When Emma comes down from her home on the mountain, she generally makes it quick, having no desire to spend longer than necessary out among everyone else when she no longer has classes to teach. The few people she wants to see know where to find her, and the long months of island life haven't made her hate the place any less ( Read more... )

End of August, 2010:
After six months of mental walls breaking down, the X-Man called Rogue is awoken by her former teammate, Gambit, who finds her not quite herself. With the aid of Dr. Leonard McCoy, Rogue's frightful episode is quieted, but it leaves the ragin' Cajun deeply shaken. HEREWhen Rogue comes to some time later, she and Remy have to ( Read more... )

It takes Sean a little more than a week and a little more than an afternoon spent knocking back drinks before he finally gets back to work on building a fence for the dog. He'd been making decent progress before the hurricane had seen fit to undo it all, but with everything else that's been dogging him lately, he just hasn't been able to work up ( Read more... )

Losing Adrian is rough, but Emma finds it considerably easier than some other disappearances. For one thing, Adrian is genuinely capable of caring for himself. She doesn't have to worry about him. If he's actually gone back to his world, as the simpering masses insist is the case, then he'll have things to do with his life, and if he's moved onto ( Read more... )

Emma has long since learned that it's best not to get too attached to anything or anyone, and that's not something she's ever thought to have much trouble with here. To stand on her own two feet, wanting nothing from anyone else, is the only way to be sure not of success but a chance on it, self-reliance the only way. It's a lot easier, she ( Read more... )

With the rain preventing any real activities outside and the day he'd spent out in it with Kate searching for Nate, Billy'd spent every minute he could inside the compound. Despite keeping dry, the problem with that was he was starting to go a little crazy ( Read more... )

It's not the first time her mind's woken up in the wrong body ( Read more... )

It was always a good day when the democratic process had been carried out without a hitch, and this day was no exception. The results of the latest Island Council election were in, and it was time to celebrate, not only the results, but the process itself. And given the number of hardships they endured on the island, a celebration was something ( Read more... )

Aphrodite has decided that she hates nature.

Sure, it was just fine when she was immortal, when flowers bloomed in her wake and nary a speck of dirt could touch her. But now she's mortal and subject to everything mortals have to deal with and it sucks. She has to bathe to stay clean, she has to eat things like fish, and she has to go down in that ( Read more... )

It had nearly slipped Zelda's notice but, in checking the calendar in the compound, she realized it was, in fact, the 22nd of May and at least by her reckoning, her birthday. In Hyrule, she had always judged time by the change of the seasons, the shifts in the wind. Here on the island the weather was much more constant and the ebb and flow of ( Read more... )