There's very little in the world that makes Cupid quite so happy as a good party. It gets people together and makes the shooting a lot easier. Of course, now that his arrows have no magic in them, this isn't exactly a cakewalk, but it's not the hardest thing in the world either. He's in the usual fare, mostly because suits don't exactly come with ( Read more... )

Crying was not something that came very naturally for Cassie. Growing up with a single mom and then training with the Amazons, she had always tried to be as strong as them and strong women didn't cry. Cassie Sandsmark didn't cry and Wonder Girl certainly didn't cry. So if neither sides of her personality cried, she couldn't help but wonder where ( Read more... )

When one lived with a spy, one could either get used to the fact that said spy would know everything that you did or one could become really, really sneaky. Coraline was getting quite adept at being sneaky or at least she liked to think she was. Usually her sneakiness meant avoiding Adam like the plague or plaguing him with questions until he went ( Read more... )

It was leaned up against the door of her hut as if she'd left it there for a brief moment on the way to some other task, only Aly was quite certain she had never owned a Yamani glaive in her life. Her first instinct was to assume that the island had stolen the weapon from Lady Knight Keladry of Mindelan, a woman her mother had understood far better ( Read more... )

( cut for spoilers from New Moon )

If you had been upstairs in the Compound or in the Hub at six in the evening of December 31, you might have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, or that you'd once again been whisked off to some strange, new place. Within the blink of an eye, the rooms had changed, sparkling instantly with festive decorations, and it was all so ( Read more... )

On the first of the month, the island had transformed Randall Flagg's little ten by ten cube of concrete into a whimsical winter wonderland. Walls that looked like gingerbread were accented with frosting and gumdrops and licorice but were most assuredly still hard as a rock-- probably they were only a glammer for the real wall beneath. It had also ( Read more... )

Another day, another party. Seems like every time you turn around, there's another one. But this one's special. An eighteenth birthday party, a fucking milestone, and a birthday of a pretty damn good friend ( Read more... )

Normally, though Charlie loves snow. He grew up in Upstate New York, so he figures that it's kind of a requirement. He worries about Edmund, though. He knows what he went hrough. He does his best to keep him warm. Today, he built a snowman outside their hut (he spends less and less time at his own hut), stayed out in the snow until his cheeks ( Read more... )

Aeneas had been pacing around the hut anxiously which could only mean one of two things. Either the puppy needed to go to the bathroom or he wanted to go for a walk. Whichever it was, someone had to take him out and this time, it was Anatoly's turn. Not that it was a horrible hardship - on the contrary, he'd been contemplating taking a break ( Read more... )