Room 406

[izzyalienqueen]

Isabel had slept in while the mun went to NYC for lunch and a show, so she'd missed the Teal Deer Brunch.

Now she's sprawled across her bed, trying to finish the reading for tomorrow's Western Literature Class.

The door's open.

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[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

After handwavily helping put Rory and Bridge's rooms back in order and getting his cookie payment, he decided to see how Isabel was doing.

"Hey. Want a cookie?" he asked, poking his head into the room.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Of course," Isabel smiled. "Hi! Come on in."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter gave Isabel a thoughtful look. "Wait, is this an actual good mood now, or another fake one like you had on Friday?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah, that." Isabel looked a little embarrassed. "This is an actual good mood. Friday was... Let's just say it wasn't a good day."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know. But you're okay now? Good," Peter said. He passed over the bag of cookies. "Feel free to take some."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm not thrilled but I'm coping." She took the bag of cookies and pulled one out. "Last week was bad enough when Veronica accused me of being some sort of evil alien. Rita was just icing on the cake."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Wait, Veronica accused you of that? Why?" Peter asked.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Because I didn't come out and admit the truth from day one." She shrugged, "Remember the day of the screwed up phones? A message I thought I left for Max actually wound up on her voicemail. And then Xander mentioned seeing me take a stain out of her clothes and mentioned it to her."

Isabel took a bite of cookie and rolled her eyes. "It was enough to send her investigating. She found it all, adoption records, FBI files. And then ambushed me when I went to Janet's to actually tell her the truth."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's nice," Peter said, rolling his eyes. "So, just because you don't share everything, you're evil? Geez, I didn't tell anyone about me for a month. So, do I want to kill everyone here? Gah."

"Sorry. That just sounds familiar to stuff I heard all the time back home."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I think she's just nervous because of everything that happened last semester. I haven't heard all the details, but I'm pretty sure she was involved when Angel was all evil," Isabel took a bite of cookie and shrugged. "And I understand. Remember, we had the FBI chasing us around because we were considered a threat."

"I could have dealt with that. I did deal with that. Mostly by blowing up at Xander and then apologizing profusely the next morning. But then Rita opened her mouth."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Still," Peter said. "Seems a little overly paranoid to me, and I was actually captured by the government and given an experimental serum that had some pretty drastic side effects, so I know a little about paranoid."

"I may be overreacting. Kind of a touchy subject with me."

"Anyway, how are the cookies? They're from J,GoB."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure she has her reasons. Stupid ones, but I'm sure they seem real enough to her. And you're not over-reacting. Not at all," Isabel said and took a bite of cookie.

"Mmmmmm..."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, the newspaper meeting with her should be fun on Thursday," Peter said. "But yay on the cookies!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh. I forgot about that," Isabel said. "Don't worry about it though. It's over. And in the grand scheme of things? It really isn't bothering me anymore."

"Did you know I had detention yesterday?" Isabel took another cookie because one, yummy. And two? Comfort food.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I did know that," Peter said. "How did that work out? Good stuff like putting hats on hammers, or no?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Unfortunately no. I seemed to have missed the happy glitter version and instead landed in the 'your worst nightmare' session," she said. "And I mean that literally."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Ack," Peter said. "But you were okay after that?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"No," she said. "Getting to the point of being okay took getting Angel soggy. But in the end? Maybe it was worth it. I saw my worst fears played out in living color. It sort of puts everything that's happened in the last week in perspective." She looked down, "I'm not happy about everything that's happened, and that includes everything that when on in Roswell. But things could be so much worst."

"But enough bad stuff. It defeats the purpose of trying to be cheerier," Isabel grinned. "I've got news about Skeeter."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Did you hear the radio last night? She wants to adopt me!" Peter said, grinning.

"So, what do you know about my new mommy?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel reached over and grabbed the laptop off her desk. Opening her email, she started to read some of highlights from Xander's forwarded message.

She didn't exactly have the best reputation even back then - 'exaggeration' would be a nice way of putting what she used to write about people....

She was writing ads for -- I kid you not -- wand enhancement in the back of Playwizard magazine. And there's one that seems to be about questionable herbalistic steroids for rare magical pets, but I'm told with many snickers that it's a euphemism.

"Xander forwarded the message to John," she laughed as she shook her head. "I don't even want to think what he's going to do with it."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Oh dear God," Peter said. It was slightly muffled due to covering his mouth with all six hands to keep the laughing down. "Between this and the adoption thing from the radio, I have no clue how I'll make it through class on Wednesday."

And then he had a very bad idea. "Do you have any of these ads?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Very quietly," Isabel said with a raised eyebrow. "Unless you have some mad desire to join John as he attempts to work his way through the zoo."

"There are two articles attached, I guess they're from her newspaper days. But there is a jpeg." She snickered. "It's titled, Make my monster grow."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"There are sometimes when an opportunity for entertainment is so great that caution has to be thrown to the wind," Peter said. "Make my monster grow? Ha! If you forward this to me, I'll be your best friend."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Does this mean I'm going to have to skip Western Civ so I can come to your class and see what she's going to change you into? I think some people go by John's class just for the show."

A few clicks on the laptop and the message as well as the attachments were on their way. "You brought me cookies, it's the least I can do."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I'd prefer that you didn't because being turned into an animal is a very personal experience, but if you must, you must," Peter said with a grin.

"Thank you so much. If you're evil, may I never be on the side of good."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"A personal experience that you'll share with your classmates but not the best friend that supplied you with the ammunition?" Isabel asked with a pout. "I'm hurt."

Of course the pout didn't last long. "Well if Veronica ever finds out what I did to Logan's door, she'll probably think that just proves she's right. Although Logan did think it was funny once I explained why I did it."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'd rather not share it with my classmates, either, but they're there," Peter said.

"Okay, I just wanted to check in and offer cookies. Now that I know you're okay and have had sugar, my work here is done."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"For your sake, I'll stay in class. I wouldn't want to interrupt any bonding between you and your new mom," Isabel said.

"You do go work. Thank you. For both the cookies and the checking in. I appreciate it."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome," Peter said. "I'll talk to you later."

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

Victor had heard some stuff on the radio about a girl being outed as an alien. He'd also heard some others talking about it around campus, and he was starting to get really curious. So, he bought a box of chocolate chip cookies, found out where her room was, and knocked on the door.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel looked up, vaguely recognizing the freshman she'd seen around campus. "Yes?"

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

"Hey, this might be kinda weird, but these are for you." He held out the box of cookies and gave her a warm smile. "I heard you've been getting a lot of shit lately, and from I understand, you don't deserve it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Um, thanks," Isabel said as she took the box. "It's been interesting. But my friends have been a big help."

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

"That's good. I just wanted to make sure that you knew that some people around here were still cool, no matter where you come from. Enjoy the cookies, and I'll see you sometime around campus."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel smiled. "I'm sure you will. Thanks again."

[anole-x.livejournal.com]

"No prob. See ya!" He waved and exited, glad to have hopefully made a new friend.