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[ Video/Action | Open ] Rosh Hashanah

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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You got it.

[ he squeezes back. ]

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.

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

What is it?

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.

[ pulling back to look at her now. ]

...what do you mean?

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.

[ 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?

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.

[ 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.

[She laughs softly and tilts her head against his.]

You have all the time in the world to remember. It's strange and complicated and there are probably just questions without answers. But something would happen for a day there and at the time I knew it was just a day and it felt like a long day but I never questioned it. Just looking back it feels more like a week which doesn't seem possible either because that would mean... That was there for almost seven years. [That she was with Reid and Tyki for years, not months. That she fought and failed to gain ground against an impossible system for years.]

[ he does think about the men in her life. he has no idea how long she's been with any of them, and he's pretty sure he's better off staying that way, but he feels this sinking feeling in his gut.

he counters it by nudging her. ]

That would make you almost as old as I am.

[It absolutely doesn't change who she wants to be with now but it does explain to her why things got so intense over such short spans before. Spans even shorter than the one she's been with Winn. It's kind of a relief? It also makes her feel like she should be beyond more of her issues though. But maybe years of trauma take years of recovery.]

I know. What am I going to do with someone age appropriate? And maybe I'm wrong> I don't know. It's all really confusing. [Nuzzle.]

[ to winn, things have gotten incredibly intense sometimes frighteningly fast between them. he can't imagine it happening over a shorter timespan. ]

The same thing you do every night, Kitty. [ he nuzzles back, not wanting to linger on a somber mood now. things are bad enough with rogue gone. ]

[~~Try to take over the world?~~ She gives him a soft kiss. They've been really together, what? Six months?]

Oh good. I like what I usually do.

Hey, are you going to have an apple and honey with me?

[ six months. things have started to settle and space out and build in a more reasonable pace but when they started out it sometimes felt like they were going so fast all they could do was crush. ]

Just like?

[ he smiles ]

I'd love to.

[She doesn't mind the speed. She likes where they are and where they've been. That's all that matters.]

Love.

[Kissing his cheek.] Kitchen?

[ when he would stop to think about it, it freaked him out. he's feeling much more secure now.

he nods and stands up, offering her his hand. ]

[It did bother her a bit in the beginning if only because Reid criticized the speed she moved at a lot. It was part of why she wasn't looking for anything serious when she met him. But how could she not fall for this guy?

She puts her hand in his.]

I, um, offered some to Erik.

[ in the moment, he would always go with her. being desired, loved, it was too tempting to pass on. but on his own, sometimes, he would worry. they've settled into a more comfortable pace now, and he's secure enough in her love to be able to say something - like, say, the children talk - needs to wait. ]

Did he accept, did you meet? [ he tries to keep his voice neutral, not sure if this is going to be a good thing or a bad one. ]

We're still texting back and forth on it. But he did mention he might make challah bread too.

That's like the - braided - thing, right?

[ he feels so out of his element here. atroma, how about at least allowing some wikiaccess? he hates being so ignorant of something he's now realizing - matters. ]

[He got it right! She's also no expert here.]

Yeah, that's right. Mom didn't bake much, but we did get them sometimes from a local bakery.

[ so relieved, it's like he just got a question right on a test. but it's too early to relax, because the next question may come at any time and no one told him it was happening and he never prepared for it and this is so stressful!! ]

What else did you used to do? [ she usually likes it when he asks questions about her family, right, so maybe he can cover up his ignorance here. ]

Big meal. It wasn't a huge thing. There wasn't much family around. Only my grandfather came over from Poland before the war. [And the others never made it out.] Oh, and not kosher. You've probably noticed I don't keep that. [She wouldn't have been able to in Apocalypse's America anyway. But she didn't try before that either.]

Yeah, I don't know exactly what kosher means, but I'm pretty sure 'no bacon' goes somewhere in there.

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