wright_idea | RP POST: Seeing again for the first time ((Locked to Ivy))

RP POST: Seeing again for the first time ((Locked to Ivy))

Phoenix waits in the Nexus near a portal he knows comes out near a pretty decent restaurant back home. He has a fuller bouquet of carnations this time, the prettiest ones he could find. He's trying to be more excited, but after last night's argument with Mia he's not feeling at his most energetic. Still, it's hard not to be excited at all.

After all, Ivy will be able to see him for real.

He swallows. What if she doesn't like him? What he's too short, or not attractive enough, or his hair's too spikey? He's all concerned about his appearance, straightening his hair once ever five seconds or so.

He hopes she likes him.

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"Tell me about it. Sometimes I wonder if my world being so normal IS the weird one." He shakes his head.

Phoenix is silent for a bit, mulling this. "You know, that sounds about right. I just... I couldn't. Not even if it changes things for my own alternate. You summed it up pretty well." He smiles sadly. "Thanks."

He swallows. "I think... now, maybe it was to try and break me off, though I'm not sure... but she told me..." He takes a deep breath. "She told me... that she was giving up on the case she was working on for so long."

His voice is a little shaky at this point. "It... I didn't know what to say. On the one hand, it could've saved her life... but she'd always told me never to give up until there's no more room for doubt, you know? So to hear her say that..." He grows quiet, and eats a little before finally saying, "I think you know what I mean, right?"

The contact is soothing. His fingers curl into hers. "Thank you. This means a lot to me," he murmurs.

"...Well to me your world seems strange. From what I've heard." She offers him a comforting look.

"I know. But..Look at it this way. Things might turn out easier for him. He won't have to have the hurt of loosing such a good friend." What he was saying though. Wow.

"I...Yeah." She gives him a very weak look. Then comfortingly rubs her fingers against him.

"I'm glad I can help somehow." She blushes a bit. "...I'm kinda tempted to take you home so I can take care of you. It..It just seems like you've been having it really rough."

"Compared to others? Maybe idiosyncratic. We have our fair share of weirdos, but not too much paranormal aside from a bit of spirit channeling and ESP." He shrugs.

"I... guess. Though I feel, sometimes, that a lot of what made me who I am came from the trials I had to endure without her help." He shakes his head. "But it's silly of me to expect all of my alternates to conform to the person I am, I guess."

He grins a bit. "Boy, tempting. But I'm letting an alternate of mine stay at my place for a bit to try and pull himself back together, so..." He sounds almost regretful, though!

She tilts her head then tries very hard not to grin. "But see, to me that sort of thing seems strange. I'm aware that magic and...spirits...and things could be real but...I'm so used to looking for scientific data. And ESP doesn't exactly give me that."

"It is. But it's also rather...sweet. If you think about it. You want the other yous to have a chance to flourish under the pressures that they'll face when they eventually won't have their wonderful mentor to guide them. It seems to me that you just want them to turns out ok. Nothing wrong with that."

And she ends up blushing a great deal. Oh, his piky is rather interesting too. "Um...Right. Maybe another time. Heh."

"Really?" He thinks about this. "I guess 'strange' is really just a matter of what you did and didn't grow up with. I have a friend who comes from sometime in the 19th Century, and he's constantly bewildered by modern technology. Though honestly, a few years ago I thought it was strange too." He chuckles a bit. "Then again, I thought a LOT of things were more strange before I came to the Nexus."

He smiles. "Yeah... but at the same time, I want the mentor to live. It's a pretty complex situation, dealing with time... still, I guess it's too late to worry about repercussions too much. I've already made my choice." The smile fades. "I just wish I knew if it was the right one or not."

He nods. "Another time. For certain." Definitely.

She grins just a bit. "I'll have to meet him someday. He sounds rather interesting. Of course to me everyone is. I like people in general."

"You can't know. People never do. It's because of how we percive reality. Often we can only understand the most basic of things around us. It takes a great deal to move past that. But it isn't too hard I suppose. And you won't often know your efforts mean anything until much latter anyways. " She is just a lttle cynical about time differnces. Oh and she also just doesn't want Phoenix hurt either. That's mostly her interest in this. So she'll try helping him.

"Yeahj. I think...we'll both enjoy that once it um...Can happen." She offers him a shy smile. Mostly because her mind is in a 'bad' place right now. Well not that bad. But she has decided to wait on acting upon the 'err, thoughts. Even if it might leave her a little fusterated.

He grins back. "He's very interesting. And a good man, though I wonder sometimes if he's troubled by something. Still, I'd love for you to meet him sometime." He'd love for her to meet all his friends, really. And no, it has nothing to do with showing her off like a trophy. Mostly.

Phoenix takes a deep breath and mulls this. "Well, I hope things work out well, anyway. Maybe you're right. Maybe I should stop worrying. I just wish she hadn't cut me out like that. Not knowing is worse than knowing, I find," he says at last. "It's good that I can talk to you like this, though."

Phoenix would be highly flattered and receptive to such thoughts, but wouldn't admit it. Considering his, um, problems dealing with peoples' libidos since hitting the Nexus, it'd be nice to be with a woman he enjoyed the company of, rather than something via LOL, or something.

The check comes, at length, and Phoenix puts out a credit card. "One nice thing about Chinese restaurants -- they never ask you about dessert," he says, chuckling.

"I think I'd like that. I'm sure they're really interesting people. I mean...Nexus." That pretty much sums up why she thinks they'll be interesting.

"Yeah. Maybe she'll realize that cutting you out was a nad dea? I don't know if she will. But it would be nice. And..I'm glad that you can. It's nice."

It is nice. And Ivy herself normally doesn't indluge her libido. Well, she might do so more if circumstances change more. But that probably is a ways off.

"Heh. Chinese is always very filling. I'll probably cringe at anything more than coffee when I get home." Well she did need to study more. And work on things from her internship that they had asked her to look over.

"Yeah, that about covers it." He chuckles.

"Well, I hope she does it soon. There's not really that much time left..." He trails off, and sort of leaves it at that. It says everything, really.

He nods. "Funny, and yet you're always hungry a few hours later." He shrugs as the card comes back, and he signs off on it. "What'd you think, by the way? Pretty good, right?"

"Oh...I'm...Sorry." She squeezes his hand lightly. She can't really do much of anything else. Well maybe this is enough.

"Heh. Yeah. But I usually am fine for the rest of the night." She cants her head, a little like a well fed puppy. "I liked it. Food was great, thanks!"

He nods, squeezing back. It's amazing, really, having someone he could really talk to like this. It makes him realize how long he's stayed out of the loop, how much he's denied himself in his anxiety ever since Dahlia. It's almost... magic.

He walks her out, heading back through the portal that led into his own world and back into the Nexus. "I'm glad you did like it. I like it because it's not too expensive, of course..." He shakes his head. "Can you still see, here in the Nexus? It hasn't worn off yet?" he asks.

Just a magic of a different kind. No wand waving involed. Just feelings and words.

She giggles just a bit. But good food that is chea is wonderful. "I..." She sighs now. "I can't, sorry." She reaches into her jacket for her cane and lets it snap into place.

"It was nice while it lasted though."

He swallows. "Oh, um..."

Should he? ...oh, hell with it.

"Guess we'll just have to settle for feel, then." And he leans down to kiss her on the lips.

And the cane gets dropped! She can pick that up latter. She hadn't expected a good night kiss. But she of course returns the kiss.

And hey, nice to get a surprise.

After a few seconds (though perhaps not quite long enough, Phoenix thinks), he breaks away, smiling. Then notes the cane. "Oh, uh, you dropped this..." He bends down, grabs it, and hands it back to her. Well. Guess he's got SOME sort of effect, anyway.

And Ivy is quite flushed. This was a nice end to a pretty decent date.

"Umm...Well...guh." She's non-verbal right now. Yeajh. Phoenix, you stud you!

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RP POST: Seeing again for the first time ((Locked to Ivy))

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