Third Floor Common Room, Monday Evening

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn was stretched out on one of the couches and flipping through channels.

"Oooh, sharks."

After a few minutes, she was feeling a bit hungry, so she got up to make herself a sandwich. Any resemblance between the song she was humming and the Teeth theme song was purely coincidental.

[ooc: Open to all!]

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel may have squirmed a little bit, feeling guilty about things he'd kept from Phoebe. "Yeah," he said. "It's wonderful."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that reminds me for some reason," Lana said. "Shep was asking about people here and Angel came up. I said I hadn't heard from him, but that you two were just out there and I'd ask you how he was doing."

[demonbelthazor]

Now Bel squirmed for certain. "He's, uh well," he said. "He's fine."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe turned her head to look at Cole in confusion. His emotions had suddenly got all weird and mixed up. "Cole?"

[demonbelthazor]

He tensed, not wanting her to read his emotions. "I'm fine," he said. "Nothing to worry about."

[sensethevisions]

He was doing it again - hiding things from her and shutting her out.

"You're not fine. What's going on?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Phoebe, I'm fine," Cole said firmly. "There's nothing to worry about." He looked at Lana, trying to shift the subject again. "So what else did you guys do?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked from one to the other and back again. "Um... well, if we're sticking to the PG-13 version..." she blushed again. "We had a couple of dinners out, Friday with some of the people he works with and Saturday before the show. Other than that we, um, had a lot of room service and well, sex."

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe had clenched her fists when Cole had shut her down again and she slowly shook her head. She was hurt and she was angry and she just couldn't stay quiet about it any longer. She stepped away from Cole's side and shook her head.

"No," she said quietly and then repeated it a little more firmly. "No. I'm tired of this. I'm tired of the dishonesty when you know I can feel your emotions. I've had it with being shut out when I express concern about the way you're feeling or acting. I am so sick of being made to feel like I'm not supposed to be smart enough to realize when I'm being frozen out and being lied to."

There were tears in her eyes, but her mouth was a tight line as she struggled to keep control. "I am sick of not being trusted." She looked him in the eye. "I can't do this, Cole. When you're ready to be honest with me and tell me what the hell you're doing... or whom... then you can find me and we can talk."

Phoebe turned away and walked towards the door.

[demonbelthazor]

"Fuck," Bel swore as Phoebe walked away. "Phoebe!" he called after her.

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe stopped and turned her head to look at him. "You going to level with me?"

[demonbelthazor]

He dropped his gaze, unable to meet her eyes.

[sensethevisions]

Seeing that, Phoebe felt new pain flare up within her. She didn't think she trusted herself to talk, so she nodded, then turned and forced herself to walk out of the room.

[demonbelthazor]

Bel watched her go, then left the room quietly in the opposite direction.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked stunned, then took off after Phoebe.