Isabella has read the guestbook. Stella began her work slowly because others in her world had magic and could have used it against her. Shell Bell began her work abruptly and openly because she had a government to depose.

The angel Isabella has neither problem. No one will oppose her. She herself does not oppose the Archangel Linus, who is doing a perfectly serviceable job. And anything she does will be taken as Jovah's own miracles until and unless she announces herself. She is willing that credit for her thought and design and for Micaiah's tithe in pain go to Jovah, who permits them to wield this power, who ought to be shown that she can control the magic, that she's not in it for glory.

Author: jovahs_heiress	Isabella has read the guestbook. Stella began her work slowly because others in her world had magic and could have used it against her. Shell Bell began her work abruptly and openly because she had a government to depose. The angel Isabella has neither problem. No one will oppose her. She herself does not oppose the Archangel Linus, who is doing a perfectly serviceable job. And anything she does will be taken as Jovah's own miracles until and unless she announces herself. She is willing that credit for her thought and design and for Micaiah's tithe in pain go to Jovah, who permits them to wield this power, who ought to be shown that she can control the magic, that she's not in it for glory.
Author: yovahs_kisses	And Micaiah just wants fun, harmless, interesting magic powers and the chance to turn something as delightful as pain into more magic for his angel to work with. Credit doesn't come into it any which way.
Author: jovahs_heiress	It seems that no matter how she sings, Isabella can't provoke the Kiss into pressing a star out of Micaiah. So the first thing she has to do is get over her squeamishness and either duplicate the agony beam as listed in the Belltower book, or live with the knowledge that her lover is self-mutilating somewhere, sometimes, and emerging whole only through magic. "I can probably do without stars," she says before deciding to accept either thing.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"...Really?" he says, halfway disappointed. "I want to try making some, can I anyway?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"...I mean, I could use them. Shell Bell told me how. But you don't have to and - and it's one thing when it's your Kiss responding to my voice but. But."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Awwww," he says in understanding, and gives her a hug and a kiss. And has an idea. A pentagon goes. "Sing me something nice," he suggests, bouncing a little.
Author: jovahs_heiress	She produces a long melisma segment from a mass other than Micaiah's favorite, blinking at him.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Pentagon, pentagon, hex hex star. He hugs himself and leans into her, beaming.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"-hosanna," she concludes. "What did you do?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I changed how I feel when it kisses me," he says, stroking his Kiss. "So I can make it more, if I want stars."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Oh," she murmurs. "...Do you like them as much as you thought you would?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	He grins. "I like them more."
Author: jovahs_heiress	She hugs him tight. "I love you," she murmurs in his ear. "I love you and you're amazing."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I love you tooooo," he says happily. "You're my favourite angel."
Author: jovahs_heiress	Kisses kisses.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Lovey snuggly kisses. Very lovey. Very snuggly. Very physical.
Author: jovahs_heiress	...Some time later, Angela comes out of the water room, and goes and looks at the little calendar that lives near her clock. She peers at it for a few moments and then says in a faraway voice, "I think I'm pregnant."
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah jumps up and hugs her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	She hugs him back, smiling. "I didn't expect it so soon," she laughs. "And I could be wrong and I could still miscarry - but I think I am!"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"We could wish that you not miscarry," he says. "If you are. If you want." Then he kisses her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Oh, that's a good idea, I'm not used to just wishing for things yet," and she wishes on a pentagon. And then she says - "I wonder if it's an angel or a mortal. I wonder if it's right to wish about that, too."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Whatever it is, it probably already is it," says Micaiah. "So we might as well wait and see."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Do you think?" she asks. "That it's already something and that it matters that it go on being that?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"If it is already something, and it doesn't go on being that, I think it'll be a different person than it would've," he says. "But I don't know. I've never had a kid before." And he hugs her again.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"If I had been going to be a mortal, I'd be grateful if someone had angeled me instead. I don't think a mortal me - who still grew up here, not a mortal me like the ones we've met now - would feel the opposite way."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I wouldn't want to have been angeled before I was born," says Micaiah. "Even if it would've meant growing up in an angel hold. I like the me I am."
Author: jovahs_heiress	Isabella considers this. "We could ask Serah. As a hypothetical qusetion," she says. "And see what she thinks."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Okay," he says agreeably, and kisses her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Kisses, always kisses, lovely kisses. They meet Serah in the dining hall for lunch. Isabella tells her the good news. "Jovah kiss you, that's wonderful!" exclaims Serah. "I'm so happy for you! Are you thinking about names yet?" "Not yet," says Isabella, laughing shakily. "I only just noticed I was late. Say - Serah -" "Mm?" "You could've been an angel. Would you rather have been?" Serah appears to need to think about this very hard.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah appears not to care about the answer, or at least not about how fast it arrives. Mm, lunch.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I think so," Serah says finally. "On balance. I don't think I'd always like all the responsibility, but - I'd love to fly by myself. I'd love to have Jovah's ear, like that. I'd love to walk down the street and have everybody trying to give me presents. I wouldn't always like it but I'd always love it. That's what I think."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Huh," says Micaiah.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"What?" Serah asks him, oblivious.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He shrugs. "I wouldn't."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Well, you didn't grow up in a hold," says Serah. "With an angel brother after you and then another angel brother after that and angel friends and an angel father and eavesdropping on people wishing you'd been an angel since you were three." "I didn't realize it was that bad," says Isabella. "It's not. I mean, at least my parents are married and I live here instead of running wild in Velora or abandoned at the Gabriel School or struggling to make ends meet with a mom who had to wait tables seven nights a week. At least my mother was the smart kind of angel-seeker who went to a priest before going to bed and didn't get turned out when the first kid was wingless. Yours'll be fine too even if you're not married first - it's different when the mom's the angel. It's not that bad for me. But yeah, I do wish I had wings."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Should we get married?" he asks, smiling at his angel.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Might be a good idea," she says, kissing his cheek. "We don't have to. I'm not Archangel and I'm not going to turn you out of the hold, let alone turn you out with the baby."
Author: yovahs_kisses	He laughs. "I know. I love you."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"You have to let me plan your wedding!" exclaims Serah, clapping her hands. "It should be two months before the Gloria so you'll have time to take a boat to Ysral and back for the Gathering - and Isabella, you are going to wear a dress - and there'll be flowers, everywhere, all kinds - you have to let me!" "Okay, okay!" laughs Isabella.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Okay," giggles Micaiah.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Excellent. I'll do everything. You two don't worry about it at all, just show up when I tell you - Isabella, you want Delilah to do it?" "Yes, if she will," Isabella replies. And: "...Alleluia if Delilah won't." "I thought she didn't like you?" "I'm not so sure anymore. Or maybe she didn't use to but does now," shrugs Isabella.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"She does," Micaiah contributes. "I'm sure she does."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Okay then, Delilah first choice Alleluia second," shrugs Serah. "I can do that. And there'll be food, I'll need to plan a menu - and oh, your dress'll have to be fitted with the understanding you're gonna be a bit bigger - and I'll pick out music and find people to sing it -" "You're doing us a huge favor and we appreciate you," says Isabella. "I am and you should," agrees Serah.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah beams at both of them.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"You're both so terribly cute," squeals Serah. "This is going to be the best wedding! And I bet all your kids are angels." "We'll see," says Isabella. [Do you still not like the idea of wishing about it?] she asks Micaiah.
Author: yovahs_kisses	[Still don't,] he confirms. [We know what you think and what I think and what Serah thinks, but we don't know what our kid thinks.]
Author: jovahs_heiress	[There's not going to be a chance to change it after we do know what the baby thinks. Everyone will know it's one thing or the other by then...]
Author: yovahs_kisses	[Well, I'd rather let it be whatever it was going to be than change it and find out later it wishes I didn't.]
Author: jovahs_heiress	Isabella supposes she can sympathize with that. [...I wonder if we could find out, anyway. The guestbook said the wishes aren't quite so good at directly making you know things, but maybe it could do this.] (Serah is still chattering, about timing invitations for Isabella's paternal grandparents all the way in Castelana and about the merits of the Resplendent Chorus over the more traditional Wedding Minuet for the main event.)
Author: yovahs_kisses	[Try it,] he suggests, although he doesn't think it'll work.
Author: jovahs_heiress	It doesn't. [I guess it'll be a surprise,] she says, calmly resigned. [- But for ones that haven't been conceived yet, this one's little brothers and sisters, do you care if I wish in advance that they be angels?]
Author: yovahs_kisses	He considers this. [No, I guess not,] he concludes.
Author: jovahs_heiress	[Okay. Everyone's just so worried all the time when there are too many mortals in a row, everyone's so happy when even the most undistinguished and tiresome angel-seeker comes in with a winged baby...] Pentagon goes, and she squeezes his hand.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He leans over and kisses her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Kisses! "You are so cute," says Serah midsentence. "Oh - what time is it? - I'm due at my choir." She leaps to her feet and bolts from the dining hall.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah giggles after her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"We should think about names," Isabella says. "Some people pick different ones for potential angels and potential mortals even of the same gender, but I'm never sure why."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I have no idea about names," he says. "Do you?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I like -iel names for boys. Nothing that'll get confused with a historical figure, and obviously Nathaniel is taken as far as we're concerned, but Zuriel or Abiel or Ithiel? Zion is good too. For girls..." She taps her foot. "Abigail. Candace. Keziah. Damaris."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I like Zion," he says. "And Damaris."
Author: jovahs_heiress	She kisses his cheek. "We'll go with those, then, unless we think of something better in the next - eight months or so," she says.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Okay." Beam. Snuggle. "I love you."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I love you too," she says, and she puts her final bite of lunch away and collects the dishes. "Say - are you getting tired of that one mass yet? Because there are so many. We could start on another."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Sure!" he says cheerfully.
Author: jovahs_heiress	She puts the dishes where they go, and takes his hand to head for the music rooms. "I wonder if I should just - wish my range expanded, and then I could sing anything Hagar could," she says. "...Someone would notice, if I sang lower than usual in public. Although everyone says my speaking voice sounds like it ought to belong to an alto. It might not be such a stretch if I worked out some other way of dropping farther into chest voice."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I bet you could wish your range expanded. And it'd be fun," he says.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I suppose there's no particular disadvantage to it, since I can always just sing the low stuff in private. And you've got a Uriel range and I'd like to match," she adds, smiling. Pentagon. She sings a scale, starting high, cresting up, falling like water to low smoky alto, and back up to contralto warmth, and she beams, and says, "Let's learn the Magnificat - I know it but I don't know it but I feel like I could sing anything!" And she pulls the disc and puts it on.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah kisses her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	She kisses back, but breaks off before Hagar's introduction, which is in her original range and which, therefore, she knows already.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah listens. Listens, and mints.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Uriel comes in twelve measures later, and the harmony is snug and exultant. Isabella trips up a couple of times, when Hagar drops into low complicated parts and especially during cross-voicing, but she does basically know the music.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He turns up his Kiss-amplifying wish a little, not enough to get stars, but enough that he's getting about half hexes. Any more and he'd be too distracted to learn his part.
Author: jovahs_heiress	It's a two-hour mass. Isabella sings through, tirelessly, more charged up at the end than she was at the beginning, and she beams and kisses him.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He kisses right back.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Again?" she asks, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Maybe we should take a break first," he suggests impishly. "Rest your voice." With kisses. Yes.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Hmm, okay, that's a solid plan.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Mmm. Kisses.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I think my voice is rested," Isabella says primly after some minutes of this.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Okay." He snuggles up. "Let's do the song again."
Author: jovahs_heiress	She starts the disc over, and sings. This could go on for a while.
Author: yovahs_kisses	That is just fine.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Even if I never sang just for coins," says Isabella, when the mass ends with a prolonged and decorated amen, "any normal schedule will have us so weighted down with them we'll have to wish them lighter just so we can move around, even me. This is more than Shell Bell was carrying already. I wonder why."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Well, I bet you Shell Bell doesn't sing for hers," Micaiah points out. "So maybe they only make coins when they want coins, and they don't want that many."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I guess that's true," says Isabella, reaching out to run a finger along the coin edges lined up along her chain. To her ears only it makes a musical clinking sound, although the coins are visible on both chains to both of them.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah grins and hugs her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Let's go get dinner," she says, picking him right up and sauntering to the door of the music room.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I like it when you carry me around," he says, snuggling into her arms.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Then I shall have to do it often," she says, squeezing him and grinning. Dinner (with Serah and a pair of her and Isabella's more secondary friends, an angel boy a bit younger than them and his angel-seeker-but-very-nice girlfriend) ensues.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah spends a lot of time during the meal giving his angel soppy looks. Because he looooooves her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	The angel-seeker thinks this is terribly cute. It doesn't seem like Serah has spilled the beans about the baby, but the impending wedding is apparently public knowledge now. After dinner, Isabella says, [I think my parents should know about Damaris-or-Zion.]
Author: yovahs_kisses	[Okay,] he says happily.
Author: jovahs_heiress	They head for Rinnah and Charles's quarters from the dining hall, but the door into the stairwell to the correct floor is Milliways instead. Angela giggles and ushers Micaiah inside. "I'd say Rinnah and Charles can wait, but they don't even have to," she says.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He giggles back, spinning around a few times just because he can and it's fun.
Author: manofmyword	On the third spin, a man wearing a dark purple suit and messy clown makeup catches Micaiah's hand and stops him. "You're a me!" he declares, grinning. "Hi, me!"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"You're -" Angela blinks at the scars. "Another Whistle," she adds. (This is not what she was going to say originally.)
Author: manofmyword	"Sure," laughs the Joker, tugging on Micaiah's hand to twirl him in for a hug and a kiss.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Hugs and kisses! He likes those.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela averts her eyes, although she's perfectly calm about the proceedings.
Author: manofmyword	"Why're you looking away, sweetie?" he asks, snuggling Micaiah.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Sweetie?" asks Angela, instead of addressing the question.
Author: manofmyword	"Well, I don't know your name," he says reasonably. "What do you want me to call you?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"My Belltower nickname is Angela," she says. "My real name is Isabella. Either's fine but the first will be less confusing if you're going to mention the other Bells."
Author: manofmyword	"Okay," he says. "Angela. That's cute. So why're you looking away, Angela?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"...Is there some reason I ought to watch?"
Author: manofmyword	"I don't know," he says. "I just wanna know why you're not."
Author: jovahs_heiress	She shrugs. "It's still a little weird to me. We've met Kas and Alice but everything except for lap-sitting went on behind closed doors."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"We're just hugging," laughs Micaiah, although there is enough lipstick on his face to give him the lie.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Micaiah," sighs Angela.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He giggles, and disentangles himself from the Joker long enough to give his angel a hug.
Author: manofmyword	The Joker regards this fondly.
Author: jovahs_heiress	She hugs him back, with wings. (Her wings are not Pathalan; she doesn't have to warn everyone she meets first of everything that they're not public property. Strange kids where she does intercessions run up and pet her all the time and she often just puts up with it then, instead of explaining.)
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Snuggly," he sighs. "I love you. I'm gonna go fuck this guy, okay?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"That's fine," says Angela. "I'll wander a bit and then check in at the Belltower; do you want to meet there or just go home separately and assume we'll be back at the same time to tell Rinnah and Charles?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Mm, meet at the tower, I think," Micaiah decides. He disengages from the hug.
Author: manofmyword	"That does look snuggly," the Joker remarks. "Can I hug you too?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I - think I'd rather not," says Angela. "I'm not particularly huggy in general. And I wouldn't put my wings around a stranger anyway if that's what you meant."
Author: manofmyword	"Okay," he says agreeably.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah has an idea. He turns it over in his mind a little, and then very carefully makes a wish. And then he hugs the Joker, and wraps iridescent black wings around him.
Author: manofmyword	"Snuggly!" he giggles.
Author: jovahs_heiress	- Angela blinks. "That's - not permanent, is it?" she asks. "Is it just the wings or are you all the way an angel - two angels can't - we're not Nathan and Magdalena -"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I can go back and forth!" he assures her, demonstrating. "And my clothes change when I do, to make room for the wings."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"...Okay. But not in front of anyone at home," says Angela.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Of course not!" he says. "Just when I'm here." And he hugs the Joker again.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Okay. I'll meet you at the Belltower," says Angela, and she goes a-wandering through the bar on her way to the stairs.
Author: manofmyword	Micaiah and the Joker wander in that direction, too, but they take a different route and end up on a different floor. Micaiah's new optional wings are very, very snuggly.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela catches up on the guestbook. She wonders why they aren't just leaving packets of starter coins and the star secret around the Belltower, but she promptly comes to the same conclusion the other mint Bells did: this would be insecure. They are dealing with immense power, and any such packets could - perhaps not easily, if bedecked with magical protections, but potentially - could fall into the wrong hands. (Angela makes up her mind to always have assorted coins on her person, and if possible Micaiah with her to be sung to, whenever she goes to Milliways.)
Author: yovahs_kisses	Speaking of Micaiah! He takes a while, but eventually shows up in the Belltower. When he does, he's human-shaped again, and he looks like he's been crying.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Are you okay?" Angela exclaims. "What happened?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I'm fine," he says, coming up to hug her. "It's so sad, though. All the awful things that happened in his life. But he's okay, so I'm okay too."
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela picks him up to more thoroughly snuggle him. "...Is this the one who Stella put on an asteroid?" she asks.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He nods, cuddling up in her arms. "Yeah," he sighs. "And he's okay about that, too."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"That's good then."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"But I still cried," he says. "Because it was so sad."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"What happened exactly? Do I want to know?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Probably not," says Micaiah. "But if you want to ask anyway, you can."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I think I want to know what made you so sad," she murmurs.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"...Do you want to ask him?" says Micaiah. "I don't think I can tell the whole story properly."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I - okay," says Angela. "Where is he?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"In his room. I could take you there, or bring him here," says Micaiah.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I'm not sure if the other Bells would want me to invite him into the Belltower," muses Angela. She stands up, and sets Micaiah down. "Where's his room?"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I'll show you," he says, hugging her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela follows him through the apartmenty section of Milliways.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah knocks on the Joker's door.
Author: manofmyword	The Joker opens it. His makeup is gone, and he's wearing a cuddly bathrobe, white with a pattern of bright yellow ducks. "Hi, hon. Back so soon? And you brought your sweetheart," he says with a smile for Angela.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"He said you'd be a better source of - the story that made him cry," murmurs Angela.
Author: manofmyword	"Which one didn't," he sighs, reaching out to give Micaiah a hug. "Well, c'mon in, both of you."
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela steps inside and looks around.
Author: yovahs_kisses	It's a terrible mess - clothes, knives, playing cards, and nowhere to sit. Micaiah conjures up an angel chair in an empty patch of floor, then shoves some blankets out of the way and perches on the edge of the Joker's bed.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Thanks," she says, pecking Micaiah on the forehead before she sits, a wing on either side of the cutaway back.
Author: manofmyword	The Joker sits down on the bed and gives Micaiah a friendly sideways hug. "So. Things that made him cry, huh?" he says. "Well. You know what our parents were like, right?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I met Micaiah's mother, when I went and got Nathaniel - and I knew he needed getting, though I haven't spoken to their father," says Angela. "Did he tell you about Nathaniel? Do you have one?"
Author: manofmyword	"Sweetie here's the only one of us with a sibling," he says, kissing Micaiah's temple. "And he got out way early, compared to the rest of us. Me, I was with 'em till I was fifteen."
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela winces.
Author: manofmyword	"Yeah," he says. "So. I burned the house down and ran for it, and spent a while on the streets, stealing and whoring and generally getting into trouble. Your Micaiah knows what that's like," he hugs him again, "but he had a much nicer time of it than I did."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Well - I knew about the stealing but - whoring? Literally? Micaiah?" Literal whoring's legal in Jordana but not in Bethel or Gaza, at the moment. It's not reputable in any province.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"A few times," he shrugs.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"...In Jordana?" she asks hopefully.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Oh, is that where it's legal?" he asks. "I dunno, does it matter?"
Author: jovahs_heiress	"It's legal in Jordana and not in the other two provinces. It doesn't matter very much. Although - political reasons, always politics - if you ever want to take it up again can you ask me to fly you to Breven or wherever, first, so I'll know where you are and you won't be arrested? We're going to get married, we're going to have a baby, you reflect on me - I don't want to be confining but I will need to deal with a lot of people who care about a lot of things."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Yeah, that's fine," he says. "I probably won't, anyway, it wasn't that much fun."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Okay." She leans over to kiss his temple, then looks expectantly at the Joker again.
Author: manofmyword	"I got raped," he says quietly. "It wasn't pretty. Wasn't the last time, either."
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela's eyes water slightly. She reaches for Micaiah's hand.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah wraps his hand around hers and squeezes.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I'm sorry," says Angela, rubbing at one of her eyes.
Author: manofmyword	"You're a sweetheart," he says with a gentle smile. "It's okay. I'm okay."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"It's not okay that it happened, even if you're fine now," says Angela, crying softly.
Author: yovahs_kisses	Micaiah gets up and hugs her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	She hugs him back tight. "Did that ever happen to you?" she asks fiercely. "You're not so closely parallel - but -"
Author: yovahs_kisses	"No," he says. "I think I'm the only one of me it hasn't."
Author: manofmyword	"Only one I've met," the Joker agrees.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Angela cradles Micaiah in her arms and lets tears fall into his hair.
Author: yovahs_kisses	He curls up in her lap and snuggles her.
Author: jovahs_heiress	Eventually she relaxes and composes herself and lets him go.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I love you," he says, kissing her forehead.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"I love you too," she says.
Author: manofmyword	"Aww," murmurs the Joker.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Was there more to it, or don't I want to know?"
Author: manofmyword	"Pretty sure you don't," he says amicably.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Okay."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"I wanna hug both of you," says Micaiah.
Author: jovahs_heiress	"...Simultaneously?" He doesn't seem likely to have mentioned the desire if he meant one at a time; he seems pretty welcome to hug the Joker and he's always welcome to hug her.
Author: yovahs_kisses	"Kinda," he says. "I mean, I wanna hug you and I wanna hug him, and I wanna do both of those things right now, but I can't because you two aren't hugging friends."
Author: jovahs_heiress	"Sorry."
Author: yovahs_kisses	"It's okay," he says, and hugs her some more, and kisses her forehead, and goes back to the bed to snuggle the Joker for a bit.