It had taken a few weeks of working while she should have been sleeping, interrupted by the sudden presence of children and by nearly two weeks spent in the medlabs recovering from her own stupidity, but Jean was finished. She'd tapped into Kat's head, those memories that had been altered so sloppily and so incompletely now repaired ( Read more... )

Kat paced down the hallway, her right hand moving up to hold her side for a moment as she paused, her hand against the wall. She really wanted to train, but she couldn't, not yet. Doctor's orders. Wisdom's lovely little antics when he first arrived had guaranteed that she'd not met him for breakfast as he'd suggested. She'd blown him off, thinking ( Read more... )

Wisdom arrived under the cover of night, the Jeep carrying him the hours from St. Petersburg in silence. It wasn't that he was expecting a lavish display, since he needn't be wooed by Stryker to come to Siberia and bore himself stupid. He'd chosen to go there.

What the fuck, he'd chosen miserable cold and a girl he'd barely spent more than three ( Read more... )