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Chloe and Derek didn't usually get much down time to spend together, so they were taking advantage of the fact that they were the only ones currently at their hotel.

At the moment, they were laying on the bed and Derek was holding her close, running his hand down her back. They were both completely dressed and it had been a long few days. Chloe lifted her head to look into his face. The tension she was feeling in his body was mirrored in his eyes.

"Derek?"

"I almost lost you last night, Chloe."

"But you didn't. You and Tori got there before anything worse could happen."

"Worse? You got stabbed Chloe. If he'd been any faster you would have been dead."

Chloe was silent for a moment and then reached up to run her fingers along Derek's face. "We knew that there was going to be danger after we took down the hospital and killed Edison."

"I know we did but..."

"But what?"

"Maybe you should go back to that island and that school. At least you were safe there. You had people that were powerful and could protect you."

Chloe sat up and shook her head. "Oh no. No and hell no. I am not leaving you, Derek. Not now when we have the whole damn St. Cloud Cabal after our heads."

Derek sat up, too and reached out to lay his hand against her face. "I feel like I can't breathe each time I see you risking your life like we are."

"And you think it's any easier for me, Derek? God, they wanted to kill you before because they couldn't control you. After everything we've done, now, they will never stop until we stop them." She met his eyes. "I'm not leaving. Not you or our team or even Aunt Lauren. And I'm certainly not going back to hiding in school while every day I'm wondering if you're still alive. We're in this together, Derek Souza."

"You're stubborn, Chloe Saunders."

"It's one of the reasons you love me."

"No, we are not having a discussion on the merits or faults of this decision," Derek and Simon's father said firmly to the teenagers that he was looking at. "You are not doing this, Chloe, and none of the rest of you are, either."

Chloe didn't even look at her aunt, who she knew agreed with Mr. Bae, as she shook her head. "I'm sorry Mr. Bae, Aunt Laura, but it's really not your decision to make. These kids reached out to us and they need our help. They've been subject to the same experiments that we all have and they need our help to understand what happened to them!"

"Chloe, you don't even know if the message is real or if it's bait for a trap," Laura Fellowes reasoned gently.

Chloe lifted her head. "Yes, I do. Liz says it's real and so does K-Mart. They were both kind enough to get some further information on the girl who sent us this message." Chloe shrugged. "You guys don't have to come with us if you don't want to, but Derek, Simon and Tori have already said they're coming with me."

Chloe was already pretty sure that this whole training session with Margaret was a bad idea.

After she left Fandom and joined back up with the group, Andrew had recruited some of his friends to come over and help with training the teens in the roles that they had been engineered into.

Chloe did not like Margaret and she especially didn't like that Margaret seemed to think that she was a brainless child.

( It was only going to get worse.Collapse )


[[OOC: Pulled from Darkest Powers Book Three: The Reckoning. NFB, NFI but OOC is ok. Part One of many.]]

Chloe was cheerful and a little excited as she pulled K-Mart down the hall to the rooms where her two best friends where staying. She was even laughing a little bit as she knocked lightly on Tori's door. She had already called Derek and asked him to meet the girls in Tori's room.

She grinned at K-Mart as she waited for Tori to open the door.

So, today I had two things happen...

I had a surprise root canal and the harddrive on my laptop failed and died on me.

Oh yes, surprise root canal.

On a optimistic note, a friend is coming over tomorrow to install a new operating system on the harddrive I had to replace today.

If that goes well, I will be around to tag...

...though I am Vicodin so I cannot guarantee the coherency of everything I respond with. :)

So, my availability has been pretty nil this week thanks to Financial Resources Forum and Expo preparations at work.

Expo was yesterday. This should have meant that I could get back into my regular schedule, right?

Oh ahahahano. Now I find out that I have audit on two of my projects next week that I get to re-write the process flows and create flow charts from the ground up on these projects. We seem to have gotten thrown under the bus by other centers.

So, I'll either be on massive slow play or absent until next week. Cassidy will be in her room with migraine/flu or something and Chloe... hell, Chloe is doing research on the bad people in her canon or something.

I hate audits.

If anyone were attuned to the small girl in room 420, all they would be getting from her was panic.

Helen had been kidnapped and something freaky was changing the island.

Simply put, Chloe couldn't handle this again.

The last time something like this had happened, she had ended up not existing for a few days.

With shaking hands, she reached for her cellphone and dialed the number of her favorite witch. "Please answer, Tori," she whispered as she heard the other end ringing.


[[OOC: Closed door, but open post.]]

My girls haven't been around all week because their mun has the flu and bed is a nice and warm place when I can't stop with the coughing and sneezing.

Sorry guys. :(

Random is having internet issues at her place and it could be a few days before everything is working properly. Therefore her kids and adults may or not be around until everything gets fixed.

This affects:

Shira (snarkyhealer)
Elle (tasenburn)
K-Mart (likethestore)
Sean (bigbrothersean)
Hope (feedsonchaos)
Eve (blackmagic_eve)

She is hoping that this gets fixed sooner rather than later.