[ Video/Action | Open ] Rosh Hashanah

[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty Pryde and YOU!
Broadcast: Video, open
Action: Iskaulit, feel free to run into her
When: Nowish!

[Kitty is on screen looking much more feminine than last time.]

Does anyone have any apples or honey or anything close to either from the last stop? I was...just thinking about it today. [Softer.] Not that I even know how to tell when sundown is in space.

[But she knows it's close to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, but nailing down a date would take calculating she can't do based on a moon that's not even here. She's not really a religious person and has some definite issues with god especially after everything she's been through back home, but the traditions remind her of better times when she was young with her family. She didn't think about it much in the last place because they didn't run off of a calendar she was familiar with, but here it brings back memories.]

Anyway, I'd trade for some if you do. We'll work something out.

Leshana tovah. [She's wishing people a good year in Hebrew, but she doesn't bother explaining the meaning.]

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[winn]

They beat me to it - [ he doesn't sound bothered. he smiles right back at her. ] So what do apples, honey, sundown and whatever it is you said have in common?

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[passingthrough]

Makes it sound like I gave a riddle doesn't it? [She reaches up to slide fingers through his hair and then decides to mess it up a little.] Rosh Hashanah. Jewish new year. It starts at sundown but I also don't really know what day it starts on so that's not that important.

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[winn]

Oh - [ it never occurred to him to ask about her holidays. why didn't it occur to him? it should have. he's looking a little sheepish now, he missed his mark. that's not like him. ] Happy new year?

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[passingthrough]

Thanks. I don't even know what made me start thinking about it. I guess just new arrivals asking how long I've been here and thinking about the date. Eight months.

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[winn]

I can't ever decide if it feels like a long or short while.

[ so much has happened to him since he got here. his life used to be so chill. not that long ago the most exciting thing in them was a game release. ]

So what's the story with the honey and the apples?

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[passingthrough]

It feels short to me. [For reasons which she'll discuss, but right now she focuses on his question.]

You dip the apples in honey. It's for starting the new year with sweetness. And Mom always made them. [That's the important part.]

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[winn]

[ he's just going to wrap an arm around her and squeeze her shoulder. he knows what that means to her. ]

Did you have any other customs? [ gently. ]

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[passingthrough]

[She's not even sure what it means to her. She never brought up any of it while she was in the prison with their "Day 24, Day 25, Day 310..." nonsense. And back home there just wasn't usually time or resources. But it does feel important and having Winn's support always feels good.]

For Rosh Hashanah, not really. Just getting together for a big meal. My grandparents came over while they were still alive. [They died of natural causes, so this doesn't have the same weight it does when she talks about her parents' deaths.] Wishing each other a good year.

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[winn]

[ he sees it as something that connects back to a happy childhood, to people she loves and misses. he's been thinking about it a lot more than he's used to, here. how happy things used to be when he was little, how he still wishes he could go back and fix it, somehow. ]

I wish you the best year. [ he kisses her cheek ] We can get a meal together, invite some friends over if you want? Or go to the Windrose and make it a ship-dinner?

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[passingthrough]

You too. [But about that best year and how it's starting.] I... I love that idea, but I just found out Rogue is gone. I don't know if I'm up for a big thing and I don't think Kurt would be comfortable with it. [Because of Rogue and also because he's not just an atheist, he's fiercely atheist. And While she thinks he'd understand that this is coming from a place of heritage and tradition and family that he might still not feel at peace with it.]

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[winn]

Oh, Kitty, I'm so sorry.

[ she gets a proper hug now, a nice tight one. why won't the hits ever stop coming? ]

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[passingthrough]

[She hugs him back, leaning heavily against him.] I know she wasn't my Rouge, but she really helped me when I got here.

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[winn]

She was your friend, X-Men or not, from your world or not.

[ he knows that it would hurt so much worse if it was kurt, but the connections they've made in the fleet are important, they're precious. he would die a little inside if he lost jim, or hank, or cisco, or kate, or margaery...and friends who a little less close, he would still mourn their loss. losing rogue isn't as bad as it could have gotten, but he knows it's bad, it's bad enough. she should get to grieve. ]

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[passingthrough]

[Definitely her friend and it hurts. It's such a familiar sting. She can't quite get to a place for release with it. She's just kind of sad.]

She left me a few things. Remy said there was a note.

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[winn]

Do you wanna go get it? Want me to come with you?

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[passingthrough]

I want to stay home with you and share a honey-dipped apple. [Giving him a squeeze.]

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[winn]

You got it.

[ he squeezes back. ]

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[passingthrough]

Best Winn. Favorite Winn.

Hey, I have another thing to say that needs saying and I've kind of mentioned it to be people before and I don't remember for sure if you were one of those people but you should be one of those people.

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[winn]

[ tilting his head. that sentence had a lot of people. ]

What is it?

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[passingthrough]

I'm sure I told you at some point I was in the prison for almost a year? I'm sure I wasn't in the prison for almost a year now.

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[winn]

[ pulling back to look at her now. ]

...what do you mean?

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[passingthrough]

I mean, I've been here 8 months. That's getting pretty close to the 11 I remember being there, but it's nothing like it. I mean...nothing. Either time is accelerated here or it was slow there. And I think it was the prison. I mean, I don't look more than a year older, but I think maybe I was there for...years.

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[winn]

[ he thinks that over for a moment. ]

Or -- they found a way to influence your perception of time. It was a virtual reality, right? If they can make you believe you're seeing and feeling everything you did - what's messing with the concept of time?

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[passingthrough]

Well, yeah, but that's what I mean. It felt like 11 months when I was there, but looking back on it now I know it couldn't have been. I think it was longer and they made me believe it wasn't.

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[winn]

[ he opens his mouth, points, tilts his head, drops his hand, closes his mouth again and bites his bottom lip in frustration. ]

I was going somewhere with this. I don't remember where.