Fred had a knack for getting herself into trouble. What she was banking on this time was her stronger knack for surviving. She'd been doing pretty well for someone who'd been all the way across town from the hotel when the strange stuff started happening. It had been her own fault: she'd been out taking readings with an instrument that she hoped ( Read more... )

Finrod arrived early, and paced back and forth, waiting for Faramir to arrive. He was tense, as he always was before a battle. He was an experienced soldier, although it was not something that he enjoyed doing in the least. He preferred to concentrate on beauty, on the search for knowledge, as opposed to the search for victory on the battlefield. ( Read more... )

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

how I wonder what you are

Make them whole. Make us whole.

Make us whole.

Isaac leads the team of volunteers into the woods. He's started to get flashes, remembering where he went, where Nicole led him every night to work in secrecy...

He wonders if he'll ever get over the guilt.

You have so much to be guilty for. Nicole is ( Read more... )

While Dick was in surgery, Roy had gone home, changed, and made sure Lian was all right. She was ecstatic to learn about Uncle Dick coming back, but was worried, understandably. Once Dick was awake, and the streets clear, Roy would bring her to see him ( Read more... )

Dick Grayson was no stranger to being shot, but with the gun this close to his skull, the new Batman knew ... it was going to be loudDr. Hurt, the latest crazy to take up terrorizing Gotham in Bruce's absence was something else. Not only had he managed to endanger the Wayne name by pretending to be Bruce's father, returned from some mysterious and ( Read more... )

"What the hell are they teaching you in Quantico these days?" Kate snarled and looked out of the bank door blinds. The idiot Fed had shot an innocent and now they had to deal with the fall out. She turned around to catch Will and Magnus' eyes except the bank was gone. The gun went straight out, locked between two hands and she spun in a circle ( Read more... )

Once Serenity is all fixed up, it's the first night without Wash that's the hardest. Zoë kept herself good and occupied working on making sure Mal's boat could fly again, wearing herself out and sleeping wherever she wound up once she was exhausted. She usually worked silently up on the bridge in front of the cockpit, in the space between panels ( Read more... )

Kurt was behaving. The red sky did look rather ominous, after all, and Draco had said to stay in the hotel, so he was totally staying in the hotel. Strange things happened in the village sometimes, after all, and so far he'd managed to stay out of trouble by doing exactly what he was doing now. He locked his hotel door and stayed away from the ( Read more... )

[ooc: She's going to stay curious crazy girl unless someone needs help - then Reaver killer girl will make an appearance.]River was out on the streets with her ghosts, make us whole make us complete ( Read more... )

The attacks were few for the first day of red sky. Quick and relatively quiet; the transformation was so fast that the victim barely had time to scream.

Even now, the streets looked clear...save for the occasional mutilated body that at least appeared to be dead.

But they are everywhere, in the streets and in the buildings. They're in the ceilings. ( Read more... )