i believe i can fly
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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.
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.
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:46 am (UTC)Om nom nom, pie.
Bella puts out a bowl of grapes as a facsimile of dessert.
Om nom nom, grapes.
And then...
Bella wonders if Alice wants to start. He probably doesn't, but she checks. [You want me to take this?]
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:50 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:52 am (UTC)"Dad," Bella says, when the grapes are a bowl of stems and no more, "in abuse cases - like, domestic violence and stuff - how is the victim's safety handled in cases where the defendant gets off? Even if it's on a technicality or something?"
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:54 am (UTC)And then looks to Charlie to observe his answer.
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Date: 2012-09-25 02:57 am (UTC)"Hmm," Bella says, reading Alice for a reaction.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:00 am (UTC)"Yep," says Charlie. "Bells, is somebody after you? That's not why you moved here, is it? Renée would've told me if there was -"
"No, no," Bella says, shaking her head.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:02 am (UTC)Alice hesitates on the vague suspicion that he would say it... wrong in some way.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:04 am (UTC)Charlie's expression is one of slowly dawning comprehension. He looks at Alice.
"In November," he said.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:06 am (UTC)He recalls the felt/heard sound of his own ribs snapping and winces slightly.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:12 am (UTC)"Part of today," Bella said, "went to making a list of - well, everything." [Are you going to hex yourself eidetic memory? This'd be a good time. Copy my version.] "I know Mrs. Hammond can't be compelled to testify against her husband, but their driver knows enough to be suspicious if he were halfway decent as a human being, and even the fact that Alice went to the hospital in November and didn't explain why ought to be suspicious - I figured it out that way. Alice has a safe place to go, whichever way a trial goes, but is worried about his dad buying someone off or there not being enough evidence to convict, and then he could get harassed at school."
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:14 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:17 am (UTC)"If he's got a place to go, no reason not to bring charges," Charlie thinks. "Bribing folks the sort of thing he'd do, Laney?"
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:23 am (UTC)"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?]
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Date: 2012-09-25 03:28 am (UTC)"Mm," says Charlie. "Can let the right people know that's an issue, but if there was a way to make it go away altogether we'd already be doing it. I think Roberts is a solid fellow, though. He'd most likely get the case while Lawrence is on maternity leave."
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Date: 2012-09-25 09:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-25 04:54 pm (UTC)"Right, I guess a little town wouldn't have that many judges in it," Bella says aloud.
"Don't have to worry about Roberts," Charlie says, confidently. "Jury might be a problem. There's procedures against jury tampering, but..."
"We might be able to block that," Bella says, "by unorthodox means you don't want details on. Or we can just catch it and after they go through a few juries, Roberts can decide the case without a jury."
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Date: 2012-09-25 09:24 pm (UTC)Alice is slowly, tentatively beginning to smile.
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Date: 2012-09-25 09:40 pm (UTC)"Right," says Charlie. "Well, I can make the arrest, Bells."
"He's out of town till the end of the week," Bella says.
"Flying in?" Charlie asks. "Could have him picked up at the airport if you know which one."
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Date: 2012-09-25 09:52 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2012-09-25 09:55 pm (UTC)"Well, I can see if we can find that out," Charlie says. "With any luck he'll never set foot in your house again, Laney."
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Date: 2012-09-25 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-25 10:17 pm (UTC)Bella grimly fetches the notebooks.
"He's got an eidetic memory," she explains, as Charlie opens the first. "I wrote everything down from him, but this is straight out of his memories."
"What's the highlighter mean?"
"This color means it left marks and you can prove it - this one means 'jury bait'," Bella says.
Charlie snorts, and starts turning pages, grimmer and grimmer as he goes by.
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Date: 2012-09-25 10:19 pm (UTC)He watches curiously as Charlie progresses through the book.
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Date: 2012-09-25 10:20 pm (UTC)Well, Bella did just write that it was for her lipstick "being found" there.
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