El Goonish Shive – Delta  By brokenhero  Author's note: All
characters except members of the Cross family owned and
copyrighted by Dan Shive. I do not have Dan's permission to
write this. I write it for my own enjoyment and the enjoyment of
others. So enjoy!  Act One: "Introduction"  -Thursday night,
8:30 p.m.-  "Boys, dinner! Wash your hands!"  "C.J., c'mon,"
Casey Joel Cross' fourteen year old brother Jon said, pounding
on his brother's closed and locked door. "Mom said its
dinnertime!"  Inside the room, Casey (as he preferred to be
called, even though his mother insisted on putting "C.J." on all
the official records) stood at his one of his bookshelves,
trying to pick reading material for the dinner table, assuming
the 'rents gave him a chance. Jon's dog Aayla lay with her head
on Casey's pillow, drooling.  Casey was about 5'9", not really
tall enough to be considered tall, but tall enough for him. He
had messy black hair, and almost never styled it, after the
incident a few years back when he'd spiked it