Fourth Floor Common Room, Sunday Afternoon

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe had tried watching something on the TV, but all of the fighting she knew was going on outside was keeping her sufficiently distracted. She got up from the couch and paced a little bit before she went to stand beside the winter. She hated that she couldn't do anything to help her friends and teachers that were out there. Her powers weren't exactly helpful and her fighting skills were nil. She couldn't call to talk to Tori or Derek or Simon because if they found out what was going on here right now would throw all of them into a panic.

So, she watched the giant lizard monster attacking the island and the people fighting and hoped that everyone got through this alive.

And destroyed that thing and its friends, too.



[[Open common room is open.]]

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[awakestheghosts]

"I w-would l-like to know anything you are willing to t-teach m-me," she said, a little less shyly than before.

"I h-have class on M-Mondays and Wednesdays and I w-work F-Fridays and Sundays."

[intraspective]

Ino silently considered that.

"What 'bout an evening?" she said, tilting her head. "I've got Thursday free but a lot of times I'm off on missions or something and I don't always get word of it ahead of time. Or Monday--I'm at the clinic already, taking the time to show you things there might work?"

But, really, Ino was pretty easy here.

[awakestheghosts]

She thought about it and then nodded. "I c-could come to the c-clinic on Mondays after class?"

She was pretty excited about all of this.

[intraspective]

"That works for me," she said, grinning at her. "It'll be fun."

As fun as learning how to fix people was but Ino really did think that it counted as fun.

[awakestheghosts]

Chloe grinned back. "I think so, too."

Look, as long as she wasn't having to deal with anyone that was dead or ghosts, she would really enjoy this.

[intraspective]

"And then," she said lightly, "we can think of more ways for you to be useful. There's no point in not trying, yeah? Sometimes people fail anyway but if no one ever tries then there's no point to nothing."

[awakestheghosts]

Oh, Ino may be Chloe's new best friend and if she was a puppy her tail would have been wagging wildly while she trembled with excitement.

"I w-would really like that a lot, Ino."

[intraspective]

Ino's smile was peculiarly gentle as she watched Chloe and finished off her first granola bar. Absently she reached behind her and came out with a box of Oreos.

Totally counted as lunch, hush.

"Did you have anything you wanted to improve on in mind?"

[awakestheghosts]

"I would like to learn everything, Ino. Back home they k-keep trying to protect me because I'm smaller and c-can't f-fight."

[intraspective]

"That's not necessarily a bad thing," she noted. "It means your friends care for you and it keeps you alive 'long enough to learn how to take care of yourself and take care of them in equal measures."

Ino glanced at her.

"You don't seem the type to be in a lot of trouble, if you don't mind me sayin'."

[awakestheghosts]

Oh crap.

Chloe looked down. "I d-don't, but t-trouble s-seems to find us."

Oh how she wanted to confide in Ino and tell her about the problems back home and why she was hiding, but she really didn't want her new friend and teacher to think she was a freak.

[intraspective]

When it came to getting information out of people Ino was very very patient.

"Alright," she said easily, letting the matter drop. For now. "Then we can work on that too. Do you attend Fight Club?"

[awakestheghosts]

She shook her head. "N-no. I d-don't know how to fight."


[[OOC: Can we continue this tomorrow? Am sick and needing to go back to bed. :D]]

[intraspective]

"Okay," she answered, digging out a cookie to munch on. "Then that means, until you've picked up some fighting skills, the best thing you can do when people come for you is to run away. How're you at running?"

[SP is awesome! Absolutely! Sleep well and try to feel better omigod!]