He had spent the past six months being human ( Read more... )

Beverly would have usually been working outside, but it was humid and cloudy and she could feel that a headache could very well brew if she sat out there too long staring at her PADD or even at actual books (and that whole thing was something she still hadn't been able to get used to) for the health project. Rough drafts were supposed to be rough ( Read more... )

With not much better to do with the evening, Jack decided to try his luck with the shelf in the rec room. He got a bunch of manuals that might have helped with the ongoing work on the TARDIS. They were mixed in with various printings of Leaves of Grass and copies of Lesbian Prison Tales. He rolled his eyes and moved onto the reels, not surprised in ( Read more... )

Ever since he was a boy, Bill had been a voracious reader. Anything he could get his hands on, from books on Quidditch to books on curse breaking to books by Gilderoy sodding Lockhart, he would read. That interest had provided him with a whole lot of knowledge, and had been a huge help when he'd left Hogwarts and sought his chosen career with ( Read more... )

She'd not even been in the same room -- Had, in fact, not even been watching the screen -- and she'd known what was coming.

Standing behind his podium, rendered on flat plasma across the room, he had paused. Pepper glanced up, mid-tidy, and sighed.

"Oh, Tony-"

"I am Iron Man.That she'd prepared for this eventuality was little consolation. ( Read more... )

( April had been the month of undoing. May the month of relearning. )

One of the last things that Adam remembered before waking up on the island, other than Fiona and the snakes, was Ros screaming his name. She'd wanted him to come back, but he wound up somewhere else entirely instead. Sometimes, if he fell into a deep sleep in his clothes, which he did, from time to time, he'd have dark dreams, and, all the time, ( Read more... )

This was the spot where she first appeared, or at least, this is where Hana believed she first appeared. Thoughts of escape were less frequent now, but she hated the thought that she was actually adjusting to life here and that it was becoming...normal. In the back of her mind, she still blamed Bennett, even though she had no proof. Not that proof ( Read more... )

Brodie's usual morning quest for bookshelf comics had yielded a completely unexpected result this morning ( Read more... )

It had been only a few days since he had posted the announcement, but now the time had come. He was the first to the Compound, and sat leisurely at the steps, waiting to see how many the bulletin had snared. If none arrived, he doubted anyone would question his sitting in the shade during the hottest part of the day ( Read more... )