There was a bouquet of roses on Envy's coffee table. Happy Valentine's Day to our Valentine. Some things just didn't seem to change ( Read more... )

Envy had spent most of the day in meetings over video chat. One of the last things she'd done before coming to Brazil had been to re-assemble and streamline her team in New York, letting the last of the more Gideon-minded people go. She was rebuilding the Envy enterprise in her own image, so to speak ( Read more... )

Enough time had passed. It was time to face the world again ( Read more... )

The torrent of interview and comment requests had died down some. Enough that Envy wasn't contantly annoyed by them, but not so much as to have her worried no one was going to care what she said once she got back to her universe ( Read more... )

The events of the previous evening, post-everything, had been kind of a blur ( Read more... )

Natalie was finalizing her paperwork to be sent back home to Canada, for her potential admission to the University of Toronto. Since this was a weird sort of application - in the middle of a year, from someone who hadn't been to a school since graduating high school in 2013 - there was a lot of stuff in there, and a lot more to still get in order. ( Read more... )

Working straight through the holidays probably meant you were overcompensating for something. Natalie was willing to admit that. Just... probably not out loud to anyone. And besides, Christmas wasn't that big a deal to her, anyway. And it was nice and peaceful at the office, since sane people a lot of the work force was still on break. So, it was ( Read more... )

Natalie didn't feel at all ready for anything. But, Jim was coming over because she'd asked him to. It was time. She wouldn't ever be completely ready, so this was going to have to be good enough. She remembered pretty vividly what Sam had said, about not letting something like this drag on ( Read more... )

Don't ask how Natalie ended up on the bathroom floor. She wasn't even entirely sure herself. Something about an identity complex and an inopportunely timed (if more than welcome) transformation back to normal, probably. The fact remained that that was where she woke up, with dried blood over her top lip and Moxy licking her face.

She woke up. Her ( Read more... )

Nathan was still here ( Read more... )