Eden had stopped trying to figure out how she was supposed to feel about the island. After all the horrible things it had done and the fact of Claire's disappearance, there were still a few important facts to consider in its favor. For one thing, she was there and alive, which kind of weighed in above all the other considerations. Her friends, ( Read more... )

Alice's hut near the waterfall now looked mostly like a hut, as opposed to a pile of stick. She was happy, if only to have a place to store her stuff - though she really didn't have a lot of stuff to begin with. Clothes, her kukris, her guns, and that was it. Not that she minded. Too much stuff could really weigh you down, and it made traveling ( Read more... )

Claude hadn't been able to bring himself to get rid of Claire's teddy bear, especially after he'd seen the video and known for sure that she was gone. It wasn't even one of the ones that he'd given her, but it was hers just the same, and Claire was the only person on the island who'd really given a crap about him. Well, maybe Peter, but at times ( Read more... )

His rage, his anger, his loss had all culminated in the brilliant flash of something that no parent wanted to name. The pinnacle of Bennet's search of the Island had turned up in something absolutely empty-handed and final, giving him an answer to the question he had never wanted to pose.

What happened to Claire?Gone. He didn't trust in any search ( Read more... )

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 an island of some three hundred people, give or take, news spread fast. There was gossip and rumor to contend with, but there was hard fact, too, and that was hard to hide in a population that size, especially when Eden knew those involved ( Read more... )

The stage was barely recognizable as just that anymore. Practically from the very moment Geoffrey gave Isabel his permission for the Midwinter Masque to be held on the stage, a small crew of very dedicated people went into a flurry of motion and set out to decorate the stage as grandly as possible. Between The Doctor, Glinda, Evey, Angela, Isabel ( Read more... )

Noah Bennet wasn't like many other men ( Read more... )

The days since the first, last and only performance of Wicked had started blending back together, leaving Eden once again at a loss for how to occupy herself. She was taking classes, but they didn't exactly fill her time and she didn't have any intention of becoming a full time academic. Something else would come along soon, but she was looking for ( Read more... )

The Tabula Rasa Day festivities were set up to Angela's satisfaction. Finally, after several days of very hard work by her and the Party Planning Committee, which really had a lot more potential than the one she had headed up in Scranton. At least these people tried ( Read more... )