For Mick, the past week had passed in a blur of activity. Early morning saw him barricading the windows to keep out as much sunlight as possible, and his Extra neighbors had complained greatly to the Extra who kept tabs on everyone in the building. He'd been issued a warning, and informed that two more strikes meant he had to leave ( Read more... )

This is exciting! Katherine thought she had the names of every vampire in Taxon - after all, only Drusilla was public with her fangs. Katherine and Caroline had kept their vampire status on the down low. The only one who would (or could, in Drusilla's case) actually attack people was Katherine herself, and she hadn't touched those bland-tasting ( Read more... )

When the sun had set and the flames had died down and the city had finally fallen silent, Drusilla emerged ( Read more... )

Gwen currently has the privilege of experiencing for herself the Tablet's ability to turn on and off without provocation.  So when the screen flickers on, viewers get just a glimpse--curly brown hair and a shoulder--before the Tablet is unceremoniously knocked off its pedestal and the view changes abruptly, now looking up at her instead of down. ( Read more... )

The phone dropped from her hand as she turned ( Read more... )

Kobra screams and whirls around, gun raised and ready to shoot. He's faced with nothing but bare walls and deafening silence, the cutting sounds of ray guns only a faint memory in his ears. He stares, wide-eyed and breathing harshly, at the spot where moments ago his brother's lifeless body fell to the floor. He's not there. Neither is Korse and ( Read more... )

Paul eyes the table full of food and the cheap plastic chairs he's got set up. There should be plenty-- if he runs out, he'll take it as a very good goddamn sign, because it means people showed up.The food isn't anything too complex-- there's a big tossed salad, some lasagna, garlic bread (and room on the table for people to place their own ( Read more... )

[ Puck appears on the tablet's screen, looking rather worse for wear and green about the gills. It's pretty obvious that he's hungover... or perhaps still a bit drunk. His voice is scratchy when he tries to speak and so there's a couple minutes of him clearing his throat, which is good since he doesn't exactly know what to say ( Read more... )

If there's one thing I've learned in 85 years, it's that what we want doesn't always matter. Yeah. You can say that again.It had been a good twenty something hours, all things considered. He’d saved the day, saved the girl, gone on the strangest roller coaster ride of his life - literally - and at the end of it, he got a curve ball to rival all ( Read more... )

Death felt hot, and dark, and loud and silent all at the same time.  And it kind of tickled.

It wasn’t over like all the storybooks said it would be. There was no warm wash of air, or pretty clouds or glowing white light and the smiling face of her dead grandfather.  It wasn’t even close to falling asleep.  It was too bright for that.  It was too ( Read more... )