Blink had a hard time picking out nice clothes for her date. Each time she thought she'd decided on an outfit she pictured it vaporizing.

And she felt ridiculous wearing the pasties Venus gave her.

But it couldn't be worse than her date with Iceman.

TJ had spent some time living on her own in the city, trying to make her own life in this world instead of living in something so painfully close to her old one. But after all that chaos, and finding that there just wasn't enough that she could do to help during it... it made her realize she needed to be home. Even if it was only an imitation of ( Read more... )

After her disastrous date with Robert Drake Blink was in no hurry to go back to Number 9 Matchmaking and tell Venus that her matchmaking skills sucked. But she really wanted to yell at someone for it and she really needed to get laid so back Clarice went ( Read more... )

((OOC: Bendy timed to a week after the final events of Crisis of Faith. Also, opened to any X-Men/New X-Men/X-Kids who would feel the need to go to Sophie's funeral.))The house was somewhere between a large house and a small mansion. Not many in the local neighborhood had turned out for the funeral of Sophie Cuckoo. Most of the neighborhood had ( Read more... )

The fight had been really bad. Blink had promised herself she wouldn't lose any more kids. She'd made that promise many times before. She'd never been able to keep it, even on this world where she wasn't the only one to look after the kids ( Read more... )

The fighting had started all across America. According to Bastion, a significant number of the X-men were involved in the combat in New York.

Which meant that the children here were left all alone. There would be no one to save them this time.

He gave the first unit the signal to advance.

Clarice guessed she'd been on dates before. They'd had some time off in the exiles but usually that involved sleeping in and with Cal, going native at the beach, watching movies, and taking it easy.

She'd never had to worry about what to wear before. And she'd never dated... Iceman.

Iceman, really?

It had to be the the worst Christmas present ever, and it figured that it had come from Julian. It was polite to wear it once and Sophie and her sisters had discussed whether or not the various staff would even understand the shirt ( Read more... )

Blink stood outside the doors of No. 9 Matchmaking.

Technically she wasn't allowed to leave Xavier's but how were they going to stop a teleporter? She left a note just in case she didn't come back within a set number of hours. She should have asked for permission but she really didn't want to tell anyone other than Kitty about this ( Read more... )

Christmas as a celebration has been through many changes throughout history. It has absorbed aspects of other winter celebrations over the years, and many accuse it of now being nothing more than crass commercialism ( Read more... )