He knew as soon as he got back to Cardiff that he should have gone sooner. It's always easier to ignore potential problems than to face them, but he knows better than that. It was a relief to get back and patch things up a little, as best he could with a little more time and distance under his belt than he'd had ( Read more... )

The question that keeps coming up in conversations he has with other residents of the hotel is this: why, if you dislike it here so much, don't you go back home? That discussion with Vincent has left him thinking, and the only answer he could come up with wasn't an entirely flattering one, from his perspective ( Read more... )

"Lanky lizards!"

Weetzie couldn't believe her eyes when she and Slinkster Dog entered the pool area. She was decked out in the best retro swimwear she could find: a polka-dotted red bikini that Esther Williams could have worn. She wore a flower in her spit-curled blond hair, too, just like Esther, and perfect red lipstick and a bracelet with ( Read more... )

One of the first times they spoke, the Lieutenant mentioned to him that in his spare time the commander of her Galactica built model ships. It's something he's never done, but in his last foray to the city he found a book of thick paper building models. It's with him now at his table in the lounge, a glass of first water at his side. While reading ( Read more... )

It's easy enough to slip into a routine, even when you're displaced in time and space; Jack's known that for years. After all, time travel used to be as natural to him as going to work in the morning. It was going to work in the morning. Even after he's been back to Cardiff and done so much there and yet left himself with as many unanswered ( Read more... )

She'd come out into the park initially to find Kuroraka, but he wasn't in his usual tree. Perhaps he was flying out around the city, watching over it. River likes to imagine such things, sometimes, now that she can imagine them ( Read more... )

It's peaceful in the hotel lobby. Quiet save for a robot moving through now and then. Nothing to cause anyone to pay much attention to the area ( Read more... )

Leaving her room, Abby heads for the elevator. She's a little late for dinner but that's no reason she can't go get it now. The snacks she's been munching on definitely do not qualify as real food. Money card and room key on her, she pushes the button and waits patiently for it to come up to her ( Read more... )

Maybe she still hates the robots and maybe she hasn't gotten what that girl suggested about everyone here being entertainment out of her head, but things are looking up.

(She's even thinking about going back to Bob's to hop in one of those sleek red ships she had her eye on ( Read more... )

He is and always has been a meticulous host. His attention to detail is, after all, one of his strengths, and it's the thing that makes him able to do the things he does back in Gotham. And keep the fact that it's him doing them a secret. When he organizes events, he puts a great deal of effort into making sure that they go off smoothly. Since ( Read more... )