Happy Birthday Avrovulcan!

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We miss you and your stories a lot my friend!  Hope you have a marvelous birthday!

                 

                               

"Feeling All Right"~ for an impromptu challenge based on Joe Cocker's song of the same name

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Napoleon Solo had been traveling the world following his honorable discharge from the army. He was, as so many people were doing, ‘trying to find himself.’  After Korea, he was churned up inside, feeling a bit conflicted and needed something to help him focus.

He felt needed to do some good in the world after the destruction he witnessed and helped bring about in Korea...for what?

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Let Me Go - Impromptu Challenge - June 11th

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This is for the impromptu challenge based on the song 'Feelin' Alright' by Joe Cocker. When I say 'based', I'm talking very, very loosely.

Thank you carabele for the title.

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The screams had been almost constant for two days, only stopping when tranquilising medication was administered. That was when the whimpering would start which, to everyone concerned, was somehow worse than the screaming. To Napoleon Solo, it was very nearly too much for him to endure. He’d had to force himself to stay in the room as his partner and friend battled whatever insidious drug THRUSH had given him. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to be there for Illya, but the sight of him straining against the restraints, and begging for help in every language he knew, was difficult to bear. It was made all the worse knowing that there was nothing he could do to console the tormented Russian. By the third day, there seemed to be a small light at the end of the tunnel. Illya was still fighting against the dreams which were assaulting him, but his physical struggles had abated somewhat, and he was using only the two languages; Russian and English.

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