Tourist, May I?

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Tourists and visitors!
Broadcast: Nooooooooope
Action: On the Tourist
When: May

[ Ship Catch all for May! Mingle! Talk to your neighbors! Walk in on your friends! Wait, don't do that. ]

Comments

[winn]

They didn't do much good anyway. They should've known - you wanna put a shattered egg back together - you go to a nerd. We've got years of model building experience.

[ he smiles, hoping he's helping. ]

[passingthrough]

[He's always helping. Even when it's supposed to be other other way since she's the one who probably freaked him out here.] You know, no one ever actually says Humpty Dumpty is an egg.

[winn]

[ he's far more comfortable in the helper role anyway. it's still difficult for him to accept help from her, when she's been through so much. his burdens are nothing in comparison. ]

Sure they do, when they give animation instructions.

[passingthrough]

I'm preeeeetty sure it was written before animation was a thing. [She has no idea when it was written, but it sounds like a safe bet and they can't look it up from here anyway.]

[winn]

I'm a Millennial, I'm not even supposed to know books exist.

[ he shrugs. ]

[passingthrough]

You're a what now? [She kisses his neck.]

[winn]

[ that is very distracting, kitty. he hums contently, tilting his head for better access. ]

The latest incarnation of 'young people these days'.

[passingthrough]

Does that make me a millennial too? Because I know all about books.

[winn]

Unless your time travel also included yearly leaps I'm unaware of -- yeah. Congratulations, you're a member of generation spoiled mindless drone.

[passingthrough]

This is very exciting. What should we do to celebrate?

[winn]

Hmmmn -- well, the appropriate celebration would be lying around doing nothing. But we're rebels - [ he smiles and leans in for a kiss. ]

[passingthrough]

[She kisses back, looking amused after a moment.] So we're going to celebrate the same way we celebrate seeing each other and getting ready for bed and waking up?

[winn]

If it ain't baroque - [ he smiles, a little obnoxiously, before shrugging ]

How d'you wanna celebrate?

[passingthrough]

Mmmm...you could tell me why you had blows to the head that required CT scans. [YOU THOUGHT SHE FORGOT! No, of course she would just bring it up right before potential sex. Of course she would. You're the luckiest man in the multiverse. /laughtrack.]

[winn]

-- it's not a very celebratory story.

[ that smile kind of freezes uncomfortably. it's his own fault. he should have pretended he was kidding. but she asked, so he shrugs, he'll share. he won't outright lie at the question. ]

Basically, when your dad orphans a bunch of kids - you're not gonna be Mr. popular at an orphanage.

[ did he make light of it enough? he could go lighter. ] Scan was for legal reasons, wasn't that bad, really. Dunno why I brought it up.

[passingthrough]

I didn't really think it would be. [She gently strokes a hand through his hair.] Did they transfer you or at least keep you safe after that?

[winn]

I learned to keep a low profile.

[ he shrugs with a smile. never bother anyone, always be helpful, smile - even when it's the last thing he feels like doing. some of it is just the way he always was. other parts are lessons that merged so completely into his very core that he can't really tell them apart anymore anyway. ]

[passingthrough]

And you still do. [She leans in touching her forehead to his.] Are you going to be offended and emasculated if I tell you that I want to keep you safe forever so you can keep whatever profile you want?

[winn]

If full on hiding behind Kara at home, and sewing ball gowns here didn't do it - I'm pretty sure you're safe.

[ he smiles, booping her nose. he appreciates it, he really does. that she could care so much about his little troubles, after everything she's been through, that she wants to keep him safe even though she's so tired of fighting. he doesn't want to be the thing that will drag her back in the ring, though. he wants to keep her safe too. ]

I'm generally for me being safe.

[passingthrough]

[See? Another difference from Reid. Not that she's thinking that right now.] Good. I'm for you being safe too.

Not just physically. [She knows what it's like to just be hated by people for something you can't control. She hates that he went through that too and younger and more. She spent almost all her time with other mutants once she was rescued.

And don't get her wrong or let her fool you. The second someone is in danger she is throwing herself in without hesitation to help. But there's a big difference between something like that and working to take down an opponent that you can't even get to.]

[winn]

[ no one will ever beat him at emasculating himself.

she understands him in a way no one ever has before, and it's incredibly moving to him. ]

It stopped being an issue once I went away to college. Most people remember murderers by their nicknames, not their given names - I was mostly left alone til he broke out, and that was earlier this year - grown ups have their problems with you behind your back.

[ he just wants to reassure her, keep her from worrying about him - it wasn't that bad, it ended, he's alright. or at least, he tries his best to be. ]

[passingthrough]

Do a lot of people know now after what happened this year? I mean I assume Kara does. But other friends? [Is it sad or happy that she thinks he has other friends?]

[winn]

Everyone knows. [ it's a bitter-sweet sort of feeling. well, he does have the world's weirdest bromance with james. and he and alex get along? ] It was all over the news, and the FBI came to talk to me at the office. Apparently they also searched my everything and questioned anyone I ever said two words to after he kidnapped me. They thought I was working with him. [ which - you know - makes him feel so swell. ]

[passingthrough]

I'm sure it's not personal. They were playing the statistics or something. [Not that she wants to be defending them when obviously this was bad for Winn.] And also they're scum. [Sorry, Reid.]

I'm sorry...all of it happened. That he put you in that position as a kid and again as an adult. [She rests her hand on his chest.] You have such a big heart. I can't even tell you what you deserve instead because I'm pretty sure I've never seen a good enough example of anything to say, but it's something pretty great.

[winn]

[ calling them scum makes him laugh a little. it's just so sweet. ]

Mmhm. I'm not sure who's crazier, them or my dad.

[ he hugs her, running his fingers through her hair. ]

So something like you? [ no, she's way more than he deserves. he has kitty for a girlfriend, kara for a best friend, cisco, kate, jim, hank, and margaery for friends...he's never had so much in his life, he's not sure what to do with it. he hasn't felt this secure, this loved, this wanted since before his family fell apart. if they defeat the atroma - no matter what happens, no matter where they go - it's going to be so hard for him to say goodbye. ]