Room 406, early evening

[izzyalienqueen]

After a night spent fighting Samuri Fishmen, and a busy day of classes, StuCo, visiting, and an assembly. Isabel was glad to get back to her room. Apologizing profusely, she locked Annie the cat in the bathroom, then set Jack the mouse down on her bed.

"There. Roam! Be free!" she laughed.

The door was open.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Sam said he ate something, but she's not sure what." Isabel flipped open her phone and showed Parker one of the pictures she'd snapped of Jack during the day. "He spent most of the day riding on my shoulder. Cedric just picked him up a little while ago."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"That is almost disturbingly adorable," Parker said, looking at the photo and shaking her head. "Hopefully it'll wear off like being a fox did. And at least he can't butt anyone into mud puddles." She looked meditative. "I still have to ge Alec back for that."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"That was amusing," she grinned. "I'm glad I stuck to swings with D'Anna. So besides unexpected mud baths, what else have you been up to? Have you talked to Jarod since he was wee?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"A very little bit on Monday-- he was pretty busy at Caritas. He spent the night in my suite on Sunday night." Parker shook her head. "God, he was a cute kid." She was quiet a second. "I forget what he's been through, sometimes. When he's being a jerk." She rolled her eyes. "Then he's a jerk again, and I don't care so much."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I didn't get a chance to get down there this week. There was trauma and a trip to the past," Isabel said, rolling her eyes. "I'll get down there this week."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Trauma? Trip to the past? Are those connected or separate?" Parker wondered as she reached out to scratch behind Annie's ears. "Share!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Connected. Lucas, Greg's roommate, found some portal opening around the island. And of course, being a boy. He had to check it out." Isabel headwalled against the wall. "He and Katara wound up trapped. So Wednesday was research day and last night we went two hundred years into Fandom's past to battle samuri fishmen."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker rolled her eyes. "Of course. Gah." She listened, nodding, then said, "Samurai fishmen? You won, I'm guessing, but jeezzz...."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"We won. I may never eat sushi again. But we won and got them back," she said proudly. "In theory? Lucas has promised not to do it again. I figure we'll be saving his ass again at some point before May."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like the perfect roommate for Greg," Parker said dryly. "Matching lacks of self-preservation. Was the Island pretty much the same two hundred years ago? Aside from the invasion, of course."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah," Isabel nodded. "There was quite the collection of people from across time. It's good to know some things just don't change."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Cool. Who else went? And was that it for the trauma?" Parker grinned. "Some people have gone time traveling so much they wouldn't even register that at this point."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"A bunch of the new people who's names I still haven't really learned," Isabel admitted. "This place is getting too big."

Looking down at a sleeping Annie, Isabel shook her head. "I only wish. Do you want to hear about the freaky dream I had featuring a pissed off ancient Slayer? Or about the last person in the world I ever expected to stumble across on the beach."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Dreams first, then reality." Parker frowned. "Ancient Slayer-- someone mentioned that this week, I have no idea who.... River, I think. You had a dream with that too?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much everyone that was there got hit with freaky weird dreams. Gotta love spillover rage," she sighed. "And you don't need to be an expert to figure out what mine meant."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"What? What particular nightmare did you have to host?" Parker petted Annie's head, and gave Isabel a worried look.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Well Bel, our Bel, the nice guy, was in it. And you and Jack went flying off in a flying saucer and Max went off with Tess." Isabel shrugged, "Can you sense a theme?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Being left. Abandoned." Parker gave her a 'you dummy' look. "You know I won't do that, right?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh I know. But still, after May, it won't be the same." Since this was rapidly evolving into a conversation that needed chocolate, Isabel carefully set Annie aside before going to her desk and rummaging through it, returning with a bag of Cadbury mini-eggs. "You're going to be in England. Jack's going to be where and whenever. We'll be reduced to phone calls and email till Spring Break 2008."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"There'll be Homecoming. And Christmas break. But, yeah. I know." Parker grimaced, and took one of the eggs. "Why can't you be a senior already, damnit? Although that still wouldn't solve much unless you wanted to attend Oxford."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Please, I'm supposed to be. But remember, I had to redo sophomore year to be admitted here," she reminded her. "And honestly? I really haven't given much thought to what I'm going to do or where I'm going to go after here. I suppose I should start thinking about it."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"SAT's and admissions tests in another few months, then college applications after that-- yeah. You should have the beginnings of a plan, at least." Parker was still a big believer in plans. "But I can see how the dream would make it seem worse." She took another egg and sternly told her, "But I am not abandoning you. If you need a break, or to get away, you just have to call. You'll be staying in my dorm room at Oxford before you know what hit you."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Or a place to hide? Cause that sort of ties into who I ran into the other day," Isabel said with a shudder.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Of course, and who would that be?" Parker frowned, handing over a Cadbury egg to Isabel. "'The last person you would expect to see' was...?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Kivar was here. According to the radio he was the guest lecturer for Extraterrestrial Civilizations." She took the egg but didn't open it. "If I'd known I would have stayed holed up here for the day. But I didn't. I went to beach to meet up with Peter and he, Kivar, found me there."