It was going so well.

They thought they were getting their lives. Fools. They got to be agents of chaos and of pain. She would feed on that pain and watch. Watch them all grow stronger. More formed by the experience. Closer to the potential all creatures had, but most couldn't bear the weight of ( Read more... )

Richard coughed and kept coughing and kept coughing. Winter in Star City wasn't a bad as Anchorage had been, but it still wasn't good. He also wasn't sick then and he was now. Fucking cunt bitch. First she cut him and then the clinic cheerfully informed him he was dying. Okay, not cheerful. there was a lot of "We're very sorry's," and shit ( Read more... )

There's a soft voice whispering on the wind. It's soft and melodic, but cold and with an edge to it. Like a mastercrafted weapon.

"Jade...Cheshire...talk to me, young one. I have need of you and you have need of me."

And it's been repeating now in her sleep and in her waking mind for hours now.

From within her den of inequity, Cheshire has been following the news. It would be hard not to do so with the broadcasts on all local stations of people dropping on the streets, of even superheroes falling ill, massive panic and all-around chaos. Normally, the idea of the those with a penchant for capes suffering from a massive epidemic would ( Read more... )

One more time, Shiva has to do this ( Read more... )

OK, so let's recap my week so far ( Read more... )

Cheshire has her daughter back. At last ( Read more... )

Looks around at everyone assembled. With the exception of Tara, they're all family, one way or another. And the spunky scientist is rapidly winning Ollie's respect, at that.All right, people. We have situations again ( Read more... )

Cheshire slips from the door of the Queen household, moving surprisingly quickly for a woman carrying a sleeping child. Traffic is fairly light in this area, and she darts across the street without a problem ( Read more... )

Ollie is relaxing at home. Specifically, he is lounging on the couch with his "granddaughter" Lian beside him. Between Brickwell, Onomatopoeia and the JLA, he's barely seen her since she came to stay with him. But with Roy off in retreat purifying himself, Lian's staying a few more days. And now that the freak with the bullseye mask is in jail ( ( Read more... )