March 2011

Timeline

Mar 1 - Jubilee sends Doug an email asking him to come over to her place. The Grotesque and the Sublime: Dugan emails Garrison with news about setting up a meeting with Archie; Jean sends a message out to the team and enlists the help of Angelica Jones, Hank McCoy, Paige Guthrie, Bobby Drake and Yvette Petrovic to assist them in Madripoor; Later that day, the X-Men arrive in Madripoor and get the lay of the land from Dugan. Yvette sends Kevin an email apologizing for not being able to attend the art gallery opening. Doug sends Jubilee a text message asking if she's still up and she agrees to come over. Laura asks Kevin to help pick out her dress for the art gallery opening. Megan lets everyone know that she's turned 17 today. Nico leaves Megan a birthday gift. After dinner, Vanessa and Jean-Paul head over to the art gallery opening to view Kevin's work. As promised, Jan shows up to the art gallery to view Kevin's artwork.

Mar 2 - Artie emails Marie-Ange about powers training. John sends Angelo an email regarding the water project in Sudan. John gets in touch with Amara via MMS. Kevin thanks Jan for her gifts via email and they get to chatting about who they're dating or not dating. Artie sees Wade in the kitchen and they get to talking about his powers. Jean-Paul and Vanessa have drinks together at Zeitgest. The Grotesque and the Sublime: Some of the X-Men meet with Corrigan at the Princess Bar; The rest of the X-Men keeping watch outside run into some trouble with an Asian gang; The X-Men follow up on Archie's hint with an investigation of the docks of Subline Pharm Solutions. Warren takes Tabitha out flying. Marie-Ange posts about being gifted with goggle wearing yellow minions and crocheted chickens.

Mar 3 - Laura posts about enjoying the art show and especially the after party. Lex and Wade meet in the weight room and an impromptu sparring match ensues. Kevin finds a very cranky Amara in the kitchen and puts forth his best and least obvious efforts to distract her. Wade thinks his minions brings all the girls to the yard and posts about it. On the way to work, Vanessa and Jean-Paul discuss the events of the previous night. The Grotesque and the Sublime: The X-Men head back to the SSA hanger, and find a lot more than they bargained for; Between tending to some serious injuries on the jet, Hank sends out a report to the mansion as the X-Men make their way back. Jean sends an email out to Crystal, asking if she is able to teach some of her classes as she has to attend to the injured. Yvette leaves a voice mail for Jean-Phillipe asking him to help her out with her RA duties. Amara lets Kevin know that the chicken he cooked tastes amazing.

Mar 4 - Unable to sleep, Wanda decides to doze on the roof but when Remy arrives, they wind up talking about how messed up their life style really is. Kurt and Wade meet for the first time while Kurt is practicing on the trapeze bars. Angel is in a lot of pain and gets some attention from her friends. Remy and Sarah have a chat in the Snow Valley break room. Kyle offers to make deliveries of food and drinks to the injured X-Men. While at the office, Amara and Angelo have a talk about her and John. Jean tends to Hank's injuries and they talk about the mission. Molly has a nightmare and Meggan tries to comfort her, giving her a few hats in the process, and the two share a pre-dawn breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes with chocolate milk.

Mar 5 - Julian decides to give Nico the heads up by letting her know that he will be spending the day watching movies with Angel. Marius makes a post asking about Deathstrike. Wade comes by the rec room to talk to Molly about training and ends up playing Hungry Hungry Hippos. Artie gets into a fight in his other school and Jim is required to come and collect him after a rather unpleasant call from one of the staff members there. Artie makes a post voicing out his disagreement about being put on probation for fighting someone after being harassed and asks for opinions regarding dealing with harassment.

Mar 6 - Laurie sends Kyle an email to let him know that he was being a douche nozzle. Marius leaves some get well gifts for Yvette, Angel and Paige. After an X-Men meeting, Tabitha catches up with Warren, and after a bit of flirting and kissing, the two head back to her suite. A groggy and drugged up Garrison manages to insult Jean by accident. Doug confronts Marie-Ange about his sister, and the talk does not go well.

Mar 7 - John returns from the Sudan at three in the morning and there is talk of Amara with Angelo before he steals his roommate's bed. Jubilee leaves Marie-Ange some ninja crochet octopi. Wade serenades Tabitha in the library. Tabitha announces it's her best Monday morning ever. Marie-Ange emails Garrison in the medlab to check on him and is treated to Garrison on painkillers. Angelo posts, asking how to remove John from his bed. Jean-Phillipe totally fails to cook dinner for Jean-Paul and take-out is ordered. Yvette is allowed back to her room from the medlab. Vanessa and Warren talk about their not-relationship.

Mar 8 - Garrison posts to the journals post-painkillers, and is tormented by various people. Jean takes an enforced break from the medlab at Amelia's 'hint'. Yvette goes to visit Angel after getting released from the medlab, talking about the mission and also about boys.

Mar 9 - Laurie posts a "You know it's time to sleep when..." list to her journal. Jubilee gives Amanda a ninja crochet witch, complete with broom and cat. Yvette sends apples to Hank, Garrison and Jean. Sarah complains about her parents fighting and emails Nico to ask about theraputic violence, which Nico happily provides with the Staff of One. Warren and Wade carefully talk about their respective opinions of violence. Amara brings John food at his apartment and the two end up cuddling on the couch.

Mar 10 - Jean thanks Yvette for the apples. Crystal sends Wade a gift basket, congratulating him on his first month in the mansion. Jean leaves Hank a number of birthday gifts from Think Geek; Piotr gives Hank a painted lab coat. Wade is gleeful about his fruit basket, although not so much about the pineapple. Kevin reminds people about the boathouse renovations and the ensuing thread includes talking about Meggan and Kevin. Doug and Jubilee get together to eat food, drink wine, and watch movies together, and a date is made.

Mar 11 - Wade kidnaps Julian to help him get renovation supplies, and treats him to lunch; Wade gets a feeling they're being watched. Wade emails Vanessa to let her know his friend Crazy Frank is in town and that they'll be visiting him on Sunday. Jean-Paul emails Jake to make sure he's still alive, since the last time they saw each other, Jake was being followed. Lex invites people to his birthday party on the 13th. Meeting in the gym, Lex and Amara talk about the issues of being a 'passer' and District X.

Mar 12 - Amanda emails Wade and Kevin with some family history on Meggan and a warning about flirting with her casually. Crystal reminds everyone daylight savings time begins that night. Following a Danger Room session, Kurt and Warren discuss religion and wealthy families. Kevin emails Meggan to apologise for any inappropriate behaviour and she reassures him he's fine. Meggan and Wade watch the first two original Star Wars movies, then Wade makes them some sandwiches while they discuss what her powers are and offers to teach her some self-defense.

Mar 13 - Wade emails Kurt, asking about Meggan's captors. Wade and Vanessa go on a road trip to visit Crazy Frank, and in the car they discuss getting attached and sticking around; at C.F.'s, they pretend to be married and parents of twins while testing out various guns and it comes out Frank used to supply Mág Ealga; in the car on the way home, talk turns to the possibility of Wade settling down at the mansion and then sours when he jokingly refers to Vanessa seriously thinking about their fictional twins. Hank posts his return to active life following his injury, although he needs more healing time yet and calls for a prank truce. Jean-Paul visits Jean-Phillipe and over wine discovers JPC has a crush on Warren. On her return, Vanessa wishes Lex a happy birthday via email. Lex and Crystal sit at the dock and chat in the wee small hours following Lex's adult-only party, both of them tipsy, which leads to unexpected questions and physical closeness.

Mar 14 - John has insomnia. Angelo confronts John on the forums about what he did to his car. Amara texts John to see if he's alright. Laurie invites herself to Kevin's homemade gumbo dinner and the two make plans for a potential summer road trip to New Orleans, right down to debating over who they should and shouldn't take with them. Crystal makes a Happy Birthday entry for Marius. Molly shows off her powers for Wade, accidentally slipping in the process and getting trapped under a boulder she lifted; Kyle and Julian show up and move the boulder, to reveal a sleeping and completely unharmed Molly, and they call for medical assistance just in case. Molly is brought to the medlab where Kyle and Wade watch over her, and Hank informs them she's ok though they will be keeping her there to run further tests later regarding her powers. Meggan goes to confront Amanda following Amanda's e-mail to Wade and Kevin, coming close to yelling at her, though in the end they discuss getting dinner together. Nick seeks out Kyle to give him a cd he found in his room, and they talk about old movies and trying to fix his amnesia.

Mar 15 - Jubilee announces that she'll be traveling for the next few days and should be back by Friday. Wade and Hank talk about Wade's test results, which aren't what Wade wanted to hear, and a course of action is decided upon. Vanessa sends out texts to JP and Lex, telling them she's going out of town for a case, asking the former if he'd like to go with her and the latter to reschedule a meeting. Yvette makes a journal entry to wish both Marius and Jean-Phillipe a happy birthday. Vanessa and Lex meet up at Harry's in an attempt to become better friends, ending up with something with which they can both work. Kevin and Jean-Paul play some pool together and chat, going home together. Vanessa makes an entry to X-Factor, letting everyone else know she's going to be out of town on a case and that she's taking Jean-Paul with her.

Mar 16 - Laurie e-mails Wade to ask if he's available for lunch, making a raincheck for it as he's going out of town. Amara can't sleep and is feeling overly hot, which is unusual for her. Warren texts Vanessa about a meeting he has in District X that day and asks if she'd like to meet up for lunch; she's leaving town so takes a raindcheck, and the exchanging of dirty pictures is discussed. Wade makes a post about leaving town until Sunday. Wade e-mails Molly to let her know he's going, and to be prepared for a huge sandwich a la Wade when he gets back. Kevin and Jean-Paul wake up together without feeling guilty about doing so for the first time, and they have breakfast together, talking about how Jean-Paul's hood slipped off during the night. Julian leaves a t-shirt with a comical picture of squirrels on it outside Dori's door. Kyle wants to recreate a shot from Teen Wolf and asks who has a camera to record it. Molly announces that she's invulnerable, that she misses Wade, and that her folks have e-mailed her.

Mar 17 - Janet announces there will be green food and snacks available for all, as it's St. Patrick's Day, and has green food colouring on hand if anyone needs anything turned green. Jean-Paul and Vanessa head to the library in Gardner, MA to further investigate Vanessa's case by researching the local newspaper archives, turning to personal conversation as they do so and then head out for lunch. Lex walks in on Julian as he's brooding in the kitchen, so Lex asks him to help him with repairs to one of the vehicles in the garage, which they then take for a test drive and head out for some food. Marie-Ange e-mails Amanda about potentially pulling a moose-y prank on Kurt in the not-too-distant future.

Mar 18 - Garrison posts to let people know Lorna has decided to go to Muir Island to sort out some powers related issues, accidentally leaving her laptop behind and asking him to inform everyone of her situation. Vanessa announces to X-Factor that her missing person case ended up with finding the person's body in a morgue, that she's driving back tomorrow early in the morning to tell the parents, and that there may be drinking required after all that; Jean-Paul will be flying back some time that night. Klara and Monet talk over tea after the scent of Klara's baking catches Monet's attention, talking of mutant crop-growing and whether corporations are all evil.

Mar 19 - Jan joins Kevin during a break from the work in converting the boathouse into an art studio, thoroughly distracting him with innuendo; they meet up after Kevin's cleans up and more flirting and innuendo distracts Kevin even further. Vanessa texts Warren to let him know she'll be home shortly, and asks if he's got any plans for tonight yet, as she'd appreciate a distraction from her case.

Mar 20 - Jean and Haller go for a walk by the lake and come close to having a talk about their problems, but instead resolve to go drinking. Marius and Laurie review some of their most recent Danger Room logs over popcorn. Nick/John goes to Jean for a check-up and some advice about his identify problems from an expert. Bobby tries to give Molly an impromptu math lesson in the snow, though she ends up teaching evil snowmen a lesson instead. Yvette wishes Kyle a happy birthday. Kyle announces that he's 21 at last and he's on his way to Harry's. Angel asks someone to entertain her in the rec room because she doesn't want to be doing homework. Kurt has a special surprise for Meggan, who passed her driver's license test and now has a license.

Plots

X-Men Mission: The Grotesque and the Sublime

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February 2011