The thing about having a kid, alternate universe or not, was that she constantly wanted to be entertained. Even after the awesomely bad example he and Caroline had set last night by giving the kid cough syrup to make her sleep, she'd woken up the next morning even more energetic than the day before ( Read more... )

It had been a very trying few weeks, and so Bobby felt it was high time that he dragged a certain winged mutant out of the dorms to just... hang out ( Read more... )

After her morning class, Kate had found herself dealing with a case of restlessness. She'd considered heading down to the gym, but somehow she felt this called for getting out of the dorms. That meant she ended up just wandering around town for a good while before finally ducking into Fast Eddie's. She figured some time on the dancing games would ( Read more... )

The way Jaina figured, she was going to be annoying herself either way: she could stay in and try to repress the hell out of yesterday, which was way too hard to do for her liking, or she could go out and be jittery and chance running into actual people. She chose the option that meant she could work on focusing on anything that wasn't oversharing ( Read more... )

Bruce got to Fast Eddies a little early to get a good feel for the pool tables. Was that cheating when he was going to play somebody who hadn't played much before? Of course not. It was good strategy, plain and simple ( Read more... )

Staying in tonight was not happening for a variety of reasons, the biggest of which was that Jaina just needed distraction. So she did something different tonight and headed to Fast Eddie's, thinking that working on her pool game would be for that ( Read more... )

Nine months ago, if given a choice was between packing, training, and getting out of the apartment, Dimitri would have selected to complete his packing preparations. Tonight, Dimitri was leaning over a pool table, taking a few practice shots while he waited for a girl to show up. How things had changed for him ( Read more... )

The staff at Fast Eddie's wasn't exactly thrilled to be hosting a student's birthday party tonight. Kids at birthday parties tended to hang decorations everywhere, order either too much cheap beer or none at all, and generally make a mess. The were too cool for that: They worked at a pool hall, not a Chuck E Cheese's ( Read more... )

Neither Rose nor Lissa had slept until the sun was high in the sky (though the hotel suite had remained dark, thank you excellent shades). There had been way too much gossip to catch up on of the type that couldn't be told over text message or phone conversation. Some things - especially between teenage best friends - had to be shared in person ( Read more... )

As people (hopefully) began to filter in, he stood on a chair to make his little announcement ( Read more... )