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Tweak says, "CHARITY WORK!"

Hope (onswiftwings) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2009-10-19 22:14:00

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candy quackenbush, hope

Who: Candy and Hope
When: After school
What: Girl-talk

Hope had been at school a bit late, working on a project in the library. Iggy and Angel had already gone home. When she left the building, she noticed the cheerleaders were wrapping up their practice and getting ready to go. Hope sauntered over to the edge of the field, not bothering to hide her wings. Being out in the open with them was still relatively new for her, and she hadn't quite gotten used to it yet.

"Candy," she called, waving. "Hey." She hadn't spent much time with the other girl. All she really knew about her was that she was Iggy's friend, and she had some kind of magic power or something. There was some kind of invisible force field when Hope had accidentally punched her. It was time for Hope to learn more about Candy.

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onswiftwings
2009-10-21 02:54 am UTC (link)

"Cool. Do you want to just walk? I'm not strong enough to carry you." That may have come out wrong. She didn't mean to sound like she was calling Candy fat. "Iggy told me he carried you once, but he's freakishly strong. Even for us." She smiled, and there was warmth there. 'Freak' wasn't a bad thing, in her books. "I can only carry about forty pounds." She hefted the backpack on her shoulder, estimating it was pretty close to what she could comfortably carry. "Besides, it's not that far."

"So is cheerleading fun?" she asked. "I don't really know anything about it except what I see on TV." Television is where she'd learned most things about life.

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	toitshour 2009-10-21 04:06 am UTC (link)
	"We can do that, sure. Or I could fly us both there, if you want." She shrugged a little, trying to think about how she'd describe cheerleading. "I like it, but I'm doing it with my friends. If they weren't there, I don't think I'd like it at all. So, whatever that's worth." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onswiftwings 2009-10-21 11:16 am UTC (link)
	"Oh? How does that work?" She liked learning about powers, but was a bit wary to just agree to this one. She'd seen airplanes on movies and the idea of flying not under her own power creeped her out a little. "I can see that. That's cool." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	toitshour 2009-10-22 05:52 am UTC (link)
	"I can make a ... sort of a hovercraft? It's made out of light. We can walk if you're more comfortable." She smiled a little to herself, understanding trust issues. "I like hanging out with my friends. I really haven't had any before." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onswiftwings
2009-10-22 01:58 pm UTC (link)

"That's cool," Hope said, and she meant it. She liked learning about people's powers. "How fast is it? Could I keep up?" She knew she couldn't keep up with an airplane, but she'd never heard of a hovercraft. "I might get a little vertigo flying without my wings, you know? It'd be weird." It wasn't so much a trust issue--she knew if there was a problem she could get away--but she'd just relearned to fly with her new vision, and she didn't want to think about the headache a new type of transport might cause.

"Yeah. I never had friends before I came here," she confessed. She shrugged. "It was too risky."

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	toitshour 2009-10-23 06:01 am UTC (link)
	"Probably, I could slow it down a little. But don't worry, we'll just walk. Vertigo would be bad, because throwing up is on the table then." She nodded a little at Hope. "Iggy's told me some. Enough." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onswiftwings 2009-10-23 01:41 pm UTC (link)
	"Walking works. I'm pretty sure I can walk without throwing up," she grinned. She nodded in the direction of the coffeeshop. "It's not far." She shrugged. "I was a little luckier than him, I think. They never found me." Occasionally she wondered if they were looking, but she never took chances. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

toitshour
2009-10-24 05:00 am UTC (link)

"If you can't, I think you've got bigger problems than just flying." Candy put her hands in her pockets, smiling as well, feeling a little more at ease. She listened to what Hope had to say about Iggy, frowning a bit. "My father's horrible, and I'm not sorry that he's not here, and I hope he never does get here, but he's not that terrible. I'm glad that you two are here, for what it's worth."

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onswiftwings
2009-10-24 03:58 pm UTC (link)

Hope shook her head a little. "The more stories I hear about people's parents, the less I care about finding my own." She'd wondered for a while, but it would've been too dangerous to go searching. She would've had to go back to the Institute just to find the files, and that sure as heck wasn't ever going to happen. "Iggy told me what happened with his." She shook her head again. "We're better off here."

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	toitshour 2009-10-25 05:44 am UTC (link)
	"My dad's not going to win any father of the year awards, let's put it that way." She tried not to look too upset about talking about him, if only because she didn't want the other girl to ask specifics. Her dad was an asshole. That was all Hope needed to know. "Sounds like we all are." She smiled at Hope. "You and Iggy are cute, too." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onswiftwings
2009-10-25 08:59 pm UTC (link)

Hope wasn't going to push Candy to talk about it. There were plenty of things in her past that she didn't want to give details about. It was way too uncomfortable. Hope didn't have a lot of experience in making friends, and she didn't want to scare Candy off.

The change in subject was a relief. She smiled. "Thanks. He's great. It's like we're made for eachother, y'know?" Literally. How cheesy, but she didn't care. She was so infatuated. "So you and Sam, huh?"

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	toitshour 2009-10-26 05:11 am UTC (link)
	"You obviously make each other happy, and that's really the point." Candy smiled, glad that Hope had gone with her subject change. It really was clear that Hope loved Sam, and Candy chuckled. "Yeah, me and Sam. I keep waiting for him to figure it out, but I guess he still thinks he likes me." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onswiftwings
2009-10-26 11:19 am UTC (link)

Hope smiled. "I do what I can," she said, shrugging. "I just keep thinking how insanely amazing it is that we actually found eachother. We bumped into eachother once back in our world, did he tell you that? It's just crazy."

She tilted her head. "Waiting for him to figure it out? What's they're to figure out? You're cute, you seem smart, you're definitely capable. Why wouldn't he be all over that?"

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	toitshour 2009-10-27 12:05 am UTC (link)
	"Literal bumping?" Candy was sort of amused, it was sweet how Hope stumbled over herself a little. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. "I don't know, I just - it's complicated." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onswiftwings
2009-10-27 12:26 am UTC (link)

Hope shook her head, blushing a bit. "No." If Hope didn't know Candy was Iggy's friend, she might've gotten a little huffy at that. But she knew Candy didn't mean anything by it. "Literally? He rescued me. Like, let me out of a dog cage." She shook her head a little. It always seemed like no matter how much she tried to avoid the topic, she kept coming back to it. "Sorry. I guess I'm still not used to being able to talk about this stuff with people." She had to keep it quiet for so long.

"Yeah, it seems like it would be pretty complicated. You guys are so different.."

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	toitshour 2009-10-28 03:30 am UTC (link)
	Candy nodded. "I'm glad he did. But I can understand where you wouldn't want to talk about it more. And Sam and I are really different, but it's why we were friends to begin with. We sort of balance each other out. I'm lucky to have him in my life." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onswiftwings
2009-10-28 03:41 am UTC (link)

"Yeah. Well, I know it's really awkward, so I try not to bring it up. Sometimes I guess I can't control my mouth, though." It was fifteen years of her life, so there weren't that many other topics. She shrugged.

"Isn't it kind of weird, though? Dating a human?" She couldn't really imagine dating someone so different. It would be like trying to date a monkey, or something.

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	toitshour 2009-10-28 04:00 am UTC (link)
	Candy had to work hard to control her eyebrows, seeing as they wanted to skyrocket. "I'm human too, and last I checked you are. Different, sure, but differences are what make relationships interesting. At least that's what I think." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

onswiftwings
2009-10-28 11:19 am UTC (link)

Hope blushed some and gave a half-shrug. "Well, 95%," she said. Some people had gone pretty far out of their way to make sure she didn't feel human. "I just meant. Y'know. You have powers, and he doesn't. Doesn't that make it harder to relate?" She was sure there was no human alive that would be able to understand what she'd gone through, or what it was like to have her abilities. "I mean.. It's kind of a big difference."

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	toitshour 2009-10-29 03:10 am UTC (link)
	"Not really. I mean, sure, that's a place where we're different, but social things, things like that, we have in common. Parent things. We don't just sit and talk about our powers." Candy figured the other girl's bias had a lot less to do with Hope's wings and a lot more to do with the messed up school she'd been forced in. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onswiftwings 2009-10-29 03:25 am UTC (link)
	Hope raised a brow. 'Parent things'? She didn't quite get it. "But isn't it weird? Don't you wonder if.. I don't know. If he just likes you because of your powers? Like a fetish thing?" She shrugged. "I mean.. Iggy and I, we're like equals. Isn't it weird being.. y'know.. better than him?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

toitshour
2009-10-29 03:31 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I know he doesn't. I don't bring it out all the time, I don't do magic all over the place, just when it's useful. Honestly, we mostly just sit around and watch movies and eat candy." She shrugged a little bit, finally unable to control her eyebrows. "I'm not. I can do different things. He can do different things. And magic where I'm from is learned, I could teach him if he wanted to."

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onswiftwings
2009-10-29 05:09 pm UTC (link)

"But what if he just isn't letting on?" People were good at hiding stuff, in her experience. "I mean, there's other stuff to like about you, but most guys don't like dating a girl that's stronger than them, or whatever. Maybe he's just. I don't know. Dressing you up in spandex while you sleep or something."

"Different? Like what? He can play video games, you can fly. That counts as 'better.'" She didn't know what to think about magic being learned yet, but she didn't think it made a difference. Candy knew it and Sam didn't.

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toitshour
2009-10-30 05:21 am UTC (link)

"If I find out he's only dating me because he's got an incantatrix fetish, I'll dump him. But I don't think so. We were friends first, before he knew I had powers." She didn't much care for Hope's tone, and she folded her arms even more tightly across her chest. "Before you got here, there was a group of religious zealots. They said things like that. Nobody's better than anyone else, Hope."

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onswiftwings
2009-10-31 05:22 pm UTC (link)

Hope rolled her eyes. "It's not about religion, or afterschool special 'we're all the same' crap. We're not all the same. Humans sure as hell see the differences, and most of them are fucking intimidated. It turns them into those asshole football players, or the Purifiers, or the fuckers that put Iggy and me in cages. And you'd better fucking believe I'm better than them."

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toitshour
2009-11-02 09:44 am UTC (link)

Candy's eyes shone fire. "Sam is not a Purifier. I know, because they took me, they put things on me so I couldn't cast, and they took turns raping me and beating me for three days. Don't talk about things you don't understand. You're just as bad as they are. You don't understand being human anymore, so now you're scared of them. And it's made you angry. You're like a caged animal, and you don't want to forgive because it's harder than just being a facist. You're right. We're not all the same. Some people are cowards." Her gaze went stony, and she was quiet, though her mouth was moving. She was sure that Hope would try to hit her, so she was murmuring the feathersteel spell. She almost hoped she would try.

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	onswiftwings 2009-11-02 12:57 pm UTC (link)
	Hope shook her head, disappointed. She had no intention of hitting Candy. The other girl might be wrong, but she was still one of Hope's own. Had she been human, Hope might have swung. Instead, she just spread her wings and took flight. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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