cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Bella gives James a lift back to her home after they bid their alts in Milliways goodbye.

"Tell me about your best friend. Does everybody call her Virgo?"
neverbeatme: Laughing, friendly and cheerful. (ℂ the capacity for humour)
Author: neverbeatme
"Everybody doesn't! She's Virginia to most people. But I've known her since third grade, so we have silly nicknames for each other."
cross_and_bow: (checkout)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Cute," laughs Bella. "You think she'll want to be in on my administration?"
neverbeatme: Smirking. (ℂ a quiet contentment)
Author: neverbeatme
"I can't imagine that she wouldn't!"
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow
"All right. What time zone is she in? I figured warning you was important enough to wake you up even if it was the middle of the night for you, but she can probably wait till morning if it is not daytime where she lives."
neverbeatme: Grinning; vastly entertained. (ℂ not unlike a smile)
Author: neverbeatme
"She is also in New York! I will tell her all about your burgeoning empire tomorrow."
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Anybody else I should meet?"
neverbeatme: Smug; triumphant. (ℕ attend my victory)
Author: neverbeatme
"Not urgently. I don't know who you need to meet until I know what you need, you know?"
cross_and_bow: (level)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Staff size among Bells varies. Golden has the most, which I think is some combination of nepotism and the fact having a lot of employees was the only way to have access to a lot of magic before she imported her mint. I'm probably going to want ambassador-types? There's a lot of demons to deal with; pentagons will do languages but I'm not necessarily a very diplomatic person."
neverbeatme: Smirking. (ℂ a quiet contentment)
Author: neverbeatme
"Ambassador types," she says. "Got it."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Have any wishes you don't want to make the coins for yourself that shouldn't wait till the next time I have a new batch?"
neverbeatme: Grinning; vastly entertained. (ℂ not unlike a smile)
Author: neverbeatme
"Nah, I think I'm good, thanks."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Okay. I'm going to go confront my murderer. Brainphone me whenever."
neverbeatme: Watching you thoughtfully. (ℕ I prefer James)
Author: neverbeatme
"...Sure, okay."
cross_and_bow: (suspicion)
Author: cross_and_bow
Invisible-and-port.

"Hello, Arthur."

Arthur is sitting in lockup, looking confused about how this could possibly have happened to his life. Nothing about his situation improves when he hears Bella's voice. (She is still invisible.)

"I'm not a ghost," says Bella conversationally. "I know one - friendly girl, also murdered, but not my sort of dead. I am technically dead. The fact that this has been overall to my advantage in terms of how much I can do notwithstanding, you murdered me. I don't care if you didn't know what the square could do. You wished for me to be mortally injured. You assaulted me with crippling drugs and you locked me in a house with a vampire, who you did know what he could do. I talked my way past him and decided not to mark you for death in reply, and for my restraint I got my throat ripped out. That hurt, by the way. Because of what you did I underwent quite a lot of pain and fear and something unspeakably terrible happened to someone I love. I haven't decided what to do with you yet."

"I - I was under orders -"

"Yes, well, I haven't decided what to do with the rest of the Watchers, yet, either, besides protect the new Slayer from you. They won't find her unless they got it in quick before I came back from the dead. Have you spoken to them since murdering me?"

"I - yes."

"Liar," murmurs Bella. Oh yes, she's had that on.

"I did, I got my - my one phone call -"

"Liar," repeats Bella.

"They found her and -"

"And you're still lying to me and if they had found her it wouldn't matter, she's smart and she'd have listened to me even if I were the second person to show up instead of the first. Well, this has been unproductive. I think I'll leave you here at the mercies of a criminal justice system that heavily features a father who watched you murder his daughter in cold blood, shall I? But you see I'm going to be legally alive, if not yet then soon, and I'll be able to testify regarding the kidnapping, albeit it would be peculiar for me to tell a jury that you killed me. I do wonder if the Watchers have enough international political pull to put me slightly out of my way in making their communiqués disappear to circumvent any attempts at skirting the consequences. That seems like the kind of self-serving bullshit they'd spend their resources on, is fake diplomatic immunity."

"I-I-"

Bella's not there anymore.

She teleports back to Jarvis's living room.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
Sherlock is sitting alone on the couch.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
She flops onto the couch, and onto him. "Hi," she murmurs.
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
He wraps her up in a hug and kisses the top of her head. "Hello, love."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
"It turns out the new Slayer is very bright and also an alt of Stella's personnel officer. So I'm apparently going to wind up with a similar hiring arrangement and tomorrow morning I'm going to meet her best friend. The Watchers aren't going to find her. I talked to Arthur, too. He didn't have a lot to say."
eversomuchfun: Mocking. (<= it must have burned)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I don't imagine he did, no."
cross_and_bow: (distress)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Turning is a - subtractive process, right? Psychologically speaking. Traits are removed, not - added."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"It varies. Ethical inhibitions are removed; everything else... shifts, sometimes."
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I didn't think it was just my ethical inhibitions that kept me from - what happened. It isn't appealing the way that - that breaking Arthur Mallory's jaw just because he hurt me and I could, is. Or I thought so but she came from somewhere and until I know where I can't dig her out of my brain and set her on metaphorical fire."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Some theories have it that one's soul is actually replaced by a demon during the transformation, in which case it might have come from somewhere other than you."
cross_and_bow: (distress)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Maybe. I don't know. I feel awful. And I'm doing that thing where I make it about me feeling awful, again. Are you okay, is there anything I can do, can I help you...?"
eversomuchfun: Upset or uncertain. (>= soul or no soul)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I don't know," he says. "I really don't know."
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
Hugs. Hugs always help, right?
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
Hugs are a positive contribution in this case.
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow
"If you want to - not, for a while, however much of a while, that's fine, which should go without saying but apparently to some little part of my brain it doesn't so I want that understood."
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun
He smiles.

"Thank you."
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"You're welcome."

(Snuggles. Snuggles snuggles snuggles how could she miss something like that, isn't she supposed to be introspective, there is nothing like this in any of her notebooks.)
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Dear Juliet," he murmurs, snuggling back. "I do love you."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I love you," she sighs. "And I want you to be happy and to get things that you want and not things that you don't want. And I don't see how anything about that is an ethical inhibition. It should just be wrapped up in loving you. Shouldn't it? I don't know which parts are soul-parts."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"That is all wrapped up in loving someone for me," he says. "And not in any part of my soul. But sometimes vampires do find that for whatever reason their mortal affections don't carry. Perhaps the actual boundaries of the soul's effect on the brain differ case by case."
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Maybe."

Pause.

"I - wonder if I had better tell the other Bells. They're probably wired like me. I guess it's unlikely any of them will be presented with any comparable choice, but - unlikely things sometimes happen. Would that be awful of me? If I told them? Not in the book, I wouldn't write it in the book."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"You may tell them," says Sherlock.
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow
"But would you rather I wasn't specific? They'll listen to me if I just tell them that something worse than the alternative-as-we-knew-it happened. They won't like it but they'll listen to me. Golden won't tell if I ask her not to. They might be able to guess a short list, but not the exact thing."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"A list with what elements, I wonder. No, you may be specific."
cross_and_bow: (distress)
Author: cross_and_bow
"If she'd killed or tortured somebody, that would also be bad. If she'd... actually the mere fact that she had a serious personality change, any serious personality change, might do it. I was hoping I'd turn out like you. With maybe a different wardrobe and having to do more of my ethical process by thinking instead of feeling, nothing big."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"My best hypothesis at this moment," says Sherlock, "is that part of the reason I am such an outlier is because so much of my identity was deliberately constructed. That and luck."
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I deliberately edit myself. I guess that's not the same thing as building myself from scratch."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Apparently not. For one thing, I don't honestly believe I could do what I did again."
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow
"What did you do, exactly?"
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Studied the books obsessively, learned everything I thought I might need to know, modified my accent and speech patterns, and somewhere along the way began to think of myself as Sherlock Holmes instead of as no one."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I don't think I could do that. Even if I thought it would be a really good idea to be someone other than Bella. I don't think I could want to. I mean, I could probably learn an accent if I tried, that sort of thing, but it'd wind up being cosmetic on me."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I wanted to."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Hugs.

"You picked a good you to be. I love you."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I love you too."
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow
"How'd you pick Sherlock Holmes?"
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Of all available candidates, he seemed the most learnable."
cross_and_bow: (checkout)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Really, how's that?"
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"The details of his methods are often pure fiction, but the basic principles are sound."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Look around you, very thoroughly, and finish the puzzle," comments Bella.

Pause.

"What'd you get me for my birthday?"
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Is it too late and/or too soon to offer you Arthur Mallory's head on a plate?"
cross_and_bow: (eyeroll)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Both of those things," says Bella.
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
He laughs. "All right, then."
cross_and_bow: (checkout)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Didja get me anything? Is there a box hiding in this house somewhere that you were going to give me except that our evening got derailed?"
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I did, and there is!"
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
Is "expectant snuggling" a thing? Because she does that.
eversomuchfun: Smiling, perhaps falsely. (!= oh yes—hilarious)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Shall I go get it?"
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
"No, you shall stay right here and summon it by magic."

...

"Unless you'd rather get up. Because you can if you want."
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Indulge my sense of theatrics," he says, and kisses her cheek, and teleports away, and teleports back a moment later with a totally unnecessary shower of insubstantial sparks, holding out a large round package wrapped in cheerful silvery 'Happy Birfday' wrapping paper.

Judging by size, shape, and weight, he got her a bowling ball.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
Bella smiles at him, sets the present on her lap, and tears into the wrapping paper.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
It is not a bowling ball. It is a sphere of something like glass, perfectly polished, perfectly transparent, absolutely without any kind of flaw.

"You did mention magical artifacts," says Sherlock.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
"It's beautiful - what does it do?" asks Bella, reaching out towards it but not quite touching it lest she leave fingerprints.
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"If you hold it in both hands and look into it, it will show you something that you will find useful to whatever degree you understand it. No guarantees about the understanding it part, which is why I was able to get it on eBay for a pittance."
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
"eBay?" giggles Bella. "There are working crystal balls on eBay? That's hilarious, how did you know it wasn't a fake? And the something - is it supposed to be past things, possible futures, present things, metaphors, some mix?"
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Any or all of the above. I traced its history, of course. And when it arrived it very helpfully showed me all the parts I couldn't verify for myself."
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Oh, that's nice of it. Hello, friendly crystal ball," she says, cupping it in her hands.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
An image begins to form in its depths.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
If this isn't the Watcher's Council, then there are two organizations of crusty and overwhelmingly British men running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Bella spends a pentagon to learn to read lips and watches them.

"I think this is happening now," she murmurs. "I think they're freaking out because Arthur hasn't called and they don't know if I'm dead - that one thinks I must be alive because they still, heh, can't find the Slayer, and it would just be impossible for two in a row to have my, heh, little problem..."
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Ooh, what fun," says Sherlock.
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow
She giggles and sets the crystal ball down. "That's really neat. And it's not even redundant with mint powers; they're not so good at information. Thank you."
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I do try," he says brightly.
cross_and_bow: (smug)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I love you," she grins. "You're awesome."
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
He laughs and hugs her.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
Hugs! Hugs hugs hugs hugs she likes hugs she loves Sherlock she can almost forget about what an insane day this has been.
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
Well in that case, they can just keep snuggling.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Oh good.

"When do you think you'll want to make a batch of coins?" Bella asks after a few minutes. "So I know how conservative to be with the starters."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Not sure," he says thoughtfully.
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Okay. I'll wish with caution on anything bigger than a square."
eversomuchfun: Looking sideways. (== you will ever lie to me)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Hmm," says Sherlock.
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Hmm?"
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Hmm," he repeats, frowning slightly.
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow
"...Is something wrong? You did decide against having me read your mind..."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Sorry," he says, "just trying to resolve a slight logical paradox."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
"What is it?"
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I want to make coins, but I also... don't," he says. "I'm not sure why."
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow
"...Do you want me to help you try to figure it out?"
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"All right."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Well," she says, "is it just about if I'm the one - helping? Shell Bell's Tony has an agony beam too. We could give this one the same thing."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"That does sound better," he says.
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
Bella's chin drops to her chest. "Then it's probably related somehow to the obvious thing," she says softly.
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Probably," he agrees. "Sorry, love."
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"You don't have to - you have no reason to be sorry - not to me of all people." She sighs. "There's probably more detail to be had, but I don't know if you want to go digging for it or not."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I think," he says, "that whatever my conscious opinions, some part of me is strongly disinclined to present any kind of vulnerability to anyone. But nothing in the world could make me stop trusting Tony." He shrugs.
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"That makes sense."
eversomuchfun: Looking sideways. (== you will ever lie to me)
Author: eversomuchfun


He hugs her.
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I'm so sorry. I don't know how to tell you how sorry I am. I don't know if that would even help."
eversomuchfun: Leaning casually against a wall. (== night on the town)
Author: eversomuchfun
"It does help that you're sorry," he says. "But I derive no great joy from watching you suffer over it."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Bella sighs, and forces herself to relax. "We can give Tony an agony beam. He can help you with minting. I don't have to be anywhere in the picture."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I think that is a good practical solution."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
Snuggles? Snuggles.

Bella doesn't need notebooks anymore. Everything she thinks will stay put for her inspection in its original form.

And so she thinks.
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
And Sherlock snuggles her.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Bella is trying to map the edges of her soul.

She has a few clues. There is what Vampire Juliet did. There is what Amariah said, about Path - Path can't just be a connected owl-creature, to her, he must serve some purpose that outwardly looks like it inhabits Amariah's own body, or he couldn't be so crucial to Amariah's identity. She has Shell Bell's account how she changed after decades Downside: what stayed - what proved indelible, for a Bell with a soul - and what fell away.

"Did she know what she was doing?" Bella asks, after a silence. "Would she have owned up to it by name if it'd come up in conversation with someone she had reason to be honest towards? Or did she manage to delude herself about it somehow?"
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I told her she couldn't argue me into it, and she shrugged and said 'oh, okay then' and tried force next. Some people are capable of astonishing levels of self-delusion but not, I don't think, quite that much."
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Unless she - no, I'm not going to rationalize for her. Okay. I will find another hypothesis."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I do admire your capacity for self-analysis."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Thank you."

Think, think, think.

"Would you mind awfully reproducing what she said before that? It could give me a better idea of what the borders are."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
He quotes their entire conversation, short as it was, verbatim.
cross_and_bow: (Default)
Author: cross_and_bow
"...She couldn't think of anything to do with the world, if she had it," murmurs Bella. "That's important. I have to figure out how."

She figures on this.

Even unmerged Shell, devoid of memory and identity, had an idea of what she'd do with the world if she had it, warped by her history though it was. And Shell kept her ability to love, truly, generously, in a way that put the point of the love in someone else instead of in her.

James said she could get Bella behind a better candidate for world rulership. Is this true? Probably. Angela is after all not angling for her god's job, last she checked. So the reason the Bells all do in fact want to rule the world except the vampire has to do with the fact that they are right for the job.

The vampire didn't want to rule the world. She couldn't see the point. She was happy to abandon Sunshine, making no further attempt to repair its flaws. She thought Shell Bell should've had a pentagon effectively stolen from her, even if she didn't care about the results that would have achieved.

"Who says I have one?"

A Bell without ambition.

She didn't care what happened to anyone. Except herself. She tried to talk Sherlock into doing what she wanted, and as soon as that didn't look like the easiest way to get it, she changed tactics. She wasn't making any long-term plans or she'd have done a better job of pretending to be Bella-as-she-was. She just saw something she wanted, devoid of any terms referring to people other than her and what they liked or didn't - and she inspected what she wanted and what she had and how to get the latter using the former. That ability was intact. In the short term. Unless Bella's ability to get bored had gone with everything else -

"Maybe my entire ability to care about other people is attached to ethical - stuff," murmurs Bella. "Maybe I don't care about people I love differently from people I don't know, just - more. That and long-term planning. That might do it."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I see," says Sherlock. "And what are you going to do with this information?"
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"I'm not sure. It doesn't seem to add up to anything I can cut out and set on fire, does it."
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
"No. Although I suppose it will make your warning to the rest of them more informative."
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Yes. 'Don't turn into a Sunshine vampire. It will destroy your ability to make long-term plans and care about what happens to anyone besides yourself' is a little more specific than 'don't turn into a Sunshine vampire, just don't' would be."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I suspect naming the verified consequence would also be quite motivating."
cross_and_bow: (solemn)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Yes. It would."
eversomuchfun: Looking sideways. (== you will ever lie to me)
Author: eversomuchfun
He hugs her some more.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Oh, hugs, hugs are good.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
Snuggly hugs.
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow
Snuggly hugs with ki-?

She decides not to push it. The ball can be in his court for a while. However long a while.
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun


Snuggly hugs with kisses.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
Oh yay!
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun
Awwwww.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
She doesn't want to stop kissing him. That's what brainphones are for! [Where d'you want to watch the sunrise from?]
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun
[Oh, anywhere, really. Somewhere out in the open. A mile above the town, since we can both fly,] he suggests whimsically.
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow
[We can. I haven't even tried it yet.]
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun
[Let's.]
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
Teleportation and hovering-by-default means not having to stop kissing just to get from where you are to a mile above Sunnydale!
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
Invisibility means you can totally make out a mile above Sunnydale without disturbing anyone excessively!
cross_and_bow: (smug)
Author: cross_and_bow
Yes. This is good. All very good.
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun
It's so nice to have superpowers.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
And forgiving loved ones, that too.

If they stay up here for hours on end, they'll see the sun come up.
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
That was the whole idea, was it not?
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow
It was! So they should stay up here for hours. Making out.
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun
A brilliant plan. Sherlock supports it fully.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow
Hours elapse. How considerate of those hours.

And the sky begins to lighten in the east.
eversomuchfun: Mocking. (<= it must have burned)
Author: eversomuchfun
[Ooh. Look,] he says. [Sunrise.]
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow
She looks. She grins.

"And look at you, not on fire."
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun
"I'm so pleased."
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow
"Me too. I believe Shell Bell about torching working, but I'm not eager for any of the three of us to try it anytime soon."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun
"Indeed."