( colligo ¬ get collected ) → network.

Today was my father's birthday. It's still strange, him not being around. Don't get me wrong, I have gotten used to Colligo in the last couple of months; after all, I'll have been here for a year in June and if I hadn't gotten used to it yet then I'd be worried about myself. I do still hold out hope that Asaph will decide to bring my parents or sister or more of my family here, but I know it's all completely random and there's a chance they may never show up, but that doesn't stop me from hoping.

What helps is that I do have some family here, even if it is only a small portion of what is a rather large family. And of course Juno makes it that much easier and I am grateful to have her in my life. However, it is days like today that make me quite homesick.

This has got to be a bloody fucking joke.

[Constantine and Ashley Magnus]

Uber Vamp, if you don't mind, I'd like to borrow your other half to get extremely pissed.

I guess I can do this.

( Buffy's answers )

I am in need of a donor. ....Unless Sookie has changed her mind.

I do not require much blood and you will not be turned into a vampire by allowing me to feed from you.

Volunteers please apply.

Ruby, would this work?

( Origami Dog )

He's active but seems to be the petting and lap dog type. I can drop him by this evening if you'd like?

[Sound of static as the phone drops and scrapes on concrete. A child's voice yelling out in indignation.]

Hey!! HEY! PUT ME DOWN!!

[Struggling ends as shoes hitting the sidewalk, a few footsteps heard quickly leading away from the phone.]

GET BACK HERE! My Daddy is gonna beat your stupid face in! HE'S GOING TO MARS SO HE'S REAL IMPORTANT! [Sound of small fists hitting the library doors] LET. [bang.] ME. [BANG.] IN!!! [BANG!!!] CHICKEN!!

[After a moment, there's the sound of small dragging footsteps away from the door and back towards the vicinity of the forgotten phone and sitting down with a small grunt on the library steps. Child's voice low but resolute, but there's no mistaking a few small sniffs and the sounds of wiping a nose with the back of a hand.] Wake up... wake up...... c'mon, you just gotta wake up...

I may have gone overboard with my new origami pets. I'm afraid I don't have much room for the elephant any longer, so if you see a five foot, periwinkle coloured elephant walking around outside, don't be alarmed.

If anyone would like one I do have extra, the penguins are getting a little bit antsy in the freezer and the hedgehogs have taken up all the space in my shoes.

I've never appreciated "normalcy" as much as I do now.

Spike, you can use the front door again.

[Jennsen]
I wanted to thank you for what you did for me. I hope I can return the favor someday. If you need anything, let me know.

What the...

What is this? Where am I? Hello?

Appears even those sodding suits of tin get a day off. Or maybe they went on strike. Wouldn't blame em if they did.

</s>Bloody hell, Freeman! Had to turn me into a monster again didn't you? Couldn't have just turned me back into the simpering human I used to be instead?</s>

Faith, did you get a thrill out of trying to kill me?

( Private to Luna Lovegood )

( Private to Ashley Magnus )

Nice weather we're having.

[a bit of struggling heard in the background, the sound of fumbling with her phone]

I...can someone come get m-[soft sobbing]

I need help...

Halloween, how I loath you. Halloween is supposed to be the one bloody night that the supernatural takes off, but do I think that will happen here? Not bloody likely with this city's track record. So, I'm opting out. If anyone needs me tonight I'll be in my flat, watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.

Thought I'd pop out of the TARDIS for a bit, check on things, and next thing I know, I'm dodging that damned glove of Rassilon's. I don't care if this is Asaph's idea or not. It's getting really bloody old seeing a crazy and very dead Time Lord anywhere I go!

I've been observing the Network the last couple of days and I've come to the conclusion that everything that has been happening appears to have something to do with peoples' individual fears. Of course it's possible that The Collector has brought these other people here, but if that were the case then why haven't any of them written on the Network? It doesn't seem likely for someone brought here, who was after another non-local, not to use The Network as a means to either find out where they are or in some cases, to taunt them. I myself, haven't experienced anything out of the ordinary yet, but this is simply my theory for the time being.

i still don't get this all this hokey shit, even after that kid jawed on about how the city ain't old school western all the time.

either it is or it ain't, no in betweens.

Well this isn't India. I'm confident enough to make that guess after that little welcome in the Library. That and the lack of jungle I went to sleep in.

These aren't my clothes either.

Could someone tell me where I could find some housing for this evening?

FILTERED TO ::
( Severus, Luna, Willow, and Arthur. Separately. )