4th floor common room, Wednesday afternoon

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

It had been a hard couple of weeks but Blair decided that it was time to start moving on. He had meditated and decided that the first step didn't need to be a step...it needed to be a bounce.

So Blair was sitting on the floor of the common room, studying a history book and bouncing happily. Things felt better already.

[ooc: Open! Also, this is the first time I've gotten to use this icon in forever! Yay!]

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[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami decided to camp out in the common room again. She came in and sat down on the ouch, with a blanket wrapped around her and a big bottle of water with her. "Hi" she said, to the kid she didn't think she recognized.

[ooc:ami looks bruised and beaten up and wicked tired and has bandages in several visible places]

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Hey..." Blair's greeting trailed off as he took in Ami's appearance. "Are you okay?"

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"I am fine... now. Just don't want to be in my room... Have we met? My mind is not exactly at it's best right now, and well, my memory is especially bad." She extended her hand in greeting "I am Ami."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you, Ami." Blair shook her hand gingerly, not wanting to hurt her. "I'm Blair Sandburg."

"What happened, if you don't mind me asking?"

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Hi Blair. It is nice to meet you as well." She held her blanket a bit tighter around herself. "As to your other question... I am not sure. There are several of us who have similar symptoms, but none of us remember clearly what happened."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair raised an eyebrow. "Symptoms? Those usually mean itchy spots and fevers. This looks like you got beaten up."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"WE might have?" Ami said shrugging a little. "We all ended up very dehydrated, and gone for a day, and thinking a week passed, and banged up and cut up and needing to spend time in the clinic..." she paused for breath. She just wished she had more to add to the story "And none of us remember anything except restraints and knives. And bright lights."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like..." Blair shrugged not wanting to muck up your plot. "Well, I'm not sure what it sounds like. Nothing fun."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

no, please totally do it!"No... nothing fun..."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Tasty pumpkin bread?" Billy offered.

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"Hey. I am kind of not into eating very much lately... But thank you" she smiled at him. "How are you doing?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"You should eat something." he said, sitting down. "I'm doing better. But I'm kind of avoiding sleep."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"I am avoiding closing my eyes. Why are you avoiding sleep?" she took a bit of the food, rolling it in her hands.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"A really bad dream." Billy said. "If anyone had been around when I woke up, I mighta hit them I was freaking out so bad."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

"What did you see?" she asked, putting the crumbs down on the table, not having eaten any of it. Brushing her hands off, she put one arm around Billy.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I was...in a room. Dark. Strapped down. And...it hurt. A lot. Couldn't stop screaming. Then this thing came up to me. And shoved something through my skull."

[slr-mercury.livejournal.com]

Ami squeezed him close. "Through your skull? Why? What were they doing?" She shuddered as it brought back memories of her own.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Walking was helping with the being awake. Walking and the pumpkinbread he'd handwavily bought at JGOB earlier. And the caffeine he'd ingested in the lobby.

He thought the TV might help calm him. And look, here were people. People were good. Safety in numbers right?

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Hi Ninja!" Blair said with a wave and a bounce.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy couldn't help it. Last time he'd seen Blair the guy had clearly been troubled by something. Right now, the old Bouncy blair was like chocolate for the soul. He managed a small smile.

"Hey Blair. How are you?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Doing pretty good, man." Blair smiled and gave another bounce. "How bout you? Enjoying the break from school?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy started to tell Blair that he was doing fine. But, hell he didn't have the energy to lie right now.

"Not, too good I'm afraid."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

Blair stopped and put down his book, turning to look up at his friend. "What's up, man?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Something happened to me on Sunday. I'm not sure what but one minute I was walking in the park, and the next, some robot thing brought me to the clinic on Monday night."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Robot thing?" Blair asked worriedly. "What sort of robot thing?"