Suite 518/520, Friday all day

[demonbelthazor]

Bel sighed and looked around the mostly empty living room. They'd packed up everything and he'd shimmered most of it to storage, some of it to Piper and Veronica's apartment, where he and Phoebe would be staying for awhile until they found a place of their own. What was left was mostly bags they'd carry with them, and the cats, of course, who were being remarkably calm about the whole thing.

He'd changed so much when he had come to this place. He'd been sent to learn to live among humans, and it had worked far too well. Raynor had never expected Belthazor to learn to love and care again. No one had expected him to become the Source of All Evil, except, perhaps, the Seer. He'd turned his back on the Underworld, he'd died, he'd been brought back to life. Not bad for two years.

He thought about everybody who had already left before him -- Angel, Piper, Veronica, Lindsey, Blair, Alanna, Nadia, Cally, and Marie -- and the people he was leaving behind, like Lana, Isabel, Phale and Wilson. And Anders. That was the hardest one of all.

This sucked.


[ooc: door and post are open, of course. This will be Bel's last dorm post. Slight bit of OCD for Phoebe and Anders, who likely won't be able to tag back until afternoon and evening respectively due to work. I believe it's okay for teachers/townies to come to the room to see them off; please ping me if I'm wrong and we'll do a townie post set later in the day.

*wibbles and clings*]

Comments

Anders

[demonbelthazor]

He's in the kitchen, and he probably needs a hug.

Re: Anders

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Oh, like Bridge *wasn't* going to check up on his best friend today?

"Hey," he says quietly, bumping shoulders with Anders. "How are you holding up?"

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I'm up. I'm not motionless. I've got all my stuff moved back down to our room," says Anders in a dull, expressionless voice. "It's something at least, right?"

Re: Anders

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge nods. "I know how much it hurts to be the one left behind," he says. "And I hope you also know that I'm here for you if you need me."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"You're the one person I figure will understand more than anything," Anders tells him seriously. "And you're going to be the one who has to put up with my moping and brooding all over the place for a while, so . . . if it's okay with you . . . I'm going to go over to Isabel's tonight and get a lot of that out of the way so you don't get sick of me already."

Re: Anders

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I'd *never* be sick of you," Bridge says seriously. "You know that."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I worry," Anders replies, shrugging. "I'm gonna be a huge mess for days, you do realize this, right?"

Re: Anders

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

And this was Eve, making a beeline for Anders and hugging him tightly without even saying a word.

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders wrapped his arms around Eve and hugged her, hard, not saying anything either since he didn't trust his voice to work all of a sudden.

Re: Anders

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"It's gonna be okay," Eve finally managed to say. "They won't forget you, and you won't forget them."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Don't talk about forgetting," Anders mumbled. "Makes it sound like I'm never going to see them again."

Re: Anders

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"And we all know that's not true," Eve said, pulling back slightly to look up at him. "Because they'll be back here every chance they possibly can."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"And I'll be out there visiting every time I can get a few days free," Anders agreed. "The distance thing, though . . . that scares me."

Re: Anders

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"You know I'm here for you if you need anything," Lana said. "I'm going to be missing them miserably too."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I know," Anders said, giving her a tiny smile that took a lot of effort. "We'll probably have to get together and do that missing-with-company thing a few times. I don't want to do this, Lana."

Re: Anders

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm not going to pretend that I could possibly be hurting as much as you," Lana said quietly, putting her arms around him. "But I've had people I truly loved - lovers - leave or die before, so I have some idea of what you're going through and I'm here for you."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I shouldn't be hurting this much," Anders replied, returning the hug with a miserable kind of desperation. "I . . . I went into this with my eyes open. I knew I'd have to say goodbye at the end of summer. I just didn't count on falling this hard."

Re: Anders

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't matter how wide open your eyes are or how much you understand. It just hurts." Lana held onto him tightly.

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders didn't show any signs of letting go in the immediate future as he sniffled and nodded against her shoulder. "Wish I could go with them. I really, really do."

Re: Anders

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Do I have to remind you of what I said?" Isabel asked, slipping an arm around Anders' waist.

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders took a break from washing up what looked very much like a sinkful of cupcake-baking paraphernalia and rested his head on her shoulder. "No . . . I remembered. Last thing I need is to be alone tonight."

Re: Anders

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," she nodded. "Because that way leads to Caritas and ambrosia and possibly broken legs. That would be bad."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Done that. Done all of that," said Anders with a self-conscious wince. "Not really wanting to do that again."

Re: Anders

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel squeezed him lightly. "No. I've got ice cream. And cheesy comedies. Or cartoons. It's much less painful on the morning after."

Re: Anders

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders managed a brief chuckle. "Never known ice cream to give me the worst frakking headache in history before, so you've got a point there."