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So you get to do the stabbing for once?
Who: Sadako and Alice Liddell.
What: Celebrating Sadako's new job and a seance. That makes sense. Shut it.
When: After this thread.
Where: Their condo.
Rating: PG-13 for language.
Status: Complete!



Sada had returned home with a script, that most coveted of things for an actress. She was hugging it to her chest as she went into the condo, grinning and calling out Alice’s name. The cure for the Blue Flu had worked marvelously, and Sada couldn’t have been more happy. “Alice, love? Are you home?”

Alice was in the living room, in a blue dress as she did some housekeeping. It was mundane, normal work, and she relished it. She walked into the hall and wrapped her arms around Sada. “I was dusting. You look happy, love!”

Sada kissed Alice’s neck, bouncing a little. “You don’t have to do that, and I am happy!” She couldn’t help it, spinning around with Alice. “I got the part! And you look … really pretty in blue.” She almost blushed.

She shivered. “I wanted to. It’s new and interesting.” Alice lit up. “You got the part! Brilliant!” There was a beat, then she asked, “What’s the part?”

She stepped away from Sada and spun around in the dress.

Watching Alice spin made Sada smile, and she leaned back, sitting down on a chair. “You should always wear things like that, it suits you.” The part was minor, but important; she was the bad guy in a crime drama. “I get to play a bad guy. Well. Woman. It will be fun, I’m the villian in a murder mystery.” Lots of pretending to stab people.

Alice blushed. She thought about it, then decided she’d wear dresses more often, just for Sada. And she liked the way she felt in them. A bit more Alice. Alice needed to feel a bit more Alice. That was important, to feel Alice.

“So you get to do the stabbing for once? That’s fantastic!” She had, in her spare time, been writing a movie. Shh.

“Isn’t it?” Sada showed Alice some of the things she got to do. “I get to smash a bus into the side of a building and explode things! But I escape in the end.” She lowered her voice excitedly. “They want me to be in the second one too.”

Alice grinned. “I hope you get a bigger part in the second one. You’ll have to be extra evil, and act your very best.” She planted her hands on her hips. “Give me your evil smile!”

Sada sat back, thinking about her mother, the one woman she hated the most. Her eyes closed, she let some anger fill her, and then she smirked. It was a truly chilling smile, and likely why she’d gotten the job.

It sent chills down Alice’s spine, and she swallowed a little nervously, actually shrinking back from her lover and the chilling, deathly smile.

Sada looked up and the expression dropped. “Oh, I’m sorry!” She covered her hands with her mouth apologetically. “I did not mean to.”

"It just means you're really good at this," She replied. Alice stopped her feet and then forced herself to walk up to Sada. "You'll be a wonderful villain. I just hope you don't get bloody type cast again."

“Oh, I won’t do another scary movie after this. Maybe I’ll audition for a stupid romantic comedy next.” Sada held her hands to her chest, pretending to swoon.

“What’s your face when you think of me?” Alice asked, politely.

Sada closed her eyes. When she thought about Alice, her smile grew dreamy and happy, shoulders relaxed, breathing a bit faster. A flush went to her cheeks.

It turned Alice on a little, emotionally and physically. She flushed a little bit and had to fight to keep from rushing into Sada's arms. That expression just made her so HAPPY.

Opening one eye, Sada grinned. “You’re making the same face, I think.” She reached out to pull Alice into her arms. “You’ll have to come onto the set with me sometime. I have a trailer and everything.”

Alice leaned against her. “Good, I would love to impose.” She smiled that quiet smile of hers. “I was thinking about what we talked about this morning. You really want to meet my sister?”

“I’d like that more than anything,” Sada smiled. She moved some of Alice’s hair and kissed her neck lightly. “I care about you very much. I want her to know.”

“I’ve gathered some of what I need,” Alice replied, tugging Sada’s face against her neck. “It’s quite ...ooh..”

“Quite ooh?” Sada bit down gently, grinning to herself. “I don’t know what that means.”

“Oh shut it and kiss me.” Alice laughed, and darted out of Sada’s arms. “It’s quite fun, seances.”

Sada grinned, chasing her a bit to snog her before she gave her answer. “I’ve never done one. I’ve had my fortune told, but I know they’re very different things.”

"Okay. We'll do one after supper then, and see if Lizzie is listening." Alice hoped she was. She hadn't seen her sister's ghost since she was twelve. She'd grown a lot since then, and even more since she'd begun to dream.

"I wonder which Lizzie we'd get.."

“I hope one who likes me. I don’t want your ancestors to hate me.” Sada nibbled on her lower lip, more of a worrywart about things than she let on. “What would you like for supper, then?”

“Well there’s the one from this world and the one from the other. Neither had very nice deaths.” Alice frowned a bit, but put that thought out of her mind. She’d loved her sister, either way. “Something fast.”

“I’ll make us some ramen,” Sada smiled. “I’m sure both of them are kind. They’re your sister, no matter what.”

“Beef ramen.” Alice needed her protein for this.

“Of course.” Sada kissed her before moving to the kitchen to start her magic. No prepackaged ramen for them - Sada made it from near scratch.

Alice sat and watched her, a fascinated look on her face. She’d been expecting the cheap stuff you got at the grocer!

Sada cut up beef and sauteed it, she made broth with stock and the trimmings from that beef, and lastly she added in the ramen noodles. When all was finally added in, there was a spicy warm bowl for each of them, and Sada beamed. “What?”

“That’s no ramen I’ve ever had before. Are you sure you’re not magic?”

“I’m not magic, I just know how to cook. They should’ve taught that to you where you were, it’s very soothing. I could teach you if you wanted.” Sada had some chili paste that she was scooping into hers, already looking content by just smelling it.

"I want to know. That way I can cook for you and surprise you. The only cooking I know involves pig snouts." She wrinkled her nose.

“Oh, that sounds yummy!” The only things with legs that Sada didn’t eat were chairs.

“The pig snouts had wings and could fly,” Alice added.

“That just sounds harder to get. We’ll use the wingless kind,” Sada grinned, wiggling her nose a bit. “We still have to go bunny shopping too! But not for eating, for petting.”

“If we can’t get the wingless kind, yes,” she said, grinning. “Not for eating. Can we get two bunnies?”

“Of course! Bunnies like to have friends anyway.” Sada motioned for Alice to eat, herself adding a heaping amount of chili paste to her own before eating daintily.

"We'll call them Tick and Tock. Like a clock." Alice picked up a spoon to eat her own ramen. She wasn't as dainty as her lover, but she was polite, eating slowly and thoughtfully.

She thought about the seance, and what she could expect.

Sada grinned at the idea. “Those are adorable names. Can we get a white one?” She was fairly bouncing at the idea, but Alice seemed sober, so Sada tried to calm down.

“White ones, I promise. I want mine to have spots though.”

“Spots are adorable. Spots can be Tock.” Sada liked that she and Alice were planning out their life together. It felt homey, and she needed more of that. She’d never really had that before.

Alice smiled happily, and finished her meal. she got up to take care of the dishes. "Can you clean the table when you're done?"

“Of course!” Sada was more than happy to do her share of the chores, seeing as she’d always done all of them before. Humming as she worked, she couldn’t help but twirl a little in her own dress.

It made Alice giggle. Alice never giggled, not this much. Sada was a good influence on her. Eventually, everything was cleared, and Alice was lighting candles on the table.

Sada waited for Alice’s instructions, waiting to see what she needed to do to help. She already felt nervous, her heart fluttering in her chest.

"Sit there," Alice instructed. She took a seat at the head of the table after turning the lights off. "First, we need to focus."

Sada nodded, closing her eyes and sitting up straighter, focusing on the desire to speak with Alice’s sister.

“Lizzie, are you there? It’s Alice! You remember Alice, don’t you? I used to tug on your hair and we would play dollies together.”

Sada smiled at the idea of Alice being a little girl, playing with dolls and being happy. She liked to think she helped Alice be happy in the present.

There wasn't a response at first, but then the table rattled. Alice looked startled for a moment, then recovered. "You beat up a bully, once. Do you remember that, Lizzie?"

Sada blinked, opening her eyes for a moment, but then she closed them again, trying to focus. She’d only speak when Alice said it was all right. For the moment she was focusing on the will she had to see Lizzie.

A girl faded into view. She resembled Alice, perhaps as Alice looked several years ago. Lizzie had been only fifteen when she’d been killed. A brutal rape and a brutal death, but she seemed to be at peace. She looked at the girls and tilted her head. “‘Lo.”

Alice looked started again, then looked at Sada as if asking ‘I’m not nutters, she’s really there right?’

Sada’s eyes opened, and she grinned. “Hello!” She gave a little wave, elated to see Alice’s sister. The fact she was a ghost hadn’t really sunk in yet.

“Oh thank god,” Alice breathed. She straightened. “Lizzie, I’d like you to meet Sada. Sada, meet Lizzie.”

The ghostly girl looked between them, a little confused at first. Then it seemed to register on her and she gaped. “Oh mum isn’t going to be happy about this. At least you’re out of the nut house.”

Sada blushed. “My grandmother won’t be happy either, but I’d like to think she’d be happy I’m in love at all.”

“Well I would have been out of the nuthouse sooner except you left me there,” Alice retorted, folding her arms. Her sister rolled her eyes. She looked at Sada. “I had to move on, before I stuck around forever. As much as I wanted to keep an eye on her. Mum and Papa needed me more.”

Sada blinked. They were certainly squabbling like sisters at least. She couldn’t help it, and she started to giggle.

Both Alice and Lizzie turned to stare at her. Alice looked a little miffed, and Lizzie looked like an exasperated older sister should.

“It’s not funny,” Alice complained.

“Maybe it is,” Lizzie admitted.

“I’m sorry, the subject matter isn’t funny, but the fact that you two still fight as sisters is funny.” Sada was an only child, and she couldn’t help but look a little wistful as she watched them staring at her.

Lizzie lowered her head. “I wish I could have been there for her. It was terrible, what happened, and then watching her have to deal with it all alone.”

“You’re there for her now, I’m sure.” Sada smiled, moving closer to Alice, reaching out for her hand. “I’ve always thought my ancestors are there for me without me knowing it.”

"I can't be, I can only visit. And watch. But you're there for her now. Take care or i’ll cut you."

That did make Sada laugh again, loudly and happily. “Oh, I will. I love her, nothing will ever ever happen to her.” She may have almost forgotten that Alice was in the room; the admission slipped from her lips without her really thinking.

Alice eyed her sister, but there was a smile on her lips, and tears were flowing down her cheeks. They only grew worse when Sada slipped out those words and she sat back down heavily, stunned.

Sada reached out for the ghost, smiling and trying to squeeze her hand. “Just you watch. I’ll take care of her. Nothing will ever hurt her again if I can help it.” She meant that too.

Lizzie smiled, even though Sada’s hand passed right through her. “Good. I really would cut you. Somehow.”

Swallowing, Alice got up from the table and walked over to Sada. “Is it true? You love me?”

Sada looked up at Alice and nodded. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to say it out loud.” She was fairly sure Alice was going to flee in abject terror. It was soon, but Alice had filled such a void in Sada’s life that she couldn’t think of her not being there.

Alice didn’t flee. Instead? She threw her arms around Sada and kissed her.

Lizzie made a gagging sound.