Room 406, early afternoon

[izzyalienqueen]

Even though she'd only been gone a week Fandom time, Isabel was cleaning her room like it really had been left closed up for six months. Reorganizing drawers and closets, scouring the bathroom, dusting every available surface, meant she didn't have to think about last night's conversation, or the worried voicemails and emails from her parents she'

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[mparkerceo]

Parker woke up late, way after Jack left, feeling saner after a night without nightmares. But she did remember that she had someone to take home.

Annie squirmed as Parker walked into Isabel's room, and stopped in the bathroom door. "I've brought you something to mess up your room."

[izzyalienqueen]

"Annie!" Isabel smiled. She got to her feet and rinsed and dried off her hands before taking the cat from Parker and snuggling her. "Oh I missed you so much."

[mparkerceo]

"She missed you. Sometimes she just miaowed out the window when we were playing, looking for you, I thik." Parker leaned back and looked over the bathroom, then back at Isabel, eyebrow tilted. "You know it didn't have time to get dirty while your were gone, right? No one else was in here."

[izzyalienqueen]

"I'd thought about taking her, but I'm glad I didn't. It wasn't the place for a cat. As for this," Isabel said, looking around the bathroom, "it needed it before I left. So better late then never." Of course any other time she cleaned the bathroom it usually involved a spritz of cleaner and a wave of her hand, but she wasn't going to tell Parker that.

[chasingsnitches]

Sometime later in the afternoon, Cedric showed up with a small box and a smile.

"Is anyone home?"

[izzyalienqueen]

"Just the cleaning lady," Isabel replied, poking her head out of the bathroom. "Hi."

[chasingsnitches]

"You've hired a maid?" he asked, stepping inside. "Can he or she do my room next?"

[izzyalienqueen]

"Nope. Just me, a bottle of Lysol and a toothbrush versus the grout," she said, holding up the toothbrush. "And I'd say yes, but I don't think you can afford my rates. Besides, can't you just magic grime away?"

[carter_i_am]

Deciding she'd had enough of her room, Sam coughed her way down the hall to Isabel's room to welcome her back. Hopefully she'd stocked up on Lysol.

[izzyalienqueen]

Eau de Lysol was definitely in the air as Isabel continued her determined attack on every last bit of tile and grout in the bathroom.

[carter_i_am]

"Hellloooo?" Sam coughed at the Lysol fumes, too. "I hear there's an alien who needs to be welcomed home?"

[izzyalienqueen]

Isabel flinched momentarily before reminding herself that she was home. And that this Sam was real. She gave the bathroom one final look, satisfied that the room was a clean as she could possibly make and walked out the door. "Hi Sam."

[can_be_more]

Aeryn heard Isabel was back, but wanted to give her some time to settle in. So today she's knocking at her door, hoping it's long enough.

[izzyalienqueen]

"It's open," Isabel called out. Finally satisfied with the bathroom, she was now lining up all her shoes in the bottom of her closet.

[can_be_more]

She opens the door, definitely noticing the smell of cleaner. "Welcome back," she greets her, stepping inside.

[izzyalienqueen]

"Thanks. It's good to be back," she said, getting to her feet. "I'm sorry about leaving the message like that. Things happened sort of fast."

[bridge_carson]

It had taken some work, but Bridge had managed to convince the Synthetron to make chocolate cupcakes with Tabasco-icing, which he is now bringing up to Isabel's room.

"Hey," he says with a smile, poking his head through the doorway.

[izzyalienqueen]

Isabel had been debating hanging her clothes by color or function, she turned away from the closet and smiled. "Hi Bridge!"

[bridge_carson]

"Xander said you were back, so I thought I'd drop by and see how you were," he says, holding out the tray of cupcakes. "And also steal my roommate's shtick with the offering you cupcakes."

[izzyalienqueen]

"Oh god, your roommate," she facepalmed. "He's going to hate me for not calling him."