River is not unused to the experience of waking up somewhere other than where she fell asleep; usually she starts in her bunk and makes it as far as the cargo bay or curling up under the kitchen table. Phrases like 'sleepwalking' and 'psychotic break' get bandied about in whispers while doses get changed, but that's not the shocking part. The ( Read more... )

John Constantine has inherited a bowling alley.

In a burst of bizarre irony - perhaps even the kind worthy of giant hamsters God's sense of humor - the man who owned the place had not a week ago died of bees (and Balthazar), so were he in other circumstances he might have approached this by like ...finding a new apartment. One not above a bowling ( Read more... )

( then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past )

( passive-aggressive bullshit. )

Cat sets the stage for this communication by cleaning her living room, at least all the parts she plans on making visible when she broadcasts, and she puts some effort into her hair and make-up, so the image Taxon is presented with when she makes the broadcast is an only slightly tired-looking Cat sitting on a dark red couch with some wear to it. ( Read more... )

If you get right down to it, there are two ways John Constantine spends his day: either in immediate peril or out of it. (Although arguably there's also having just gotten out, and about to get into, but split that many hairs and we'll be here all day.) His appearance in the entrance chamber seems to indicate the former, both of which have their ( Read more... )

( every break in the road, tear it down with your own hands. )

Once Dean's services as an ambulance driver are no longer required and Enfys finds that in the chaos of all this she actually does have a free moment, she squints up at the tower she can see from her vantage point in front of the manor and makes an abrupt and sneaky decision.

[ voice ]Hey, Dean, don't give those keys back just yet. Meet me ( Read more... )

Now that Cat is convinced that the bombs aren't going off (she checked all the clocks she could find, just to be that little bit more sure) she's shifted the focus of her organization. After firmly admonishing the Extras that they still had to stay inside, she asked a few of them to join her in setting up a clear space in a room near the kitchen. ( Read more... )

[Cat speaks calmly and deliberately when she gives this message:]

Any of y'all who aren't on the skyship, if you're still looking for a place, Wayne Manor is open, and we'll be taking anyone in who needs it. There's not much time left, so if you're on the ground, this is the place to get to. You'll be safe in here.

[end transmission.]

( do you know where my spark is? )