cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow
After talking to Soph and sending her off to make gingerbread houses with Tony, Bella says:

[Sherlock?]
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		[Yes?]
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Admin says she has Steph available. Asleep. And something about her changed when Glory divested you of your soul.]
eversomuchfun: Unimpressed. (<= I've never cared to speculate)
Author: eversomuchfun		[I don't suppose she specified what.]
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		[She didn't. She did say that things don't usually change characteristics while they're inactively stored Downside. And she showed me an illusion, which was recognizable but sort of - glowed like a red Christmas light.]
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		[How charming.]
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		[It was actually sorta pretty.]
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun		He snorts.

[Well. I expect she'd be happier with herself if I brought her back now,] he reflects. [I wonder if it's worth going Downside to check.]
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow		[If you want her. I wasn't sure.]
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		[I'm not sure either,] he says. [I suppose I have time to think about it.]
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Yeah, Downside's contents aren't going anywhere.]
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		[So I'll think about it. Have you got time for a snuggle, by any chance?]
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Yep. Minions are set up, I have caught Soph up, I am wide open for snuggles.]
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		[And I have a handy couch which is calling your name as we speak.]
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		Pop!

"I don't hear name-calling," singsongs Bella, cupping her hand to her ear as she flops onto the couch and Sherlock.
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun		He grins and scoops her into his lap, kissing her cheek along the way.

"You arrived. It stopped."
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		Mmm, lapsitting. Snuggle. "Well, that's good, I suppose, wouldn't do to have a couch that would just never shut up."
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		"It would be highly irritating," he agrees, snuggling her.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		She puts her head on his shoulder. "Do you want to do your thinking-about-Steph in solitude or d'you want to talk about it? For that matter, I'm also curious how you're doing with the resumed lack of soul."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		"The resumed lack of soul is fucking delightful," he says. "I'm not sure what to think about Steph."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow		"Nice of Glory to relieve you of the quandary of feeling obliged to keep the damn thing. For certain values of 'nice'. Do we get to see your cognition cease to be oriented around misery, now that it's gone and your people are alive?"
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Who in fuck knows," he sighs. "I'm not currently miserable, but I haven't really gotten used to it yet."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		Snuggle.
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snuggle snuggle.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		"I loved you with the soul too, but this is how you were when I fell in love with you."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		"And I'm better off this way by far."
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow		"That's my impression too, yeah."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snuggle.

Sigh.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		Snuggle.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snuggle snuggle kiss?
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		Kiss, kiss!
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snuggle-kiss!
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		[You're insatiable and it's awesome.]
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun		He laughs.
cross_and_bow: (smug)
Author: cross_and_bow		Squirmy snugglekiss.
eversomuchfun: Smiling, perhaps falsely. (!= oh yes—hilarious)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snugglekiss, snugglekiss, snugglenibble.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		Mmmm snugglenibbles are the best thing.
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		[Snacktime?] he inquires brightly.
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		[I didn't doubly spoil your appetite? Then yes. It is snacktime.]
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun		Nom.
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		Nnnnf. [I love how you do that.]
eversomuchfun: Smiling, perhaps falsely. (!= oh yes—hilarious)
Author: eversomuchfun		[I noticed.]
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		[I love you.] Aloud, nonlinguistic sounds to this approximate effect are forthcoming.
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		[I love you too, dear delicious Juliet.]
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		"Nnnnnnn..."
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun		Mmmmmm.
cross_and_bow: (smug)
Author: cross_and_bow


Time passes.
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up		[Hi guys! Me and Tony have retroactively been dating for like a week!] says Soph merrily to both of them, Tony conferenced in.
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		[Retroactive congratulations,] says Sherlock.
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Good for you,] laughs Bella.
keyed_up: (flesh and blood)
Author: keyed_up		[We made a gingerbread Jarvis and then ate it and watched Blade Runner,] Soph adds.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		[A gingerbread Jarvis? That is the cutest thing.]
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit		[I ate the gingerbread Jarvis,] says Tony. [I may yet come to regret eating the gingerbread Jarvis.]
keyed_up: (little sis)
Author: keyed_up		[I helped a little, with the roof and the top floor,] says Soph. [But I knew when to quit.]
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit		[Whereas I never know when to quit.]
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up		Soph laughs into the brainphone conference.
cross_and_bow: (eyeroll)
Author: cross_and_bow		[You guys,] says Bella, [are cute. Everyone's going to coo over you at the next Bellparty.]
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit		[They totally will. Because we're adorable.]
keyed_up: (inching sideways)
Author: keyed_up		[Am I gonna, like, get mobbed by curious Tonies?] wonders Soph, sounding like she isn't sure if this is a welcome prospect or not.
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit		[Only if you wanna be.]
keyed_up: (remember being loved)
Author: keyed_up		[I will have to think about that. I mean, they might not remember me even a little? Did the spell reach into other worlds?]
toblameforit: Tucking his shirt in. (-= the definition of reasonable)
Author: toblameforit		[It hit all the ones Jarvis can talk to, anyway.]
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Might be because Jarvis can talk to them, depending on how it works. I didn't ask the admin while I was there - she'd know, she judgesighted me.]
toblameforit: Skeptical or questioning. (-= poking your head out of Baker Street)
Author: toblameforit		[You could go check, I guess.]
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Yeah, I think I will. If that's how it works I might want to, like, wish everybody not-a-carrier for the spell. If Aurora wants her end of the conversations we had about our respective sisters later instead of just having me repeat them for her, she's got coins coming out of her ears and no native opacity, she can do it that way.] Bella disentangles from Sherlock with a parting kiss and heads for a door. "Can I get me some Milliways, please, Jarvis?"
poeticterms: Completely invisible (a blank transparent GIF image). (Default)
Author: poeticterms		"Certainly."

Door!
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		Goodbye Sunshine. Hello Downside? Maybe she can do it without a star this time; she thinks about being technically dead and tries it.
ending_of: (Default)
Author: ending_of		Hello, Downside.
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Hey,] Bella asks, [sorry to bother you - do you by any chance know me to have a sister?]
ending_of: (Ⅲ piercing)
Author: ending_of		[No.]
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		[That,] says Bella, [is interesting. Would you object strenuously if, to test a hypothesis, I did something that might cause you to remember me having a sister?]
ending_of: (Ⅰ amused)
Author: ending_of		[No.]
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Okay.]

Door. Door Sunshine. "Hey Sherlock, want to play Magical Typhoid Carrier? The admin does not remember Soph."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Happily."
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		Door. Door Downside.

[How about now?] she asks the admin.
ending_of: (Ⅵ reclining)
Author: ending_of		[Interesting,] says the admin.
cross_and_bow: (checkout)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Can I get a little more detail than that?]
ending_of: (Ⅵ casual)
Author: ending_of		[I now have both sets of memories available.]
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		[How peculiar; that didn't happen to anyone else without specific intervention. Did you get enough detail about how it happened to tell us how the spell does that?]
ending_of: (Default)
Author: ending_of		[The spell tried to alter my memories, but I chose not to let it finish the job.]
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		[And it only did that when Sherlock stepped in.] They're standing in Shell's old clutterful apartment, door held. [Okay, thanks. While we're here - what changed about Steph? Besides that she's a Christmas light now.]
ending_of: (Ⅸ ambivalent)
Author: ending_of		[The visual effect represents a change in her nature corresponding with the loss of Sherlock's soul.]
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Do you not know anything else about the change in her nature?]
ending_of: (Ⅵ wondering)
Author: ending_of		[Until she becomes conscious again, there is nothing else to be known.]
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow		"D'you want to wake her now, or think more?" Bella asks Sherlock softly.
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Well, it seems a little silly to come all this way and not ask her what she thinks of the whole business."

[Could you wake her up long enough for me to ask if she wants to stay that way?]
ending_of: (Ⅵ casual)
Author: ending_of		[Done.]
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		Steph appears, perched on Sherlock's shoulder, white with black spots and glowing a bright bloody red.

"Huh," she says. "That's new." She curls her tail up around Sherlock's neck. "And not completely awful."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		"Hi, Steph," says Bella shyly.

She looked up what genets look like; but she never got to meet her.
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun		Steph sits up, peers at Bella over the top of Sherlock's head, and waves a paw.
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		"How's existing?"
eversomuchfun: Mocking. (<= it must have burned)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Doesn't suck as bad as last time."
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow		"Are you going to go on doing it, d'you suppose?"

Bella has her hands clasped behind her back. Sometimes she reaches for Sherlock without thinking, and right now there is something she is not allowed to touch curled around his shoulders.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		"I don't hate the idea," she says contemplatively. "Might stay tucked away for a while, though."

And she disappears with the usual golden flare of a daemon becoming part of their person for a while.

[Since we're here,] Sherlock says to the admin, [would you mind pinning her on?]
ending_of: (Ⅲ bored)
Author: ending_of		[Done.]
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow		"Let's see, anything else I should take care of while I'm here in case the door doesn't cooperate next time," muses Bella.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		[Nothing comes to mind.]
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Bye, thanks,] Bella says to the admin, and she looks at the clutter in Shell's old apartment and kills a pentagon to wish all the miscellaneous objects into a bottomless box in a corner, and then heads back into Milliways.

"I'm gonna check the Belltower for notes," she says. "In case anyone else has been in."
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Excellent plan."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		Pop. Pop. "Nope. I'm guessing less than a second has passed in Atlantis in the last while, or there would be a check-in from Shell Bell; everyone else could have just failed to find doors."
eversomuchfun: Hands. (== I think that's sorted)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Very likely," he agrees.
cross_and_bow: (business)
Author: cross_and_bow		"I wonder if I should try forcing to Atlantis. Probably not worth the star, though, we don't have any urgent correspondence. And also I need to wish all you typhoid-carriers to be not. Especially Jane, she'd get everybody."
eversomuchfun: Smiling contentedly, eyes closed. (<= contains no moving parts)
Author: eversomuchfun		"Your logic is impeccable."
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		"That's why you love me." Kiss on the cheek, door Sunshine.
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snuggle!

"It's a major contributing factor."
cross_and_bow: (perhaps)
Author: cross_and_bow		Snuggle. [So,] Bella broadcasts to whom it may concern, [I'm not contagious, but Sherlock is, and the admin started remembering Soph-things when he walked into Downside. So we can conclude that if people in other Jarvised worlds remember Soph it's because Jarvises are contagious with each other and worldmates. I'm gonna see about containing that, especially because when Jane's back online she'll get everybody and a number of them would not appreciate that.]
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up		[Yeah, okay, I didn't make, like, super-close friends with any of your offworld visitors really. It'll kinda suck if Jane doesn't remember me, but... I dunno, Jarvises can catch her up from assorted camera angles? I bet she can adapt okay.]
eversomuchfun: Looking ceilingward. (<= hardly very sensitive of you)
Author: eversomuchfun		[She can always integrate the memories like I did, I'm sure.]
keyed_up: (remember being loved)
Author: keyed_up		[Or that, sure.]
cross_and_bow: (meh)
Author: cross_and_bow		[I don't see Jane being anything other than accepting of your existence, and she'll probably quite happily install all the appropriate counterfactuals,] says Juliet. [For that matter she probably wouldn't mind that much if I didn't inoculate her at all and she had to install supplementary memories the other way around. It's her spreading it around to poorly-defended Bells and so on I'm concerned with.]
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up		[Yeah. I like Jane, it'll be good when she's back whether she remembers me or not, I can just flatter her about how awesome she is all over again if need be. Wish your wishes.]
cross_and_bow: (okay)
Author: cross_and_bow		Bella wishes her wishes.

[A star went for this world, including inoculating Jane wholesale, but I can't get any coin to go to cover the rest of the network. So the inhabitants will have to stay put next time we're having an interworld get-together until I can duck into all those worlds and cover them. A couple minutes' inconvenience.]
eversomuchfun: Side-on in the dark; expression not visible. (== a degree of humanity)
Author: eversomuchfun		Sherlock gives Bella a kiss.
poeticterms: A microchip with an icon of a graduation cap on it. (^ minerva)
Author: poeticterms		[We've notified the others and everyone promises to stay put barring emergencies,] reports a Jarvis.
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		[Thanks, guys.]

Kiss!
eversomuchfun: Smiling slightly. (!= merely an abomination of nature)
Author: eversomuchfun		Snuggle, kiss.
cross_and_bow: (smirk)
Author: cross_and_bow		Insatiable.

Kiss, snuggle.
eversomuchfun: Grinning or laughing. (!= all the way to the kettle)
Author: eversomuchfun		His appetite for cuddles is endless!
cross_and_bow: (pleased)
Author: cross_and_bow		It's one of his best qualities!