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At Home With Sally Green (Series 2, Episode 1): The Demon Hole (part 1)

Gabriel: *sips his glass of red wine, and makes a look of disgust* This wine is almost undrinkable.

Nathan: Here we go again.

Gabriel: We’re going here again because the wine isn’t at it’s best. It’s too warm.  AGAIN.

SG: Drink the white, it’s at the perfect temperature. *raises her own glass in cheers to Gab, takes a sip, makes a face of ecstasy* Delicious!

Nathan: Or drink the water *runs kitchen tap at full blast and sticks head under to drink, getting water everywhere, coming back to standing with water running down his face, his hair wet*.

SG: *looks at the water everywhere and mutters to herself*Just drink the wine, Sally. Just drink the wine.

Gabriel: *tears his eyes from the dripping Nathan and looks at SG* I’m just saying that if we kept the red wine in the cellar, it wouldn’t be ruined all the time.

SG: We’ve been through this a thousand times. We don’t go in the cellar.

Nathan: *sweeps his hair back, sending water across the room* And even I get that. I’m going for a run. *leaves the house*

SG: *picks up her book, opens it, sips her wine* *mutters quietly but just loud enough for Gab to hear* Even Nathan gets it.

Gabriel: * sips his wine again, pulls face again*

Gabriel: I just think that if you are lucky enough to have a cellar, the perfect place to keep wine at the perfect temperature . . . why not . . .

SG: *closes book down and looks at Gab* I don’t put anything in the cellar. I don’t go in the cellar. I don’t open the door to the cellar. The cellar is a no go area. I thought I made that totally clear on day one, Gab. If Nathan can understand that then surely so can you!

Gabriel: Fine. Fine. I won’t ever mention it again. *goes to counter and takes the white wine from the cooler and pours himself a large glass*

Much later, Sally is in bed. Nathan is still not back from his run.Gabriel is a little tipsy as he heads upstairs passing the cellar door which has a round wooden door knob. 

Gabriel: *reaches out his hand to the door knob but then shakes his head* No. I mustn’t. *imitating Sally’s northern accent* The cellar is a no go area.

Gabriel: *goes upstairs and switches the light off on the landing, heads to his bedroom and glances downstairs. He frowns and stops. He slowly retraces his steps, looking down towards the cellar door. He goes down a few stairs, then down a few more*

Coming from the gap below the cellar door is faint red glow.

Gabriel: *imitating Sally’s accent again* The cellar is a no go area. 

Gabriel: *smiles and reaches out his hand to the door knob and turns it.

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At home with SallyGreen: Boutin (episode1)

SallyGreen is sitting at the breakfast bar staring at her laptop.

Gabriel: *massaging Sally’s shoulders* This knot is  … bad. 

SallyGreen: I know.

Gabriel: Really *pushes fingers and then knuckles into shoulder* really …  bad.

SallyGreen: I know. I know.

Gabriel: Have you done your stretches?

SallyGreen: *groans at knot being massaged and to avoid answering the question*

Gabriel: Your yoga? You need to do your stretches. 

SallyGreen: I will do. 

Gabriel: Morning and evening.

SallyGreen: Don’t nag.

Gabriel: *changes to a more gentle massage* So? What’s happening?

SallyGreen: The usual. Writing. More writing. Rewriting. More rewriting.

Gabriel: That doesn’t look like writing that looks like twitter.

SallyGreen: Nag, nag, naggitty nag.

Gabriel: *goes back to kneading the knot*

SallyGreen: That’s very good. *groans* They want to know your surname.

Gabriel: Who?

SallyGreen: People. On twitter. Your fans. You have fans. 

Gabriel: *massages gently again*

SallyGreen: I know you’re pleased … about the fans, I mean.

Gabriel: Of course. So why haven’t you told them before now? About my surname I mean.

SallyGreen: I don’t know. I’m busy with other stuff. It’s quite hard work writing books you know.

Gabriel: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

SallyGreen: *groans, then rolls shoulders* Talking of which, I really do need to get on with some work.

Gabriel: So are you going to tell them?

SallyGreen: What?

Gabriel: *rolls eyes* My name. Are you going to tell them?

SallyGreen: I suppose. 

Gabriel: *whispers in her ear* In case you’ve forgotten who I am. I’m Gabriel Boutin. B O U T I N.

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HALF BAD OUTCUT #1

This is from the original ms that I sent to my agent and I cut it (I think) before we sent the ms to publishers. I don’t really like the jewellery box simile but I v much like Gabriel here. 

Nathan and Gabriel at the cave

Each night we sit together in the cave mouth. We keep the fire small like a precious jewel, glowing in a jewellery box. The huge trees are its dark walls and the open lid, the sky.  There are an absurd number of stars on the lid.  

We talk about things: I tell him what I know about Russia, stuff Celia told me; he tells me about France and teaches me some French words but then smiles at my accent. 

One night he sings La Marseillaise whilst marching round the fire and I sit cross legged and watch him. His huge boots stomp, his long legs in canvas trousers stride past. He throws off his jacket and his t-shirt is tight on his chest. His head is down so I see his hair and at the far side of the fire it is glowing from the flames, then his head is back shouting out the song. He finishes with a salute before dropping to his knees in front of me.

I tell him, ‘You’re better at poetry.’

He frowns. ‘You laughed at my poetry.’

I shrug. And I remember him standing in the apartment kitchen and I didn’t understand the poem but his voice was beautiful.

‘What?’ He looks intrigued. ‘Do you want me to recite a poem?’

He reads me better than Celia did.  

But he is serious now. ‘Can you ask or is that impossible?’

I think about it but I’m not sure how to ask, and so I say, ‘Impossible.’

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Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman.

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Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman.

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I think people often forget the importance of being nice to work with until they have to work with a dickhead.

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Talk

My first ever post, and I had to do this. A small thing for Half Bad  by the beautiful @sallygreenhalfbad 

IS A MAJOR SPOILER FOR THE LAST BOOK.

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You were so drunk off your invincibility you forgot how mortally vulnerable he was.

It’s dark. It’s dark and it’s damp, grainy against my skin. My movement is constricted, roots are digging into my sides. And it shouldn’t have gone that way, but it did. I don’t regret it, Nathan. I don’t regret following you, going through this with you and if the times ever changed, if we were to go back again I would do the same.

I would do the same as many times as I called your name, as many times as I thought about you, as many as every word you’ve spoken to me from the first time we met.

  I’m stiff now, like a hollowed log in a forest, buried deep and small in the earth. But I still love you. I’m decaying, rotting, being devoured down by the memories and the days and I love you.

You like the riverside, the calm and the quiet. I listen to you talking about it sometimes, though I can’t hear as well as I used to.

Is it okay to wish I were there too? I wish I’d seen all the places you’ve been, Nathan, all the places that made you yourself. You’re fascinating, the black and the white and the beast and the human and all of you. I think I should’ve tried harder for me and you both.

I know you can’t hear me, and my own voice is dying within me too and I don’t think that even this earth is going to bear my weight any further. But at least know this, feel it in your heart as I felt you.

Live, Nathan.

Live because you deserve it, because you fought too long, too hard, too horribly not to. Because even the days pass and the wounds heal and the scabs they leave might be ugly and revolting to you but they never hurt anymore. Because you were mine and I am yours until I’m broken down to the last bone of my spine.

Live and keep me locked in you, not as bloody and pale as you saw me.

Know me as I were, by a small stream with you, swimming and fighting and pushing each other around. In a run-down apartment in a city where no one knew who we were and no one cared, in a war but not really thinking about it. In a forest, deep inside a small den and curled against you. On a mountain filled with the thrill of the height and getting high off the rush.

Know me in love with you, Nathan, kissing you and touching your hand, us being one and firm and never separated. And forget. 

I feel me withering away, the last parts of me sinking. It’s not as scary as I thought it would be. The faintest sound hits my still heartbeat as I’m giving away. 

“Gabriel.”

I smile.

“Nathan.”

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First ever post and beautiful. Thank you. 

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But we all love Leon

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I've been a fool - I need to watch Leon again soon.

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Nabriel ❤️

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At home with Nesbitt: Ben Johnson poem

Nathan and Gabriel are in the garden. Nesbitt is inside watching them. Nathan starts to laugh and then so does Gab.

Nesbitt:  And in short measures life may perfect be.

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At home with Nesbitt: Blade Runner

Nesbitt and Gab are watching an old movie on the telly. They’ve seen it a few times before...

Nesbitt : *imitating Tyrell’s voice* The facts of life... to make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once it's been established.

Gabriel: *grinning, and then turning very Roy* Why not?

Nesbitt: Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutation give rise to revertant colonies, like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship... sinks.

Gabriel: What about EIS-3 recombination?

Nesbitt: *glaring at Gab* It’s ‘What about EMS-3 recombination?’

Gabriel: *rolling eyes* What about EMS-3 recombination?

Nesbitt: We've already tried it - ethyl, methane, sulfinate as an alkylating agent and potent mutagen; it created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before it even left the table. 

Gabriel: Then a repressor protein, that would block the operating cells.  

Nesbitt: Wouldn't obstruct replication; but it does give rise to an error in replication, so that the newly formed DNA strand carries with it a mutation - and you've got a virus again... but this, all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you.

Gabriel: But not to last.

Nesbitt: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!

Gabriel: *soaks in the adulation, he knows it’s right, then grins* I've done... *raises eyebrows* questionable things. 

Nesbitt: *going back to being Nesbitt* I guess your referring to making Nathan scream and beg last night. I really, really don’t want to know the details, but revel in your time, kid, revel in your time.

With due acknowledgement to the writers of Blade Runner and to Phiip K Dick

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Van: Do you hate people?

Nathan: I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

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Van: How does Nathan keep in shape?

Gabriel: Running from commitment

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Let me know what you think about this fan art! 

Annalise O’brien = Taylor Momsen

Nathan Byrn = Stephen James

Gabriel Boutin = Miles Mcmillan

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Japanese edition of HALF WILD. This makes me v happy.

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i had the urge to draw this QWQ i was inspired by drawings this like! So i drew Nathan Byrn (Mah babeh boi!) from Half bad by @sallygreenhalfbad ! :3 Out of all 3 books my most favorite is Half Wild X) lol //SosadthatHalfbadtrilogybooksendedQAQiwassoupsetatthendofHalfLost!ButveryveryawesomeseriesSally!Veryawesome!// So this drawing suppose to represent the Half Wild! *v*/ <3

I hope you beautiful people like it! X3

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Because he is really a Prince charming