Fic - Now without pants

I'm having a week. And most of the arghness of that week is happening inside my own head. I had a wicked attack of homesickness last night, so strong it rivaled anything that I'd felt when I first left home 14 years ago. I could smell woodsmoke and that clean, clear crispness of fall and burning leaves and that faint chill and I just started to cry, doubled over and angry and so torn about what I was doing with my life.

I'm better today, I think. A sense of direction, of choices and options.

And because I utterly adore her, and because she's having a killer, crazy couple of weeks and may not even see this, but in fact YIM'd me to pseudo-ask, for simplystars:

( Five Ways Cameron Mitchell Loses His Pants )

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Dude, Starsy, that was harder than it had any right to be.