Challenge Fic: Strangers Almanac

Title: Strangers Almanac
Author: Namaste
Rating: Gen, PG
Summary: Taking this challenge to its conclusion, here are three sets of 13 drabbles each, following the lives of Foreman, Chase and Cameron. Each is exactly 100 words and each uses the same prompts as the random challenge “Too Long In The Wasteland” here:
http://namasteyoga.livejournal.com/12039.html#cutid1
and the House/Wilson and Cuddy drabbles “The Boxing Mirror” here:
http://namasteyoga.livejournal.com/12455.html#cutid1

This one takes its title from an album by Whiskeytown.
Sample:

All My Loving

Robert stays, because she asks him to.

Robert takes over the cooking, because she’ll eat a few bites, if only to make him happy.

Robert cleans up, because he doesn’t want anyone to get the wrong idea.

Robert quits rugby, because she’s lonely if he’s not there.

Robert walks with her to mass on Sundays, because she doesn’t want to miss communion.

Robert takes the bus to another church, because he doesn’t want to give confession to someone who knows him, knows his mother.

Robert won’t leave, because he knows she still loves him.

Robert believes that she’ll remember that.

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