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A series of short stories primarily involving conversations:
In the start of her new series Facing the Music, a more serious continuation of her Girl Talk series, government agents want to capture Jubilee as bait for a scheme against Wolverine, Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom, and end up holding her friends Ariel and Celeste prisoner, and the visiting Cannonball joins Generation X in their rescue efforts.
Paige gets her brother Sam to ask Celeste out on a date.
Rahne is visiting Gen-X, accompanying her foster mother Moira who's lecturing there. She and Sam go on a double-date with Paige and Bobby Drake -- so that Sam can keep an eye on his little sister -- while Moira and Sean finally talk about their relationship.
Trying to get control of Generation X from Emma, Sebastian Shaw has Cordelia Frost raped. While Moira and the school's new nurse help Emma with Cordelia, Emma and her assistant Celeste work on plans for payback.
In-between the main events of Violations and its epilogue, Celeste and Tony get to know each other better, as do Emma and Cordelia.
Kitty, Pete and Rahne join Sam, Paige and several of the X-Men in an undercover investigation of anti-mutant hate crimes in Pine Valley, where they already know or soon meet many of the All My Children characters living in that ABC soap-opera town.
Celeste and Rahne have a mutually supportive talk, but Jubilee and Ariel aren't communicating as well.
Emma and Celeste talk about boyfriends, while Bobby and Hank talk about girlfriends.
Moira mourns her son Kevin, and remembers her failed marriage to Joe MacTaggert.
With her relationship with Sam rapidly progressing, Rahne seeks out Celeste for some serious girl talk.
Jean takes out her frustrations with Scott's over-devotion to Xavier's dream.
Tony's father the Trickster decides to take a hand in his son's life.
Pete asks Tony's help rescuing an old friend, but they may be too late...
Pete enlists Remy's and Logan's help to find a special present for an old friend's sick daughter, with definitely mixed results.
Kurt fusses over his children, Pete sets up a romantic surprise for Kitty, and Gambit and Rogue come to an understanding.
A number of couples celebrate Valentine's Day in different ways.
Celeste decides to send Ariel away for treatment, and comes to a realization about her feelings for Tony just as Tony suffers a crisis of conscience, and renews an old relationship.
Sam accompanies Rahne on a personal pilgrimage to revisit her upbringing with Rev. Craig, and put it -- and him -- to rest.
Tony contemplates his life in general and his relationship with Celeste in particular.
Sam and Rahne have trouble agreeing about Dani's involvement with the MLF.
One winter night, Sam has some very special gifts for Rahne... and a very special question.
Jono worries about Paige as disaster after disaster has her following in Emma's footsteps, and he wonders how to stop her.
Kitty and Pete find themselves at the beginning of family life, while Kurt and Amanda may be nearing the end of theirs.
Sam and Rahne talk about their future, Kurt tells Guido about his disagreements with Amanda, and Pete arranges a surprise for Kitty.
Kitty helps Pete get back in contact with an old friend from his spy days recently returned from 'the dead'.
Concerned about an abused dog, Sam consults with his father about when it is right to interfere in someone else's 'personal' business.
A flashback to their early days in the New Mutants, and how Rahne gets introduced to some of the facts of life.
Rahne and Celeste discuss wedding plans.
Pete Wisdom's adopted daughter has some very important questions for her Daddy.
Familiar figures in an unfamiliar setting...
Tired of his position in the Hellfire Club, Manuel sets his plan in motion, with assorted consequences.
In the common backstory to Denise's Facing the Music series and Leary's Down the Empty Highway continuity, we get the first meeting of Pete Wisdom and Tony the Dragon -- and many other characters -- as they team up to go to Madripoor to rescue the victims of a slaving ring.
In another unofficial sequel to Laersyn's Devil's Due (starting the author's Down the Empty Highway series), the Marauders go after Gen-X next, but Cannonball manages to warn them before they're taken by surprise. The survivors head for Muir, where Cable takes Excalibur and X-Force to attack the Marauders and their ultimate source -- Sinister.
Kitty gets to know baby Rachel better, and ponders her future.
In the sequel to Today Is A Good Day To Die, the Down the Empty Highway series continues with the survivors struggling to come to terms with the cataclismic decimation of their friends and teammates.
In the next installment of the Down the Empty Highway series, Rahne and Celeste take the surviving Gen-X students to see Dr. Samson.
