By the time it was their turn to take the bathysphere up to the surface, Saffron was more than ready to be out of Rapture, and she had a feeling Lex felt the same way. It had been an exhausting several days, trapped down in that eerie city, and she was pretty sure she wasn’t going to be going back down there for a long, long while, provided the ( Read more... )

Today was Xander's birthday, and Saffron had been planning for weeks to make sure it was his best yet. She'd made him take the day off from everything, and she'd done the same, so they could spend it together. In the morning he'd woken up to breakfast in bed, followed by a nice, lengthy - well, dessert, of sorts. They'd gone for a picnic lunch on ( Read more... )

Saffron had been healing, slowly but surely, ever since being injured on the space station, and she was real close to full recovery. Her voice was back to normal, which was a real gorram relief. Her ribs were almost there; maybe a couple of weeks more and she'd be fine. The fact of the matter, though, was that she and Xander had been together a ( Read more... )

Saffron couldn't remember the last time she'd been so bad off. She'd been injured twice before on the island - once during that freak snowstorm, when she'd been rescued by Brad, and once on Halloween more than three years ago, when she'd fought Reavers with River and gotten stitched up by Simon - and neither had been as bad as this. She was stuck ( Read more... )

When she thought about it, this had probably been building for a real long gorram time ( Read more... )