Topher Lydon

And somehow, the best employee they have.

They just can't stay away from each other. Good Morning

The next three days were a blur of orientation and document review. Andrew's workspace was a cubicle on the twenty-eighth floor, wedged between two other articling students—a woman named Meera who spoke in rapid-fire bursts and a man named Trevor who seemed perpetually on the verge of tears. They were both bright, both ambitious, both clearly terrified. Andrew found them exhausting, but he also recognized something of himself in their desperate competence. The Merrick file lived in a room

I think after three hundred years of the same thing over and over and over... this is all new, and it's something he doesn't understand or expect. In a way that has to be thrilling. Andy's gonna make sure Lucas studies while hard... I mean very hard... I mean... oh bother.

Protect Will from the threats against him is a running motif in these books, Echo, Asset and Recourse. You can start to see the seeds of the arrangement Will and Andrew need to develop for their later relationship. Andrew has no choice but to lie to him, it's a crucial part of his job. Will has learned by Carter's Breach to accept this. And to trust that Andrew is doing it for the right reasons. Many disagree to this approach, willful ignorance. But a lot of the time knowing will only serve to put Will in danger, like this case. Andrew doesn't know of a threat to Will yet, and what would the point be of telling Will what's really going on? Will can't do anything to help Andrew. But let's suppose Andrew tells Will about it, "Hey I'm infiltrating a Law Firm to actively BREAK THE LAW to provide privilege information on the firms client, Merrick who is mates with your boss." What would Will do with that? he'd tell Robert Avery immediately, because that is Will... his honour would compel him. What would Robert Avery do with that information... Robert would NEVER hire GS&P to be his law firm... not when he knows people in the firm are spilling confidential information to Law enforcement. No sane person would do that. And so what would Robert do if friends and allies of his, or firms that contract for his company say they want to employ GS&P? The dominos fall quickly... and suddenly GS&P will find out that someone is leaking. Darius is already watching people, and the way GS&P secure files work, it would be no short jump to finding Andrew. Disbarment would follow, possibly arrest. He would be fired at the very least, CSIS would be in major trouble, and Merrick would be laughing. Andrew simply cannot tell Will. There is too much at stake.

Jason has a journey to go on. And it's going to be a hard one.

ha took a few tries got there in the end

I will find one, need to find a nerdy boy with 1000% cocky confidence... hmmmm

They had to give him some kind of weakness. And let's face it, Lucas isn't going to be denied his claim.

The difficulty in writing these prequel books is Keeping things from Will It's hard because Will simply doesn't know, in established lore, about Andrew and CSIS for at least another two-three years. So that means it needs to be kept from him, and the trick is doing that in a way that doesn't make Will out to be an idiot, or Andrew from seeming a bastard for keeping it from him. And Peter, being Peter, we already know he's hyper-vigilent, and hyper-sentistive as the little Empath he is, to other people lying to him. We also know from our Lore that Peter's known all along what Andrew does. Peter is no one's fool, and his protectiveness of Will and the other people he loves does put him in direct conflict with Andrew. So yeah, it's a tough one to write. I will be glad to get through this one, and then focus on after Will knows. (The ten year gap between Recourse and Breach where Will is in the know.) Or back to the current date, still figuring out Carter's Odyssey... Tommy and Jacob's book dealing with Milan and the Olympics (still no real idea on that one yet, it's there... just... need to come up with a plot. Because the Secret Service kind of curb stomp much of the threat and challenge and chances for those two to be alone, explore Italy, and not have Five suited people watching their every move)

Peter's going to have to step up in this one. Because we all know what he does when someone threatens his family. He has a yellow belt, and is dangerous damn it!

Oh and found a much better header picture for Andy... more fitting with the vibe of the story. Now if only he can find a way to weaponize Lucas's sheer... lucas-ness he'd be unstoppable.

02 Andy had been dead for three hundred years. In that expansive, blood-soaked stretch of time, he had been shot in the chest by a jittery highwayman in the 1700s, stabbed by a jealous aristocrat in Victorian London, drowned in the murky depths of the Thames, and once—memorably, during a particularly chaotic misunderstanding in the roaring twenties—set entirely on fire. He had survived plagues, inquisitions, the collapse of empires, and the agonizing, crushing boredom of eternity. He was a

TBH I have no idea, this is something I am writing on the fly, sort of seeing where it takes me. Lucas is a bit of a trip.

Greaser Vampire Bottom I mean, it writes itself.

Maybe a bloody one for Andy. :: thinks ::

repeatedly giving him pamphlets, she hunted him down. And to answer how Merrick achieved this. Tale as old as time, song as old as wine

dripping Poison into an ear killed Hamlet's father, and brought down the Kingdom of Denmark.

The only one who could ever reach me... Good morning. The danger reveals itself.

Flynn's rare physiology means that his Elven Magic, and his Human DNA are constantly at war, generating passive magic that is killing him. This makes him a super battery. Ergo why Valle wants him.

Dinner was a chaotic affair. Jared, declaring himself "the culinary genius of this household," attempted to make spaghetti carbonara from a recipe he'd found online. The result was edible, barely, and everyone ate it anyway because Jared's feelings were easily hurt and no one wanted to deal with the sulking. Will opened a bottle of wine that cost more than Peter's weekly grocery budget and poured glasses for everyone except Jason, who got sparkling water in a fancy glass and pretended it was the

Flynn knows if it's not him, it's someone else. Someone's got to stop it

Poitr's kryptonite.