1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

all in the way you read it...

angst

if - after dragging sandberg back from death, he didn't know how - he sat in the hospital waiting room for six hours; if - for all that time he kept his eyes fixed on sandburg's aging book full of words that didn't, couldn't explain; and if - when sandburg later flipped through the pages - there were what looked suspiciously like faintly smeared teardrops... at least sandburg knew not to ask why.

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au

"no one knows what the title of doctor sandburg's novel - tsbybs, for chrissake - means, jim, but it's been the literary sensation of the decade and he wants you to star in the film version... what do you say?"

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crackfic

it took but one look at the fluffy, blue-eyed bookwyrm sitting in the petshop window and eating the pages of its book as it read... and jim just had to have him.

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crossover (with alice through the looking glass)

blair watched the king writing in his enormous book, and was tempted to help out by taking the end of the pencil and writing for him, but as he read over the little chess piece's shoulder, he had to admit that the king's memorandum of feelings about what was happening and his own would really not (to coin a really bad pun) be on the same page... and he didn't know how to write backwards anyway.

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death

"it's not the same," blaire said faintly, almost woodenly, "reading all about murder, all the books, the papers, the reports, the forensic...stuff, man... it's just nowhere near the same as the real thing, is it?"

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episode related (cypher)

ellison's report, describing the kid drugged and chained to a dentist's chair with a madman looming over him, was terse, cold, succinct and as detached as all hell, and simon could hear raw agony in every printed word.

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first time