festive rainbow mirror summoning!

[incanted]

There are now one dozen Bells.

They and most of their friends are all here on Planet Rainbowsand II, to celebrate the addition of Sarion, the elf one, and Aurora, the one with a sister.

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[self_composed]

It's better than the alternative. She keeps up a shallow read, looking for anything else to grab hold of.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet giggles again.

[incanted]

"Right then, off I go."

[incanted]

Aurora is now in search of Shell Bell!

[edgeofyourseat]

He doesn't like feeling like Stella wants fucked up things, but the fact remains, those were some pretty fucked up reasons for wanting to turn him. And he's glad he knows what they are, now, and glad she's not trying to tell him they're not fucked up, but it still doesn't feel resolved. He doesn't really know what he wants. Maybe he wants Stella not to want fucked up things, but she's still Stella and he still loves her, fucked up things and all. He doesn't want to change who she is to make himself feel better; that seems like a bad, and also terribly ironic, solution.

[sicaria]

Surprising exactly no one, Shell Bell is with her Sherlock!

[self_composed]

[I would offer to turn into a vampire too but I don't think you want me to become more monogamously inclined than I currently am.]

[incanted]

"Hey guys," says Aurora. "I am on an increasingly futile-seeming quest to figure out how Bells learn to handle open relationships."

[she_sells_seashells]

"I don't know how much help I'll be," says Shell Bell.

[incanted]

"Of course you don't. Nobody does. Humor me?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"Well, it's just that I agreed to it on the strength of hearsay about Stella having done it, and then just - failed to have an actual issue about nonmonogamy per se after that."

[edgeofyourseat]

[I really don't!] he says. [That would be worse.] He sighs again; hugs her some more. [I think I'm gonna stop being a vampire. It doesn't feel right anymore.]

[sicaria]

Sherlock smiles brightly.

[self_composed]

Stella swallows.

[Okay.]

[incanted]

"...But Stella wound up turning Alice into a vampire for reasons that appear to be at least partly motivated by insecurity."

[edgeofyourseat]

[Are you having feelings again?] he asks, snuggling her.

[she_sells_seashells]

"...I did not know that. Um, but I still wound up doing all right, even if my original reason for suspecting I'd do all right turned out not to be so sound?"

[self_composed]

[Constantly.]

[sicaria]

"I did not know that either," says Sherlock. "And yet here we are, seemingly untroubled."

[edgeofyourseat]

[I love you. I want to know about your feelings. Even if they're sad feelings that are going to make me sad.]

[she_sells_seashells]

"Yeah, I don't especially want to turn you into a vampire, that would be really awkward whichever way the bond wound up shaking out."

[incanted]

"Okay, but, how did you do it, you didn't just go 'Stella did so I can too' and then leave the contents of 'can' completely blank, did you?"

[she_sells_seashells]

"I guess the timing on my special circumstances might have contributed?" says Shell Bell. "I was already trying to get into a headspace where I could be with Sherlock, and then that turned out to be part of the deal unless I wanted to make a fuss, and I still wanted her and didn't find myself motivated to fuss, so -" She shrugs. "I didn't find out about Tony until later. The actual nonmonogamy conversation made it sound like it was much more up to me than it probably would have been if I'd registered an objection to him in particular and Sherlock didn't have him on her mind right then."

[sicaria]

"I would not have been able to give up Tony," says Sherlock. "Though I suppose I would also have been mildly reluctant to give up other Sherlocks."

[self_composed]

[Mostly variations on the theme that you've already heard. I am not as sure as you are that you will still love me. If I were we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.]