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[the_prettygirl]

Nexus, have a Brooke Davis.  She takes an appreciative look around the place, studying the designs (and noticing a nice mini-bar in the corner) and finally plopping herself on the couch.  She has no idea how she found herself here, but it's comfortable...in a freaky bizarro universe kind of way.  But don't worry, she knows what you're supposed to

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[discardedheir]

"Bad memories aside, what would be the direct consequences of going back?"

[the_prettygirl]

"In my head? It happening again. In reality? I guess nothing. But imagination pretty much usually kicks reality's ass."

[discardedheir]

"And what is there? Is there any point to going to this city besides proving to yourself that you can after all? I am not criticizing that reasoning, but just to better understand."

[the_prettygirl]

"Well, it's basically where my clothing company really took off. I lived there a few years, and kinda even grew to love the city. I mean, it's New York. Step up from my tiny little home town. Then the thing happened and I started...make excuses to leave, I guess."

[uptown_girl]

"I've learned from personal experience that it's better to face your fear and suck it up than it is to keep on running away from it or ignore it," Serena van der Woodsen says. "But that's just my two cents." This coming from the girl who returned home to deal with the fact that she'd slept with her best friend's boyfriend, and that she'd killed someone.

[the_prettygirl]

Oh, Brooke's so very much been there. Well, except for the killing someone, but there was a period of time where she really wanted to.

"I think that's a good two cents," she says with a nod and a small, grateful smile. "Even though ignoring is so much easier."

[lyle_conners]

"Perhaps trying to cope with the events some. Possibly proffesional. Or a close friend at least. Then at some point going back." Says the rather nicely dressed skrull over there.

[the_prettygirl]

Brooke has never seen a skrull. Excuse her while she stares, a bit (unintentionally!) rudely.

...

Oh! She's back. "I thought I did cope. I was all done with coping. A lot of time has passed, too," she says with a sigh. "And I know that 'at some point' is coming up soon."

[lyle_conners]

"Thinking you're over it and being over it are two seperate things, unfortunately. I would suggest you find someone you feel comfortable with and go to this place with them for moral support."

[the_prettygirl]

Even Brooke can't deny this as good advice. "I think I'll do that. Moral support can't hurt, right? Thanks, green guy."

[awesomestyle]

Ed frowns slightly. "What was it exactly that did all that to you? Someone or a group in particular, or just being the city itself?"

[the_prettygirl]

A sigh. It's not something she eagerly talks about. Hell, she didn't even really talk about it right after it happened. But she is clearly hear to get advice, so she might as well be open.

"I was...attacked, in my store. Not sexually," she adds without thinking. "Just robbed and beaten to a gross pulp. I mean, I was kind of well-known. They...I'm assuming he's still out there."

City kind of lost it's charm after that.

[awesomestyle]

"Might be better to at least stay away for a while from there, at least. Make yourself stronger, then bet the hell out of the idiots that hurt you." He pauses fro a moment, then shrugs. "Or at least get yourself to the point that another confrontation with them won't end the same way, emotionally or physically."

[the_prettygirl]

"Okay, I'm not a superhero. I design clothes. How much stronger can I get? That dude was pretty freakin' strong."

She pauses, huffs, then continues, but in a very quiet voice. "I bought a gun. After...after it happened. I was on a revenge trip. I never had to use it, though. I didn't really like it." She really, really hopes he doesn't tell her to go back to that. Even if keeping one might be useful, she didn't want it to come to that. She isn't a gun girl. She doesn't want to be a gun girl.