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January 8

2004: Shinobi confesses to Alison that he thought of using Miles for his power but assures her he wouldn't. Betsy announces her return to full health and faculties.

2005: Scott gets a pet turtle. Dani and Forge drive to Oklahoma to talk to her soon-to-be-ex-husband. Amanda and Manuel meet with the Pack in Berlin.

2006: Wanda manages a brief meeting with her brother, with snarkiness but also mutual filling-in on their years apart. Moira invites Doug, Forge and Kitty (plus significant others) to Muir to check over her computer systems in the wake of the hacking.

2007: X-Men Mission: Leverage: Forge posts about an upcoming resolution before the government banning insurance companies from asking for genetic status. Terry and Bobby return from Cassidy Keep. Domino helps Angelo get climbing gear, and later he and Nathan talk briefly about why they're there. Pietro sees Scott's scars and they talk about strength and recovery. Garrison and Marie talk about his reaction to X-Men Mission: Phalanx.

2008: Operation: Shaboom: Remy, now an insurance salesman, meets Wanda, a housewife, and discuss angles of investigation; Wanda meets Amanda at the library where she works, and witnesses a disturbing slip into the 1959 persona; under the guise of a pot luck lunch, X-Force meets to compare notes; Wanda and Doug go outside the range of the effect to do some checking on things; Mark, local dance compere, finds Amanda has completely slipped into 'Mandy' and has no memory of the outside world. Marius and Jennie exchange gossip in the kitchen, and Marius is uncomfortable with Jennie's hardline view; later, Marius talks with Monet about the elder Marius, and is again disturbed by a lack of insight. Forge and Crystal meet to debrief about her experience of Cortez, and awkwardly talk about the New Year's kiss.

2009: After meeting about the Hellfire Club the night before, Adrienne and Manuel wake up in bed together. Mechanisms of Revenge: Remy calls Morgan in to help with the Blue Area situation; Morgan and Amanda discuss the past few months; Morgan texts Adrienne offering her a bad guy souvenir; in Blue Mesa, the teams find themselves facing not only the Dark Riders, Sabretooth and Apocalypse, but also the transformed mutants of the commune; the fight goes to a standstill and three mysterious mutants appear on the scene, targeting Apocalypse; Apocalypse is beheaded and the mutants are revealed to be Garrison, Jay and Dani; Morgan calls Adrienne to tell her about Garrison being alive and apparently fine; Amanda posts to x_snowvalley via her PDA with the news all four of the missing are alive; in a secret location, Apocalypse thanks Dr. Nathaniel Essex for the clone that was sacrificed at Blue Mesa to allow him to rebuild his army in secret.

2010: Callie gets a pleasant surprise when it's Fred picking her up at the airport and not Julian like she expected; Callie emails Julian telling him he's a jerk for not telling her about Fred, but Julian is unapologetic. Yvette sends Fred an email, apologising for her behaviour several days before. Vanessa gets a letter from her mother, the police having tracked her down through the Snow Valley website, but nothing really changes. Song of Isaac, Key of Solomon: At a meeting of the Alamut, Farouk reveals that Calysee Neramani has been abducted from her house arrest and that her brother D. Ken might be planning a move on Pakistan using her abduction as an excuse; a heated discussion ensues over whether the Alamut should get involved or not. Nico walks in on Julian reading through the old X-Men mission reports and an awkward conversation ensues.

2011: Jean-Paul feeds Laurie waffles and they talk about her unfortunate nagging tendancies.

2012: Sarah V. is unimpressed with how 2012 has gone so far.

2013: Hope posts letting everyone know she has just received a new book, and will be busy reading for a while. Maddie and Tandy "discuss" Tandy's relationship with Clint, and the consequences of Tandy hurting him. Tandy texts Clint asking if he's talked to Maddie recently.

2014: Yvette and Sooraya decide to help a friend who is bedridden from a battle in demonic realms. Scott picks Namor up from his dorms after an incident.