Mar 31

487.

Mar 30

“Fifteen from Potter for being the worst hair-splitting smart-ass this house has ever seen.”

“Twenty from Black for generally being the biggest prat that ever disgraced Gryffindor.”

“Thirty from both of you for usurping the prefect’s power to dock points from a house,” came Remus’s dry voice from his bed.

“Forty from all of you for not letting me sleep!” Peter complained.

“Fifty from Pettigrew for being a pathetic little whiner,” Sirius shot back.

“Sixty from Black for insulting his friends,” Remus announced.

“Seventy from Lupin for provoking a massive pillow fight after curfew.”

“What pillow –” he was cut off by a pillow to the face.

Mar 30

“Well, I was unconscious and on fire. That strikes me as at least moderately perilous.”

Mar 29

486.

Mar 28

“I suspect you’ve never believed me that perfect Minerva, after all you’ve seen my filing system.”

“Albus, you know very well that the way you store documents is hardly worthy of the term system.”

Mar 28

“Why didn’t you say something, Mary?”

“Like what? Morning Albert, pass the milk, I’m desperately in love with you?!”

“Oh well. It certainly would have made an excellent start to the day!” Mary glared at him, and his smile grew broader. “An excellent start,” he emphasised.

Mar 27

485.

Mar 26

“I’ll have you know that it took generations of carefully selected marriages to achieve this aristocratic look.”

Mar 26

“The mission parameters were elastic enough for several valid interpretations.”

Mar 25

484.

Mar 24

That marriage had left Gibbs with two tattered blue satin throw pillows, a closet door that did not close properly, and an amplified hatred of lawyers. Ducky had made several attempts to explain to him that tax lawyers and criminal lawyers were not quite the same breed of shark, but Gibbs at least considered them to be swimming in the same ocean and eating the same tourists.

Mar 24

Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.

Mar 23

483.

Mar 22

“I guess it’s a fair bet to say I missed the birthday cake.”

“It’s okay, honey. Nobody got to have any. It’s still on the floor and some of the walls upstairs, though. If you want I’ll run up there and scrape up a piece.”

Mar 22

“Yes, I’d forgotten you’re moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned?”

“No. But I’m thinking about growing a big black moustache. I’m a traditionalist.”

Mar 21

482.

Mar 20

Only then did he notice that his hands were no longer bound. It wasn’t much, but it was the one thing about his life that had improved lately, so it was worth a cheer. A totally silent, non-moving cheer, but a cheer, nonetheless.

Mar 20

“I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience caused by the non-disclosure of romantic feelings between party the first and indicated party the second, who is the duplicate third’s elder brother. Non-disclosure was mandated by exigency, suspicions of forthcoming suspicion, and, uh...we didn’t know how you’d take it.”

Mar 19

481.

Mar 18

“Well, Bruce, it would seem I’ve no choice but to take some disciplinary action.”

“Try to imagine how little that disturbs me.”

“Now let’s see. We’ve already rescinded your lounge privileges…”

“I’ve lost the right to sit on a couch in an empty room and watch an hour of television. I’m devastated.”

“…Your yard privileges…”

“See above. Substitute ‘stone bench’ for ‘couch’, ‘yard’ for ‘empty room’, and ‘grass grow’ for ‘hour of television’.”

Mar 18

“I never said it’d be something we wanted to know. I just said we might learn something.”

Mar 17

480.

Mar 16

“All I did was ask about the blue Wiggle. Seems harmless enough to me.”

“I see. Do you also put fires out with lighter fluid? Because that’s the level of deductive reasoning you’re working with at the moment.”

Mar 16

“Well I’m scarred for life. How ‘bout you?”

“I’ve already forgotten it. It was that traumatic.”

Mar 15

479.

Mar 14

“How are you feeling?”

“Like I’ve been trampled by banthas.”

“You must be doing better,” Luke noted. “Yesterday you said you felt like you’d been trampled by reeks.”

Mar 14

Any shrink would tell him that his dead mother factors into the situation, which is why Tony avoids shrinks like… well, like the plague doesn’t really apply in Tony’s case, does it?

Mar 13

478.

Mar 12

It was raining so hard that Wash had firmly planted Serenity in park and told Malcolm in two languages and one pantomime involving dinosaurs that this ship was going nowhere.

Mar 12

“Where’s Jayne? I’d feel better with him around.”

“You don’t think I can handle any trouble?”

“No, I’m sure you can. I don’t think that I can handle any trouble. Jayne can watch your back while I cower in a corner somewhere.”

Mar 11

477.

Mar 10

“How are you so sure that’s a girl?”

“Just know that’s all.”

“If that comes out a boy and all we got is pink clothes it’ll be your fault if he grows up sly.”

Mar 10

“Under the waterfall? Not some other preposition, like next to, or besides, or across from?”

Mar 9

476.

Mar 8

“Anyway, I’m sure Mal and Simon were nowhere near the bank when it happened. They probably went in and got whatever they were supposed to get and left. And then the bank blew up. Coincidentally.”

Mar 8

“How are you feeling Jayne?”

“Like I been stabbed in the gut. How’re you feeling’?” Jayne growled.

Mar 7

475.

Mar 6

“‘Dear Zoë, and Wash’. Hey I’m an afterthought!”

Mar 6

She looked as though she ate nails for breakfast with a side of bolts and creamed drill bits on toast.

Mar 5

474.

Mar 4

“Ah, so you were an idiot.”

“No. I was a young man.”

“I stand by my previous statement.”

Mar 4

“They got no parents?”

“If they did, they couldn’t go around calling themselves orphans, could they.”

Mar 3

473.

Mar 2

“I was just noticing that you seemed awfully pleased with yourself, up until you felt it necessary to wear your beverage.”

Mar 2

“A real job? One where someone promises us money and then they hand us the money and we get to keep the money?”

Mar 1

472.