Fourth Floor Common Room, evening

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

It was still way too hot to consider doing anything outside for the evening, so Isabel wandered down the hall to the common room and the TV. It wasn't till she'd flipped through three different documentaries on the Roswell Crash that she realized what day it was. The sixtieth anniversary of their ship's crash.

Strangely intrigued, she settled on one of the more recent documentaries, snickering as she recognized some of the people they interviewed as Crashdown patrons and Crash Festival regulars.

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[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny'd slept through the beginning of the football game, and so decided to do some more exploring of the dormitories instead. Most of the building seemed pretty empty, so we he got to a common room with a TV on, he poked his head in to see what was going on.

Something about aliens. Seemed interesting enough.

"Mind if I watch too, or this a kind of a private thing?" he asked.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Weather balloon my ass," Isabel muttered at the TV before turning to smile at the new person. "Nope, open viewing for all. Grab a couch!"

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Taking the invitation, he sat down comfortably on another couch, and put his feet up.

"Johnny Blaze. 'M new around here," he said by way of introduction. "Which UFO event they talkin' about on this?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Isabel Evans," she nodded. "I'm pretty much old at this point. It's the Roswell Crash. Sixty years ago today."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny nodded appreciatively. He'd heard about the crash, but he didn't believe all the crazy tales he'd heard about it. He was in for a rude awakening.

"Sixty years? That's longer than I thought it'd been. They ever find out what actually happened?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel didn't snicker much. "Well if you believe the government, it was a weather balloon. If you believe some of the conspiracy theorists, depending on which conspiracy theorist you talk to, the aliens came here to bring enlightenment, or possibly enslave the human race."

"Really?" she said simply, "They were just looking for a place to be safe."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

"Y'think so?" he asked, looking over at her. "Seems hard to tell that much from a crash site."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I have a little more personal experience," Isabel shrugged. "I was on the ship."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny blinked at Izzy a few times, trying to figure out if she was pulling his leg or not.

"Y'look pretty good for sixty," he managed to get out.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

After cleaning up from the football game, Marco wandered into the common room. "It was a toilet seat." He informed the television.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh really?" Isabel asked. "You know this for a fact?"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco nodded. "We had to break into Area 51 once, and they moved the contents of the crash to a storage facility and it was a toilet." He paused. "Never give someone a fake phone number that has eight digits in it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Different reality then," she shrugged. "In our reality, it was a real ship. And my brothers and I were on it."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"... ... ... Do you have any plans to take over the human race?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"No," Isabel said. "We just want to be left alone."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco gave her his best attempt at a smile. "Deffinetly different universe then. What fell down in your Roswell?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"The ship we were escaping on," she explained. "It's still in government custody. My brother tried to get last year. But it's not working."

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, if the people gaurding it are anything like the lovely soldiers in my version? Not the easiest thing to do."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny waved at the unfamiliar boy entering the room before hearing his comment.

"Toilet seat?" he asked.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco nodded. "Toilet seat."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

"Seems kinda small and unusual for such a big cover up event," Johnny said.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"The general gaurding it thinks it's a communication device." Marco explained. "So did we, actually, which is why we broke in to begin with. You can imagine the disappointment. And the laughter." Actually, it was mostly Marco who was laughing.

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

Johnny chuckled at the image. "Sixty years, keepin' a toilet under wraps. Nice to know that the government does good work.

He pointed at himself. " 'M Johnny Blaze, by the way. Nice to meet ya"

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Marco, and I've heard all the jokes about it." Marco said with a grin. "And it's not the dumbest thing our government does..."

[flamingbonehead.livejournal.com]

"Tell me 'bout it," he said with a grin. "Makes you wonder 'bout how any of these people got elected."

He stopped cold at the name, and pointed at the other boy. "You're Marco? I've been lookin' for you for the last week!"