[The X-House is oddly quiet without Anne, and sleeping in late is a glorious luxury. When she finally gets out of bed at around 11am, she head straight to the kitchen to placate her coffee addiction and then decides to just take it easy for the rest of the day ( Read more... )

[Rogue has spent this entire experiment week completely unaffected. If she were the kind of person inclined to use blackmail, that would be just peachy. Instead, after figuring out the theme, she's gone from resigned to amused to bitter in the blink of an eye. Kind of the Malnosso to remind her that fairy tales and happily ever afters just aren' ( Read more... )

[ Rogue is bored, a somewhat constant amount of pain due to her wing, and about to actually risk Community Involvement. ]So about the Item Shop... with Usopp gone, how do things work if ya want ta take a shift there? I've got a lot of time on my hands durin' the day, an' I won't mind bein' in there ta help people once the New Feathers start showin ( Read more... )

[Kurt's still gone. It's been almost ten days. And they still have him.

And there's nothing she can do.

But it has got her thinking about someone else she hasn't seen in a while. And while she's far too proud to just out and out ask... there is some bait that she knows Gambit can't refuse. Her drawl's a bit thicker than normal for this part ( Read more... )

[Shockingly, Valentine's Day is not one of Rogue's favorite holidays. She's opened and closed the journal a half-dozen times already today, taken some comfort from the more cynical posts but at the same time felt oddly... against contributing to them.

But she does have something that she needs to say - and hey, maybe if she says it today it will ( Read more... )

[Two days in a row without snow? Rogue is almost on cloud... well, three. She unwraps herself from her blanket cocoon today and ventures out. If the white white walls on her room don't change soon she's going to need to get them padded. So out she'll venture into the cold to the general store - there's got to be some paint or some posters or ( Read more... )

[This fine brisk figure of a January day has Rogue out and about. With Kurt and Kitty at school, she's learned to take advantage of the quiet, but she needs something else to fill the time... and that brings her to Luceti's Item Shop.

While poking through the smaller items (a conus shell, a spool of thread - is that real silver?) she comes upon a ( Read more... )