Literally Pirateninja (shadowcat) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2012-06-06 15:08:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, dani moonstar (mirage), kitty pryde (shadowcat) |
"You're one step above Mall Cop, lady."
Who: Kitty and Dani
What: Beering
When: Yesterday
Where: A bar
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13 for language and mocking park rangers
Kitty was running late to the bar. She still didn't know if she should hover, or what. Xi'an hadn't yet told her the details of the dream and her imagination tended to run in all sorts of wild directions. And then there was Wisdom. So some drinking? Was in order.
It wasn't exactly like you needed an excuse to drink, though Dani figured she had a pretty good one today. She'd headed to the bar pretty quickly and was already there on a stool, sipping her second whiskey, when Kitty came in.
Kitty looked around. Being that there was only one native woman in the establishment, it wasn't that hard to find Dani. And stare at her for a moment. Because damn. That out of her system, she ordered a rum and coke and then sat down next to her, "Sorry I'm late."
"Sorry I started without you," Came Dani's somewhat sarcastic reply. She wasn't really all that sorry.
She gave Kitty a once-over and then held out her free hand, "Dani Moonstar. I'm pretty sure I never said that over the network. Or typed it."
Kitty took her hand, "Kitty Pryde. I've heard all the jokes."
"I guess that means I shouldn't bother coming up with one, then?" Dani smirked at her, "You have to admit, that's kind of an unfortunate combination of names, there."
"It's short for Katherine. I picked it up when I was little and haven't shaken it since." Kitty snerked and took a sip of her drink.
"No where near as cool as Moonstar."
"Hey, don't mock my people like that," She held up a finger and wagged at Kitty scoldingly, "I'm a member of the Cheyenne Tribal Nation for serious reals, and my name is a matter of pride."
She snerked, "No but seriously, it's pretty silly. I've gotten used to it. I got hellishly made fun of in school until they all learned I meant it when I threatened to kick their asses."
"I was completely serious. It's a wicked cool name." She grinned at Dani, "Sounds more like a code-name. Are you secretly a spy?"
Dani laughed and shook her head, "Just your average Park Ranger, nothing special. I hear you're some kind of computer genius though."
"Just your average computer genius," Kitty replied, laughing. She liked this woman, "Doesn't stop insomnia though."
"Oh I don't have any problems getting to sleep," she shook her head at Kitty and winced a bit, "It's that I really just don't want to. I heard we're all having dreams, but mine can stop now, you know? Anytime."
She held up her empty glass to the bartender, who replaced it with another full one without a word. The service at the bar was quick and reliable, and Dani approved. She'd noticed pool tables when she came in, too, which meant it might become her favorite bar shortly.
"That bad? Mine go back and forth. Sometimes nice, sometimes horrible, usually pretty weird. Like the ones with this demon samurai."
There was a small amount of reluctance to actually describe the dream she'd had, but Dani had a feeling like this person was someone she could go ahead and be open with. Also, it had disturbed the hell out of her. She was too embarrassed about what had happened afterwards to ever bring it up again in front of Caroline or Scott.
She took a fortifying sip off her whiskey, and nodded her head, "There was a blizzard and a gigantic demonic bear with shiny claws. It pretty much eviscerated me from behind. I woke up still feeling the pain and cold, and I couldn't move my legs."
"...shitfuck."
"... okay?"
Kitty laughed nervously, "That's a pretty messed up dream, I mean. Especially waking up like that. I haven't woken up...oddly yet. Which is probably a good thing because if that happened to me I'd wake up literally merged into the bed. Did it really feel like you'd been slashed?"
"Gods but it was the most lucid dream I've ever had. I FOUGHT the bear, you know? I could feel the exertion from doing it. The snow was falling on my face, I knew it was snowing and could feel the cold. When the Bear attacked me from behind, I could feel every last injury." Dani shuddered in her seat at the memory, "And this is really wierd, but I KNEW that was the bear that killed my parents, even though ... well it isn't."
Kitty sat there, listening to Dani as she spoke. She understood the lucidity all too well, "It's like it was..more real than reality, right? Like it was another life?"
"And I knew stuff in that life but I knew it wasn't MY life, but it ... was."
"Did you wake up and forget some things? Like certain details that weren't..present? Like names to faces, or how your parents died, or something else?"
"I didn't see any faces but the bear's, I was alone. In the dream, there were a lot of things I knew about the bear. Like ... I think me and the bear had a history. But I don't remember that, only that I knew it killed my parents." She shrugged a shoulder casually, "A bear DID kill my parents, maybe I was just trying to make sense of it."
Or maybe a Demon Bear really was hunting her. Maybe a Demon killed her parents and it wasn't a bear at all.
"Maybe." That had to be a horrible way to go, "It's not like demons really exist and possess bears. Or people."
"There's a lot about the dream that didn't make sense. Frankly I never want to dream it again. I woke up screaming and Scott thought it was a home invasion."
"Scott....Summers?"
Dani's eyes widened and she held up both hands, "He's just my roomate. My house is huge and I needed the rent money to help with utilities."
Kitty shook her head, "Small world. I've talked to him about these dreams before!"
"He didn't think I was crazy, which was nice." Dani swirled her glass around on the table a bit, "It was so fucking embarrassing. I'm not sure why I'm even telling you all this."
"Blame whiskey. And a need to get things off of your chest." It was almost too easy to turn that into a flirt.
"Hah. I guess, yeah. ... I had another dream actually. Since we're talking about them. I was listening to the animals. They could hear me, and I could hear them. THAT dream I could have again and be alright with."
"That's pretty cool." Kitty grinned at her. "They're not all bad. I kind of wish we had a switch to turn the bad ones off. Especially when you get woke up by someone you care about."
"Your girlfriend?" Dani recalled that Kitty had mentioned a girlfriend before.
She nodded her head, "It's a neverending parade of messed up with these dreams. I thought it was cool that we shared one, but.."
At that, Dani arched a brow at Kitty. Her glass had been on it way to her mouth but instead it was placed back on top of the bar, "You shared a dream?"
"..I know that sounds crazy." Kitty looked down at her drink, then tilted it and her head back way, way far.
"This whole THING sounds crazy," Dani ammended, then squinted at her, "What are you doing?"
Kitty knocked back the drink!
"So you shared a dream with her. What was it about?" Dani had offically heard everything now.
"We were being chased by these adaptive robot things. The building we were in collapsed and we were pressed together." Kitty flushed a little bit, "We almost kissed, but that distraction almost got us killed."
Or maybe she hadn't officially heard it all, "Adaptive robot things?"
"Yeah, they hunt people with special powers. Like the terminator. But they can..adapt." She picked up her glass, "Use any nearby material to rebuild themselves."
"They were chasing you, so you must have had special powers." Come to think of it, Dani was pretty sure she'd read somewhere about someone being able to walk through walls. That might have been this person, she couldn't always keep track of that stuff on the internet community.
"I could pass through solid objects." Kitty nodded her head, grinning a little, "It's really awesome."
"That sounds immensely more awesome than dreaming about demonic bears," Dani admitted, while finishing her third glass off, "I'm still annoyed that I didn't get to dream about winged horses."
"That would be pretty cool." Kitty started working on her second glass. She felt like she knew Dani from somewhere. It was that same sort of feeling she'd gotten with Jubilee, and Xi'an. A little more of the attraction part than with Jubes, though.
"You want to hear something kind of ... This is really fucking crazy, but the other night after that dream about the animals, I was actually able to communicate with my cat. I told it to run for the hills before Caroline did science on it, and it told me it was hungry."
"Well SHE told me she was hungry. She ran out of the room anyway, but she reminded me she was hungry before she left."
"It's a cat. They're always hungry." Kitty had first hand knowledge of that now. Kittens. Ate. Like. Pigs.
"My squirrel bitched me out the other day for leaving him in the bed of my truck and not opening up the back window," Dani added. The cat thing was easy to disregard, but the squirrel one, not so much.
Kitty giggled, "You know I don't even think you're crazy anymore."
"AnyMORE?" Dani squinted at her.
"Uh. In a generic sense. A few weeks ago, you'd be cuckoo in my book."
"Oh. Well I might still be crazy. We might all be as mad as Alice keeps saying we are," Dani lifted her glass in a toast to her mad, mad little friend, "Here's to Alice, the craziest little internet lady. She came to my barbeque you know. She's pretty cool. If you put aside the fact that she set out a plate for her ghost friend."
"She really set out a plate for a ghost?" Kitty shook her head, "Makes you wonder sometimes. Maybe ghosts really exist. Maybe they're related somehow to all of this craziness."
"Hell anything's possible at this point. Maybe the ghost stole my earrings. I still can't find them."
Her tone took on a bit of gruffness at that, as Dani was still extremely annoyed that she hadn't found them. Worse, she was worried that someone at her party had in fact stolen them. If that was true, then that Emma person on the internet would be right, and that was just about the worst thing ever. ... Next to the rest of her entire life, anyway.
"If it wasn't a ghost, maybe it was a party-goer. Which is a really shitty thing to do to someone."
"According to Her High Majesty Mc Fancy Pants, I was asking for it. So I really don't have anyone to blame but myself. I'm just pissed because they were my mother's."
The glass in her hand was empty and Dani spun it around on the bar a bit more while trying to decide if she was too drunk to drive yet and how many more she'd have to drink before she was. She shrugged and held it up one last time.
"I'm sorry." Kitty had lost her father in that other place, but it sounded like Dani had lost both her parents in both places. Her heart went out to her, "Keep that up and I'll have to give you a ride home, missy."
"No fair, I wanted to drive drunk and then have to pull myself over for breaking the law." Dani giggled. The sympathy over her missing parents wasn't lost on her, but she just shook her head, "Don't be sorry. You weren't responsible. I had this awesome granddad growing up so it was still a good life, you know?"
"That's good. He raised you and you're fun, so he must have done something right."
"He taught me a lot and had a way better sense of humour than me, even."
Kitty wished he was still around. She wouldn't mind meeting him, but it didn't sound like he was around any more, "Can you even pull people over?"
No one was around. If Dani let herself think about it, it usually depressed the hell out of her, so she just didn't let herself think about it. She had dogs and cats and a squirrel and a big house and a roomate with a stick up his ass, and life was good.
"I can pull them over if they're in my park. Or any park in this county."
"Big bad tough park ranger, huh?"
"Don't mock the park rangers, it's a federal offense. Somewhere. I'm sure."
Kitty laughed, "You're one step above Mall Cop, lady."
Dani pointed at her in anger, "I am one PROUD step above Mall Cop, damn it!"
Well it was mock anger, but still.
Kitty grinned, "Maybe some day you'll be promoted to personal security."
"I do a very important job involving enforcing the laws that our God Smokey the Bear laid down into tablets of stone, or ... something. And I save people's lives! And I save trees!"
"What would you do if you had to do a speech with a real smokey the bear?"
"Pee my pants." Dani had a look on her face that was entirely serious.
Kitty's nose wrinkled up.
"Bears are kind of my mortal enemy. I mean I learned all about the balance of nature and life and death and all of that from my grandfather, and I stopped being angry at the wildlife a long time ago, but bears have it in for me. Even in my dreams, so... Yeah."
"You and Stephen Colbert would get along grandly," Kitty replied, patting her on the shoulder. "Lets play some pool for a bit. I need to hit things with a stick."
"I thought you'd never ask," Dani hopped down off her bar stool, knocked back her drink, and went to go pick out a table.
This ought to be fun!