The portal opened without fanfare, spitting out a blue, scarred woman. She flexed herself into a roll despite the awkward position she was launched out in, and came up in a defensive crouch. Her gold eyes stared wide and terrified around at her surroundings, shock holding her frozen for several long moments ( Read more... )

The boardwalk wasn't the carnival, but it had funnel cakes and ice cream, vendors, tourists, and there were the rails. It wasn't the same, but close. So close. The sun on her skin felt good, and if she focused, she could ignore the constant tugging of the nearby ocean in the back of her brain ( Read more... )

It was unusually hot today ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for The 100 1x06 )

Amy wasn't typically a maudlin person, though she had enough dramatic friends to understand the impulse. But Karma was feeling text-happy today and Amy wasn't really in the mood to deal with it, so she found herself wandering along the boardwalk in the hopes of clearing her mind ( Read more... )

After the talent show, Travis and Kyle had made their way out to the beach and specifically the boardwalk. Travis had wanted to show his friend this place since it was one of those things they didn't have back in KC. Beaches were a lot different then their summers at lakes and rivers before he'd died. They'd mostly been chatting about inane ( Read more... )

It seemed like a good day for Travis to make sure he could still skateboard. Before he'd died, his time on a skateboard had been absolutely nil. After, with Hatton's encouragement, he'd given it a try and found that he could actually skateboard and skateboard well. Hatton had called it muscle memory, something Jeremy Pratt's body remembered and ( Read more... )

Jim was done with classes for the week and was celebrating that by sitting lazily on a bench on the boardwalk while he ate a lunch he'd picked up from town. The warmer weather was definitely welcome and he knew it'd be even warmer when he went to Brazil next week to spend time with Natalie. That was definitely something to look forward to ( Read more... )

Theo didn't head back to his room after hanging out in the gym for the sports club. He was already keyed up and he'd brought his board to the club with him so taking it down to the boardwalk wasn't much trouble. Besides, this seemed to be the only place he could shake some of his tension and twitchy energy ( Read more... )

The rain was nothing new. Sam came from the land of rain so showing up on the island for some skateboarding on a familiar boardwalk was almost comforting. It was making his hair damp and his shirt stick to his skin. His board was new, though, and he wanted to break it in somewhere quiet. He had the half pipe, sure, but it wasn't the same as ( Read more... )