Nathan wakes up in the infirmary and Sage fills him in on how it all ended on the island. There were very few things that frightened Nathan Dayspring to the core. Not being able to wake up was very high on that very short list. There had been too much in his life - too many battles, too many dark moments - for him to be able to cope with being at the mercy of his subconscious. This time ...
Having gently and temporarily evicted Laynia from her post, Jean-Paul is there when Nate wakes again. Nate's eyes fluttered open; they must have started him on some painkillers at some point over the last few hours, because everything had a fuzzy edge to it. Or maybe that was the brain damage. Either way, his head didn't hurt quite as badly as it had before, although he was grateful that ...
Nate wakes up briefly, just long enough to verify that all is indeed right with the world. Everything hurt. The first thing Nate became aware of was the throbbing ache centered behind his eyes, but spreading to encompass what must have been left of his skull. The next thing he became aware of was the hot, tight way his skin felt, as if it were stretchedacross his bones. The third thing...
The X-Men arrive and find that the fight has instead become a rescue mission. They could see the smoke for miles, hanging ominously in the air over the island. As the Flit approached, the island was easy to pick out from among its counterparts, even without the smoke; where they were brown and gray, their target was blackened. There was an obvious blast radiusspreading outward from a ...
Nathan and Nate scout a small, uninhabited island to see if it might be a suitable place to challenge Nemesis. The question quickly becomes moot. "This place stinks," Nate muttered as he and Nathan climbed up the hillside, headed towards the highest point on the island. It was the first thing he'd said without being addressed since they'd boarded the Midnight Runner. His comment wasn't ...
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The Nemesis prepares. He threw the intruder's body into the master bedroom with the rest. Who the hell would have come out to the ass-end of nowhere to check on these people? After the last world, the last thing he wanted was company. His face still hurt from weeks of jaw-clenching smiles. The elderly owners of the cottage might have given him the food had he asked, but murder had been ...
After coming back inside, Nate finds Laynia waiting. Nate shifted his weight back and forth, trying to get his numb feet to wake up. He hadn't realized just how damp the air had been on the roof until he and Jean-Paul had come inside, and now his bangs were sticking to his forehead. Cold knuckles knocked on the wood of Laynia's door. He'd thought for a moment that he should wait until he ...
Nate hides on the roof, trying to gain a little distance, but Jean-Paul tracks him down. Nate huddled in on himself, the wind catching and tousling his hair and fluttering it over his eyes. He was perched on a gable of the roof, tucked against one of the cold stone walls, letting the wind buffet him like the waves crashing against the shore below. His bare feet were planted flat on the ...
Another mysterious stranger washes up on shore, in an ominous tiding of things to come. He'd been happy. Alex clung to that, floating in the cold water. He'd been happy. A place on the X-Men, fighting alongside his brother, love . . . and then Nate Grey had come, and gone. And then the other one had come. They'd been playing baseball, on the last day. Long since abandoned the rules for a...
