Template:Selected anniversaries/December 16
December 16th
2003:
2004: Scott tells Alex their grandparents are alive. Amanda visits Manuel's dreams and they start a slow rebuilding. Jubilee gets dragged into Nathan's nightmares.
2005: Haroun runs into Nathan after one of his exams and finds out about the previous day's encounter with Gideon Faraday. He then gives Nate a piece of his mind about how he's handling things these days. Turnabout is fair play. Lorna wanders off to taunt Alison with cookies and finds out about something she hadn't been told about. This means Alison is in trouble.
2006: Living Pele: Amanda makes suggestions as to what the Snow Valley members can do to help with the eruption in Hawaii; the Red X volunteers have various encounters doing their jobs. Some of the staff play poker with Pietro to distract themselves. Ororo goes to the brownstone to see Remy, and is disconcerted to find he is still in France. Mark's roach woes turn out to be due to his mutant landlord, and he moves into the brownstone. Doug takes Julio out for Mexican food.
2007: V=IR: Forge and Doug examine Milan's machine and finds a) Milan is strangely absent, b) the machine doesn't work and c) that Milan has had access to coded documents written by Nikola Tesla.
2008: Catseye finds a new sleeping buddy in the form of Lil. Angel realises she missed her birthday. Adrienne emails Morgan about the gorgeous man she saw coming home with Jean-Paul the night before. Manuel emails Zanne about the gallery trip Morgan arranged. Julian emails Karo about appropriate birthday gifts for Angel. Paige asks for people to stop telling her there's hope of Jay's survival. Haller tackles the task of explaining privacy to Catseye. Jean-Paul emails Nathan asking for discretion about his drunken night; Morgan emails Jean-Paul teasing him about his 'hot date'. Laurie emails Morgan about finding Bishop on the couch.
2009: During a shooting lesson with Bishop, Adrienne accidentally Reads an old pair of his gloves and sees an incident from his police past he's not comfortable with her knowing. This Devil's Workday: Cammie leaves work unexpectedly and Adrienne tracks her down to find her trying to get to Chicago, where an old friend of hers has turned up dead; Adrienne insists on going with Cammie to identify the body and makes arrangements to fly; Cammie tells Kurt what's happened; Cammie identifies her friend and discovers the police aren't going to do very much investigation into Amy's death and asks Adrienne to Read a letter found on Amy's body. Eamon shows up by surprise to visit Laurie.
2010: Jubilee notices Marie-Ange has recently used her passport to go to France, which Doug explains as a holiday visit. Laurie asks that people not describe her powers as being smelly, which results in banter with Kyle, to which she responds by nerfing him in the ear. Garrison and Jean have an amusing Danger Room session involving an Incan pyramid in a jungle.
2011: Jean decides to run a Secret Santa for the New Mutants and asks for help; Jean tells the New Mutants to contact Yvette and Clarice as the Secret Santa elves with their gifts for their gift-ee. Jean-Paul invites Warren to a District X business owners meeting. Sooraya and Matt meet in the kitchen and she makes lunch for them as they talk.
2012: Warren announces his return to New York. Sooraya gives Angel a plushie calf, in memory of a discussion they once had. Tandy invites people to join her watching a favourite Christmas movie. Betsy appears in Haller’s office and startles him; Haller posts to x_journal to announce Betsy is staying at the mansion for a time.
2013: Adrienne posts cancelling Monday due to the deaths of Peter O'Toole and Joan Fontaine over the weekend. Operation: One Night In Madripoor: In Madripoor looking for Illyana's bloodstones, an X-Force team infiltrates the Mandarin's penthouse; a second team encounters mystical monks, and comes off a little worse for wear; a third team gets into a fight at the docks, and are forced to get creative. Maddie texts Clint begging him to save her from cheerleading practice. Deal With The Devil: Professor Xavier alerts the mansion to an incoming invasion; Meggan, Fred, Angelo, Callisto, Jean-Phillipe, and Megan are taken by the invading forces; Marie-Ange texts Scott saying Amanda's wards pinged and asking what happened; Angel and Lorna fight off demons in their suite; Laurie's and Sooraya's dinner plans are ruined by the invasion; Molly's and Tandy's Mario Kart game is interrupted, and they escape into the tunnels; Molly texts Tandy to make sure she's okay; Jean and Kurt encounter demons while wandering the grounds; Sue and Topaz struggle to stay safe when their suite is invaded; Tabitha and Kyle try to defend the library - it doesn't go well; Johnny, - Phase 1|Matt, and Rachel team up to fight off the invasion; Amanda emails Scott, Jean, Xavier, and X-Force letting them know it was Belasco behind the invasion, and she thinks she knows why and how to handle it; after meeting with the X-Men, Amanda goes to Belasco to try and barter with him, and becomes a captive herself when Pixie reveals herself as Belaso's new protegee. Blessed Are The Pure Of Heart: Doctor Strange recruits Topaz to help him open a portal to the demon dimension; the cavalry goes into Belasco's demon dimension to rescue the taken (who have been warped and changed by their time in the dimension), and Billy, while guarding the portal, encounters Pixie; Firestar uses Angelo's fear of fire to scare him back home; Angel and Meggan duke it out in an aerial battle; Catseye and Pinball go against Jean-Phillipe; Cannonball and Nevermore team up to bring down Fred; Firestar tries to take down Callisto, and Blink steps in for round two when she fails; Pixie and Billy face off, and a familiar face returns to deal with Belasco.
2014: Rogue leaves Arthur a care package of different types of clothing from his early posts about having the lack of clothing available. Arthur texts Rogue with his thanks of the amount of clothing she had gotten him.
