When she took the time to properly consider it, Pepper Potts found it astonishing how much a person could change over time. Take herself, for instance: The phlegmatic, formidable image she now cut hadn't been inherent, but rather the result of the Tony Stark evolution. Confidence she'd always had; confidence had gotten her the job. Keeping it ( Read more... )

"There's a hole in my roof, Dear Liza, Dear Liza... shitHawkeye dropped the hammer in his hand and clutched at his thumb. That was the third time in ten minutes that he'd hit it - it was a good thing he wasn't hammering hard, or he'd probably have broken something by now ( Read more... )

Dated September 11th through September 21st, 2010:
They call him the cool exec with a heart of steel, but what happens when the very technology keeping TONY STARK alive becomes the source of his impending demise? Where others might dedicate themselves to finding a cure in spite of the odds, this test pilot for the future has decided to activate ( Read more... )

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Juliet's outside hanging laundry on a line, enjoying a bout of good weather that she hopes stays for a while. She's in a good mood, her spirits lifted by the clean air and blue sky, and maybe the fact that in the middle of the week she'd enjoyed almost an entire bottle of wine at The Winchester and done something she hadn't done in years: ( Read more... )

Friday nights at the Winchester had very quickly become a part of George's routine. Because he'd apparently gone insane when he'd signed up for classes, it meant both Chinese and Japanese on the same day, which were difficult enough to learn without the possibility of accidentally mixing them up during class. In fact, he was still beating himself ( Read more... )

Cooking had never been a talent of Carolyn's. In fact if anything it was pretty disastrous each time she tried to cook anything more complicated than scrambled eggs. But she had figured that since she was now stuck on the island and since she had more time on her hands than she was use to, that she could and would teach herself how to cook ( Read more... )

It feels like the days are counting down.

Like everything is just creeping closer and closer to some inevitable end. Kate tries. She tries so hard not to think that way, for Sam's sake more than anything. But after Jack and after Chris and after Lily and her entire family, it just feels like she's waiting to be picked off. Or like she's waiting for ( Read more... )

Years spent cleaning up the inevitable havoc created by an alcoholic can leave one with a bit of distaste for excessive drinking. For Pepper, overindulgence of most anything was typically only ever brought on by gargantuan amounts of stress, and drunkenness without the excuse of some kind of party was nigh on unheard of. As she sat alone at the ( Read more... )

The thing of it was, while Rory didn't have a lot of experience tramping through muddy jungles while being chased by imposing reptiles, he had enough and he didn't have the energy to whinge about it ( Read more... )