Elizabeth 'Liz' Argentum

Returning home had felt like one of the best decisions that Liz had made in a long while and considering her choices as of late, that wasn’t really saying much but she had taken the last few days to catch up on sleep, she had reluctantly been using the stronger anxiety tablets that Dr. Lecter had prescribed but she had found that that was the only way she could get any sleep. She was still tired and miserable and hurting but she had finally been able to start sleeping again.


It had also helped being able to talk with Summer the other day and Liz was feeling slightly more positive about her prospects on returning to Fandom, she still had a long way to go before she could finally make things right.

It was her birthday and Liz normally didn’t really celebrate her birthday, she wasn’t the biggest fan of parties in general but it was harder this year because she thought she’d at least be able to celebrate with Prompto and he had mentioned celebrating her birthday together in the weeks before she’d lost contact with him.

She checked her phone yet again, as she had been doing constantly throughout the day, to see if there was any messages, maybe Prompto had sent something and she had finally been able to receive it but there was still nothing and she sighed, focusing her attention instead on Rain and Leo, she had been spending a lot of time with the cats while she was back and she was taking a lot of photos so that she could send them through to Prompto.

Then her phone did ping and for a very brief moment she dared to hope that it was Prompto and she couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed that it was Steven because it was another reminder of how badly she’d screwed up and she knew that she did have to talk to Steven again to apologise but he had reached out to her and she didn’t think there was any harm in responding to a happy birthday text for her birthday.

Finally later that evening, after she had talked to Steven she decided to venture out of her quarters and head towards the library, Hellboy was on an away mission and wouldn’t be back til tomorrow when they would celebrate her birthday properly but she thought she’d spend some time with Abe since she hadn’t really done that lately.

( It was not the birthday surprise she was expecting )

Finally she managed to stop crying for a bit, “can you … I mean, can you not tell Hellboy and the others just yet?” She asked quietly, Abe looked at her in surprise, “I will tell them, I just … I need more time, Hellboy will try and make me stay but I need to go back to Fandom,”

Abe nodded again, “as I said before, nothing we’ve discussed will leave this room but I do suggest you tell them,” he said gently, “preferably before you head back to Fandom,”

Liz hiccuped, and merely nodded wiping the tears away that had not fallen as she tried to comprehend that she was going to be a mother …it was definitely not how she was picturing her birthday to have turned out.

[Surprise! NFB due to distance but OOC is welcome. CW for Liz’s general state of mind and depression, nothing too dark but the last month or so has definitely started to take its toll on her]

Liz was extremely nervous.

She had never brought someone back with her to the BPRD before, not even when she had been a student and here she was bringing back a guy to meet … well the BPRD were still her family, it might not be the most normal of circumstances but then nothing about her was normal.

She led Prompto to a pretty ordinary and dull government building with a locked boom gate, the building definitely didn’t look like it would house a secret government agency tasked with fighting the paranormal and she approached an intercom that had a sign that said ‘waste management’ above it. She had her duffel bag slung over shoulder and she was carrying Rain’s cat carrier, Rain was meowing softly … like she could sense that she was somewhere familiar.

“Elizabeth Anne Sherman,” she spoke her full name into the intercom, “I’m with Prompto Argentum, we’re expected?”

She waited for the guard on the other end to confirm her identity, “you know the drill Ms. Sherman,” the voice on the end indicated and Liz stepped up to have her retinal scanned and her identity card came back on the screen to confirm that she was who she said she was. “Welcome back,” the voice added and the gate started to go up, indicating that they were right to approach the building.

She took a deep breath and turned to Prompto, “well here we are,” she said trying to keep the nervousness out of her voice, “you ready for this?”

[for Prompto and all the sp. NFB for distance!]

It had been nearly a month since Liz had returned to the BPRD following the backpacking trip.
In that time she had started her training to become a BPRD Agent and had gone on a few missions but for the most part it was just focusing on what she needed to achieve in order to become an Agent.

On that particular Saturday she had the afternoon off before she resumed her training in the evening and for the moment she was taking the time to look through her photography albums and rearrange them. She had started up her photography again as she hadn't done much with it in the past few months and now that she had some time she wanted to get back in to it.

[can be open for email, calls etc]

Liz was sitting on her bed in the room that had been specifically designed for her at the BPRD Headquarters. She had been there for three weeks and it still felt like an alien environment to her. Tomorrow she would be starting at a new high school and it was for that reason that she felt too nervous to sleep.

( Liz wasn't going to get much sleep that night )

Tomorrow she would be going to a new school and a new chapter of her life would be begin, again.