Room 509, Sunday night
Feb. 13th, 2011 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Raven was still reeling from learning about Rook and how she had been born and her life with her Raven and Karla and Warren and then finding Elizabeth with "Uncle Max," trying to learn how to fight. Parenthood was already giving her anxiety attacks and headaches.
She also wanted to know more about Elizabeth's parents -- BLUE WTF? -- and she suspected Jono would, too, so she left a message for him to come up to her room when he was free.
"Elizabeth," she scolded gently. "The people here on the island are not the same as the ones you know. You may trust your Aunts Karla and Sookie -- and Warren and Bobby -- but not everyone is the same."
Elizabeth just sighed. "Yes, Mommy," she said.
[For the non-blue boyfriend!]
She also wanted to know more about Elizabeth's parents -- BLUE WTF? -- and she suspected Jono would, too, so she left a message for him to come up to her room when he was free.
"Elizabeth," she scolded gently. "The people here on the island are not the same as the ones you know. You may trust your Aunts Karla and Sookie -- and Warren and Bobby -- but not everyone is the same."
Elizabeth just sighed. "Yes, Mommy," she said.
[For the non-blue boyfriend!]
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Date: 2011-02-14 08:37 pm (UTC)She held up her arms to him. "Can I have a hug first?" she asked.
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Date: 2011-02-14 08:45 pm (UTC)That didn't keep him from fidgeting for a moment before nodding a little, squaring his shoulders as he crouched down to pull her into a hug. The worry and the fear that he was feeling was being pushed very far down there, with a bit of a psionic firewall being build up around it.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, he didn't accidentally light their daughter on fire.
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Date: 2011-02-14 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-14 08:57 pm (UTC)Raven gave Jono a questioning look. She didn't know if he wanted to discuss this more now or at some later point.
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:03 pm (UTC)//It's... sort of a long story,// he said, to Raven alone. //Probably one best shared after Elizabeth is sleeping, luv.//
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:22 pm (UTC)She tucked Elizabeth into bed and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "Good night, dear one," she said, feeling a pang as she did so. She wasn't remotely capable of caring for a child, not at this point in her life at least, but she'd already become attached to her and knew that very likely she'd have to go home soon.
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:31 pm (UTC)He'd miss her.
//Sweet dreams, Sunshine,// he added. Possibly because that was one of those things that he'd never really heard, himself, and... Elizabeth deserved them. If nightmares ran in the family, he'd be pissed.
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:47 pm (UTC)Maybe he'd just been distracted by being a father, and had forgotten. The world might never know.
//Or we could... talk. I think I might have a bit of explaining t'do, myself.//
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:57 pm (UTC)"We could sit out in the hall," she suggested, "so we do not disturb Elizabeth, yet be close enough to hear her if she wakes. Though that is not very private."
She wrinkled her nose. Jono could talk to her silently, but she couldn't talk back to him the same way, not with words at least.
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Date: 2011-02-14 10:00 pm (UTC)//It... could be. I don't do it often. I mean, I generally try not to... but if you think clearly enough about what it is you want me to hear, I can open up to it, hear it clearly enough to understand you. Th'hallway would be fine.//
He tended to avoid communicating with people that way, partly because it tended to give them the mistaken impression that he was prone to poking around in their heads whenever he felt like it, and partly because... Well, they just weren't generally worth the effort.
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Date: 2011-02-14 10:58 pm (UTC)Like this? Can you hear me?
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Date: 2011-02-14 11:09 pm (UTC)And also, the less prone to headaches he would be.
He stepped through the door, waiting for Raven to follow him through before gently pulling it closed behind them.
//... I don't even know where we should start,// he admitted.
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Date: 2011-02-14 11:18 pm (UTC)She settled cross-legged on the floor beside the door, folding her hands in her lap. Nor do I. But whatever we have learned of these possible futures today, at least we also know that Elizabeth is healthy and happy.
Unlike poor Rook.
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Date: 2011-02-14 11:40 pm (UTC)//There are... definitely worse ways to be,// he agreed. And, for all that the prospect of being depowered and turned into some sort of freakish Apocalypse-clone bothered him, it really didn't seem as if Elizabeth was any worse off for it.
All the better, that.
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Date: 2011-02-14 11:46 pm (UTC)What are Akkaba and Apocolypse? she had to ask. The latter, of course, sounded delightfully sinister.
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Date: 2011-02-15 12:01 am (UTC)//Apocalypse is...// Jono's brow furrowed a bit. //A mutant, essentially. But he's one unlike any other. He's been around for thousands of years, wandering the Earth, waving his powers about, building a following, fashioning himself into a god. Destroying entire civilizations as he went, twisting any survivors that he deemed useful into his servants. Of course, they had no say in th'matter.//
There was a special level of distaste in all of that. Jono was thankful, to say the least, that the Starsmores had never really been considered high-class members of the Akkaba clan.
Actually, they had always generally been somewhat disposable.
//Akkaba are... not only th'bloody cult that worships him, but are also all mutants descended from him, there t'do his dirty work throughout the ages. They're also disbanded, exterminated and gone over a bloody century ago, with th'exception of my great-granddad, and a man gone bloody catatonic. There shouldn't be any Akkaba left alive anymore. So far as I know, I'm it.//
And he didn't particularly want to be. So.
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Date: 2011-02-15 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-15 12:29 am (UTC)As he was now, he could see, maybe, them taking some interest in him. You could get a lot of use out of a person whose body was essentially just a chamber that existed to house an infinite amount of raw psionic power.
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Date: 2011-02-15 12:57 am (UTC)But you must have refused them, she decided. Elizabeth shows no signs of something like that being in her life. And she knew Jono wasn't the type to bend his knee in service to this so-called god. He'd stood up to Trigon, after all.
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Date: 2011-02-15 01:11 am (UTC)And that was about all you would probably ever hear of Jonothon's immediate family. Ever.
//And with the amount of power Elizabeth has, if I'd gone and become Akkaba's, she'd have been marked by them, fairly obviously. I didn't notice anything like that. For th'best, really.//
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Date: 2011-02-15 01:41 am (UTC)She had little doubt that Elizabeth's true parents would fight to prevent such a thing from happening, at least.
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Date: 2011-02-15 01:48 am (UTC)And he had almost been glad to see his go, thank you. You try explaining the hideous red cult symbol taking up prime real-estate across a perfectly good chest otherwise to any young lady that you'd like to sleep with, sometime.
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Date: 2011-02-15 02:02 am (UTC)She had a feeling that that Raven would never let her daughter out of her sight unless she was well protected if there was that kind of danger to her.
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