Las Vegas, Thursday Night

[izzyalienqueen]

Technically it wasn't April 1st just yet. But Isabel plans for the next day and she wasn't sure that she'd get a chance to make this particular call.

Besides, there wasn't much on TV and she was bored.

Picking up her phone, she dialed a familiar number.

[For one specifically, but open if anyone else needs to get some alum activity for the month.]

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[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Angel," Angel said, when he picked up the phone. He was as chatty as ever.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god, Angel! It's horrible," Isabel exclaimed into the phone. "I had to warn you!"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

That got Angel's attention. "Isabel? What's wrong?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Something terrible! I don't understand how it happened," she said, not actually answering the question. "I don't know what people are going to do. I know Wyatt's going to be devastated!"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"We'll fix it," Angel promised her. Not that he had any idea what she was talking about, but since when did that ever stop him? "It'll be fine."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, Angel. This is serious." Despite the fact that she was close to snickering, Isabel managed to keep her voice solemn. "They said the fire is going to have the factory out of commission for months. There's going to be a serious insert high-end hair product name here gel shortage. What are you going to do?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Wait - what?" Angel tried to process all of that. He focused on the important matters. "Not in this dimension!"

Surely not in his dimension, right?

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It is! The factory was a multi-dimensional hub. You'd better go hit the salon and stock up while you can." Briefly Isabel wondered if she'd be able to pull the same story on Wyatt when he turned up later in the evening.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Okay clearly this was serious.

"Thanks for the warning," Angel managed to say before he hung up to rush off to the salon. Possibly several.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

And that would be Isabel, staring at her phone, too stunned to even snicker.

It there hadn't been a shortage before, at least in one little corner of the multi-verse, there certainly was going to be.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*riiiiing*

Checking travel arrangements everywhere, to make sure people she expected to see where there.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel was still snickering when she picked up the phone.

"I love him dearly, but damn, sometimes he's not the brightest bulb is he?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker grinned widely and said, "There's only so many people you'd describe like that, and they're not your boyfriend, the guys living in the future, or Jarod... soooo? Who and what?" Even if she had suspicions.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I think the hair gel kills brain cells," Isabel replied, knowing that would be a decent hint. "Either that, or after 200 plus years, the brain cells are finally dying off."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker cackled, grin widening. "Telllll!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I was bored and called him looking to play a little April Fool's prank," she explained. "I told him all about the fire in the factory that's going to cause a multi-dimensional shortage of hair product."

Isabel snickered, still amused by Angel's reaction. "Not only did he fall for it, he hung up on me before I could tell him I was kidding. I assume he's racing through salons in LA, stocking up on while he can."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Ahahaahahhahaha...!" Parker didn't stop laughing for several minutes. "Oh God, oh God, do you think we can get video from somewhere? Security or traffic cameras? Oh, I am so so sorry I didn't think of that!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I only wish. Although maybe we can bribe Bel with chocolate covered bacon to take pictures of whatever he wanders home with." Vosages was in the mall at Caeser's, it would be easy enough for Isabel to stop by.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker snickered, winding down, and sighed in delight. This mental image would keep her happy for a long while. "Send me some too. Or bring it with you to the reunion tomorrow-- you are going, right?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh god, the bacon bug got you to?" asked the girl that thought nothing of eating chocolate bars laced with chili peppers. "But yes, we're going. It'll be fun to catch up with people. It's been too long."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Bacon is the staff of life," Parker told her, getting up to pace out the confines of her loft. "It has. Jarod won't be with me, but it'll still be fun." She paused, "I just jinxed it, didn't I."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Probably, but look on the bright side. Maybe you'll get to shoot something." Sometimes Isabel did miss the random violence in a weird way.

"Tell the Boy Wonder I'll miss him."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"That'll help. I don't get to do that enough in my current life," Parker admitted, grinning as she looked out the full-length window down onto New York. "What do you think, should I take over a small island?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Only if it had nice beaches," Isabel replied. "I need somewhere nice to vacation."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Plan for the rest of 2011: get my own island." Not unlike the one where she'd left her father. Who she still received regular status reports on. "And attend your graduation ceremony in May? Or June?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Possibly next December if I continue busting my ass. I'm good, but pulling off a four year degree in three while working as many hours as I do is the surest way to insanity that I know," she pointed out.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Don't I know it," Parker said, grimacing and remembering her life at Oxford before last June. "Just make sure I get an invite so I can cheer and take tons of pictures. How's LightBulb Boy?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel snorted. "As if I'd leave the official photographer off the guest list. You'll be there, don't worry."

"Wyatt's fine. He's been busy with school and stuff, but he's doing okay."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Good." Parker smiled fondly. "I'll see you tomorrow. Chocolate and gossip. And mocking of small high school students."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

It wasn't that long ago they were the high school students.

"Don't make too many of them cry before I get there."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I'll leave a few for you," Parker said generously, then grinned. "See you soon, Is-a-bell."