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Alice eventually goes home for the evening.

Bella goes up and sits in her room.

She has five hexes.

Five.

That's rather a lot of hexes.

She gets out her notebook, with the lists, and she makes some wishes.

And then she goes to bed, grinning.

In the morning it will be time to make plans.

Date: 2012-09-24 04:57 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, possibly fake, mildly creepy. (⑸ playful as a pussy cat)
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"Yeah, I am not gonna flinch," he says with absolute certainty.

Date: 2012-09-24 05:03 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Grinning, maybe licking lips. (⑴ you say bark I say bite)
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"Sure," he says cheerfully. "Sounds like fun."

Date: 2012-09-24 05:24 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Confused, distasteful. (⒀ it's been no bed of roses)
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Alice closes his eyes and sits back and luxuriates in the feeling of being read, even though he can't tell what she's reading.

The list of search results is very, very long, and all of them have the pain symbol attached.

Here is Alice's father standing by a lit fireplace and grabbing a poker out of the stand. Here is Alice's father with clenched fists and a thunderous expression. Here is a memory with no visuals, just touch and sound.

All the iconized visuals contain Delaney Hammond Sr.; some of them show his wife, too, invariably covering her face or leaving the room. They span nearly every room in the Forks house and dozens more in what must be the old house in New York. In some of the latter, Delaney Sr. is holding a weapon of some kind—cane, belt, ruler; in one, a lit cigarette. But apparently, by the time they got to Forks, he was mostly inclined to beat his son with his own two hands.

Date: 2012-09-24 05:48 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Explaining or agreeing. (⑼ gotta be cool)
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It turns out the poker was the source of Alice's broken ribs in November. The offense that led to it: a tube of his mother's lipstick found in his room. Mrs. Hammond was not present.

(The poker left scars, of course. So did the cigarette. Most of the implements did, at one time or another, and Alice has long suspected that's why his father stopped using them except when he was really pissed off.)

Before the ribs, visits to the hospital were surprisingly few, and only for injuries as bad as that or worse—a broken jaw when he was twelve, a broken arm when he was sixteen. The former was incurred for wearing (and ruining) one of his mother's dresses; the latter, for swearing in the house. Not usually such a dire crime, but Senior was in a bad mood that day.

Date: 2012-09-24 06:00 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Hand to back of head, uncertain. (⑾ whatcha doin' tonight)
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"Probably," he says. "I mean, it's not like he did it secretly or anything."

Date: 2012-09-24 06:07 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Thoughtful. Possibly shirtless. (⑽ I kinda like it)
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"Hell, if I hex up perfect memory for myself, it'll be true," Alice says with a shrug. "Fucking hard to disprove it then. No way I could've kept journals all this time, though; he searches all my shit whenever he can stand to deal with the mess." Which is very infrequently these days, but not totally unheard-of, and was much more common back when he had fewer possessions to leave lying around in the first place.

Oh, thinking of which— "Does shit like going through my clothes and throwing out all the stuff I actually like count for this kinda thing? He's done that a few times."

Date: 2012-09-24 06:17 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Explaining or agreeing. (⑼ gotta be cool)
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"Yeah, figures. In that case, nah, I think that's it."

When he looks at the notebooks, he's not sure whether to be surprised it took that much or surprised it didn't take more.

Date: 2012-09-24 06:22 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, possibly fake, mildly creepy. (⑸ playful as a pussy cat)
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"Yeah," says Alice, "I think so too. ...Aw, fuck, I forgot to bring anything."

Date: 2012-09-24 06:32 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Lurking. (⑻ out of the doorway)
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Over lunch, Alice finds himself considering the possibilities of an underground lair.

He concludes pretty quickly that he had better get Bella's help designing the place. And maybe also building it.

Date: 2012-09-24 06:35 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Grinning, friendly. (⑵ extraordinarily nice)
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"Awesome! Please help me build an underground lair so I won't forget something obvious like bathrooms," says Alice.

Date: 2012-09-24 06:39 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, affectionate or amused. (⑶ your wish is my command)
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"See?" he says, with a warm happy glow of affection. "This is why I need you. Okay, so: bathrooms, ventilation. Where should I put it?"

Date: 2012-09-24 06:45 pm (UTC)
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"What's an aquifer?"

So yes. Yes they should.

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