Unlike roughly 75% of the island's population at this hour, Nathan was not in fact asleep. He was an early riser, and although disentangling from Wade meant he was up fifteen minutes later than he used to every morning, he was still up early.

He was also making coffee. He was also glancing at the calendar. He was well aware what weekend it was; ( Read more... )

Dawn had broken.

Cable peered outside, lifted the coffee to his mouth, and took a sip.

He checked his watch.

He peered outside again.

He checked his watch a second time, gave the window a wry look, and spoke.

"Bodyslide by two."

What? He wasn't that amused by the idea of Wade streaking through town without his costume, or at least his mask.

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Nate stirred.

This wasn't a particularly spectacular observation. He stirred like he did every morning, sound of mind, sound of body, and ready to tackle another day (if also ready to tackle some of his hard-won luxuries, such as sleeping in).

Sleepily, he moved one hand to dislodge Wade's arm from wherever it had wound up this time.

[[ for two ( Read more... )

It was Christmas Day 2009, and for the first time, there was an actual, full-on family gathered in the apartment above Wellspring Arms - although don't mention to any of those present that that's what they were ( Read more... )

Nathan stirred in the early morning sunlight ( Read more... )

Vegetables ( Read more... )

Jan had been secured. Elsewhere ( Read more... )

"Well," Nathan said, rather expressively for his standards, as he peered into Jan's room. "...I'm not sure this is covered in any parenting manuals ( Read more... )

It was a pancake morning ( Read more... )

It had been just another day out at work, tackling the combination of childrearing and island-running that had gone from being a bizarre novelty into the day-to-day. This day-to-day had taken on a few new shapes over the past few days, though, as the onslaught of toys that Jan's birthday party had brought had... uh... altered their routine ( Read more... )