Who: Gabe, Roxie and Grams (NPC)
Where: The hospital
When: late afternoon

Tad was taking care of Jess and he’d shaken his grandmother off, leaving her to look over Roxie’s leg. Gabe was anxious but useless in this situation outside of sitting with Roxie, arm around her waist, waiting to see if she could be helped. “Does it hurt?” he asked Roxie, resting his head on her shoulder.

Roxie nodded, leaning her head into Gabe's as she took a deep breath. "Yeah, but nothing I can't handle. It's..weird. Numb but still hurts or something. I don't know what's going on. This thing just...swiped at me, I managed to get my pencil in its hand or arm or something, and I got out of the school before I even stopped to look at my leg. Is it gonna be ok, Doc Grams?"

Who: Tad, Harper, Roxie, Gabe, Jess, and Ryan
Where: The school, then the hospital
When: late afternoon

Harper took off running down the hallway, sneakers sliding against the slick linoleum. Her nose was bleeding and making it difficult to breathe but she was somehow managing too anyway. She was getting soaked from the sprinkler system, the damn fire alarms ringing. It was making her head positively pound. Whatever those things were, Ryan had told her to run and she did, even as his screams had her wanting to go back. The fact that she could no longer hear them made her blood run cold.

Who: Dorian and Jen
Where: Alexandria
When: late morning

Dorian was tired and he was pretty sure it showed. His hair was a bit of a mess from his hands being in it, the steaming cup of coffee in front of him was his third and it wasn’t working. Being Famine was usually pretty straight forward, usually a matter of clearing up information and setting people straight. The problem this time was that, in order to keep Star’s balance, setting them straight meant wiping out a community. He hated it, in a way, but at the same time he realized the point. It just couldn’t be. Normally the job just made sense, he was distanced from the results, but this time he’d been in it, the informed source that was explaining why death was the right option.

Who: Bradley and Hayley
Where: the beach
When: afternoon

They’d already had a plan in place, spending time together at the beach before the conversation Bradley had had with Oz. It was a whole thing, an afternoon by the water, somewhere Hayley knew about that wasn’t really around anyone else, but at the same time not just cooped up in her room.

The conversation with Oz had left him curious and uncomfortable since he’d had it, and he’d been too eager to get back with Hayley again and ask her about things. He didn’t know what it would mean for them or what she’d think, but it had been on his mind since he’d met up with her, tugging at a frayed piece of his jeans nervously as he sat with her. “I think we should talk,” he finally managed, glancing up at her.

Who: Tad and Misha
When: Afternoon
Where: Tad's house

Tad was waiting for the younger guy, sitting on the front porch of his house, Diet Coke in hand and headphones on. He wasn’t going to admit that he was outside just in case Jess wandered by, or that cat. Admitting that would sound stupid. It sounded stupid in his head which meant he was keeping it to himself.

Want to come to Manhattan with me or are you busy with Harlow?

Who: Caleb and Nic
Where: Nic's house
When: Afternoon

Caleb was a little injured. Not overwhelmingly so--and weirdly most of the injuries were small and shallow. But that was what happened when you got utterly overrun by small demony type creatures he'd never seen before. They kind of reminded him of that old movie, Critters. Only more annoying. Either way, he'd spent the majority of his day in some backwater village in Alaska, getting rid of the stupid things. When he got back to Marquette, he was pretty exhausted, and instead of going back to the hospital, he headed for Nic's house. He didn't know if she was home or not, but he was planning on giving it a shot. So he dropped down outside her window, and peeked in.

Who: Gabe and Roxie
Where: in the woods
When: late evening

Warning: NSFW

The whole thing had been a good idea. Probably the best idea Gabe had had in a long time. As the fire started to putter out he pulled Roxie closer, arms around her as she leaned back against his chest. They’d made dinner over the fire, s’mores and were now both full and happy. He nestled his head a little closer to hers. “Having fun?” he asked softly, voice close to her ear.

Who: Ben, Gabe, and Roxie
When: Early evening
Where: Ben’s property

Roxie was excited and yeah, ok, maybe a little nervous too as she sat in the passenger’s side of Gabe’s truck while they drove. She had a bag packed, some essentials plus some fun things like s’more’s fixings, and was resting her leg against the back as it settled on the floorboard. “Off into the wilderness,” Roxie said with a grin as they drove, looking back over at Gabe.

who: hayley and bradley
where: the commune
when: full moon

It was the evening of the full moon. Moonrise wasn't for a little bit yet, not that long, but Hayley was already in the cage in the basement at the commune. She'd been told that there should be a cage in her own home by the time the next one rolled around, or some other arrangements could be made, depending on what she wanted. Oz kept telling her she needed to be there with them, but he didn't push so hard that he insisted.

Who: Misha and Brad
Where: Commune
When: Morning

Misha hadn’t slept but he hadn’t really expected to. What he had expected was to be pissed off all night. He spent a lot of time going over the spells he had, working on some of the spells he’d been thinking of, and reworking the balm so that he could make some for himself without thinking about the balm he’d made for Hayley. It hadn’t worked.

Which lead him to the kitchen, where he was now, making an afternoon tea just for the caffeine it would provide. He had his heaphones in, Noelle’s bracelet on his arm, and was watching the kettle, waiting for it to wail that the water was ready.

Who: Tad and Hayley
Where: Annabell's house
When: late afternoon

Tad got the address and pocketed his phone. It wouldn’t take long to get there on his bike and already he was trying to think through what he could say, how he could handle things. Maybe he’d just let Hayley talk through it. That had worked well enough the first time around.

When he got to the house, her aunt pointed him towards the sun room. He made his way there, peeking in slowly at first, not sure where she was in the mass of plants. “Hayley?”

Who: Bradley and Misha, then Hayley
When: Midday
Where: Annabell’s

Bradley had followed Misha to Hayley’s parents, for once letting the shorter boy lead and not just because he was the one who knew the way. Misha was the one who seemed driven to make amends with Hayley while all Bradley could focus on was finding her. With different motivations, Misha’s seemed to be pulling him along fast and Bradley lagged behind.

Hayley wasn’t at her parents though and a quick phonecall confirmed she was at her cousins, which had them setting out in a different direction. “What are you going to say?” Bradley asked Misha as they got the cousin’s street.

Who: Annabell and Hayley
When: Night
Where: Annabell's place

After she'd packed her things, left the notes and quietly slipped out, Hayley continued to walk the long way into town, head hung as she did so. She was at a total loss, feeling so emotionally awful that she barely paid attention to anything around her. She was so buried in her thoughts that she barely even noticed that she'd arrived at her cousin's house, and she stood outside that door for a few long moments as well. Her aunt and uncle would be sleeping, probably. But the sun room was probably open, right? So she walked around to the back of the house to the sun room, where there were plants flourishing everywhere, so thick you could barely see inside.