Racing to find a place for my soul ... Or at least a place that's less familiar

As promised, after the visit to Angelus, Phoebe had gone to The Arms to get her and Cole a room. As much as she really did adore Xander and Bridge, she didn't want to impose on Xander as his apartment was getting pretty crowded.

Cole didn't want her going out unless she was with him or Anders because he still felt that Angelus was a danger -- even if he was behind bars right now.

So, this was Phoebe, pacing her hotel room.


[[OOC: For the boyfriends or anyone else who wants to see the anxious witch]]

Phoebe had dragged a chair down the hall from the common room to the door to her room. She climbed up onto the chair and turned the handle of the door and pushed it open. Of course, when she pushed it open with her feet, she forgot to let go of the doorknob and ended up swing from the door as it opened. With a giggle, she dropped to the floor with a small thump and beckoned to Lana and Panther!Jim.

"Cupcakes over here," she called as she ran into the kitchen. She used another chair to reach the counter and bring one of the containers down for her and Lana to share.

Phoebe bid goodbye to Paige as she orbed away from the dorm room and stood staring at the spot where her sister had been just a second before.

She had decided that she should probably come back to Fandom so her sisters could get on with their lives. Of course, none of them wanted her to come back right now, she was still too fragile, but she couldn't stay at the manor right now. Grams was getting suspicious of Prue's continuing to waylay her and preventing her from talking to Phoebe and find out why she was so devastated.

After making a few important phone calls, Phoebe looked around her in the main room of the suite.

The first thing she noticed were all of the roses that were here.

A bouquet of white roses with truffles and a cute foursome of chocolate mice. The note read With love and affection, to our little sister, who makes us proud.You are in our thoughts. Love, your big brothers, James and Aziraphale.
A pink rose with a note that says Love, Chris
A yellow rose with no note
A dozen red roses with no note

She was curious about the yellow rose that had no note, smiled at the rose from Chris, and tears filled her eyes at the gifts from her big sibs, but then tears started slipping down her cheeks as she stared at the dozen red roses. Cole must have ordered them before...

Before.

She swallowed and held one of the red roses to her lips.

She couldn't bear to go into their bedroom right now, so she grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around herself as she settled on the couch. She wasn't able to stop the tears as she held the red rose in her hand.

This was going to be hard.



[[OOC: Door is closed but the post is so very open.]]

Phoebe had woken up in bed from a nightmare. Two nights where she spent most of the time unconscious and cold (as well as scared) had not been conducive to a restful sleep. She was confused for a moment, but the fact that Cole was holding her to him helped to calm her. He looked pretty scratched up and bruised but he had assured her last night that he was okay and didn't need medical attention. She had been adamant that she didn't need care, also.

She didn't remember much about what had happened the night before as she had still been pretty woozy from the being hit on the head thing. But, Cole had suddenly shown up and had rescued her and Blair... and then he had gone back to help Lana and Willow and the others. Then he had brought her back to their room and immediately tucked her into bed --- checking on her quite often in concern over the head injury. Like she hadn't had a concussion since coming to Fandom? She was pretty sure someone had a punchcard in her name going. Get ten concussions and she got a free dinner or something.

For her part, the fact that Fandom had been invaded by trolls should not have surprised her.

The fact that she and Lana had been attacked and kidnapped while attempting to do something helpful for a stranger should not have surprised her, but it did.

However, she was almost positive that the troll invaders had been quite surprised that the inhabitants Fandom had put up such a resistance to attack. By now, you would think that the bad guys of the world would have some sort of network spreading a warning against attacking this place. The students and teachers and townies ALWAYS banded together to kick ass and protect their home.

All of this thinking about what had happened was making her head hurt worse.

Trying not to disturb him, Phoebe curled up as close to her boyfriend as she could, careful not to jolt her wounds -- or his.


[[OOC: For the boyfriend]]

Phoebe was packing a small overnight bag so she could stay with Lana that night. She had left a note for Cole, but she kept hoping he would show up before she left so she could tell him in person what was going on. With their luck with things like this, the note would get lost and he would either be worried or think...

She shook her head. She would pack and then she would wait to leave until she knew that he knew exactly where she would be.


[[OOC: For the boyfriend]]

Phoebe had been swimming around the island again. The earlier conversations had been a mixture of upsetting and relaxing. Barbossa had even sung to her and then had given her rum. It made her feel a little better.

She had talked with River and Jane later and had found out that Jane had lived in interesting historical times and that River was really intrigued by what had happened.

After talking to them, she had decided to swim out further from the island and do some exploring out there. She was now off the coast at Serenity Cove. The lights of the town and the school were tiny spots in the darkness, and she kept looking over her shoulder as she swam out to darker water and explored.

She would hear if anyone called for her, though.




[[OOC: Come play with MerPhoebe. Responses may be slow as the heat has made me really tired and ill. But there will be responses.]]

Most people were sleeping or otherwise engaged when Phoebe snuck out of bed and left Cole sleeping to come outside. The last couple of days had been draining and sad, and now with the news that Nadia was leaving, well, Phoebe was feeling a wee bit emo.

She made her way out to the dead Koala campfire and stared into the ashes for a bit before picking up a stick and making random designs in the dirt and ashes with it.

A lot of people had left, and more were going to. People just kept going away.

Nadia was one of her best friends, like family... and Phoebe didn't want to see her leave.

It was depressing and summer was way too hot.

She wouldn't mind being interrupted.

After her Forensics class, Phoebe had stopped in to say farewell to James and give him the gift she had for him. He had also given her one in return. She looked down at her hand and sighed when she saw she had put the ring from James on the same hand as the promise ring from Cole. She really did need to take that off of her hand. With the issues between her and Cole...and the fact that she was living with Crowley, it just wasn't right that she was still wearing Cole's ring. She sighed and took off both Cole's ring and the necklace from Crowley. Now that both James and Aziraphale had explained what the necklace was, she was determined to keep it safe. Crowley gave it to her for a reason, and she wasn't going to let anything happen to it.

She placed the ring in the small jewelery box that she had retrieved from her dorm room Wednesday morning, and she put the necklace on the table by the bed. She wanted it within reach where she could see it in case something happened while she was alone.

She sighed, wiping tears from her eyes. Her family was getting more wide-spread, but she was positive that she'd always be just a thought away from her two adopted brothers. They knew she'd be there for them, and she knew they'd be there for her. She had meant everything she had told them. They were her big brothers and she'd do anything for them.

She also had Maia to look out for...and for right now, Lana, too. It was getting a lot lonelier here for her, and Maia and Lana were two of the few people that hadn't turned on her or walked away since all of this began.

She sighed and changed clothes, then put in an order with room service. Lana would be here soon.

They would NOT be watching Forensics Files.


[[OOC: This takes place shortly after classes and is locked only to lovelylana for extreme slow play. There will be another post or so going up later for events later Friday evening. Phoebe will be doing stuff this evening and night after this.]]