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Sneaky Sneaky

Jan 02, 2013 10:18

Who: Gabriel and Selina
What: Sneaking back to get his stuff
Where: Hatfield Palace
When: So late it's very early, 2nd Jan
Rating: PG-14 (probable cursing)

( It's not breaking and entering if you sort of live their and your ex has your fur babies held hostage )

selina kyle, gabriel

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adaptably January 2 2013, 10:53:16 UTC

There were certain areas of the Hatfield Palace that Selina knew like the back of her hand. She spent more than a healthy amount of time learning the ins and outs of the windows and doors, the small little places she could fit her body through for a clean exit. It was generally whenever she felt the need to get out and have some alone time fast, or whenever Gabriel and Elizabeth decided to let the whole damn city know they were fighting. Selina would roll her eyes and console Elizabeth as needed, but always tried to stay between the two. Gabriel had some sort of relation to the brothers she often spent time with, so she did try to make some bridges. The last thing she needed to do was jeopardize her new life by taking too many sides.

She stopped in a hallway as she heard the bang! Her head whipped around, hair flying around her, as she quickly moved down the hallway to the offending sound. She was as silent as a shadow and quick as a cat. How else had she earned the nickname? Honestly. Stepping out of the shadows, she found herself ( ... )

trickster_mk2 January 2 2013, 11:29:29 UTC

In his defence, Gabriel had never actually had to sneak anywhere before. He was an angel. He could pop where-ever he wanted in the blink of an eye. There were no walls that could contain him, no door that was barred to his presence. But apparently, in his current state doing things the human way had most appealed. And the human way did mean using the back door, the servant's door into the palace, going through the kitchen and up into the rest of the house. It seemed like a brilliant idea. He didn't expect someone else to interrupt ( ... )

adaptably January 3 2013, 08:53:28 UTC

That wasn't what she was expecting. Somehow, she thought he would give her lines about how he wanted to make it up to Elizabeth and say he was oh so very sorry. Her arms crossed under her chest as she looked him over. He was still drunk as all hell, but at least now he wasn't texting. He had a point, and it was probably better for him to grab his things before Elizabeth tried to torch them all in a temper tantrum. Glancing behind her, she nodded and brushed pass Gabriel.

"Then let's get your things." She said neutrally. "I can show you how to get in and out without her even noticing."

trickster_mk2 January 3 2013, 11:16:10 UTC

He wasn't sorry. Wasn't gonna try and mend it. There were some things worth fixing, and there were lots and lots and lots of shit that when it was broke, you had to run away from before the fireball got you. This was one of those things. Grab and go, run run run.

And if he needed to, he could out run Selina before she went and told on him like a kid in the playground. Lizzie would go ape-shit if she knew he was there. And Selina would tell, because girls stuck-

"...what?"

adaptably January 4 2013, 04:55:03 UTC

Selina understood what it felt like to be owed something. Gabriel stayed here, he had things that belonged to him, and he wanted them back. She had broken into Dagget's building to get what she felt he owed here. Gabriel was basically doing the same thing (except he actually claimed ownership over them). If he was going to break in, then he could have done it better, and that was almost offensive - in a playful way.

"Are you going to keep up or stand there all night?" Selina asked in return, continuing to walk down the hall.

trickster_mk2 January 5 2013, 10:51:32 UTC

Gabriel just wasn't expecting her help, that was plain enough and even as she turned on her heel and started to march away, it took him a moment to get into gear and follow her. If he'd been anywhere close to sober he probably wouldn't, but right now simply trailed along behind like a puppy, before increasing his pace to stride alongside her.

"I... I was gonna..." He began, and then shut up for a second, before asking instead, "How is she?" She'd cried before, he'd heard that. He'd forced his broken phone to play back the shouted conversation they'd had, over and over until he knew every single word, and each one was like a little stab. Some of them bigger than others. Coward

adaptably January 5 2013, 12:04:58 UTC

That was the thing about Selina Kyle: she liked being unpredictable. His surprise made her smirk to herself. At least she still had it in her. Between Elizabeth and Dean, she was starting to wonder if she had lost her touch of being a mystery. At least she could still fool this angel... for now.

"She's angry." Her answer came easily, but without an edge to it. She glanced over at Gabriel. "She broke her phone at some point. I lost track after your fight woke me up." The nights she did go out 'prowling' were long and exhausting as her body was constantly fighting off the cold. Being woken up by the two of them fighting? It made for a very grumpy woman. Still, she could compose her self.

"I'm guessing that it didn't start over a disagreement about china sets. What started it?"

trickster_mk2 January 5 2013, 12:47:58 UTC

He was expecting that though. He knew she was angry. J. Christ on a Bike, the whole universe probably knew when Elizabeth Tudor was angry- it sent ripples through everywhere and flooded small coastal cities. Although he was vaguely surprised to hear that Selina was asleep- she seemed to be one of those mystical humans that managed on a- ha ha- cat nap once a day and probably neat coffee injected into their veins.

"'M sorry about, about that. Get sort of... shouty." He murmured, although Lizzie had possibly been making more noise than him. All he'd known was the burning hot rage and the feeling that no one, no one at all, actually understood him.

"Was a joke. Said her mom should go home, leave us alone. Queenie wasn't... wasn't impressed. Shout shout shout and everything else comes out and then everyone around you is dead and your arm is missing and that, that is why you should never, ever piss off a force of nature."

adaptably January 5 2013, 21:46:30 UTC

There was plenty of time for cat naps, but she did prefer to actually get a full night sleep when she could. Which was usually rather easy in Hatfield Palace. When Elizabeth wasn't raising armies from the depths with her anger. Selina thought she had a temper problem, but clearly no one can outshine the Queen of England.

"You do." Selina said and shrugged it off. People shouted and they fought. That was nothing new.

That earned him a rather dramatic roll of her eyes. Gabriel, you should have known better that something like that wouldn't fly well with a Tudor. Especially a Tudor. "Sounds like you have plenty of experience in upsetting the elements of nature." She sighed. "People from broken families don't find that kind of thing funny. You don't plan on apologizing either, do you?"

trickster_mk2 January 6 2013, 00:27:33 UTC

Gabriel wouldn't exactly agree with you on that front- but then again he's got several millennia on you Selina. But Lucifer throwing a temper tantrum so far outshines all human efforts. Kali too, when things didn't go the way she liked... but as humans went, Lizzie certainly had an edge. It was probably the breeding.

Huh. If she wasn't all hormonal and the rest of it, it would probably have been fine, but as it was... "I didn't do any... anything. She can... she'll suck it up. It's not like she's the only one, everyone else has freakin' feelings. She wants to talk about... about crap parents? Hells, I could write a fucking book."

But he doesn't go on (lucky you, Selina) because he knows where they are. Somewhere around here is Elizabeth's suite, and that means his stuff.

adaptably January 6 2013, 08:36:22 UTC

Given that Selina had never met Lucifer or Kali? She wasn't about to say Gabriel would be right or wrong in that manner. The temperament of godly beings wasn't something she had much experience in. Except knowing Gabriel himself.

"This isn't a contest over who had the worst childhood." Selina pointed out. "You shouldn't insult the in-laws too loudly when the wife hasn't had a chance to properly know the in-laws."

Not that she was the best one to give relationship advice to. She never had a proper relationship in her life. Still, Selina knew Elizabeth. She liked to think she knew what she was talking about.

trickster_mk2 January 6 2013, 11:19:31 UTC

"All.... All 'm saying is that, is that she's not the only... only one with shitty parents, 'n when you work out how shitty they were, then you, then you get over it." Speaking only from personal experience of course. Although anyone who really, really knew Gabriel knew that there was that unbreakable steel thread of love and admiration that he had for his own Father. But his Father was God, so that was to be expected.

He sighed though. Even Selina was trying to get him to apologise, or so it felt. Gabe was not the apologising sort. He did no wrong, normally, and when he did, well, so what? He didn't need forgiveness and he didn't need to air that fact, or the regrets he might have. Those were private, even to Lizzie. "I'm just trying to save her... her time. Aren't worth it. You make your own. You make your own family. Right Selina? Right?"

adaptably January 6 2013, 12:47:11 UTC

"Not everyone gets over how bad their lives are." She said with a shrug. Even she was still wrestling with everything she had to do in her life to survive. Being brought to a magical place of happy sunshine and wars for the universes didn't get rid of the past. Not even a Clean Slate Program would get rid of the past she knew was inside her head ( ... )

trickster_mk2 January 6 2013, 21:40:16 UTC

"Sister," Gabriel said, with his hand going to her shoulder, only for a moment though. This was Selina. You didn't do causal touching with Selina, even in his current state he knew that. "Sister, you are preaching... preaching to an angel and I know all about that." His brothers were the prime example, after all, the ones planning to tear everything their Dad had made apart to prove who loved Him more. Get up, dust yourself off, keep going. Make new mistakes. You couldn't do that with one foot still stuck in the mud.

He didn't believe what she said about families though. Maybe she was kidding herself, maybe she was so bogged down in there that she couldn't see what she already had here. She had friends, people who cared for her already, and that was pretty close to family. Give it a while longer... although she'd probably never see it that way. Humans, huh? Besides, cats made themselves a home- made a hole for themselves where-ever they were, and Selina had done that. Lizzie would certainly feel the pain if she went, even if she ( ... )

adaptably January 7 2013, 21:38:56 UTC

Her eyes darted up to him, but she kept from replying to the physical touch. The man (angel) was drunk still, so there wasn't a point in making sure that he knew she wasn't the fondest of random physical contact. She glanced away quickly before looking back at him. She didn't say anything about his comment, instead just pondering over it with a passive look on her face. She didn't care who was an angel or a demon in Mandalus. They acted human so that was how she was going to treat them. That meant they had to prove themselves to her, just like everyone else.

Selina wouldn't trust them enough to be a family. Family was there for each other through everything, and no one had ever been there for her like that. She had survived on her own through everything and anything. Why would Mandalus be any different? Sure, they cared. Everyone cared. Until there was something else to care about. Something else that was more appealing. Selina wasn't about to let herself be shoved to the side because of something else. The walls were there and she ( ... )

trickster_mk2 January 9 2013, 00:24:20 UTC

Flipping him onto his arse might have been very amusing indeed, although perhaps not the best course of action near a self-confessed jerk with super-powers. Not that he would have really hurt her. Much. In an on-going sort of way. Lizzie probably wouldn't have ever forgiven him, but he wasn't certain at that moment she'd ever forgive him anyway ( ... )

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