strangetrip | That Escalated Quickly (OTA)

Entry tags:

That Escalated Quickly (OTA)

Liz was out away from the Inn around noon trying to complete a science experiment that she thought might be useful for the obstacle course she and Kitty were almost ready to start building. She had all the components laid out including benign acids and basis. She wanted to see how she could cause a spray of foam jut out as an obstacle that might need to be avoided or at least distract for a while. It was like a much more sophisticated volcano experiment but instead of 'oozing lava', her goal was for spraying foam.

She was currently on the ground writing notes about a failed attempt - doing things like this was nice to get her mind off of other things that had been taxing her mind lately. That's when she heard panting. Liz looked up, expecting, maybe, to see Dante, but what she saw made her freeze. There was a wolf a few yards away. In her peripherals, she could see three more. Liz knew enough about wolves that she figured there had to be a few more behind her, since they hunt in packs. She started to do quick calculations on how fast they probably were and how fast she was not and then what chemicals she had with her that might be good distractions...

(ooc: Anyone who has a pup itching to use their powers or feel useful, feel free to come help Liz out. There is 6 or 7 wolves depending on your needs [a typical wolf pack size])

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Well here or by the water where you can wash off if it explodes on you unexpectedly." Molly said with a laugh, "or that would just be my luck if I was doing something with foam."

"That's good thinking." Liz smiled. "I was trying not to disturb people. I'd probably be annoyed if I wanted to go swimming and there was some girl on the beach making a mess."

The materials were collect, Liz lifted the box with a smile.

"Nah, there's plenty of room at the beach, but I can see why you'd pick out here." Molly admitted with a motion for Liz to step close to her. "Just stick close until we're away from the wolves." It wasn't that she needed to stay close to Molly, but she was pretty sure Liz would feel better walking close to her as they passed the confused wolves.

Liz most definitely stayed close to Molly as they headed back to the inn. Her eyes remained mostly on the wolves as if they might give some sign of seeing them and attacking. Wolves were, in reality, quite beautiful, but also quite terrifying.

"My friend Maria would be so excited to meet people who could do magic. She's really into all that sort of supernatural stuff."

"Most teenage girls are." Molly shot her a quick grin, "I was even before I could do magic. I had the biggest crush on a wizard detective, he ended up being my mentor." And her crush was still there, probably would be forever.

She ducked her head a little, smiling. "Is it weird, having a mentor you had a crush on?"

"No." Molly was honest about it. "The only time it got really weird was when I threw myself at him naked and he turned me down." That was mildly put. You get through that, nothing else is awkward or weird with a crush. "That was awkward for a good month."

Liz blushed this time, deep and red. "That, um, that definitely sounds embarrassing." She laughed. It was that sort of soft, nervous laugh on an exhale you did when you could definitely picture it happening to yourself. "I don't know if I would have been able to face him again if it were me."

Molly winked when she looked at Liz, "it helped that I knew that every time he saw me, he'd see me naked. It made it just as awkward for him, maybe more since he was friends with my dad."

It really helped to soothe her pride that she'd felt what he had and known that he had been both embarrassed and attracted.

She ducked her head, her cheeks still red. "Do they do that a lot? Guys, I mean. Picture you naked after they've seen you naked." She meant the universal 'you' not necessarily Molly herself.

"Hell yes. As soon as they reach puberty, they pictured naked women or men depending on the sexuality. If they've seen you, that's pretty much all they see and at the most wrong times." Molly laughed, "it's not just them though. Happens to everyone. You know the picture them in their underwear so you don't get nervous thing? Doesn't work if you've actually seen them in their underwear."

Liz thought she could understand that. Ever since she saw Peter naked, and had been naked in front of him, she found she was more confident around him than she had been previously. "That sounds like it's really distracting..." Maybe that explained some of Kyle's actions when they were dating.. maybe.

"Does that ever go away?" Occasionally even she thought of Peter naked when she saw him.

"Nope." Molly shook her head, "it just isn't all the time. Even now, I'll picture Sam naked. The more you're used to seeing someone naked the less you envision it all the time."

She dropped the veil since they were far enough from the wolves and they were upwind so they wouldn't smell Liz and her.

Her lips quirked, "notice I said all the time or frequently. But, the first time you have a sexual encounter, you'll think about it more than before. I don't just mean penetrating sex. I was technically a virgin until after high school. Only technically." Molly had given Harry advice on restraints when she'd been fourteen. It still made her smile to see his face when she had.

"Daydreams take over then."

She flushed, ducking her head again because she knew exactly what Molly meant at that moment. Liz had a lot of daydreams lately and they hadn't really done much other than what most people considered 'second base' - or at least that was Kyle's term for it.

"I guess that makes sense... that the more experience you have, the easier things get." And probably the less weird things felt, too. Sometimes things felt really weird.

Molly nodded in agreement, "but sometimes even with a lot of experience you can feel just as nervous when you're with someone that you're vulnerable emotionally with. It can hit you unexpectedly. I was a little nervous the first time I was with Sam after I realized that I was in love with him."

She didn't go into the number of times that they'd had sex before that. "It was a little scary understanding how much it could change everything. Sam will always be my best friend and I didn't want to screw that up. Sex changes everything, but sex with real emotion changes it even more."

And it scared the shit out of her sometimes, even now.

Sex with real emotion - Liz couldn't even think about having sex with someone if she didn't have emotion attached to it, but she knew lots of people did. Still, Molly's words...

Liz looked to her as they drew closer to the inn. "If there's already emotions... could the change ever, um... be bad?" Like somehow sex suddenly caused a divide in what used to be a strong relationship.

Molly paused thinking about it, giving it true consideration. “it can, but it’s more of a ripple effect. To be honest, Sam’s the first person I’ve been in love with, not counting Harry. He’s definitely the first person I’ve loved and had sex with. It’s more about how determined you are to make it work, despite all the changes. Sex can’t save a relationship and sometimes neither can love. “

She thought of Harry and Susan but also of Thomas and Justine. Both were examples of what happens with love, not always a happy ending, but sometimes it was.

“Harry and his girlfriend were on two separate paths and they had to follow them. No matter how much they loved each other, they knew they couldn’t both be together. On the other hand, two others from home are together, but they have an open relationship because it’s literally toxic to him for her to touch his skin. Two extreme examples of how love and sex can work.

...were on two separate paths...mo matter how much they loved each other, they knew they couldn't both be together. Molly's words hit Liz hard in the chest and she went quiet, trying not to let worry consume her suddenly. Everyone kept telling her that she and Peter couldn't be together outside of the inn and there was always a part of her who knew that, but she had hope they could find some way to stay together. Liz didn't want to lose Peter. He meant too much to her.

Molly didn't have to be an empath to get the sudden change in emotion in Liz. Nor did she have to be a genius to figure out that she connected Harry's circumstance with Peter.

"Shit. Sorry. I didn't mean to bring the conversation down. Just grab whatever happiness you can, when you can. Life is too short. If this is all you get, then grab hold with two hands and experience the shit out of life. If you get more, then that's bonus. Just don't plan, wish and hope for it to change. It will only piss you off when it doesn't happen."

She had no illusions that whatever this held for her with Sam and potentially Bo, was only going to happen here. They were not from her world. No amount of wishing would change that.

"That's okay." She meant it, even if she didn't feel better after what Molly said. She knew that was what she was supposed to do - live in the moment - and she was trying but it was hard. People made it sound like it she should just be able to do it, but while she could enjoy the moment, the thoughts of the future seeped in from time to time.

"I'm trying to do that." Except it was hard when the only future you saw was with the boy you loved right now.

"I know easier said than done." Molly thought about how to say her thoughts but she'd always been a straight shooter so she just said it. "I just don't want you to have regrets focusing on what could be and wish it will be rather than what is. I know this is a cliche but life really is short and no one knows what's going to happen. Even psychics see possibilities. If I could have two months with someone now versus five years of maybe in the future, I'd take two months now."

Her words rang with truth from her experience with Harry at the Inn. Her smile was sad, "because with my luck, I'd choose five years in the future and get hit by a train the next day and wind up with neither."

Another roundabout way of saying life is short, grab the happiness you have now.

"Okay Molly life lesson is over, I swear. I just wish someone had told me that when I was your age." She snickered, "not that I would have listened and it wasn't that long ago, I'm only 22."

Liz smiled at Molly. "It's okay... I know I need to hear it." And Molly wasn't the only one telling her these things. Molly had a way of making it sound like even though it was was she was supposed to be saying, she knew it really sucked, though, and that made things feel a little different.

"Do you want to go back home?" Liz asked herself this a lot and most often than not, she wanted to stay here, but she wanted that because Peter was here.

"Not really." Molly said honestly, because it deserved an honest answer. "But I miss my family and it's for very selfish reasons." She made a face, "I was told what's in store for me back in Chicago and I'm not really looking forward to it."

Sure choices make different paths, but when the Fae set stuff in motion, it was pretty much a done deal.

"Me too. Back in Roswell." Except she wasn't sure she'd want to go home even if she didn't know about Max and Tess. She paused, wondering if she could ask about what was waiting for her back home and then decided it was too personal. "Knowing what's in the future... sometimes I wonder if this place can change some of it, you know?"

"Maybe. Maybe that's the common denominator with us. I mean not everyone needs to change obviously, but maybe this really is a nexus but not of time and space but our time and space. Maybe we go back and it's same shit, different day or maybe it's because of the choice we made here that we stay the same course or take a different one."

She smiled slightly, "maybe I tell destiny to kiss my ass and maybe destiny tells me to kiss its and it is what it is. Just hope there isn't a crossroads demon here." Sam told her about those and the deals you had to make.

That Escalated Quickly (OTA)

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)

(no subject)