It's filling the days that presents the biggest challenge. Yes, there are the occasional outbreaks of mass hysteria, monster attacks, and general mayhem, but the average day feels endless when there's no work to be done. Where it had been relaxing at first, like a long overdue holiday, now it's begun to wear on her. Her mind feels idle. She ( Read more... )

There's a fair few people in the rec room. That's not new, and it's not what's freaking me out, and has been pretty much all day. There's always people in here.

The thing is that today most of the people in here are meRewind to this morning, to me getting out of the shower, slipping, and catching myself solidly on the rim of the bathtub. Let's ( Read more... )

It wasn’t like she was avoiding the waterfall, it was right next to her hut for crying out loud. It just... made more sense, that after her run, she’d take a swim in the ocean. And today, when it felt like she’d run around the island twice, she really needed to not be any place that had any kind of emotional awkwardness attached to it. So she found ( Read more... )

Running along the beach on the island wasn't like it was back home. Growing up in a city, Sam still wasn't used to the lack of lights on the island. There were always lights and sounds in a city and while the island wasn't as deserted or silent as you might initially expect, it wasn't a city. By the time the sun went down, it could get dark, ( Read more... )

Dated August 5th, 2011:
He is so relieved to see Charles alive and well that it takes a second longer for him to process the change in appearance. "You don't seem to have fared well through the activities of last night, Charles, whatever they might have been" he observes, as kindly as he can, offering a slow-building smile in commiseration. Erik ( Read more... )

Not that the clinic isn't a marvel of coconut-radio-esque science, but it's a relief to be out of there. Lying around with no company but my own thoughts -- and, okay, a reasonably steady stream of visitors bringing snacks and episodes of Archer -- isn't really my idea of a good time. I'm not always the biggest fan of my own company ( Read more... )

Dated August 5th, 2011:
"The swinging sixties?" Doesn't mean she can't tease.

"I'm tempted to make a really inappropriate joke about your mother," he informs her, calm as anything, "But seeing as she's gone, I don't think it's right to do her that kind of disrespect."Rachel's doing her duty in checking up on McCoy, but he's not feeling much like ( Read more... )

Dated July 29, 2011: A coup involving some of the most powerful men in Britain is threatening to turn the country into one "run by an unelected committee with the silhouette of a hangman behind it." While attempting to prevent this disaster from occurring, those in government still loyal to democracy are betrayed and a bomb is set to go off in the ( Read more... )

In the few weeks that Hank has been a resident of Tabula Rasa, a few things have made themselves apparent. Chief among them, of course, is the fact that there's something about the place that suppresses mutation. His own secondary mutation is gone, leaving behind only the physical aspect, and the Professor and Erik are seemingly without theirs as ( Read more... )

Some children are born completely without imagination. They may look like they imagine, but what they're actually doing is going through the motions and following in footsteps. They make no discoveries of their own ( Read more... )