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A pirates life for me! [13 Dec 2008|09:00am]

demented_calico
Ho, Ho, Ho and a bottle of, what? )
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Bruce & Selina [25 Nov 2008|09:48pm]

dreaminglee
The invitation had been on his calendar for at least three weeks. One more gala that if Alfred hadn't done his patented quiet reminder the day before as well as asking him which of his tuxedos or suits he wanted to wear to the event. Otherwise, he would have simply gone out that night without thinking about it.

Instead, he was dressed in a tuxedo looking at his reflection in the display glass. It was for the Gotham Museum of Art, a gala to showcase their newest additions, a set of ancient Chinese murals depicting most prominently tigers, a strong symbol in Chinese culture. Bruce donated heavily to the Museum, so of course he had been invited when it came time for the exhibit to be shown. There were many familiar faces. Many that he said hi to in passing, but no one that held his attention for more than a few seconds.

Finding himself before the exhibit itself, he stopped to admire the artistry, adjusting his suit jacket as he did so. His ribs were bandaged underneath all that finery. It had been a long night a few nights ago and he was still paying for it. Luckily nothing was broken, just bruised and tender. Part of him wanted to be wearing his armor, at least that way he could be certain of doing no further damage.
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work in progress [02 Oct 2008|10:13pm]

dreaminglee
Dr. Corral's other engagement of the evening was hardly what anyone would consider mentally stimulating, unless one considers pointless and one-sided debates about policy stimulating. She was only attending to it as one of the primary shareholders in Unique. Now, why was there an impromptu meeting of several members of the Unique board and a few other notable research scientists going on at a charity function? It was an easy way to get everyone necessary together and also a wonderful venue for making sure that certain members would be a little too drunk to really remember the content of the discussion. It was certainly a cheap tactic, but it wasn't as if it hadn't been done throughout time. Some of the biggest decisions in history had been decided in the buffet line at some social function or another.

Consider it just a continuation of a grand tradition. She had entered the back conference room escorted by the young man who had been sent to fetch her and then immediately sent said young man packing with no more than a toss of her head. He knew the score, he wasn't expected to stay. Just to find who he was told to find and then find his way out. That left her in the room with six other people, all of whom looked as if they had swallowed balloons full of pins that were due to explode in their insides at any moment.

Two of the people in the room outranked her in the board room, or at least thought they did, though they knew full well that she had the owner's ear which meant that if Diana didn't like it, there was a good chance it wasn't going to happen. There was always a little tiny bit of speculation as to whether or not she was somehow related to the owner of the company, though it had never been substantiated. The current owner of the company didn't make themselves known to anyone really, content to hide behind the curtain like the Wizard of Oz and send down their pronouncements from on high. It was all very cute and mysterious. Lenneth loved how much human beings tended to want to make everything into something clandestine when they could have quite simply just looked at things at face value and found out so much more. Oh well, she had always banked on two things: human blindness and human suspicion. If one mastered the reading of those two emotions, you could manipulate nearly any situation in which people were present. Hide things in plain sight and turn people against one another.

Rather like she was going to do now. The meeting had been called with her full knowledge and she had not opposed, but that didn't mean she couldn't lean across the personal space of a supposed friend and speculate the the chairman of the board was calling this meeting in an attempt to get a different budget pushed through than the one he had initially proposed to the entire board. After all, the entire board wasn't present, just the key voters. The old woman wanted his budget defeated when it came time to vote because that meant she could continue to hide what she wanted in various places, padding the budget to hide the excess revenue and expenditures. Then circulate a little more and tell that very same chairman that he had her full support for the budget he was proposing. Add to that a little bit of already prepared false paperwork insinuating he was skimming off the books and they would be finding a new chairman rather soon.

All this and she hadn't even finished her first glass of wine. By the time this little shop talk was broken up, it was an hour and a half later. There were still many guests moving about and she hadn't missed anything at all. Not that there was a terrible lot to miss in a situation like this. Just schmoozing and back alley dealing. The regular domain of the rich.
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Larowyn, Tika, Sanders Jr [30 Sep 2008|06:29pm]

dreaminglee
One Night at the Cat Walk )
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Heirs of Firelight [Neilen/Chapter 3] [30 Sep 2008|12:40pm]

dreaminglee
2,338

Neilen has been charged with the task of killing the imposter who dares to place the peace of Firelight in jeopardy. But is it right for even a prince to flout the laws in hopes of doing what is best for everyone?

Chapter 3//Neilen )
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[28 Sep 2008|03:00am]

cursed_earth
Mr Sinister - Mrs Sinster - guests and the Marauders after the Aftermath.



Experimentation was the one thing that never came to a standstill, in the cold artificially lit bio dome. Though Sinister paid no heed, for the air temperature, and the need to keep it low had its purpose, but it had to be kept at a recurring temperature continually. The beautifully, nasty little virus he had made active, could not exist in the air at this temperature, not that it had as of yet transgressed and mutated. Now that truly annoyed the scientist, it annoyed him no end. The fact that most of the population of the entire planet had been effected by his little experiment, did not seem to matter in the slightest too him. It was at the moment, appearing to be just another failure in a long line of failures. Apocalypse was still in hiding, which did little to truly appease his mood, but he knew that it was time, time for the self named ‘living god’ to awaken to once more walk about and he was relying on the damn virus to be airborne by then. Egypt, had been the first country where the virus had taken a hold, justifiable in Sinister’s mind, and as all authorities were all too eager to denounce the infection from starting in their country, all had been mislead, and allowed to believe that it had drifted out of central Africa. Unexplainable diseases, it would seem, because explainable to those studying them, when they could blame their existence in a third world country.

The dome, where they were situated, was high in the Rocky mountains, warmer than the temperature outside, but still kept regulated. They had power, for he had made sure of such, biological engineered and re-engineered on a gene splicing machine, mutants, that had no brains yet abilities were being used as conduits to power up all the strange and other worldly contraptions. A touch of Victoriana, with a science beyond what was capable of most apart from maybe Beast and Forge in the world before it became this twisted experiment that he, watched on many monitors. Long elegant fingers, swept gracefully over control panels, fingers of a surgeon, of a pianist, neck craned to look in yet another monitor, as a smug smile grew over his lips. “Lenneth, switch to monitor BH-02 and cross screen it with XM-03, I do believe my darling the idiots have both came to the same conclusion.” It was like a macabre reality television show, for they had eyes of sorts all over the city, bugs, mechanical, clock work, bugs, that flew and followed and got into places all those survivors thought were impenetrable.

Nothing happened anywhere on the entire globe, that they could not watch, he would not allow their other ‘guests’ to view such until his wife had first, so that she may see fit to allow them to view what she saw beneficial. He trusted her judgement and he cared very little if at all about any others. The feed was always alive though, it never faltered, so as he switched and flicked things on, the data that he wished her to view was being sent directly to her own personal monitors, rather than to those that were wired into the whole for all too view. He did however feel some kind of pride that among those surviving, their little girl was out there doing what he wanted her to do. Though of course he managed to avoid the notion that Wolverine had anything to do with such, or that the pair of them worked as a unit, he would attempt in due time to change that. To see if she would annihilate that revolting creature as she had the one that had taught her to become what she needed to be.
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[27 Sep 2008|08:23pm]

dreaminglee
Magneto and the Brotherhood in the Aftermath.

The world counted its dead in the billions. More than 2/3rds of the mortal population (one couldn't say human as it included mutant brothers and sisters) had been simply culled from the Earth. Many of those who were left were mindless husks that sought only to infect or eat those who survived.

Magneto sat at what had once been some random CEO's desk with his hands steepled in front of him. The master of Magnetism was showing his years in the lines around his mouth and eyes, far more pronounced than they had been in the years before this plague had come to settle itself upon the world. Back then he had only his former friend Charles as his primary adversary. One said former friend as he was dead, not that their friendship had ever truly died. After all, men could remain friends in spite of philosophical differences and the odd attempt to assassinate one another. Strange how the fact that the virus had killed Charles had been such a letdown. He had always envisioned his former friend going on in a blaze of glory, perhaps the both of them going out together in their final moments attempting to prove whose ideals were truly the better for mutant kind.

Either way, Charles was dead and Erik continued to survive. It was certainly not luck that he lived on. His powers allowed him to keep the power going and protect at least some small space on his own. Erik protected his own. They went out foraging for what they could find. Brought back what they could find and sometimes survivors.

However, even he could tell that time was running out. They needed a cure. Otherwise, mutant kind would never get its chance to reign supreme over the earth. It would only falter and fail before having a chance to leave behind its mark. A grim smile appeared at the edge of his lips. He was not willing to accept that, yet he could only see one true way to stop this. The only question was how exactly to go about it.

Toad had been sent out on a special mission, looking for the answer that Magneto had already reached. Hopefully, he had been successful.
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[Heirs of Firelight] Neilen/Chapter 3 -removed- [30 Aug 2008|08:09pm]

dreaminglee
2,538

Neilen has been sent to get rid of the pretender to the throne. Unfortunately, his luck isn't the greatest.

Neilen//Chapter Three )
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[24 Aug 2008|04:45pm]

not_again
Heirs of Firelight [Athon duCoin / Chapter Two]

Word Count: 2,531

Athon gets some answers.

Athon / Chapter 2 )
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The Necessity of Night [14 Aug 2008|08:19pm]

dreaminglee
The Necessity of Night )
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Heirs of Firelight [Neilen/Chapter Two] [03 Aug 2008|10:33am]

dreaminglee
2209 words

Neilen Gladen, formerly of Merchant house Enid, has become Prince Neilen over the last three years in the care of his uncle, the Regent Artur. Up until now, he has patiently awaited the day when he will become King. However, his Uncle has some alarming news for the young man. News that will, once again, change his life.

Chapter Two/Neilen )
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[03 Aug 2008|01:51am]

not_again
Heirs of Firelight [Athon duCoin / Chapter One]

Word Count: 2,186

Athon duCoin, the unknown twin brother of Neilen. His 17 years of life have thus far been spent travelling with a band of gypsies. Unbeknownst to him, it's all about to change.


Athon /Chapter 2 )
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Heirs of Firelight [Neilen/Chapter One] [02 Aug 2008|08:37pm]

dreaminglee
1194 words

Neilen Gladen is one of the two hidden heirs to the Kingdom of Firelight. Now, a boy of fourteen, he has known only good times and happiness as the son of Joseph Gladen, one of the merchant house of Enid. Then his life is turned upside down the night that he finds his Father dead.

Chapter One/Neilen )

Prologue | Chapter One
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The Heirs of Firelight [Prologue] [02 Aug 2008|05:46pm]

dreaminglee
The Heirs of Firelight: Prologue
1145 words.

Prologue )
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A Snippet [01 Aug 2008|08:06pm]

dreaminglee
You're asking for a lot, belief.
Am I?
In an age where it is only right and proper to disbelieve, when science has answered every mystery. You ask for a great deal when you ask for faith.
I suppose I do, but it can be nothing less or we are lost.
Then perhaps, we are truly lost.

Twenty years had passed since that conversation and she had no aged a day in anything other than spirit. Not a hair on her head even showed the first sign of going gray though she was now over 60. Of course, that was to be expected. Her journey was incomplete. So long as that remained the truth, she would not age, nor would she die. She would only watch those around her do so. That was punishment enough.

Another thing hadn't really changed in twenty years: the minds of men. They were still a disbelieving lot. Not that it surprised her. After all, humans were stubborn. And they prized conformity like it was something to be proud of. No matter how long she lived on this plane of existence, she couldn't quite reconcile herself to the idea that conformity, attachment to an unreachable ideal called 'normalcy' was a good thing. Perhaps it was because she and those like her had always strove to distinguish themselves from each other as much as possible. Hard to break old habits. More like ancient, friggin' antique habits. Considering she had been banished from the sight of those she considered the rulers of the universe long enough to have personally seen the fall of the Roman Empire, most of her habits were new about the time of the classics of Cicero.

That was what was really important though. What was important was that she was (hopefully) nearing the end of her journey. Granted, she had thought that before and the one she sought failed the test. Failure was fatal, then she simply had to start again. Searching the inhabited regions of the Earth for the one who had the key. It couldn't be something simple and hereditary; no, that power moved from one soul to another. It needed a soul that matched its needs. Otherwise, it just moved on. And she chased it. Of course she would chase the key to Olympus. It was her ticket home.
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[19 Jul 2008|08:31pm]

dreaminglee
Ribbon & Wolverine

The world has gone to pot )
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[07 Jul 2008|03:29am]

maliciousintent
My original incarnation of Aryah when she was in love with the archangel Raphael. It was a wonderful backstory that all got deleted. I couldn't believe it when I found this in my old email yesterday...

I can't love you. )
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A Snippet [06 Jul 2008|09:35pm]

dreaminglee
All I have left is my hatred, please don't take that from me. He could remember so clearly when she said it. How she ducked her eyes as if to hide the emotions behind them. The way her hair slipped across her shoulder and he reached out to push it back.

"That's not true," he said the words in the dream state, knowing them in the way that one does when the lines of a scene have been memorized and will never change no matter how many times it is played out. "You still have me and I will never leave you."

He had been true to his word. He didn't leave her. Her hatred took her away. Stole her life as surely as a thief will steal diamonds if they are there to take. And like the note left behind by such a master thief, he had the memory of the night he'd told her that he loved her. Frozen in time to never change and never fade. A poor trade.
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[22 Jun 2008|10:36am]

maliciousintent
Arillius - Zahira & Vincent; Because I had this playing in my head for two days.

'You'll what?' Vincent rocked the bottle and she bounced against the sides, 'You're six inches tall, Blaze.' )
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[21 Jun 2008|09:04pm]

dreaminglee
For Lori, 1768 words. Donald Pierce and Ankoku "Neko" Yoshi having a baby.

A Clone Baby )
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