15 - Video

[bodilesswarrior]

[Look who's awake!

Barbara looks rumpled and worn, hair mussed and skin pale. There's a stylised owl on her forehead, wings curving down her cheeks, stopping at the edges of her smile.

Iris is there with her, bedraggled and beaming. Between them, Jonesy hops and mews, clamouring for attention.]

Hey, Barge. [She sounds a bit exasperated, but she woke up with Iris in her arms and purring in her ears; she's incapable, right now, of being overly irritated.]

Fill me in on the past few weeks, would you? [Not that she won't be going through the network with a fine-tooth comb, of course, but individual perspectives are always valuable.]

Comments

[routemistress]

[That is asking to have an ear bitten, and Iris does so, lightly.]

Bugger fashionable. Don't ever do that again, it was 'orrible. Both of you at once.

[It's around here that the cat finishes her food and works out that the boring still person has stopped being boring, so she jumps up to get - shrilly loudly - in on the act]

...oh piss off, Madam. I suppose you want to get up and pee. And we've got a serial killer.

[bodilesswarrior]

[Delighted laughter blends with petulant yowling, and she pulls back a hand to gather Jonesy up to her cheek.

Her smile fades as Iris finishes, but not entirely.]

How close are we to catching them?

[routemistress]

[Iris sags a little against Barbara's shoulder, drops a kiss on it then bites that too, because she can.]

Not close enough that I can shut meself in 'ere for the next two days and forget about 'im. Can I shoot 'im meself just for that?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Her arms tightens around Iris, just a little, before her hand traces up her back.]

Sounds justifiable to me.

[routemistress]

[The nerves along her spine are always good for making Iris melt, and she shivers obediently, hands clenching.]

...That counts as cruel and unusual when I'm in the middle of 'unting murderers, you know.