indigogirl:

It had been great seeing Rose and Ana and Mina and Alt-Dad, and Alt-Aunt-Jimaine over the holidays, but there was something Gretchen had on her mind now.

In some out-of-the-way corner at Xavier's, she drew Braddock aside. "Hey. Can we talk about stuff?"

nextgen_holiday:

There were certain traditions that were kept around the holidays and then there were traditions. The annual New Year's Day snowball fight was a long standing tradition at Xavier's Institude For Higher Learning. For the past six years the girls have won the fight, but this year the boys have a new player on their side and he's one that may tip the scales in their favor.

Dawn broke over the grounds and the sun climbed into the sky. It would be a warm bright day and perfect for a snowball fight.

At high noon the players on each side gathered on opposite ends of the grounds.

anyastark:

Anya had been in the middle of a wonderful dream about a warm sandy beach, a naked Steve and lots of shopping. It was a nice dream and Anya had been enjoying it when pain spiked and woke her up. Steve was thrashing about and had grabbed her arm with his metal hand.

"Owwwwwww!" she winced and tried to pry his fingers off her arm. "Steve! Wake up!"

swashbuckler:

Plans had been made, maps studied, the situation read as best it could be.  There was no more time for talk.  The Mothership would be leaving by the next day.  If the aliens who had stolen this world were not defeated now, it wasn't likely they ever would be. 

But these aliens had never faced people with the kinds of powers that the Avengers possessed.  The paltry number of defenders the planet Earth had had when they had arrived had died easily.  And this world possessed no Inhumans, no Eternals, no Deviants.  No one would or could fight back on the scale needed.

But the time of domination was over.

godlierthanthou:

Well, the New Year (at least by how the majority of the mortals measured time) had started off well enough.   A year filled with promise and potential, what ifs and what might be's...

Asleif found her thoughts already trickling back over one of them... and one particular person...