Stirring the Sauce, Pounding out the Dough!

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Who: Kitty Pryde, Pinkie Pie, and YOU!
Broadcast: Fleetwide invites!
Action: Planetside
When: In between Winn waking up and the Marsiva taking off




[Video]

Early this morning, a video might interrupt whatever you're doing. On one side of the screen, there's a beautiful lady with light brown hair. On the other, the pinkest pony ever to have walked the multi-verse.

Hey hey HEY, everybody! It's the start of a new month, and we've had a GREAT time on this planet so far, especially with all this yummy real food! Sooo Kitty and I have been planning a pizza party!

Um, right. So, you should come. I guess. [She doesn't know how to do group invites with ponies. What is life?]

We'll be in this HUGE clearing at THESE coordinates, so bring some smiles, your stomach, and maybe a side dish or snacks if you want too! We'll see you there! And Wrath: we've got chimmy cherry chongas~!

We had to use a few substitutes, but it's still pizza, so you know today's priority. Also a good time to check it out if you've never heard of it.

[And with that, the feed ends and coordinates to the clearing show up on the communicators.]


[Action]

[Local vendors have been generous enough to loan the use of their ovens and some long wooden tables for the clearing. Sure enough, there's dozens of pies, plain or topped with meat or vegetables or both. There's also jugs and jugs of fruit juices and lemonade and punch, and an equally bountiful dessert table including apple tarts, cakes, donuts, and yes, chimmy cherry chongas. And the best part is there's not a single gel-based ingredient in sight. Feel free to add something to the bounty or just come in, grab a slice, and enjoy!]

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This week on As the Mutant Turns...

[passingthrough]

[Well, jay-walking, murder, trying to reset the timeline. There were things. It was still pretty random and unbalanced.]

Oh... [She'd told Winn and Kara, but it's not like it's tattooed on her forehead just because everyone in the prison knew their business at the time.] Um, I was dating someone and he disappeared for about a week. When he came back, he had new memories from home. About a year's worth. He'd fallen in love with someone else there and she was murdered. He just saw it happen moments before they brought him back.

Things were never the same with us after that. [Trying to simplify and leaving out some of the depth of feeling, but the connection feels a lot of it back in.

She'd loved Reid deeply and had started seeing a future with him. Hell, it was the first time since her childhood that she saw a future for herself at all of any kind. And it was a good one. Married with kids if they could figure out a way. It wasn't exactly allowed in the prison. Maybe somehow they'd get back to his home and she could go to college. It wasn't practical in the place they were in to think of such things. A lot like it isn't practical now with Winn telling her that he'll get her home to National City, but it was hope. It was nice. She'd softened and opened so much for Reid. Her walls had largely come down and while they had their problems they'd been getting through them she thought.

And then he was back and neither of them were in a good place since she gone a week not knowing if she'd ever see him again—returning that quickly wasn't common. He'd gone a year that ended in massive trauma. She didn't know where she stood with him and he was grieving. He needed space and she needed connection. They both did their best, and had some ups and downs before he gave up. He said some hurtful things he didn't fully mean when he was overwhelmed. She crumbled in ways that had something to do with him, but also a lot to do with her PTSD and grief over losses back home she'd never had the time to really deal with.

She's afraid of going through that again even though having done it she'd probably handle it better this time, but she doesn't want to lose Winn. She's weary of always losing the ones she loves—family, friends, and lovers.]

oh god KITTY BAW

[pneumo]

[ It's a heck of a lot to take in all at once, that's for sure. Sascha's never felt a vast majority of these emotions and he has no idea what to do with them when they come filtering through their contact. They make his chest feel heavy and his throat tight, and there's a pressure behind his eyes he's only felt a few times in his life before. It's all incredibly disorienting.

The one thing he does understand out of all of this is the need for a connection, and that has him wrapping his arms around her in a tight hug before he really knows what he's doing. Sascha doesn't want Kitty to be sad. He doesn't want her to hurt, he just wants her to be happy and to be able to stay by her side until she grows old and happy. That's what she deserves, and he wishes he could do something magically to give it to her. ]

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[passingthrough]

[She hugs him back, feeling touched that he's this concerned and moved by it all and feeling bad that all those bad feelings leaked out at him.] Hey, it's okay. It worked out this time. I have Winn and pizza and friends who care about me. [Yes, that last one is you, Sascha.]

[pneumo]

[ ...Bloobloo, hot!mom. This is why you're forever his mom and the best ever. ]

I care a lot about you. [ This Sascha says with equal parts pride and promise, trying his best to convey that through the mental link their contact affords them. He really does think the world of her--she's accepted so much about him and still tries to teach and support him, he can't imagine what life would be like without her. ]

[passingthrough]

I care a lot about you too. [She pets the back of his hair gently. She does feel very protective toward him. Not so much that she thinks he'll get hurt physically the way she protects some people, but worried for his heart.]

[pneumo]

[ Oh...oh no, Kitty, that's so sweet and Sascha literally doesn't know what to do with that feeling. It makes his chest feel all tight and uncomfortable, in both a happy and sad sort of way. He's never felt that from someone else about himself and it's honestly humbling as all heck.

So he's going to hug her tighter with a flustered sound. ]

[passingthrough]

[She feels how that surprises him and he doesn't know what to do with it. Only making her more protective of him since he's had it so rough.] It's okay. [Rubbing his back.]

[pneumo]

[ He's literally floundering simply because he's never had anyone to worry about like Kitty does for him, and therefor no way to have felt what she feels for him before. It's a little overwhelming but in a good sort of way--it has to be, because it's from Kitty. ]

I'm sorry, I'm... [ He babbles, not really sure what he's apologizing for. Or why. ]

[passingthrough]

Hey, you have nothing to apologize for. Not to me. [She can feel the confusion it brings, but she thinks he'll work it out and is just going to be supportive while he does.]

[pneumo]

[ She has no much faith in him. Sascha doesn't even have that much faith in himself. All he wanted to do was reassure her and then...this. All of this.

Damnit, Kitty. He adores you. ]

...Okay.

[passingthrough]

[It's strange to feel that adoration for her through the link. Almost like what Winn feels.]

Hey, I stocked the Windrose with some raw meat so there will be snacks for you when you visit. I hope it's still okay for you if it's been frozen. [It has to keep somehow.]

[pneumo]

[ I wonder why.... ]

You--did?? For me...? [ What he means to ask is if she really did that just for him, because if so? He is entirely touched by the gesture a little blown out of the water by it. That's a whole new level of consideration to receive, and for her to go out of her way like that for him, just so he'll have something to eat... ]

[passingthrough]

[Mystery! Let's not think about it.]

Well, I'm not going to tell my shipmates they can't have any, but I was thinking of you when I arranged for it. [By arranged she means she went hunting which is not her favorite thing.]

[pneumo]

[ Mom, can he just marry you?

--And no he's not thinking that, it's just me. Right now he's thinking "Kitty is the best I like Kitty she's so nice KITTY IS THE BEST EVER." ]

Kitty........

[passingthrough]

This way you can have a late-night snack with me and Winn sometime.

Are you okay?

[pneumo]

I--y, yeah! I'm just....really happy....! [ Which comes out sounding not at all happy and more like he's about to warble or whimper or something, but he really is overflowing with joy inside, touched and endeared by the inclusion--that they'd even want him to eat with them.

The only person he ever eats with is Bigby. He's always assumed no one else would want to, given his diet. And here she is, like it's a given that he's to be part of something important (to him) like that. ]

[passingthrough]

[She feels like she understands the reaction. So happy he's overwhelmed.] We're happy to include you. [In snacks, not in bed!]

[pneumo]

[ But they could sandwich him in cuddles and love! ]

Even if I eat weird?

[passingthrough]

[Or they could NOPE]

It's not weird for you.

[pneumo]

[ BUT MOM...DAD.... ]

I...well....no, but... [ Sascha worries infinitely more about others than himself, and Kitty will be able to tell: his own desires and wants aren't even included in his thinking. It's just what Kitty or Winn would. ]

[passingthrough]

So for you the way we eat is weird, but you don't make a big deal out of that. We won't either.

[pneumo]

Even though it's just...meat?? And not cooked? [ Sascha really needs the reassurance here ]

[passingthrough]

Of course. I've had sushi before. It's raw fish. It's not a big deal.

[pneumo]

Soo...she?? [ Oh, Kitty. You've hit a pay-dirt milestone here. ]

[passingthrough]

It's a Japanese dish. It's mostly raw fish and sticky rice. The point is, people eat all kinds of things and I'm not going to judge you.