It had started out as simple nostalgia; this is going to be Dean Winchester's first winter at the Mansion, and Hisoka Kurosaki has fond memories of last year.  The question of snow seemed a rather large one, ridiculously important in a way no other aspect of weather really is, but that's probably more to do with what can be done with snow that ( Read more... )

Lystra's been at the Mansion for just over a year now, and she's content here, even happy. It reminds her a little of when she left her home behind to fly south and marry Jehal. She's in a faraway, unfamiliar place, but it's new and exciting all the same. She does miss her home and her family at times, Jaslyn most of all, but right now that's been ( Read more... )

Riku has been out of sight for some time, but with good reason: he's been busy in the kitchen, cooking up a storm. He's been preparing some summery dishes for a barbecue, a mix of East and West: pototo salad and fruit salad next to chapuru, a kind of stir-fry with melon and pork. He's currently manning the grill on the front lawn, where he's set up ( Read more... )

They'd discussed it a while ago and finally they organised a good time and day, with the weather clear and the recent strange events seemingly calmed down again ( Read more... )

From the dark confines of the vortex of nothingness where his consciousness lurks, Morgoth has been observing. Waiting. Counting ( Read more... )

Finally, everything's ready - and Johnny's been in a better place than he has been in a long time. It has to do with a lot of factors: there's a basement bar that he can call home, and though it's not the Underground Cafe, it's close enough - better, almost, because that's one he worked to get into shape. Now, he would love to have Marie-Jeanne ( Read more... )

When he came back so suddenly, it took Adrian a while to adjust; he isn't there, yet. Truth be told, he feels quite lonely. There's no one in the room to keep him company - he doesn't even remember that Natalie used to live with him, that they used to be happy and make love and have fun here, in that very room. A feeling, he does get. A gut feeling ( Read more... )

He arrives much the way he went out, at least from his perspective. Light, burning, pain. Still he doesn't cry out and as the effects begin to wear off and his vision clears finds himself not exactly where he expected. The only telling sign of what he's just endured is a scorched hole in his shirt and a large burn on his chest, remnants of the ( Read more... )

It's taken them a bit to come out with the news - it's made them both exceedingly happy, but it was no secret to anyone that not everyone concerned would be pleased for them.

Nonetheless, no-one is family-oriented like a Feanorian, and Pandora herself could not keep it to herself any longer. This, in her case, was made more raw by the fact that the ( Read more... )

Riku has fond memories of Setsuban or the Lunar New Year, and given the number of Chinese immigrants in their neighborhood, his dad had offered a double celebration at Omoro. And so, as part of continuing to give back to the Mansion and the people in it, he's spent the past day cooking up a buffet of Asian delicacies, including Chinese dumplings ( Read more... )