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Arizona Robbins (goodmaninastorm) wrote in rooms,
@ 2014-05-28 02:25:00

Entry tags:

!hotel, *log, arizona robbins, lois lane

hotel, closed }
Who: Arizona Robbins & Lois Lane
What: First Meetings
Where: Passages Hotel
When: Late May
Warnings/Rating: TBD

Acceptance hadn't come easily for Arizona. She was stuck in this place. No Callie. No Sofia. Not even Alex. Everything looked the same as it did before, but something felt off, wrong somehow. It felt empty.

Things were just starting to feel okay again, like maybe they were okay again. They were talking about having another baby, and life was good. She was happy. Then she'd found an empty house, like her family hadn't existed.

She didn't know what she was supposed to do with that. And she needed a change of scenery.

Stepping cautiously into the hotel, she leaned forward, looking both ways down the hallway. She needed to figure out what was really going on here.

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Hotel: Arizona/Lois

goodmaninastorm
2014-05-30 05:07 am UTC (link)

Arizona didn't know anyone. As far as she could tell anyway. Seattle seemed just as empty now as it was the first time she found this place. She hadn't given a lot of thought to how she might otherwise recognize someone from a different door.

It was a lot to take in. A lot. It was a lot to think about.

She needed a minute to process. Which would have been helpful before the universe decided she would be better off alone in a city she doesn't recognize anymore with a door to a hotel full of doors that led God knows where and a network full of people she doesn't recognize.

But they weren't going anywhere, so she might as well make the best of it.

"I am, actually. Well, I mean, it's been a couple of weeks now, but I don't, I haven't really had a chance to talk to anyone yet, so yeah, I'm, I'm new."

She was talking too much, but she couldn't seem to stop herself.

"You aren't?"

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Re: Hotel: Arizona/Lois

theforce
2014-05-30 10:45 am UTC (link)

"I've been here for about six weeks." And it wasn't a happy six weeks from the way she said it.

But, that was going to change. Happiness wasn't the goal so much as comfort was. That and to have someone's spine cracking beneath her boot heels.

"Just in time to miss the invasion of New York by aliens called Marauders." It didn't occur to her that she might meet someone that didn't have to deal with this type of thing on a regular basis. Even her original world had been invaded by an alien, which was why they had left and how she had ended up in this sinkhole of a world.

"You?"

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Hotel: Arizona/Lois

goodmaninastorm
2014-05-30 01:26 pm UTC (link)

"Aliens?" Her expression made it clear how ridiculous she thought that sounded. She wasn't even sure she believed in aliens, and if she did, why would they be invading New York? A hotel full of magical doors was one thing. But aliens?

Lois seemed perfectly serious though. Of all the lies she could have chosen, why would she pick that one? So maybe there was something to this whole alien business.

"I was in Seattle. No invasions. I had a wife. And a daughter." And she could live with the rest of it. She could live with being stuck here. But she didn't think she could live without them. "Now I have no wife and no daughter."

She was quiet for a second, holding herself together, but then she continued, hoping it wasn't completely obvious that she was barely succeeding.

"That kind of thing happens a lot? With the aliens?"

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Re: Hotel: Arizona/Lois

theforce
2014-05-30 01:38 pm UTC (link)

And what did she have before all this madness? A world at her feet, and some of the most powerful men all around her. Now she had none.

But that was not the story she was telling. What she told was, "I used to have a husband. He's here, but he doesn't remember me." Her hand drifted down to rub across her still flat belly. "And now I'm twelve weeks along."

A sad smile for herself and for Arizona. She could well understand the attraction of having a wife instead of a husband, and if she had ever managed to kill Owlman, Ultraman, and Lex, she might have taken a wife next.

"Maybe they'll come," she said. Maybe her own would come.

"I don't think so. But there's plenty of other things that happen in lieu of aliens. Do you not have them in your world?"

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Hotel: Arizona/Lois

goodmaninastorm
2014-05-30 04:22 pm UTC (link)

Her first thought was how much that must hurt. Having someone you love here, but not being able to act on it because they had no idea who you were, because they hadn't shared this life with you. What would she do if Callie didn't remember her, didn't remember everything they'd been through the last few years?

She started to say, I'm sorry, but instead, she said, "Maybe they will."

Arizona hoped the other woman had people she loved who might still show up, who might remember her. Almost as much as she hoped to walk into Seattle and find her wife and daughter as confused as she had been. Being cut off from the people you loved, the people who loved you, was something no one deserved.

"Little green men from space?" Which probably answered the question of whether or not they had them back in Seattle. "No. None of those."

She'd never really given that much thought to whether they even existed. If they'd wanted to attack Earth, shouldn't they have done it already? Except apparently they had. At least some version of it.

"We have normal things. Like bombs and plane crashes."

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Re: Hotel: Arizona/Lois

theforce
2014-05-31 06:08 am UTC (link)

"Maybe they will," she echoed. Maybe they would and the first thing she would do would be to slap Lex, or Thomas, or Kal across the face until her palm stung with the pain of it.

But that wasn't an answer for now. Only now mattered.

"I don't know that they were little green men. Many aliens aren't." Some glowed along the horizon, destroying everything in their path. Her expression drew tight for a second, little more than a momentary reaction before it was gone again.

"That sounds like a vacation," she said honestly. A world so easy to take over it should have been child's play if she had been anything but alone. It was making her weak. And weakness deserved nothing.

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Hotel: Arizona/Lois

goodmaninastorm
2014-05-31 03:17 pm UTC (link)

Her eyes widened slightly, eyebrows raised. Because that made it sound like alien invasions were common, like it happened all the time. Just one more thing she'd have to get used to. How did people live like this?

It almost made her feel lucky.

"A lot, then." The aliens, she meant. She had a feeling this was what it was going to be like from now on. Every time she thought she'd figured things out, someone would tell her aliens were real or the world didn't exist.

"Didn't feel like a vacation." She was thinking, specifically, of the plane crash. How hard everything had been after. "But I guess it would. If aliens were invading."

She guessed that was the kind of thing that would put life into perspective.

"Any idea why we're here?"

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