Open RP: Mel with the worry-stick in the library

[totallyluminous]

The fact they have saved the world really ought to be a cause for celebration. A party in the Great Hall or something. None of them got injured, since there was no big brawl between the forces of good and evil, nothing that would look especially awesome in an action movie, just an angel in hand-painted basketball boots entreating a Navajo girl to

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[red_eyed_l]

Well, for lack of a better answer, B has put little booties on Beyond.

Pissing Beyond off beyond belief, but at least he can't scratch B anymore.

B picked him up to leave, but stopped when he saw someone at the door.

[totallyluminous]

Mel looks up and starts. It's rude of her, but she doesn't tend to meet anyone with red eyes unless they're--you know--evil.

'I'm not Maia,' she tells the potential demon, and then winces. Ah, crap, and now they know Maia's here. 'She--left days ago.' Why are you lying to protect your demonic double, Mel?

[red_eyed_l]

"Who is Maya?" B tilts his head. "Mel...Beeby. I'm B." Beyond tried to get out of his arms. "And this is mean B."

[totallyluminous]

Maia? Well, she just happens to be a demon who kept trying to kill me before I could save the world, and now I have she's being hunted by Hell. And how the Hell did you get my name?

Instead of saying this, Mel blushes somewhat and stammers, 'Sorry--thought you were someone else. Hi...B? And your...um, well, your cat with the same name probably doesn't like me 'cause I smell like dog.'

But that in itself has her hackles rising. Animals love angels, scent or no scent.

[red_eyed_l]

B shook his head. "No, mean B is mean to everyone. That's why he's a kitty now."

[totallyluminous]

'Um.'

You can't go around turning people into cats. There must be some rule about it in the Angel Handbook. Trainees can't even shapeshift themselves unless it's an emergency. This raises important ethical dilemmas! Like, does he know there's an archangel in the office?

Weakly, 'Oh. Um. I'm guessing he didn't change his ways after you warned him, then. How does he seem to like it?'

[red_eyed_l]

"He hates it. B...B thinks mean B wanted B in the cat body. Then mean B could get rid of B and be mean all the time." He shook his head, as if to say that didn't happen.

[totallyluminous]

Would this be like her turning Maia into a hamster or something? Mel's eyes darken slightly, and she sits up straighter, hands glowing as they do when she gets angry.

'You can't shove away some part of yourself.' Her voice is cool, and she knows Helix is banging her head against a brick wall--but it's not right. 'That must be torture for him.'

[red_eyed_l]

"But...B doesn't want to be mean. B's done horrible things when he was mean B."

[totallyluminous]

'And you can't control it.' Mel's tone is growing ever colder; expect icicles to form on her lips anytime soon. 'You haven't even tried. You've just trapped it away and won't let it rehabilitate.'

Wise words, Mel, if only you'd not used 'it'. Her fists clench and unclench. 'Am I right?'

[red_eyed_l]

"But B couldn't! He could only be awake when Mello or A was around! Mean B was the one awake most of the time!"

Oh, now B's stressing out.

[totallyluminous]

Don't take it personally, B. Rushing in to right wrongs and triumph over evil is what nearly got her expelled. But she won't this time. Mel takes a deep breath, feeling the anger in the pit of her stomach melt away.

'But now you're not. Research it, control, or you'll forever be half you. That should be enough to scare anyone.'

[red_eyed_l]

B looked at Beyond. "B could do that?" B didn't think of controlling his meaner half, since each seemed hell bent on destroying each other.

[totallyluminous]

'Yes!'

She thinks of her own 'mean Mel', Maia, the demon who tried to kill her, her human charges, get with her boyfriend, turn her boyfriend evil, kill her boyfriend, kill her dogs.

'...with practice!'

[red_eyed_l]

B nodded. "B is going to find a way to control, then." B turned back into the library to find books on that.

[totallyluminous]

'...okay! Bye!'

Mel is not even going to start with the whole talking-in-the-third-person thing. Who does that?