I9DT - Blasphemy

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:48 am

"One student ought to be fine. Ought to be."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:50 am

"Another asked me not to eat her or some rubbish like that, but I didn't even do anything to scare this one. Should I be worried that it keeps getting assumed in the general course of things that I eat people?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:52 am

"You project a bit. It's subtle. Unless you build your next house of gingerbread, you ought to be fine."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:54 am

She rolled her eyes. "I even made the little snot dinner. Why would I make a meal that didn't have her in it if I was going to eat her."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:55 am

"Ah, but the answer's in that same fairy tale, aye? Fattening her up."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:59 am

"She was made of stone. My teeth aren't that tough."

"And to my credit, I managed to not make jokes about her being safe because blood's the only useful part of a virgin to use."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:04 am

"Admirable restraint, I'm sure."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:06 am

"Oh, she was begging me to say it, too," Victoria mused. "No offense to present company, but my god can the super-religious be annoying."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:26 pm

"And the irony of invoking any god while saying that?" She smirked.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:47 pm

"I'd like to think that even gods get frustrated with these ones," Victoria said indignantly, though with a little smirk.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:53 pm

"Likely would take issue with me too, aye."

"And I admit it's... interesting to be on the other side of that, now."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:21 pm

"The parties are more interesting on the more hedonistic side of town," Victoria teased.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:24 pm

"As much as I can appreciate the sentiment, I'm sure you can see how awkward it would be for me as headmistress to attend... some of the gatherings you've hosted."

To say nothing of knowing your mother.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:27 pm

"Things I host? Why, I have no idea what you're talking about," Victoria said with a smirk. "I was referring to life in general, though. Metaphors, darling."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:29 pm

Yes, I'd have objected so hard to you enjoying yourself, dear. Let's not forget that in about ten years you're going to be feeling as young as she'll be feeling then...

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:33 pm

She's too much like you. That still throws me, aye? Before we even get into the age issue...

"I can't deny I've had... more cause to celebrate, of late."

by **Rebecca Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:34 pm

Oh, you have NO idea.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:37 pm

What a world where I'm hearing Valentines in stereo...

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:41 pm

"Well, someone has to be celebrating," Victoria sighed.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:47 pm

"I know I've said this before, but if there's any way I can help, I want to."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:51 pm

"I made my bed," Victoria shrugged, unconsciously curling her legs up to her chest as she leaned sideways against the back of the couch. "I can lie in it. I... hell. I can't even blame bloody Constantine for this mess, because it was my idiot self who trusted him."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:53 pm

"You're hardly the only one who's been ill-prepared, aye? Present company included."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:55 pm

"Yes, but the results are hard to argue with. When you have enough supernatural nasties looking your way that you get it proven that you can't afford to have a family? Assassins, criminals, that would be fine, but demons?' She sighed, staring at her glass, then draining it and pouring another.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:56 pm

"I don't think assassins and criminals would put a mother any more at ease."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:02 pm

"I was ready for that, though. I mean... I had my whole life to figure out how to deal with that, keep my profile low enough in the right circles... word is that all of Mother's old enemies thought I was just some vapid loose cannon with enough money to throw at any problem she came across. Hell, no one even batted an eye my way when that Shaw idiot disappeared. Then suddenly I'm host to some evil Celtic god of war, and then an apprentice sorceress, and all of a sudden I'm on radars more terrifying than I ever imagined."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:04 pm

"You were ready for that perhaps, but I can tell you that your mother wasn't at first."

"Seems to be a thing about Valentines making a splash in the world, from where I'm sitting."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:14 pm

"Yes, well, making a splash is bloody overrated," Victoria said darkly. "I didn't want to make a splash. Just wanted to go to college, maybe do some work with the X-Men... then some sadomasochistic asshole decided to stab me in the heart." She was managing to keep her voice rather calm, but her composure was obviously on a very thin line. "I never asked for any of this. Do you know what it's like to have to lay at night and know that it would've been better if that bastard had just killed me outright?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:19 pm

"Do you think she started out wanting to have to take on the slavers in Madripoor? To have to play those bloody chess games writ large that the Hellfire Club enjoy? Do you think she asked for that?"

"Nobody asks for any of this."

"Where you shine is in what you've done with your back to the wall. Make no mistake, you do shine."

...and you did too.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:28 pm

"Yes, well, she had a place she could go where her nasties couldn't get to her or her daughter. I don't," Victoria said bitterly.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:12 pm

"You're not a failure, Victoria. I know saying that doesn't make it any easier to believe, but I don't see you that way."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:50 pm

"And that's the frustrating part. I know that. The mistakes I've made... they'd give most girls a few weeks of feeling ashamed, a lesson to learn from, and maybe a few more trips to her OB than she'd like. Me, it ends up with... this. And it's not bloody fair."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:53 pm

"No, it's not. You made hard decisions that even I don't know I could have made."

"You're not the only person in my life that's having trouble forgiving herself."

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:00 pm

"Oh, there's no trouble at all. I'm not bloody trying."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:02 pm

"That's a very lonely place to be," she said simply.

by **Victoria Valentine** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:04 pm

"Different from any part of my life how?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:23 pm

There was a brief pause as she thought.

"This may sound strange of me to offer, but would you mind if I invited you to something?"

by **Victoria Valentine** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:32 pm

"It's a little late for me to start going to mass," Victoria joked dryly.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:41 pm

"As if I'm even going, of late." She chuckled.

"Nailah and I were planning a day at the spa. Would you like to come along?"

by **Victoria Valentine** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:41 pm

"...Are you coming on to me?" Victoria asked, obviously joking.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:42 pm

She laughed.

"You needn't feel like a third wheel. It's not that sort of spa."

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