[Streets of Fandom, Sunday Evening]

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

Ellen had managed to handwavily get herself a room at the local hotel after the cab had dropped her off at the end of the causeway, but it was hardly late enough to retire for the night.

So after stowing her things and grabbing a jacket, she headed out to the streets of Fandom to see what this place was like.

[OOC: Partly establishy, but come meet the new blood if you're so inclined. :D]

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[wannabehunter]

Still somewhat on edge from her encounter with Chris and Wyatt in the Perk earlier, Jo was walking the streets not like that omg. She stopped dead when she caught sight of Ellen.

"Mom?"

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

Ellen hadn't expected to see her daughter so soon, but she wasn't about to complain when providence brought her around. "Hey, sweetie. How's your weekend going?"

[wannabehunter]

Jo meant to give some completely self-assured and hey, checking up on wasn't really necessary, reply to Ellen, instead she just kind of started sniffling.

Look, she was fourteen, she was allowed to act like that sometimes.

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

Surprised, Ellen reacted immediately, reaching out to pull her daughter into a hug. "What's wrong?" she asked, slightly hushed and concerned.

[wannabehunter]

Jo clung to Ellen. "I thought they liked me," she said, wiping her eyes with the back of her hand.

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

"Who, sweetie?" Ellen asked, pushing Jo back far enough she could look her daughter in the eye. "Did someone hurt you?"

[wannabehunter]

"Wyatt and Chris," Jo said quietly, biting her lip. "Tried to at least."

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

"That the same Chris you mentioned before?" Ellen asked, giving her daughter a searching look. "What'd he do?"

[wannabehunter]

"And his brother," Jo nodded. "We were in the perk, they said we should have 'some fun', the private kind."

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

Ellen's eyes narrowed. "Oh really," she said, already planning how she might tan a couple teenage boys' hides. "When was this?"

[wannabehunter]

"This morning," Jo replied, thenadded. "I don't really think they were planning on taking no for an answer."

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

Sighing, Ellen squeezed Jo's shoulders. "I'll have a talk with the principal as soon as I can, honey. You wanna stay with me at the hotel tonight?"

[wannabehunter]

Jo nodded. "I'd like that," she said.

Finally some gears clicked in her mind. "Uh, Mom, what are you doing here?"

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

"Finding out what kind of place I sent my daughter off to," she said, smiling finally.

[wannabehunter]

"Oh," Jo replied, managing a small grin. "Well, it's not always like this."

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

"Jo, everywhere's like this," Ellen said dryly, and likely misunderstanding what her daughter meant. "No matter how much people wish it weren't."

[wannabehunter]

"Every place has killer robots and gremlins?"

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

Ellen blinked. "Gremlins, sure. Killer robots might be more a stretch," she said after a moment.

[wannabehunter]

"Well, I think the killer robots might have been a one off," Jo said. "Although they definitely didn't seem as smart as the gremlins."

[roadhousequeen.livejournal.com]

"Man, what was I thinking when I sent you here," Ellen said, shaking her head. "You need to get anything up from the school, or you wanna come back to the hotel now?"

[wannabehunter]

"I like it here, Mom," Jo said. "Usually."

She shook her head. "Nothing I need that bad."

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

Waldo picked up the cab after Ellen was clear of it. He wanted to see the causeway from the point of view of a car.