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Being Bella's consort has some perks of reflected fame; by the time Ripper's solo album is done, he has plenty of fans, enough to support a significant tour through even Earthly venues.
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tearingup
[The singing was fun. And watching you grant wishes is cute, I just don't want to spend an entire day on it.]
bellfounding
[Fair enough, I'm totally also remotely having a meeting with the disaster relief team and double-checking J's sort of the next resurrection batch.]
bellfounding
[I am, it is true. After this thing is over we should do something less crowded.]
bellfounding
[That's not even what I meant, although it is admittedly an occupational hazard of spending uncrowded time together. I meant we could - watch a movie or go skating again or return to the intergalactic gazebo and see if any of the Jokers have quietly set it up for another visit just in case.]
tearingup
[You, me, intergalactic gazebo, delicious dinner, flower petals everywhere? Yeah, sounds like a date.]
bellfounding
The party is all through on schedule, with a fireworks display and the orchestral version of the anthem, and then Bella pops into Ripper's hallway and knocks.
bellfounding
[Hi!] She is mixing things up today. She tastes like rosemary.
tearingup
Mmmmakeouts.
It's been long enough - have they really been dating for more than a year? - that the previous explosions of petals are nowhere to be seen, and the gazebo is not currently flowering. But it's still there, still in good condition, still enchanted.
It's been long enough - have they really been dating for more than a year? - that the previous explosions of petals are nowhere to be seen, and the gazebo is not currently flowering. But it's still there, still in good condition, still enchanted.
bellfounding
Bella pulls Ripper down onto the couch-thing that formed when they stopped sitting in opposite chairs, in case anything happens when they do that besides the predictably obvious.
tearingup
The couch-thing assumes its snuggliest configuration, and Ripper kisses her some more—
And flowers bloom from the walls and the floor and around the edge of the uncluttered table. These ones have a collar of black leafy spikes surrounding a flower that starts red-orange at the base of each petal and moves through brilliant yellow to fiery yellow-white.
And flowers bloom from the walls and the floor and around the edge of the uncluttered table. These ones have a collar of black leafy spikes surrounding a flower that starts red-orange at the base of each petal and moves through brilliant yellow to fiery yellow-white.
bellfounding
[So apparently we didn't see all the flowers last time.]
tearingup
[Or there's new ones. I wonder if it's going to - yep,] he says, as flamelike petals start gently raining on them.
bellfounding
[Very charming. Hopefully tentacle porn flowers aren't in its repertoire, that'd be a surprise.]