nadiathesaint: (bad day)
nadiathesaint ([personal profile] nadiathesaint) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2006-08-22 10:59 am

Fifth floor common room, Tuesday morning

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]

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
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?"

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"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?"

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Pippi flounced in with the intention of making breakfast.

"Morning Nadia."

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Walter bumped her gently with a leg while he worked. "Do you want to use my phone?" They really needed to get her one of her own. Especially with this sort of thing going on

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Pippi tilted her head at the jumpy Nadia.

"You okay?"

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Pippi looked around the common room and peeked out the window.

"Was there an invasion I missed somehow?"

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Walter set his phone down on top of Nadia's closed laptop and turned back to pulling together some breakfast, getting the coffee maker to start making smells that might perk Nadia up a little.

"You'll have to tell me how people can trace phones without wires. I don't understand the technology."

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Pippi's first thought was of the Nazi fuckhead werewolf.

"It could." she said. "'He' who?"

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Nadia had not said much to Pippi about Sloane but Walter's diary had mentioned him. So she knew he had hurt Nadia and she knew this because of that weekend. Which hadn't had anything to do with Sloane, but that might not stop Pippi from transferring at least a small amount of hard feelings.

"Ah him." she said. "What about him?"

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think I'll save an in-depth explanation for a later date," Walter said and set a steaming cup of something black on the floor next to her.

"Hold on to the phone for the moment. I'll get it back from you if I need it."

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Walter waved a spatula at Pippi. "Hey. Eggs?"

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hey eggs yourself!"

[identity profile] walter-n-wires.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right. How are you?"

[identity profile] strongestgirl.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"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?"

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