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Jul 20 - Garrison and Inez talk about her issues with the Beaubier twins. Fiddler's Green: Nathan continues to resist the telempath, driving her to lose her temper; Charles finds Nathan and Scott sends a team - Phoenix, Wildchild, Skin, Sway and Legion - to Greenland to pick him up; Kyle is sent in with psychic camouflage, posing as an operative and gives Nathan the trigger to release his own memory blocks; Nathan rips the location of the main Taygetos base from the telempath and leaves her for dead; back on the Blackbird, Legion has an encounter with Nathan's tactical personality, forcing it to step down and release Nathan; Scott announces the team is going to Wyoming and makes them aware Nathan's capture was part of the plan; Nathan wakes up in medlab and panics when he thinks he's been left behind and eventually convinces everyone he has to go to Wyoming; Dominion, Bubba, Phoenix and Cable sneak into the complex where Cable and Phoenix use the Trojan Horse trigger, but discover Tara Trask is countering it, driving the child operatives into a killing frenzy just like at Youra; the team finds themselves trying to take down the operatives without hurting them; Skin comes across Alpha and kicks him in the balls before having to deal with an operative losing blood fast; Sunfire goes after Alpha, wanting revenge for Jean-Paul, and lets him die at the hands of several children before reporting he was too late; Phoenix engages Trask in psychic combat and wipes her mind, leaving her a vegetable; Dominion and Bubba are nearly overwhelmed in the corridor, protecting Cable and Phoenix, but at the last minute Cable tries the Trojan Horse again and discovers that it doesn't completely mindwipe the children; Husk manages triage; Legion confirms the operatives have minds left that can be rehabilitated; Cable has a 'visit' from Colin MacInnis; Forge and Lil try to banter on the way home, but find it difficult; Jean-Paul meets the Blackbird and helps Nathan to the medlab. Amanda emails Manuel and Angelo about their behaviour on the journals and gets a rather unapologetic response from both; Amanda posts about Clarice being right about dumping men for good. Mutation Sternutation: Yvette tests Laurie's control of Crystal's powers when they talk about making up for past actions and trust; Amara runs into Manuel and Valentia out by the stables and is surprised when he behaves like a gentleman.

Jul 21 - Fiddler's Green: Manuel goes down to the medlab and helps Nathan with his pain and trauma; Garrison is in pain and receives sympathy in the form of Logan offering good Scotch and mockery from everyone else; Scott praises the team for their efforts and asks for mission reports; Nathan and Jean talk about what they achieved; Jean-Paul has words about Nathan feeling guilty for putting him through more stress. Lil asks Forge for a way of stopping her from drunk emailing her estranged husband in the wee small hours. Cammie tells Jake they're going out for the day and they wind up at Liberty Island, talking about conequences and Cammie's future. The New York Times publishes an article about the upcoming Columbia Massacre anniversary. Kyle comes across Sam in the Danger Room, trying to prove his toughness and during a rather insane discussion, Sam accidentally breaks Kyle's ribs and realises how stupid he's being; Sam emails Scott, letting him know he put Kyle in the medlab.

Jul 22 - Paige posts tipsy, demanding a medical tricorder. Sarah asks if anyone else is having toaster issues. Amanda wishes Angelo a happy birthday and apologises for her post. Scott talks to Sam about the incident and winds up benching him and sending him to talk to Charles; Charles suspends Sam from teaching and puts him on anger management counselling; Jay hunts down Sam and the talk goes as well as all the others. Fiddler's Green: Checking on Nathan and Jean-Paul, Jeanne-Marie winds up talking to Nathan about why he let himself be caught; Adrienne emails Lil to make sure Garrison is all right after his post; Nicks talks to Shiro about his Catseye dilemma, but Shiro is distracted by memories of letting Alpha die; when Jean-Paul drops by to check on him, Shiro tells him the truth and they agree to keep it secret; Marie emails Garrison to make sure he's okay; Julio visits Nathan with work and reveals there's a place for Machado's Taygetos children in Brazil; Julian comes down to medlab to get his bandage changed and is shocked to stumble in on Nathan, looking like hell. Catseye asks Johnny why Nick might be uncomfortable about her kissing him thank you and teases information about his crush on Lil out of him. Cammie (and the rest of the mansion) are amused to find Crystal singing ABBA while playing SingStar; Dori joins in. Johnny gets jealous when Lex interrupts his training with Lil and flirts with her. Charles asks Sam to come and talk to him. Jean emails Kyle, demanding to know why he isn't still in the medlab. Crystal offers Jean her help in medlab. Mutation Sternutation: Cammie and Callie talk destructive powers; Julian runs into Crystal after seeing Nathan and they talk about their swapped powers and growing up as 'royalty'.

Jul 23 - In the wake of the ABBA fest the day before, Jake shares another Swedish musical talent. Fiddler's Green: An insomniac Lil visits Nathan; SHIELD asks Moira and Jean to help them on a retrieval mission to a Taygetos creche and when Nathan finds out about it, he refuses to remain behind; on the way to the base, Forge and Nathan talk about the reward of helping the children; arriving, Nathan is happily surprised to find Carly Alvarez working for SHIELD; Moira and Jean begin the evaluation of the babies when news comes that John Lense is en route with a team; a desperate plan is formed, Carly and Nathan to cooperate taking down Lense whilst Jean protects the babies from his team; in the battle against Lense, Carly is killed and Nathan almost so, before finally killing his old Mistra teammate; Forge reports on what happened; Scott announces the six rescued babies will be in the mansion for a short time before being transferred to Muir Island. Amanda visits the mansion and meets Lex and then Sarah. Jake and Vanessa swap places, causing confusion to Cammie and resulting in confessions from Adrienne that lead to her having sex with Vanessa; Doug isn't fooled by Jake-as-Vanessa. Sam emails Morgan, apologising for his actions and asking her to apologise to X-Force for him; Morgan tells him to do his own apologising.

Jul 24 - Late at night, Lil goes down to the infirmary for help with her insomnia and to her discomfort has to hold a baby to get it. Mutation Sternutation: Callie's powers come back and she seeks out Fred; Callie emails Manuel to let him know she'll be babysitting Valentia for him. Scott talks to Shiro about Alpha's death and the truth comes out, resulting in Shiro being encouraged to take some time off the team. Angelo resigns as self-defence teacher and takes a hiatus from the team in order to run the Elpis office and take care of Nathan. Shiro texts Jay, asking him to visit and Jay takes off from work; Mark texts Jay about his early departure and the two share ribaldries. Julian comes across Johnny in their suite and it's decided a boys-only poker night is needed to counter the angst level in the suite.

Jul 25 - Lex announces his joining of the team and the trainee name thread commences. Nick meets Angel at the pool and is charmed by her casual attitude. Mutation Sternutation: Julian and Jean-Phillipe announce the return of their powers and Julian asks for a fifth for the poker game and gets Logan; Charles announces he has located the mutant responsible; Julian thanks Forge and Sarah for the electricity-proof laptop and returns it; Laurie posts about not wanting her 'morally dubious' powers back; now social again, Julian goes for coffee with Inez and they talk about the powers swap and Angel; later Julian asks Dori to forgive him for not being able to come out. Monet finds herself explaining couples and sex to Catseye. Amanda asks if anyone saw the Columbia memorial the previous day. Fiddler's Green: Scott and Jean find themselves discussing the possibility of having the Family Talk again as they care for the Taygetos babies. Jane has a good day and squees about the babies in the basement. Lil runs into Lex in the garage and they flirt heavily before Lil tells him she's married and he backs off; Lex posts a 'warning' about people staying out of the woods the next day while he's hunting, which is taken badly by various people, including Lil and offers to cook a Luau, which is taken better; Forge emails Lil about Lex's fast work and about her only just telling him now she's married; Manuel takes advantage of his free evening and sleeps with Cammie, things moving into strange emotional areas. Wanda has a frustrating talk with Sam about his behaviour. Pas de Trois: Julian tells Angel about what Esme did and she reluctantly agrees not to retaliate against her. Wanda, Jake, Doug and Marie-Ange go out for dinner and talk turns to why Jake and Wanda haven't had sex yet.

Jul 26 - Mutation Sternutation: Marie's powers come back; Marie emails Jean to ask if it's possible to be reinfected with the virus, but Jean tells her she can't catch it again; Jean posts her report on the pick up; Crystal emails Laurie about her disappointment in not having Crystal's powers any more; Callie is meditative on the nature of being a mutant in the wake of her powers returning. Jay emails Kyle about the aggressiveness of his response to Lex the day before. Lex emails Lil and it goes badly. Lex asks Nick to come out hunting with him. Crystal emails Lex about people misjudging his tone. Manuel emails Lex warning him off Lil and her anger issues. Manuel emails Amanda about her comment about Bethany. Manuel thanks Callie for the babysitting. Cammie and Catseye go into New York for a shopping trip and Catseye gets a shock when she tries to play with some of her old feral cat companions and they react to her as if she was human; Cammie notices Catseye is still in the woods. Yvette asks if it's all right to go back into the woods. Forge runs into Manuel at Harry's and they talk about the women in Manuel's life and a recurring pattern of attraction; Cammie runs into a drunk Manuel and things get odd.. Lex apologises for his tone in the previous day's post. Cammie texts Callie about Valentia being in her suite. Callie offers extra cookies to Fred. Jake posts a final example in the "Why Sweden Is Crazy" discussion. Jan finds Dori moping after a call to her mother and they talk families and dumb fathers.