Honestly, Hope had no idea what Tony was thinking when he volunteered her to work with this group. There was nothing to engineer or build for them. Any army doctor could have told them how to set up a medical unit on their base. She was over qualified for this and bored with it. When she got back to California, she was going to make Tony pay ( Read more... )

Tonight I'm not "Mommy". Let's party!

Everything had changed in Lubbock. Ethan said they were no longer keeping things quiet and he meant it. Not only did he introduce her to his family, he introduced her as his girlfriend. They didn't sneak. They didn't hide and it was incredible. Even on the plane back, they held hands, kissed in public, and did their best not to make a spectacle but ( Read more... )

He woke up cold but his shoulder burned. The last thing he remembered was touring the perimeter. It was after hours. Quiet. Boring. He probably should have been more alert and not thinking of random coworkers in various stages of undress but he was a guy. It was late and frankly he needed something to warm him up. There wasn't a sound until he ( Read more... )

Following what had to have been the strangest few weeks Emma could recall since joining up with the make-shift bunch of mildly strange mutants, Emma had pretty much locked herself in her office and refused to leave. It wasn't that she was avoiding anyone or anything, it was simply that she didn't want to be privy to the chaos that might've been ( Read more... )

Something wasn't right. Something was very, very wrong, and Ophelia couldn't really put her finger on it. She was seeing a lot of cracks, feeling a lot of wrongness and being utterly fine with it. Since her small encounter with Captain Sykes, whom she hoped was throwing up in a bucket somewhere, thank you very much, she'd been feeling out of sorts ( Read more... )

*So, apparently it was time to go. He was a contractor. And the military had contracted him elsewhere. He didn't know a whole lot... or anything at all. But he knew he had to go.

*He'd written a few letters. One for Roy, another for Tabby. Of course there was one for his Baby Sister. Three small drops in the bottom corner indicated where he'd let a ( Read more... )

Perhaps she was old fashioned but she just felt like cells should have that metallic slide and clank as it locked a person in. It was a distinctive sound, like the sound of a gun being cocked, that let a person know just how fucked they really were ( Read more... )

It had been somewhere around about 2am when Spencer's train had finally reached Washington, and then it had been a further hour and twenty minutes on a bus to Lincoln City before he was greeted, albeit stoically, by a member of the army. After so many hours travel and so many hours in cramped, confined space, Spencer just allowed himself to be ( Read more... )

Daken had gotten the call while he was in Rome, finishing up another assignment. "I trust you've seen the news?" the voice on the other end of the line asked in Japanese. Daken stayed silent. Who hadn't? An earthquake of that size and magnitude, with the scope of the tragedy involved. Every news station in the world had been eating it up like ( Read more... )