[GP/EP] Check in Day - Feb 1

[st_raighttovampire]

Caroline waved to Kitty as she dropped into her table in the cafe. It was a banner day. A full month of living in a hotel without her mom or her friends, hungry literally all the time.

But at least there was coffee.

Caroline went through her notes - many people had already started to take on roles in the hotel. Snow and Lindsey ran the stables. Kitty ran the bar. The brothers tackled the ghosts that popped up now and then - Caroline held her tongue on how wrong it was to discriminate against the undead. The list went on.

Caroline knew very well - having a job kept the despair of being trapped away.

She hadn't expected today to be different than any other day, but then, she should learn to stop expecting things. Apparently, it was check-in day again.

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Re: Carlos Ramirez - Assigned threads and OTA

[st_raighttovampire]

"This is the Madonna Inn. It's...probably in California and..." Caroline offered him the mug of coffee and gestured to one of the booths. "You're probably going to want to sit down for this. There's not a lot of good news heading your way in the next five minutes. But the coffee's fresh."

Re: Carlos Ramirez - Assigned threads and OTA

[st_illavirgin]

He frowned as he looked around. "I was in California," he said, trying to figure out just where in California it was, if indeed he was.

He took in a deep breath, then puffed it out. "That sounds like I'm really not going to like it. As long as there is plenty of coffee, lead on.2

Re: Carlos Ramirez - Assigned threads and OTA

[st_raighttovampire]

Caroline patiently held out the mug of coffee to him, waiting until he took it before guiding him to a booth. She sat down, crossed her legs and leaned forward, her expression serious. "So, this is a hotel. But none of us intended to end up here. Hell, a month ago, I was celebrating Christmas with my mom. In Virginia.

"The only thing we do know is that the staff here were apparently expecting us and none of us can leave. If you go over to the front desk, the guy there will give you a key for your room."

Re: Carlos Ramirez - Assigned threads and OTA

[st_illavirgin]

Carlos was grateful to be able to sit down, and could barely disguise the small noise of relief he made as he took the weight off his legs. He really needed to work on his fitness, but he knew that he couldn't push it too far too fast. "Yeah, I was travelling elsewhere, and shouldn't have ended up here." And it was worrying when you ended up somewhere you didn't intend, as it made you wonder what the supernatural had in mind for you. He hated being on the backfoot without a lot of firepower under his belt. He suddenly missed having his gun by his side.

"That's all you know? No idea who brought us here and for what purpose?" Urgh. Just urgh.

Re: Carlos Ramirez - Assigned threads and OTA

[st_raighttovampire]

Caroline hid a frown as he sat down. That had sounded a lot like pain. She figured she could follow up on that after she finished the whole orientation speech. "It's not all we know, but it's the most important thing. Kitty-" Caroline gestured at the pretty brown-haired woman behind the bar, "-is working on a bunch of science angles for why we're here. Other people are trying different theories. So far everyone has the same answer. We just don't know. The staff doesn't ask us to do anything. They're happy to help out in whatever way they can within the limits of, you know, a regular hotel worker's job description. They're weirdly obsessed with making sure you have fresh towels. Which is pretty nice, actually."

Re: Carlos Ramirez - Assigned threads and OTA

[st_illavirgin]

She would be right. But Carlos seemed to have spent a fair part of the last seven years in pain, one way or another, so he knew it would improve. He was alive, that was all that mattered. So many he knew hadn't made it.

He paused for a moment, then decided to grab the moment. It wasn't like he could hide it, after all. "Has anyone tried a magical angle?" Science was great, and had its place, but hey, you had to be open to everything. "Just... if it isn't getting anywhere with science, try for the crazy, right?" Of course, he was leaving himself at a huge risk, but fuck it, he was carrying an obvious wizard's staff, runes carved in it and all.