PARABOLICAL GRAFFITI

Look, you don't know me and I don't know you. I get that. But I need to know if you know how things work, like programming computers and stuff without being a computer programmer.

Well, this is interesting, to say the least. I'm pretty sure I didn't get drunk enough last night to wake up somewhere else. I know we were celebrating, but you guys could have at least given me a heads up if you were going to drop me off at some random hotel. Peter? Matt? Come on, Mohinder, this isn't funny.

This isn't really happening is it. This is some surreal dream that I'm going to wake up from any moment now.

Right?

The truth doesn't matter. You're family either way. Don't forget that.

...Sometimes, with this place-- I just give up.

I think, probably I need to spar with something.

She was like a daughter to me.

I think I'm about to have an aneurysm. Either that, or I just dreamed a large section of the day or my hearing is failing. Or Angela's on drugs. Maybe the drugs are a better assumption.

Faith is missing. I've got all of the search protocols that I have set up running, but I'm coming up mostly empty handed. Think you could help?

I've been here an entire year as of today.

Funny how so much of my life has changed. For the better, even, though most don't believe that's possible when they first arrive here.

We've steadily lost a person a day recently, so it's time for a head count, first and foremost.

( the list )

[ Faith / Fred / Peter / Sarah ]
Are we gonna need to start recruiting to cover losses to the patrol ranks? We can spread around the investigative load to everyone, but patrols are what people have come to expect we're doing, especially the bad guys.


[ooc: Noah, Charlie, Angela have been mentioned as vanishing. Was there anyone who'd been dropped/activity checked that had already been mentioned/assumed as disappeared, or do they all need noted as vanishing now?]

Um. Has anyone seen Angela?

There is such a thing as oversleeping, but other than that, I feel just fine and I'm sorry if I worried any of you. My stint as Sleeping Beauty is up, thanks to Peter.

Where's the birthday cake?

[ooc: feel free to assume she personally contacted anyone close to her (in person or over the phone) as well as made this post!]

If I never hear another rhyme EVER AGAIN, it will be too freaking soon.

Seriously, what was that all about anyhow?

[Faith]
Can I ask you something about this whole singing thing?

[Dean]
So. About the songs from this morning.

It really doesn't make much difference
Everything I say makes no sense

I'm happy just as long as I can see that girl

....Bop a dad, a da, a da

[Undertones - See That Girl]

I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared

After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here

So if you're asking me
I want you to know

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made

I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you

So if you're asking me
I want you to know

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are

When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
I can't be who you are

[ooc: Linkin Park: Leave Out All Rest]

Faded pictures on the wall
It's like they're talking to me
Disconnecting your call
Your phone don't even ring
I gotta get out
Or figure this shit out
It's too close for comfort

[OOC: Disturbia - Rihanna.]

So I say if I can't, do something significant
I'll opt to leave most opportunities wasted
And nothing trivial, that life could give me will
Measure up to what might have replaced it

Too late look, my date book
Is packed full of days that were empty and now gone
And I bet, that regret
Will prove to get me to improve in the long run

[More Than Useless - Relient K]

What a whack quiz. Sounds more like Dad than me anyway.

( What Superhero are you? )

( Poll under cut. )

My last entry was about factual information. I thought I would try a different angle this time. This is all in theory, mind you, so if you want to actually debate it? Comment.

[Family/friends]
Got a job. Selling computers. It'll be good for money for a while. With Alastair gone, I figured I'd have the extra time. Might as well put it to good use. Gotta start saving for parent...stuff. I want my kid to have a college fund.

Never drinking again.

Until next year.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

An bhfuil tu ar meisce fos?

Pionta Guinness le do thoil!

[ooc: I am reliably informed by the Irish one that this means: Happy St Patricks Day to you all! Are you drunk yet? Pint of Guinness please!]

I'm going to be thirty tomorrow, and I haven't done a goddamn thing with my life. I think we've put this off long enough.

Just for the record, whatever it is around here that has all the mystic and shamany types here going crazy, nothing to do with me or mine.

It's actually rather annoying, think you hero types can get it sorted so my lot can get back to some real work without my people having fits?

I just made a huge ice cream and anchovy sundae if anyone wants to share.

You know, if I was still batting for Team Evil, I could have a frikkin' field day with you people.

Hey guys. Did you know that me and Dracula used to be old friends?

[as Kumiko]

Well done children, you've found a little party trick. Streamers and cake for all!

But honestly, kiddiekins, did you really think that would be enough to stop us? Oooh, the powers of Dracula stopped by some itty bitty vials of yummy blood.

Such a mortal way of thinking. It's adorable.

Why am I doing this Maybe I'm not entirely right in the head anymore

Umm, hi. I think the post is gone. Did you get what I said? I just, you know, didn't want you to think I ignored you or whatever if you didn't get the reply.

I think I'm too cranky to be on the internet right now.

[OOC: Heather has deleted this post to save herself the trouble of having to defend herself. And really, I'm not in the right frame of mind OOC to defend my girl right now, sorry! D: Stupid OOC.]

Here's something to think on.

Originally developed to follow the emotional stages of patients diagnosed with terminal illness, the Kübler-Ross Model has been shown to be applicable to most forms of personal loss. Though I seriously doubt Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ever considered the removal of one from their own reality to being deposited in another, I think it's more than reasonable to consider this progression for our own circumstances.

Keep in mind that these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted above, nor are all steps experienced by all patients, though a person will always experience at least two.

The stages are:

1. Denial: Example - "I feel fine."; "This can't be happening, not to me!"
2. Anger: Example - "Why me? It's not fair!" "How can this happen, I hate this world!"
3. Bargaining: Example - "Just let me live to see my children graduate."; "I'll do anything, can't you stretch it out? A few more years." I will give my life savings if..."'
4. Depression: Example - "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die . . . What's the point?"
5. Acceptance: Example - "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."

So. Where are you?

Filtered against: Baddies, Clark(s), Supergirl, Lois, those who used the pits

People never listen, it's frustrating. Somewhat insulting.

There are people who know more about certain things than others. It's just the way it is. It's not a insult against anyone. Sometime it's good to just listen.

I don't see why that's hard to do.

Now it might be too late.

I want to go out. Suggestions where?

[As Cass]

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, isn't it?

Okay, I'm not from Los Angeles. I've never seen a vampire, demons are a little outside my sphere of belief, I won't even get started on magic, and all the talk about God being here makes me want to gag. Thanks to staying at the LA Welcoming Center, I've been given the breakdown on just what exactly is going on here, and quite frankly, I'm still trying to decide if this isn't one big mass hallucination. Though that building-turned-tentacle...thing kind of...

I have a point. I may be nobody. Shit, from what I've seen around here, I want to stay nobody. But people are dying, and getting hurt, and I don't want to be one of them. I'm learning, and I'm seeing names that I recognize. Superman. Batman. Luke Skywalker. These are heroes. Then there are other names, ones that I don't know. Slayers. Champions. I see Petrelli get thrown around a lot. Cathy seems to know that one. (Or is it those ones?)

I see places. Wayne Industries, I know. The JLA, I've heard of. But Torchwood, Angel Investigations, Wolfram & Hart, the Weir? I don't know those ones. The gossip chain says heroes at Angel Investigations. The Hyperion Hotel. But they seem pretty busy. Busy saving people.

I'm a doctor. And I know there's a lot of people to save. I have to deal with anywhere between fifteen and thirty a shift before I started working for House anyway. I know you have to pick your battles.

But I don't want to die. I haven't A lot of people don't want to die. So... can we just... try and stop the ones that want to kill us all? Please? There's too many threats out the door right now, and I'm living. I'm staying inside and I'm living. But I'd like to go out and live.

So. Still alive. Go me.

Man eating buildings. Someone finally created Godzilla deterrent. Except we don't have one of those.

[Lilah]

So about my offer.

Any of you heard from Faith?  We were both patrolling different zones but we were supposed to meet and get food after but she never showed. That was an hour ago.

Its not like her, I think we all know that and given the psycho vamps and that demon are in town? I think the expression is better safe than sorry. Anyone heard from her, anyone at all.

[following this]

How are we doing for space at the hotel these days? Because I've potentially got another two members for the team. Cameron Philips asked me if there was anything she could do to help, she was living at Isis but obviously that's closing. And she says if she comes along, John Connor might too.

The other thing is, Cameron's a Terminator, so I'm wondering if you could take a look at her Gabriel? She says it takes a lot to damage her, but I'd rather know we could repair her just in case.

That's it. No more tequila.

I can't find my shoes. Awesome way to start my day off, huh?

Claire Bennet and Mary Winchester are safe and sound, at the Winchester home. No details yet, save they are both in good health, with no physical markings.

Thank you, to everyone that was searching for them. Thank you very much.

Hey, you guys have that team and people everywhere keep telling me about it and since I’m all stuck here and can’t go home I wanted to talk to you about stuff. Molly, the kid with the hats and the major ass kicking ability was staying there before she got sent back so I’ve been around there a few times before. Anyway I don’t really have anything important to do here and that kinda sucks because I’m used to running around with aliens and a robot and a mutant and a witch and even though I’m not any of those things I like to think I’m useful in my own way.

Before I came here me and my friends kinda had this rule where you didn’t trust adults no matter what. But Molly liked all of you and if Molly likes someone then that usually means they’re good people who aren’t trying to destroy the world or harvest the organs of babies to create dog people or something.

Getting to my point now before I ramble myself to death. If you guys would let me I would totally join your team, because I’m not very good at being on my own and I just tend to get in trouble that way. I think I have a better chance at staying alive when there are other people around who can give me something to do.

I'm gonna get out of here. For good. I'll keep my eyes and ears open at the same time, though.

[OOC: Yes, the Buffster is leaving the Hyperion once again, and is not planning on coming back. D:]