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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: 2012-09-25 02:42 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, affectionate or amused. (⑶ your wish is my command)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
It is good. On the border of sexually so, in fact. Alice noms pie, and smiles, and loves Bella.

Date: 2012-09-25 02:45 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Grinning, friendly. (⑵ extraordinarily nice)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
"Yup," he concurs.

Date: 2012-09-25 02:50 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Explaining or agreeing. (⑼ gotta be cool)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
[Yes please,] he says.

Talking about his dad isn't exactly the problem; talking to Charlie about his dad is a much bigger one. He just doesn't know how. And he clearly demonstrated with Angela earlier that talking to normal people is not a skill of his.

It probably isn't something you can pentagon, either. Or at least, it's not something he'd want to.

Date: 2012-09-25 02:54 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Lurking. (⑻ out of the doorway)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
Alice wholeheartedly and definitively rejects the thought of modifying himself in such a way.

And then looks to Charlie to observe his answer.

Date: 2012-09-25 02:59 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Thoughtful. Possibly shirtless. (⑽ I kinda like it)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
He didn't expect anything different, really. But the underground lair has him feeling a whole lot more secure about the prospect.

Date: 2012-09-25 03:02 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Explaining or agreeing. (⑼ gotta be cool)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
This seems like a good moment to tell him, actually.

Alice hesitates on the vague suspicion that he would say it... wrong in some way.

Date: 2012-09-25 03:06 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Hand to back of head, uncertain. (⑾ whatcha doin' tonight)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
"Yep," says Alice. "I really pissed him off that time. He usually doesn't hit me with things, and even when he does it's usually not a poker."

He recalls the felt/heard sound of his own ribs snapping and winces slightly.
Edited Date: 2012-09-25 03:10 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-09-25 03:14 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Lurking. (⑻ out of the doorway)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
Alice obediently uses up a hex.

And thinks of the same sound again, this time with considerably more clarity.

Well, that's... definitely a mixed blessing. He carefully does not start down the road of mentally listing all the things it would be really inconvenient to recall in detail right now.

Date: 2012-09-25 03:23 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Explaining or agreeing. (⑼ gotta be cool)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
Maybe Bella has the self-control not to peek into her memory's septic tank. Alice expects that he doesn't, at least not perfectly.

"Probably," he says. "He'd do just about anything to keep his name clean, if he thought he could get away with it." [Good idea or bad idea to mention why we moved?]

Date: 2012-09-25 09:57 am (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Thoughtful. Possibly shirtless. (⑽ I kinda like it)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
Alice shrugs slightly, deferring to Bella's judgment, although there are certainly ways to summarize that reason that don't have him doing anything illegal.

Date: 2012-09-25 09:24 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, affectionate or amused. (⑶ your wish is my command)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
Bella is magic and smart and he loves her. So much.

Alice is slowly, tentatively beginning to smile.

Date: 2012-09-25 09:52 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Lurking. (⑻ out of the doorway)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
"Yeah," says Alice, "he's flying. Don't know the airport, though."

And he kind of doesn't care how weird he looks. If feeling overwhelming relief at this point is an abnormal reaction, it shouldn't be.

Date: 2012-09-25 10:15 pm (UTC)
edgeofyourseat: Smiling, conspiratorial or challenging. (⑷ wanna try?)
From: [personal profile] edgeofyourseat
"Yeah," he says, and he does smile, crookedly. "Wouldn't that be nice."

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