The Devil's Due took up the first floor of an older building just on the edge of Mutant Town. The building had been there since the early 1920s, and the ice cream parlor had been there since 1973. The 12 floors above the ice cream parlor were apartments that nobody officially rented ( Read more... )

Billy trudged through the underbrush after Teddy for several minutes in reletive silence before he finally called out, "Wait up!" He was tired as hell, and he was pissed off for all sorts of reasons, and something was seriously wrong with Teddy, and goddammit he was not going to leave him alone ( Read more... )

"Silly boy." Rowena sighed as she watched Teddy storm off. Her giggle fit had finally subsided, and she was ignoring the look that Billy was giving her.

"I'm going after him." the boy said, getting up and following Teddy.

"Silly boys." Rowena corrected herself. Eliza knelt down beside the old woman ripping the sleave off her shirt ( Read more... )

The Vision nearly cheered when he saw the smoke. They were getting close ( Read more... )

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Rowena groaned, her arms shaking as she pushed herself up. Something was horribly wrong. She knew it. She shouldn't have been asleep in the middle of the kitchen, in the middle of the day, and she couldn't feel the void of Eliza anywhere about. And it was far too quiet. Where was everyone ( Read more... )

Florecent lights buzzed gently in the gunmetal grey corridor as Dr. Vanessa Sinesis walked down it, looking in on her newest specimines. A small smile tugged at her cupid bow lips, which she caught in the wall's reflection. The smile widened a bit as she regarded her still smooth and pale skin, and her carefully styled red hair. She smoothed a ( Read more... )

It was Billy's idea that they should meet up somewhere outside the Avengers Tower to talk. Some place where they wouldn't have God only knew who listening in on their conversations. Some place where they could relax ( Read more... )

"I'm not going to ask what you all were thinking, going after Hulkling."  Captain America said, doing his level best to keep his voice calm... and not doing a very good job of it.  "But I do want to know what was going through your minds when you broke him," he thrust an finger in Tommy's direction, "out of a federal institution."

They were in the ( Read more... )