OOC: Open to Jessie. On the evening of 25 December.


The restaurant was small and cozy. A little fancy, but not too much. Ralph had never really felt at home at the very expensive restaurants. She always felt like some low, grubby thief among higher classes. But it was a little fancy, a little special, because she wanted to do something special for Jessie. Ralph just hoped her tall roommate had found the note with instructions and that she was also willing to come. That was the one thing she didn't know yet.

She had done her best to look as good as possible. Haruka had helped her with getting dressed. She had had her hair cut as well and if everyone had done as she wanted, she ought to look rather gentlemanly, just like she could do before the accident. But she felt nervous. Waiting there, all alone at the restaurant... she would feel so embarrassed if Jessie didn't show up. The restaurant was crowded, she could hear people talking from every corner of the place.

Ralph took a deep breath to calm herself down and turned her gaze towards the door again. Not that she could see anything, but maybe Jessie would recognize her sooner...

OOC: Open to everyone. If you're her friend or follow her class or anything like that, feel free to collect your gift. ^^


Christmas had been fast approaching, and had now finally arrived. It was during the night that a certain 'Santa Claus' had been up to surprise her friends and students with little gifts. All her roomies got something, of course. Neatly stacked in a sock at the end of their beds were little gifts. Nothing too special, just some chocolates, candy canes, and a little something that matched with their interests. A book for Seven, some CDs for Jessie and electronic gadgets for Roxy. And at the bottom of Jessie's Christmas sock, she'd hidden some special instructions for Christmas day.

Same was done for her friends and students. Kate, Liz, Natsuki... Hanging nicely at their door, waiting to be found at Christmas morning.

OOC: Open to anyone who is outside. ^^

Ralph had dressed herself in simple white shirt with the top few buttons left open and a long light brown linen trousers. She thought that would be good enough for the moment, and she hoped that she had gotten her combination correct this time.

It was all for her to go outside alone for the first time. She'd have done it before if there hadn't been some nasty interruption. It was scary to go out in the wide world when she couldn't even see where she was going to. But she couldn't depend on friends to take her out and the weather was just too nice to stay inside.

Ralph stepped outside and stood still there at first. She could feel the sun shining down upon her. And the wind blew softly against her, playing with her by now way too long hair. She really needed a haircut before it grew too long. Already it gave her an unusual girlish look.

She could hear girls chatting, she could hear some birds and insects, and down to the road cars. She just wished she could see it all as well. But that was not possible and Ralph knew she should stop thinking like that.

Ralph took carefully a few steps away from the entrance and then stood still again. She was outside, alright, but what to do now? Normally, she'd go for a run, or toy around with the simulator... maybe practice with her guns or for swordfighting... Or maybe, seeing how it was summer, she'd go for a swim. But she didn't know if the pool had replaced the Slayer's Field. She had heard rumours. And she couldn't do any of the other things. So what to do now?

It was weird. Things didn't feel as they should. There was a new girl who had taken up Elphaba's place. And then there was this strange tension between her and Jessie. About the only person she could really feel close to in the room at the moment was Seven, and that wasn't even all that close either.

Ralph knew it was time to fix things between her and Jessie. She desperately wanted to fix it. But she didn't know how, or where or when. So she waited. Waited for the opportunity where her other two roomies where gone and she had Jessie alone. Because looking for Jessie around the school when she could not even see anymore... Ralph knew how useless that was.

She shuffled a bit closer towards Jessie once they were alone and gently, even carefully, reached out to touch the other girl. "Hey."


OOC: Jessie only. Don't care where her roomies are, as long as they're not here right now. =P

It was against the recommendation of the doctor, but Ralph couldn't care less. She was finally going home today. She felt better; her Slayer genes had healed most of the damage, and although she still felt confused sometimes or lived in the past, Ralph felt good enough to return. Her sight still hadn't returned, but the doctor had said it himself as well. There was no cure, no medicine or whatever that could restore her sight. Only hope and taking things easy. She could easily take things easy at St. Catherine's, and she felt much happier there.

Someone had come to get her, and now she was carefully climbing the stairs up to her room. She had refused the help; she had grown sick and tired of being treated like some sickly, weak person who couldn't do a thing alone anymore. Sure, her climb towards the second floor went along with a lot of stumbling and almost falling, but still... She could do it on her own.

Ralph just hoped someone was already in the room. She didn't know if she could find the lock and open it while she was like this.


OOC: Open to all. I hope Kate won't suffocate her. Oo

OOC: Open to anyone visiting Ralph in the hospital! =D I think she'll be home next week or so. But yeah, for those good girls who have been visiting their friend/teacher regularly. =P Roxy is welcome as well, of course, but... then she probably has to be with someone else. I mean, I don't really see her visiting her someone she doesn't know all on her own. XD


Time passed by slowly for Ralph. It felt that way at least for the now blind Slayer. She had no idea about time, and could only measure that through breakfast, lunch, dinner and the quiet time during the night. But she remained wrapped up in this perpetual, endless darkness. Though it was more than just a darkness. If it was just dark, she could still make out contours and shadows. This was... nothing. A huge void. And it scared her.

She tried to be brave. After all, the doctor had told her that the blindness might not be permanent. If there were any improvements of her sight in the next two months, there was a high chance her vision would return to normal. Or at least almost to normal, he had said she might need some glasses. But if nothing happened within two months time, then with every passing month the chance that she could ever see again got lower.

But despite her best attempts to be brave and keep hope, she did have her moments of depression. Moments where she asked herself why she was still alive. Why didn't the explosion just kill her? Why shouldn't she just kill herself?

And she couldn't talk about it with anyone. Not really, at least. Katelyn was always there and Ralph knew Katelyn would listen. But she feared such talk would only upset the girl and she didn't want to make Katelyn cry again.

She had to get out of here. This sitting here in bed, unable to do anything, was driving her crazy. She couldn't even watch tv! She could listen to it, but Ralph wanted to watch tv. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed. Her strength had returned for a great deal, she just had to be careful that she didn't push herself too far. Her hand searched for the metal thing for IV drips and such that had to keep her healthy. Without it, she would only fall over.

Once ready, Ralph began to shuffle slowly towards the door, careful that she wouldn't bump into the door or the wall.

OOC: Open to whoever is glued to Ralph's bed. For fun, let's make it happen during visiting hours.


She could not remember what the first thing was she became aware of when her mind slowly woke up from the coma it had been in. There were odd sounds, but most of all there was pain. Her head hurt, pretty much like a hangover only ten times - no, a hundred times! - worse. Ralph kept her eyes shut, afraid that any blinding light would only increase the blasting pain of her head.

A soft groan escaped from her throat and a hand moved slowly up to her forehead. Ralph tried to remember what happened, but she didn't get very far. She must have gotten really drunk last night, since the hangover was almost killing her and she could not even remember getting drunk at all.

She then tried to open her eyes. Carefully, of course, and ready to close them again should the light be too painful. Except that there was no light. There was no difference between her eyes open and closed. This confused Ralph, though soon a simple explanation came to her; it was still midnight or someone knew she would wake up with a headache and cast a spell or so to keep the room dark. Her roommates probably wouldn't like that very much...

OOC: I've been waiting for this entry for almost two years. So people, please, please respond to it? Don't make me and Ralph sad? Many of her old friends have already disappeared... Please respond?

Takes place the next day after that strip club thread with Jessie. I doubt they'll have spoken about it in the morning, so Ralph still feels stressed out, angry, upset... and this is her way to relax.



Yesterday hadn't gone as she'd planned and she hadn't been able to concentrate on stuff today. She felt oddly frustrated, even upset after all that happened yesterday evening. What had started as just another nice day at a strip club had turned into something quite different, involving the exchange of words she now regretted, fights and even a screwed up attempt to make things right with Jessie.

They hadn't spoken to each other after that. Of course, it had been late and Seven returned shortly after it. Ralph had tried to sleep, but she managed to catch only brief naps. It was her guilt, her frustration, and all of that which kept her awake. As soon as the sun crept into their room, Ralph had left without a word. Almost unconsciously, she tried to avoid her blonde roommate.

To relax and to get rid of all the unnecessary bad feelings inside her, Ralph had taken her collection of explosives she'd made. She found the bangs and trembling rather reassuring. This was something she knew, it wasn't as complicated as human emotions and it was always a pretty sight to see something big explode.

The one she was currently working on would be a big one, though. One with a bang, it might leave her deaf for several days, and the ground will tremble and shake as if there was an earthquake. Ralph already felt adrenaline flowing through her veins. It pushed aside everything about last night, and it filled her with exhilaration and excitement. She was proud on this one. It had taken her months to finish it. The sight would be wonderful to behold.

Ralph walked back to a safe distance. That had been lesson number one when she started on this. Also, for safety, she always made her bombs in such a way that they could be set off with a remote control. Easy as that. Just one push at the button and the thing would explode. Ralph already prepared herself to the loud bang and other things that would come; things that would catch the rest of the school unprepared. With a huge grin, she pushed the button.

And nothing happened.

Disappointment could be clearly seen on her face. Had she done something wrong? Was the cable not properly connected? This thing worked, right? Ralph tried it again, and again, but still nothing happened.

Maybe it was slow. Ralph waited impatiently. It happened sometimes, that a bomb had a delayed reaction. She waited a minute, five minutes, ten minutes... still nothing. If nothing happened after ten minutes, she was certain nothing would happen at all and that something was wrong with the cables. The bomb expert walked closer to her own creation, alert for the smallest thing, ready to sprint away should it still decide to explode. Getting closer, getting closer still...

A sudden loud explosion, followed by the shaking and trembling of the earth, caught not only the school by surprise. Ralph was only half aware of what was going on as a force greater than she could imagine threw her through the sky until she landed with her head against the wall of the PE building, where it left her unconsciously on the ground.

OOC: Forwarded to next week. And Jessie only. (Besides, only other professors can go there and I doubt Soi would visit such a place. =P And even if she did... Jessie only.)

Oh, and I have no experience with strip clubs at all, so this is all just... imagining it. I'm sorry if certain things are incorrect. XD


Thursday evening was her night off. Even though the exams were coming up fast now - and not just exams to go to the Senior year, but also her exams for her teacher certificate - Ralph had decided that Thursday evenings were to be free. They were meant for the still occasional date with someone, to grab a movie alone or with a friend, just relax or grab a beer at a bar.

Today was the day of 'grabbing beer at a bar'. And even though Elphaba may have left more than a year ago and Ralph still waited faithfully for her every day did not mean she didn't have any urges. But Ralph didn't want to cheat on Elphaba by going to prostitutes. So she went to a strip club. They served drinks, they had comfortable seats, good music and pretty girls.

What could someone possibly want more?

Ralph entered the club and first went to the bar for a drink. She then moved around a bit until she found a good spot where she could enjoy the show. Ralph sipped a bit from her drink while she looked around for someone that would catch her attention.

Ralph closed the doors to the shooting range behind her and locked the place for the night. She then gazed up at a nearly moonless night; in the darkness of the school grounds, she could see many stars dotting the night sky. Although she hardly knew anything of astrology or astronomy, she always thought it was interesting and beautiful.

And quite chilly as well, she noticed when a sudden shiver passed through her body. It must be near the freezing point and after having worked in a humid, tropical temperature for the past several hours made her vulnerable to the cold weather. She'd better hurry back inside. And maybe take a shower before she settled down for the evening to watch one of her favourite movies.

It took Ralph some ten minutes to walk back to the dorms, pick up her pyjamas and clean underwear from her room and move to the showers. After a quick peek, she saw no one was around. Not that it would have matter, they were all girls anyway. But it was nice to have a little privacy every now and then.

Ralph stepped under one shower after she'd neatly stacked her clothes away to wash off the dirt and sweat from the day. She idly wondered if she would get a professor's room next year. She would be both student and professor next year... It would be nice to have her own room, though...


OOC: Open to anyone on the second floor who wants to be in the bathroom as well. =D Btw, this is today. *looks up* Monday 7 April. Not when she gave her Gunnery lesson. In case there was any confusion about it. ^^;

Ralph crept quietly through a badly lit hallway. Most of the lamps were broken; only a few were still working and one lamp was flickering constantly. She moved cautiously, because the enemy could be waiting for her behind every door and around every corner. It was a survival of the fittest, or more the fastest; the one who could aim and pull the trigger faster than the other would live.

She stood still near a door. Although it was perfectly silent at the other side of this piece of wood, she could sense someone being in there. He had no idea she knew he was in there. It'd be an easy kill, if she was fast enough. But just before she could open the door, her senses picked up another danger coming from behind. Ralph barely dodged the bullet fired at her and mentally thanked her Slayer speed. Without it, she would've been taken down. Ralph immediately opened fire back at her attacker, taking him down. But the sound of guns firing had attracting the attention of the guy she'd been hunting and even as she was firing at the second one, another shot was fired. Ralph immediately turned to him once the second guy had been taken down and began firing at him as well. His chest got riddled with bullets, but what really finished him was a bullet in his head. He slumped to the floor in a pool of blood. Ralph watched him, feeling the rush of adrenaline in her body. She could taste the victory over this fight and it was good.

Then a sharp pain in her left upper arm pulled her out of that dream. The bullet coming from the guy she'd just killed had grazed her arm. It was nothing serious, it just hurt like hell. But the wound would close soon enough, thanks to the fast healing of the Slayers. Though she had to be careful that she didn't loose too much blood.

Ralph straightened up and tore a part of the shirt from the nearest dead guy and used it to press against the would while she leaned against the wall.


OOC: Open to anyone. The place is where usually Gunnery is given, only transformed into a huge warehouse. Oh, and the bullets really hurt you and there are guys with guns everywhere, so...

She'd been locked up inside for days, only being outside for Gunnery, Archery or Swordfighting. If she didn't have those three subjects, which allowed her to run around and lose her energy, she might have gone crazy by now.

But today, she had some time off and used it to stand outside in the freezing cold wind, but it was better than the permanent heat of the radiator. Variation was good sometimes.

She was in a pensive mood as well. She had those often after her period of apathy and all of that. Maybe it was a sign of growing up, Ralph didn't know it. She knew she never had them before and Haruka hardly ever seemed to have pensive moments either.

Today, it was her career. She had started on a one-year-course to become a teacher in September and so far everything went well. If she could keep this up, she could have her certificate in June and start teaching in September. There were no reasons to be worried. Then why, why did she have this ominous feeling that something bad was going to happen?

Ralph sighed and shrugged to herself. Probably stress. She wasn't used to so many stress and so much studying. She'd be okay once she got her certificate. She was certain of it.



OOC: Open to everyone outside.

OOC: Open to everyone. And remember: the more, the merrier.


Days came and days went, and each day was another long battle for Ralph. A battle of pain and boredom, a combination that sometimes called for desperate methods to defeat it. Sometimes she hung listlessly around, and the next day she could be found doing the most dangerous things at the Slayers Field.

Today, she just sat in the grass, absently playing with a soft ball that she continuously threw up in the air and caught. Her eyes were not fixed on the ball, though, but on the blue sky above her, with a few white clouds scattered around. Somewhere up there, she knew, was where Elphie lived, and it was not a place called 'heaven' but Oz.

Elphaba had left one day to go to Oz again and ever since then, Ralph had been waiting for the day where the green girl would come back to St. Cat's. But the chance her lover would ever return seemed to get smaller with each passing day. She had gone back to Oz, because her sister needed her and Ralph knew that only the death of Elphaba's sister could let the girl to come back to this world.

The young woman sighed and let her attention wander to the ball she'd been playing with the whole time, wondering what sort of things could be done with a ball like this aside from throwing it up in the air and catch.

OOC: Haruka-only. Set somewhere in the summer, but no specific date or anything. That's important, 'cause Ralph's gonna have another entry set aside from this one and Vanya will want to visit Haruka as well... and not when Ralph is there of course. =P


It was still early that morning when Ralph woke up from another restless sleep and near-nightmarish dream. Yet as early as it was, the air had already started to heat up, being partially responsible for the sweat that stood on the woman's forehead.

Ralph knew that she would no longer be able to sleep. The warmth and haunting memories of the dream would force her to stay awake, too afraid to fall asleep again. She sighed and disentangled herself from the covers that had twisted all around her body. She swung her legs over the edge of the bed once they'd been freed and feet touched the cool floor. She then lowered her head until it was supported by her hands.

Even if she'd been pulled back from that dreadful period of silence, loneliness and other things, Ralph was still bothered by many problems. Heartache caused by Elphaba's absence was only one of them. As she had done so often now - despite Haruka's mild rebuke that she had to do things, not think of what she could do - the Slayer couldn't help but wonder what she had to do with her life. Being twenty-two and back in high school didn't sound very encouraging. And even then, what did she want to do after she'd passed this 'special' school's exam? She had nowhere to go, nothing she could do...

That wasn't entirely true. As weeks had passed by, Ralph had discovered that there might be one thing she could do. But she was scared, scared that she wouldn't like it or that it would be an impossible task for her.

The woman suddenly gritted her teeth and stood resolutely up. In situations like these there was only one person who could help her. Wasting no more time, Ralph quietly left the room and then rushed up to the third floor where her much taller friend would be probably still asleep - and Ralph hoped she wouldn't be grumpy by being woken up so early in the morning.

It had been a while since the initial breakdown and finally some sort of crawling back out of the nightmare called apathy after Haruka had taken her back 'home'. Since that, she'd had her good and her bad days. She'd slept a lot as well, feeling often drained of all energy, even after performing the lightest tasks.

But today was different. Today felt at first like a good day, but then Ralph realized something. It was even better than a good day.

She felt... restless. She felt the need to do something.

She felt the need to do something naughty.

Ralph remembered she had made a whole bucket full of very tiny bombs once. They were not larger than a pea and wrapped in thin paper. They were far from dangerous and meant only as entertainment. If you threw them down and they hit the ground, they give a loud bang and that was all.

Of course, most of those 'pea bombs', as she called them, had been used and only a handful were left. But a handful were enough for her plan.

Ralph crept quietly to the window, waited until someone passed by and then threw down three 'pea bombs', creating three loud bangs near the person passing. Of course, as soon as she'd dropped them, Ralph moved away from the window to avoid being detected...

( Falling down )

OOC: Basically just a post to let people know how she behaves at the moment, in RP-form then. But feel free to interact. ^^ Interaction is always welcome. =P


She went to school again on Wednesday, after she'd been away for almost a week. First away, because she'd left the school without saying goodbye. But soon because she ended up in a hospital, thanks to her own stupidity. While she was physically fine in no time, the doctor still liked to keep her around for another few days. Because while she was physically fine, there were still some problems medicine couldn't seem to cure.

There hadn't been told much about Ralph's condition and her reason for staying in the hospital longer than necessary. Even so, not much needed to be told when the girl showed up for class again.

She'd somehow managed to get herself out of bed that morning, got herself dressed and collected the few books she needed for that day. Then, in muted silence and without even glancing at her roommate, she dragged herself down and towards the classroom, where she sat down and opened her book. But that was all. No attention was paid and Ralph stared either at her book, at the blackboard or at the window; though in every situation it wasn't hard to tell that she didn't even see what she was looking at.

She didn't say a word, not even at attempts of communication from her classmates. She just moved around like a ghost; in fact it seemed as if the real Ralph had left and only a shell of her still stumbled around the halls. She didn't go to swordfighting, gunnery or archery, the three subjects that had always been her favourites; instead she went back to her room, where she curled up in bed and refused to come out, even for for dinner.

OOC: Continuing from here and here. First open to Haruka, after that it's up to her who else she involves, really... And yeah, I'd normally put this at the previous entry to avoid flooding people's f-list, but since we have so few entries, I just do it seperate. At least it looks as if we have a lot of entries. =P


It had been two days since Ralph had left St. Catherine's on an impulse and got lost in the big, unknown world of New Hampshire. Most of her teachers didn't pay much attention to the girl's absence; she'd been acting rather strange lately, like some rebellious, sulking teenager. Most teachers also silently agreed that Ralph more than likely didn't want to go to school and skipped the lessons, roaming around in the city instead.

While it was true that Ralph's first impulse had been to skip the lessons, they were quite wrong about the roaming around. In fact, Ralph didn't walk around anywhere at the moment.

It was on that evening when suddenly Haruka's telephone rang, waiting for the woman to answer it.

OOC: Kinda continuation from this entry, even though no one replied. It's alright, I'll just pretend no one saw her and move on... ;)


( Running away )

She left the room like usual that morning, apparently on her way to class. She had Magical History that morning. Not something Ralph looked forward to, listening to some teacher's ranting about some incident that happened centuries ago. What was the use of it anyway?

The woman stood still before one of St. Catherine's large windows and stared outside. What was the use of this all anyway? Things had been sort of fun when all her friends had been here and Elphaba was around. But now?

Michiru had left, gone back to her own art school. Mamoru had left as well, though no one knew where. And now Elphaba had left as well, because she had to take care of her younger sister. Only Haruka remained and as much as she admired the woman... Ralph knew she was pushing her out of her heart as well.

"And then back like you were as a child?" she said softly to herself. "Alone, unreliable, short-tempered. Is that what you want?"

It wasn't really something she wanted, but she couldn't stop it. Nothing had her interest lately, not even the things she usually liked, such as swordfighting, gunnery or dating girls. Everything seemed dull, boring, even suffocating.

She had to get out of here.

Ralph turned around and instead of continuing her way to the Magical History class, she left the building. She had to get away from school, maybe even get away from the town as well. Maybe she should just start walking in a random direction and see how far she got.

But first get away from this hellhole...


OOC: Ralph in her third or so puberty. ^^; Anyway, open to anyone. Still sort of open, but I don't expect anyone will reply to it. Anyway, a continuation has been written.