Although the team had become a family, it did not mean they truly knew one another, can anyone honestly know another human being? What with all their intricacies, eccentricities, oddities or moods and let's be honest there is a lot of moods to swing between. The Rowan apocalypse was months behind them and it drew them together like nothing else probably could on this plane or the next. Abby, Patty, Erin, Kevin and Holtz now cohabited the firehouse for both work and 'home'; it was much larger than needs be for work purposes, the largest space required was for Holtzs' experimentations and Erins' love of larger than life whiteboards. This being said when something shifted even ever so slightly between the firehouse dynamic it could be felt almost instantaneously, as if the air itself grew density. Today was one of those days little did they realise it held more weight than absent salty parabolas from the cupboards, or lacking wantons in their soup.
The firehouse was comprised of four floors, the first being the general centre of activity for Abbys' theorems Kevs' 'desk of general miscommunication' as Holtzy calls it; and Pattys' ever expanding book collection housed in mahogany bookcases that somewhere along the line appeared…she had another Uncle. The second floor was Holtzys' and Erins' 'LABORATORY OF FUN!'...you Can guess who named it, Gilbert looked aghast but snorted a moment later and so it became a permanent pseudonym. Holtzmann liked the company although she struggled to vocalise that sort of thing as did Erin but it didn't make it any less true just because it wasn't spoken aloud… right? The third and fourth floors had been works in progress, the fourth had been the attic but Patty convinced them that a conversion would be a great idea and everyone could live under the one roof; if the attic was haunted the Ghosts' should be the ones that are scared. There were three bedrooms a fairly small kitchen and one large bathroom on the third which homed Patty Abby and Kevin (someone had to supervise him and Erin wasn't allowed to share a floor with him and Holtz would probably try some Frankenstein shit on him if housed in the attic alone with his sweet naivety). Therefore, the two bedrooms one small bathroom on the fourth/attic floor were Holtz and Gilberts' however Holtz more often than not dozed off on the battered checkered couch housed in the lab two floors below.
Erin rose the earliest most days and today Friday February 3rd was no different, mewing slightly as she stretched out and into consciousness. Smiling gently at the contrast of her warm cosy bed in comparison to the cool climate of her room, she preferred the cold to the stifling heat of summer, always had and always would. Especially a winters breeze from an ajar window on her face as she cocooned herself into her blankets before sleep, she couldn't explain it but it made her feel alive and at peace all at once. Rolling up and out of bed she swished a gulp of lukewarm water around her mouth from the bedside table before shuffling towards her chest of drawers and wardrobe grabbing whatever clothes she fancied for the day, she'd steadily become more relaxed about what she wore depending on her mood but still opted for quite tight restricted clothing. It gave her some strange sense of comfort the restriction of it, as if the clothes themselves made her more conscientious about what her movements would be, this feeling of rigidity and control forcing her to stand straighter and taller as opposed to so many years of making herself shrink away. Leaving her bedroom Erin took note of Holtzs' closed bedroom door Adjacent but to the right towards the stairwell whereas the bathroom was adjacent to the far left near the new narrow hall window, it wasn't often it was closed due to her infrequently using it or barely sleeping at all; giving it little thought though she trudged quietly towards the small bathroom which comprised of a shower sink and toilet in deep maroon and black slim tiles in a checked pattern, Holtz chose the colour scheme and loath to admit it, Erin liked it.