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Tweak says, "Its ROSE damn it"

stephanie nashton does it all (forthem) wrote in rooms,
@ 2014-10-19 23:07:00

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!tales, *journal, *log, barbara gordon, bruce wayne, damian wayne, death, eddie nigma, helena wayne, selina kyle, stephanie brown

selina k, bats & birds, muerte, eddie n
[All of this is handwritten in her messy, girlish hand.]

[locked to selina k.]

Meow.

[locked to batfam+]

Mandatory check-in. I'm living with a squat, old witch who insists on making me learn how to cook frog stew. Now your turn.

[locked to muerte.]

[She's not sure if this will go through, but she can't help but try. Pen press then eventually:] Hi.

[locked to eddie n.]

[She's been gone most of the day with Agnes. Eventually, midway through the afternoon he gets this locked to him.]

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	Re: eddie/steph riddlethem 2014-10-20 04:19 am UTC (link)
	It's her sister's locket. It melted into my hand when I touched it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: eddie/steph forthem 2014-10-20 04:20 am UTC (link)
	Oh, baby. [A pause.] What do you think that means? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: eddie/steph riddlethem 2014-10-20 04:24 am UTC (link)
	I think it means I can call her when I need her. I've been meaning to try it out, but I have a strong feeling she might be on fire when I summon her. Not so good for the forest. [...] Okay, I have the soup going. I'll be there soon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: eddie/steph forthem 2014-10-20 04:35 am UTC (link)
	Maybe the faeries can help? [...] I'll be here waiting, baby. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 04:45 am UTC (link)

[Eddie was dressed the way he used to on Earth-3. Agnes had asked him what sort of outfit she could sew for him and this was it. Sturdy dark green pants, boots stolen from a deadman who didn't need them anymore, a long sleeved shirt and a wool jacket with a collar high enough to cover his mouth. He could still barely talk and it no longer pissed him off like it used to. Now each word had to be carefully selected and he thought that he could avoid a lot more trouble that way.

His eyes were clear though, clearer than they had been in months and months and months. He felt like a man learning how to walk again. Small steps between frustrated anguish at not being able to do something as simple as wiggle his big toe. He'd get better, he'd have to get better.

The warmth of the fairy forest washed over him easy and he couldn't help but smile at the rich purples, pinks, yellows and greens. The scent of lavender was everywhere and he swore he could hear harps in the distance.] Steph? [Eddie croaked so softly that it could barely be heard over the creaks and chirps of nature. A fairy stopped midair and looked at him with a slackjaw.] Help? [Eddie asked, holding his throat as the words burned. She twinkled at him and zipped towards the tiny pond Stephanie was sitting by.

Eddie waved and mouthed a hello.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 05:36 am UTC (link)

[The woodland clearly had a different sort of magic to it than the Nashtons had seen in Sleepy Hollow. Where they'd seen grayscale decay, there was now warmth and light and scents that radiated a sort of calm reassurance and wonder that was probably foreign for the both of them. Stephanie had been taken to the forest jutting off of the old witch's home earlier in the morning to test out the "magic" in her. Steph still wasn't sure it was more than just a fluke, something residual from the traumatizing almost beheading of her husband, but she indulged them all.

And, she was a little curious about some things herself, to be sure. Like how when she would cling to Eddie in the quiet and warmth of the old wooden bed Agnes had given them, she could feel everything he was feeling. The loneliness, the anger, the frustration, the confusion. Not just out of understanding, but actually experience them. The ache in her chest, the boil in her stomach, the gnawing in her brain. Each and every thing like she was the one pissed off and lost and alone. (Maybe, in fact, she was, too.)

The fairies were vague in that same airy way that Agnes could be from time to time. More fascinated with figuring her out than explaining things to her. The fairies warmed up to Stephanie, however, just like Agnes did, and before Eddie had wandered through the woods to find them, they tutted around her, doting on her and making her feel welcome for the first time since she really stepped foot in this door. They told her what a gorgeous girl she was, and what a wonderful fae she'd make. Flashes of magic and wands, and she had gone from the drab dress Agnes had stitched her to a flowing, earthy gauze. They exuded warmth, and complimented her, and just made her feel beautiful like she hadn't in a long, long time. Made her feel like she was good enough as herself.

Sitting on the edge of a large rock at the pond, she turned around at the tinkling whisper that a man was here for her. A small grin spread across her face when she saw Eddie, and she stood, walking on slippers through the impossibly lush and bright grass lining the ground towards him. Her blonde hair glistened in the sunlight peeking between branches, spilling down one side with roses and petals sticking into it.] Hey, you.

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 05:44 am UTC (link)

[Eddie had an inkling that there was something special going on with Stephanie's powers. It was part healing, part something else that was proving to be a difficult riddle to solve. If there was one thing he knew about powers, though, it was that they were a personal matter not meant for others to pull out or try to use their way. Power was different in each hand it was passed to. That was true for any form of it.

He smiled at her earthly get up and the lightness of her step. He was used to capes and boots and kevlar on her. This was something else and he welcomed it.] Resplendent. [Eddie whispered hoarsely and he reached to touch one of the petals in her hair. It dotted his skin in pink and he smiled.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 06:00 am UTC (link)

[Stephanie smiled softly, and it was clear that there was a little less weight on her shoulders in this wood. Surrounded by flitting balls of light and whispered words of encouragement, perhaps he could even see inklings of the woman he'd fallen in love with all those years ago. She could feel something different about her since that day by the stream in Sleepy Hollow. She wrinkled her nose a little, smiling a little more brightly.]

I hope that means something good. [She ran her fingertips down his cheek, her touch warming his cheek immediately. Scars still scattered across her body, and the one curving up her neck still looked prominent, but for the first time in a while she didn't care.] Hi. [Repeated, and she dared to curve up to kiss him gently on the mouth. Lips just as warm as her fingertips against his skin.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 06:08 am UTC (link)

[A neon light in the back of Eddie's head worried that this was all too good to be true. A trick of the mind that showed him beauty that he wanted which in turn made him ugly beyond redemption. He wanted her soft touch, that new found calmness in her voice and that smile that said she was happy to see him.]

Good. [He whispered and then held his throat where his matching scar was and leaned into her kiss. His worry shifted into something more realistic; that he'd never get his voice back again. The potions he was working on with Agnes weren't doing the job and some nights he'd wake up barely able to breathe. How could the Riddler be silenced? For now it was good, it was teaching him, but he couldn't live with it being permanent.] I love you. [Eddie managed to say without whispering and then he closed his eyes in momentary pain, taking her fingers so they'd undo the buttons of his jacket and take it off for him.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 06:32 am UTC (link)

I love you too, baby. I love you so much. [She kissed him again, lingering for a longer string of moments. Her thumb skated over the angry scar etched across Eddie's neck when she pulled back, and she felt that twinge of worry settle in her stomach. Worry about loss of self that wasn't her own, and she looked up at Eddie with concern when she pulled back. She knew that it hadn't been healed enough, and she woke up on those nights where he gasped for air that couldn't come. It was terrifying, and she knew she had to do whatever it took to help him fully recover.]

You just want me to strip you around all these fairies so they can see your sexy body. [But she obliged, unbuttoning the wool jacket fastened up to his throat, and placed the jacket delicately on a tree stump. Blues eyed the red line across his throat, and she reached to hold his fingers a little tighter. The pain felt a little more acute, and she blinked a few times up at him.] Can I try something? [Her thumbs skated along the backs of his hands.] The fairies told me something. That I might actually have some healing in me. [A smirk.] They said I'd make a great fairy. [Her nose wrinkled and her fingers wiggled in his.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 06:41 am UTC (link)

[Eddie's brow creased when she pulled back with a worried expression on her face. He had seen that sudden jolt reaction before and he still didn't understand it. Was she seeing something? Eddie's expression changed and he smiled as she took off his jacket. He shook his head and gestured towards her, silently saying that she was what the fairies would be interested in seeing.

His head tilted like a dog when she asked to try something and then he nodded without hesitation. Eddie thought she had some healing in her, too. He heard Agnes whisper about it over her potions and he felt it that night he almost died.

Eddie squeezed her fingers, brought them up to kiss and then sat down on a nearby stump so she could try to heal.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 07:05 am UTC (link)

Fairies are also interested in hot, hot man pieces, too. [She teased him back, smoothing her hands down the front of his shirt. She was glad, however, to finally find a place to feel some sort of comfort in this door. Like Eddie and his ghosts, Steph had these flitting fairies who insisted she was special even if she didn't particularly feel that way herself.

But, there was a flickering sense of hope in her belly as she stood surrounded by pretty golds and purples and greens, and she smiled gently as he immediately agreed and sat down for her. That he could show even a little bit of trust warmed her immensely. Stepping up to him, she brushed his hair out of his eyes and running her fingers down his cheek before kneeling in front of him, knees digging into damp grass.] This shouldn't hurt a bit, baby. [She hoped. Regardless, she reached up to hold his neck, one hand on each side and thumbs pressing against the column of his throat. Closing her eyes, she focused only on that, on the feeling of his larynx underneath her thumbs, of his heart beating, of that litany of emotions that weren't hers rattling in her brain.

Warmth spread from her fingertips, and a light purple light pours out and wraps around the length of his neck. Inside, he'd feel something similar to honey slipping down his throat and practically coating it. Warmth, and a sense of something gained, and after a few minutes, she pulled back. Winded and exhausted as she sunk back to sit on the heels of her feet.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 07:21 am UTC (link)

[Eddie wasn't nervous or scared about her experimenting her powers on him. The riddled man found it thrilling the way he'd find a new line of code or a gadget and indeed he was actually sort of excited about it. He watched her with sharp interest as she seemed to center herself, something he'd never think he'd see Stephanie do and smiled as purple light poured from her fingertips.

To say the green man was in awe of her power was an understatement. It was something so pure and beautiful like the hope she had shown him all those years ago. He wondered how she got these powers. If they were given to her or it was simply a mix of love and dark magic that forced something light and beautiful.

He smiled at the warmth that suddenly curled around his throat and the pain started to melt away like some sort of elixir. Eddie felt light headed as if she had wrapped him up in a blanket and coaxed him to sleep and when he opened his eyes, he found her hunched and trying to catch her breath.] Did it hurt you? [Eddie said and his voice was soft and smooth as it had always been. That mid-Atlantic accent shining through and he touched his throat instinctively, waiting for a pain that just didn't come.] Baby, that was miraculous! [He nearly tackled her into a hug, making her roll in the grass with him in a messy entanglement of limbs. Eddie grabbed her face.] You did it! Good as new. Maybe a little too good as new toots, but I don't think the fairies mind.

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Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 07:39 am UTC (link)

[Before she could respond that she was just tired and a little drained, he exclaimed happily and tackled her down. She laughed tiredly, arms wrapping around him as they rolled to a stop. She beamed proudly up at him, still trying to catch her breath just a little, and she tangled her fingers in his hair.] It didn't hurt. It just makes me tired. [The scar was still raw red across his neck, and would always be a reminder, but she reached forward to kiss it the same way he always kissed hers.] The fairies will have to learn how to deal, won't they? [Her nose nudged against his, and she smiled gently.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 07:47 am UTC (link)

[Eddie touched his bright red scar after she kissed it. He liked all the little marks across their bodies. The jagged, rough skin that served as reminders. He leaned his head on the palm of his hand, elbow digging into the ground below as he looked down at her.] Do you know how revolutionary this could be back home? [He kissed her lips and cheek.] Think of all the good you can do with this.

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	Re: nashtons quicklog forthem 2014-10-20 07:51 am UTC (link)
	[She liked all of the reminders, too. As much as she was once self-conscious about them, they were like her tattoos. Permanent things to carry with her that helped her remember important things -- even if they were bad. Stephanie grinned brightly, corners of her eyes pricking with pride.] I can really help people. I can really, really help them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: nashtons quicklog riddlethem 2014-10-20 07:53 am UTC (link)
	[He smiled sweetly at her and then rolled over on his back in the grass.] You were already helping people. This? This just gives you an amazing edge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 08:01 am UTC (link)

[Stephanie rolled over and on top of him, rustling little bits of petals and grass around and underneath them. Some fairies fluttered overhead, giggling behind their hands and sneaking behind branches to watch the couple roll around. Steph looked down at Eddie and couldn't bite away that smile.] We'll be a great team for helping people. [She touched his cheek, and she felt flickers of awe and curiosity.] It's not great, obviously. But I think Agnes and these fairies can help me. [Fingers dragged down from her cheek and then down to his neck.] Are you happy? Proud? [Asking like she couldn't feel what he was feeling, but she hadn't told him about that yet.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 02:39 pm UTC (link)

[He turned his head to press a kiss on the pad of her thumb and looked past her at the colorful trees and giggling fairies. This was a dream, it had to be a dream. He had to have been locked in an Arkham cell dreaming about her and these fairies and the powers the hotel gave them. Eddie looked back at her and gently brushed a tiny strand of blonde out of her face.] Hopeful. [He took her hand and pressed it to his heart so she could feel the steadiness of it.] Happy. [Eddie was never short on words, but the time spent without them made him much better at punctuating things for her. Making it clear instead of running her around in a circle.]

Do you like your powers? Are you frightened of them? [Eddie asked with a gentle tilt of his head.]

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Re: nashtons quicklog

forthem
2014-10-20 06:12 pm UTC (link)

[Stephanie tilted her head to the side, and she smiled gently as he brushed blonde out of her eyes. She could sense that doubt that any of this was real, and she shook her head with that curve of her lip still in place. This was the happiest she had looked in a while. Relaxed, glowing, at ease.] Hopeful. Happy. [She repeated after him, feeling the thumping of his heart against his ribcage, and she reached down to kiss him gently. The fairies tittered again above them, giggling behind cupped hands and almost hoping the couple got a little dirtier if only to see for themselves.]

A little frightened. It's responsibility I'm not sure I can handle yet. [And wasn't that such like a bat? Responsibility. But she shook her head and ran her hands up and down his arms, eventually finding his hands in hers. Her thumb brushed against the back of her hand.] There's something else with these. With the power. [She kissed his jaw. Again the waves of it being a dream washed over her.] It's not a dream, baby. This is real. [Her nose rubbed his, and she closed her eyes.] I can feel what you're feeling. When I touch you, when I touch your skin, when I hold you tight and concentrate I can feel it. And when I don't concentrate I can feel tiny flickers of it.

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Re: nashtons quicklog

riddlethem
2014-10-20 06:29 pm UTC (link)

[Eddie's eyes narrowed when she said she could feel what he was feeling. He didn't know if it scared him, if the simple principle of someone else knowing him without having to run a maze first was something he could handle. There was no hiding from her and it took a full second for him to remind himself that he didn't want to run. That he married her because he wanted her to see everything.

That was the trick though, right? He was learning how to trust her again.]

Let me try something. Don't get mad. It'll be like licking a battery. [Eddie could out fox psychics and ghosts by letting them get lost in his mind, but his heart? He didn't know if he could pull that off. Taking her hand, he kissed her fingertips, dark eyes unblinkingly staring into her clear blues. He was trying to roller coaster her. First Arkham the feeling of cold, failure and waiting. Then, Batman fleeting anger, resentment, fear. These both were immediately covered with two other feelings. Arkham with help that felt like warmth and hope. Batman was covered with Bruce which was support and trust. Eddie's dark eyes narrowed and he mixed them all together the best he could. Hate, fear, love, trust, resentment, cold, loss, victory, nothing, everything. In seconds it would feel like a shock to her system, nerves frayed from every end and confusion seeping in from the corners. That's what it felt like to be a patchwork man.]

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forthem
2014-10-20 06:48 pm UTC (link)

I trust you, baby. [Her voice was soft, but sure. Stephanie stared back at him, nodding and trusting him implicitly in a way he couldn't trust her yet. Unblinking blues caught browns, and she trained her gaze on him. At first it was nothing like a pleasant buzz, a little dizzying. Then came the shock, and her heart started to hammer against her chest but she didn't shy away. She wanted to know what it was like to be her husband. She wanted to know what it was like to be Eddie Nigma. And sure, she might not have been built for it herself, but she knew her husband was strong enough for it. The maelstrom of emotions wracked her, and her fingers gripped tighter, but she didn't blink. She just took a few deep breaths and leaned into him.] Oh, Eddie. [Her eyes closed, and she leaned her forehead against his chin.]

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riddlethem
2014-10-20 07:02 pm UTC (link)

[Eddie expected her to either run or lash out at him for jolting her like that. It was halfway a test to see if he could out smart her power (he couldn't resist, he was the Riddler), halfway to show her everything all at once. And, he thought she was going to slap him for it. He even winced a little after, ready for the sharp SMACK to his cheek.

But, she didn't blink. She held onto him until it was all over. She whispered a baby which was more intimate to him than taking their clothes off and he felt his heart beat for her. It was like she grabbed those test your strength electric shock machines and held on like their marriage was on the line. He gave her a funny little smile and without thinking, his mood changed to something new. A rosy, bathwater kind of love that burned with heat at first before relaxing every part.]

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forthem
2014-10-20 07:16 pm UTC (link)

[Her heart still beat hard against her chest, and she was overwhelmed by the emotions, but she wasn't scared. She knew it was a test, she knew he was prodding at her to see how fucking far he could push, but she was a buoy in a storm. She was strength and fortitude, and she was weight against his body as the dizziness abated into something warm and soothing. She smiled, a huff of a laugh, and she looked up at him, blue eyes taking in his blues.] No more testing me like that, okay? Please. [But she was smiling, and his love fed into hers, and he could feel a steady beat of her heart. Maybe he couldn't feel her emotions, but he could certainly read them as she smiled down on him like he was the only person in the entire world.]

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	Re: nashtons quicklog riddlethem 2014-10-20 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	[Eddie smiled back and it was that familiar smarmy charm that never, ever went away.] Okay, okay. I'm sorry. I love you. I'm sorry. [He laughed and kissed her, murmured against her lips:] Besides, what I am will be a cake walk compared to the people in Gotham. Don't you think? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)