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[raptorcanaria]

Anyone who is at all familiar with Dinah Lance will have received chocolates and a candy cane for Christmas. She has enough of a family back home to worry about without adding more things to the list from Milliways.

She's been around recently, mostly out in the garden now the snow is thinning, traipsing around in the remnants of that and the mud, and it was cold.

So now Dinah can be found stretched out on the couch in front of the fire, toes in socks wriggling near the heat, and a hot chocolote doing the job of warming the other end.

If you want to sit down, you'll have to ask her to move.

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[scots_wolf]

Or you can perch on the armrest.

Urquhart does that, by her feet, grinning down at the socks.

[raptorcanaria]

They're white, with black toes and a criss-cross pattern that's a joke, if you're her Uncle Alan and find that sort of thing funny (yes, Dinah gets a full complement of footwear every Christmas.) She grins at Urquhart, and feints a half hearted kick of her feet up towards him.

"Hello."

[scots_wolf]

"Hello Dinah," Urquhart says, feigning evasion of the half-hearted kick.

"Nice socks. No secret steel caps, I guess?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Not a one," Dinah says. "Not even in my shoes. Why? You have bad experience of one too many secret steel toe caps?"

[scots_wolf]

"I am just a suspicious character who needs to factor in all eventualities," Urquhart says, a bit airily.

But he winks at her.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah grins right back at him. "Even suspicious of me? I'm disappointed."

[scots_wolf]

"Generally suspicious of everybody and everything," Urquhart says, leaning over the backrest and looking down at her.

"Oh, and I am looking for a mysterious plant that might need watering."

[raptorcanaria]

"Really?" Dinsh says, shifting so she is slightly mor sitting than lying.

"A specific mystery plant?"

[scots_wolf]

"A large potted oleander or hibiscus bush," Urquhart says. "I was told that the old lady pulled it out of the lost-and-found box the other day. The boy who saw it said it was a tree with large red flowers, so what else could it be? Pulling trees from magical boxes is one thing, but one should make sure they get watered after all that magic. Alas, I haven't found it yet."

[raptorcanaria]

"I haven't seen anything," Dinah admits. "Did the boy say where she put it?"

[scots_wolf]

"No," Urquhart says, "just that it was in the vicinity of the bar when he saw it, where the old lady was going through the box. If one can go through a box that is not only bigger on the inside, but apparently bottomless."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah grins. "Oh, I know that box. It's amazing the junk it ocntains."

[scots_wolf]

"Oh yes!" Urquhart agrees. "While I watched, the old lady pulled a priceless necklace from the box, then a very ugly painting of a little green man with huge ears, and finally an incredibly lovely amber flower, which I have now hanging by the window in my room."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, Babs has her own chair, so Dinah can stay right where she is. As she rolls up she has a candy cane sticking out of her mouth.

It's almost like she's been saving it until the next time she ran into Dinah or something. But that's a silly idea... right?

[raptorcanaria]

Ridiculous.

Dinah wriggles her toes - because they're still cold - and rolls her head to the side to see her roll up.

"Enjoying the candy?"

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Mmm... peppermint." Babs grins. "I'd ask you the same thing, but you don't seem to have any."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah shakes her head, sadly. "I didn't get any this year. I guess my friends don't like me enough."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Babs ponders that for a moment, then pulls the candy cane out of her mouth and breaks off the clean end, holding it out. "Here you go, then."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah laughs, and takes the offered end. "That's really sweet of you, thanks."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"That's what everyone says about me." They're opening a museum in her honor, even!

[raptorcanaria]

"Well, obviously," Dinah agrees, although her smile is, as always with this woman, vaguely unsure.

"Why would anyone say different?"

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"Jealousy," Babs answers immediately.

It's always interesting speaking with this Dinah who doesn't know her. She has to fight the subtle desire to be open and easy, to let her guard down, but this woman isn't the one she knows, so...

Yeah. Dinah gets the same easy-looking smile that everyone else does.

[raptorcanaria]

"Right," says Dinah, easy herself from an inability to be anything else.

"I should have guessed."

[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

"I bet you have to fight it yourself around me." Babs shakes her head. "Don't worry. Everyone does."

[raptorcanaria]

"Jealousy is an ugly emotion," Dinah says matter of factly.

"It makes my hips look fat."