keyed_up: (flesh and blood)
Author: keyed_up
Soph's not immune to large coins anymore. She has now ducked into Milliways briefly, which she could - "never do before" - and left without incident. And Bella says she's torchable. So supposedly she could do almost anything, now.

What she wants to do is this.

She finds Tony - ahahaha, she can teleport now, no spending a pentagon every time wincing when she remembers where they come from - and says:

"Let's go blow my weight in quarters on arcade games and finish that James Bond marathon?"

(She has other friends, who she knows better than Tony, but they don't know about stuff, she wants to keep it that way, and she's going to be in a bit of a mood about stuff for a while; better to put them off until she's got her equilibrium back.)
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit
"That," says Tony, "sounds like an awesome plan."
keyed_up: (little sis)
Author: keyed_up
"I know, right, I am brilliant. Uh, can you spot me the quarters, I think Bella is ninety-nine point five convinced I'm not -" Giles impression! - "evil in some way, but conjuring arcade tokens is probably counterfeiting and would not help with that thing."
toblameforit: Grinning a lot. (*= in front of a mirror)
Author: toblameforit
"I will absolutely spot you the quarters," he laughs.
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
"You're the best. So how's tricks?"
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)
Author: toblameforit
"Meh," he shrugs. "The usual. Still working on improvements to the arc reactor."
keyed_up: (little sis)
Author: keyed_up
"Fun stuff. Hey Jarvis, can you find where an arcade is around here, because I fail totally at knowing that thing."
poeticterms: Printed circuits. (^ thoth)
Author: poeticterms
"Happily," he says. "Do I assume you will be driving, or would you prefer to teleport?"
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
"Going with Tony, so, sign me up for shiny car," says Soph, winking at Tony.
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
Tony giggles.
poeticterms: The eye of a camera reflecting a complex, indistinct scene in blue, green, and purple. (@ muninn)
Author: poeticterms
Jarvis lists several arcades in driving range.
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
"Awesomesauce. Do any of those have skeeball? Who'm I kidding, every arcade that exists has skeeball - okay, which ones have DDR?"
poeticterms: A microchip with an icon of a graduation cap on it. (^ minerva)
Author: poeticterms
This narrows the choices down to two!
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"Aaaand which one has the better pinball selection?"
poeticterms: A circuit board. (^ hermes)
Author: poeticterms
We have a winner!
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
Hooray! Soph traipses to the garage.
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
Tony traipses after her!

"Viper still your favourite?"
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
"You know it."
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit
"Viper it is."
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
Soph hops into the red car's passenger seat. "So apparently I can torch now, you don't have to be extra extra careful driving me."
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
"Yeah, but I'm gonna be anyway, 'cause I don't actually like car accidents," he snorts.

And they're off!
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
Wheeeee!

"I mean you should be careful, you just don't have to, like, not speed or anything radical like that."
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
He giggles.
keyed_up: (but i remember it)
Author: keyed_up
"Bella says I can decide whether to tell Mom and Dad that I'm only recently real. That's how she said it, 'only recently real'."
toblameforit: Skeptical or questioning. (-= poking your head out of Baker Street)
Author: toblameforit
"Yeah, that's one way to put it, I guess."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"I kinda don't think I will. Not soon anyway. My friends neither. I like having pockets of normalcy."
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
"Must be nice."
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"Are you gonna be legally alive again any time soon? Take your company back and stuff?"
toblameforit: Striving for innocence. (+= wanna do my homework for me?)
Author: toblameforit
"Who even knows," says Tony. "It just seems like such a hassle, you know?"
keyed_up: (made real)
Author: keyed_up
"Yeah, but, like, if you get pulled over or something right now what are you even going to do? Being dead seems like a hassle too."
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
"...That is a good point," Tony admits. "And here's the arcade!"
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
"Arcades don't card!" agrees Soph brightly, and she skips out of the car.
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit
Tony follows, giggling.
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
Soph wants to play DDR first. She is really good at it. "After this you can beat me at something with cars in it," she says.
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
"You're so nice to me," laughs Tony.
keyed_up: (little sis)
Author: keyed_up
"I am super nice!" she says, polishing off the last steps of "Butterfly" on hard mode and striking a victory pose.
toblameforit: Grinning a lot. (*= in front of a mirror)
Author: toblameforit
"And really good at DDR!"
keyed_up: (but i remember it)
Author: keyed_up
"Yeah, I conjured up a home set when - well, I mean, I remember - I mean in the closet at home there's - yes. I am really good at DDR."
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)
Author: toblameforit
"Gotcha," he says. "Time to find a racing game for me to kick your ass at?"
keyed_up: (powers that be)
Author: keyed_up
"Yeah, pick something cool."
toblameforit: Grinning a lot. (*= in front of a mirror)
Author: toblameforit
He picks something cool!

He kicks her ass at it.
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
Soph loses gracefully, where "gracefully" means "while punching him playfully in the shoulder", and heads for skeeball. She's pretty good at skeeball.
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
Tony is half decent at skeeball! They shall play skeeball.
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
Then it is pinball time, that being how they chose this place!
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit
Pinball time is one of the best times there is!
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
Soph is not very good at pinball! But they have a lot of quarters.
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
They do. They have many, many quarters. A practically endless supply.
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
Soph's attention span runs out before their quarters do. She blows all her tickets on plastic bangles and earrings to add to her jewelry collection.
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
Tony grins.
keyed_up: (flesh and blood)
Author: keyed_up
"Let's get, like, burgers or something - or no, let's go back to whichever Jarvis has a better TV and conjure burgers and stuff, I can mint now, it's awesome, she didn't hook it into my torching yet because I guess she's not totally sure but I can still do it - and watch James Bond define spy movies."
toblameforit: Grinning a lot. (*= in front of a mirror)
Author: toblameforit
"Deal!" says Tony.
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
Into the car they go.
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
And off they zoom.
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
And once they are flopped somewhat cuddlishly onto the sofa Soph wishes up a nice spread of suitably greasy fast food - burgers and fries and nuggets and soda and milkshakes, mmm.
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
"You know people used to say my dad looked like Pierce Brosnan?" says Tony.
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"I don't remember ever hearing that."
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)
Author: toblameforit
"He used to get it all the time. Especially when he got older."
keyed_up: (but i remember it)
Author: keyed_up
"When Bella finishes what all she's got planned and Jane comes back she's going to start waking up all the dead people. What do you think you'll do about your parents?"
toblameforit: Skeptical or questioning. (-= poking your head out of Baker Street)
Author: toblameforit
...He sighs.

"I really have no idea. I mean, I don't want them to stay dead forever or anything, I just - don't know how to deal with them. At all." Wryly, "Pretty sure it's mutual."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"I guess they could just - I dunno, do you think they'll come back or just hang out Downside? Most people have to hang out Downside or it'll be ridiculously crowded here."
toblameforit: Tucking his shirt in. (-= the definition of reasonable)
Author: toblameforit
"Maybe Dad'll come take the company back," he snorts.
keyed_up: (inching sideways)
Author: keyed_up
"Is there gonna be, like, a huge fight over it at that point because everyone will know that you can be dead-and-not-dead, or...?"
toblameforit: Striving for innocence. (+= wanna do my homework for me?)
Author: toblameforit
"Nah, I'd let him have it."
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
"Probably easiest that way."
toblameforit: Skeptical or questioning. (-= poking your head out of Baker Street)
Author: toblameforit
He shrugs.

"It's not like he wouldn't let me help."
keyed_up: (remember being loved)
Author: keyed_up
"Bella's thinking about forking and she's not totally sure her fork will want to merge after. And I don't like thinking about what would happen if she didn't."
toblameforit: Drinking orange juice from the carton. (+= endeavouring to make breakfast)
Author: toblameforit
"...aww, man," says Tony. He hugs her.
keyed_up: (but i remember it)
Author: keyed_up
"Like, I don't see either one of them going, 'you can have it, I don't care' about the world," Soph sighs, snuggling up.
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)
Author: toblameforit
"That would pretty well suck," he says, cuddling her.
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
Snuggle. "You're cuddly," she sighs, and she eats a fry.
toblameforit: Grinning a lot. (*= in front of a mirror)
Author: toblameforit
"I am! I'm very cuddly. And I'm stealing your fries." He noms one.
keyed_up: (learning to dance)
Author: keyed_up
"Thief!" giggles Soph. "Nah, you can have all the fries you want."
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit
"Thank you!"

Nom.
keyed_up: (little sis)
Author: keyed_up
"You are most welcome, gracious gentlemanly sir."
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
He sporfles.
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
She sips her milkshake. She does not slurp; talking over the movie is one thing but slurping over it quite another.
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
Milkshake! Snuggles! Movie!
keyed_up: (Default)
Author: keyed_up
Yes.

If Soph didn't know any better she'd think this was a date.
toblameforit: Thoughtful, perhaps mischievous. (+= pretend we're twins)
Author: toblameforit
Well, it's not.

It's just... dinner and a movie, with cuddles. After an awesome arcade adventure.

Yes.
keyed_up: (in situ)
Author: keyed_up
It is. It is definitely those things. Those things are all very nice. Platonically nice.

Goddammit.

Soph focuses on the movie as best she can.
toblameforit: Grinning a lot. (*= in front of a mirror)
Author: toblameforit
Tony does not seem to have any trouble dividing his attention between Movie, Dinner, and Cuddles.
keyed_up: (flesh and blood)
Author: keyed_up
He is very talented!

Eventually the conjured food is all gone. Soph was very clever about calibrating the amount.
toblameforit: Grinning. (*= cranking up the charm)
Author: toblameforit
And only Movie and Cuddles are left. Hooray for those things!
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
Hooray!

Soph is up for another movie after this one is over.
toblameforit: Smiling affectionately or smugly. (*= recent successes)
Author: toblameforit
So is Tony! Also, more cuddles.
keyed_up: (the good parts)
Author: keyed_up
Yep. Uninterrupted cuddles.
toblameforit: Smiling a little bit. (*= you jerk! :D)
Author: toblameforit
Mmhmm. Cuddly ones.