plotting to unnerve her
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Bella finds Milliways in the moon palace instead of one of her balconies.
"Huh," she says aloud.
Then, to Alice, Libby, Elena, and Mary, and Lazarus except he autoreplies with a busy message, [Hey folks, Moonstone Palace grew a bar that I don't remember putting in, come check it out.]
"Huh," she says aloud.
Then, to Alice, Libby, Elena, and Mary, and Lazarus except he autoreplies with a busy message, [Hey folks, Moonstone Palace grew a bar that I don't remember putting in, come check it out.]
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Date: 2013-01-18 09:21 pm (UTC)He moans and presses his face into the pillow, wanting wanting wanting.
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Date: 2013-01-18 09:26 pm (UTC)No napkin appears. Roberta sighs. "It was a long shot anyway; there is a specific bar rule forbidding people who are enemies outside the bar from bringing their grudges here."
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Date: 2013-01-18 09:32 pm (UTC)This time, it's going to last.
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Date: 2013-01-18 09:50 pm (UTC)As for what's going on in Alice's head: he realizes, for the first time in a while (at least consciously), that Bella is still reading him. On reflection, he's okay with that, although he worries that she won't like what she's about to see. And he's sorry he told her to fuck off, but he's not taking down his busy message; it fucks with his head when she interrupts him in the middle of this stuff, and two people fucking with his head at the same time - only one of whom knows what they are doing, because Bella might be able to read his mind but she's never lived in it - is bound to end badly.
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Date: 2013-01-18 09:58 pm (UTC)"Yeah," Alice breathes.
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Date: 2013-01-18 10:19 pm (UTC)There's blood all over everything, in his mouth, on his hands, soaking the mattress under both of them. He holds Alice down and slowly, slowly—
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Date: 2013-01-18 10:34 pm (UTC)Alice hums agreement, even smiles—but there's a part of him that feels wrong for it.
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Date: 2013-01-18 10:45 pm (UTC)Slowly.
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Date: 2013-01-18 10:52 pm (UTC)Somewhere between the pain and the trauma and what anyone else might be able to identify as humiliation, Alice is achieving something weirdly like bliss. It's almost like what he felt the first time he made stars, but it doesn't take him over the same way.
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Date: 2013-01-18 10:57 pm (UTC)When she first helped him make stars, he told her - that if there were mixed feelings - and she couldn't get a good answer out of him - that she should stop. And he's arranged not to produce answers for her.
He doesn't have a setup like that with the Joker. She wouldn't trust the Joker to stick to one if he did.
If it gets any worse than it did before - if it gets even that bad, and the Joker doesn't recalibrate and back off as before - she's invoking this as her justification for teleporting Roberta upstairs.
"When this is over with," Bella says, "I might ask you to hold the door for me so I can put some amenities and a person on an asteroid."
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Date: 2013-01-18 11:15 pm (UTC)The affect auras on Alice's thoughts right now are a collective mess. Most of his sensory experience gets a murky grey-white-grey with threads of black; some things, like his continued awareness of the Joker as present and causing all this, get snowy white.
He does want to be here, though. He hasn't stopped knowing that. He wants to be here, doing this, feeling like this. Even though it's awful; partly, in fact, because it's awful.
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