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[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace. In a bar. With a map of London's Underground. And her usual cocoa and cinnamon toast breakfast.

At least she's not flinging paper planes about again.

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[awesome_lilly]

Lilly grabs some coffee and smiles at the woman with the map.

"What up, sai?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

(ooc: YESSS!)

Ace... blinks.

Then grins.

"Either you are the most informal gunslinger ever, or soon we'll all be throwing about their slang."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly grins.

"I'm not a gunslinger, I just like the way they talk. I've met Alain, Kooshbert, and Roland so far. Nice guys. Sadly, not pirates."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Err, no. Not pirates." Rather the direct opposite of pirates. "Haven't met Eddie and Susannah then? Eddie's a ka-mai, like Cuthbert." Pause. "Wait. Kooshbert?"

Ace can't wait to try that one out.

[awesome_lilly]

"No, I haven't met them, although Roland seemed convinced that I knew Eddie."

Lilly smiles.

"Yeah, Kooshbert. Ask him to introduce you to Kooshbert junior some time and it will all make sense."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Woe, Ace missed the koosh ball craze by a couple years. Oddly enough, she's never encountered them during her time hopping.
"Kooshbert junior... please tell me he doesn't have a kid. I don't think I can take it." She begs in a tone of mingled horror and facination.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly giggles.

"No, not a kid. He has a rainbow-colored ball that is filled with something like jelly and has floppy rubber spikes all over it. They're called Kooshballs, and they were really popular when I was younger. That one's called Kooshbert junior, though. We named it last night."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

The horror and facination have not gone away.
"You gave one of these... spiky floppy rubber ball things to a ka-mai? And Roland hasn't killed you yet? I'm impressed." Belatedly, she remembers her manners. "Oh, m'Ace, by the way."

(ooc: Woe! Time for lab. I'll be back on in three or so hours. *flings loff* Slowtime?)

[awesome_lilly]

[ooc: slowtime fine!]

Lilly looks puzzled.

"What's a ka-mai? Because if it's Kooshbert, he seems totally attached to little Kooshie junior already. Oh, and Roland's coming to my karaoke party, he may kill me after that. And if so the name on the tombstone, again, will be Lilly Kane. Nice to meet you, Ace."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Ka-mai... they're... like, gunslingers who can get a joke." It's probably best that Ace has never offered this opinion to an actual gunslinger. "And what karaoke party, and how in hell did you get Roland to come?"

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly beams.

"Ka-mai, awesome. And the karaoke party is the Night of the Living Dead Pirate Karaoke party Meg and I are throwing this Saturday. Everyone's invited, and posters are going up today."

Her grin, if possible, gets wider.

"I got Roland to come by agreeing to leave him alone till then."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"You and Meg. No wonder Roland got bullied into it. He never had a chance." She feels a brief pang of sympathy for the gunslinger. Very brief. A karaoke party would do him good.
"Who else is coming?"

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly smiles happily.

"Everyone, if they know what's good for them. Otherwise, Meg and I will make them come anyway and we might not be nice about it."

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

Claire. With a baby. And the biggest grin you've ever seen.

Hey, this time it's for real.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

(ooc: Don't mind at all... obviously. *grin*)

"Claire!" The small blonde Australian is hugged enthusiastically by a small manic pyro. "Where have you been? People have been lookin' for you!"

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

Claire and Seth hug her back just as enthusiastically. But when it's over she gives her friend an apologetic frown. "I. . er, went back to the island."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"You... what?" Ace boggles. This... does not compute.
"But... you said you'd never go back. At least, that you didn't want to go back. But... alright, start over, from the top."

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

She grimaces and says softly, "The nightmares told me to. They wanted Seth. I needed to find out why."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

If she was a convinient distance from a table, Ace would have knocked her head against it by now.
"And it never occured to you to get help before tromping off into the wilds? Or leaving a note, perhaps?"

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"I. . ." she sighs and looks at her friend with sad eyes. "I wasn't really. . .thinking clearly, you know?"

She pauses, and then,

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Hey, none of that." She hugs Claire again. "I'm just glad you're back, and alright."

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

She sighs again and rocks the sleeping Seth against her shoulder. "Thank you."


She bites her lip for a moment, thinking, but eventually the pensive look turns back into the bright, beaming smile. Claire has news.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace waits patiently for it.

Semi-patiently.

Alright, not patiently at all.

"What?"

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"I think. . .that I'm. . .in a relationship, or something. . . with Sawyer. Maybe. Possibly." She frowns, and then nods, as if that answers anything. "I think."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

'Yessss!" Ace beams. "See? Told ya. Seeing as you're not drowning your sorrows in a pint of ice cream, I'm guessing he didn't take it too badly?"