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Who: Kitty and all the people of fleet!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Windrose if you want
When: At some point before the masquerade

We have a masquerade coming up, and I was bored so I thought I'd mettle in people's lives for my own amusement. First, the disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with going to a dance solo.

Now, for anyone else, who wants a date?

Sorry, not me. Taken. But there are probably some of you out there thinking a date would be fun, and sure, why not? So speak up. Let's make some love connections. Or, you know, awkward dancing connections. I'm a mutant, not a miracle worker.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack.)

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[She lets him guide her gaze back up to meet his.] ...Yeah... Sometimes people just...wake up with new memories of home or disappear for a few days and come back with them. [Just like the prison. She checked.] It could happen to anyone...who isn't like me. [Dead.]

[ anyone who isn't her.

the pain is unmistakable in his eyes. ]

...I didn't know that.

[ there's still so much he doesn't know about this world, an it's a terrifying thought but it's not what matters now. what matters is - she's right, he has no way to reassure her, no way that she'll believe, no way that will be true.

can't they catch a single break? ]

That happened to him? [ gently. he can't imagine how painful that must have been for her, and he's not really sure there is a right course of action there, either. it's awkward as hell, talking about her ex, but more than her boyfriend, it's important to him to be her friend. she needs a good friend. she deserves the best friend. she got him - so he's just going to try his hardest. ]

[She reaches up to touch his face when she sees that look in his eyes. And for a moment she just wants to take it all back and tell him everything will be okay because she doesn't want him hurting and she just keeps telling him things that make that happen.]

...Let's go in your room first? [This isn't a hallway conversation. It hasn't been for awhile and yet...]

[ he takes her hand in his and tries to smile for her as he nods ]

Good thinking.

[ he leads her to his room quietly, but stops before shutting the door behind them ]

Do you want - some water or something? [ because he knows he's not going to want to leave her once they get talking, and he should offer - in case they have another big cry ahead of them. ]

I'm okay. [She puts her chess board down and takes a seat. Well, you got a girl in your bed, mister!]

Are you sure you want to hear this? About someone I was with? [Someone she loved. Someone...she still loves.]

[ he shuts the door and goes to sit next to her. ]

I'm sure...that I want to be there for you.

[ and honestly this is the part that feels more appropriate to his life - listening to the girl he likes talk about someone else she likes, or giving his friend advice about the girl he likes - yeah. that's more consistent with the winn schott existence. ]

[She puts her hand in his before she starts.] He and I were...close. In a good place. [She doesn't want to go too much into any of that with Winn. It feels cruel and unnecessary.] And then one day he just disappeared. It happens. It was only for a week, but it's not like you know that. So it was one of the longest weeks in my life and when it was over... He was two years older and the last thing he saw was the woman he was in love with being shot to death.

[ he shuts his eyes - just for a second - from the sheer pain of it all. he wants to scream. as happy as he is to get to be with kitty - this is not how he wants her to be available. it's cruel, and harsh, and unfair - like everything she's told him about her life. he wants to find a person who's responsible for all of it and it terrifies him because that sort of thinking is a hop skip and a jump away from his father's frame of mind (although, all that kitty's been through is way more justifiable a cause for such rage than stolen toy designs - but even so). he wants there to be something he could do, or say, to make it better.

he wants making it better to be an option.

he pulls her into his arms for a tight hug. is that cruel too? being with her, when he can't guarantee that the same won't someday happen to him? is he a bad person, for caring for her? but then, shutting herself out isn't going to help her either, and this is her choice. besides, if anyone in the multiverse is likely to die alone unless he manages to bring her home with him -- he kinda feels like it's him. for the first time in his life, he's kind of happy about it. ]

[She hugs him back and nothing feels cruel about it. She sinks against him and he smells good and he feels warm and while she's not exactly happy in this moment he does make her happy.]

You wanted to know my weaknesses? That's it. I'm afraid of losing people whether they die or leave or replace me. [Reid never set out to do that. He didn't remember her while he was making those new memories. It was a completely guiltless act, but then he said she was the first woman he ever loved and... where did that leave her?]

I'm afraid of letting myself like you too much and then you suddenly remembering you and Kara getting together after all or meeting someone new.

I may not be able to guarantee anything 100% about someone new -- but you have nothing to worry about with Kara. I know who she loves, and he feels the same.

[ and he's the one stuck encouraging him to go for it even while they both knew how much that hurt him. but he doesn't need to say that, he doesn't need to dwell on that, it's not the point right now.

he gently strokes her hair as he holds her. ]

It's my weakness, too. [ That she'll find someone cooler, better looking, more charming, just...better. he's never had too many people in his life, and they always end up leaving or replacing him. he's painfully aware of the fact that she's way too good for him. ] But I like you anyway, I can't help it.

Winn? ...I want to kiss you on your birthday. [She doesn't know what the future will hold for them, but she doesn't need to be withholding so much from him to protect herself. That's just going to hurt them both, isn't it? She doesn't want to miss the present to protect against an unseen future. She shifts back so she can kiss him right now too.]

[ he kisses back. when they break apart, he's smiling. ]

I want that too. But then I pretty much always want to kiss you.

I like that feeling. Go with that. [Smiling back at him before leaning in again.]

[ he offers a little salute before leaning in and kissing her ]

[Her hand comes up to play gently in his hair. The kiss isn't so much full of passion as it is tenderness. The same with her touch right now. The nature of coming off the aftermath of some emotional vulnerability.]

[ he loves the passionate kisses, but the tender ones resonate with the insecure part of him, which he needs - especially considering the subject they just covered. he keeps it sweet, allowing her to dictate the terms - his own quiet way to try and reassure her again that he's not going to pressure her into anything she's not ready for. ]

[She's smiling when they pull away again and she doesn't stop playing with his hair. That's just a thing she's always liked doing.]

Okay. Tell me your age, but not because I care. I just guess I should know more about you since I didn't even know your full name before Hank. [She does feel like she knows important things though. Still, she's interested in him. And this is part of that.]

[ he laughs ]

Yeah, that was a sitcom moment - [ seeing each other all the time, getting serious, but not knowing each other's names - ]

I'm - 29. [ he feels so old just saying it. ]

It really was, right? [Why are they so naturally good at being in a reality show? They are going to have embarrassingly large amounts of money.]

That's about what I would have guessed. [She probably would have said 26 or 27, but it's still closeish and she doesn't want him to think it's too old. She also doesn't want to say Reid was 32 at least after he came back with new memories to make him feel better because mentioning Reid doesn't feel like a path to making him feel better ever.] And you were from National City originally?

[ they're going to end up winning this thing, aren't they.

that's a good instinct there, kitty. ]

Yeah, yeah I tend to just -- stay put. [ not big on the making changes over here. ] Unless - space reality shows happen.

[And getting sent home? Let's hope not.]

[There's a soft laugh.] Sure, unless those happen. I was in Seattle last. Well, last I was in an undersea prison and technically I was in New York very last at home, but for a longer stretch it was near Seattle.

Um, my parents names were Carmen and Terry. And if you're thinking that means Dad was Terry you'd be wrong. [She knows parents aren't a good subject with him, but hers are important to her so she hopes this much is okay.]

[ he would never keep her from talking about her parents. just because his family is terrible doesn't mean he can't be happy that someone else's wasn't.

he smiles at that, just happy that she's opening up to him like that. ]

What did they do?

Dad was in money management and Mom was a nurse in a children's ward. [She appreciates how easy he is to talk to.] I think for awhile they felt like their full time job was taking me to before and after school dance lessons or rehearsals though.

You wanted to be a pro?

[ he's getting a mental image of a young kitty in a tutu and it's too adorable for words ]

I did. I also wanted to be the youngest tech mogul. Ballet and computers. It's a thing. [And these weren't outlandish. She had the skills where it could have happened. Well, she may have had to pick one just for time's sake.]

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