Front Entrance

[Proprietor]

The front door of Black Point Apartments. There are a few steps down to the pavement and a small roof over the door so you crazy smokers won't get soaked.

[Sharon]

::The swish car holding Jasmine and Sharon pulls up to the front entrance and deposits the two women.::

"We'll call when you need you."

::Sharon dismisses the driver, her attention caught by the new building.::

"Well it does look nicer than CW."

[Jasmine]

"I can't decide if Black Point is a grim or snazzy name, though."

::Jasmine looks thoughtful, then gives Sharon a sideways cheeky grin and grabs her, yanking her up the stairs and into the office.::

[Meredith]

::Meredith arrives with Sera, Paz, Andrea and Julie.::

"Ta da."

::She gesticulates at the building.::

"New home sweet new home."

[Paz]

"Looks nice."

::Paz exclaims, looking up at the door. It does indeed look like a thoroughly clean and modern apartment building.::

"Come on, kids."

::And he takes them all inside to the Proprietor's Office.::

[Chloe]

::Chloe came here first, of course she did! She walks, mildly irritated, into the Front Office.::

(Apartment gone, I guess it's time for a new one... That old bag probably rented out my old one anyway... Fucker...)

[Julie]

::Julie walks down and takes a deep breath.::

(Why is she back? Everything was going so well. We were finally doing so good.)

::She searches her pockets for cigarettes until she remembers she quit.::

"Damn it."

(It's going to be fine. Andrea wouldn't do that to us. I can't even imagine how she feels right now but I don't know how my being around would help...)

::She keeps walking heading towards P3.::

[Jasmine]

::Jasmine hurries out of the building and jogs down the steps. She walks over to her waiting car and clambers in.::

"Hang on, there's probably more folk coming."

::She leaves the door open.::

(Hope she's okay.)

[Sharon]

::Sharon arrives outside and slides into the car next to Jasmine, shaking her head at the psychic.::

"I don't know why you're offering them a lift. It's almost like you want to put yourself in the most awkward situation possible."

::She's about to reprimand Jasmine for gossiping to everyone about Paige, too, when the Charmed One might just want some privacy, but she suddenly catches herself. It's okay to nag her sisters all the time, but she has to cut her friend some slack.::

[Jasmine]

::Jasmine clicks her tongue, glaring right ahead.::

"You know what? You're right."

::She throws herself across Sharon's lap and grapples with the door handle, bringing it shut with a loud bang.::

"Let's go! Homeward bound."

::The car pulls off, going to the magic school.::

[Paz]

"Well then..."

::Paz arrives with Sera and Meredith. It's clear they're not waiting any more.::

(Well thanks Jas!)

::He juts out his jaw as he looks down the street.::

"Fun..."

[Meredith]

"TAXI!"

::Meredith's already hailed one and they're piled in. She tells the driver the address.::

"... think we should have told Andrea?"

::Too late, they're off to the mansion.::

[Lirie]

(What the...?)

:: Lirie gapes at the decently looking apartment complex before her, the cigarette dangling precariously from the corner of her mouth. She is convinced she took the right path from the beach, however the current building is so greatly differentiate from what she remembered, she begins to doubt herself. :

(On the other hand... two years have passed. Maybe they finally fried the Landlord.)

:: Squashing the spark of optimism instantly, she finishes her fag and enters the building, heading into the Proprietor's Office. ::

[Andrea]

::Andrea pushes through the doors and jumps down the steps. She stands at the wall of the building and slams her hand into it, palm-heel.::

"Urgh!"

::She shouts to accentuate every strike, but her hands hurts too much to go at it for long. Turning around, she wipes the tears away and looks around. She calls for her girlfriend, her voice broken and high.::

"Julie..."

[Julie]

::Julie comes out of the building.::

"Andy."

[Andrea]

::Andrea's head turns and she pushes herself away from the wall. She hurries over to Julie and sinks into her arms, burying her face into her shoulder and letting the tears fall.::

[Julie]

::Julie holds Andrea securely in her arms, kissing the top of her head.::

[Lirie]

:: Lirie pauses just before the entrance door, noticing Andrea in an emotionally tattered state. She watches Julie hold onto her, trying to comfort the tears away, and recoils. She doesn't want to see this, doesn't want to be here now. Hoping they won't recognize her in her new scraggy state, Lirie cocks the collar up and hunches down, pushing the door and hurrying past them, heading to the magic shop in hopes that things hadn't changed there as much as around here. ::

[Andrea]

"I don't know what she's doing here. I don't know what she wants."

::Andrea clings onto Julie, miserable and confused.::

"Don't leave me again."

[Julie]

"I won't, Andy. I'm here now. It's all going to be alright."

::Julie strokes Andrea's hair.::