Fourth Floor Common Room, Wednesday Evening

[demonbelthazor]

Bored, Bel wandered down to the common room of his former residence, the fourth floor. He ordered a pizza, and after it arrived, sprawled on the couch and started flipping through the channels. There had to be something worth watching on. Dammit, Vanessa Saturn was a repeat due to the Olympics. Maybe CFD: Detroit would have some sort of cool gruesome murder.

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel heard the click and the whirl and saw the flash. He sat up, looking toward the stairs. What the hell was that?

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia held her breath and shut her eyes, following the age old reasoning of "If I can't see it, it can't see me".

If she tried to run upstairs now, she'd be caught for sure. Maybe he wouldn't come look?

She needed a cover story. Fast. And "I was pushed out into the stairwell and lost my tour" so totally wasn't going to cut it this time.

[demonbelthazor]

Bel stood up and walked over to the stairwell to investigate, peering around the corner.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie happened to walk down the hall at that exact moment.

"Oh, hey," she greeted Bel with a shy smile. "I haven't seen you since we did our presentation. How've you been?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia heard him walking over and nearly panicked. What could she do? What could she . . . she forced herself to look nonchalant and started walking up the stairs. She'd just deny everything.

[demonbelthazor]

Bel stopped before reaching the stairs and caught sight of Allie walking down the hall. "Hey," he said. "Did you just see someone run by here or anything?"

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"No, why?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Thought I saw a flash of light and heard something." He shrugged. "Guess it was my imagination."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia let out a soft breath and booked it the rest of the way up the stairs.

Oo, that made a lot of noise.

She was going to have to work on the sneaky surveilance.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Huh, well, around here, you're probably lucky you didn't get turned into an animal or something," she said with a shrug.

[demonbelthazor]

"True enough," Bel said, grinning. "So how are you doing?"

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Not too bad," she replied. "One of my friends is leaving though."

[demonbelthazor]

"Oh, who's that?" he asked.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Lisa Cuddy, we worked in the clinic together."

[demonbelthazor]

"Don't know her," Bel said. "Why's she leaving?"

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Family stuff," she said with a little frown. "I can understand that though."

[demonbelthazor]

"You having some issues, too?" Bel asked. He could feel definitely sympathy for family drama.

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"Not at the moment," she said with a smile. "But my dad wasn't thrilled about some of the stuff he heard about this place when I was home over break."

[demonbelthazor]

"I can imagine," Bel said. "You're from one of the more normal worlds, right?"

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"I'm from New Jersey," she said. "It doesn't get much more normal than that."

[demonbelthazor]

"I don't know," Bel joked. "In my world, a lot of demons live in New Jersey."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie giggled. "I don't find that hard to believe for some reason."

[demonbelthazor]

"There could be demons and magic in your world, you just don't know it," Bel said. "Most magical types where I'm from keep themselves hidden."

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie cocked her head thoughtfully. "I'm not sure I like that idea," she said honestly.

[demonbelthazor]

"Don't worry," Bel said. "Chances are you're from a perfectly normal world."