Rooms

[As Daniel W, since he's borrowing Daniel's journal.]

[Locked to Sam A]
Okay, ready for a story?

[Locked to Max M]
Change of venue.

ETA: [public]
[As anonymous.]

To the kid with the allergies, hope shit's better today!

[Locked to Wren H]
[As Daniel W]

How was the party?

[Her conversation with Lin went about as well as expected, and Max stood at the counter, watching Amanda scowl her way through a bowl of Fruit Loops.

Her head ached, and the apartment had the shades drawn to keep the sun from making her migraine worse. Sweats at her hips, and a tank top, and she was deliberately out to not make an impression. She'd showered and brushed her teeth, but that was it. She wasn't going to get in the habit of dressing up for McKendrick, because that would lead down a road neither of them wanted her to go down, strawberry milkshakes aside.

So, she brewed coffee, and she tapped out the box of smokes that she wouldn't open until Amanda was out the door for a very well-timed school field trip. The bottle of Baileys was on the counter, but it was always on the counter, next to the rum and vodka, and Amanda always made unimpressed sounds when she walked past them.

When she heard the feet on the stairs, she moved, but Amanda beat her to the doorknob.]

[This wasn't the first date Eddie had taken Stephanie on, even if it certainly felt like it was. Years ago, by the time they had started dating, it was a few months into the relationship and it seemed completely superfluous. Now, it was a novelty. A necessary novelty that would force them to take it slow long enough to get to know each other again. To Eddie, it felt like a brass ring he was supposed to grab the first time around on a carousel even if he was in no condition to even go on the goddamned ride. But, here he was, trying his very hardest to do something incredibly normal.

He parked outside of Stephanie's clinic, dressed snappy because he hadn't been able to wear his suits in a month. Or at least that's what he told himself. Eddie used the same excuse for rolling up to her clinic in his Green '66. But, he wasn't fooling anyone. He was showing his best self as most people do on their first dates. He was trying to impress her, even if perhaps that wasn't really necessary.

Eddie turned the car off and popped the glove box, taking out one of the crossword puzzles he missed while he was gone. Paper and pencil were antiquated things in the modern age, but there wasn't really anything like filling out those little squares with the right answer.]

[Public]

Thinking I need to return to my roots. And more money would be nice What's popular in the literature world today? Please tell me people are reading more than that Fifty Shades of Bullshit.

[Carol D/Thor]

Time and place, big guy. Let's chat.

[Carol D/Natasha R]

Hey. You okay?

[Carol D/Sharon C]

Didn't get stuck inside a well hung man this time, did you? [Cursor blink.] Make it out okay?

[Avengers' Mansion Residents]

Still a spare room available? I'm not moving in permanently, but I think I need to be away from my place for a few days.

I'm looking for the woman in white.

[A breaking news report interrupts Saturday morning broadcasts with a bank robbery in White Plains, NY. All cameras within and around the bank were destroyed before the robbery began. The culprit cleared out the tellers, leaving security guards with burn injuries. One was hospitalized for treatment. The robber was a caucasian male, around 5' 10'' with blonde hair. Leads should be reported to the police immediately.]

[Locked to Tony S]

Hey, I've got a question for you.

[Public]

No one died this time. Did they?

[Wren H]

You came through okay. Right?

[Evie S]

No crying this time. But no tea. Was yours better this time around?

[Preston R]

All right?

[Louis D]

I'm running out of ways to ask people if they're okay. Are you?

[Lin A]

Survived it? Skipped it?

[Public, as Rydia]

[She taps her pen against the page three times in succession before she finally starts to write.] Does this thing really let you talk to people in different worlds? What kind of magic is this?

[Anonymous.]

Looking for the girl in the red dress who was behind the counter.

[Public, as anon]

We agreed to call each other John and Jane until the end of the night, and you said it was wise to be wary.


[Locked to Clem]

Any interest in getting a drink in town?

[Locked to Blake]

Do you know the best bars in town?