theairlock | week 6

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!week 6

week 6

[Even with three deaths two weeks in a row, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to some semblance of normalcy come Sunday morning. The messes are cleaned up, the bodies are safe in the morgue (or in Kip's case, still in a liquor bottle in the garden) and with this new week comes a fresh crop of returning memories.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 5, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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No, I had a feeling it would be like that. All of that sounds nice on paper, the letting go and all that, but it's not. Never has been.

[Ah well. She shrugs.] It'd be easier to trust if I knew someone in a similar boat as me... well, other than you. I know you're busy with Church and the others.

I never said it would be easy. Just, trying to reassure you that it is possible and good things will happen if you do.

I-[Her eyes go wide and she is up and around the table in a heartbeat, taking Nari's hands in hers.] Nari, no. I didn't mean-

Sweetie, I will always have time for you. I'm... oh gosh I'm so sorry. [She has been hiding a lot since losing Takumi but Tani always comes to seek her out. Even Leonard does, to a point. This is just further proof that she should have been reaching out more. She hadn't with Angel and that...]

Good things... [Until this place takes more people away.

She shakes her head, forcing a smile.]

It's fine. Really. They need you more than I do. I'll be fine. I'll just... Write down my feelings. That way I don't bother anyone, and I have something I trust to confide in. [Which means as soon as it's written it'll be burned so no one will ever see it.] So that'll be what I do. Okay?

Don't bother anyone?

[She looks so distressed and glances around for Cece for a fleeting moment, maybe her girlfriend would be better suited for this?]

Haven't you been listening to a word I've said? Sweetie... you're always here for everyone else... You gotta let us be here for you sometimes. [And she's pulling you into a hug, Nari. Stop pushing people away.]

[It takes her a lot not to pull away from that hug. She lets out a shuddering sigh, closing her eyes.]

Queenie... You don't get it. I tried. I let Junpei be there for me. He almost died and now is down half an arm. Rhys died. I'm pretty sure after that fight we had that Church is just pretending to like me. Nishi I haven't wanted to bother since you need him... Every time I let myself get close to someone, something happens and I don't have them for that anymore. I'd rather be the one there for people. It's easier. It's safer. I know I have friends, but you guys aren't my therapists. I'm happy just knowing people still eat what I cook and they let me give them tattoos.

[She feels the tension and it breaks her heart to know that Nari is so wary, even with her. Which is why she decides, rather quickly, to keep an arm around her and settle herself in Nari's lap, tucking herself in against the other woman.]

I know it hurts, losing people. But you'll never be happy if you never let anyone in, either.

You should be able to talk to Cece, at least, honey.

And I think you and Rii are the only other people I trust in the kitchen, for various reasons. [A soft giggle. Most of the boys wouldn't mean to poison someone but their food would still be plenty dangerous.]

I'd love a tattoo if it came from you, Nari. [And she leans in like she's going to kiss her, catches herself, and drops a kiss to her cheek. Wouldn't want to upset the girlfriend.]

[Okay, so they went from awkward hug to lady in lap. Nari... just goes with it and wraps her arms around Queenie so the other woman doesn't fall off.]

I do talk to Cece... I talk to her about a lot of things. But... it's different since she was never human to begin with. Humans are more difficult.

[She shrugs and nods.] I agree with that. Though Junpei can make the basics.

[She blinks and waits till Queenie is done.] I've never known you to hold back with affection. What's with the cheek kiss?

I- mmm humans are difficult. [She hadn't thought about it like that. It's still hard to think about Cece not being human, she seems so normal.

And then Nari calls her out on the kiss and she blushes, shrugging sheepishly.]

I don't want to make you or Cece uncomfortable.

And they can't deny that they aren't. [Queenie should see Cece without the hard light sometime. Might make it stick more.

She snorts softly.]

The night I had a second date with her, she came back with me to the room. We spent most of the night just talking before we fell asleep. We both have a lot of similar views on relationships, and neither of us minds if the other flirts or kisses other people. As long as it doesn't go further than that. There's some things I would like to only do with the person I'll marry someday, and she likewise with the person she chooses to spend her life with...

[Hence why she asked about marriage being in the cards... and if it's not? At least she's had a little time with someone she cares for about as much as she cares for Mira.]

Ahhh... so it's okay?

I mean all of this is assuming you... want me to kiss you again? [She somehow manages to be both sly and sheepish at once.

She'd been neglecting Nari and hadn't even realized it with how upset she'd been. It seems a little much to assume the other woman would want her kisses now.]

Well, I wouldn't mind more kisses. Kisses in generally, not just from you, but most of the people I've wanted to kiss kind of aren't here right now... but you are!

[Queenie kisses will work. A lot might make her mood a lot better.]

I am~

[She looks a little surprised by that. Somehow she expected a little more dodging.

Then again there's an awful lot of liquor in this room.]

You deserve more kisses. [And then she leans in to press a kiss to Nari's lips, soft and playful at first.]

[You're sitting in the lap of probably the most honest person in this entire room. Dodging can be for another time about other things.

Alcohol helps.]

Do I? Eh. Maybe. [Queenie will find the kiss in return is a little more eager than hers.]

[Considering their last kiss was a light brush of lips she thought, maybe, diving into devouring her face would be a bit much.

Clearly she was wrong.

She smiles against Nari's lips, a please little hum in her throat, and then one hand is tangling in that lovely red hair to hold her close, kissing her harder.]

[Queenie should have gone for it a while ago. There's no such thing as Nari turning down kisses from pretty women. Soft or otherwise.

Arms wrap around the blond tighter to keep her in place as she keeps returning the kiss in kind. The hand in her hair just makes her feel very content that this was a really good decision right now.]

[She might be very open about her relationships but she was kind of setting Cece and Nari up. It would've been counterproductive to start making out with Nari in the mean time. Besides, they're too cute together.

Arms around her, holding her close and Queenie breaks the kiss long enough to let out a delighted giggle, catch her breath and then straight back to kissing.]

[She still has to thank Queenie for that since she would have gone this entire time never saying a single thing to Cece. She would have instead pushed Cece to go be with someone else. ~~old habits die hard~~

After this she definitely needs to teach Queenie about making out and breathing through your nose to not have to break away. For now, though, it was all about kissing and gently digging her nails into Queenie's lower back.]

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