Room 406, evening

[izzyalienqueen]

It had been a very quiet Sunday for Isabel. After being up half the night, she finally fell into a deep sleep after the sun rose. After a visit to the gym, she returned to find a voicemail waiting for her. Shaking her head, she hoped Alec was doing okay.

At some point she was going to have to go out and spend some time in the common rooms, Isabel realized. But for now it's easier to stay in her room and read and think. Settling down on her bed, she started reading through her notes for Revolutions.

The door was open.

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

After leaving Sam, Jack ducked back to his room to grab Izzy's very silly present (http://music.emusicalgifts.com/img_large/NY_bear_65080.jpg), then headed up to the fourth floor and held it in front of him as he walked through the open door. "I found this poor thing wandering alone through the streets of New York. Think you could give him a home?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It depends," she laughed. "Is he going to mug me at some point?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Hmm." Jack turned the bear to face him, studying it thoughtfully. "Nope, he's way too identifiable," he finally said, laughing as he dropped him into Isabel's lap. "I promised you something silly. Did I succeed?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel picked him up and inspected him carefully, "You did. Absolutely. He's quite silly. But very cute."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Like me?" he asked, batting his eyelashes at her, feeling the sudden need to be very silly indeed.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh no. I'm sorry Jack," she said seriously. "But he's much cuter. It's the fur."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

He started to pout. "Hmmph." And then he added sad eyes to the pout and looked up at her through his lashes. "So you're throwing me over for the bear?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Enjoying the opportunity to just be silly after too much time in her head, Isabel nodded and cluched the bear tightly. "Yes, I am. How could I turn him down? Look at those eyes." For added effect, she dropped a kiss on the bear's head.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack mock growled and made a playful grab for the bear. It was so much easier to be silly with Izzy and forget everything else.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh hell no!" she said, holding onto the bear and scrambling backwards.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes!" He threw himself after her, carefully, trying to pin her legs so he could grab the bear away. "He's a rival, he has to go!"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel wiggled her feet, trying to hit a ticklish spot. "No! He's my one and only. I'm never giving him up!"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack gasped out a laugh as her foot found the most ticklish spot and let her go. "Gah, no tickling!" he said, and scrambled after her.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately she'd let herself get trapped in the corner made by the wall and the headboard of the bed so there really wasn't anywhere else to go. She curled protectively around the bear. "Don't worry bear! I'll save you!"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Don't listen!" Jack warned the bear, doing his best looming impression of a looming thing as he tried to wrest him away from Isabel.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel kept one arm tight around the bear. With the other? Well, it was a very bright shade of pink that Jack was now wearing.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

It made him pause, blinking down at the shirt, then he looked up, a slow, wicked smile spreading across his face. "You realise," he said, leaning over her. "All's fair now."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"What are you going to do" Isabel asked, a challenge in her eye. "Charm me to death?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Maybe. Or I might just do this!" He grabbed her around the waist, hauled her into his lap, pulled up her shirt and blew a raspberry on her stomach.

And then leapt off the bed, laughing like crazy, putting some distance between them.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Laughing, Isabel pulled her shirt back down and shook her head. "You're insane. You know that right?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," he repeated, staying where he was. "But at least I'm more entertaining than the bear?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Possibly. But I love the bear," Isabel replied. "I'm not giving him up." She watched him across the room and raised an eyebrow. "What? Are you afraid of me or something?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Cautious," he replied, waggling his fingers at her and grinning. "I don't want to end up the same colour as my shirt."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Leave the bear alone and you'll be fine," she grinned. "As nicely and I might even change your shirt back."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmm." Jack pretended to think about while he wandered back to the bed and flopped down next to her. "Nope. I like it pink." He grinned. "No changing it back, but I'm prepared to forgive the bear if he'll share."