[ Video/Action | Open ] Rosh Hashanah

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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.]

Comments

action; ttly legit tbh

[winn]

[ sneaky sneaky girlfriend. she'll be getting a gift too, of course. ]

Mmhm, that sounds good, I'm totally on the lets celebrate Hanukkah express. [ even if he doesn't know what kugel is and he's still not into the meaty options. anything that's got potatoes in it already sounds good, and donuts? come on. ]

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[She better get eight! Kidding, kidding. If she tells him that he is going to get more carried away than he normally would. She can only cry at so many touching, heartfelt gifts.]

We can always make it Chrisukkah or Hanumas or something.

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[winn]

[ plus it's right before her second birthday, and then there's valentine's after that, and he may seem like he has infinite ideas and time to execute them in but it's really just a carefully maintained illusion.

He laughs. ]

Perfect. What other holidays are there?

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There are lots of other Jewish holidays. [She smiles at him.] Yom Kippur's the next. It's the biggest, but also about atonement and more religious than the others. We observed it some, but not exactly one of the warm fuzzy ones. [She isn't interested in observing it now.]

Passover is the other big one we'd do things for. More food. We basically skipped all the fasting holidays. [Or the fasting part anyway.]

Um, and Yom HaShoah. It's the Holocaust Memorial Day. We always lit a candle for my great aunt, Chava. She died in Auschwitz.

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[winn]

[ he squeezes her shoulder ]

When's that?

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Late April. Like most Jewish holidays it doesn't land on a fixed date.

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[winn]

We can make up our own holiday schedule, then?

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[She leans in to kiss him.] Is this weird for you? Not that you're acting weird, but you never would. [Because you're impossibly sweet and thoughtful.]

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[winn]

Being this ignorant's weird for me, it doesn't happen a lot.

[ okay yeah he's ignorant of things that don't exist on his earth but those are different. there are definitely jewish people back home, he's just...never learned about their holidays. ]

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You probably haven't had any reason to know. I didn't expect to ever be bringing it up. I guess I missed it more than I thought I did.

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[winn]

I'm glad you did.

[ he kisses her cheek ]

I love knowing stuff about you. And knowing stuff, period. So what was it you said? It was Hebrew, right?

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[She smiles at the soft kiss.]

Leshana tovah. I was wishing everyone a good year.

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[winn]

Le-sha-na to-vah

[ he tries to repeat it, slowly. the sounds are foreign and strange, but hey, he's dedicated himself to learning sindarin, quenya, klingon...what's hebrew, right? ]

Leshana tovah, Kitty. [ his accent is thick, it'll take a while to get right. but points for trying? ]

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[Points and a kiss. Seriously, he gives her all kinds of warm feelings.] It is kind of like a toast the way I said it. You can also drop the le.

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[winn]

What does the 'le' mean?

[ full eager student mode: activated! ]

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To or for. [She finds it pretty cute that he wants to know. Not surprising though. She would too. They really have so much more in common that it might seem at first glance.]

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[winn]

Oh so it's like, hold up your wine glass, [ miming the action ] "to a good year!"?

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You got it. [While his arm is up she'll just take this opportunity to slip her arms around him and snuggle in close. Mmm, comfy. She could stay like this forever. Oooor until she realizes she just got another message. She reluctantly pulls back to look at her device. She takes a deep breath and types out a message before showing the screen to Winn.]

Kurt's going to hate this.

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[winn]

He's your friend.

[ he pulls her in closer, kissing the top of her head. he wants to believe kurt would understand why she needs to do this. ]

Do you want me to come with? I can hang out at the library and wait for you?

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Protective friend. He was a full-fledged X-Man when I was just a stray kid. Barely a teenager and fresh off the streets. [Strange to think how fast she went from a rising star of skipping grade levels and soloing in ballet performances and living in a nice suburban home to fending for herself, homeless and hunted. Life moved so fast.

And speaking of protective, she shakes her head. She's not ready to have the very human boy that she loves around even a former follower of Apocalypse. Even in the library. It's Erik. She knows what he can do.]

I'll be okay. It's going to be awhile though. Hang out with me until then?

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[winn]

He may not like it, but, he wants you to be happy. [ of that, he has no doubt.

it should probably have occurred to him to be afraid, but from everything kitty's told him - which wasn't a whole lot - it didn't sound like erik is a bad guy, even now. ]

Of course. I really don't mind tagging along if you want me there. I always got stuff to do on the Iskaulit.

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I basically want you with me always. But...protective girlfriend? I don't think he'd do anything. If he wanted that he wouldn't have told me he was one of the horsemen. [He could have just attacked her then when she was so trusting.] But it was humans they were wiping out at home. [And you're human. She's just not ready to put him at any kind of risk when it's someone as powerful as Erik.]

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[winn]

[ oh.

he's got nothing to say to that, not really.

it makes him worry for her and feel worthless and small and weak and less. ]

...wanna ask Kara to tag along? [ it's mostly a joke, but yeah now he's worrying about her. if she's worried that's gotta mean there's a reason to worry, right? ]

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[She wasn't worried for herself. Just him. She meant "overly" protective girlfriend before.] No. It'll be okay. Hank and Charles believe in him. I want to.

And it's a good way to start the new year.

[She strokes his cheek.] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you worry. [She definitely didn't mean to make him feel weak and less and she doesn't realize that it did. She still struggles with the balance of not treating humans—especially the untrained—as ill-equipped.]

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[winn]

[ he trusts hank. he trusts kitty. he nods. ]

Hey, how do you say 'I love you' in Hebrew?

[ he's gonna worry now, so he really doesn't have a comeback for that one. ]