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Who: Kitty Pryde and everyone who tags!
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Planet fun! Or Windrose maybe. I'm flexible.
When: Now or nowish. Definitely now-adjacent.

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I have an important request. I need someone who can make cheese. Do cheese makers have an old timey name like cobblers and haberdashers or are those only for clothes? Anyway, calling all of those.

Cheese doesn't seem to be a thing here from what I can tell, but we're just one ingredient away from some really great pizza. I have no idea what cheese requires other than cows or goats or something. I grew up so close to Wisconsin, but I feel like I learned so little.

I would also accept alternative cheese. I know there were vegan kinds made out of hopes and dreams or something I assume. I can pay you or share the finished pizza or do something in trade if I had skills. I could beat someone up for you maybe. [She's not going to do that. Probably.] We'll work it out.

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[She's on the planet doing all of these things and more but this post won't get to CAPTCHA! You might find her on the Windrose veeeery rarely!]

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[ he can't go to kara or cisco or jim or anyone with this - it's her private story. he would never share it. at most, he'll go to jim and work it out by getting his ass thoroughly kicked for a while and taking out some angry energy. though jim would try to get him to talk and he's not sure yet if I can't talk about it because it's not my story to talk about will work with the man or not. he wants to believe it would. he wants to believe someone I love is hurting and there's nothing I can do about it will be reason enough for jim, but can he risk it? he may have to. ]

I know. [ he gives her a little squeeze. he knows that she'll be ok with it, logically, but emotionally he can't, he's never sure, and he knows he won't be ok with himself if he made things worse on her. ]

If you really want, I can think back to the time I was set up on a blind date with a really ugly cat and get all upset. They went all out, put it in a little dress, and everything.

[ trying to lighten the mood may not be the best move, but it's the best one he's got. ]

You can. I mean, you can tell people the story. I trust you. [She doesn't think he'll do it over the network or anything. He'd only tell people he trusts. Besides, it's the truth. She made her choices. Even if he did tell someone she doesn't get along with she could deal with that. Allen knows. It's not going to feel personal to anyone else. Well, Kurt maybe. But she isn't hiding it from Kurt anymore than she was hiding it from Winn. Just...not eager to talk about it.]

You can tell me about the cat too if you want. Did that really happen? [Is she supposed to laugh because she feels bad for him, assuming it was a mean-spirited prank and not just silliness between friends.]

I won't betray that trust.

[ he doesn't want to tell people the story it's just -- hard to explain why he's upset without touching on it. not that he thinks anyone really would pry too hard once he mentions it's about kitty. none of his friends seem overly eager to listen to him talk about their relationship - actually they more like actively shut him up. ok so kara asked a couple times but he's pretty sure that was just to be polite and even if it weren't he'd feel weird giving her details since she and kitty are such good friends too. ]

Yeah...yeah, it did. And sadly, that wasn't my worst date ever.

[ he nods. he can sort of laugh about it now, but yeah, it was mean. you have to have friends for silliness between friends. he thought he had one but then...he set him up with a cat. ]

I know. [Having someone in your life you can trust is so much better than having someone in your life you think you'll safely never trust.]

You have much better luck dating Kittys than cats. [She kisses his cheek and then softly.] I'm your friend.

I mean, I'm a lot more than your friend too, but, I am your friend. One of many now. [She's not feeling sorry for herself. She's assuring him that lonely life is in his past.]

[ he really loves her a whole lot for making that joke; it may be silly, but it just fills him with warm and fuzzies that she went there. ]

Yeah I do.

[ he smiles. ]

I have the best luck.

[ he runs his fingers through her hair. not coping with all the darkness she shared with him just yet is working out great for him at just this second because it allows him to just marvel at her, and he'd much rather she'd sense that from him than all those other things. ]

There's a reason why 'friend' is still part of the boyfriend/girlfriend title.

[ in some ways she's the best friend he's ever had because no one has ever been this perceptive, this caring towards him. oh kara cares he would never knock how deeply kara cares for him it means the world to him and more! but if he doesn't say it, or show it very clearly, she doesn't ask. kitty can tell just by looking at his face that there's something she needs to push out of him and much as he hates that he needs it - he really does need it. ]

[Sighing softly, she nuzzles in against him and lightly brushes her fingers through his hair. It feels good to know he feels good with her especially after everything that came up. But some of what he marvels at gives her pause.]

Don't give up on me if I lose that. [Her voice is small. A little needier than she wants it to sound. It's just that she knows one of the things that broke between her and Reid is that she had a harder time understanding him once he returned. She was so full of self doubt and insecurity. It clouded things and if he was making an effort to bridge the gap then she missed that too. She never stopped caring, but she wasn't so perceptive. Or maybe she was and he was pushing away and she assumed she was wrong instead of seeing it for what it was. She still doesn't know for sure. Probably some of both.]

[ there it is again - another comparison to reid. another comparison he can't refute because he's terrible at talking about the things that bother him, at explaining them. he can't promise he won't ever give her a reason to doubt like that. he always tries, but his last miserable failure was - oh yeah - today. he wants to reassure her that he's not going to ever push her away, that he won't ever get petty and shut in, but he can't. he's done that before. it's very likely he'll do it again, much as he hates it. ]

Don't give up on me if I make you lose it.

[ because it would be his fault, wouldn't it. it'd mean he changed, he got better at hiding, he shut in more and more, turned more into his dad again. bitterness and defiance both spring inside him - he doesn't want to stand for this, but he's always scared that he would, because that has always been his instinct. ]

Never. [And that means everything to her. Just knowing they'll both keep trying. But she's doing it again. She's making him doubt himself. She pulls back to look at him, but not away. She's still close.]

It's not that I think you'll do any of it. I don't. It's not you. [It's just about having your heart broken and being protective of it in a very specific way now.]

[ he hates saying it, he hates himself for having to say it, but he does have to because it's not fair to her if he doesn't. it's scary, but he wants to trust in her, in her love for him, he wants to believe she won't leave him because of what he might be. ]

It could be. I might...do that. Shut you out. I don't want to, but, it's my signature coping move. I don't know that in a crunch...I won't resort to it.

[ he wants to promise her a perfect life, but he's far from a perfect man. he's trying his hardest to only give her the best parts of him but she's already seen how jealous he gets, how hard it is for him to open up. even his best isn't good enough. ]

[She leans in to kiss him softly, not to shut him up, but to thank him for speaking. She knows that about him already. She does, but the fact that he's brave and honest enough to admit it means a lot to her.]

I wouldn't leave. I wouldn't stop loving you. We'd work it out together. As a team.

[The jealousy can be hard, but it's hard because it makes her worried about losing him, not because she's mad at him for feeling it. They are both so scared of the same things.]

[ he can't be a selfish coward with kitty, she's been through too much, he loves her too much. he may not be able to protect her from assailants, but he should at least protect her from himself.

he returns the kiss, leaning his forehead against hers and stroking the back of her neck with his thumb. ]

I could never stop loving you.

[ there are a lot of things he can't promise her - but this one he has complete confidence in. no matter what happens between them, even if things do end up going as bad as they possibly could, a part of him will always love her.

the intensity of his jealousy is in direct correlation with the intensity of his love, at least. he wouldn't be so jealous if he weren't so hopelessly in love with her. ]

[She kisses him again with a little more pressure. Not trying to start something. Just very glad to have him in her life and being so understanding.]

I really need to ride a tiny fancy horse with you in a circle tonight. [And another quick kiss. Maybe they can shake some of the heavy off and enjoy themselves with low-to-the-ground rides and games and more treats.]

[ he smiles into the kiss - he loves this about them. things may get heavy and hard and tragic, but they always turn it around. they just feel...good for each other. ]

I think we can swing that. Maybe win Chicago a friend, too.

One for your place and one for my place? [Even though for awhile it gets to be the same place which is a very nice thing.

Tiny nose rub because she can. She feels lighter now after unloading all of that. She can only hope she didn't make Winn too heavy in the process.]

Sounds good to me.

[ he reaches for her hand and gives it a little squeeze. he hoped this would help her, and he's glad he was right. he'll deal with however this makes him feel later. right now, he wants to give her the date she was excited for. ]

Good. [She squeezes it back.] Hey, the merry-go-round is okay, right? not too high? [Because she doesn't want to put him through that again.]

[ ouch, right in the pride. is he that bad? ]

It's fine. Come on, let's go.

[What? They go up and down a little as they move around! She gets up and kisses his cheek before heading back toward the carnival entrance with him.]

Have I told you lately that you're cute?

[ yeah - a little. that's not a distance from the ground that'll kill him to fall, that's a distance he can easily jump and land without even twisting his ankle. that's a distance from the ground his head is about at when he stands up. ]

Mmm...no, don't think you've mentioned it.

What? Such oversight. I should be fired. You're cute.

I'll let you off with a warning, just this once.

[ she gets a kiss. ]

So generous and warm and loving and not scared of tiny ponies.

Apparently in space ponies are how you get fed - they're not to be feared, they're to be worshiped.

You make a very good point I can't argue. And I'm trying to decide if I should be jealous if you were to ride that pony, but that's probably best left unthought.

[ scrunching his nose. ]

Don't be nasty.

[ that's a pony, kitty. it's a talking pony. riding her didn't even occur to him honestly because she's too much like a person, but she is definitely not enough like a person for whatever jealousy is supposed to refer to and basically just...ew is what she's getting from him. ]

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