Love Potion Number NINE

[noheatnikki]

Very excited to start the teachers' conference (we're learning how to make candy?) and get to sightsee in Monaco, as well as get to meet all the professors I haven't met yet

Comments

[numbersnfigures]

That candy thing's a bit ridiculous.

I don't think I've been to the beach for swimming purposes since I was 14....

[Filtered]

I'm glad you're deciding to drop this. He made a mistake, Kate. Although I'm not entirely convinced he won't do it again.

[noheatnikki]

I like candy! Though I don't like lemon drops, so I hope those aren't on the menu.

The beach can be fun! You can bring a book if you'd like.

[Filtered]

Please don't tell me that. I'm doing this for you, not Thobari.

[numbersnfigures]

Isn't that what the whole seminar is that day? "Lemon Drops and How They Help You Teach"? There's no scientific correlation at all there.

I'm sure I'll bring at least two.

[Filtered]

I just have a feeling about it. Nothing to base on fact, unfortunately. Just intuition.

I know this doesn't comfort you.

However, I don't think he will harm anyone when he does it again either. I still don't believe that he has it in him to harm people. If or when he uses such magic again, you have my full support to arrest him, Kate. I can't abide by that twice.

What I'm most curious to know is how he learned such magic. I suppose he could have taught himself, but he's not the type. Someone specifically taught him because they wanted him to know it.

[noheatnikki]

Two? That will last you about a quarter hour.

[Filtered]

I think we both know who taught him that magic, Spencer. Think about it.

[numbersnfigures]

Mmm, probably so. I suppose I could always walk the shore and classify washed up shells.

[Filtered]

Of course I know who did it. That backfired nicely, didn't it?

[noheatnikki]

Maybe you could swim with me and look for sand dollars. Do they have sand dollars in the Mediterranean Sea? I love them.

[Filtered]

Did it really backfire? After all, he faced no consequences besides a couple ticked off ghosts.

[numbersnfigures]

Sand dollars are usually found in sandy or muddy areas that are several hundred yards out from the shoreline. They're also only in oceans, as well...

[Filtered]

I mean that Castiel taught him blood magic and he used that blood magic to trap Castiel in a room with his brother. I'd say that's ironic.

[noheatnikki]

Oh ok, so sand dollars are out. Find me pretty shells?

[Filtered]

I feel more sorry for Castiel's brother. You can imagine what three days of conversation with Castiel would be like. He's not particularly loquacious on a good day.

[numbersnfigures]

Does your definition of pretty mean "intact"?

[Filtered]

I don't know very much about Gabriel, so I'm not quite sure what to think yet. But I do agree that I would probably get frustrated with Castiel rather quickly.

[noheatnikki]

Not necessarily. Some of the most beautiful things in the world are cracked or broken.

[Filtered]

Castiel doesn't seem crazy about Gabriel, but he seems fine to me. Better than Peeves, at least.

[numbersnfigures]

Indeed. Most of the findings of Ancient Greek or Roman sculpture are usually fractured but it does not diminish their beauty.

[Filtered]

He's certainly more outgoing than Castiel, but I'm uneasy. He is a poltergeist, after all.

[noheatnikki]

And what are humans but broken creatures? But we're still beautiful.

[Filtered]

I can't actually think of a single being less outgoing than Castiel. I'm not sure it's possible.

[numbersnfigures]

Yes.... that's true as well.

[Filtered]

He has issues and secrets that I've already promised myself to no longer make my business.

Private

[noheatnikki]

He just seems so...tortured. I wish there was some way to help him.

Re: Private

[numbersnfigures]

I know, Kate. But he doesn't want it. At least not from us.

Re: Private

[noheatnikki]

I know. To be honest, Castiel was part of the reason I dropped the Thobari thing as well. Thobari seems to be one of the few people Castiel opens up to, if you could even call it that. I don't want to take away his only friend.