Dated July 23, 2010:
"I wouldn't expect you to go, Susan, no matter how much you wanted to," Niko admitted. "I don't like the idea of you being in danger. Nobody, really, but certainly not you."

Niko checks with Susan to see if she's disappeared after Hal's disappearance and learns that her son Rickon seems to be among the missing.

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Dated 23 July 2010:
"Did that kid seriously just say f-...The 'f' word?" asks Cooper, because, if this situation wasn't bad enough, it looks like they just taught somebody's toddler to curse proficiently. Motherfucker. He holds out his hands to Rachel. "Jesus. Give him to me ( Read more... )

Dated 18 July, 2010

She stood there in the rain with Edmund for a moment, clutching her umbrella, and finally willed up the courage to go and do what she had come out to do in the first place. She stepped closer to the wall and looked at the names most recently carved into the rock ( Read more... )

Rain had never really bothered Niko much. Weather was irrelevant when you were on the run, if only because it was something to get through before you got to the next stop. He preferred clear weather and an open road, the ability to see his opponent from far off and anticipate his moves without having to deal with complications, but he could work ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner was relatively simple: pizza ( Read more... )

River had spent very few waking moments away from her baby in the nearly six months since she'd been born. (And none at all in the nine months before that, if she was going to be precise.) Today, however, was her birthday, and Mal had insisted that she take some time for herself, and sent her off for the afternoon with the order to do the things ( Read more... )

Dated June 2nd, 2010:
"I know it must be difficult to be cooped up with small children all the time. I thought you might be starved for polysyllabic conversation."

Niko goes to check on Susan and her children and ends up staying for tea.

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Niko had only been on the island a few short weeks but it had been long enough for him to walk the perimeter of the living areas and establish the more basic patterns of survival. It might have seemed a bit much to someone else, but Niko had never really been the type of person to blithely accept new surroundings without testing them ( Read more... )

There were some days that Edmund loved this little, magical island a great deal, and others when he thought it absolutely miserable. Today was one of the latter, one of the horrible, dismal days where you're better off not getting out of bed at all because nothing good could be found outside your own space. The sun shone, the sky stood clear and ( Read more... )

Susan was finding it easier these days to spend less and less time at home. Helen was a quiet baby, an easy baby, and Susan was grateful for that, both because it meant she didn't have the hopeless spells of despair she had often felt in the weeks and months after Rickon's birth, and because it enabled her to accomplish the things that needed to be ( Read more... )