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[R] You put your head in my hands (Kaatje & Tallulah) [Fin]

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:03 am


Tallulah got out of the shower and wrapped herself in the robe hanging on the back of the bathroom door. She frowned at her street clothes before folding them - she didn’t have a change, and she’d been wearing them for a whole day even before going out on patrol. She felt bad to be overtaxing Kaatje’s hospitality already, but at this rate she might have to ask her to go pick up some clothes from the house. It just seemed weird to ask Jaimie to do anything that might remotely involve handling her underwear - after all, they hadn’t spoken in three years before she asked him to go check on her parents.

Tallulah combed her hair and brushed her teeth with the toiletries she’d gotten from the front desk, and rejoined Kaatje in the bedroom. “Thank you for all this,” she sighed, flopping onto the bed. There was only one, because Kaatje had put on a show for the receptionist about being drunk and giggly and overly-affectionate, and Tallulah was too dead-tired at this point to have any kind of protest. It reminded her of slumber parties back in high school, anyway, and that she didn’t mind at all.

“Everything’s just kind of escalated way too quickly,” Tallulah said, debating whether or not to get under the covers. s**t, she thought. Her boyfriend was Spinel. Paul was the same person who’d, once upon a time, made an attempt on Erika’s starseed. She didn’t know what to think about this information, so she just didn’t.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:04 am


“Yeah, no problem,” said Kaatje, from where she was sprawled on her bed with her phone out. Desensitized to nudity from her military adventures, she was laying on her stomach in nothing but her underwear, furiously texting someone. Her boss, probably. “Sorry about the boob brush.” She wasn’t really sorry, because Tallulah had a nice chest and it had been a half-accident, but she knew Tallulah would probably want to hear it, being a civilian and all. They had weird boundaries about things like that.

She put her phone face-down on the bed and laced her fingers together with her chin. “So while you were showering, I went out and got beer.” And she’d also grabbed herself clean underthings for tomorrow. She assumed wearing Hanes for one night wouldn’t give her a rash; she also assumed she and Tallulah didn’t wear the same size. “Since I think you should be pretending that you have a debilitating attack of illness or something, it’s not like either of us has anything to do tomorrow. And I got the room for a week, in case you wanted to pretend to have hella finals or something?”

Kaatje shrugged. “If not, hey, pass the word around. I’m sure someone wants to get out of Dodge for a while.”

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:05 am


“It’s not a big deal,” said Tallulah. If Kaatje wanted to be basically naked, then Kaatje could be basically naked. She was paying for the hotel room, after all. “I swam competitively for like six years. The night before state champs would be, like, this times five.” And if Kaatje wanted to accidentally grab her chest, well, that was an accident. Tallulah had spent so long in the hospital that she was frankly desensitized to being handled.

“I do have a debilitating illness,” she continued, flicking her wrist to summon her senshi phone. She stared at it for a moment and then set it aside, deciding she’d rather wait to text Jaimie an update for as long as possible. Maybe after she’d had a beer. “Weird outer-space wasting thing, remember?” she asked, reaching for a beer. A week would cover how long Spinel and Babylon would be in space for, but this hotel was decently nice, and owing Kaatje that much money made her anxious.

Not that she had any other options.

“Thanks,” said Tallulah, opening the beer. She took a sip and debated what she should say next - she wanted to talk. She wanted to work though her thoughts. But she was afraid that if she hemmed and hawed, all she’d manage to do was annoy Kaatje. “I’ll make this up to you somehow, I swear.” Not that she knew how she’d ever even come close. “I guess I really should stay for a week.”

She stared at her phone.

“I should text Regulus,” she said morosely. “Find out if my dad gave him that beer.”
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:05 am


“So you’re having a relapse,” said Kaatje, pointing her toes and sighing. What she should have done was seen if the front desk had a laptop to be borrowed by overnight guests. Or rather… Tallulah should, because Kaatje had pretended to be extremely, extremely drunk. “To everyone not staying here, who believes you are having your way with a drunk coed. Public displays of affection make people very uncomfortable--thanks, ScarJo.”

She shrugged. “What’s the point? He’ll tell you if anyone shows up. Instead, how about we sit and gossip? I haven’t had a sleepover since BMT, with a bunch of angry girls who only wanted to talk about makeup.” Kaatje sat up, leaned against the headboard and started opening up real estate sites on her phone. “I told Knightlight I’d look at properties for rent. I guess he wants to run some kind of apartment complex for purified people, but like, doesn’t he live with the English teacher from Crystal? Vanya… something.”

Kaat frowned at the list of foreclosures in the area, tried to look like she knew what she was doing, but eventually she admitted: “What the hell do you even look for in an apartment?” If they were house hunting, it’d be one thing, because she could just call her brother and get it over with, but they weren’t. Apartments were a whole different animal cracker.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:07 am


Tallulah nodded. Kaatje had put on quite a believable show for the lobby staff, even if the act had been dropped as soon as they got into the elevator. “Superhero movie logic to the rescue,” she said happily, and took Kaatje’s advice about the phone, sending it back into the ether with a flick of her wrist. Once upon a time, she’d wanted to find a way to store more than just phones and henshin pens in that pocket dimension - maybe she’d had time coming up to rededicate to that project. It would make medical supplies more convenient, at the very least. “I’ll feel it in my soul if it rings,” she said. “I think it was Astraea who said that. Back when she first handed them out.”

“He’s subletting,” she supplied, sipping her beer. “I get the feeling he wants a place that feels more like home. I’ve met Vanya, but I think she doesn’t really like me.” Which was weird, but not in a way that was hugely worrying. Her life did not depend on whether or not Vanya Morganstern thought she was cool. Whatever. She’d heard Babylon’s theories about purification in enough detail to rehash them in a hugely casual way. “Anyway, this is like, hugely ancient history, but a few years ago, he was friends with this knight, Lina? She’d been a Negaverse general, and I guess she never really made friends in Order or whatever and she went back to the dark side because they have cookies. And he was friends with Avalon, who, you know, is now evil and wants to kill me, because I’m apparently the last person on the planet to know what my boyfriend does with his spare time. But, like, the connecting factor here is that these are two people who didn’t have very good support systems and corrupted because chaos was offering them something they didn’t have in order. So if you can promise people who don’t really have a support system in chaos that order has what they’re looking for, I guess the theory is you’ll get converts, and if you actually deliver on that support system, then they stay.”

But, like, apartment hunting was totally a thing she’d done. “People really care about bathrooms and kitchens and whether they’re clean and up-to-date,” Tallulah said. “Carpet is gross. Tile, laminate, or wood are more expensive to install, I guess, but they last a lot longer and stay a lot cleaner. Not being able to hear your neighbors’ every move is a big thing, too.” She paused, reached over, and messed with the bottle cap from her beer. “Are you thinking of getting into Real Estate, Kaatje?” she asked.

Not that Tallulah was about to discourage her, but she’d never heard Gunn give any credence to purification before. All of her help tonight had been surprising, but her cooperation with Babylon’s plan was the most surprising thing yet by far.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:07 am


Kaatje didn’t remember Astraea; maybe she’d seen that cat once. But she’d been awakened by Derpraline and had exactly with cats exactly only as much as she needed to to upgrade from one stage of her senshi life cycle to another. (Every time, with Derpraline. Ugh. She never wanted to see hats again. Except she saw them literally all the time, because a proper soldier wore a hat out of doors.) She shrugged and turned her phone’s screen back towards herself.

The theory was solid, which was why she was consenting to spend most of her allotment from the last two years on an apartment building. The problem was mostly that she was worried that, for all her investment, it was going to come to nothing. “It’s a nice theory, and I’m willing to throw money at it to make it work,” she sighed, “but I’m not sure it will work. And I don’t know anyone else on the side of Order with the resources I’ve got.” She rolled her eyes, and started drafting a standard email to go look at places. “The important thing is, if these people purify, they’re my wingmen. Service before self, Tally, your wingmen come before personal preference or prejudice.”

She sighed again, and picked up a beer of her own. “Maybe I should look at foreclosures and fix them up myself. Maybe get Knightlight to lend a hand. Wait, why is he friends with so many people who corrupt?”

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:08 am


Tallulah shrugged. She didn’t think that Babylon was above average as far as corrupted acquaintances. She and Kaatje had both lost friends with the founding of the Dark Mirror Court, and she’d lost more since. “If you do the math, Babylon’s not really friends with any more people who corrupt than anyone else. He just talks about it more often.” Or he had shitty taste in friends. Which, as Finn’s friend, was probably a character judgement against herself.

“I used to know a lot more ridiculously wealthy people than I do now,” she said. Scylla in particular came to mind - but Tallulah hadn’t seen her in years and years. “But I’m sure I know people who would put in the man hours, if you found a place.” She was sure that she could twist arms in all the right places - anyone who was always talking huge game about purification was pretty much obligated to actually show up and be helpful when someone actually had a plan. Otherwise it was open season for calling people hypocrites.

“I’ve been out of town for a long time,” she confessed. “My connections aren’t as good as they used to be. But I think I can still get people to the table.” Making them play ball might be another issue, but they’d deal with that when they got there. “If I’m going to be here all week with only my phone for company, then I’d might as well make myself useful and start trying to call in favors.” If she had any favors left to call in. Which was, of course, entirely in question.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:08 am


Kaatje shrugged. “You know me. I’m the only ridiculously wealthy person you need.” Like, sure, her parents’ corporation wasn’t well known in America, but it didn’t need to be. It was high-end stuff, selling real leather to car manufactories or something, and it might not be glamorous work but damn, they’d been doing it well for generations and even if Kaat’s parents died tomorrow, she’d be sitting on at least nine or ten digits. One apartment building wasn’t going to set her back too much, except in her allowance. “In the short run, it’ll pinch a little, but I get paid the first and the fifteenth of every month and that goes into a different account.”

She sipped her beer and said, “I guess the question also is, house or apartment? Single rooms in a house, or everyone gets their own kitchen? Should I give a bunch of possible sleeper agents access to sharp weaponry and fire unsupervised? I live in a secured military base, but none of you do.” A doorman could solve that problem, but did she want to risk letting someone in on that? Maybe someone purifying would want a job in security. Or maybe she could make Knightlight do it, because she could definitely pay better than where-ever he worked.

That reminded her. “Who’s Babylon? I mean, get everyone to the table you can, maybe I’ll have a talk about it after this boot camp thing I’m running…” She sighed. “Hey, do you want to order takeout? I know a sushi place.”

Which also reminded her. She narrowed her eyes at Tallulah. “So what’s it like to ******** a corrupted senshi?”

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:09 am


Tallulah’s eyes widened at Kaatje for a moment - did she really not know? “Knightlight,” she said. “Knightlight is Babylon. I thought we were just calling him Knightlight because it was funny and we’re pissed at him. I mean, that’s why I was calling him Knightlight.” Somewhere along the line, it occurred to her, an introduction had been skipped.

“I don’t eat fish,” she said, sipping her beer again. “Vegetarian.” It had started as what seemed like the moral high ground in early childhood, but her illness had damaged her kidneys, and now it was something of a medical necessity. “But I’ll eat vegetable rolls. Or edamame. Or I could really go for miso soup - it’s open this late?”

She was just resigned to going to sleep at dawn and spending most of the day in bed. And what was this - who had said anything about ******** corrupted senshi? Flushing bright red, Tallulah buried her face in her hands. She was not drunk enough by half to have this conversation, but it looked like they were going to, anyway. “I have not ******** a corrupted senshi,” she said insistently. “I have had sex with a man who turns into a corrupted senshi. I have never ******** a corrupted senshi.”

“Yes you have.”

Tallulah gave Kaatje a deadpan look. “Okay. Fine. Fine! You win. What do you even want to know? It’s like having sex with any other dude. I assume.” It was not like she had a large sample size to compare Paul to.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:09 am


Kaatje shrugged. “I know a lot of 24 hour delivery places,” she said. “I work on a military base.” She pulled up a menu on her phone and tossed it over to Tallulah. “Let me know what you want, get whatever,” she said, assembling her own list on one of the little pads of hotel paper. Meanwhile, she considered the name of Knightlight, and decided it wasn’t important. If he wanted her to know, he would’ve introduced himself to her, and that would have headed off the problem at the pass, but… he was Knightlight now. No going back. Like her being Princess on the flightline. That was just how it was.

She put her chin in her hands. Man, technicalities. Sure, she hadn’t had sex with a corrupt senshi in his corrupt senshi glamor, but he was a corrupt senshi whether he was civilian or powered. One didn’t say they were having sex with a man who became a wolf sometimes, they said they were ******** a werewolf. “What, have you never ******** anyone else? Tallulah. We have to get you laid. But, like, you’d know if he was asking you to do something weird, right?” Like, corrupted senshi were brainwashed, right? So he should have some kind of creepy kink.

In theory, anyway. “C’mon. Spill.”

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:09 am


Tallulah killed the rest of her beer as she regarded the takeout menu. “Veggie tempura and a cucumber roll,” she decided, tossing the phone back to Kaatje. Something greasy and fried followed by the plainest, least-offensive sushi imaginable sounded like a seriously good idea right now.

“I don’t want to go get laid,” she said plaintively, reaching for another beer. Any other night would have called for moderation, but it was seriously so late it was early, and logic dictated that enough alcohol would eventually make tonight stop sucking. “I’m not - what would that even be, Kaatje? Rebound sex?” It was not rebound sex, she thought stubbornly. They were not broken up. Being an evil serial killer was totally not an insurmountable obstacle - like, he was purifying, right? So what did it even matter. That was like changing religions for someone you were dating - it meant things were serious.

Which was, all things considered, probably the alcohol talking. Tallulah took a first sip of her second beer. “Seriously, we don’t do anything weird.” Although she still wasn’t sure what Kaatje’s definition of weird might intersect with her own. “Like, what do you want me to tell you, that his favorite position’s cowgirl and we did it for the first time in the DCU library with all our clothes on? Because, like, I’m the one who started that. So it’s not weird.”

Okay. Maybe it was a little weird. But it was Tallulah’s weirdness. Not Paul’s.

She leaned back against the padded headboard and chugged about half her Bud Lite. “I am not going to go have rebound sex,” she repeated, “because I am not in a rebound. I am just-” she hiccupped- “Processing that my super-sweet super-gorgeous boyfriend is incidentally on the run from his evil gang of soul-stealers, and how much it ******** sucks to be me right now, okay?”

She hiccupped again. It sounded dangerously close to a sob.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:10 am


Kaatje put the phone down, hanging up on the order management lady, and reached over to deprive Tallulah of her beer. “As fascinating as it is that you’re an exhibitionist, Tallulah, uh, you look really upset? So I’m gonna take away the beer and we’re gonna get under the covers.” Which was a bit more of a production than it should have been, considering Tallulah’s state of inebriation, and the fact that Tallulah was crying, and now she felt a little bad for teasing Tallulah about having sex with a corrupted senshi, except. Except.

God, she couldn’t even get to sleep, knowing that Tallulah was upset.

She leaned over and pressed a kiss to Tallulah’s cheek. “I know things are hard and you’re right to be upset,” she said, awkwardly, “but, like, I’m here. s**t can’t suck entirely when you’ve got me, Cowden. I know money can’t buy happiness, but, like, it can buy a lot of stuff and security and that’s like the same thing. Right?”

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:10 am


Tallulah settled in under the covers, feeling a little bit numb at the prospect of not getting her Japanese take-out fix. Then again, any sane person would have gone to bed hours ago, so that was a point in favor of not eating anything and going the ******** to sleep. At least Kaatje was letting the topic of her sex life drop, she thought with a relieved sigh, and rolled towards the other girl, scrunching up under the blankets.

“You’re the best,” she said, smiling tiredly and reaching up to pat Kaatje’s cheek. Affection from Kaatje was rare and hard-won, but she felt better about herself to have somehow been found deserving. It was nice to be reassured that despite the crazy mess she’d managed to get them into, they were still friends. “I won’t tell anyone that you’re secretly a giant softy.”
PostPosted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:10 am


She, uh… had no idea what to do here, actually. Kaatje laced her fingers through Tallulah’s hair, bumped their foreheads gently together. “I’m not secretly a giant softy,” said Kaatje under her breath, because she was not. She was, at best, a medium-small softy, on the smaller side of medium-small. And only for people who were her friends. She kissed Tallulah lightly on the mouth, and then settled back a respectable distance away. Maybe she was a softy, a little, but she knew about consent and boundaries and Tallulah could not give either, and…

Besides. It wasn’t ever going to happen anyway. “Go the ******** to sleep,” she said, shifting around until she’d gotten herself into a comfortable position. “‘Kay? Plenty of time to think about how things are in the morning.”

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