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[ebony_bone]

Characters: ebony_bone and visitors, with possible appearances from thesamename (sort of open).
Date: Multiple days in the dates after this post. People can put a specific date in their thread title, if they wish.
Summary: People attempting to visit Jackie where she has been holed up after the phantoms event, and Dominique turning most of them away. More detail here.

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[lovelikelight]

[It's been some time since she last saw Jackie and Dominique, and while she believes they are still here, it can be difficult to tell in the Gardens, where people disappear without warning. Sometimes it's good for others to return home, and sometimes it isn't, but she is sad to see them go. She decides to seek out the two women, to be sure, and to be sure they're all right.

Epsilon hasn't been inside the apartments before, but she knows where they are. She picks up on the life signs within, though at a distance, her readings are confused by the magic of the Gardens. It is the equivalent of peering through a dense fog. Her "human senses" relay information perfectly, but her other senses are dimmed. She barely takes note of this as she approaches the building, as she's grown used to the phenomenon over her time here.

She finds her way to Jackie and Dom's apartment and knocks on the door. It is a patient knock, neither forceful nor tentative.]

[ebony_bone]

[The knock at the door is something of a surprise, but both Jackie and Dominique know people here, it isn't that strange that someone might come calling. Caprica had already asked, over the vine.

She sets her books down and comes to open the door. She doubts anyone would be any threat, but still only opens the door as wide as her body.]

Epsilon. [A very slight tilt of her head.] Hello.

[lovelikelight]

Hello, Dominique. I'm sorry for the interruption. I hope I'm not intruding. I wished to see how you and Jackie are. It's been some time since I've encountered you. [She might have used the Vine, but she does not use it a great deal, unless she wishes to respond to something specific or reach a large number of people at once. She prefers to meet face to face. She thinks intimate, personal communication is important, especially here.]

Have you been well?

[ebony_bone]

Well enough, thank you. The incident with the ghosts was... a little difficult.

[She glances over her shoulder, back at the bedroom door, wondering if Jackie had heard the knock at the door, could hear their conversation now.]

I'm afraid Jackie may not want visitors.

[thinkbrave]

( Ellie's been thinking. Seems like all she does, lately, in between the necessities of daily routine. It's for the best, really, that Em's been keeping her in to clean up the bar, otherwise she'd just be lost in a maze of her own thoughts.

Between thinking and staying close to Em - almost 24/7, save for when one of them needs personal space - it hasn't left her in much of a place for making visits. Jackie hasn't been out of her thoughts, though, and sharp and bitter as their last few conversations were, Ellie's experienced enough of that to know that, eventually, you suck it up and get over it, no matter how much someone has pissed you off and hurt you when they're an important enough friend.

Not necessarily a good friend, she couldn't pretend she or Jackie was especially good at it, but definitely important.

She's a little tense when she knocks on the door, but it's just nerves. She seems calmer than she has in a while, at least. )

[ebony_bone]

[Another knock at the door, and she wonders if she should expect more, now. Wonders if it was a matter of how long they stayed closed inside, that more people would worry, come looking. She was in the process of washing the dishes, but she shuts the water off, is still holding the bright pink rubber gloves when she opens the door.]

Hello, Ellie. [She frowns, slightly, but a quick look over proves Ellie to be physically alright. She'd looked back on the vine, searching out Jackie's recording, and had seen the incident with Ellie and her friend.] Is everything alright?

[thinkbrave]

Hi, Dom. ( She probably should have come sooner, she suspects. Asked earlier, at least, or done something. That was the sort of thing her mother had always been a fan of, doing something helpful when people were having a hard time. Part of her rather suspected that a lamb casserole or a bunch of flowers or some other thing wouldn't have really meant much to Jackie other than as a target of scorn.

And embarrassing as it was to admit it to herself, she didn't think about Dom so much. She should work on that, she was pretty sure. After all, she even paid attention to Kevin, sometimes, and he was really bloody annoying. Dom seemed pretty great for someone that a friend was involved with, by comparison - maybe because she wasn't so full of herself that it seemed to radiate off her and then totally useless (an unfair verdict), but still. She seemed all right.

It takes Ellie a second to get herself past the cluster of thoughts and speak again. ) It's been worse. How are you?

( She almost smiles a little at the gloves. In fact, it might

[ebony_bone]

[She looks at the gloves as Ellie notes them, smiling slightly. They were gaudy, but it seemed any attempts to create a more mellow colour, with the magic dirt, came to naught.]

I was washing the dishes.

[She sees that tiredness about Ellie. It's a familiar thing to her, she sees it on Jackie often enough, although it is not usually accompanied by smiles.]

I am well enough. [It was a stock phrase, she'd used it a lot in the war. Well enough, on her feet, moving, but not okay, not good.] Is your friend alright? I saw, on the vine.

I'm sure she'll be allowed in.

[tasercopter]

[Reno is maybe a little bored, and maybe for that reason she has decided to knock on doors randomly, trying to find out who else is living in the building, and where exactly they are. She doesn't like not knowing things, and she does like finding things out.

She wouldn't care for someone to enter her floor without her permission, but Reno's not big on the Golden Rule. She raps on the door carelessly.]

Anybody in there?

oh yeah totally XD

[ebony_bone]

[She knew there were others in the building, that the apartments were slowly filling up, but seeking out neighbours hadn't been something they'd done back home, and it wasn't something Dominique had done here. Perhaps she would, given enough time, but it wasn't a priority in her mind at the moment.

She's frowning a little as she opens the door, wondering why someone would feel the need to both knock and call through.]

Yes?

The most trustworthy of neighbors!

[tasercopter]

[So there is somebody in there. Reno smiles as the door opens.]

Hey, neighbor, how's it going? Just thought I'd swing by. You know, be neighborly.

[She glances down at her hand. There's a bandage on it, as she's covering up that stupid wish heart thing. Ugh, that would teach her to go adventuring with Kitty. Pft, helping people.

More importantly, she is carrying some alcohol.] Brought you some beer. [Hey, weren't there six of those? Now there are only four. Oh, right.]

[ebony_bone]

I see.

[The woman's timing is dreadful, really. If she'd chosen to come investigate the neighbours sooner, Jackie might have been able to deal with this, and Dominique wouldn't be quite so chilly. She looks down at the beer, noting that two are gone.]

Thank you, but we don't drink.

[Which wasn't entirely true. Jackie did, sometimes, but Dominique doubted she wanted any in her current state (and would worry if she did).]