nitro_is_ace: (Ace)
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So the scene ends with siblings reunited, and all is well. But, as always, there are things to do, newly-made mortals to taunt, cookies to fetch, Coyotes to tease, dogs to check up on, and footballs to track down.

This might explain how Ace ends up sitting at the lake shore, idly trying to skip stones across the water.

Maybe.

There's just so much to think about.

Date: 2006-06-20 03:44 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h far away looking)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven settles next to her, watching the ripples each stone makes.

He might be counting.

He also might be waiting.

Date: 2006-06-20 03:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
She throws another stone. Two skips.

"I didn't mean to."

She doesn't look at him. She just throws another rock.

No skips.

Date: 2006-06-20 03:55 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h far away looking)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"I did not think you did."

He turns to look at her, head tilted.

"Chance is tricky."

Date: 2006-06-20 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Chance had nothin' t'do with it." She throws another stone, and it also fails to skip. "She knew she could get me goin'."

Date: 2006-06-20 04:02 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h far away looking)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"She has done the same with me, before. It is a skill."

His eyes, as he watches her, are wide and black and dark.

Date: 2006-06-20 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Yeah, but she actually had t'do sommat t'get you goin'. I'm just..." She shrugs, or twitches, and fingers another rock. It looks like a good skipping rock, but the history of rock skipping of late isn't favorable.

Date: 2006-06-20 04:24 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h far away looking)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven pokes her lightly with his foot.

"Mostly it was talking, I think."

And the caging.

Shh.

Date: 2006-06-20 04:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Yeah, that's the problem. M'old enough t'know better, yeah? Old enough t'know how t'keep my temper, anyway." She points out, perhaps not terribly helpfully.

Date: 2006-06-20 04:27 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven wrinkles his nose at her, almost amused.

Not quite, though.

"You have met Coyote, yes?"

Date: 2006-06-20 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
Ace gives him a sidelong look of extreme askance.

"Yes." Duh. Don't people ever talk around here?

Date: 2006-06-20 04:37 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h stern because you are an idiot)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven just looks back at her.

"She is also very bad at keeping her temper."

Not to speak of Raven himself, of course.

He has the patience and self-control of a saint.

Er.

Date: 2006-06-20 04:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"... So I should be glad I'm not dead?" Ace asks drily, following that logic to it's conclusion. "Since I've already used my 'get out of death free' card, an' all."

Date: 2006-06-20 04:46 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h stern because you are an idiot)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"I am certainly glad, yes."

He nudges her shoulder with his.

"Possibly it counts?"

Date: 2006-06-20 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"What about next time? There's always a next time." She can't always count on being rescued. "If y'hadn't been here, I very much doubt anyone would've found me. She talked 'bout leavin'..." She trails off, and leaves it at that.

Date: 2006-06-20 04:52 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h far away looking)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
He shrugs.

"I am, perhaps, very difficult to hide from."

This is probably not helpful.

"But you are right, I think. It is not possible to always be safe."

Or ever, really.

Date: 2006-06-23 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"S'not about safe, very little of what I do is safe. S'about bein' stupid even when I know the consequences. I don't like bein' a pawn." She points out, drawing abstract art in the sandy soil with her latest rock.

Date: 2006-06-23 03:30 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h stern because you are an idiot)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven just looks at her.

"Then stop."

It isn't that simple.

Is it?

"It begins with belief, I think. Also stubbornness."

Date: 2006-06-23 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Belief in what? Me? That's a laugh." She snorts, giving him a look.

Date: 2006-06-23 03:43 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven just snorts back, nudging her shoulder again.

"I am wondering why, I think."

Date: 2006-06-23 03:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"You are wondering why what? That's a very open-ended question." Ace is perhaps purposefully misunderstanding.

Date: 2006-06-23 03:50 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"Only, I think, because you are wanting it to be."

Date: 2006-06-23 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"... Alright, now I'm really confused." Somewhere, she lost the trail of this line of logic.

Date: 2006-06-23 04:00 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"I did not intend it so, certainly."

Not really.

Date: 2006-06-24 03:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Well. That's good." She thinks. Maybe. There is a generous amount of suspicious eyeing to make up for her uncertainty.

Date: 2006-06-24 03:39 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"Is it?"

He tilts his head, looking genuinely curious.

Date: 2006-06-24 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Um. I guess so." She shrugs. Why not? Seems logical. Ish. Sorta.







"What are we talkin' about again?"

Date: 2006-06-24 03:58 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (Default)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"Why you are thinking you suck, perhaps."

Blunt, Raven.

Blunt.

Date: 2006-06-24 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
Damn, distraction techniques aren't working.
"I'm just lookin' at the pertinent history." She points out drily.

Date: 2006-06-24 04:22 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h stern because you are an idiot)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven blinks at her.

"Possibly you need a better mirror."

Date: 2006-06-24 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Maybe you need less rose-tinted glasses." She shoots back. "I did precisely what I've been tellin' others not t'do."

Date: 2006-06-24 04:40 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"I am mad, perhaps, but it is not the same thing as delusional."

Raven sees what's there, after all.

"It is a thing that happens."

Humans are dumb.

Scratch that.

People are dumb.

Date: 2006-06-24 04:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"What is? Delusion?" Perhaps she's curious.

Perhaps she's evading again.

Date: 2006-06-24 04:54 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h stern because you are an idiot)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"No. Hypocrisy."

He blinks at her.

"Or what looks like it, yes? It is the problem with being changeable."

If there can be said to be a problem with being changeable.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"It is the problem with I'm going to get a lecture from him, an' I don't know how t'keep it from happenin' again." She points out drily.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:08 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"Him?"

Raven is, perhaps, very confused.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"The Doctor."

She might not understand him as much as she once did, and he might not quite fit in the same category for her anymore, but he's still the Doctor. There's expectations.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:15 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h b&w stare)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven still looks perplexed.

"Not everything, perhaps, is meant to apply to all people."

Date: 2006-06-24 05:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"No, but there's things that apply t'me. If f'nothin' else, he can bust my arse on a professional level. After fifty years, I'm supposed t'be better than that." She might have a point.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:20 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h inna shadows)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
"Perhaps."

Raven shrugs.

"I am, I think, not qualified to judge."

Plus judging is damn boring.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"You'd be the only one." Perhaps he's not the only one, but he's one of the very few that don't judge, qualified or not.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:26 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h grinning)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
He taps her calf with his foot, very gently.

"I am often singular, perhaps."

Date: 2006-06-24 05:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
She leans against him, head against his shoulder.
"We need another vacation." She decides, rather than commenting on his singularity. There is such a thing as beating a dead horse.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:38 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h grin with teeth)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
He leans back, contorting a bit to rest his cheek against her hair.

"It would be no bad thing at all, that."

Beat.

"Perhaps Moiraine should come too, yes? She is very serene, it cannot be healthy."

Date: 2006-06-24 05:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
"Very serene. It's unnatural, that. It'd be good t'make an intervention. S'what a good friend should do, yeah?" She agrees, offering an excuse to go drag her along.

Not that they need one.

Still.

Now they've got one.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:42 am (UTC)
creator_raven: (h plaid smile)
From: [personal profile] creator_raven
Raven nods, supremely satisfied.

"You are not wrong, I do not think."

Poor Moiraine.

She's doomed.

Date: 2006-06-24 05:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com
She is. Hopefully she will come quietly.

"That's a good start, at least."

Perhaps the issues haven't been quite dealt with, but at least they're back on an even keel.

It's a start.

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