strangetrip | Unplanned and Spontaneous Travel

One of the locals in Zermatt had recommended going to Geneva as well as some of the Swiss wineries for day trips. Another suggestion had been to do some hiking and ski trails into Northern Italy from the Matterhorn, so Jane had taken them up on those suggestions.

After spending time skiing on the Matterhorn, she took one of the trails into Breuil-Cervinia, Italy and had lunch at a small restaurant with a view of the Alps and after shopping she stopped at a lovely local bar to warm up with alcohol before heading back into Switzerland.

When Jane was ready for some more nightlife than the carless town of Zermatt offered, she headed by train into Geneva. It was something that she craved, that she didn’t know that she did until she experienced it. This was a side that she learned about herself, she actually liked the energy of the large cities, with time for relaxation back at Zermatt.

[ooc: Catch her anywhere from the Matterhorn, hiking trails, exploring Northern Italy or Geneva. This can be anytime during the Europe vacation.]

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"I don't remember being here, but I do have more of my memories." Jane began, "Molly's helped me unlock more of being Alice Kruger in South Africa as a child and the FBI files have helped with my life as Remy with my brother Roman."

Her life had been messed up at a young age and she was honestly glad a large portion of it was still locked behind the drug wall - or gone forever.

"But I do like Geneva, a lot. I think I'm a big city girl." She didn't mind the serenity of the Inn, but Jane learned she liked the pulse of a city more.

"So.. you've had more than two names, then?" She had never heard of Remy until now. "Are you... happy to remember most of it?"

She knew there were memories she'd like to forget, certainly.

"I like Geneva too, though I'm trying not to look at too many things." She wanted to wait for Peter.

"When's Peter supposed to be meeting you here?" Jane asked her before she answered the question about her memories and name. "I am happy to remember it, even the stuff that just made more questions. It helps to put the pieces of me back together. And it turns out that someone rescued my brother and me from an orphanage in South Africa. She named us Remy and Roman. So born Alice, became Remy and morphed into Jane."

Three names sounded like a lot. It must have been like living three different lives - that had to get tiring. Liz had only ever known Jane as Jane, so both Alice and Remy seemed strange to her.

"Tomorrow, actually. It's his real birthday. I'm going to bring him to CERN and then to dinner and I found something called an Escape Room?" Liz was a planner.

Jane's brow furrowed at the term. She assumed it was connected to escaping a room but that would just be a logical leap. "Escape Room? What's that?" She chuckled, "besides the obvious I guess."

"Oh, um..." She shrugged off one of the straps for her backpack and rummaged through one of the side compartments until she pulled out a pamphlet. "It's like a game, I guess? There are these themed rooms and you have 45 minutes to an hour to solve the clues and riddles and get out or you 'lose'." She had one on the pamphlet that was circled. It was themed as a casino in the 1920s.

"I've never heard of it until I saw it at one of those tourist stands? I guess they're really popular in this time."

Jane took the brochure and looked it over. "That looks interesting, you'll have to let me know how it goes." She handed it back to Liz. "You both should have it solved before the 45 minutes. What do you get if you have the best time?" She joked, pretty sure that the two teenagers probably would.

She smiled "I think we just get to brag about it." But she was okay with it. "It's been really nice having so many options to do things, you know? It almost feels... Normal."

"It has." Jane agreed, "I was just thinking that it would be nice to stay here. I know it's not my world, and I'm okay with that." She knew that others probably weren't okay with it. "but it's nice to have so many places to go and things to do."

If there was a way to figure out how to not get sucked back into the Inn, Jane would probably take it.

"Do you think that's possible?" She had thought about it a few nights ago. What would happen if she and Peter just decided to stay in this otherworld. Could they? But then she thought about how, even if they could, it might mean they could never go back home and that would crush Peter. "Do you think the inn would let you stay here?"

"No I don't." Jane shook her head. "Well at least none of the other worlds let us stay." She paused, "but this is the first one that wasn't just one place. So maybe. I guess we'll find out if it yanks us back on its own." There never was a set number of days, it seemed very random.

Her eyes widened a little. "Does that mean you're going to try to stay here?"

"I'm going to try. I'll miss the friends I've made but I don't really belong to any world except the Inn." Jane confessed. "Another version of me continued down the road I was on, the laptop with files told me that." It felt like it was someone else's life and in a way it was. There wasn't anything for her to go back to.

If she could stay, this was as good a place as any and honestly like Liz said, it felt more normal. Much more than the space station and the world with dinosaurs that was for sure.

"Wow..." She had gotten so used to Jane being around the inn that the sudden thought of her friend not being there was a little... jarring. Still, it was important to Liz that Jane would be happy. "Well... I hope it works, then, if that's what you want."

She looked at Jane. "I'm going to miss you, though."

"I'd miss you, too." Jane assured her. "And it's not like I'm going to get a place on my own. Every other time, I've gone back to the Inn before the portal closed. This time, I'll see if I get yanked back. If I don't, then I'll stay here."

She smiled at Liz, "and I won't be disappointed if I do go back to the Inn. I just might look forward to another world like this one though."

Liz smiled to her. If she could have it her way, she'd probably stay too, if things were different.

"Well, just in case you do end up staying here. Would you be okay with us spending the together today?"

"Even if I didn't plan on trying to stay, I would love to spend the day with you." Jane assured her. "Whatever you'd like to do, I'm there."

Her smile warmed at Jane's comment. "Okay, well... There's a few museums here that seem really cool. Are you interested in science at all?"

"Not to the degree that you and Peter do, but yeah I like it." Jane nodded. "There's supposed to be a really good Natural History museum, if you want to go there." She smiled slightly, "I have a little experience with dinosaurs. Well not as much as other people at the inn."

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