Sunday Evening, All Across Fandom Island

[nookiepowered]

In a Fandom that should never have happened, a wand snapped in half, this time for the last time, and moments later, an hourglass cracked apart, sand spattering to the floor.

Time, already twisted back on itself like a watch wound too tight, snapped free. Unspooled across Fandom and the universes that touched on it, re-creating the lives that Umbridge had undone -- all but her own. That ending, she'd earned, and Time left her where she was, dead on the floor of an office that no longer existed, just like her.

Fandom, though? Fandom was back, and those who'd lost their lives under her rule were back too, waking wherever they'd been in our world when she'd made her escape from Special Collections last Sunday.

Those who lived long enough to see her defeated would find themselves standing exactly where they were a moment ago, the memories still fresh in their minds, but in a world devoid of Dolores Umbridge -- and refreshingly low on pink.

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[OOC: For all your wakeywakey fun-times or horrible embarrassment, as you like - feel free to react here or link it up from wherever you'd like to set it. Any reactions should be with or in your characters' regular journals, though, since we're back in the main timeline!]

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Rise and Shine!

[nookiepowered]

Wow, what a crappy dream.

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[lovemykilt]

Priestly woke up in a room at the Arms

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[longislandiceme]

Bobby, as it turned out, hadn't left the beach even as the siege continued in earnest. Maybe that hadn't been the safest choice, but it had been his to make, and after years of no choices whatsoever... Yeah.

But then reality folded in on itself, ice turned back into flesh, and things were right again.

Well. Almost...

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[whenshewasnice]

Natalie was in some random hallways at the school when time unwound itself. The analytical part of her wanted to note that it was an odd sensation, turning from a version of yourself into another and having the memories still in your head.

The rest of her felt... very very tired.

Right. She guessed she should probably think about going back to her room. The usual one.

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[firstnameagent.livejournal.com]

Over in his apartment, Coulson felt his chest for bullet holes before rolling out of bed, yawning, and saying, "I have to stop getting killed."

Why yes, he was at the point where he just assumed that something that detailed and crazy and ending in his death was somehow real.

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[bigdamnprincipal]

In one moment, Zoe was standing outside of Umbridge's office. In the next moment, she was standing outside of her office, and a feeling of horror washed over her. She rushed out of the school building without even looking back, and didn't stop running until she was home and through the door of Grace's room.

Grace was clearly confused about why Zoe grabbed her and squeezed her in a tight hug, but she was getting old enough to learn to just roll with this sort of thing when it happened.

"It's okay, mommy. Was there something bad?" she asked.

Zoe sighed and just held Grace tighter. "Very, very bad. But it's okay now."

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[notconflicted]

Sia woke up in her room. Which confused her for a moment, because she hadn't expected to wake up ever again.

Confusing her further was the fact that everything didn't hurt. She would have at least expected some residual pain, but she felt physically fine. Cliche as it was, when she sat up the first thing she did was pinch the skin of her arm to make sure she was still capable of feeling pain, just in case.

She did not want to admit even to herself how much any of this freaked her out.

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[vanillajello]

One moment, Kate was standing in the school with a knife in her hand...

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[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Naomi found herself in her room at the Arms Hotel, very much alive but confused. She had little recollection of the past week and had no memories of what had happened after Thursday.

Except she faintly recalled being shot at and lying alone, slowly dying, in a street ...

She knew it would be late when she made a call home but the first call she made after she woke up was to her parents.

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[furnaceface]

Well... the day had been saved. How about that.

Jonothon made his way from the dorms, a few grains of sand still clinging to his fingertips, with a blank sort of look on his face, eyes turned toward the ground underfoot.

This was a victory. The flood of memories of the past several years of his life stood to confirm as much. Whatever this was, this was the best possible outcome. But there was a part of him that wished that, in the wake of that outcome, this didn't have to be the life that he came back to.

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[electrocynic]

Over at her apartment, Sarah was considering heading out to Caritas or something. But for now, she was just doing a bit of channel surfing.

And, wait, what? Why were they talking about the London Olympics as if that was already happening? That wasn't 'til next week, wasn't it?

And then she checked the date on her phone. Yeah, July 29th there too. "What the fuck?"

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[so_hawkward]

When everything went back to normal, Clint went from sitting curled up on the floor in the library to sitting curled up over a trashcan in the library. It was possible he'd stop throwing up sometime tomorrow.

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[catchmeifyoucan.livejournal.com]

Frank had actually made it back to his room just in time for the Time-Turner to get smashed, and his hand instinctively groped for the doorframe for balance as the memories hit him and he realized what must have happened.

Which -- for him at least -- hadn't actually been anything too bad. Like he'd said yesterday, he'd gotten to be kind of a superhero.

So he respectfully shut the door so no one who was more traumatized than he was would hear, then let himself grin a little as he leaned back against the door. "Cool."

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[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Savannah had been in the midst of a battle to defend the Resistance people in town one moment and then the next, everything had changed.

She lowered the hands she had been using to fire spells at people and then looked around wildly.

"Angela?!" She screamed. "Angela!"

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[throughaphase]

Kitty had been in Umbridge's office, but it wasn't Umbridge's office anymore, by the looks of it. And then Zoe ran off, and Kitty was left with the realization that this was the weirdest thing that had happened to her in a while.

"I need a nap," she decided.

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[trigons_child]

Raven ran.

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[tasenburn.livejournal.com]

One minute Elle was in town, the next...

Well, she was still in town, she was just off to the side of the sidewalk, vomiting repeatedly and sobbing as she did so.

Cassidy was never going to forgive her!

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[gastronomistic]

Vincent had been once more taking stock of his dwindling food supplies, trying to work out what he could spare for all the poor people who made it through the fighting and would want something extra good to eat when it was all over.

And then he was staring at his fully stocked, beyond-state-of-the-art freezer, listening to the sweet strains of Bobby Darin from the jukebox.

"Well," he said, shutting the freezer door behind him. "I'm glad that's over."

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[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

Stephanie had been in the middle of leaping from rooftop to rooftop when everything changed, which resulted in a split second of confusion and then gravity taking over in the most special way.

When she opened her eyes again, she was sprawled on the pavement in her Robin outfit, feeling a little like a gigantic bruise.

Hey. I get to keep the Spoiler color motif going in some way!

She groaned and sat up, rubbing her head. "I have never been more glad to be possibly concussed in my life."

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[notalender]

Arietty had escaped back into the walls after confronting Bucky. There wasn't much difference there, when the change hit, just a brief shuddering of something snapping back into place. She nearly missed it.

If it weren't for the grumbling of the gremlins echoing through the studs and the sure knowledge that she had a cozy little drawer to return to in the room she shared with Cassie, she might have stayed hidden away forever.

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[sensethevisions]

Phoebe had been hiding in the warehouse because it was one of the places she felt safe. She had been given a gun and a knife and she was in the shadows ready to shoot anyone who tried to harm any of the injured from the detention escape.

The next moment, she was standing in the same warehouse but everything felt different.

Cole. She had to find Cole. She started running, following the bond that stretched between them.

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[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve had been in a warehouse, and then she was still in a warehouse but she was herself again and barely able to get the taste of worry and fear from her mouth.

She bolted out of the warehouse and went in search of her loved ones.

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[likethestore.livejournal.com]

K-Mart was in the warehouse, sipping a cup of coffee, and then she was in the warehouse looking around in confusion.

This was officially the worst thing that had ever happened to her in Fandom, she decided.

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[hatesmoststuff.livejournal.com]

The sudden jolt back to reality was enough to have April choke on a cheeseburger.

Then she recovered, stood up, and left the restaurant.

OOC: Umbridge Aftermath

[nookiepowered]

Questions, comments, pie (even the pink kind).

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[locointhecoco]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, EVEN?