The stairwell, Thursday evening

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia struggles a little bit on the stairs with four bags of groceries and basics while balancing her full backpack on one shoulder. Figures she's ended up on the fifth floor of this building. At least the endless climbing of stairs will keep her in shape. Just like running from the cops used to.

After Marty's tour, she'd hit up the store for some stuff she hadn't managed to get when she was staying with her parole officer, and some food, since enough folks had made vague comments about the cafeteria food that she's leery of ever eating there. She'll have to be thrifty, though, since her stipend isn't meant to cover three meals a day.

Not that she'd had three meals a day for the last five years, anyway. . . .

As she climbs, she keeps her eyes scanning from side to side, checking for gremlins. She's getting even more paranoid than when she was living on the streets.

[open to replies by anyone who happens to wander by as she goes upstairs]

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia's eyes widened a little, again. "Really? Can you do extra views of the past, too, or just future?"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

"Oh no not the past, just the future." She smiled "And despite what some people will tell you, I don't read minds. People seem to think I can I guess because I know what they are going to say because I see but, its because I see it not because I can read them." Maia bit her lip, "That just totally didn't make any sense did it?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I think it did," Nadia tilted her head. "Seeing anything interesting on me?"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia smiled "Not yet, sometimes it takes a while then it comes to me." Maia was relieved that she didn't scare the hell out of Nadia who already seemed to be a little wary of things at Fandom.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia leaned in slightly. "Just, you know, let me know if you see any zombies, or gremlins, or whathaveyou in my future." She nodded. "So how does it work? Do you like, touch something and see flashes, or space out suddenly, or what?"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

"Oh well it just sort of comes up like a movie on fast forward most of the time if I am with the person long enough, or say I say hello and all of a sudden I see you about to fall I'll tell you to watch out." She thought for a moment "No I don't have to touch things, just look at the person. Sometimes not even then, if I do touch the person though it sometimes makes me see things about them faster. When it does the whole movie on fast forward thing for longer then a few minutes, well, I see everything from the next few moments to the end of their life." She tilted her head and smiled a little "Sorry to have made that sound so morbid."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia blinked. Someone's whole life? Okay, that went from kinda useful and fun to kinda really creepy. "Oh. Wow. Is that, um, since you came here, or . . . always?"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

"Oh no, since I came back when I was eight. Diana, my adopted mom, well she sent me here because well because its Fandom and its a special school you know. I wasn't really, well I didn't fit in back home."

[nadiathesaint]

"Came back?" Nadia started up the last flight of stairs towards her dorm room. "Came back from where?"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia shrugged "From where they took me, they brought me back to a different place and everyone was gone, my parents gone, my grandparents gone. Diana adopted me." Maia was sure this didn't make sense but she was not sure if this girl was going to believe her or think she was a total nut job, oh well here goes "Well, I'm sixty-seven." Maia said finally "According to my birthday but eighteen because I've only been back for ten years."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia blinked. "Oh." She smiled. She'd only really understood the last part of what Maia was talking about, but she suspected she sounded about as crazy when she explained where she'd spent the first several years of her life. "Can I call you 'Geezer'?" She grinned to make sure Maia knew she was joking.

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia laughed "Go ahead I get on to Grissom sometimes and tell him he should listen to me because I am old enough to be his mother. My friend Shawn from back home claims I am the sexiest should be grandmother on the planet." Maia again felt relief wash over her that Nadia was not running away from her thinking she was a freak. "So here I have been talking nonstop, tell me, where are you from?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Argentina." Nadia wondered how much to tell the girl. Would she find it all out, anyway with her sooper powers? "I was born in Russia, actually, but ended up in an orphanage in Argentina. I ran away from that when I was ten, and lived on the streets of Buenos Aires for awhile. Now I'm here." Nadia shrugged. "It sounds like a more interesting story than it really is."

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia looked sad, "Your a survivor." She said quietly. "My parents died before I came back." Maia sighed a little, so much loss around her, reflecting off other people from their pain and loss as well. "How did you, how did you survive?" Maia hoped that was not to nosy of a question.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shrugged. "Which part?" She hefted her backpack. "Russia was mostly just . . . waiting. For it . . . any of it . . . to end. The orphanage wasn't as bad in some ways. Some ways it was worse. That's when I started fighting back. Then in Buenos Aires . . . there was a whole crew of us, there. Street rats." Nadia frowned slightly. "You just, you know, do it. Survive. Or whatever." She shook her head. "But hey, I never really had anyone in the first place, so at least I never lost anyone. That had to have been really tough."

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia listened to all of what Nadia said, she had fixed Nadia in her gaze while she spoke. Maia did not know how to reply to what she had just revealed, to never have had anyone to lose to begin with. Maia had lost her parents and been returned to quarantine by her foster parents after only a few days but to have never had anyone. It was just... "How did you, how did you come here? Have you a guardian now?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia made a face. "Sort of. I have a parole officer. I got caught . . . shoplifting." With a gun. "They told me I could go to jail, join the Intelligence agency, or go to school. I'd never really gone to school, so I figured, 'what the heck?'"

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia nodded, several of her friends had that option as well, jail or Fandom, damn what kind of school did Diana send her to. "Well I'm glad you picked Fandom. Much better then an intelligence agency, most of the people who work in those are idiots." She smiled then "Your going to love it here."


((OOC: mun must head to bed in a few, been up for almost twenty four hours straight. screen name on the AIM is rimmel2003 if you ever need to ping me. Wonderful meeting Nadia look forward very much to getting to know her as I don't watch Alias so I don't know about the character.))