Thor woke slowly, his head feeling thick, groggy, and heavy. Heavy as if he was almost blocked off from oxygen. He shot up in bed and first noticed that he was clearly not home. Not in Asgard. Not kidnapped to an enemy realm, nor under any immediate threat ( Read more... )

Kate curled tighter into a ball. She didn't want to walk up, she was in a comfortable bed. But she was hungry and finally she squirmed her way out of it, took a shower, tried - and failed - to braid her hair, and puzzled her way out of the room. Weird, you had to go through another room to get OUT ( Read more... )

Someone new... someone new... I'm not alone. All right, it's not William or Ronald or Sebastian but... it's someone ( Read more... )

Erik woke, aware of a few things at once. One, he wasn't sleeping in his chair, but in a large, very comfortable bed - one that wasn't his. There was no taint of radiation in the air, no Wanda sleeping in the room - or near ( Read more... )