Lana's Dorm Room: U of New Haven: Wednesday [10-29-08]

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana had the afternoon free, so she decided it was high time she made a couple of phone calls. First she gave Ino a call.

Then she placed another to someone a lot farther away.

And much later called Ino again.


[For another alum, but open to anyone else who might want to call or who might for some reason be in New Haven, Connecticut.]

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[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

This time, Shawn actually looked at the caller ID before he picked up. Always a good plan.

"Lana," he greeted. "Nice to know you still call even when we're not having a secret affair."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She laughed. "You can't get rid of me that easily!"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Wouldn't dream of trying," Shawn replied with a chuckle.

"You doing alright?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," she said quietly. "You?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"I... think I just accepted a job offer," he said, leaning back in his desk chair.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Really?" she said. "I thought you were going to school."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Well, I am," Shawn clarified quickly. "This is sort of an 'on the side' thing. Working with this guy I knew before I went to FH. I'm just going to be healing a couple of people a week."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm... Sounds like a good thing, I guess," she said thoughtfully. "I know I've been grateful for your abilities more than once - including after Parker decked me."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"If I can help people, it can't be bad, right?" The 4400 center had it's very obvious flaws, but his part was pretty solid as far as he could tell.

"They wanted me to take it on in a more full time capacity, but--" Okay, he'd been tempted, but he knew several people who would kill him if he quit school.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Sounds pretty good actually," she admitted. "Full time, yeah, but then the whole school thing goes away. And that's sort of necessary for later in life."

"Although... you could probably get away without it if you made healing people your profession. Does it wipe you out, though? If you do too much?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Little bit," Shawn admitted. "But it takes quite a lot. Found that out during our very own Fandom pandemic."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Oh, right," Lana said. "I was... kind of out of it. Were you one of the people who tried to help me?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Quite possibly," he said, thinking about it a moment. "But then again, by the end, even I was pretty out of it, so..."

"Probably not a valid experiment when it's something you're going down with too."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Lana said quietly. "I can't imagine how frightening that was for you guys. I mean, I thought I was going to die, but in some ways it wasn't that bad."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"It could've gone a lot worse," Shawn pointed out. Not the most uplifting of conversation topics.

"Anyway, I'm all for helping people when I know I can."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah."

"So... well... I've been thinking about you a lot, so I thought I'd call," she said.

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn grinned broadly, turning in his chair. "Oh, really?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She laughed a little and he could probably almost hear her blush. "Yeah. It was... a good weekend. Weirdness aside."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn laughed, nodding even though she couldn't see it. "Yes, it was."

"Did you get a chance to talk to Parker after your catfight?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I did," she said, and was really glad he couldn't see her blush then!

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"No lingering urges to hit each other?" he checked.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Uh, well... she and I have never quite seen eye to eye," she said, "but no, no urges to duke it out. She actually gave me a lot to think about."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"A good sort of think about?" Shawn asked curiously.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Um... yeah, well, for me at least," she said. "Not sure you'd agree."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Well, now that was just going to make him even more curious, wasn't it.

"What makes you think that?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"She kind of suggested that we could do a lot worse than, well, actually be together," Lana finally managed.

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn gave a little chuckle, again with the nodding even though you can't see that through a phone line.

"And she'd be right," he said. "If only it weren't for that almost entire continent in the middle."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" she said. "'Cause I sort of have access to a personal jet. If it was something we... wanted to explore a little."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"The former guardian?" Shawn asked. Well, he assumed that was the case. Not many college students had that sort of access.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," she said. "he's feeling a little... left out, I guess, that I got a full scholarship and don't need his help anymore, so every week I get, 'if you need the jet for anything' or 'if you want to get away to somewhere warm, the house in Greece...' Stuff like that.

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn gave a little laugh. "Wow."

He paused thoughtfully a moment. "You think we could make that sort of thing work?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," she admitted. "But... it might be worth a try. And if it doesn't, well... it's not like we'd be running into each other everywhere."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Does cut out that awkwardness," he agreed, letting out a little breath of amusement.

"And what harm is trying? Never know when it might be worth it."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm all in favor of trying," she said softly. "I just find it amusing that we spent how long at school together and its only now that we figure this out?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"We're sometimes a little slow?" he suggested with a hint of amusement.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She laughed. "Apparently. But you know what they say about slow and steady..."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Aesop's theory worked out in the fables," Shawn said. "Why not in the real world?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely," Lana said with a small laugh.. "After all, we lived in Fandom where fables were sometimes more real than the real world."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn chuckled. "Well, that's gotta be a good omen."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I hope so," she said softly, but with a smile obvious in her voice. "So... should we make plans to get together sometime?"

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"I guess we really should," he agreed, grinning himself. "And my schedule is pretty open, so..."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Well, I have classes Friday till noon," Lana said thoughtfully, "but next week and the week after Tuesdays are holidays and my Monday classes aren't running because of the exam and report schedules so... Either weekend would work for me."

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

"Next weekend, then?" Shawn suggested, sounding quite obviously positive about this, which will probably be comforting.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

It was definitely comforting and reassuring. "Next weekend sounds great," she said, sounding pretty excited herself. "So, do you want to be picked up by a private jet or do you want me to come there?"