33 Apocalypse Ave., Sunday Morning

[bitten_notshy]

To go by the dance the day before, half of creation had come back to the island for the weekend. Jack decided to ignore the paranoid edge niggling at him about how that was just asking for the island to get into one of its nastier moods in favor of getting a nice breakfast together. Ronan was staying for the weekend, as was Emma (of course), and he suspected there might be a former housemate or two who would want to stop by for the sake of nostalgia.

So he went to J,GOB's early that morning and bought a nice breakfast spread -- a few dozen bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon and other fixings, plus a dozen assorted muffins for anyone who didn't appreciate the nirvana that was a really good bagel. He brewed a large pot of coffee and settled in with a poppyseed bagel liberally piled with salmon. Even if no one else showed up, this was an entirely civilized way to start a Sunday.

[OOC: Open to anybody staying in the house or anybody inclined to visit.]

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[icecoldfrost]

"Are we sure you aren't precognitive?" Emma asked as she came downstairs, fully dressed if still slightly sleepy. "Because this is perfect."

Well, almost perfect. She disappeared into the kitchen for a moment to make up a few pop-tarts to go with her coffee and bagels. She needed a sugar kick to be civilized before noon on a Sunday.

[bitten_notshy]

"Maybe I am," Jack said, grinning at her. "It'd be a useful power to suddenly spout, wouldn't it?"

He rose to kiss her cheek. "Hi, darling. Did you have a good time at the dance?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I still can't get Alex to dance," she commented wryly, accepting the kiss. "My wiles clearly need work."

"Triela is here," and Emma closed her eyes to shut out the pain of knowing she was going to lose her roommate -- again -- to a pointless death. "And Ino may be coming by later for a telepathic conference, so don't be too scandalized if we vanish together."

[bitten_notshy]

"Alex never did know what was good for him," Jack teased, and helped himself to some more coffee before he spoke again. "I'm sorry about Triela, but I won't mind seeing INo.I never got to know here very well but she always seemed interesting."

[intraspective]

After leaving Hannibal's place, Ino didn't head straight back to to the hotel, though it was tempting because zombies were gross and gremlins were no better, but instead, made her second stop of the day.

She rang the doorbell and waited, keeping an eye out for anything that might try and bite her.

Ino had enough problems these days without being zombiefied for a while, thanks.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack peeked out the window before opening the door to let Ino in. (Or at least,he thoughtit was Ino -- he'd never known the girl well, and there definitely something that had changed about her eyes and bearing since he saw her last.)

"Ino, right?" he said. "Emma mentioned you might stop by. It's been a thousand years."

[intraspective]

Ino looked startled for a moment, and then laughed.

"I'm going to assume you don't mean literally, for the sake of all the timelines," she said lightly. "Though it's been a while. I'm Ino, and you're... Jack, right?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Not meant literally at all, I promise," Jack laughed, stepping out of the way to gesture her in. "I've been here on and off for six years. It just feels like a thousand."

[intraspective]

"Thanks," she said as she entered the house. "And, yeah, I totally get that."

Boy, did she ever.

"You've been here six years though? Did you just graduate and never leave?"

[bitten_notshy]

"I tried to leave!" Jack defended himself. "And then a werewolf bit me, and London turned out to be a very bad place to try to be a lone wolf, so I came back here. Seems to be where I am for now."

He shrugged lightly, as if it didn't still bother him a little. "That's me. What have you been up to? And help yourself to breakfast if you want it,of course."

[intraspective]

"I might grab something," she admitted, though she wasn't hungry. Everyone was trying to feed her today.

The fact that Jack was a werewolf barely registered on the scale of Fandom weird. Okay.

"There's worse places to be than here," she commiserated anyway. "And that's some pretty tough luck on your part, getting bit in the first place. I've been doing a lot of things. Mostly security and information gathering. That sort of stuff. Fell out of contact because the world I was on decided nothing was getting out."

[icecoldfrost]

"Of course Alex doesn't know what's good for him, it's why we're friends," Emma replied with a ghost of a smile. Because she was quite aware of how much she and Alex had in common in that regard, thank you growing emotional maturity.

"But yes, Ino and I have some interesting things to do. Do you mind if we steal an unused bedroom to work?"

[icecoldfrost]

"How very prompt, darling," Emma said, toasting Ino with her (5th) cup of coffee. "I'm finally caffeinated enough to be human. Or humane. One of the two."

[intraspective]

"But only one at once?" Ino asked cheerfully. She still looked too tired, but her mind was definitely more alert than it had been, thanks to getting some serious sleep last night. "Should I guess which one I'd prefer? Good morning, Emma."

[bitten_notshy]

"To be fair we were trying to kill the wolf at the time," Jack shrugged. "I might have bitten me too, if I were her."

He waved it off. "'Security and information gathering,'" he repeated. "Interesting line of work for a telepath, isn't it?"

[intraspective]

"I'd have bitten you in that case too," Ino agreed, and grinned. "It's even more interesting when you're pretty much the only telepath on that world."

Ino had a terrifying advantage on Gaia. It didn't seem to help her luck any, but she had it.

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan wandered down at some not-ungodly hour of the morning, making a beeline for the bagels. He passed on the smoked salmon, though.

"Thanks," he said, smiling at Jack, after biting, chewing, and swallowing his first mouthful. "This looks awesome. And for once I'm not cooking."

[bitten_notshy]

"My house is your house," Jack told her, gesturing up the stairs. "Though now you have me all curious what the two of you intend to do."

[icecoldfrost]

"Probably humane, as I doubt any amount of coffee will ever make me human," Emma quipped. "Good morning, darling. Ready to work?"

[bitten_notshy]

"How did you luck into that?" Jack had to ask. "I've never been the only of anything, no matter where I went."

[icecoldfrost]

<<He made us coffee,>> Emma said mentally around a mouthful of bagel. <<Jack is a god among men.>>

[bitten_notshy]

"I figured that the guest could have the morning off," Jack told him, smiling back. "But how are you? It looked like you were having a good time at the dance."

[not_in_the_book]

That can't be new to you, love, Ronan retorted. Also. Coffee. Yes please where?

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan nodded, his smile widening into a grin. "It was great to catch up with people. There are so many people on the island this weekend, it's ridiculous."

[intraspective]

"Went to Zack's world when I left here," she said, shrugging a little as she picked up a muffin. "They've got magic there, but it's all stuff anyone can use with the right equipment. They don't really have anything with inborn skills, you know? So there's people that can use magic and summon gods with it, but I'm still the only one that can read minds. It's weird."

But nice. Ino liked being special that way.