Abandoned warehouse rooftop

Abandoned warehouse rooftop is the roof of a disused industrial building along Northern Highway in Roseville, formerly a furniture business. Only two characters have ever set foot on it, Lucy and Augustus, and it is where Lucy attempted suicide in her sophomore year.

Abandoned warehouse rooftop
First appearance	Ten Seconds to Midnight, page 13 December 31, 2012
Related characters	Augustus, Lucy

Description

A large multi-story building with a silhouetted figure at the edge of its rooftop.

The building sits along Northern Highway, at what Augustus guesses is exit 14, within walking distance of the main cast's neighborhood. It is a large, multi-story brick structure with rows of grid-paned industrial windows, and it overlooks a quiet cityscape.

The street-level door is unlocked, and a metal stairwell lit by small rectangular windows leads up to the roof. The roof itself is flat, with a raised brick lip running around the edge that characters stand and sit on. A large wrought-iron fence stands on the grounds below. Nearly every appearance of the place is in winter, usually under snow.

History

Lucy sits on a rooftop ledge overlooking the cityscape.

The rooftop first appears in Ten Seconds to Midnight, on the New Year's Eve of sophomore year. Augustus, wandering alone in the snow, spots a silhouette standing on the roof and sprints up the stairwell to intervene. It turns out to be Lucy. He yanks her back from the ledge by the hand, and she deadpans "Thought I was gonna jump?" and insists she wasn't going to. She demands to know why everyone gets to decide what's best for her, and Augustus backs off: "Okay. Do what you want. I'll wait downstairs until you're done." The chapter closes on Lucy sitting alone on the snowy ledge while Augustus keeps watch below.

Lucy stands alone on the raised edge of a snow-covered rooftop at night, with a wrought iron fence visible below.

A flashback in Love Again reveals what happened here a few months later, on the night after the sophomore-year play. Lucy walks to the building through a blizzard, climbs the stairs to the roof, and jumps. She survives the fall. Augustus finds her bleeding in the snow. "Ugh. I hate being right." He calls 911 over her screamed pleas not to, giving the dispatcher the building's location and pressing his jacket to her wound as she loses consciousness.

On the morning Lucy's friends learn she has left Roseville, in Leaving Home, Augustus sits on the same snowy ledge and watches the sunrise.

He returns once more in junior year, in Trapped. The chapter opens with him sitting alone on the ledge and frames his flashbacks about Alejandro and Lucy. It ends back on the roof with the line "I'm glad you made it."

Trivia

• The building is never called a "warehouse" in the comic. Dialogue calls it "the old furniture place" and narration calls it "the abandoned factory building"; the name is the wiki's own convention.
• The page where Augustus first spots Lucy on the roof was published around New Year's Eve 2012, matching the scene's in-story date. The next page's commentary opens with "Hope you guys had a good new year!!!"
• Veronica's only commentary across the entire suicide-attempt sequence is a single line under the impact page: "this was not a good idea".

See also

• Augustus
• Lucy
• Northern Highway