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[not_lugosi]

Bela arrives, moving a little more slowly than usual, but with her familiar smirk. It's been an interesting day. In the end it was a quite profitable one, even if she's paid for it in bruises.

Ghosts can be so pesky when you try to take their treasures.

Tiny tag: Bela Talbot, Cal Chandler

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[isaysimplewords]

Mm. Cal is comfortable with words, but no words can be good, too.

He's also getting comfortable with the idea of friends around here. Some of the people he's met since his arrival he might even trust, maybe, and that's practically a dirty word back home. Trusting someone at home is just asking to get fucked over. But that, like everything else, seems to be different here.

[not_lugosi]

That makes two of them. Trusting others hasn't been a part of her life, ever, so she doesn't know what she's missed. The friendships she's making here just might show her. Slowly, but surely.

If she could articulate her feelings a little better, she could tell Cal these things, but she's hidden her true self, her true emotions, for so long that it isn't an option. Not yet.

Bela lifts her hand to lightly trace the side of his face with her fingertips. She likes his face, and not just because he's very handsome. She likes how his face looks when he's talking to her.

"Thanks, Cal." Her brow furrows momentarily. She's not sure why she said that, or whether she should have at all. It just seemed the thing to say.

[isaysimplewords]

Cal leans into the touch a little and gives her a smile.

He's not sure what to say back, aside from the obvious. He's not really good at this stuff. He'll sit inside a circle of dust with a frightened woman, or buy chocolate chip pancakes for a girl who's never tried them before, or try his best to explain religion to a boy who has just been introduced to the concept of holy wars, but ask him what friendship entails or to try to express it and he'll come up empty-handed.

"Any time."

[not_lugosi]

That smile of his kills her, in the good way.

They can be emotionally stunted together! It will work well, except for when it doesn't.

She leans again, this time to whisper in his ear. "Take me upstairs, yeah?"

[isaysimplewords]

Cal grins.

"Any time," he repeats. He gives her a kiss and then stands, holding his hand out to her.

[not_lugosi]

Bela takes his offered hand and sticks close by him as they walk upstairs.

Halfway up the stairs, she realizes exactly why she's so happy.

She feels safe.