Room 223, Wednesday Night
Aug. 31st, 2011 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Four days back in Fandom, and Tara had finally gathered her courage to call her father and explain where she was and, by the way, could he see about arranging transport for Mr. Moxy from one coast to the other?
It was one of the more excruciating conversations Tara had ever had, filled with Mr. Maclay's indignation about daughters who swanned off out of the blue to God-knows-where with God-knows-who and worried everyone and didn't do their duty, and what their mothers might think about it. But in the end, he grudgingly agreed Tara could have her cat back if she paid for the shipping. (Incidentally, he wanted to know, who ever shipped a cat? Was this some dirty witch thing?)
Whatever nice impulses he'd had right after Tara's mother died, it was safe to say they were long gone.
Once she finally got off the phone, Tara flopped onto her bed with her eyes closed and the door slightly open. Two classes down, one to go, plus a day at the Magic Box.
She could do this.
She had to.
[OOC: I worried far too much about what was happening to the dang imaginary cat while she traveled. Open post, either way.]
It was one of the more excruciating conversations Tara had ever had, filled with Mr. Maclay's indignation about daughters who swanned off out of the blue to God-knows-where with God-knows-who and worried everyone and didn't do their duty, and what their mothers might think about it. But in the end, he grudgingly agreed Tara could have her cat back if she paid for the shipping. (Incidentally, he wanted to know, who ever shipped a cat? Was this some dirty witch thing?)
Whatever nice impulses he'd had right after Tara's mother died, it was safe to say they were long gone.
Once she finally got off the phone, Tara flopped onto her bed with her eyes closed and the door slightly open. Two classes down, one to go, plus a day at the Magic Box.
She could do this.
She had to.
[OOC: I worried far too much about what was happening to the dang imaginary cat while she traveled. Open post, either way.]
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:05 am (UTC)The impulse to be blunt was never going to go away, though.
"His disappointment can bite me," she said forcefully. "Pretty sure you could breathe and he'd be disappointed. So screw that."
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:24 am (UTC)She wasn't sure how much she meant it, or would follow it, but she knew she wanted to mean it.
"He's shipping out Moxy, anyhow. I m-miss him."
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:27 am (UTC)And you, she didn't add.
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:40 am (UTC)Tara was a little slow on the uptake.
"Oh. Oh! Tell him closets are for sheets,not bunnies."
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-01 03:46 am (UTC)She glanced over to Natalie's side of the room and added, "They gave me a new roomie. She's ... quiet."
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:51 am (UTC)She paused for a moment. "Must be weird adjusting, huh? You had a room to yourself for, like, forever."
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:54 am (UTC)She glanced over at Natalie's side of the room. "She likes computers and anime and stuff. We haven't really talked a lot."
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Date: 2011-09-01 03:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-01 04:00 am (UTC)A nervous beat.
"When is it there?"
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Date: 2011-09-01 05:21 am (UTC)Stupid confusing time difference.
"I'm kind of glad to know you're back, though."
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Date: 2011-09-01 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-01 05:25 pm (UTC)"Big adjustment." It didn't occur to her, either, to wonder if talking like this was a bad idea-- not from her year-and-a-half-later vantage point, anyway. Besides, if the other option was to stop caring, it wasn't really an option at all.
"Having Moxy around again should help with that."
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Date: 2011-09-01 05:46 pm (UTC)She stretched her arm, up, touching the familiar wall. Her wall. "It's home, either way. Really."
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Date: 2011-09-01 05:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-01 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-01 06:28 pm (UTC)A beat.
"My apartment is a lot bigger at that size, just FYI."
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Date: 2011-09-01 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-01 06:57 pm (UTC)Also, still not remotely dignified.
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Date: 2011-09-01 07:04 pm (UTC)Then, uneasily: "I'm sure it was a fluke. It has to be, right?"
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Date: 2011-09-01 07:10 pm (UTC)Talking about the hedgehog thing was still a little embarrassing.
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