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spin_kick_snap Kathy could hear the noise all around her. Worse, her jaw ached from all the clacking she was doing herself. She wanted to stop, to push her way through the endless mob of dead people, to get somewhere she could be alone and not HURT anyone, but her body wouldn't do what she wanted. It just dragged itself forward, gliding through the other exes with a grace that seemed wrong for a corpse to have. She was faster than the rest, able to sprint while they only staggered, and somehow that speed translated into an ability to slide through crowds like mist.
Because of that, the dead girl that had once been Katherine Hana Li made it to the center of the mob, where all the exes in this location had turned their unblinking attention. Only one thing could cause this kind of focus in the dead: fresh meat. Where the living Kathy now realized that she was looking at the remains of a stocky man in a green bandanna and pair of sweats, the dead Kathy only saw food. She knelt on the hard pavement and did as her undead brethren were doing; she reached out and grabbed her own portion of that fresh meat and hot blood, bringing a handful of something wet and slippery to her mouth--
Kathy managed to wrench herself out of the dream, stifling the gasp that would surely wake Raven if her thrashing hadn't already done so. She lay still for a moment, frantically swallowing--not bile, which would have been nice, but saliva. If she really wanted to, she could remember the taste and the smell of that dead Seventeen. Most of her recognized it had smelled awful, that nothing smelled good with its insides on the outsides.
A small part of her, the part that came to the forefront whenever sheremembered dreamed about the past eight months, thought it smelled delicious. She was afraid it always would.
Silently, she slipped out of the guest bed and made her way to the bathroom where she could rinse her mouth out and brush her teeth again. It was the only way to get the imagined taste of salt and pennies out of her mouth. And then to the living room, where she snagged the laptop Hardison had given her and called up a queue of cute animal videos. She'd stay up till dawn before sneaking back into the guest room to catch another hour or so of sleep. Or, at least, to pretend to so nobody asked questions about why she was up so early.
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Because of that, the dead girl that had once been Katherine Hana Li made it to the center of the mob, where all the exes in this location had turned their unblinking attention. Only one thing could cause this kind of focus in the dead: fresh meat. Where the living Kathy now realized that she was looking at the remains of a stocky man in a green bandanna and pair of sweats, the dead Kathy only saw food. She knelt on the hard pavement and did as her undead brethren were doing; she reached out and grabbed her own portion of that fresh meat and hot blood, bringing a handful of something wet and slippery to her mouth--
Kathy managed to wrench herself out of the dream, stifling the gasp that would surely wake Raven if her thrashing hadn't already done so. She lay still for a moment, frantically swallowing--not bile, which would have been nice, but saliva. If she really wanted to, she could remember the taste and the smell of that dead Seventeen. Most of her recognized it had smelled awful, that nothing smelled good with its insides on the outsides.
A small part of her, the part that came to the forefront whenever she
Silently, she slipped out of the guest bed and made her way to the bathroom where she could rinse her mouth out and brush her teeth again. It was the only way to get the imagined taste of salt and pennies out of her mouth. And then to the living room, where she snagged the laptop Hardison had given her and called up a queue of cute animal videos. She'd stay up till dawn before sneaking back into the guest room to catch another hour or so of sleep. Or, at least, to pretend to so nobody asked questions about why she was up so early.
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Date: 2017-02-04 02:26 am (UTC)"Oh, cool." Parker smiled over at Raven, then sobered a little. "It's just your brother who's left now, right? I think I remember you saying that."
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Date: 2017-02-04 02:45 am (UTC)And it was true and real, even if it wasn't the same kind of real that other people would expect.
"And the guys."
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Date: 2017-02-04 02:52 am (UTC)Families were what you made them to be.
"That's good," Raven said. "You and Hardison and Eliot are all really lucky to have each other. It's weird -- you're all so different. But you guys . . . fit."
That was what Raven wanted. What she thought she'd briefly found with Misfit. Someone who fit.
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Date: 2017-02-04 02:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-02-04 03:04 am (UTC)Weird was a good word. She was going to lean pretty heavily on weird.
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Date: 2017-02-04 05:35 am (UTC)"You're really nice to talk to, Parker," she said. "You don't -- complicate things."
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Date: 2017-02-04 09:58 pm (UTC)"No! They are wonderful! If you want to learn anything I can show you lots of stuff! And most of them don't even need explosives!"
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Date: 2017-02-04 10:05 pm (UTC)Mostly by shorting stocks. But Parker didn't want you to ever be short of money, Raven.
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