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Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat) (kitty_has_claws) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2015-07-13 09:53:00

Entry tags:

ianto jones, jack harkness, kitty pryde (aoa), pavel chekov (au), piper halliwell, ton phanan

Day 332 [Action/Open][Video/Closed]
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[Morning. She's not quite awake yet, but she feels warm and safe and pressed close to someone and it hasn't quite had time to feel wrong yet.]

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[Single again. It's getting to be shorter each time. One day is definitely a record. She keeps reaching for her communicator to call Ianto or even Reid, but she keeps putting her hand down again. It's probably starting to look like some kind of bizarre exercise routine to the casual observer. Instead, she settles down in her office at the Defense Force headquarters to look through some of their research even if her mind isn't really on it. Apparently there was also a murder yesterday. She needs to check that out. Part of what everyone went through or standard murderous tendencies?

The door is open in case anyone wants to come in. And if you do, you might notice the band on her wrist which has been blue for quite awhile is now a bright red.]

[Video closed to Piper]
Hey, can we talk?

[Video closed to Pavel (later)]
Hey... Um, are you busy? You want to do something? We could talk about quantum mechanics or eat ice cream. Or do both I guess. They aren't really mutually exclusive kinds of activities.

(OOC: If anyone would like to call her privately, you can do that on this post too and it's always possible to catch her en route here and there..)

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	foreverjack 2015-07-17 07:00 am UTC (link)
	Nor mine. [Giving her a dry look, and then quirking an eyebrow, because...] Did we fail? I don't think so. Things beyond our control have changed, that's all. [Which... may not be that comforting, but it's how he sees it.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kitty_has_claws
2015-07-17 12:31 pm UTC (link)

[She meets his eyes and her voice softens a little.] No. It was... [wonderful. She'd been extremely happy.] You know how it was. [And, no, it's not that comforting because now he has his relationship with Ianto to work on and she has hers with Reid and now maybe with Jack to mourn. In some ways her world made things easier. There was death and loss and violence and inhumanity everywhere. She couldn't let it in. She stayed hard and moved from one tragedy to the next staying behind the walls she'd built up to protect herself from it all. It always crept in, but she didn't react. There wasn't time.

There's so much time here. Years of things she never dealt with coming back with their new friends every time she opens her heart and lets herself be vulnerable.]

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foreverjack
2015-07-20 04:37 pm UTC (link)

[Softly] Yeah. [It was wonderful. Perfect possibly in the way that only a fictional marriage can be. His lips twitch wryly as he looks down to fasten his boots.]

Of course, it might not have lasted like that, in reality. You know how we clash sometimes, over leadership of the Defence Force. I expect some of that would have crept in eventually.

[Hoping that might be at least a little bit comforting.]

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	kitty_has_claws 2015-07-21 03:07 am UTC (link)
	Sure. And I'm not sure how well I'd handle you coaxing people into mistletoe bot barriers on purpose. [Just one example of course. She actually handled the open relationship with Tyki pretty well, but that was really only because she never wanted to admit it was a relationship and he never really exercised his freedom until they were over.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-07-21 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	[He grins.] Exactly! I'm a terrible husband, really. [And he doesn't bring up the idea of them not working out because of her moping over Reid or anything like that, because he's not a complete monster and that would not be funny.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2015-07-22 03:22 am UTC (link)
	[Marathon heartbreak often fails at having a sense of humor. And right now she could play along, but...] No, you aren't. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-07-22 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	[He gives her a helpless look. They were doing so well. They'd managed not to be maudlin for a whole thirty seconds or so!] Kitty... [This time, he does hold out his arms to her, not really expecting her to come to him, but desperate to offer comfort, all the same.] Come here? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kitty_has_claws
2015-07-22 09:24 pm UTC (link)

[Gotta be mourn something before you can move on? And part of her just didn't want him to think he's a terrible husband even if he was saying it just to cheer her up. She's been thinking about Reid and Ianto but not a lot about her and Jack and where this actually leaves them.

She looks at his outstretched arms for a moment before deciding to step forward. Once she does she curls into the hug pretty easily.]

Think it'll be weird now? Awkward Force meetings?

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	foreverjack 2015-08-03 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	[His arms fold around her, hold her tight.] Awkward as hell. [Grinning, even as he rubs his cheek against her hair, breathing in its scent, yesterday's memories and emotions still too close to the surface, making this feel natural, normal.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kitty_has_claws
2015-08-04 04:36 am UTC (link)

[She's not exactly always the emotionally available, physically demonstrative type, but she would have hugged Jack before. Maybe she never did, but it could have been on the table. And to that extent this feels pretty normal and right. The part that's harder is that degree over the line where she feels the rub of his cheek and and the mold of his body and there's a recognition of how good it would feel to bring her lips up to his. It's not a thought she would have allowed herself before, but now it's inescapable even if she's not acting on it. And it doesn't just stem from the pleasure of the kiss, but from the emotional connection that still feels so recent and vivid.] Guess we're doomed then.

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foreverjack
2015-08-04 12:16 pm UTC (link)

[They've almost certainly hugged before, but yeah, this is different. This is verging on the lovers' hugs they enjoyed yesterday, and it can't be like that any more. Today, things are different.

Very, very gently, he starts to extricate himself before this gets any more difficult.]

Absolutely. [And he's not joking as much as he was before. He gives her a wry smile, and sighs.] I'd better get going.

[Both to reduce the temptation for both of them, and because he has a Ianto to face.]

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	kitty_has_claws 2015-08-05 12:42 am UTC (link)
	[Men are always pulling away these days. But no, she gets it. Definitely for the best, but she's glad they hugged. She feels a little less weird. But that's not saying much.] Right. Good luck with Ianto. For what it's worth I hope it goes well. [She's definitely not rooting for it to fail.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-05 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	[He may be pulling away, but he's going to be feeling a lot closer to her after this, so perhaps it'll all even out in the long run.] Thanks. I hope... [He shrugs, not really knowing what to hope for, in her case.] Just get through the day, okay? You know where I am if you need me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kitty_has_claws 2015-08-07 01:12 am UTC (link)
	[She hopes it does because she's not sure how much more loss she can take.] I always do. You too, okay? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2015-08-07 05:13 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks. [He smiles, softly, and then leans in again to drop a soft, affectionate kiss onto the top of her head.] Catch you later. [He takes one last, lingering look around 'their' apartment, and then he's gone.] (Reply to this) (Parent)

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