Kick, spin, kick, slide, kick, spin, punch, repeat.Life on the island was getting complicated, again. People weren't disappearing as frequently, but appearing, like, every three seconds and now people were seeing things and... ugh. It was Buffy's experience that fighting the intangible was so very much more with the suck than any snarly demon. ( Read more... )

Karen was out in the jungle, picking flowers.

There weren't many pink ones, much to her annoyance. There were plenty of yellow ones with weird-shaped petals, bright orange ones with really spiky leaves, and boring old white ones that looked like daisies. She had picked a couple of those so far but was still determined to find something in pink. She ( Read more... )

Faith had been fucking hiding. Yeah, it was a pussy move, but Finch's body had spooked her and she'd spent time bouncing from hut to caves, basement to jungle. She'd stayed last night in her hut and thought about how Buffy had it so much easier. She didn't have the past or the whole jacked up redemption thing going on. She had friends and family... ( Read more... )

It had been too damn long. Though Book appreciated the time to himself to meditate and pray, to walk on the island and meet new folk, he realized he was feeling downright sluggish. He had started going for long runs along the beach, pushing his body to its limit. He was getting up there in years, but he made sure he was still fit as a fiddle. It ( Read more... )

It'd been a while since Jayne had done any target practice. Like Mal always did, he'd set up a bunch of mangoes and coconuts in a row on a piece of driftwood a ways down the beach, and was now aiming to pick them off one at a time with Vera. He was getting a little rusty, he noticed - once he hit the mango next to the one he was aiming at, and ( Read more... )

'Twas Grace that brought us safe thus far
And Grace will lead us homeLucy's voice rang in Inara's ears as she walked. Her heart was heavy with remembered words and looks, too full of emotion to show a drop of it. Every step she took shook the dust of this distant moon beneath her boots, sending it up in faint clouds which clung to her skirt and ( Read more... )

As much as River loved her home and her crew, Serenity was a tense place to be just lately. Mal and Simon seemed always on the verge of beating each other to a pulp again; River knew it was because of her, and she didn't know how to stop it ( Read more... )

Jayne was worried ( Read more... )

One of the problems with being human was it took a lot of effort to keep even a fraction of the strength and speed he was used to having. Still and all, there were worse things. And on the island it wasn't as if there was a lot else to do (except shagging, that was). So it was that Spike was on the fringe of the beach, training with a palm tree ( Read more... )

Jayne was starting to get used to the island. Sure, he'd rather be doing something instead of just lazing around, but hell, at least there wasn't nobody shooting at him, there were a lot of pretty girls around, and everything was free. And spending a weekend as an 18-year-old (and laughing his gorram ass off at Mal) wasn't so bad, neither ( Read more... )