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strangetrip2018-07-24 10:25 am
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[EP] I feel the best and most precious part of me leap - OTA
When Sunny had arrived to take over in the library, she passed an envelope to Corbie explaining, "For you and Mildmay. I had these printed the last time we were let out."
Corbie had been confused of course, but she'd taken her surprise down with her to the cafe before she opened it. Immediately, the whole world just stopped. It felt like a star leaping in her belly. Like, at least just for that one moment, nothing would ever be wrong again. Because while most of the faces in the pictures she was looking at were unfamiliar--later she might realize that Coby was in the background of one, wearing a completely idiotic sweater--each picture had one person in common. A tall, thin man with long red curls and mismatched yellow and blue eyes, beautiful as daylight, proud as a peacock, and bearing a striking resemblance to Mildmay.
Felix.
She had talked about this with Coby before, but it had not truly seemed real, not at the time. Hell, it didn't seem real now. He was not... well, for lack of a better way to put it, he was not her Felix. This man was younger, of an age with Mildmay, whereas she knew the brothers had something like six or so years between them. There was also no white in his hair (and it was not as long), which she knew he'd gotten on his travels and he was less than proud of it. But that smile, that stance, that affected boredom, that teasing, that was Felix. That was Felix.
She had, she realized, been afraid. Been so very afraid of forgetting his face. And oh, the memories that rushed to her then, sitting together on that rickety cot for her first lessons, the light and almost breathless way he spoke, the way she felt like she'd had sunlight poured directly into her when he'd told her, 'You've made excellent progress. I'm proud of you.'
Her heart raced and her stomach fluttered and her hands shook and Corbie laughed and cried all at once. Her witchlights, little glowing purple chrysanthemums, bloomed all around her. She hardly took notice.
[ooc: So Corbie got photographs of an AU!Felix from another game because RP is weird. Her crush is showing.]
Corbie had been confused of course, but she'd taken her surprise down with her to the cafe before she opened it. Immediately, the whole world just stopped. It felt like a star leaping in her belly. Like, at least just for that one moment, nothing would ever be wrong again. Because while most of the faces in the pictures she was looking at were unfamiliar--later she might realize that Coby was in the background of one, wearing a completely idiotic sweater--each picture had one person in common. A tall, thin man with long red curls and mismatched yellow and blue eyes, beautiful as daylight, proud as a peacock, and bearing a striking resemblance to Mildmay.
Felix.
She had talked about this with Coby before, but it had not truly seemed real, not at the time. Hell, it didn't seem real now. He was not... well, for lack of a better way to put it, he was not her Felix. This man was younger, of an age with Mildmay, whereas she knew the brothers had something like six or so years between them. There was also no white in his hair (and it was not as long), which she knew he'd gotten on his travels and he was less than proud of it. But that smile, that stance, that affected boredom, that teasing, that was Felix. That was Felix.
She had, she realized, been afraid. Been so very afraid of forgetting his face. And oh, the memories that rushed to her then, sitting together on that rickety cot for her first lessons, the light and almost breathless way he spoke, the way she felt like she'd had sunlight poured directly into her when he'd told her, 'You've made excellent progress. I'm proud of you.'
Her heart raced and her stomach fluttered and her hands shook and Corbie laughed and cried all at once. Her witchlights, little glowing purple chrysanthemums, bloomed all around her. She hardly took notice.
[ooc: So Corbie got photographs of an AU!Felix from another game because RP is weird. Her crush is showing.]
Re: Corbie & Alec
Re: Corbie & Alec
"I don't know." He gestured vaguely with his hands. "Being a superhero? Being not a nerdy teenage girl?"
Alec didn't understand women, let alone teenage girls.
Re: Corbie & Alec
Re: Corbie & Alec
"No" Definitely not what he meant. Alec rubbed the back of her neck. "That it's okay to just be one. Like she doesn't need to do dumb shit like dress in leather and play superhero because her idiot boyfriend already loves her."
When did Alec start caring around this stuff? He sighed. This was a lot easier when it was just him.
Re: Corbie & Alec
"Liz and I ain't exactly close. If she wants to talk to me about her relationship, I'll tell her whatever I think she needs to know. As for the superhero shit..." Corbie shrugged. "I dunno, I'd think that almost dying would be more of a lesson than anything I could tell her. If she ain't gonna take that seriously, there isn't anything you or me or anybody else can tell her that's gonna smack some sense into her."
Re: Corbie & Alec
Alec had sort of hoped there was just some sort of unwritten thing that girls stuck together or... Something.
"I hope so." Mostly for Peter's sake and technically his own so he wouldn't have to listen to the whining and worrying.
He exhaled. "Okay, I need a drink."
Re: Corbie & Alec
Re: Corbie & Alec
"Thanks." He paused. He felt the urge to kiss her, but instead just reached out and tucked a stray strand of hair behind her ear.
"Enjoy your pictures." He gave her a little smile and then turned to head for the bar.