word_of_law:

A few nights after their date, allowing for both of them to get their lives on track and such, Avery calls Sydney to invite her to dinner at his place. He keeps the affair simple, with some wine and Thai Food ordered in from her favorite restaurant, and waits for her to arrive.

He's really trying to make this less about their time from the other night and more about settling into a dating rhythm. They have a lot of other things to talk about as well, so he doesn't want to make things awkward for her.

He's wearing a blue polo shirt, blue jeans and brown boots, and praying he's not under-dressed for a casual meeting. Of course, Sydney could show up in a bathrobe and she'd look amazing, but that's beside the point.

He really tries to push the image of Sydney in a bathrobe out of his mind as he waits.

nextgen_media:
"This just in: Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, has resigned from her Cabinet Post, effective immediately. Thus far, there is no information on the reason for this abrupt resignation, which has taken even the President by surprise. With Ms. Napolitano's resignation, the President will need to appoint a new Secretary to serve out the remainder of her term. This will require the confirmation of the Senate, which has been reluctant to provide smooth confirmation to this President's candidates for office. Some insiders say that there will be a long and painful vetting process before another Secretary is chosen. Under Secretary Rand Beers will step into the position as acting Secretary while the nomination process gets underway.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will issue a statement later today on this matter, and we will keep you informed as this situation develops."

wild_rose:

Rose begged off anything after dinner with Brad, saying she had an early class in the morning.  A complete lie, but he bought it hook, line, and sinker.  They needed to mobilize as quickly as possible, and the lab would be mostly deserted in just a few hours.   Brad might possibly still be there, but she was more than prepared to deal with that.

It did not take long for the team to assemble, staging just outside the lab complex and just out of range of security cameras and the like.  Their stealth uniforms--which had been carefully and completely hidden away in their luggage--were the go to clothes of the day.  The black and gray suits would provide a measure of stealth and electronic misdirection.  Each contained a small mask, with various vision settings, though Rose's mask mimicked the lines of her usual pointy eared one.

"Okay," she said.  "We all know we need to shut this down.  That means smashing or confiscating any samples, destroying the computers, and otherwise makin' as a big a mess as possible.  And if there's anybody there...  we take them down as quickly as we can without killin' 'em.  We'll clean up anything we have to after we slow them back to the stone age."

She looked to Tina.  "Your move, chief."

lady_hood:

Melissa Frost knew she'd been a Bad Friend. Both she and May had been so busy since before the end of the semester that they hadn't gone out to do anything or keep up with each other's lives. Melissa felt bad about that, even though her reasons had to do with a hot girlfriend and killing people, two things she greatly enjoyed.

However, it was now time to put on her "normal" face and rebuild the bridge with her BFF, May "Pretty" Parker.

She shifts the bag of Big Nick's burgers in her hand knocks on the door, thinking about how funny it would be to disturb May while she's "gettin' her groove on" with a guy.

this_fire_burns:

Matt had recovered quickly from the battle at Vitae, though he hadn't spoken to the others since then. He'd been meaning to check on Greg and Michelle, and call Lynch to see how they were all doing, but he'd been sidetracked by his own ailing, meeting a new ally,  Dracula's revelation, and Shelly's injury.

Matt Walker entered Chicago Memorial and, as he'd done for the past four days, gone directly to Shelly Drumm's room to check on her.  The first day, he'd been greeted by a man that looked to be Shelly's father. Jericho Drumm was known in every mystic circle in one fashion or another, as easily as Matt's own mentor, Ian McNee, was. Matt had also been hesitant to call Ian, because he was certain he might blow up at his mentor for not telling him about...

No, there was no time to think about that.

He walks into Shelly's room, expecting to see her still unconscious from the damage done to her by Dracula. How they were going to explain the marks her neck was anyone's guess.

How Matt planned to make Dracula pay for what he'd done wasn't.