Sally Roth (too_sexy) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-09-10 17:06:00

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A Good Talk
Sally Roth's dads rode with her on the train to Gotham. It was one of their more awkwardly quiet family trips ever, though she supposed it was better than going to school like this.
Her stepdad tried to talk to her reassuringly as she hunched herself over in her Granny Flores's overcoat. It wasn't particularly cold, but it was the best defense she could think of against the turned heads.

Eventually, they reached Gotham. Her dads helped her find the home of the lady Mr. Blood had mentioned, and then headed off to deal with some of her father's business stuff, get some food, and have a long talk of their own. Her stepdad initially wanted to stay with her at Miss Craft's, but her father didn't think it was a good idea. "It's not like you'll understand any of it," he'd said, and then silenced the oncoming angry retort with whispers he thought Sally couldn't hear, about making it a 'girl thing' to make it easier on her.

So Salome Roth was standing in Victoria Craft's doorway.

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just_a_stranger
2010-09-10 11:40 pm UTC (link)

The apartment was modestly, but nicely decorated, the furniture slightly worn in the fashion of someone who lives alone and does not entertain much, if at all. There were pictures of various classes of first graders, along with several pictures of a blond woman with milky, clouded eyes who despite her smile always seemed just a little bit sad. A single, larger photograph on one wall showed a teenage Victoria, behind her a white-haired man with intense eyes.

"Please, have a seat," she told Salome. "May I offer you something to drink? And I believe I may have some cookies?"

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	too_sexy 2010-09-10 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	She takes it all in as she sits down. "Cookies would be great," Sally says. "And, well, you have to have milk with cookies, even if it sounds juvenile." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 12:00 am UTC (link)
	"Not at all, my dear," Victoria said. "Milk and cookies are a very important part of a day." She returned from the kitchen moments later, with a plate of cookies and two glasses of milk. Taking a seat opposite Salome, she said, "Why don't you tell me a little about yourself?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 12:06 am UTC (link)
	"Not much to tell. I turned 17 at the end of July. I live in Queensland in Metropolis. I'm okay at school, except I don't want to go anymore. I'm okay in choir, except I don't want to do it anymore. Everybody stares at me, and it turns out I'm a demon. Or anyway, my mother was, and my Dad knew something was up all along but didn't tell me or my stepdad." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 12:24 am UTC (link)
	Victoria listened patiently while she told her story, reaching out just the smallest bit with her mystical perceptions. Just enough to begin to get her own understanding of the girl. "You are definitely partially demonic," she said, when she had finished. "But that does not mean you cannot live a relatively normal life." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

too_sexy
2010-09-11 12:36 am UTC (link)

"But they don't stop looking. Ever since puberty, everybody stares at me. Boys. Girls. I don't know what to do about it." She snorted. "Daddy -- my stepdad, not my father -- always used to smile and say they'd just never seen a pretty girl before. But it's some kind of weird succubus thing and I can hurt them with it and I don't want to but what if it just keeps happening?"

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	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 01:01 am UTC (link)
	"You can and will learn to control it," Victoria assured her, her voice the calm and level voice of a teacher speaking to a student. "But the first step comes in accepting the supernatural side of your nature." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 01:03 am UTC (link)
	Sally manages to avoid another 'but I don't WANNA be a succubus!' in the face Miss Craft's calm. She takes a deep breath. "...Okay. So what do I do?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 01:12 am UTC (link)
	"Tell me more about what happened when you first drained someone," Victoria said. "What it felt like, what happened." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

too_sexy
2010-09-11 01:22 am UTC (link)

"I'd cut my hand a little before that, and it'd just...healed." But after it did I felt so hungry, and eating didn't help. And not just hungy. Hormonal. Both. More than both. And then this boy was staring at me. And I just reached out. I can't really say I was thinking anything, but if it counts as thinking, I guess I just kinda ...knew that somehow, this would make it better. Our hands touched, and ...it felt so good. And his eyes started rolling back in his head."

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	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 01:54 am UTC (link)
	She nodded. "That you are able to derive energy from any kind of contact rather than sexual congress is a good thing," Victoria replied. "The boy is all right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 01:57 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, he went to the hospital, but he got better. Apparently, the symptoms were all like having really, really low blood sugar. And that was just hands touching. If I ever had sex with somebody -- which I'm Not Gonna -- I'd probably kill them or something." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"A drain of life force could take that effect," Victoria agreed. "Likely," she went on, "you could exhibit other supernatural effects... You may even have been doing so without thinking about it. Have you noticed others being more... amorous around you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 02:17 am UTC (link)
	"My Dads and, now, Mr. Blood the other day are practically the only males I've known in the past five years who can be in the room with me for more than a couple of minutes without starting to look like they're getting hormonal," Sally said, scowling. "Plenty of girls, too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 02:33 am UTC (link)
	"More signs of your supernatural nature, I am afraid," Victoria told her. Her own supernatural nature likely protected her as well. "Let me try something," she went on. "Give me your hand." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Sally compliantly hands it over. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 02:37 am UTC (link)
	Victoria drew upon a portion of her mystical energies, expanding and extending her mystical perceptions to Sally. She could dispel illusions, make the truth easier to see. That included what she was doing here. "You should see a bit of a shimmer about yourself. That represents your influence upon others. I want you to try and pull that in." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 02:41 am UTC (link)
	Sally watches, tries to focus, biting her lip a little as tries to reel the... whatever-it-is in. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 02:53 am UTC (link)
	Not the most promising start, though Victoria is reasonably certain she saw a brief flicker in the aurora. After a moment, she releases Sally's hand. "Eventually," she said, "you may be able to manifest greater control. For now, however... it is something you will simply have to learn to live with." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 03:22 am UTC (link)
	Sally sighs. "So, Miss Craft... this happen to a lot of people you know?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 03:31 am UTC (link)
	"It is more common than you might think," she told Sally. "In some cases, I am capable of purging demonic aspects... in your case, however, it would seem your supernatural half comes from a particularly strong source." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 03:34 am UTC (link)
	"Oh." Sally's quiet. "Did you get your hair from your dad?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-11 03:39 am UTC (link)
	She nodded. "One of many traits I inherited. My father was not entirely human." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	too_sexy 2010-09-11 03:44 am UTC (link)
	"Did they tell you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	just_a_stranger 2010-09-17 01:15 am UTC (link)
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