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deercountry2022-10-09 09:38 pm
entreats) wrote in deercountry2022-10-09 09:38 pm
(mostly open) oh this love would kill me
Who: Ange, Ruby, and you!
What: Ruby and Ange's wedding, and all their CR is invited!
When: Late October
Where: The rebuilt Clockhouse
Content Warnings: Semi-irresponsible weapon usage.
Sometime around the beginning of October invitations would have started to be sent out to the various people in Trench Ange and Ruby know - announcing the two girls' wedding at the end of the month.
When the day itself comes, people will find the location - the newly rebuilt Clockhouse, which some of the invitees may have helped rebuild in the first place - tastefully decorated. Some of the house's stranger features have been covered up by decorations in red and gold, mostly taking on the shapes of roses and butterflies all over the place.
What: Ruby and Ange's wedding, and all their CR is invited!
When: Late October
Where: The rebuilt Clockhouse
Content Warnings: Semi-irresponsible weapon usage.
Sometime around the beginning of October invitations would have started to be sent out to the various people in Trench Ange and Ruby know - announcing the two girls' wedding at the end of the month.
When the day itself comes, people will find the location - the newly rebuilt Clockhouse, which some of the invitees may have helped rebuild in the first place - tastefully decorated. Some of the house's stranger features have been covered up by decorations in red and gold, mostly taking on the shapes of roses and butterflies all over the place.
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It's hard to imagine you being reckful, Ange. [she smiles, and she squeezes her friend's hand, and she ignores the memory of the scars from last winter.] But you've got me on a good path there. You and her... and everyone who cares about me. I don't think I realized what I had when I lost my eye, but a lot of people were kind of saying the same thing to me. Don't be so reckless, don't do things alone that'll put you in danger...
I think I'm getting better at settling down. I mean, hell, John's done enough to piss me off lately that I could fistfight him ten times over. [a weak smile.] But I guess I have to leave some lessons for Sensei Lawrence to learn.
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Okay, we're establishing something here.
[ Because the afterparty of Ange's wedding is clearly the best place to do that, right? But-- look, they're holding hands, that clearly makes it the perfect set of circumstances. ]
The next time you want to fight someone, you have to ask me first. Alright? [ Maybe she should say to ask Kainé first - but considering what drove them apart last time, she doesn't want something like that to cause friction or awkwardness between them, thinking back on that time.
It's much easier to present this as just some dumb thing, bordering on something joking.
Even though Ange is actually kind of serious about it. ]
Come get formal permission from me first. Or you'll make your little sister cry.
[ And maybe that can help make Anna think twice before leaping into something. Like an extra layer of security - a net below her leap. ]
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[okay, that's not entirely true, probably. but anna knows from the beginning that there is a lot of sincerity behind what ange is suggesting here. as she continues, anna listens, and nods, and by the end of it she's smiling. but the corners of her mouth shrink back down just a little at the very idea of making her little sister cry. and she closes her eye, and she nods gravely, and she looks back up at one of the two women of the hour again.]
I will. That's a promise. Because if someone has gotten you angry enough to agree to let me fight them? That's how I know they mean business.
[anna does joke, but not like this. not right here. she squeezes ange's hand as she agrees.]
I'll come in person and get your formal permission. But I need you to do something for me, too. [she breathes out slowly, then glances up and fixes ange with a shitty smirk.] Don't knock the dirty bar bathroom makeouts until you try them.
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But before she has even one moment to say something perhaps vaguely touching about it, Anna continues..
.. into that of all things.
Ange makes a face like someone just put a plate of the grossest possible vegetables right in front of her nose and expects her to eat it. ]
Why do they have to be dirty bathrooms!
[ She doesn't seem genuinely upset, at least.
This is just Ange's levels of dramatic. They make her look her age, rather than the way she always pretends to act so much older than she really is. ]
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It's about the aesthetic, Ange. Cigarette smoke and shitty beer and loud-ass music played through the worst amps imaginable. [this conversation has taken a hard left, but maybe it can provide ange with a better understanding of the way anna looks at things like romance and love.]
It's about knowing that you're not in the right place to do something, but your body and your emotions don't want to wait, so you just say "fuck it" and do it anyway. [she's still smiling, but there's nostalgia creeping into her tone. this isn't the way she acts anymore, but before trench, before A2, coming on twelve or thirteen years ago, this is the way she loved to be. and that's because...]
My first girlfriend used to live like that. We lived like that together, until... you know, we didn't. But I think there's always gonna be a part of me that thinks there's something romantic about it.
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[ Ange's expression drops.
Not into something sad, though. No - there's definite understanding in her expression instead. Maybe not about the dirty bathrooms themselves, but.. more just because she can understand the sentiment behind it now. When you love someone, you start loving everything you associate with them. ]
Dumb action movies.
[ She slowly says. For a moment it sounds entirely out of context, but it's not too hard to connect the string when she speaks up. Her voice a tad quiet - because she's willing to admit this to Anna, sure, but if anyone else here at the party hears it, she will murder them. This is sisters-only. It's confidential.
If Anna trusts her with the story of her past love and filthy bathroom makeouts, then the least Ange can do is share that she gets it, share what reminds her of Ruby, even though it may not be romantic in a single other context, just like the filthy bathrooms-- ]
When you watch a really crappy action movie together, but it's fun, and you keep missing half of the plot anyway because you keep kissing throughout it.
[ Those are Ange's filthy club bathroom makeouts. ]
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That sounds amazing. And I'm so glad you have something like that. [the smile stays on her face, gentle and understanding. this is a lot cleaner than the thing that anna always goes back to, but the strength of emotions absolutely can't be denied or ignored.] Thanks for sharing it with me. Now I know what to get you for your birthday, whenever that is.
[is fast 10 out yet? she should get ange a copy of fast 10. for some reason she assumes that ange would love that franchise. maybe because it's about family.]
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It just makes her smile. ]
Okay.
[ She figures it's definitely going to be some dumb action movie. ]
Just make sure to hand me my present very, very secretly then. This isn't exactly something I tell everyone who isn't my big sister about. [ So these action movie transactions have to be Discreet now. We're talking trenchcoats in dark alleyways. ]
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[she says it so casually, with the tone of "yeah, the time knife, we've all seen it", but she truly does mean every word.]
Is your birthday a secret, though? I want to know how much time I have to prepare. 'Cause if I'm getting you something like that, I wanna put some real thought into it. [she thinks about some of the other presents she's gotten people recently and tries not to think too hard about, well, the times when she wasn't able to think about presents. she's still talking quietly, protecting the sanctity of this conversation.] It might involve me doing some independent research on which ones are the best to kiss a girl during.
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One that makes Ange smile a little when the other arrives at that last point. ]
I really don't think you need an 'independent research' excuse for that. [ Not like she didn't see you coming here with your partner, girl. Not like she doesn't know what Anna is like in the first place! ] But my birthday isn't until next summer, so if you do want a dumb joke you can use with Kainé for pretty much the rest of the year until then..
[ Be her guest, Anna. Especially since Ange won't have to witness the corniness herself and get all flustered about it. ]
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Well, listen, you told me that in confidence. So I'm not even gonna share that with her, and it's not something I'm gonna make jokes about, either. [anna is good at cracking inappropriate jokes, but she is also good at being very sincere when it matters. and right now, she knows what matters.]
It's important to you, yeah? I'd be a pretty bad sister if I made fun of you for it.
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[ Which is not even her just saying that to entice Anna into not telling anyone else about it.
It's just a statement of fact - and the way she looks as she says it proves that. She sounds so certain about that, like she's talking about the colour of the sky.
Which means it's probably time to say something else important, rather than talk about dumb action movies or sloppy bathroom makeouts. ]
Thank you for being here today. My day was a little bit more complete because you were part of it. [ Especially with how much family means to Ange.
Of course she'd want them to be here with her on her special day, more than anyone else. ]
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[god, she means that. the realization that she means that hits her in her chest and gets her eyes welling up just a little. she promised she wouldn't cry, but so much for that. she wipes her good eye dry.]
I hope Ruby makes you the happiest woman in the world. I'm so proud of you two. Love you, Ange.