Fifth floor common room, Tuesday morning

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia hadn't so much slept last night. Or, rather, she hadn't slept so much. She had gotten in a little bit of sleep, but it was restless.

It was just enough sleep to remind her that she might have been able to see Sloane coming, if she paid attention to her dreams. So she was sitting on the floor between the kitchen counter and the table, where she could see the doors pretty easily, but she wouldn't be spotted right away, with her laptop, typing up every bit of dream she could remember from the last few weeks.

There wasn't much.

The unidentifiable yet familiar silohuette holding up a gun was obviously Sloane. The gun might not be literal, though. She both hoped it was and hoped it wasn't. A gun from him would give her reason to kill him.

The other image that kept popping up in her head really terrified her though. She couldn't remember much of it, or when she'd dreamed it up, but it was a series of mirrors surrounding her, none reflecting her image.

She'd learned about brainwashing techniques in her training. Mostly how to withstand them, but she knew that resisting it was a matter of continued focus and practice, and that beginning agents were more succeptable to it than more experienced ones.

Was that what Sloane planned? To make her forget who she was, become someone else? Someone who would join him?

She closed her laptop and set it to the side and hugged her knees.

[ooc: open for interaction, possible SP while I'm at work]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter pushed his glasses up on his head and rubbed his eyes. Staying up all night being properly paranoid was part of the job, or so he reminded himself as he got off the couch to make some breakfast.

He had to step over Nadia to get to the fridge and stopped to kneel at her side. "How are you holding up?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia let out a slow breath, resting her chin on her knees. "I've . . . been better."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Understandable." Walter rubbed his hand down her back and stood up. "I am going to force you to eat something and make you some coffee. What did you want to do today with regards to this problem?"

[nadiathesaint]

'Hide', while true, probably wasn't what Walter would consider an acceptable answer. "I should check with Jamie, see if he called again. Then we should probably let the mountie know, and maybe the sherrif."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter scrounged some eggs and bread, and because this was the fifth floor, some leftover peppers he could throw into the eggs for Nadia.

"Right. You should consider just calling the Mountie and the sherriff, since you'll be exposing yourself if you go out." That wasn't hiding, that was intelligently keeping cover. There was a difference. Really.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi flounced in with the intention of making breakfast.

"Morning Nadia."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia jumped slightly. "H-hi, Pippi,"

How did people keep sneaking up on her? She was keeping an eye out!

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi tilted her head at the jumpy Nadia.

"You okay?"

[nadiathesaint]

"So far."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi looked around the common room and peeked out the window.

"Was there an invasion I missed somehow?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter waved a spatula at Pippi. "Hey. Eggs?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hey eggs yourself!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Right. How are you?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I'm good, very good, Pip and I are going sailing tomorrow." She might bounce a bit at that. "...and I'd love some eggs thank you. How are you?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie wandered into the common room and upon seeing Nadia there appeared to look troubled. "Hey everyone."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter looked up from the frying pan and nodded. "Jamie." He held up an egg. "Food?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Yes, Thanks Walter," Jamie said grimly. "How've you been?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Concerned for Nadia," Walter said. "Have you heard anything more?"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie's eyes flickered over to where Nadia was and frowned.

"Earlier the phone rang a couple of times but each time I answered it, the person on the other end hung up," Jamie replied. "I asked the phone company to trace the call but it went to one of those cell phones you can pick up at a Kwik stop."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Good morning Jamie."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Morning Pippi," Jamie replied. "How are you?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi cast a glance at jumpy Nadia.

"I'm okay." she said, then grinned inspite of herself. "I'm going sailing tomorrow."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia startled and went for her mallet, but saw it was Jamie and relaxed slightly. She watched silently as he talked to Walter and Pippi since the mun was otherwise occupied while lotsa pinging and such was going on. Then she finally broke in.

"You should switch rooms. He knows where I live and he might get mad when he doesn't find me and I don't want anyone else getting hurt."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie looked at her seriously and shook his head. "No. Even if he does find me what's he going to do? Hit me? Shoot me?"

Jamie took a bite of his eggs. "He does that? Then he's going to have an army of Jamie's looking to open up a can of whoop-ass on his evil butt."

[nadiathesaint]

"That didn't help you with the creepy silent grinning guys. What if Sloane does something else to you? He never hit me last time he was here, but the drugs were more than enough. He could try something like that."