Like so many weekends before it, the calm of a September Saturday morning was interrupted by the unscheduled opening of a portal in the park. This one sprang to life in a blaze of blue and gold and a burst of glitter before settling into something more stable ( Read more... )

The day was gorgeous - sunny and crisp and cool, but not so cool that people would need coats or sweaters. There were some discrete space heaters set up for those who had chosen not to wear sleeves with their formalwear ( Read more... )

Jolee and Tino were stocking plenty of clean glasses behind the bar. This weekend meant family. Family meant drinking. It was a fact of life. It's part of the reason why Jolee never bothered with a family after breaking from the Jedi: he preferred sobriety ( Read more... )

Marion showed up for her first day of work with Mutt in tow. She was used to bartending and she was used to weird to a certain degree. What she wasn't used to, however, was...

"Zombies?!" she asked Tino. "Are you telling me those are dead guys?"

Mutt was ectastic. Yay for undead friends!

[Putting this up early just because. I won't be around ( Read more... )

Vala wasn't sure what she was going to do. She trusted the technology of this universe, up to a point. Unfortunately, that point was right in front of her, telling her what she didn't want to hear.

How could she have been so stupidBarney was the mark. She knew he was the mark. But she'd taken her eye off the prize, and now she wasn't going to ( Read more... )

Jolee sat behind the bar, glaring at the first customer of the night.

"If you don't leave now, I will throw you out," Jolee said. "Go back to your parents, if you haven't eaten them yet or something ( Read more... )

There was a lot of drinking at Caritas. A lot. Marshall was trying to drink away the horror of seeing a vampire. He was also wearing a ring of garlic around his neck. It was really best not to ask ( Read more... )

Not at all late, really, Vala went into work, inspecting to see if there had been any damage from the hurricane, and sticking her nose into the fridge to see if any food had spoiled or if they'd lost power ( Read more... )

Vala was there, camped out with a stack of bridal magazines and catalogs, which she stopped perusing long enough only to check her phone for cute text messages (not that she knew for sure that Barney was texting her or even had texting capabilities on his phone) or to admire her engagement ring ( Read more... )

Tink had had to pretend to teach today, and those days were always tiring. Molding young minds was exhausting, especially when one discovered one was completely out of absinthe ( Read more... )