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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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.
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'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?
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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.
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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?'
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'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.'
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Wise words, Mel, if only you'd not used 'it'. Her fists clench and unclench. 'Am I right?'
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Oh, now B's stressing out.
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'But now you're not. Research it, control, or you'll forever be half you. That should be enough to scare anyone.'
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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!'
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Mel is not even going to start with the whole talking-in-the-third-person thing. Who does that?
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