"Unfortunately, I think it's time," Allison says. "We are going to have to stage an intervention." In which Five can't human, Allison can't take it anymore, and the others are scared enough of both of them to at least try and help things along.

"Maybe he should sit down with his family more often. For the first time in a long time, he feels something akin to peace." In which Five doesn't always have to make it through an apocalypse alone.

"It turns out that the hot-headed boy who clawed his way out of the Arena is never quite as buried beneath the Capitol makeup as he'd like to pretend." In which Finnick turns rebel—for Annie, for humanity, and for himself.

"Sometimes—probably because he's some kind of masochist or something—Richie will invite himself over to the Kaspbraks for dinner." In which Sonia Kaspbrak wants to teach a lesson, but it backfires because she's, like, a terrible person.

"For weeks now, Morrible has been getting shorter and shorter with her, keeping her less and less informed and watching her more closely. But the most wonderful thing about being entirely superficial is that it's all too easy for others to see when you have absolutely nothing to hide." In which Glinda survives an attack—but does it count as surviving if you were never in danger?

"Bev has her life now, and she has her facts. But when she thinks about what the forgetting means, she's overwhelmed by the terror of feeling that she's lost herself somewhere along the way." In which Beverly gets into fashion the same way she gets into most other things in her life—by accident, exactly when she needs to, and full steam ahead.

"Tony wakes with tingling fingers and a knot on the back of his head, and thinks, Oh, I'm alive." In which the Avengers make a rule, Peter makes a choice, and time travel really complicates things. Endgame compliant but not accepting. Contains many spoilers.

"Two days after the strike Katherine Plumber is allowed to go back to work. Contrary to what one might assume based on her long and lamentable history with idleness, however, this fact leaves her fuming." In which Katherine is relegated to an advice column, the newsboys have some weird hidden talents, and things slowly return to normal.

"Sometimes I'm sitting here and I can't help thinking — what if they put me back together wrong?" In which a recently not-dead teenage spider-kid might be in over his head with all this messy trauma stuff.

"Our rules can change too, guys. I really don't think anything bad will happen if we let a few of those things slide — I mean, who here is going to care now?" In which the Church washes its hands of the Uganda mission, leaving a bunch of confused, abandoned boys who are unaccustomed to freedom in its wake.

"Science is easy — science is, quite probably, what she is when she's not tied up being a person. But this problem is one she can't seem to follow through logically to the end." In which Holtzmann struggles with the nuances of friendship, and the others help her overcome the parts of her that make her doubt her worth.

"Have you prayed today, Hanschen? It doesn't look like you've prayed." In which the wrong boy gets cold feet and faith isn't always a question of right and wrong.

"She needs him now more than ever. She could never do this on her own. But she also needs him to be sane." In which a shocking end to another strike leaves Jack devastated, and Katherine is left to try to fix it somehow. For Aly.

"It is the headline of every paper the next morning: Vicomte de Chagny found dead, cold and pale, strangled with the clean white sheets of his marriage bed." In which two wrongs don't make a right, black stains never fade to white, and there is darkness in both of them.

"I think you throw yourself into the work because you don't want time to think. Nobody would every accuse you of enjoying it, that's for sure." In which Han decides it's time for Leia to stop being so serious all the time.

"Everybody needs somebody looking out for them. I can't shake the feeling you're becoming my responsibility." In which Han worries about Leia, since nobody else really seems to.

"You did a good thing, baby," she assures him. "This ain't nothing more than a big scheme to make money." In which Medda saves Jack from Snyder and your author rants about Disney closing Newsies.

"Unfortunately, they can't make time stop. But they can stay here, suspended in their own little pocket of it, until the morning sun brings back the problems they couldn't bear to face in the dark." In which your author uses up all of all of the storylines and random emotions rampaging through her mind during her absence, and offers much angst to appease the noble readers.

"The change is so gradual and so unplanned that he doesn't even realize it's been happening until he reaches into his pocket one night, ready to go find something cheap for dinner, and realizes there's nothing there." In which Jack is a selfless idiot who grows to care for his new friends more than he initially anticipated.

"This ain't how it was supposed to go . . ." In which Katherine gets arrested and Jack gets a ring.

"If she could see the place where he'd fallen from angel to mere mortal in her mind, she'd be able to sleep easier at night. She's sure of it." In which maybe it wasn't as smooth as they'd like to remember.

"If he's being honest with himself, the fact that he's still learning such enormous secrets about her only serves as a reminder of the things he wants to — has to — hide from her." In which the only thing Jack and Katherine share are the secrets that may keep them apart.

"You sure about this, Ace?" Jack asks, his eyes wide with concern and shining in the dark. His skin is soft where it touches hers. "We don't have to if you don't wanna." In which the juxtaposition between the rating and the excerpt has you all concerned, so you're going to read this now ;)

"She thought by now she'd be used to the screaming, but each fresh shriek still sets her teeth on edge and sends goosebumps tingling down the length of her spine." In which Katherine walks into a sort of Refuge of her own — and realizes that walking out won't be anywhere near as easy.

"Katherine's window is always open, something Jack has come to expect by now. Until the one day when it's not." In which Jack braves germs and the wrath in order to hopefully make Katherine feel a little better.

"Romeo hasn't been without a home in so long that he almost forgot what that hollow emptiness could feel like." In which Race has always been protecting Romeo from one thing or another. For Marcelle.

"Haven't you ever heard of Santa Claus?" In which the boys decide to behave like wild animals just before the holidays and a certain reporter and her cowboy are determined to find out why.

"And if you wanted me to take my shirt off, you should have just asked." In which Jack has no choice but to turn to Katherine for help, and it's not as bad as he expects.

"Crutchie always knew to catch him when his defenses were down if he wanted answers." In which Crutchie gives Jack a hard time in the nicest, most brotherly way possible.

"The crutch doesn't make you who you are. You make the crutch what it is." In which the path of Crutchie's crutch is followed throughout the newsboys' lives.

"Jack has never been kissed by someone who loved him before. So when she comes at him in a flurry of rage and fists and softness and warmth (a contradiction just like she is), he doesn't quite know what to do." In which your author takes a break from her portfolio to ramble about the fabulous high-quality gif of the kiss. :)

"We're newsies forever, Jackie. No matter what life throws at us, we boys have got a bond nothing can take away." In which Davey reassures Jack that nothing can take away from everything the boys have accomplished together.

"He's become sort of an expert at stealing blankets over the years. But he is nothing – nothing – compared to Katherine." In which Jack and Katherine can't share and end up snuggling instead.

"And when are we going to see you -inside- the church?" In which Albert discovers religion thanks to the sisters - and abandons the practice of it equally quickly.

"But if you could take the boys away from here – if you could go anywhere – where would it be?" In which Katherine and Jack discuss his dream of Santa Fe, so that she can be familiar with it for the scene at Medda's and in her father's office.

"Once Santa Fe was an immeasurable distance away. Now it isn't far; it's just a step." In which Jack's dreams aren't just an escape from New York but an escape from everything.

"Bonnie's sure he's about to pull the trigger, when her blood runs cold and she darts toward him." In which Bonnie uses some of her newfound wealth to help someone else for a change, despite Clyde's better judgement.

"Since when did we resort to stalking to find out information? That's a reporter's job, not ours." In which Race convinces the boys to investigate an unknown location and they aren't as sneaky as they think.

"Wherever they're headed – and Lord knows it ain't heaven – at least they'll be together." In which Bonnie lives just long enough after Clyde to realize what is happening and reflect on the end.

"What a fine time for him to develop a hint of a conscience. He couldn't have decided life as a fugitive wasn't worth nice clothes and notoriety before their reputations ruined their chances of jobs and real lives?" In which Clyde has a moment of doubt over Bonnie's involvement in his schemes.

"They alternate sides depending on the day. The effect culminates into a sort of bizarre dance." In which Jack and Katherine struggle internally about their feelings for each other.

"How human are you, exactly?" In which the Doctor and Rose begin doing what they do best again, and then take a break to contemplate what may occur in the future.

"Her eyes were wide, innocent. He wondered disconnectedly if she'd ever broken a rule in her life, until he'd come along." In which Rapunzel breaks the rules and Eugene has to explain to the queen why.

"He couldn't bring himself to look for her until much later, long after the feel and smell of her seared onto his own body and mind had been slowly drawn away by the ship's recycled air." In which Han wants to talk, Leia might want to be found, and C3P0 interrupts – as usual.

"When the first bit of blood starts pulsing through her again and her skin begins to warm, I'm the first to know." In which Tris isn't dead, because really, who does that?

"Okay. Okay. I've just gotta tell you this one thing." In which love is compared to a radioactive cow and Peter has a confession to make.

"If I wasn't everything you think I am – everything I think I am – would you still want to help me?" In which Sherlock asks a lot of Molly, and then finally offers her something other than disapproval in return.

"I won't– I won't ever turn one thousand, will I?" In which Rose and the human Doctor address his many differences from the Time-Lord counterpart, and, most importantly, the fact that he is still the same.

"He feels things from the other universe sometimes. She knows he does." In which the human Doctor escapes from the shadow of his Time-Lord counterpart, with a little help from good old Rose.