NASA flight director Eugene Kranz. The Blade in Toledo reported the board has joined the Toledo Metropolis Council in vote casting to establish the flexibility the Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Advise Airport. Kranz, a feeble fighter pilot, had a 34-year profession with NASA and was as soon as flight director for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 moon missions. Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said he casually mentioned the establish swap before broaching the subject on a radio voice in June and the premise won traction. The Federal Aviation Administration must approve officially renaming the airport before the swap will doubtless be made.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: Hundreds of of us visited a $132 million park in downtown Oklahoma Metropolis where a weekend sizable-opening included a free dwell performance by Grammy-a success rockers Kings of Leon. Metropolis officers said 28,000 of us attended the enlighten at Scissortail Park, which opened to the final public Friday. More company streamed thru Saturday to ascertain up on out workout routines courses and sample food vans. The park that can in the break quilt 70 acres involves a lake, performance phases and trails. It’s moreover home to a clone of the “Survivor Tree” that lived thru the 1995 Oklahoma Metropolis bombing. The clone will doubtless be transplanted to interchange the common American elm as soon as it dies.

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Salem: Authorities said a prepare derailed north of Salem early Sunday, breaking a utility pole that resulted in energy outages and inflicting a little fire. Michael Williams, a spokesman for Portland and Western Railroad, said by email that there had been no injuries and no risky provides were enthusiastic. He said the trigger is beneath investigation. He said the incident enthusiastic the first eight cars of a 29-automobile prepare and came about at Hopmere. Of the eight cars, he said three carried wood pulp, three carried potassium sulfate and two were empty inch cars. Fire officers in a release said a little, smoldering fire started in the brush because the downed traces and was as soon as extinguished.

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Bloomsburg: Authorities said three of us were injured in a helicopter rupture at a voice dazzling. WNEP-TV reported a pilot and two passengers were in the helicopter when it crashed Saturday about 7: 30 p.m. in the auto parking zone of the fairground. The dazzling was as soon as filled with of us on the time of the rupture. No one was as soon as injured on the ground. The three of us aboard the helicopter were taken to a wisely being facility. Bloomsburg police said the pilot’s condition was as soon as first listed as basic but has been upgraded to stable. The two passengers had minor injuries. Police said the helicopter would purchase fairgoers for a instant rush. The rupture hooked the framing and shattered the windows of several vehicles in the auto parking zone. The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Security Board are investigating the rupture.

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Newport: The Aquidneck Island Planning Commission has scheduled a dialogue board Wednesday to focus on about coyote habits and the method in which parents possess an affect on their population dimension in Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth. Coyote researcher Numi Mitchell of the Narragansett Bay Coyote Locate will grunt a presentation on coyotes, adopted by a panel dialogue. The Newport Day-to-day News reported the dialogue board is an installment in the Desirable Island Sequence, which is aimed at confronting components the entire island faces. John Shea, govt director of the planning commission, said“What occurs in a single fragment of the island usually affects us all.”

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Edisto Sea inch: Biologists will draw necropsies on one whale that died and three that were euthanized after becoming stranded on a beach. Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network Director Lauren Rust told WCSC-TV the whales were came upon Saturday morning on Edisto Sea inch, on the replacement hand it was as soon as now not obvious how prolonged they had been there. Marine biologist Peyton Sasnett, who went to the beach, said they looked as if it would be pilot whales. Rust said pilot whales are in overall on the very least 100 miles offshore, “so in case you gape them advance this stop to shore, it’s positively alarming.” Getting outcomes of the necropsies would perhaps even purchase just a few week weeks. Rust said assessments will decide whether the whales suffered inside injuries, a viral an infection or fell in sad health because of human components like ingesting plastic in the ocean.

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Sioux Falls: The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has banned the sale, possession and exercise of e-cigarettes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in gentle of the nationwide outbreak of vaping-linked diseases. The tribal council popular the contemporary ordinance banning e-cigarettes sooner or later of its assembly final week. The most penalty for violating the contemporary ban is either a elegant of $250 or a sentence of 30 days in penal advanced, constant with the ordinance. Tribal President Julian Undergo Runner applauded the council’s “heroic action” final week in response to the deaths that possess came about nationwide because of vaping-linked diseases. Undergo Runner moreover identified as for additional action on tobacco law on the reservation. There had been six circumstances of vaping-linked illness in South Dakota and 805 circumstances total in the US. Twelve deaths had been confirmed in 10 states, constant with the Centers for Illness Control and Prevention.

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Kingston: The Tennessee Division of Health said trying out by the Tennessee Valley Authority and voice regulators dominated out the presence of coal ash – a toxic stew of chemicals, heavy metals and radioactive materials – in the stop 3 inches of dirt underneath the grass-lined soccer fields on the Swan Pond Sports Complex in Roane County. That linked trying out published the presence in the dirt of many of the substances in coal ash, though at ranges considered protected by the Environmental Security Agency. The wisely being department legend confirmed the dirt is extremely rich in two coal ash substances – arsenic and chromium – but moreover at ranges considered protected by the EPA and conventional of soil sooner or later of Tennessee. The TVA said the legend – made public earlier this month – proves the soccer fields and sport areas are protected for the final public.

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Laredo: A boil-water price has been issued for the border city of Laredo because of low chlorine ranges in the municipal ingesting water provide. Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz on Saturday evening announced the boil-water price for the city of about 260,000. He said routine trying out of Laredo’s ingesting water came upon the city did now not retain acceptable disinfection ranges in parts of the system. Saenz said there’s no water shortage in Laredo however the chlorine subject formula a doable wisely being chance. The mayor had no timetable when the boil-water price, issued as a precaution, will doubtless be lifted. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality required Laredo to enlighten all customers to boil their water till additional price. The attention applies to all consumption, in conjunction with for cooking, deepest washing and brushing enamel.

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Salt Lake Metropolis: ATVs will doubtless be allowed on determined roads in the five national parks in Utah beneath a recent rule from the National Park Provider that went thru without public observation. The Salt Lake Tribune reported the company told park administrators final week in a memo just a few protection swap that lets in ATVs on predominant access roads and aid roads. It puts the national parks in compliance with a voice law passed in 2008 that lets in any “side road-lawful” automobile on voice and county roads. The guideline takes attain Nov. 1 and perfect applies to national parks in Utah. Agency spokeswoman Vanessa Lacayo said ATVs still can’t hunch off-side road wherever they want. Off-motorway automobile advocacy teams pushed U.S. government officers to make the swap. Conservation teams criticized a rule they said will aggravate web page visitors and parking in parks.

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Burlington: The Rev. Shannon MacVean-Brown has was the first gloomy bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. A consecration ceremony was as soon as held Saturday for MacVean-Brown. She said her precedence will doubtless be welcoming of us of all backgrounds and ages. MacVean-Brown was as soon as raised in Detroit and most just as of late labored in Indiana. She said she has experienced feeling remoted as a gloomy lady. Now she strives for inclusivity in the church. The Episcopal Church of Vermont has bigger than 6,100 parishioners in 45 congregations sooner or later of the voice. MacVean-Brown succeeds Bishop Thomas Ely, who served for 18 years and is retiring.

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Richmond: Transportation officers are looking out for public input of a find of Virginia’s 179 miles of the Interstate 95 hall. The Commonwealth Transportation Board has initiated a find to draw a belief to establish key subject areas along the hall, between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Alexandria and the North Carolina border. Feedback offered by communities, industries and others will doubtless be considered as team contributors proceed find of the hall and prepare a draft belief legend in the autumn. The board plans to legend to the Usual Meeting in January. A assortment of conferences will accept as true with doable security and congestion solutions along the hall. The predominant assembly will doubtless be held in Fredericksburg on Oct. 9, following by one in Richmond on Oct. 15 and one in Woodbridge on Oct. 17.

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Everett: A ban on single-exercise plastic baggage is living to cross into attain in Everett as fragment of an effort to aid the exercise of recyclable baggage. The Everett Herald reported purchasers in Everett must purchase paper or thicker-plastic score for 5 cents each and every from cashiers because the ban on single-exercise baggage took attain Monday. Officials said the ban moreover applies to ingesting locations and lift-out orders, with an exception for bags aged to prevent spillage. Officials said dry cleansing and newspaper sacks are popular beneath the contemporary ordinance. Staff at a Safeway retailer in Everett said they've already speed out of the thin, plastic baggage and switched to paper baggage. The retailer said this can sell reusable baggage for $1 each and every.

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Any Misery You Choose: Epilogue

Part One / Part Two / Part Three / Part Four / Part Five / Part Six / Epilogue

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...

"Mabel, I can't do this."

Even though, to all of the cameras and reporters gathered on the lawn of the Northwest mansion, it appears that Pacifica Northwest is patiently sitting alone on the veranda behind her parents, she still feels a hand squeeze hers.

And even though she's a Northwest, and Northwests never show weakness in front of the public, Pacifica squeezes back.

"- dangerous mutant terrorists," her father finishes, before turning to Pacifica with a brilliant, expensive smile and a threat in his eyes. Pacifica realises she hasn't heard a single other word he's said. "Pacifica, dear, why don't you come up here and tell everyone about your terrifying ordeal."

She's a Northwest. Pacifica sucks in a deep breath, straightens her back and squares her shoulders, and lets go of Mabel's hand. Mabel gives Pacifica's hand one more quick squeeze before she lets go as well. Pacifica dons her practised smile like armour, and pushes herself up from the porch swing.

Her father holds out an arm as Pacifica steps up to the veranda stairs between him and her mother, drapes his arm across her shoulders. To the reporters, the gesture looks protective. Reassuring. Comforting.

Pacifica's been standing in front of crowds for as long as she can remember. Probably since she was born. She's a Northwest. This is second nature to her. The sucking silence, the weight of all those expectant gazes, has never bothered her before.

She draws in another breath. Shores up her smile. Her father's hand tightens warningly on her arm, not quite hard enough to hurt.

She's a Northwest. She can do this.

"I don't want to talk about the kidnapping," Pacifica blurts. Her father's said enough, the reporters all think it's because she's still traumatised by some terrible, unspeakable experience that they're having entirely too much fun imagining. Pacifica swallows hard, sternly reminds herself to keep it together. She's a Northwest. Northwests don't vomit on national television.

"Pacifica," her mother says, through her teeth. Pacifica doesn't have to look up to know she's smiling, smiling, until her face hurts.

"I want to talk about the reason I'm here, safe, in front of you today," Pacifica says, and her father interrupts, so seamlessly that it almost doesn't seem like he's interrupting.

"Yes, the brave, brilliant men and women of the FBI worked tirelessly, day and night, to -"

"I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the X-Men," Pacifica says, raising her voice over her father's carefully modulated tones. She's a Northwest. She's spoken in front of crowds for forever. She knows how to project her voice. And she knows how to command attention.

"Pacifica," her father says, his grip on her arm tightening again.

"Ow!" Pacifica says, pulling away. It doesn't really hurt. Her father would never physically harm his own child, especially not in front of reporters. Quite apart from anything else, it would reflect badly on his ability to lead and govern, if he can't control his own family except by force.

At least, Pacifica hopes it will.

Pulling away also puts her a step closer to the microphones, puts a little distance between her and her family. It'll make her voice that much more distinct on the tapes. And maybe, with that little distance, she'll be able to stop her hands from shaking.

"They didn't have any reason to care about somebody like me," she says, fast, scanning the crowd for reactions to her little performance. "They could've just sat back and let my father be blackmailed into withdrawing his support for the Mutant Control Act. But they didn't. They helped me. Because it was the right thing to do."

"Yes, yes, it's all very touching," Pacifica's father says, sounding annoyed. "All our gratitude to Charles Xavier and his - team - for their aid in reuniting us with our beautiful daughter." His hands land heavily on Pacifica's shoulders, clamping down like iron shackles. "Now, we'd like to be left in peace, to recover and reflect on our blessings as a family. Priscilla. Pacifica."

Pacifica doesn't need to be able to read minds to know how incandescently furious her father is with her, as he starts steering her towards the front door, ignoring the shouted questions from the crowd on the lawn. There's going to be hell to pay for this. But she's done it. She's forced her father to as good as admit the X-Men aren't a 'terrorist organisation' like he's been spouting for so long. To admit his gratitude to them. She's made him look like a raging, opinionated fool in front of the whole country, and made the X-Men look like heroes, to an audience who would otherwise have eaten up every terrible thing her father had to say about them. There's no way anyone's shutting down Xavier's school now. Public opinion won't allow it.

She's a Northwest. And she's done what Northwests do best.

Lie.

It's with slow horror that Pacifica realises that, under the layer of fury her father's aiming at her, there's also a growing pride.

She's learned well. From the best, of course, and she's clearly still an amateur, but there are seeds of greatness in Preston Northwest's daughter. All she needs is some...refining, a little guidance on her choice of targets, but someday soon, she'll be a force to be reckoned with. He and Priscilla have really done an admirable job as parents. A reward of some kind might be in order. After the punishment, of course. Maybe another pony? Girls like horses, don't they?

Pacifica looks over at the swing, to where she knows Mabel was sitting. She tries to remind herself that she's doing this for them, that she's worth more as a human ally than as one of their number, that there's no evidence to prove the truth and that plenty can be manufactured to prove her father's lie, that the best way to help them now is just to manipulate the truth a little more...

But all she can hear is Dipper's voice in her head, reminding her that she's just another link in the world's worst chain.

Then the swing is past. The front door of the Northwest mansion looms in front of Pacifica, like the maw of some impossible monster, waiting to swing wide and swallow her back up into a life that's just one big, ugly, perfect, lie.

Pacifica's father lets go of one of her shoulders to reach out and open the front door, and Pacifica wrenches herself out of his grip. She ignores his shout, her mother's gasp, everything she knows about appearing confident and collected in front of a crowd. The width of the veranda feels like a million burning miles under her running feet.

She snatches the microphone out of the hands of the first reporter she reaches, before her parents can drag her away.

"It's all fake!" she yells, as loud as she can. She wants this to be heard all the way across the lawn. "The kidnapping, this family, all of it! My father made me stage the whole stupid thing to make Xavier's look bad!"

For the first time in her short life, Pacifica sees an entire crowd of reporters too momentarily stunned to pepper her with questions.

"That's enough, Pacifica," her father says, sharp, grabbing the microphone out of her hand. He beams at the crowd, only looking a little strained. "She's been through a lot, and who knows what kind of brainwashing techniques those -"

"I'm not brainwashed!" Pacifica shouts. "And I'm not traumatised! And I'm not going back into that house with you!"

"Don't be ridiculous," her father spits, through clenched teeth. He turns a practised smile on the crowd, half-manages a laugh, but even Pacifica can tell it's fraying severely at the edges. Her mother is breaking down into quiet half-faked sobs behind them. Both Pacifica and her father ignore her. "I don't know what she's so upset about -"

"Oh, did you conveniently forget the part where you threatened to send me to a conversion camp if I didn't play along?" Pacifica snaps.

Her father's eyes narrow.

"Come inside, Pacifica, where we can talk without...interruptions," he says, with a quick flick of his eyes towards the crowd gathered on the lawn.

"No," Pacifica says. Her mother's gasp is loud enough now that it can't be real.

"Pacifica! We are Northwests! We don't air our dirty laundry in public."

"Maybe I don't want to be a Northwest anymore," Pacifica says. There's a strange, buzzing lightness filling her, like she's been hollowed out and filled with bees and their little flapping wings are going to lift her right off her feet and carry her away into the flawlessly blue sky. "Maybe I'm sick of pretending to be something I'm not."

She turns on one heel to face the crowd. The edge of the veranda suddenly seems like it's miles high, like she's teetering on the lip of a cliff with thousands of onlookers below, preparing herself to take the leap. Hoping against all possibility that it turns out that she can fly.

"I'm a mutant," she says.

...

"...so, anyway, Pacifica's gonna be staying with us for a while," Mabel natters from the backseat.

"That sounds like an excellent plan," Ford says. Stan manages a grunt of agreement. Sure, maybe she's turned over a new leaf, but he really can't bring himself to spare too much sympathy for the poor little rich girl at the moment.

He's busy watching out the window as his old neighbourhood flies by.

It feels like an eternity and yet no time at all before the pickup truck pulls up in front of Pines Pawns. Nothing’s changed, and for some reason, Stan’s surprised. Nevermind that it’s only been - what, a handful of months? Barely any time at all. But it feels, somehow, like the pawn shop should be - at least dustier than he left it. The sign a little more faded. Missing letters. Something.

But everything’s exactly the way he remembers it. Even the ugly taxidermy bulldog with the crossed eyes is still sitting beside the counter, staring right through them all as they pile through the pawn shop doors.

Stan and Ford’s ma starts when they push through the door, nearly getting stuck in the frame because they’re both trying to get through at the same time. She recovers quickly, a fake smile spilling lipstick-red across her face as she reassures whoever’s on the other end of the line. “Oh, naw, hon, that wasn’t because of your future, just had some unexpected visitors, that’s all -”

Stan marches over and grabs the phone out of his mother’s hand, bringing it to his ear. He ignores the tinny voice squawking down the line, says, “Sorry, she’s gonna have to call you back,” and hangs up.

“Stanley Pines!” his mother snaps, clawing at his hand as he slams the receiver down. “Who do you think you are?”

“The guy who’s gettin’ you outta here,” Stan says, looking down to meet her eyes. “If you got anything hidden around this house that you wanna take with you, Ma, you better grab it, because the guy we got packin’ for you don’t know this house too well, and we ain’t comin’ back.”

Through the front window of the pawn shop, Stan can see that the truckbed’s half full by the time they make it to the foot of the stairs. The telltale blast of wind that throws Stan’s carefully-coiffed hair into a rat’s nest of tangles and whips his ma’s skirt around her legs probably means Dipper’s gone back for another load. Stan’s pretty sure they’d inherited those night tables from his dad’s mother, but he’s not saying anything unless his ma does.

“This is ridiculous,” Stan’s ma grouses, all the way down the stairs, but she doesn’t try to pull her arm away and she doesn’t turn around. The baby’s snoring contentedly in the carrier on Stan’s arm, but his ma keeps checking, like she’s scared it might have vanished since the last time she looked. “I know we raised you boys better than this. Of all the - ungrateful -”

Her voice, confident and shrill all the way down the stairs, stutters and falls silent as they pass through the pawn shop, past the register and the wall behind it, where Wendy’s casually leaning in such a way that she’s blocking Filbrick from leaving. Stan catches a snippet of what she’s saying as they pass by, tries to focus on her words and not the feeling of his father’s laser gaze boring into his back as he crosses the familiar old shop for what he hopes will be the last time.

“- and then, he says, okay, but I bet you can’t split the handle, so I throw another axe, and sure, it splits the handle right down the middle, but I totally notched the blade when it hit the head of the first axe, so really, I was kinda the loser in that situation. But enough about me! You ever win any axe-throwing competitions?”

The bell over the door of the pawn shop jangles as the door slams shut behind them.

For the first time, Stan’s ma stops. Stan and Ford stop too, one on either side of her, on the steps, looking down at the truck parked in the street.

Somewhere in the distance, a car alarm honks, five times before somebody shuts it off. The sun beats hot through Stan’s white t-shirt, raising a smell of cooking asphalt and used fryer fat from the alley.

“I can’t do this,” Stan’s ma says, sudden, in the kind of voice that she’d always used to say, ‘I don’t need another gin’.

“Yes you can, ma,” Stan says. “C’mon, just three more steps.”

Stan’s ma gives her head one decisive shake. “I can’t do this to him, he’s been nothin’ but good to all of us - kept a roof over our heads and clothes on our backs and food in our mouths - and there weren’t many who’d’ve had me, when -”

“Ma,” Ford says, soft, the first time he’s opened his mouth since they’d burst through the door. His mother turns to look at him, and he slings the diaper bag down onto the step to catch her hand in both of his. “You don’t have to just be grateful it’s not worse.”

For the first time in all the time he’s known her, Stan realises, behind the lipstick and the nail polish and the brassiness, just how tired his mother seems.

She half-turns, looking back over her shoulder through the front window of the shop. Stan has to fight down the screaming urge to throw her over his shoulder and carry her into the truck himself along with the baby.

"You want little Sherm growing up with a pa like that?" he says, and knows he's struck a low blow when his mother flinches. "Sorry, Ma."

His mother smacks him in the arm without looking at him, but her heart's not in it, the blow's weak, her talons scraping lightly over Stan's sleeve. She doesn't turn away from the pawn shop window.

“What the hell’m I supposed to do without him?” she asks, soft, like she doesn’t mean for either of her sons to hear.

“Anything you want,” Stan says. He can’t stop it from slipping out.

His mother huffs out something that sounds like a laugh that got stuck halfway.

“All right,” she says, and she’s starting to sound like herself again. “You two obviously got a plan. Lead on.”

“Hi!” Mabel shouts, when Stan opens the truck door for his ma, bouncing up like a cardboard cutout in a popup book. “I’m Mabel! I’m thirteen and I love pigs! What’s your name?”

“Mabel, huh?” Stan and Ford’s ma says, as she climbs up into the back of the truck’s cab. “Nice to meet ya, hon. I’m Sheila. You ever had your palm read?”

...

So, the day is saved.

It’s just like in those superhero comics Stan used to like so much. The villain is defeated. The story ends. And, just like in those superhero comics Stan used to like so much, it leaves Ford wondering what happens once the crisis is over, once the heroes have to go back to their everyday lives.

As it turns out, the answer is ‘not a lot’. Ford ends up studying, mostly. He has to present some kind of research, sometime.

It feels...anticlimactic, somehow. Like something more should’ve happened, some intense personal revelation or sacrifice, something that would have shaped him and molded him into a better friend, a better brother, a better person. Someone smarter and stronger and braver, someone who could effortlessly step up when needed. Someone who always knows what to do. What to say.

Ford isn’t any of that. He’s just the same Ford he was two weeks ago, only more stressed out because he can’t seem to remember the most basic things about thermodynamics.

“What’s the coefficient for friction, again?” he asks, and Stan shrugs.

“You’re asking me, poindexter?”

Ford lets out a sigh, and shakes his head. “Nevermind. I’ll look it up.”

Silence falls over the room again, broken only by the intermittent fwoosh as Stan lights little fires in the palm of his hand and then closes it into a fist to put them out. He says he keeps coming over because he’s serious about learning how to use ice, too, but so far Ford’s pretty sure the only thing he’s really serious about is making eyes at Carla.

“So I’m thinking about changing my name to Inferno,” Stan says, casually, and Ford nearly chokes on his own spit.

“Wh- Stanley, that’s - that sounds ridiculous, why would you ever -” Ford swallows hard, shaking his head. “If - if that’s what you choose, then I’ll support you -”

Stan bursts out laughing, clapping Ford on the back. “Nah, I’m not really gonna do that. But you shoulda seen the look on your face!”

“You are a terrible human being,” Ford mutters, but he can’t help a smile.

“Good thing I’m not one, then,” Stan grins, and Ford lets out a groan from the very bottom of his stomach.

“How are we related,” he grumbles, and Stan laughs.

The silence settles in again, comfortable as an old pair of shoes. Somewhere out in the hall, there’s a shout and laughter that can only belong to Mabel, and the sound of running feet. A moment later, the door flies open, slamming against the wall behind it as Dipper bursts into the room, with Mabel and her friends hot on his heels.

“Heyyyyyyyyy what’s going on,” Dipper blurts. “Uh, Ford? Can you please tell these three that you can’t just turn back time by running really fast in the opposite direction of the Earth’s rotation so it starts rotating in reverse?”

“Aw, c’mon, Dipper!” Mabel protests, bouncing flat on her back onto Ford’s bed.

“Yeah, you’ll never know unless you try!” Grenda booms.

“I actually do know, because even if I could reverse the Earth’s rotation by running really fast in the other direction, it’d just slow to a stop and fling all of us off!”

“That also sounds like fun,” Candy says.

“You’d die instantly!”

“Better than dying slow and painful!” Grenda shouts.

Stan glances up, meets Ford’s eyes over the kids’ heads, and Ford has to bite the inside of his lip to keep from cracking up.

“You know,” he says, shutting his notebook and setting it down beside him, “I’ve hit a stall with all of this. How about we head outside and see what we can do with running really fast?”

“I did not sign up for this,” Dipper grumbles, but he’s smiling.

“Yeah, this I wanna see,” Stan says. “You guys head on out, I’m gonna make popcorn.” He flashes a conspiratorial grin in Ford’s direction, before pushing himself up off the bed and starting for the door.

“Wait!” Dipper calls after him, hurrying along on his heels. “How’s your friend Wendy doing? Did she ask about me?”

Mabel trails after him, sing-songing, “Dipper’s got a cruuuuuush!” Candy and Grenda join in, the chant growing in volume as they all head out into the hall, Dipper’s protests rising in counterpoint.

“Mabel! I do not!”

Ford hangs back, for a moment, listening to the voices fading along the hall.

Then he pushes himself to his feet, and follows after them.

#this is mary's fic tag #gravity falls #xmen #I DID IT I FIXED IT #epilogues are my new best friend now I've just decided

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Favorite Leverage TV Quotes

(After the team finishes their first mission and gives the money away to a hospital) Nate: Anyone who wants to walk away can go right now. (Dramatic pause) Eliot: One more... Hardison: Maybe two...

Nate: (climbing into his new Tesla roadster) Just because you're the good guys now, doesn't mean you can't have a little fun along the way.

Sophie: I never thought I'd say this. Ever. But that is too much money to steal!

Alec: I got to get back to the office. I just remembered something. Parker: What? Alec: I just remembered gravity...and the squishiness of all my manly bits. Parker: I designed this rig myself. The line is carbon-fiber, five-point harness, weight support here, here, here, auto-breaking resistance on the main pulley back here. Alec: Okay, okay, cool, so it's tested? Parker: Not yet. Alec: Not ye..? When the hell were you going to test it? Parker: (pushes Alec off the roof) Big baby.

Parker: They changed the lock. Alec: Just do what you do. I mean, whatever, what do you need?(Parker produces a plastic explosive) Alec: No. Mm-mm. Stop all that playin'. Mm-mm. Hell, no. (runs for cover)

Eliot: The tall one, the way he used a knife, Ex-Marine, probably force recon. Alec: You IDed the guy off his knife-fighting style? Eliot: It's a very distinctive style.

Eliot: 5.56 NATO rounds, mixed in with some 9-mils from the submachine guns. Insurgents would have used AK-47 with 7.62 ammo. Has more of a crack. Contractor shot 'em up alright. Parker: (impressed) You IDed the weapon from the gunshot sound? Eliot: It has a very distinctive sound.

(on their money from their first job)Parker: I put all that money in a Swiss bank account. Eliot: Millions of dollars and you didn't buy anything? Parker: I don't like stuff. I like money. Sophie: I bought a little retirement home in Ireland... and Dubai... and Tokyo. Parker: What about you? Eliot: Yeah, I'm not about to tell two known thieves what I did with a multi-million dollar payout. Sophie: Don't you trust us? (laughs)

(Parker has "medicated" Grant to help shake him up) Eliot: You gave him speed? Alec: He beat up a priest. (Elliot shrugs)

(While discussing how to "steal a miracle") Hardison: Long as I don't have to do anything immoral. Nate: No not at all. I just need you to figure out how to, you know...fake a miracle. (Eliot chuckles) Hardison: (long pause) We're all going to hell.

Alec: (to Nate) You...you're a Catholic who wants to fake a miracle. I'm pretty sure that puts us in mortal-sin territory. Eliot: So what...now you're religious, too? Alec: No, I'm not denominational. It's just, I never do anything my Nana said "don't do".

Father Paul: Nate, no more lies! The Vatican's here! You and I both know what that means. Nate: Yeah, break out the grappa. Father Paul: Does my getting defrocked amuse you? Nate: No. Listen, listen, I just...let me explain this to you, okay? I just, this is...in here. (Nate moves toward the Confessional booth) Father Paul: Oh, there's always a loophole with you. (Nate enters the booth) That's my side!

Father Paul: I'll count myself blessed and take my miracle. Nate: Ah, but there was no miracle. Father Paul: Nate, five thieves saved my church.

Nate: (sarcastically) Yeah okay, yeah. Let's go rob Nicki Masconi. A guy who kills people and lives in our city. Yeah, let's do that.

Cheryl: I have been working my butt off on this account. But Steve? No, he's just sitting back, waiting for me to fail so he can swoop in and save the day. I swear, it's like he's a rogue and I'm a mage and we're part of the same guild, but secretly, he's at work with the Alliance to undermine us. Hardison: For the Horde! Cheryl: For the Horde! You play "World of Warcraft"? Hardison: You kidding? Did you get the new expansion pack? Woman, I was up all night. Now, look, I mean, "Burning Crusade" was great, but this new one is mind-blowing. Nate: (over comm) Hardison? You bailed on the job because you were up all night playing a game? (Hardison opens a cupboard to hide himself and talk back) Hardison: (quietly) First off, "game" is hardly adequate, okay?

Parker: (reciting to Nate things she has found searching the luggage on the plane for a bomb) ...hatbox full of Euros, pouch of blood diamonds, a stolen Stradivarius. (musing) I've never lifted one of those.

Sophie: How did you both know there would be an extra uniform in the bag? Nate: Everyone knows flight attendants are required to carry extra uniforms in case they get called to work unexpectedly. Eliot: Or if something happens to the one that they're already wearing. Sophie: How does everyone know that? Nate: Worked airport security. Eliot: Slept with a flight attendant.

Parker: (to Hardison) What are you doing? Hardison: Oh, I'm just remote accessing a plane's electrical system from 3000 miles away. You know what? If you were a geek, you would be really turned on by this.

Eliot: (after unsuccessfully trying to wake up the hitman) When I knock people out they tend to stay knocked out.

Parker: (referring to Nate's behavior) Is it me or is he getting creepier?

Nate: Somebody find me a brain. Parker: Oh yeah, he's definitely getting creepier.

Parker: (Crawling through the air duct) Looks like Parker's gonna have to crawl through the air duct again. God forbid anyone else would have to learn how to frickin' crawl on their stomach through a tiny space. It's not rocket science, people. Eliot: (On comm) Parker, you realize that we can still hear you?

Derrick Clark: No, no cops. If they find out we contacted the police, they'd kill her. Sophie: They're not cops, I promise you. They're friends of mine, you can trust them. Derrick Clark: Why should I trust you? I don't know who you are. Sophie: I'm a thief. Derrick Clark: Okay,...I'm not sure what to do with that!

Eliot: Let's go, man, you have it? Hardison: No, not yet. (Over comms) Sophie, we need that scene, are you finished with it yet? Sophie: It's in the box on the back of the truck. Hardison: Sophie, seriously Sophie, it was supposed to be a two page scene between Irina and a boy. Sophie: That's still the heart of it. Eliot: The heart of it? There's like ten pages here. You have a stunt? You have special effects? Parker: (takes script) Sister Magda crosses and gets a loaf of bread. Who's sister Magda? (Sophie arrives in full nun garb) Hardison: (To Eliot) Tell me you didn't see that coming.

Hardison: Woah, woah, woah. I'm getting a bunch of calls to the police. What the hell is going on down there? Eliot: I'll tell you what's going on. Parker just stabbed her guy with a fork!

Hardison: Woah, woah. I haven't slept in three days. I had a showdown with two different gangs, who, now, by the way, now know my face. I sat on a bomb. And all this could've been avoided had you gave the man a taco?

Nate: Sophie, how--how do you catch mob guys? Sophie: Uhh...two glasses of Chianti and a story about my grandma in Sicily. Nate: How does the government catch mob guys? Everyone: Taxes!

Leary: I was tricked. I was tricked! It wasn't, it wasn't me. You understand, I... Bonanno: Somebody tricked you into bringing a briefcase full of evidence of your own crime straight to the police? Come on, Mr. Leary. Nobody's that smart.

Eliot: (about Parker) She's dressed that way 'cause she's doing a con. Nate: What, you thought she was dressed like a nun for no reason? Eliot: She's Parker. Nate: Ah, fair enough.

Eliot: That's why the businesses are clean; they're dirty from the inside. Nate: Well, yeah, I mean, if you have a body in the trunk of your car, you're gonna drive under the speed limit, aren't you? Parker: You know, when you're sober, your metaphors get creepier.

Nate: Now if you'll excuse me, I am gonna go call a professional killer who tried to murder me and arrange to meet him in an isolated location.

Room Service Operator: It's chicken-fried steak. Sophie: It's what? Chicken-fried steak? Room Service Operator: Yeah. Sophie: Let me just tell you, meat should never be used as an adjective.

Nate: Can I get this straight? Okay, you two couldn't rig a gym class and a spelling bee, and you two run into the only FBI agents on the planet that recognize you? Eliot: I gotta be honest with you, I think we broke the kid even more. Sophie: We are the worst fairy godparents in the world.

Nate: Who's that? Hardison: Oh, the kid. Kid's from her first marriage, Widmark. Eliot: I'm sorry what? Widmark? Hardison: Rich people, man.

Parker: Door alarm's got a Takashita 500 with redundant infrared. Window's easier. Alec: The window? The window that's 20 stories up? Parker: Like I said--easier.

Eliot: Hardison, we got a problem. Hardison: What kinda problem? Eliot: They're MRI'ing my pizza and their stance says ex-CIA. Hardison: You can tell somebody worked for the CIA just from how they stand?! Eliot: It's a very distinctive stance!

Hardison: You were scared to fight a girl. Eliot: She'd mop the floor with you, Hardison Hardison: I don't care. Eliot: Seriously, she actually killed a guy once with a mop. It's a funny story, actually. She broke the mop and took... Hardison: Eliot, Eliot.

Tara: I checked you out, Mr. Ford. Half my sources say you're a vicious thief. The other half claim you're some kind of high-tech vigilante. Nate: I like that. I should put that on my card.

Tara: What are we supposed to do, steal the wake? Nate: Whoa, have some respect--borrow the wake, to save the bar.

Nate: All right, good news, bad news. Tara: Good news? Nate: The mayor's hooked. We're in the pinch. Tara: Bad news? Nate: I think we lost Eliot until the playoffs.

Sophie: Someone explain to me, what the hell is a Steranko? Hardison: Steranko's the toughest security system in the world, in the universe, in the multiverse, whatever. Eliot: How do you not know this? Sophie: I am a grifter. If I'm doing my job right then the mark just, click, turns off the alarm for me. (As Hardison alters Moto's photo) Eliot: That's nice, make him--make him look drunker. And then richer. Hardison: What you want me to do, give the man a pet tiger? Eliot: Can you do that?  Fake FBI Guy: FBI, sir. That young lady's in our custody. Hardison: Aw see, you made two mistakes, bro. First, you flashed that fake ass FBI badge at me. Second, you spilled his coffee. (Pointing at Eliot)  Nate: Where's Eliot? Hardison: Oh, he had to change his shirt. He got coffee on it. And some blood and some teeth.  Parker: Who knew a sedan could hit 140? Sophie: Parker, you are never to get behind the wheel of a car again, okay? Never.

Parker: (noting a statuary in a vault) Oh, hello. Last time I saw you was at the Louvre. Well, actually you were in the back seat of my car, but before that you were at the Louvre. Nate: Parker, focus! Parker: Okay. 

Hardison: Small one is land purchases--old manor houses up for auction, all within the last two years, all in Scotland. Ha! Places like, uh...Loch Glengorra...and Loch McGr-r-r...I'm not even gonna try to pronounce it, man. It's just a bunch of random Gs and Ns. 

Nate: The name of this con is called "The Mummy's Tiara." Hardison: Come on, man, that can't be real. Parker: Am I gonna have to steal a corpse again?  Parker: I still don't know why Sophie's not doing this part of the con. Nate: Well, the con requires a carrot and a stick. I need her to be the stick. Parker: Well, remember that time I was the carrot and I stabbed somebody? Nate: I do. 

Parker: You know, I'm really starting to like tasing people. Is that a problem? 

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We enter by road to the city. What city? No matter choose the sea, large and modern with high buildings, son the same, the truth is that cities by hurrying their identity as well as their inhabitants their pleasant kindness.

And better not to think of the absurd justification of overpopulation. The ants and the bees are also many in fact so they survive, some anticipate the chaos and decide to leave, to form another anthill. While we human beings the cusp of evolution, we are on this precious day that reaches the first bottleneck, so sooner rather than earlier we join one of the long lines of urban who should not be late to work to school And as a matter of life or death we enter the psychotic race against the clock:

Ready, Set, Go!

And we started with everything to immediately brake, we start again and again braking, the psychotic light is gone crazy, urges us to hurry green and at the same time to red, without even giving us the opportunity of the amber light. We accelerate so that nobody is aimed at us because our impatience does not support it and we brake because if we do not collide.

The competition is tight and that has just begun, the motors are hot and our brains fry, the ankles are exercised and if you use your thigh closh just like a footballer with cramps and everything.

Your car, of course, there are still no terms to pay and your maintenance is by the clouds you'll have to take it to a workshop, so it's the same stress for premature wear, but do not "agüites" It's free! Of course after the drop of fat to pay ...

Cloutch, brakes, balatas, whose bridge was broken when you fell in one of the hundreds of holes that have as mined fields, the tire that was useless with a ball, and the crane that took millennia to arrive due to the bottleneck, You needed an ambulance and "pylon" of course you were late for work.

It is a matter of time for the suspension to continue as the bounces and bounces as the ball in the tremendous that there is nothing more in schools and hospitals now up to five in a street, everywhere and unpainted, to take you :

The surprise

Angry to the questions of who is responsible, who authorizes without tone and son the plague of ceilings, why the streets, avenues and roads are not in good condition, if millions like you pay their taxes. Who will bear these expenses? Maybe it will be the municipality hahaha now if you blew the beard maintain that sense of good humor when also the pages the tenancy, the building, the inscriptions of the schools and the jackpot, the increase of gasoline all in the same package as in the first Place Food that increases and rises, so you will have to get used to not eating. So what is more than a corner of the rich?

Do not do not blame governments, did not you vote for them? The public officials are dedicated in body and soul to receive their money along with the millions of slaves Pardon! From citizens to transfer it to your personal bank accounts and do not leave with that you did not know, always have known. There is nothing to do in the place of civil servants? For whatever it is, you'll have to let go of the affection, even if the banks let you sleep and the waters. "Put" changitos "so that you do not take away your house that horror! And you end up destitute, but do not take it personally. Population is in debt, with the bank or the store opposite, you nothing else works and works, do not complain, you are not the only one say that the evil of many is the consolation of fools, not cease to be Consuelo , Taking advantage of your insomnia I recommend that you see: Zeiteist the Peter Joseph movie you can not miss.

We continue on the roller coaster of vehicles that are lost to infinity in an apocalyptic landscape of science fiction of the 60s that in that one and prophesied a distant and disturbing future that nobody believed and that now it had more living day by day. Moral: the prophecies are not hallucinations product of a sick or possessed mind, we would do well to take them into account in order to have the possibility of not experiencing them.

Among passenger trucks, junk junk food building materials double trailer trailers with "dangerous material" Why should we transport dangerous material? Trucks, many large, gleaming vans that fit a whole family but usually carry a single passenger. We continue to advance slowly as cancerous cells that waste toxic and creating chaos, in a parked and claustrophobic thick plasma that is being the main arteries of the circulatory system of the city that yes you have neighbors who share their "music" to all volume, others are fumigating you mercilessly where was the control bark? Among many, many, more and more cockroaches of the Matrix. Police units of transit, civil force, with their intermittent red lights, blues and explosive flashes of white light that if you are sent away at night, you are tortured even if you are innocent, do not blame them is in their nature. Suddenly a driver loses his head and good manners, with a thousand maneuvers from one lane to another and crazy acrobatics accompanied by several ments, manages to advance: Six cars ahead! Will be the winner? ... Sorry but it's me! And that which mentalized my mantra Monday, calm, calm not panic, breathe. I apologize for my desperate outburst, but this experience has helped me realize that I will not win the race, in fact none of us will win ... More I wonder if it really is a sports race or rather a mortal race, which was the goal ? Arrive on time? If we arrived punctual what would happen? It would be chaos or we live in chaos to avoid it. Where was it that living in the city is for your comfort? Maybe it would be good to stop acting in automatic, things can be changed were not made alone and nobody imposed them, step by step we have been creating them like this That we can transform them. Our cities do not have to continue to grow, devouring everything, including ourselves. Many things have to be changed, since we do not "fate reaches us." It is complex, therefore we have extraordinary possibilities, waiting for us to be created in our reality, we can contemplate the priority of a world that respects the world ... Zuu

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5 inspiring stories to bring lightness to your day. Check out some stories that will rescue your faith in humanity. 5 Inspiring Stories to Bring Lightness to Your Day We are living in difficult times. Times when we need to equip ourselves with positivity, patience and a lot of courage. Remember that life is formed by cycles, and although some seem to last longer than others, in the end they all come to an end. And this time it will be no different. To rescue a little the faith that we carry in our hearts, we brought you some inspiring stories that happened around the world. Stories of real people who transformed the reality around them, and with small attitudes managed to transform the world into a better place. Check out this :- How to overcome fear of starting. 1. Mobile library Education As an elementary school teacher in the interior of Italy, Antonio La Cava was concerned about the growing lack of interest of his young students in reading books. His answer was to turn a three-wheeled pickup into a mobile library. Now 73, he spent almost 20 years driving his Bibliomotocarro to take books to children in the villages and remote communities of Basilicata, a region in the extreme south of Italy. "I feared growing old in a country without readers," he says. "Without books, it is common for children to be lonely." La Cava chose a Piaggio Ape truck for its humble and homemade associations and put a roof on it: "Just seeing it to improve the mood," he says. "It gives the idea of a haven, of relaxation, and that is what every book offers." In addition to the library, La Cava also offers creative writing workshops and shows short films inspired by books, all based on his belief that books and culture, as he says, are “made by and for all, not only for some privileged ”. Did you read;- The importance of surrounding with right people 2. Insect-friendly German politicians Ecology A German government minister has proposed legal protection from insects, as scientists warn that the sharp drop in the number of these important invertebrates threatens to cause a "collapse of nature". The new law would reduce the use of insecticides and guarantee money for research. “We humans need insects. They deserve to be protected ”, says Svenja Schulze, Minister of the Environment. In addition to a € 100 million “action plan” to protect insects, Germany would also limit light emissions at night so as not to disorient them and, by 2050, create new land use controls for roads or housing projects . Worldwide, activists have highlighted the risk of falling numbers of insects with a vital role in pollinating plants and crops. “We would not be protecting just beetles and bees, but, above all, ourselves,” says Schulze. 3. Carbon emissions fall in Europe Environment In the decade before 2015, carbon dioxide emissions increased by 2.2% worldwide. But 17 European countries in the group of 18 developed economies responsible for 28% of global emissions had a reduction in the same period. This drop was greatest in countries with firmer policies for renewable energy and energy efficiency. "This is good news, but it is only the beginning," said Corinne Le Quéré. She is co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change . 4. Teen builds Lego robotic arm Science David Aguilar has always loved Lego. Born without his right forearm due to a rare genetic disease, at just 9 years old he built himself a rudimentary artificial arm using the popular toy to assemble. "As a child, I feared being in front of other boys because it was different," he says, "but that didn't stop me from believing in my dreams." Check out more inspiring stories ! He grew up perfecting his prosthesis project and today, at the age of 19 and studying bioengineering at the university in Barcelona, he designed a robotic arm with an electric motor - again, using Lego pieces. David says his goal is to show that nothing is impossible. After university, he wants to create inexpensive robotic prostheses for those who need new members. "I would like to give you a prosthesis, even if it is free, so that they feel like normal people." 5. Narcissus appears in Pompeii History About 250 years after the ancient Roman city of Pompeii was found under volcanic ash, archaeologists are discovering new treasures. Among them is a well-preserved fresco by Narcissus in love with his own reflection. The work was found in an “elegant and sensual” room in a family residence. "The extraordinary discoveries are still there," said Massimo Osanna, director of Parco Archeologico di Pompei. Compiled by James Hadley. What did you think of these inspiring stories?

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Ram 1500 is the 2019 MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Americans ask more of our trucks than we do of any other vehicle. In any given week, the average half-ton pickup might find itself commuting like a sedan, hauling a bed full of bricks and sand, towing some Jet Skis, navigating muddy ranchland, or exploring off-road trails. It’s no wonder that we bought 2.8 million of the things last year.

The best-selling pickup in the United States last year—and indeed in every year for the past four decades—has been the Ford F-Series. But our 2019 Truck of the Year should give pause to prospective Blue Oval loyalists (or buyers of any truck, for that matter) because there isn’t a truck out there that so precisely hits the diverse needs of the segment better than the 2019 Ram 1500.

The fifth-generation Ram 1500 is the latest in a long line of evolutionary leaps for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ bread-and-butter truck. The newest version, more than any other, seems poised to meet the needs of the 21st century truck buyer, with more variety, capability, comfort, convenience, and value than ever before.

Advancement in Design

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there’s no arguing that Ram retains its reputation for stylish functionality. “Best-in-class: sophisticated without going over the top,” editor-in-chief Ed Loh said.

The 2019 Ram 1500’s clean-sheet redesign throws out many of the design cues we’ve come to expect from a Ram pickup—while still being unmistakably Ram. Gone are the crosshair grilles, mini-Mack fenders, and even the traditional Ram badge in most places. Instead, the 1500 provides buyers a choice of seven grilles and three head- and taillamp designs. Its 15 wheel designs feature stronger six-bolt hubs, ranging from an off-road-friendly 18 inches to an urban cowboy 22-inch style. And that’s on top of your typical pickup choices of extended or crew cab and bed sizes of either 5-foot-7 or 6-foot-4. A regular cab and 8-foot bed are expected next year.

“I love the styling,” road test editor Chris Walton said, eyeing the Ram 1500 Rebel. “It’s like the Viper of Rams.”

The interior updates, from the volume-grade Big Horn all the way up to the luxurious Limited, are even more impressive. Every Ram cabin has the tools needed for both work and play. The Ram’s configurable center console turns the space into an office, with room inside to swallow a bag and laptop, space for your phone and drinks, and a center console lid that can function as a desk.

When it comes to technology, Ram provides three versions of its Uconnect infotainment system, including a choice of an 8.4-inch or Tesla-like 12.0-inch touchscreen. “The center stack layout is a combination of Volvo (screen), Audi (switches), and Jaguar (rotary shifter),” Walton said. “The clever center console (phone charger/pocket, sliding bins, and side pockets) is something Honda would do. Ram has done its homework on picking the benchmarks for both design and packaging.”

Although a Silicon Valley–aping infotainment suite will certainly draw eyeballs in showrooms, the cabin’s functionality and furnishings are even more impressive.

Crew cab versions feature a flat floor in back and seats that flip up, allowing you to store valuables in the safety of the cabin. RamBins, hidden underneath the rear floormats, have grown in size to better accommodate hitch receivers or ratchet straps. In a first for pickups, the new Ram 1500’s higher trim levels have a rear bench seat that reclines up to 8 degrees and is heated and cooled, as well. Ever been chauffeured in a truck before? Now you can be.

We were particularly impressed by the level of fit and finish. Every trim, from the base Tradesman up to the Limited, furnishes at least one two-tone cabin treatment, injecting a bit of personality and style into the cabin at any price point. Unlike some of its competitors, Ram took the profitable luxury market seriously by offering two flavors of luxury trucks—the saddlebag-equipped (seriously) Laramie Longhorn and the thoroughly modern Limited.

“GM has to be kidding, going up against this with the High Country and Denali,” features editor Scott Evans said. “This is a luxury interior. Look at this wood! This leather! The metal, stitching, design, attention to detail! The leather on the grab handles! Cadillac could learn a thing or two by spending an afternoon in this cabin.”

Hyperbole aside, he’s right. The Ram’s cabin ain’t just good for a truck. It’s good, period.

Engineering Excellence

Looks can be deceiving, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the 2019 Ram is a bit old school in its approach. Freed from the obligation (and expense) of chasing maximum payload and towing capacities with all-aluminum construction, the Ram team instead invested in a shotgun approach to improve capability, efficiency, and performance. Underpinning it all is a new high-strength steel platform, 4.0 inches longer and about 17 percent lighter than the old chassis. The aerodynamic sheetmetal is largely built from steel but with the strategic use of lighter metals for a total weight decrease of about 200 pounds.

Like the previous version of the Ram 1500, our 2019 Truck of the Year continues to come standard with a coil-spring rear suspension (now with frequency dampers), which slightly sacrifices towing and payload capacity in favor of a better ride when compared to leaf-sprung competitors. A four-corner air suspension with five ride heights and load leveling is available, giving the best of both worlds when it comes to ride and performance.

“It’s really a surprise on the road,” testing director Kim Reynolds said after a stint in an air suspension–equipped 1500. “It’s way more refined and sophisticated than the GMs. Steering is fluid and quality-feeling.” The standard suspension won praise at the expense of its competitive set, too. “The coil-spring suspension is better in the Ram than the ride in any of the GM trucks,” MotorTrend en Espanol managing editor Miguel Cortina said.

Despite the minor diet, maximum payload is up to 2,320 pounds, and max towing capacity rises to 12,750 pounds, besting Chevrolet, GMC, Nissan, and Toyota’s half-ton offerings (though shy of Big Daddy Ford’s max towing by 450 el-bees).

Things get even more impressive under the hood. Embracing global realities, two of the three available Ram 1500 engines come with supplemental electric motors to improve fuel economy and performance. These mild-hybrid powerplants, dubbed eTorque, use small starter-generators and a tiny 0.43-kW-hr battery stashed in the rear wall of the cab to aid the stop/start system and provide torque assist to allow the engines to lug around at cruising speed in four-cylinder mode longer and without having to downshift.

The eTorque system is standard on the base 3.6-liter V-6, which makes 305 hp and 269 lb-ft of torque, and is also available for a small premium on the top-level 5.7-liter V-8, which turns out 395 hp and 410 lb-ft of torque. A non-eTorque 5.7-liter V-8 generating the same output as the eTorque version slots between the two electrified mills. (Because these motors aren’t assisting when the engines’ are generating peak power and torque, they don’t affect those figures.) An eight-speed automatic is standard across the line, as is rear-wheel drive. Four-wheel drive, limited-slip or locking rear axles, and three final drive ratios are also available.

The base eTorque V-6 is a lot of engine for the money. It makes its torque higher in its rev band, but it makes good use of the power it has. “It feels powerful even though it’s a V-6,” associate online editor Kelly Pleskot said. Evans agreed, adding that it “doesn’t have the torque of the V-8s, but it has plenty of power; the deficit only manifests itself when passing on Arizona’s 75-mph freeways.”

In back-to-back driving of our otherwise identically equipped V-8 Ram 1500 Longhorn and Limited models, Evans was one of the few judges who could feel the Limited’s eTorque assist at work. “I find the eTorque drivetrain a bit smoother through the revs and shifts and when accelerating up steep grades,” he said.

The fuel economy benefits of the eTorque V-8s show up in our data, but towing performance is a bit of a wash; all of the Ram V-8s, eTorque or not, performed nearly identically in both instrumented tow tests (where the Rams towed between 6,600 pounds and 11,400 pounds) and in our Davis Dam frustration test, which saw our V-6 Ram tester tow 4,020 pounds and the V-8s tow 7,780 pounds.

Performance of Intended Function

Despite the many hats we expect our trucks to wear, at their heart, they are beasts of burden. To that end, the 2019 Ram 1500 excels.

The most important part of any pickup is its bed, and Ram continues to deliver. The bed rails have been raised 1.5 inches to increase cargo volume, and the optional RamBoxes grow in size with minimal impact on bed space.

Some previous Ram innovations carry over, including the segment’s best combo bed extender and cargo divider, which stashes against the cab when not in use, and a CHMSL-mounted camera that looks down into the bed so you can triple-check your tie-down work while on the move.

The one area where the Ram’s bed could be better is its use of tie-downs, or lack thereof. GM changed the game this year—providing 12 standard tie-downs in the new Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra (three in each corner) and the ability to expand with movable optional tie-downs. Ram offers the standard four (one in each corner), plus another four optional moveable rail-mounted tie-downs. Ram would do well to follow GM’s lead here.

The ability to access the bed is arguably as important as its construction. Missing GM’s standard bumper steps, Ram makes up for it with its option sheet. One of the air suspension’s many benefits is its access height mode, which lowers the bed’s step-up height to match that of the bumper step. For those who skip the air suspension, Ram also offers a kick-down rear step that stashes up and away behind the rear bumper.

Ram made towing improvements, too. For those who simply want to hitch up and go, Ram makes life easy. The rearview cameras have high resolution, making it easy to hitch up without a spotter. Trucks equipped with blind-spot sensors have an extra party piece, too; after you hitch up and make a couple of turns, the blind-spot sensors will determine the length of your trailer and increase the size of the alert zone to include the trailer length.

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10 Black Inventors to Know About

Did you know that African Americans are largely responsible for many things that we use for our modern day conveniences and necessities? African Americans are responsible for: refrigerators, the lawn mower, traffic signals, the pen and pencil sharpener, the ironing board and many other things that we still use on a daily basis. If you want to know more about the amazing inventors in Black History check them out below!

1. Benjamin Banneker- Almanac

Benjamin Banneker borrowed a neighbor’s watch, took it apart and studied everything in it. He put it back together and returned it. Later Banneker constructed a fully functional clock out of carved wood pieces. The clock worked for years. Banneker also predicted the 1789 solar eclipse after borrowing books on astronomy and mathematics. This prediction led him to author six farmers almanacs and employment as a surveyor for President George Washington.

2. Thomas Elkins- Modern Toilet

Dr. Thomas Elkins was an African American inventor, pharmacist and a well respected member of his community. In 1879, Elkins received a patent for a refrigerator device that helped people preserve perishable foods. A patent was also issued to Elkins for a dining, ironing table and quilting frame in 1870. In 1872, Elkins received a patent for the Chamber Commode an older version of the toilet that we know today.

3. Charles Drew- Blood Bank

Charles Drew’s research in the field of blood transfusions led to the development of improved techniques for blood storage. He applied this knowledge to the development of large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This invention allowed medics to save thousands of lives of the Allied forces. He also directed the blood plasma programs of the United States and Great Britain in World War II, but was reassigned after finding out the blood of African Americans would be segregated.

4. Frederick Jones- Refrigeration machine

After teaching himself mechanical and electrical engineering, Jones invented a range of devices relating to refrigeration, sound and automobiles. He designed and patented a portable air-cooling unit for trucks carrying perishable food. Forming a partnership with Numero, Jones founded the U.S. Thermo Control Company. The company grew largely during World War II, helping to preserve blood, medicine and food. By 1949, U.S. Thermo Control was worth millions of dollars. In 1944, he became the first African American elected to the American Society of Refrigeration Engineers. Even though he did not live to see it, in 1991, President George H. W. Bush awarded the National Medal of Technology to Jones.

5. Lewis Latimer- Light Bulb

Lewis Latimer learned the art of mechanical drawing while working at a patent firm. Latimer taught himself mechanical drawing and drafting by observing the work of draftsmen at the firm. He designed a number of his own inventions including the railroad car bathroom and an air conditioning system. Latimer also created a carbon light bulb that allowed the light to stay on longer than Edison’s electric light bulb. Eventually he became so popular, he was hired by Thomas Edison serving as the chief draftsman and patent expert. Latimer was named one of the charter members of the Edison pioneer, a distinguished group of people deemed responsible for creating the electrical industry.

6. Philip Emeagwali- World’s Fastest Computer

Philip often referred to as the “Nigerian Bill Gates”, is the inventor of the world’s fastest computer. After dropping out of school at 14 for not being able to afford it and being home school Philip went to Oregon State University to major in mathematics. Philip also earned three other degrees: a PhD. in Scientific computing from University of Michigan and two Master’s degrees from George Washington University. Philip noticed the way bees used efficiency to construct and work with honeycomb and determined a computer could emulate this process. Recreating the bee construction, he used 65,000 processors to invent the world’s fastest computer, which performs at 3.1 billion calculations per second. His computers are now being used to forecast the weather and to predict the effects of global warming.

7. Garrett Morgan- Traffic light, gas mask

After witnessing a collision between a car and a horse-drawn carriage, Morgan decided to try to prevent these frequent accidents from happening so often. He designed an improved traffic signal applied for a patent. On November 20, 1923, he got it patented in Great Britain and Canada. The traffic signal was a T-shaped pole with a three positions: Stop, Go and an all-directional stop position. The third position stopped traffic to all pedestrians to cross the streets more safely. The hand operated device was used all throughout North America until it was eventually replaced with the stop light we see today.

8. Patricia Bath- The Cataract Laserphaco Probe

Patricia Bath is the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent. Bath was also the first female faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute. In 1976, she co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, which establishes that “eyesight is a basic human right.” In 1986, Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe to improve cataract treatment for patients. The device was patented in 1988, which made her the first African-American female doctor to receive a patent. With this invention Bath has helped restore the sight of individuals that had been blind for more than 30 years.

9. Marc Hannah - 3D Graphics Technology Used in Films

Marc Hannah is an electrical engineer and computer graphics designer and the co-founder of Silicon Graphics, Inc. After attending Stanford University to obtain his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degree, he started up SGI with five others. He was named principal scientist for the creation of computer programs such as Personal IRIS, Indigo, Indigo 2, and Indy graphics that were used to create effects for movies like Jurassic Park, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Terminator 2 and many others.

10. Madame C.J. Walker- Hair products to prevent hair loss

Madame wanted to cure her own hair loss so she created a conditioner and healing lotion that remedied hair loss. She went door-to-door to sell her product and give demonstrations. Within fifteen years, she became the first self-made female millionaire in the United States.

"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it- for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard." -- -Madame C.J. Walker

This month we are highlighting all of those individuals that have paved a way for people of color, if you know of any other great inventors tell us in the comments below!

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Ram 1500 is the 2019 MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Advancement in Design

“I love the styling,” road test editor Chris Walton said, eyeing the Ram 1500 Rebel. “It’s like the Viper of Rams.”

Although a Silicon Valley–aping infotainment suite will certainly draw eyeballs in showrooms, the cabin’s functionality and furnishings are even more impressive.

Hyperbole aside, he’s right. The Ram’s cabin ain’t just good for a truck. It’s good, period.

Engineering Excellence

Performance of Intended Function

Despite the many hats we expect our trucks to wear, at their heart, they are beasts of burden. To that end, the 2019 Ram 1500 excels.

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Ram 1500 is the 2019 MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Advancement in Design

“I love the styling,” road test editor Chris Walton said, eyeing the Ram 1500 Rebel. “It’s like the Viper of Rams.”

Although a Silicon Valley–aping infotainment suite will certainly draw eyeballs in showrooms, the cabin’s functionality and furnishings are even more impressive.

Hyperbole aside, he’s right. The Ram’s cabin ain’t just good for a truck. It’s good, period.

Engineering Excellence

Performance of Intended Function

Despite the many hats we expect our trucks to wear, at their heart, they are beasts of burden. To that end, the 2019 Ram 1500 excels.

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Ram 1500 is the 2019 MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Advancement in Design

“I love the styling,” road test editor Chris Walton said, eyeing the Ram 1500 Rebel. “It’s like the Viper of Rams.”

Although a Silicon Valley–aping infotainment suite will certainly draw eyeballs in showrooms, the cabin’s functionality and furnishings are even more impressive.

Hyperbole aside, he’s right. The Ram’s cabin ain’t just good for a truck. It’s good, period.

Engineering Excellence

Performance of Intended Function

Despite the many hats we expect our trucks to wear, at their heart, they are beasts of burden. To that end, the 2019 Ram 1500 excels.

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Ram 1500 is the 2019 MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Advancement in Design

“I love the styling,” road test editor Chris Walton said, eyeing the Ram 1500 Rebel. “It’s like the Viper of Rams.”

Although a Silicon Valley–aping infotainment suite will certainly draw eyeballs in showrooms, the cabin’s functionality and furnishings are even more impressive.

Hyperbole aside, he’s right. The Ram’s cabin ain’t just good for a truck. It’s good, period.

Engineering Excellence

Performance of Intended Function

Despite the many hats we expect our trucks to wear, at their heart, they are beasts of burden. To that end, the 2019 Ram 1500 excels.

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Ram 1500 is the 2019 MotorTrend Truck of the Year

Advancement in Design

“I love the styling,” road test editor Chris Walton said, eyeing the Ram 1500 Rebel. “It’s like the Viper of Rams.”

Although a Silicon Valley–aping infotainment suite will certainly draw eyeballs in showrooms, the cabin’s functionality and furnishings are even more impressive.

Hyperbole aside, he’s right. The Ram’s cabin ain’t just good for a truck. It’s good, period.

Engineering Excellence

Performance of Intended Function

Despite the many hats we expect our trucks to wear, at their heart, they are beasts of burden. To that end, the 2019 Ram 1500 excels.

IFTTT

#IFTTT #PerformanceJunk WP Feed 3

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