Room 507, Saturday night

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Nadia should have been sleeping. Since she hadn't done much of that this week. But the whole thing with Jamie was still bugging her.

When Walter had been evil, it hadn't been him. It really, clearly hadn't. But Jamie being evil . . . was apparently just an evil side of the real Jamie.

She didn't know what to think of that. Jamie had obviously been upset by the whole thing, but how easy would it be to have it all happen again? He'd promised it wouldn't. Could she trust that?

Did she want to deal with possibly having another new roommate? What if the new one was somehow even worse?

She didn't like thinking about all that, so she pulled out her laptop and opened up the adventure story. Writing it always helped clear her thoughts.

Elena stared down the barrel of the gun held by her estranged friend, Jerome, as though she could will the bullet to remain in the chamber with her mind alone. . . .

[ooc: open, since the lock is still cut out of the door. . . .]

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Walter couldn't sleep, either. Despite Nadia's thoughts on the matter, he still had the more-than-niggling concern that the one who had possessed him in the beginning of the summer had been him.

He knocked on the unlocked door before pushing it open. "Hey."

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Suddenly, another figure burst into the room. "Stop!"

"Jerome?" Elena glanced from one identical man to the other. "What's going on?"

"That's not me, Elena. That's my evil twin brother, Gerome!"

This? Did not help matters in the least. Where was Mario when she needed him? . . .

Nadia looked up. "Hey. Couldn't sleep?"

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Walter shrugged and crossed the room to sit on the end of her bed. "Not really. I thought I'd see if you were alright in here without a lock on the door."

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". . . I haven't put my gun away yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll be fine. Crazy bad guys in the dorms are actually pretty rare."

As though she'd summoned him with a thought, Mario came barreling into the room, straight at Jerome.

The Jerome that wasn't holding the gun, unfortunately. The Jerome that was, who might be Gerome, swung around to aim at the other man, and Elena jumped forward to wrestle him to the ground. . . .

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"Yeah. We've likely had our quota until the beginning of the next term." He leaned over to see if he was right about what was on her screen.

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Nadia didn't bother with covering the page, since he'd already skimmed through the story.

*BANG!* The gun went off and silence reigned in the room. Slowly, Mario raised his head to look at Elena. He opened his mouth . . . .

If Nadia were writing this in chapters, that would be where this one ended.

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Walter leaned in to see what was coming next. She'd best not be killing him- Mario off.

"Do you mind if I stay the night?"

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Nadia rolled her eyes with a smile. "Please."

"Elena. I'm sorry."

She slid slowly down the wall to the floor. "Jerome,"

Mario shook his head and approached her--

Nadia frowned and closed the laptop. That? Wasn't actually helping with all the thinking. She couldn't decide who had just gotten killed off, and was honestly a bit worried that that's where the story had suddenly gone.

"We could put something against the door. So it doesn't come open."

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"Thanks." He made a face when she closed the laptop; he'd wanted to know who'd been shot.

A desk might be overkill, but Walter still slid off the bed to see if it was possible to move one in front of the door.

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Nadia couldn't help but smirk at the enthusiasm with which Walter went to block the door.

Having your roommate go evil? Sucked.

Having your roommate not around as a result?

Occassionally happy side-effect.

"We need to see if Al can fix that."

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"I was planning to ask him as soon as I saw him awake." Walter wrestled the desk into place and turned around.

"Do you think that he'll be alright?"

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"Al is usually just fine," Nadia answered, deliberately misunderstanding.

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Walter sighed and left it at that. "Right. Magic and all that."

He'd be alright or he wouldn't. If he wasn't...? Well, they'd sort that out later.

For now, though, he was alone with his girlfriend, and that wasn't half bad, he thought as he went to sit on the bed again.

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Nadia shifted around to lean against him, staying silent for a moment.

"He'll be okay. You were. Pippi was. He will be, too."

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Walter nodded and kissed the top of her head. "Be careful with him anyway. I probably have a better idea of what's on his mind than just about anyone else on the island, even Pippi." Adella had definitely been someone else, the vampire? Was still questionable.

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"That. Wasn't. You." Nadia sighed. "I'm going to check on him while he's out of the dorms."

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Walter tightened his hold on her. "I know it wasn't me, and it's not going to be me, but I still know how it feels to wonder about it and what's inside me." Which was a good deal more than Walter would generally share, but he was feeling a bit off balance.

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"I know," Nadia said. Me too, she didn't say. "Don't worry. If you go bad, I'll take you down."

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"See Seras for the ammunition if it comes to that." She'd at least know what to look for. "Don't count on the silver Pip has."

Well this was cheerful alone time conversation.

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"Got it. So. No roommate."

Because Nadia didn't want to think about that stuff any more.

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"No roommate," Walter agreed, happy enough to leave that topic behind. "That calls for kissing now that there's a desk in front of the door." At the very least.

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"Kissing is good. I'm a fan of kissing." So she kissed him.