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Hurricane Lamps It was the summer of their thirteenth year, a ripe and hot summer, still sizzling with shared secrets and hidden hopes when Elijah mentioned the idea of a secret hideout. Their old hangouts, the sandlot and basketball court, had been taken over by local bullies and drug addicts, respectively. It was still several years before they would be able to drive to the mall or cinema--places where the teenagers hung out. Tony, who secretly wondered if they were getting a litt
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Two young boys share a summer that will change their lives
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In the depths of Charion exist terrible betrayals, seductive monsters--and a capacity for love and healing that Brandon had no longer believed existed. Secrets are discovered and forgiveness is sought, all while trying to save a world on the brink of destruction. This is the third book in the Not The Sun series.
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Jabberwocky Brandon couldn't see. Could barely breathe. Could hardly think. He only knew two things: the pain and the needle. The pain never left. It took up residence in the front of his head, where Jordan's psychic connection would sometimes dock, blurring his vision and drying his mouth. It wasn't constant, it would come and go, ebb and flow, rise up so that sometimes he would scream instead of whimper, cry instead of sleep. The needle hel
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17 ~Nightmares~ Jordan watched that evening as Brandon carefully measured out the herbs for Leia's sleep remedy. "Good," Jordan said when Brandon showed him the finished product. "Pretty easy, huh?" "Yeah," Brandon said softly, setting it aside. "But I don't like it." "My mixture will just make me sleep for a couple of days. It's the same thing Leia takes, only stronger. I won't be unconscious or anything," Jordan explained as he dumped triple the amount they mixed for Leia into a mug.
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16 ~Considerations~ Brandon slammed the door shut behind him and pulled the helmet off, throwing it against the wall. It hit the stone with a dull thunk before dropping to the ground. Not enough noise for Brandon's mood at the moment. He wanted to hear glass shattering, metal screaming, plaster crumbling. He wanted loud, powerful, violent sounds to match his mood. He felt like screaming, pounding the floor like a toddler having a tantrum. Instead, he just fell into a chair and dropped his head
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15 ~The Queen of Charion~ It took everything that Salvo had just to get Brandon on a horse, never mind riding solo. But Jordan told him that he had to enter the city on horseback or else draw suspicion, and since it was Jordan and Brandon didn't want to come across like a pussy, he reluctantly climbed atop the patient brown mare that was now his. Jordan rode with him a while, letting him get used to the feeling. Jordan had good control of their horse, and while they weren't riding at a breakne
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14 ~Reunions~ The night before he and Jordan were scheduled to "rendezvous", Brandon studied the map again. He had studied it every night with the kind of determination he had never applied to his schoolwork. Charion was their world now, and he wanted to know it like he did his own neighborhood. He had talked to Tananja everyday during his lunch break, hoping to find out more about the Silver Falls or some of the other sacred places without arousing suspicion, but that hadn't yielded very go
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13 ~Solitaire~ When Brandon saw that Salvo and Jordan would have to travel on horseback to get to the castle where Leia was being kept, he was a little bit glad he was staying behind, although his stomach still twisted with something that felt suspiciously like jealousy at the fact that Jordan would be seeing Leia before he would. Still, he couldn't help being a little relieved that he wouldn't have to ride a horse quite yet. He still accompanied them to the edge of town, where Salvo rent
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12 ~Salvo~ Jordan stared down at Dathilda's motionless body, before gently bending over and closing her eyes. The black centers were their normal size, but the surrounding whites were crimson, filled with blood from burst vessels. He picked up a bed sheet from where it was folded neatly next to her still body and gently snapped it open over her, let it float down to cover her. He made especially sure that her face and feet were covered, tucking the edges in around her body. He had come in
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11 ~Dathilda~ Anailde, who apparently felt that she wanted no more misfortune landing at her doorstep, waited a few days until Brandon was able to tolerate travel then loaded Jordan and Brandon into some kind of carriage and took them to another town. Brandon tried to sleep through the journey. Anailde had given him enough narcotics to knock out a small horse, but every bump and dip in the road pulled his back, keeping him awake but exhausted. Jordan sat silent next to him. After a while,
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10 ~The Chimney~ Jordan woke up to someone shaking him and a warm voice next to his ear. "Wake up, blue eyes, I have something for you." Jordan groaned in agitation, turning over in his warm cocoon of blankets. "I don't want it." A bark of laughter, feminine in nature, had Jordan opening his eyes. He sat up, blinking. "Right here," Brandon's voice, right next to him. "Listen. Anailde has some medicine that we have to put into your eyes. It's going to make you see better. All right?"
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09 ~Convalescing~ For Jordan, the transition between unconsciousness and awareness was a quick and confusing thing. He blinked, and upon seeing nothing, sat up too quick, a strong wave of dizziness and nausea assaulting him. "Whoa, easy there blue eyes," a voice said and warm arms came up around him, holding him gently. "I've got you." There was a shifting of weight and then something cool was pressed against Jordan's mouth. "Here, drink this. Just water." Jordan took a tentative
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08 ~Charion~ Brandon and Jordan might have left their world in the grip of a mellow fall sliding slowly into a cool winter, but in the field of too tall grass, it was the middle of Charion's summer. The sun beating down from the sky was about as hot as Jordan's body radiating against Brandon's side. He trudged forward, dragging Jordan with him. A few more staggering steps had them out of the tall blades into a clearing which had shorter, normal looking grass, crops of some kind growing
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07 ~The In Between~ Brandon opened his eyes. At first he saw nothing but darkness, which frightened him. Then the shades of gray began to fall from his vision and he could take in his surroundings. It was the in between. Just like he had seen in his dreams and Charion, except everything was clearer and well defined, pulsing with life and color. Hell, even the air tasted different. Brandon took a deep breath, and then let it out. He felt a weight on him, and looking down he saw that
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06 ~Enable~ “So I want you to draw something that you made up...that I've never seen before," Jordan said. They were sitting on the floor of his new apartment, sparsely furnished, moving boxes all around them. Jordan tore one open, checked the contents, then refolded the flaps and pushed it aside. "You know you wouldn't have that problem if you had labeled your boxes once you had packed them," Brandon pointed out. "Yeah, well, I didn't think about that," Jordan mumbled. Brandon got o
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05 ~Lockbox~ Brandon sat in his room feeling lonely. Jordan had spent most of the past week at his house, packing up stuff to go in his new apartment. Thankfully, some of the students at school had gotten tired of picking on the "new gay" and had turned their attention elsewhere, allowing Brandon to slip back into the semi-anonymity that he had before the entire incident. Alexis and Andrew were still a phone call away, but what he wanted to talk about wasn't something they would understand.
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04 ~Tension and Torque~ They laid there for a while, not speaking. Jordan liked it, liked the feel of Brandon pressed up next to him. All his previous sexual encounters had a hurried, cold feel to them. Undress, fuck, then leave. But this, lying in bed, cuddling and the occasional slow, unhurried touches were nice. Eventually Brandon got up and found a menu for a Chinese place that delivered, and they ate in bed, using chopsticks and making a mess, occasionally feeding each other bites of
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03 ~Emotional Involvement~ "Here is one," Brandon said later that week. It was lunchtime and Brandon was sitting outside with Jordan, leafing through an Apartment Guide that Jordan had picked up on the way to school. "One bedroom with a washer/dryer hookup and a microwave. And it's pet friendly." "I don't want a pet," Jordan said. "You might one day," Brandon pointed out. "Like a goldfish or something." Jordan smiled a little at that. He was stretched out, sunbathing, while Brandon looked t
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02 ~Outed~ Jordan left earlier than normal to go pick Brandon up for school. He wasn't thrilled at the prospect of having to explain the situation behind his bruises to Brandon, but it wouldn't be fair to ditch him. Brandon had become so used to Jordan picking him up that he wouldn't even try to catch the school bus. Then he would have to walk to school--like he had been doing the first time Jordan had approached him. Jordan smiled at the memory, although it hurt his lips. Brandon had looked
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Bonds are formed, relationships are tested and trust is taken to the limit…in the In Between. The In Between is a sequel and a continuation of events in Not The Sun. If you haven't read Not The Sun, I suggest you do that first.
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Jordan lay on his bed, trying to complete his Physics homework. It wasn't a hard assignment, really, it was just following the formula in his textbook, but it was difficult to focus on anything right then. He had other things on his mind. First and foremost, Brandon. Brandon, who just the night before was in the middle of what definitely looked like rape when he interrupted. Jordan wasn't sure how Brandon was handling that, because it didn't seem like Brandon was handling it at all. Bra
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17 ~Leia Again~ Brandon woke up later that afternoon and found himself alone on Jordan's bed. He stretched slightly, sliding his arms up under Jordan's pillow before pulling the pillow to him, burying his face in it and breathing in deeply. He could smell Jordan on it and it made him smile. He got up and left the room. Jordan was sitting downstairs, talking on his cellphone. He saw Brandon and waved at him, motioned for him. "Yeah," Jordan was saying. "No. Not since last night. No, I d
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16 ~Recuperations~ Brandon finally managed to pry his gummy eyelids apart around eight o clock the next morning. Every single particle of light seemed to shoot straight through his eyes to sear his brain. He moaned pitifully, his head pounding, and managed to maneuver himself out of bed. He stumbled into the bathroom and splashed some water on his face. He eyed the tub warily. He knew he needed a shower and a shave pretty badly, but that just wasn't happening right now. Instead he tugged on
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15 ~Breakdown~ Brandon had already made arrangements to spend the night away from home, so after stopping to pick up something to eat, they headed back to Jordan's house. Jordan found a note left by Dylan, telling him that he was out having dinner with a client. He sighed and threw it away. Typical Dylan. At least that was one thing that hadn't been turned upside down today. Brandon sat down at the table, unwrapping the food they had picked up from McDonalds. Jordan got out some paper plat
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