The island had done it again. Whether it was pure chance or benevolence none of them would ever know, but somehow, someway, the place had seen fit to give them all booze again ( Read more... )

He'd never been in a bloody jungle. It had been a change going from Ottery St. Catchpole to Hogwarts to Romania, but it wasn't all that different. Taller mountains, harsher winters, but he'd gotten used to that right off. Egypt had been hot when the family had visited Bill. But this? This was mad as pants. It was hot and lush and humid in a way he' ( Read more... )

Anyone on the beach that afternoon would have seen something fairly unusual, even for the island of Tabula Rasa. Two giant birds, one a sweet and mellow yellow, the other a glistening black, milled around in the sand, pecking for bits of creatures buried there. On a rock nearby sat a young female ninja, arms and legs crossed ( Read more... )

The fourth term of the school was due to start very soon, which meant Remus had been at the school more often lately, getting things ready. With some input from the other teachers and a bit of brainstorming, he'd changed the structure some to make things more comprehensive, so that they now had a core curriculum from which to work. He'd had plenty ( Read more... )

Ianto had woken up a woman. Again. It wasn't as startling this time around, not that he had been wholly unsettled the first time around. But waking up with Charlie in his bed was a much more pleasant experience than waking up to an empty bed and having to ask Gwen for help finding a bra ( Read more... )

It'd been one of those nights where she'd kept herself up, running and jumping and flipping, training until she couldn't even stand. The last thing Yuffie remembered was letting herself flop down in the sand with a water bottle not far off, feeling the warm pressure of Cloud the chocobo settling himself down next to her for the night. They didn't ( Read more... )

If there was one thing Devon knew about a good New Year's Eve party, it was when to keep an eye on the clock and to get everyone's attention. He'd stuck close to Ellie five minutes to, and when the last minute began to tick away and nobody had done anything about it, he decided to take on the mantle ( 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... )

Christmas was only a few days away, and perhaps it was due to the fact that his two best mates were so much younger than he, but Remus had been thinking lately of Christmases past, especially the ones of his youth. Before Hogwarts, and after being bit, he'd had no one to celebrate with save his parents, who were lovely, but couldn't provide that ( Read more... )

Seasons on the Planet were never really stable ( Read more... )