The Palazzo Hotel In Las Vegas, Thursday Morning

[walks_two_paths]

When Johnny decided to take his girl away for rest and relaxation, he did it in style.

Calling Isabel, they decided that the best way for Savannah to see everyone -- and get the rest that Johnny was insistent that she needed -- was for everyone to meet up in one place. The hotel Isabel worked in seemed just the thing since she needed to work as many hours as she could.

Johnny probably would have booked the rooms himself, but he didn't get the chance to. While he was in the shower, Savannah had used Benicio's credit card and secured three suites of rooms for her and Johnny, Isabel and Wyatt, and Summer and Chris.

Not to be outdone, the first thing Savannah saw when they opened the doors to their rooms was that it was filled with roses of every imaginable color. Waiting for her in the bedroom on the bed was a stuffed white tiger that was almost as big as she was. Thie led to tears and Savannah just holding onto Johnny for a long time.

She and Johnny had checked into their last night, and again, he had held her, telling her stories all night when she couldn't sleep. She promised that she would rest and sleep soon.

Now though, Savannah wasn't doing any of the resting yet that Johnny wanted her to do and she could feel his concern when she was putting on concealer to cover the dark circles beneath her eyes.



[[OOC: NFB due to distance. Open to those that know who they are.]]

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[blessed_twice]

Wyatt was still rather clueless. All he knew was that something was up with Savannah and nobody would tell him why. So come morning, he was knocking on the door to Savannah and Johnny's suite. Somebody better tell him something or he was going to assume the worst. What the worst was, he wasn't sure.

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Savannah's eyes flashed worry at Johnny before she was at the door and opening it. When she saw Wyatt standing there, she faltered slightly as she started to hug him.

"Wyatt?" She asked in a hesitant tone. Swallowing she looked him over. "Are you Pain, or are you the hard-hearted sword-wielding bastard that shoves everyone who cares about him away because it hurts too much to let them close to you?"

Yeah, someone wasn't exactly doing her best right now.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny was seated on the sofa, staring over at the doorway. He managed to give Savannah an encouraging smile before she opened the door.

This was going to go well, right?

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris and Summer orbed in a little bit later.

[absolutesnark]

"I think this vacation is just what we need," Summer said to Chris, smiling. Though there was a hint of worry in her voice.

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Oh, she had no idea. But Chris hadn't been about to tell her.

"Yeah, definitely."

And then they might need another vacation.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny came up behind her, rested his hands on her shoulders lightly, and said: "Do you know what I would like to do to you right now?" His eyes met hers in the reflection of the mirror.

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She leaned back against him, her eyes never leaving his in the mirror. "Something that involves me not wanting you to ever stop?"

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"You could say that," he whispered and then leaned foward, still keeping eye contact as he whispered exactly what he would like to do to her. And straightening, he added: "But not until those dark circles beneath your eyes vanish. Which means, my sweet, you must rest."

Turning around, he was grinning just enough to warrant a smack and proceeded to finish dressing.

[absolutesnark]

Sometime after arriving with Chris, Summer was staring out the window. Though she wasn't really paying attention to what was going on outside. She was worried about Savannah and really wanted someone to tell her what was going on.

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Savannah came up to stand next to her and squeezed her hand. "You are never allowed to die on me, okay, Summer? Not until way after we're old and gray and can hardly bitch at people anymore."

She was waiting until all of them were there before she told them what happened. She was pretty sure that she couldn't go through the story more than once, after telling Johnny the whole thing finally.

[absolutesnark]

Something bad must have happened for Savannah to be like this, but Summer wasn't going to push her to talk about it until she was ready. "Don't worry, I plan to be around for a long time. We're gonna be like the Golden Girls."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

At some point in the afternoon, Isabel turned up pushing a room service cart loaded with all sort of pastries and other baked goods.

"Sometimes it pays to play nice with the head pastry chef," she grinned.

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Savannah smiled at her. This was the Isabel she remembered. The shining, smiling one.

Isabel and Wyatt, Summer and Chris, her and Johnny. This was how it was supposed to be. All of them alive and happy and free.

This was what she had been afraid she would never see again.

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"Sorry I didn't get up here earlier," Isabel said, heading over to give Savannah a hug. "We're trying to get ready for a reception for sixteen hundred people. Which we do all the time. But for some reason, today is one of those days. Fortunately I've got an hour till I have to get back down there. Then they own my soul till late tonight."

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt stole a danish and a kiss. "Hey, gorgeous," he said.

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"Hey!" Isabel teased. "My boyfriend will be jealous."

[*flees till tonight*]

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Betty Crocker, you have any tarts on that cart of yours?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hey! You'd better be nice to me or I'll have housekeeping short sheet your bed," Isabel warned before heading over to give Johnny a hug. "I've missed you to."

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After everyone was there, Savannah sat in Johnny's lap.

"Last Monday, five witches, sorcerers and wizards in an alternate universe's version of Fandom took part in a ritual," she started quietly. "I'm sure they had no idea three of them would die during the spell or that two of them would have their magic completely burned away. I'm also sure they had no clue that their spell would end up finding our world and hijacking the minds of other people and pulling them into their world. But they were desperate and they needed help."

Over the next little bit, she told them everything that had happened, starting with the naps and the dreams and then the comas and what happened those three days. There were a few things she left out, of course, like that it was vampire Summer that had killed Chris, or that Ronan had been one of the ones that died during the ritual. Every so often, she would squeeze Johnny's leg, reassuring herself that this was real. Surprisingly enough, she managed to get through her story without going into hysterics.

It was when she got to the part about her own death that it became harder for her to talk. "She killed her because she wouldn't use her magic to bring her dead boyfriend back to life," she whispered. "Thing is I -- that Savannah -- probably would have done it for her. The problem was that to work that spell, you need the body or to know where it was buried. There was no body. Therefore, I couldn't have done the spell." She swallowed, describing what had happened, and then how she woke up screaming in Town Hall from her coma.

"We didn't know what would happen to us if we died there. We didn't know we'd wake up safe at home."

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris sat and listened quietly to Savannah's story. She had told him bits and pieces on the phone but his stomach lurched at the details she gave them.

He reached over and squeezed Summer's hand.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny's arms were around her, but not tightly as she told the the story. His eyes were on her face and he listened, glad to see that she wasn't breaking. Not until the end did he see the change in her.

"You couldn't have known that though, could you Savannah? It was all too real and for that I am so sorry. I hate that you had to go through it and if I could go back and somehow change it all, I'd do it. I just want you to get past this... I want you content, satisfied, and most of all happy. I don't like these circles under your eyes-" he traced one with the pad of his finger "-and I know you're still not eating as much as you should. Don't waste away on me, baby. I'll steal you away to New York if that will benefit your well-being."

[absolutesnark]

Summer wasn't sure there was anything she could say to make it better, so she went over and hugged Savannah.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Savannah had told her the basics when they'd talked earlier in the week. This was just filling in the details. It was enough to have Isabel planning to make some phone calls later that night.

[blessed_twice]

Wyatt got particularly twitchy when Savannah told them that Chris had died in this other world, but her description of him bothered him as well.