Chloe Saunders | Darkest Powers

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."

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. )


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

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. :)

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.]]

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.

Chloe was laying on her bed working on a new story when the phone rang. She wasn't expecting anyone to call and anyone who wanted her would come to her room to find her. The phone rang again and she reached over to answer it.

( Reminders of why she was there... )

Chloe listened to the dial tone for a moment before she hung up the phone. She laid back on her bed and stared up at the ceiling.

Who would she warn that something could happen to her and keep her from coming back? Especially if not coming back meant that Edison had won whatever battle might happen with Andrew's friends and she was terminated?

"Gah." She rolled over on her stomach, burying her face in her pillow. Terminated. Because the Edison Group considered them experiments instead of people. And if you were one of their failed experiments, they didn't kill you because you were nothing more than a science project. They simply terminated the experiment.

So who could she tell? Who would she tell?

Ino, definitely. She was Ino's Rookie and she would definitely want to know if something could happen to her. Mitchell? Yes. She was sure that he would have a seriously problem with someone wanting to kill his student. Reno? Well, Ino was his Rookie and she was Ino's Rookie. Would that make him want to know or not know? Karla? Kennedy? Faith? K-Mart?

Chloe groaned again. Nothing like a reality check from the friends who were on the run with you to kill a cheerful mood.


[[OOC: Door and post open.]]

What with packing hell and moving, it really should be called The Masochism Tango.

Anyway.

This week has been hell. It's the last week to try and get everything boxed up and taken over to the house before the truck arrives on Starurday to take all of our furniture to the new place.

So this week? I am the biggest flake/most forgetful person EVER.

If my kids don't sign into classes or jobs, it's only because I am drowning in moving things or I have collapsed in a heap somewhere to sleep.

In THEORY the new place will have internet getting hooked up tonight, so I'll be around next week, but we know Comcast and theories.

So massive apologise for this week and the dropping of threads over the past weekend. Didja know that packing things into smaller boxes takes a lot more time and boxes? I do now, but it makes the guys helping you move all the happier.

Chloe had gotten in to the store and had automatically started going over every inch of the store to make sure that it was clean. There were going to be a lot of guests on the island this weekend and she was positive that some of them would be interested in comics and things of that nature.

She was also not thinking about how many people that she liked might be graduating and leaving the island.

After everything looked perfect to her way of thinking, she moved back behind the counter with her notebook. She was trying to figure out if the latest comic she read could be turned into a decent movie script or not.

Android's Dungeon was open.


[[OCD free.]]

Being a Freshman, Chloe hadn't gone to Prom the night before. She had never gone to any dances before, anyway, so it wasn't like last night would have been all that different from her usual life. She had stayed up late watching movies and working on her writing. It was the one outlet that never failed her. She had thought about calling Ino, but decided her friend and teacher was probably at the dance. She finally crawled into bed very late after she had written things for awhile.

Of course, no one had warned Chloe about the fact that children always showed up the day after prom.

That would be when she heard the loud "MOMMY!" right by her ear, she jumped up with a cry, and then was sure she had seen a ghost.


[[OOC: For kidlet and the roomie if she so desires.]]

I seem to have Bronchitis. (Yes, I was SMART and went to the doctor today when I woke up with sandpaper for airways) I am home, but was given that delightful drug Codeine in my cough syrup. Thus, I probably won't be signing in to classes until later or tomorrow. It took me three tries to type this because Codeine and colors. :)