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[personal profile] routemistress 2020-08-17 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bet that won't take you long," she says, but it's almost reflexive; this is just Iris' mouth reaching for an easy compliment while her brain chews over the important information.

"Hmmm. I s'pose I might not hate 'im, then. I'm 'aving a lot of unhelpful feelings 'ere, my love. Mostly along the lines of 'ow I'll tear the throat out of anyone that patronises you. Except 'e's an inmate, and I loved Aslan almost as much as you did, and jaded and gentle and capable of immense brutality sounds like a lot of the people I fall in love with. So it's probably all right."

She sighs.

"I'll 'ave to go meet 'im, I s'pose. What should I wear?"
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[personal profile] routemistress 2020-08-28 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
She lifts the image lightly from Barbara's thoughts, and offers it back filtered through her own - that the thought of wearing it to propitiate an old vampire's antiquated sensibilities is galling, but on the other hand, she has the perfect heavy silk dress and hat and it's ravishing with fishnet stockings and Louboutins.

The dress wins, and Iris closes her eyes and opens them again, like a satisfied cat.

"All right. It's patterned with pineapples. I'll try and mind me manners."
tucky: (I'm going to go talk to some food)

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[personal profile] tucky 2020-08-30 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
If I ask you a question, do you promise you'll answer honestly?
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-08-30 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You've been back for a couple months now. You've seen more of me. Are you disappointed in me at all? Do you wish I hadn't changed in the ways I have?
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-08-30 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah. And I know we talked about this before, kind of, I just--

[Wanted to see if more time and exposure would change her tune. It's not often that people come back after such a long absence, and while she's undeniably happy about it, it has left her reeling a bit.]

-- anyway. Cain would be disappointed in me, but I think that'd be, like, unavoidable.
tucky: (oh‚ well‚ they're both attractive)

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[personal profile] tucky 2020-08-30 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly; that's my point. Precious and innocent.

[Never mind that she's never felt like she's either of those things. And for as much as she cared - still cares - about Cain, she knows it would grate on her far more now than it did then.]

What wouldn't a younger Barbara like about you?
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-08-30 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like all of those things.

[But there isn't disappointment in her tone, either.]
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-09-03 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

[But it's comforting, hearing Barbara say it first.]

Thanks. I don't get insecure as much as I used to, but--
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[personal profile] routemistress 2020-09-05 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Iris laughs out loud, rolling her head back to show her throat.

"Don't encourage me, I wouldn't put it past me to turn up with a crossbow."

Which is a joke, but one with conflicted layers: Iris comes from a reality where her problems usually can't be solved by fighting, and she feels vaguely guilty about how much she sometimes wishes they could. Fighting hurts people, and she loves it.
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-09-13 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Like the Mirror Barge?
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-09-13 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
No. And I never asked; I remember the one time I brought it up I could see hurt on your face.
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[personal profile] tucky 2020-09-13 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Pause.]

They had to know you couldn't keep that promise for sure. You could promise to try, but--

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