Camp of the True Queen, Glacia, Saturday Evening (Fandom Time)

[trigons_child]

After doing her rounds of the camp to see if anyone needed any healing or help she could offer, Raven retired to her tent. It was a little lonely now, since she'd shared it with Dinah and Momoko before they'd left to take care of tasks elsewhere, but she was used to solitude.

She settled in with the book she was reading, the second in something called "The Raven Cycle." How could she resist a title like that?


[Open for she who needs healing first, then anyone else or texts or whatnot.]

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[heromaniac]

"Finally is right," Momoko accepted the hug, but wasn't nearly as excited as Dinah was.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah had a lot more faith. Or, okay, a lot more hope. "That doofus. Waits 'til you're in the hospital to come clean. Jeeez. I am so glad for you guys." She stopped bouncing to ask, "You are going to be dating again now, right? You didn't change your mind about him since the last time we talked about this? Because dude, if you did..."

[heromaniac]

"Of course I haven't!" Momoko had to laugh at that suggestion. "I'm just... you know."

...

"Worried that it's just... because I live there, now. And, well." Her face fell a little. "He said he wanted to tell me because of how it felt thinking he'd lost me."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah rubbed her face and grumbled. "Dude. That was not a... I don't know, not some kind of consolation thingy. That was Mr. Stupid Crab-head freaking out that he'd never get a chance to turtle his way back toward you now, and finally telling you how he's felt for ages."

And GOOD. YAY. 'Cause that turtling thing was taking too damn long!

"You do believe him, right?"

[heromaniac]

"I do! We talked forever about it. He actually said he loved me. That's..." Momoko rested her chin on her hand. "That's something he'd never said before. Not even on the phone as a goodbye thing."

She didn't know how to explain her muddledness on this. She was happy and terrified. How did that make sense? "And he said it's been since even when we were together. I'm just..." muddled.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Awwwww," Dinah's voice softened, and she put an arm around Momoko. She considered as second, then sent: He never said it to me when we were together. Or breaking up. Not 'til something like a year and a half later, when we were really-truly just friends. It's got to mean a lot, for him to say it like that.

[heromaniac]

"I know." Okay, hopefully Dinah couldn't catch that little surge of jealousy there. When Momoko said he'd never said it... she meant ever. Not even, what, almost two years after they'd broken up?

Which she understood now, but it had hurt for her to hear the two of them say it to each other at partings.

"It means a lot when I say it too, but I guess he never really understood that."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

She did catch it, just a little. And followed it up with another hug. "Things are way, way different now. Better. Although-- I get how it feels-- sudden, maybe? It's not. I swear it's not. He loves you. I don't think he ever stopped." Dinah had to laugh a little. "Which doesn't mean he's any better at talking."

[heromaniac]

Momoko chuckled a little more. "Well, he's better at listening? I kind of yelled at him about it. A lot."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yaaaay!" Dinah punched the air, feeling totally vindicated. "He totally had that coming. Don't back down! Make him see the light! Way to go, Momoko!"

Dinah was nearly breaking out the pom-poms here.

[heromaniac]

Momoko smiled, embarrassed. It had been a hospital, after all. "I yelled at him because he said he'd been in love with me even when we broke up. I told him how much it had hurt and everything. You'd have been proud."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah would have squeezed her again, but hey, she'd been hurt recently. So she settled for petting Momoko's hair in fondness. "Damn right I would. I'm giving Jaime a neener-neener call when I'm back in New Gotham. So... how do things stand right now?"

[heromaniac]

Momoko didn't hide her grin, but she did take a casual step closer to the exit. sooooo casual. "We decided we're such great friends that we're going to just stay BFFs forever, no matter what anyone says."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"What?" What? What? Noooooo! "YOU--" Okay, the tickle fingers were out again!

[heromaniac]

Eeeek! So much for her totally awesome plan to run away!

"Ahahahahahahah No! ahah Not hahahaha fair!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Meanie! Mean! Mean! You are-- so so so fair, damnit!"

Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle!

[heromaniac]

"Aaahahhhhahahahahhahhaaa! Nooooo! It' okaaaaay ahahaha for you! ahahaha okay okay!!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I'm not in love with Priestly!" Dinah said, finally stopping with the tickle-fingers, then poking at Momoko's ribs. "And you've both been in love with each other forever and you guys weren't doing anything about it and now you can just be happy and I don't have to not be saying stuff, if you're not going to mess with me!"

[heromaniac]

"I didn't know, remember? I thought I was the only one who felt anything anymore." Momoko flopped to a seat, still laughing. "Is it weird that I want to date him?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Naaaah." Dinah beamed, and slung an arm around her shoulders. "I get it. Celebration. Flowers and time alone."

So relieved not to be the one in the middle any more, and so happy for them both--

More hugs! EE!

[heromaniac]

"Well, and also because we never really did that before. And I want to." She shrugged, embarrassed. "It feels like I'm testing him, though."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"What do you mean?" Dinah pulled back a little again, then frowned. "You guys didn't, I dunno, go to dances? Or do you mean anything else?"

[heromaniac]

"We went to school dances," she agreed, shrugging again. "But our dates were all just hanging out in the dorm. We went out twice... three times if you count the day we broke up."

"I want to go to a movie together. Eat somewhere. Go shopping, maybe? But it's not a test of his feelings, and I totally like just hanging out with him..." argh.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"You want to do something different with him," Dinah said. "Something that's new. Get to know him in a new way, a boyfriendy-way. Is that kinda it?"

[heromaniac]

"That's good! Yes!" Momoko poked Dinah's shoulder. "I mean, we would kiss a lot, so it wasn't like we weren't dating, but yes! That!"

...

"Is that weird?"