"Oh, son of a bitch."

Hadn't this just happened to her last month ( 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... )

Normally, Danny doesn't willingly go into the water.

There's riptide and there's the fear of drowning and there are sharks (Jaws left a very heavy imprint in Danny's mind when he was a kid and that's not something you get away from so easily). He knows all those things, but when Danny wakes up that morning and destroys a hefty amount of property ( Read more... )

It's both comforting and disappointing to realize she's not the only one suddenly faced with abilities never before possessed. At least that means it isn't some fluke thing that's only happening to Olive. On the other hand, it means all this will likely be short-lived, just another one of the island's cruel pranks ( Read more... )

Dodger hadn't always resided in the slums of Spitalfields.  He couldn't remember where he was born or even whether he was from London at all, but he'd done his fair share of moving about in his dozen or odd years of living on this earth.  Before joining Fagin's gang, he'd been one of the seemingly endless supply of street children roaming the ( Read more... )

Although Loki does not know it, in what follows -as in so many things before- he is merely following the path of his older brother. He had let go of the shattered remains of the Bifrost only seconds before, falling quickly down, down to a destination that even he was uncertain of. Loki, rarely uncertain of anything, would have been unnerved by ( Read more... )

It was only fitting, Jane believed, that she would hold this party upon such an eventful day. Five years ago, she had arrived upon the island and her whole life had changed. She was no longer the young girl that she had once been and was no longer trapped in the confines of a time when her options were greatly limited. Though the date coincided, ( Read more... )

Evening had settled on the island and Aragorn leaned back against the small hill he had found himself on. It was a relatively quiet night, for which he was thankful. He had spent a few days down in the city that was known as Rapture and was looking forward to something a bit more peaceful. It reminded him far too much of the Mines of Moria, and ( Read more... )

She went to bed that night, well and whole. Nina Sayers and all her perfect, imperfect shades of gray. A rare meld of two broken halves. Her pajamas pale pink, a flowing shift of a nightgown, sexy in its innocence. In her room, alone, she's played with the sleek, feminine vibrator the island had given her just after Christmas, still new in its ( Read more... )