Fluff is good!

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

[ Lys has foregone the bar tonight. It doesn't feel right to be down there flirting, and she really doesn't know what to do with herself otherwise.

So she scurried off to Owen's apartment, and is curled on the couch with her ipod and a book, just reading. At one point, she starts to drift off, but she wants to stay awake to see Owen when he's done with work.

It doesn't work, and eventually she falls asleep, book open across her chest. ]

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[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

Just the one.

... Except when my brothers show up. Then it's two or three.

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

Don't I feel special.

I didn't know you had brothers.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

You should.

[Wellp now he's just gonna eat some kiwi.] Yep. Two of 'em.

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

I... should I?

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

The girl turns into a swimming weasel and doesn't think she's special? Something's wrong with that.

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

That's all I can do, remember? It doesn't make me special, it makes me broken.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

... Babe, you can turn into a squeaky little water monkey. That's not exactly something everybody gets to do.

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

Big fucking whoop. I'm still defective.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

You see me turning into anything?

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

No, but you're not a shifter. I am and I'm broken.

[ It's not a gift, it's a curse and she'll believe that until the day she dies. ]

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're just a were-weasel.

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

Don't even joke, Owen.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

... Okay.

[He's just going to chomp on this banana then.]

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

[ Well. This conversation got depressing. Just gonna nibble on her sandwich. ]

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

... I think I'm gonna go to bed.

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

... Okay. Do you mind if I crash on the couch?

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

Nope. Go on. Just don't break it.

[He says as he saunters out of the kitchen, absently peeling off his shirt in the process.]

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

[ Oh god oh god don't stare don't stare don't--- yeah, totally staring ]

Oh... kay.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

[Aaaaaaaaaand he's turning around.]

Something wrong?

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

[ she is having so many inappropriate thoughts right now dkljhdskjfslgg

She just. Buries her face in her hands ]

Nothing wrong. 'm fine.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

... You sure?

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

[ she answers perhaps a little too quickly ]

Yes. Yes I'm sure.

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

Okay, sweetheart. Whatever you say.

[Derp just going to saunter off to bed.]

[youotterknow.livejournal.com]

[ She finishes her sandwich, and cleans up the kitchen as a distraction.

Despite her nap earlier, it doesn't take her long to drift off when she makes it back to the couch.

And she has another nightmare. One she hasn't had in years. She's by the river again, everything is the same as it was that day, only now she's grown. She's grown and her family is there. They're talking to her. Telling her that she's worthless, defective. Broken. They don't want her. They don't love her. They never have. And then they push her in.

There's no rescue this time- her abilities won't respond- and she's swept away, pulled under by the current.

She wakes up gasping and crying and shaking. It takes her a moment to collect herself, and she just sits there in the dark for a while. Eventually, and against her better judgement, she pads into Owen's room, and crawls into bed next to him. She doesn't even bother to shift this time. She just needs to know that someone, anyone, is there. So she curls as close as she dares, silent sobs occasionally shaking through her. ]

[nalo-ahi.livejournal.com]

[To be honest, he was sort of expecting this. Which is why there's an extra pillow there. And why he was sort of half asleep and listening for the door, and the footsteps.]

[He slings an arm out, too, waiting.]