( Displayed traits often have an environmental factor, as well as genetic. The 'hunger' is a displayed trait. )

( In which Molly is confronted about what she's done. )

( In which Molly takes charge and runs into more than a little danger. )

( She wanted something about old people )

Written for the heroes_contest prompt late.

( In which Molly is just that much more badass. )

But, getting back to the topic at hand…The RV only lasted about a month.
Or, more accurately I suppose, it took the miraculously long time of a month for the tatters of Elle’s self-control to degenerate to the point where one night, doomsday orders to protect untrained specials in the case of an invasion or not, she actually caused the RV to ( Read more... )

The blog worked something like this:

1) Micah and I would find some specials. This was rather easier than it seemed, because we were traveling all over the country, meeting all sorts of people, and special kids kind of stood out to us.

2) Those kids created user accounts for our blog. Most of them even posted regularly.

3) They then went out to find ( Read more... )

 
Question: How do you fit a grandmother, a muscle mimicking fast-food manager, a nine year old technopath, a ten year old clairvoyant, a telepathic cop, an Indian geneticist, a teenaged deadbeat, a psychotic electromagnetic woman, a lizard, all their varied and copious necessary personal belongings and enough food for a multi-day road trip ( Read more... )

We had lived in New Orleans for almost a year at that point.

It was May; summer seemed at once too far away and tantalizingly close; humidity clung to the walls of our tiny apartment, blossoming into slimy green mold in the closet, which stubbornly remained no matter what fungicides Appa threw on it, Micah and I had the run of the broken-down ( Read more... )