NIGHT 53: WEST WING, NORTH HALL 1-A
[ from here ]The doors to the next hallway were already wide open when she came through, though the ones at the far end of the hall were, as she could see from one brief flick of her flashlight, were tightly shut. Weren't those the doors to the recreational field? They were in the hall directly North of hers, it only made sense for this to be the
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She flashed Peter a thankful smile for his assurance of secrecy as they moved through the doors into the north hall, putting the room number issue at priority over this name game -- it wasn't like she didn't know the difference between them, it was only going to be a problem where mentioning them to others was concerned, and the potential for them to run into one another all at once. Knowing that her room number was safe was a little more important than that possibility.
"Yeah, you'd better not. Louisville slugger, remember?" It was said mostly in jest but she couldn't honestly say she wouldn't be prepared to deck him with it if Sylar decided to show up on her doorstep some night. Better not to think about that, though. She'd rather not find a need to knock around someone she'd kind of been hoping she could consider an ally. So, she kept a smile up and moved on.
"Anyway. I don't wanna force some weird nickname on you or anything, but one of you might want to start considering it. I'll leave the floor open to suggestions from now, but I'm not above picking one for you myself and chances are it's going to be embarrassing." There was amusement to her expression as she ribbed him -- a good way to forget about the whole messy Sylar possibility, that was sure. In fact, considering they were both hoping for a relatively light duty night, it wasn't all that out of place. How hard could flashlight retrieval be? Especially with Bella's help on the storage room front.
Not only that, though, but the north hall was relatively well populated this time -- people had come out of their rooms while Claire had been hiding down at the end of the hallway at Peter's -- and none of them looked altogether too dangerous. Strength in numbers, right? She tried to take that reassurance and just not question it.
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