Do you know what day it is?

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[April 30th, the day she was assigned to "accidentally" run into the man Jack Brannigan. She checked herself in the mirror, making sure she looked like the blonde-haired, blue-eyed bombshell that Jack's psyche report said he liked in a woman. She knew it was her expertise in information analysis and psychology that earned her this job, but she wasn't naive enough not to know that it was partly given to her because she was an attractive female. Couldn't exactly do what she's trying to do if she was a man.]

[Smoothing out her modest-but-still-sexy dress, she nodded, satisfied. It was time to do her job. The word "spy" didn't sit well for her, she was just another woman trying to make a career for herself.]

[However, when she stepped off of the elevator in her apartment complex, intending to head to Federal Hall where she knew the dark haired Jack would be at about this time, she blinked in surprised as she suddenly wasn't standing on the very familiar lobby, but rather a long, white hallway.]

...Did I hit the wrong floor?

[She turned around but... the elevator was nowhere to be seen.]


[((Concept!PreMGS2 Rose, information is in her bio if you're interested. Protip: she's not much different from normal preMGS2 Rose, except for appearances.))]

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[starofchaos]

A little lost, are we?

[The voice comes from a man leaning against the wall to her blind side. Liquid sounds annoyed, irritable. He doesn't bother looking at her. What's the point? He came through a door like that once before, just over a month ago- and he's still here now. It's infuriating.]

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[She spins to face the voice. It takes her a second before she responds. His clothes were pretty strange, at least for every day in New York.]

A little, I just got off of an elevator but... it's... gone.

[She briefly wondered if she was still sleeping.]

[starofchaos]

I noticed. The door I came in through vanished as well.

[His voice is bored, dry. He doesn't really want to have to explain this. If she'd ask, he'd explain, but otherwise he isn't going to bother offering an explanation.]

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[She frowned, shaking her head.]

But that doesn't make any sense. Doors don't just disappear, and especially not in an old apartment building.

[starofchaos]

Are you really that stupid? Look around you. This is not your apartment.

[Ugh, how annoying. Had he been so confused as this? Possibly, but surely he would not have deluded himself into thinking it was impossible.]

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[Rose "hmph"ed at him, although it's not like rude people were in short supply from where she came from.]

Alright, well if you're so smart, maybe you'd like telling me where this is?

[starofchaos]

But of course, since you asked so nicely!

[Dramatically, he held his hands out, palms facing the ceiling.]

You have been brought into the most pointless waste of space there is. Welcome to the Nexus.

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[She stared for a second, trying to decide if he might be crazy.]

The Nexus? And that is? And how did I get here?

[starofchaos]

[He folds his arms over his chest, knowing what she's thinking.]

Nobody knows what it is, or how we got here. Everyone came here like you did. Just walked right on in - and found they couldn't walk back out again.

[roidingraven.livejournal.com]

[There's a rather normal looking guy just standing there, staring at the new arrival. This is the first time he'd actually seen someone appear in the Nexus, and it was pretty interesting.]

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[She would be a little unnerved by him staring, but considering she just walked out of an elevator that disappeared behind her, she couldn't blame him.]

Um, do you know what just happened...?

[roidingraven.livejournal.com]

You appeared here.

[Raven is always glad to be helpful!]

Who are you?

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[Well... that wasn't very helpful, but she couldn't blame him for knowing how she just apparently appeared there.]

My name is Rose.

[She answered, looking at him carefully.]

What's your name?

[roidingraven.livejournal.com]

Rose?

[He moves a little closer, looking her over with interest. The Rose he lives with is brunette, but they certainly do share some features.]

I'm Raven. I think I know you.

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[She looks at him apprehensively as he gets closer.]

Raven? I... don't think I know any Ravens, I'm sorry.

[roidingraven.livejournal.com]

Well not you, a different you.

[He halts just before entering into her personal space.]

Are you into psychology?

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

...A different me?

[Okay, he might be a little crazy...]

Yes, I am... why?

[She spoke carefully, watching him.]

[sweetssnake.livejournal.com]

And no Halle here either.

[Snake sighed, lowering her gun only for a moment when a lady just... appeared. She went back on alert as she pointed the tranq gun at the new arrival cautiously.]

Who are you?

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

[Rose turned and- Oh god does that little kid have a gun?! What kind of place is this?]

[She held up her hands, frightened.]

P-please don't shoot!

[sweetssnake.livejournal.com]

I won't if you identify yourself.

[Her fear seemed genuine but you never know in the battlefield.]

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

M-My name is Rose. There's no need to hurt anyone...

[Maybe talking them down would work...]

[sweetssnake.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[Well, he ... she was married to the Colonel. Trustworthy enough. Snake put her gun away.]

How are you and the Colonel doing?

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

...The Colonel? I don't know what you're talking about.

[She was still a little panicked but glad that gun was gone.]

[sweetssnake.livejournal.com]

[Oh. Right. Not everyone was from her time.]

Where you just came from... What was the date?

[Might as well get a reading on her. Although, Snake didn't know too much about Roger. Except.... shaking the controller always was a nice effect.]

[by-anothername.livejournal.com]

Um. It's April 30th, 2007... why?