Who: Isabel with NPC Liz, Max and Klaus What: saying goodbye to her family and then invading Klaus's dream When: this afternoon Where: Isabel's cell/Klaus's subconscious Warnings: not really
"We keep in touch regularly," Max said for what had to be the fifteenth time in the span of ten minutes. Isabel had to work hard not to roll her eyes at her little brother. He could be so protective. But things were different now. They had never gone back to Antar. Max wasn't their king, Isabel wasn't a princess. They were just two enhanced humans trying to figure out how to survive a planet that had turned on itself because they had never taken their own ride home. What would be the point with Kivar still in charge? He would have killed Max the minute they got there.
"If you sleep every night I'll be able to," she pointed out to him. It had been a serious pain in the ass to connect to Michael because he had such an erratic sleep schedule. But Isabel was pretty sure she could at least count on reliable old Liz to be well, reliable.
Max and Liz had announced their plans to move on several days ago and had expected Isabel to come with them. She wanted to be with her family, always but now wasn't the right time. She still had so many hostages to try and help find and now that she was just beginning to explore things with Spike she wasn't about to leave him. This was temporary though. Isabel couldn't spend her life away from her family. One day they would all be reunited. Not just her and Liz and Max but Michael and Kyle and Maria too. Isabel kept hope alive because she had to. She would accept no substitute.
Now that they were actually leaving it was really setting in for Isabel. She had always been the one whose emotions ran the highest and now a few tears leaked out of the corner of her eye. Helping Liz and Max pack was different than actually saying goodbye to them. She hugged Liz briefly and then her brother so tightly like she didn't want to let go. They had come out of the pod chamber holding hands and the Evans had found them walking down the street together, naked and dirty. Michael was too afraid to go with them. And that was how it had always been. Isabel and Max, together always. My home is with you.
But right now home wasn't with Max, it was here in this disgusting prison filled with strange people. It was so strange. When she had first arrived she had hated it. Jill had picked a fight with her and she hated taking "buddies" with her everywhere when she could take care of herself just fine. She hated the dingy cells and her weirdo roommate. She hated the slop they served in the cafeteria that not even a thousand bottles of hot sauce could fix. Isabel had hated this place. True, the prison had not exactly wormed it's way right into her heart but a piece of it had. She wasn't ready to return to Roswell yet.
After she saw Max and Liz off, Isabel returned to her cell. She was glad Rogue was out so she could have a good cry. When she was done with that she figured she ought to get working on those hostages. It was the middle of the afternoon so the chances were low that they would be sleeping. It had been a frustrating venture from the start. She just couldn't catch anyone while they were asleep. She flipped around on the network until she saw a picture of Derek Hale. Closing her eyes she tried to get in but couldn't. Damn it. She sighed as she went through the entire list. When none of them worked she remembered that one of those vampires had disappeared. What was his name? Klaus? She scanned the networking until she found him.
"Klaus, be my lucky star. Come on," she urged him as she closed her eyes, slipping into his mind almost immediately.
He was in a tuxedo and he looked very handsome. Isabel had never met him before so for now she sat back and observed the dream. He was dancing with a blonde and the whole thing looked really familiar. Like the first time she had checked out Alex Whitman's dreams only to find out he was dreaming about dancing with her. Her heart ached and she put that memory away, along with the memory of Alex away as she observed Klaus. He obviously wasn't dancing with her, they didn't even know each other. But she did recognize the girl he was with. She knew her casually through the prison as Caroline. She was one of the girls who got together with Penny and Julia and drank copious amounts of all all the stuff Isabel couldn't have.
"This is beautiful and romantic. I wish we could stay," she said, finally catching Klaus's attention. "But you're never gonna get that dance if you don't show me where you are so we can find you. I can help you but you have to help me help you. Give me something, show me where you are and then you can dream about her until we come to get you."
Klaus looked unhappy at the intrusion but that was just too bad. She was trying to help him, even if it was a difficult concept to grasp while you were asleep. But Klaus was like what? A million years old or something. If anyone should know about self control it was him. And just like that the dream snapped into a harsher reality. There was barking and Isabel immediately shied away from it for a moment. It was so aggressive and so pervasive. She wandered along dizzily from cage to cage some filled with snarling dogs and others empty altogether until she got to the biggest one in the back. That one didn't have a dog exactly in it.
"Oh my God." She put her hand to her mouth before she bent down to get a better view. There he was. He didn't look the same at all but Isabel recognized the intensity behind those yellow eyes. It was definitely him stuck in some kind of transitional phase between wolf and man. She thought he was a vampire? Focus on what's important, Izzy, she reminded herself. Klaus's pain was palpable and it filled up the air. She tried not to take it on, to make it her own pain but it was difficult when you were mired in the inner workings of another creature. The room tilted dangerously to one side as Isabel stood up and turned around. The door open, a little bell at the top rang. Her eyes quickly traced over the thick black block letters.
HOPKINS DOG KENNEL
She turned back to Klaus, she was starting to fade away and any minute she would be catapulted out of this dream. "I'm Isabel," she said through a fog. "I know your friend Caroline. I'll get you out, okay? I'll be back for you. I promise. Just hang on a little bit longer. Just hang on-"
With that she was rocketed back to her own reality and she sat up in her cell with a start. She knew where Klaus was.