Isabella Marie Swan ⚚ &quot;Aurora&quot;

[Then I'd better stop being a vampire,] says Alice, ['cause then you'll know.]

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"And if you'd had to pick you would have been upset, and I didn't want you to be upset," says Shell Bell contently.

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incanted

"I'm sure you hear this about thirty times every time you show up to one of these parties," says Aurora, "but you guys are really freaking cute."

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[If you're right. If it stays.]

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sicaria

"I have yet to tire of being reminded," says Sherlock, pecking her Bell on the cheek.

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Shell Bell beams and kisses her Sherlock back.

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[If what stays? Me loving you? I'm a Joker,] he says. [We love. I loved you before; I'll love you after.]

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incanted

"Okay. I'm planning to skip Aegis, since she grew up with Sue and if that doesn't scream special circumstances I don't know what does."

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"They were just friends for almost a decade," offers Shell Bell, "you could try her anyway just for completeness."

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Stella swallows.

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[I will,] he says, [I know I will, why are you the only one who gets to know things about yourself?]

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sicaria

"It is always possible you might learn something," says Sherlock, hugging her Bell. Because she feels like it.

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[Years of practice, template specialty. If you're going to do it do it and I can stop holding my breath.]

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incanted

"Aww." Aurora nods. "Okay. Thank you," she adds.

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Shell Bell nuzzles her Sherlock. "You're welcome!"

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incanted

And now Aurora's looking for Aegis.

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[I don't know how - I'll go figure it out,] he says, and he teleports somewhere. The Joker's asteroid is the first place that comes to mind.

Awww, the Joker must've been here already in this universe. That's cute.

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autokinetic

Aegis listens to the spiel, agrees that she's probably not much help, but regardless birds at her Sue, Hey, want to meet Aurora?

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pythbox

Sure!

And lo, there is her Sue.

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Stella finds an unoccupied corner of party, and turns invisible just for completeness, and holds very still, and reads.

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autokinetic

"Hey my bird. Aurora's confused about how Bells do poly and we don't think I'll help much but she's asking us anyway just for completeness."

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incanted

"Bird?" asks Aurora.

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autokinetic

"When we were kids we played this game and his avatar was a bird," says Aegis. "We spent more time together in it than out of it and when I needed to work at it to let him link me I had to concentrate on him being the bird."

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It's going to need an evil to dig vampireness out of his torching template. He doesn't have any on hand, and it would feel vaguely weird to ask Stella to give him one, since she's so unsure about this in the first place. So he sets himself on fire.

It takes him a few tries, about thirty stars' worth, but he manages an evil in the end. He uses an existing star to declaw the new ones - ever since the Jokers were let in on the secret, some of them have taken to carrying all their coins declawed, even the hexes - and then uses one of those to declaw the evil.

Then he designs the wish.

He wants to stop being a vampire. He can get rid of his also-permanent air filter while he's at it. He should also be immune to vampire venom, because it seems not-impossible that he might want to get bit at some point; he'll take the Joker's version of immunity, which is linked to his regeneration and therefore hurts a lot, that's always fun.

He can go either way on the brainspace available to vampires, but the depth of emotional processing - he's keeping that, in some other form that won't lead to him still having a mate bond by accident. He bets his power will help sort that one out. He wonders what Lazarus would say about its attitude to his mate bond now. They are probably not snuggling so happily anymore.

Is that it? He thinks that's it.

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