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notarrowette

[35] Video | December is for celebrating (and distracting myself)

Dec 02, 2010 13:13

[Hello, Barge! Have a dose of forced cheer! Someone's trying to trick herself into a good mood. People who know her well may catch that she's acting a little strange.]
First of all: Happy Hannukah to everyone who celebrates! I know it's the second day, but the thought still counts, right? I don't actually know much about it. Anyone feel like ( Read more... )

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goodgrasshopper December 3 2010, 02:59:50 UTC

Mother makes a big deal out of Christmas at home. Lots of lights and decorations that we all made when we were little. We go to mass--not that we don't all the time anyway, but Christmas is just so pretty...

[Molly's little-bit homesick is getting a lot bigger. She misses her family loads. Even her mother.]

notarrowette December 3 2010, 03:09:57 UTC

[Aww, poor Molly! Cissie senses that homesickness.]

Did you see Howie's post about Advent and Christmas? We can go together, if you want. It's maybe not Mass, but--it's better than nothing.

I bet we can decorate our rooms. That's what we did at school, since we weren't at home. I mean, most people went home for Christmas, but we decorated anyway.

goodgrasshopper December 5 2010, 03:21:37 UTC

Yeah--I'd like that. I was planning on going anyway. He's not Father Forthill, but--like you said. Better than nothing.

Decorating would be nice. Maybe we can even try some Christmas crafts--like snowflakes, or macaroni art or something.

notarrowette December 6 2010, 07:15:19 UTC

There is a whole Arts and Crafts room that needs raiding. I'd totally be on board for Christmas crafts.

Also, Donny was telling me about Hannukah, and invited me to come celebrate the eighth night; there's going to be a bunch of people and doughnuts, apparently. Want to come? It sounds fun.

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Private - An hour or so later gray_atonement December 3 2010, 03:36:48 UTC

[The camera's sitting on his desk, showing empty space and some of his watchmaking tools off to the side. Sylar is out of frame.]

The flood.. I was still myself. I wasn't anything else, anyone else.

[He pauses.] ..Most of what I said was true.

I don't.. Maybe this isn't right.

Private notarrowette December 3 2010, 04:06:59 UTC

[Cissie doesn't answer right away, and looks nothing so much as tired. She's not looking directly at the screen, but down and away.]

Why? Why do you think it isn't right, now?

Private gray_atonement December 3 2010, 04:15:59 UTC

Because that's who I am. A killer. And I know that's not who you want to be with.

Private notarrowette December 3 2010, 04:32:09 UTC

[She's quiet for a moment.]

Who do you want to be with?

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Private captain_jtkirk December 3 2010, 05:27:27 UTC

You're really selling it.

Private notarrowette December 3 2010, 05:33:39 UTC

Selling what?

Private - he invented faking happiness. Fact. captain_jtkirk December 3 2010, 05:34:40 UTC

How are you doing, Cissie? Like really.

Private - curses, foiled again! notarrowette December 3 2010, 05:38:34 UTC

[LONG PAUSE]

I've been better. But I've been worse, too. I'm okay, really.

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peektuttut December 3 2010, 06:13:58 UTC

Stockings and a tree, I guess. [Pft like Christmas is safe from crime.]

notarrowette December 3 2010, 06:32:27 UTC

Totally normal and uneventful, of course. [Yeah, she knows better.]

peektuttut December 3 2010, 16:10:38 UTC

Of course. I'm going to miss Alfred's cooking, though.

notarrowette December 4 2010, 06:08:53 UTC

Maybe the Admiral can get you some of his baked goods, at least.

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(pretend this was on time) a_bit_put_upon December 3 2010, 10:28:45 UTC

[Oh, look! Pretend-cheer! He knows quite well how that goes... and he knows quite well when it's just pretend, as opposed to being used as a foothold toward real cheer. He's also learning when not to harp on it.]

What's Christmas like in a boarding school? I don't believe any of my fr--well, Turlough, but he was a strange case--had ever attended one.

(only if we also pretend I can reply on time, too) notarrowette December 4 2010, 06:07:45 UTC

[Well, she's trying to make it a foothold. We'll see if it works. ;)]

It's... really quiet, actually. I mean, people start decorating their rooms in November. And then after Thanksgiving, we all went really nuts decorating our rooms and the hallways, and we'd have little parties with each other and watch Christmas movies and specials in each other's rooms or in the common area. ...I'm imagining it won't be terribly different here, except that everyone else won't leave to go home for the actual holiday. It was always weird when everyone left and it got so quiet.

(Ace! I can pretend that along with pretending I can tag with the right account. :B) a_bit_put_upon December 4 2010, 06:27:34 UTC

When everyone left? You spent your holidays there alone?

(We are excellent pretenders! :D) notarrowette December 4 2010, 06:40:33 UTC

Well, I did usually go to a friend's house for the actual day. But yeah. I mean, there was usually at least one or two other girls who couldn't afford to travel to get home, so we'd hang out together. But I wasn't allowed to live with my mother, so I stayed there.

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