Kyle
Suzanne sit crosslegged on the couch Infront of the TV, documents strewn about on the coffee table, and a laptop at a weird angle in her lap. Her hair was somehow messier than it usually was, and an exhausted expression on her face told of many sleepless hours of the night she'd devoted to pouring over whatever it was that was laid out Infront of her, emails and terminals open at the same time.

 The only item she had at her side for reprieve was a glass of hot chocolate, which seemed cold now, but still she sipped from it with a wave of warmth seeming to flow over her as she let the cocoa flow.

"Soothing" She muttered, flinging her head back to look at the ceiling, neck braced against the back of the couch.
Lisa
Exhaustion bled into every fiber of Fiona's body as she slipped her mask into a duffel bag with her costume and a few spare. She had changed at one point on the way home and decided to play it off as having left to exercise. She sighed and pushed through the door with a little reluctants. She was usually the type to slip through the window but tonight she couldn't be bothered.

She walked into the door holding her bag and noted her roommate with a brief nod. A gold film was built up on the edges of her bag as she entered "Hey." A simple greeting. Hopefully, maybe, she wouldn't pay attention to Fiona. She moved towards the fridge to grab a drink as she eyed Suzy. The gold film slowly beginning to crawl along the floor and seep into the walls around Fiona.
Kyle
"Fiona" She managed to cough out, still staring at the wall. It looked like she wouldn't be slipping away so easily tonight.

" It's like two am. I don't mean to pry but, what gym is open at two in the morning? Do you like, do some kind of solo regimen of your own design?"

She knew she sounded a little accusatory, but she couldn't parse her thoughts and words easily right now. Suzy welcomed any manner of distraction from her work, and she didn't have the energy or reason to be poppet at the moment. Sitting up straight, Suzy pulled her laptop off her lap and set it carefully down on the pile of documents.

"Genuine question, and I could use the distraction, if you're answers not just the name of some fitness place I haven't heard of before."
Lisa
"Suzanne." She replied as she quickly brushed away her aura with a thought before her roommate could notice the fluid building up. She sipped her water and wiped her brow. Her eyes turned to look at the laptop.

"I don't go to a gym. I run." She stated simply as she dropped her bag on the floor and went towards the couch. "I also do curls sometimes." Half truths. She does all these things just not tonight.

She sat on the arm of the couch as she wiped sticky gold onto her shirt from her mouth. "I usually run between here and the old park in the residential district."
Kyle
"You mean that run down playground that the city mayor has continually refused to put efforts towards fixing up in favor of increasingly better ammenities for the tower and vanguard districts?"

Her head turn to face Fiona with an alarming amount of spite, matching the tone of her voice " That's a pretty far distance to run and back... Hmph." Her expression softened as she focused more on Fiona herself, and not the damingly depressing politics at work. " No wonder your figure is so fit. I really should run with you some time. It'd be better than staying up all night working on-"

She gestured vaguely towards the coffee table "This."
Lisa
"Yeah that's the one. Glad someone else thinks about it." Her mood calmed for the moment as she stared at the coffee table.

"I take breaks. Usually take a bus back if it's late." She replied with another partial truth. Again, normally she does but tonight she hadn't. "I try to be in a good shape for running. Been doing it my whole life." There was a trace of a joking tone but she knew Suzy wouldn't get why.

She sipped her water again and leaned back. "What is it?"
Kyle
"My work, I work IT for a firm in the city, and they've just decided they want an inhouse server system for file sharing and storage, since the current provider we use is 'tOo exPeNsIVe'" She threw up air quotes while making a face and voice about the whole thing. Her arms folded in A pout and she looked rather tired.

With a long, rough sigh, she continued. "The documents on the table outline the project plan, the deadline, the features they want. It's insane, I don't even have the equipment to get half this stuff running smoothly, let alone running at all. This is the sort of thing you PAY others for because they make a whole business out of it. It's just... _too much_."

Her head fell back again, almost vacant eyes staring holes into the ceiling with her lips half parted in a daze. "This- among **Other** Things" She winced at the thought, eyes darting across the room, towards her door "Have just kept me from having any reprieve. A distraction, would be nice..."
Lisa
"IT? Fun." Her tone showed that she did not think it was fun at all. "I remember when I was in school and anytime we asked for anything, they said it was too expensive." She sighed and rubbed her nose as she looked at the side of Suzy's head instead of her eyes. "It's always stupid."

She reached over and grabbed one of the documents and began to read over it. She read it with a lazy glance and tossed it back onto the table. "Hmm. Sounds like someone needs a new job."

She noted the little peak. An eyebrow shotup but she didn't comment on it as she instead reached out to begin expanding her aura. "Wanna watch a movie or something?" She'd keep her roommate distracted from work and from the expanding aura. "Or, dunno. Whatever you want to do."
Kyle
Suzy shifted her head, and her lips pursed, thinking about it. The work was due soon, but she could get it done with enough energy. That of course meant no going overboard with her alter ego. Perhaps it was what needed to be done, but all work and no play makes Suzy an antsy room mate.

"...Ssssuuure. Why not, I think I would enjoy that. Your pick though, since I've got you falling for my puppy dog eyes"

They were more like the eyes of a vompire who slept in, but the point stood, if she was pulling Fiona into this, she was going to make sure she had some enjoyment in the matter. She set aside everything on the coffee table and scoot over to make space on the couch for Fiona. With a weak smile on her face she leaned forward and tossed the remote her way.

"Nothing too scary, I'm real jumpy right now."
Lisa
"Puppy dog eye- whatever, I'm going to take a shower first. See if we have snacks?" 

She left the question in the air as she grabbed her bag and headed for the shower- feeling the apartment out as she sighed. She wasn't that sweaty but she did want to wash off. She grabbed a change of clothes, threw herself in the shower, and dried off as she took the time to use her power to feel for anything out of the ordinary. Maybe she'll find drugs? She doesn't know. 

"If she's really just a boring IT person, I'll eat my hair.."

She muttered to herself as she strolled back out to the living room now in a t-shirt that was nearly a dress on her and a set of pajama pants that were only one size too big. Fiona was motivated to distract her roommate as she sat on the couch now. Gold still sticking to eyes and lips. Really persistant makeup, huh?

"We're definitely going to watch The Princess Bride since you are so jumpy."
Kyle
Suzy didn't respond right away, she seemed half awake, but eventually turned to smile at Fiona, giving her a nod. "Didn't... _yyawwwn_ didn't think you'd be the type to enjoy that kind of movie. I'm down though."

Suzy pulled her legs up and held to herself, curled up tight. The IT worker ddin't seem to mind her 'make-up' at all. Even now, where it had clearly should have been washed away, she didn't make a fuss. That had to be cause for concern, but not more than the feel of the room Fiona got earlier in the shower.

Inside, it seemed... Almost normal. There was a twin sized bed with with curtains and posts, drawn to hide... Another body? Smaller than hers. The rest of the room was just as off, in a way. A dresser, shelves, wall displays, filled with plushes, dolls, and even some action figures. A bean bag chair sat next to a wide, low to the ground desk. It was large enough you could fit a body on that thing, and it was strewn with wood working tools, string, and wood. She could about make out a marionette's controls, and some kind of makeshift stage.

This all sort of served to color the picture with the figure in the bed. It was, possibly, A large doll. At the very least, she was doll obsessed, and on the off chance that _wasn't_ a doll... Who knows.
Lisa
Fiona opened her mouth for a moment, closed it, and opened it again after thinking of how to phrase it. "My mom, she really liked that movie." Her voice cracked a little as she said it, and not her usual kind. A waver in her otherwise dead toned voice. "So it has some decent memories of my childhood with it."

She dropped her field before the gold could stick to something noticeable. If it was a corpse, it's not hers. She flicked the tv on, turned it to netflix, and put on the movie. "Besides, sometimes I can enjoy a happy ending." A snort of amusement, before her face went blank again. Trying to hide her emotions. Being hard to read.
Kyle
So they enjoy the movie, but it wasn't long before she fell asleep, ending up falling against the arm of the couch with a small snore. Suzy was relaxing now, for sure, but so much for enjoying the time together. The movie droned on, as did suzanne's snoring.. But soemthing else spiked above the sounds of the rest. The clinking of some kind of cermaic or porcelain, coming from the room of the mate...
Lisa
Fiona jumped a little and snarled as she heard the noise coming from the room. She opened her aura once more, feeling the thinker headache preparing to shoot through her, and would clench her teeth. She had a suspicion as to what's going on but she wanted to make sure. "Goddamnit, roomie. You and your narcolepsy." A muttering as she prepared to get up.
Kyle
As her power swept over the region, a chilling sight befell her mind. The body in the bed, was moving. It was moving about the room, tidying things up, putting away tools and craft work, taking a minute to play with some dolls, and then, It's head turned on a dime, it turned it's head so much farther than a human should be capable of, and it was staring at the door.

Suzy was still fast asleep, inching a little closer to Fiona's warmth in her unconscious state.
Lisa
Fiona stood and move quickly towards her own room as gold stuck to the carpet. She had an annoyed grimace as she put this together. So not just a doll- definitely not a person. Happened as Suzy fell asleep? That's pretty obvious that it's something she controls. Good to know. She had to make sure her own power didn't get caught onto and as such she collapsed the zone as her thinker headache began to pain her.

"Night, Roomie!" She shouted before locking herself in her room.
Kyle
She didn't get a response. Suzy was still 'Asleep'.. But she might be able to hear the movement of the window next door, and the light whoosh that followed after. What ever figure that she was controlling... Flew away. 

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