Mun is considering Eudio. Muse is incredulous . What else is new?

[notascratch]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! You want to send me to "Cuddle City"? What, "City-With-No-Sense-of-Privacy-While-You-Dream" wasn't enough for you?

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[termineur]

Yikes. Sounds like I got pretty lucky with my town.

[notascratch]

[Ohai guy who wants to cut open my head. Claire will just take a wary step back.]

You got something worse than Cuddle City?

[termineur]

[Well, that's to be expected. He sticks his hands in his pockets and backs up a step as well. Not that he's ever going to be seen as not a threat, but- he's at least trying to be polite?]

Quite the opposite, actually. It's a nice little space western town. Been good for me, I think.

[notascratch]

[It's a little unsettling that Sylar is being civil, but she can at least handle civil.]

Sounds like you got the better end of the deal.

[Kinda like a vacation from the way he talks about it.]

[termineur]

Yeah, sounds like it. Don't think I'd do too well in 'Cuddle City'.

What are they offering you? Or do you know yet?

[notascratch]

[Okay, that gets a little chuckle out of her.] Probably not.

I... want to stop an exploding man.

[Sylar might know whom she's talking about.]

[termineur]

Oh.

[That's even earlier than he expected. He thinks through the possibilities and a hopeful smile comes to his face. Sorry, Claire, that's probably really weird, but he can't help it.]

I'm sure he'll really appreciate that.

[notascratch]

[Sylar and sinister smiles kinda go together so seeing this is a bit bizarre. She lowers her head, lips forming a firm line.]

If anyone deserves to live a normal, happy life, it's him.

[Heck, Claire just wants Peter to live, period. Why did he have to be the self-sacrificing type? :/]

[termineur]

He'll be okay, no matter what happens. He's more resilient than people give him credit for. But I think he's destined to have an abnormal life. Just like me. And you.

[notascratch]

[That makes her scoff, lifting her head to look at him.]

He just... [Sheesh, Peter. Even just talking about you is making Claire frustrated.] He's too selfless. Like, it's up to him to shoulder the whole world's burdens.

[termineur]

[He actually laughs at that, something he can't quite hold in.]

Yeah, that sounds like Peter. And he's saved a lot of people. But even Superman can't fix everyone's problems, you know?

I try to get him to take a break every once in awhile, but I'm not sure he's ever gonna listen to me.

[notascratch]

[Blinks. Okay, that is surreal. The magic of different canon points whoooo!]

That's good... [She guesses??] Someone's looking out for him.

When did you and my uncle get so close?

[termineur]

[He was wondering how long it was going to take her to ask about all that.]

A few months ago, technically. I was trapped in a nightmare- Peter saved me. [He tilts his head to the side, with a bit of a sigh.] But he got trapped too, at first, and so we had what felt like several years to work out our problems.

It turned out to be good for both of us. We needed some time away from...things.

All the disbelief, Claire has it XD

[notascratch]

Oh. Right. [It took her a while to ask because she couldn't believe it. Excuse her while she recovers from the shock over Sylar actually being a decent(ish?) person.]

[This is too weird.] Well, I guess this is good. Don't think he'll listen to me if I tell him to lay off the superheroics either.

[termineur]

A game thing...? [He chuckles, somewhat bitterly.] I wish. No, this was back home. Apparently telepathy lets you do a lot more than just read people.

And you definitely won't have sway with him, if you want to tell him to lay off. You're pretty much the country's first superhero, at least according to the media in my time. I do wish more people appreciated it.

oops should have kept "game thing" XD;; sorry

[notascratch]

Oh.

[Wait, what]

Me? How...?

whoooops that's what I get for not paying attention >_>;

[termineur]

You jumped off a ferris wheel in front of five media crews. I think you'd gotten tired of hiding who you were. It's really caused an uproar in the world, but I think it'll settle down once the public has something else to focus on.

[Haha, yeah no. But he doesn't know that yet. He might be overcompensating on the optimism lately. Plus, this is the best conversation he's ever had with Claire, so he's actually feeling pretty good about things for the moment.]

it's cool XDb

[notascratch]

I jumped off... a ferris wheel.

[Wow. Just wow, future!Claire.]

What do they call it now... Viral. That must have gone viral.

[termineur]

Oh, yes. It sure did.

A lot happened that day. We'd just finished fighting people and trying to keep it relatively quiet, and I think you were just sick of it. You wanted people to know we existed without the whole 'threat to the world' thing.

[notascratch]

[Now she knows how Hiro feels.]

That. Definitely sounds something I would do.

[Eventually. When she reaches her breaking point.]

I'm not there yet.

[termineur]

I know you aren't. Maybe, if you keep Peter from exploding altogether, you won't ever have to get there.

wooow this is late |D

[notascratch]

Heh. [Tiny, bittersweet smile appears on her lips.] Fingers crossed. If my mun ever gets off her butt and finally decide.

[ikols]

"Cuddling is not a requirement". You can always play at hand-holding or footsie, I'm sure they have clubs for that sort of, ah, distinctive yen.

[notascratch]

I'm actually okay with cuddling? Just the whole being thrown into another world by my mun again is getting a little old.

[And her incentive is helping out someone who saved her life so...]

[ikols]

It's more like an omni-dimensional vacation spot than anything. Trust me, I've been around it enough.

[notascratch]

[She sighs, a tiny smile quirking the corner of her lips.]

Well, when you put it like that... I could use a break.

[Canon has NOT been kind to her, to put it in a few words.]

[ikols]

It's one of the more relaxed dimensions out there. [ Never mind all his own drama, broadly speaking it's okay. ] You can hardly find fault with a place that takes mozzarella sticks as its official mascot, am I right?

[notascratch]

... Mozzarella. Sticks.

[Snerk.]

Great. Now I'm hungry for some.

[ikols]

Don't look at me, I've been banned from sampling them at all the Meet and Greets. Terrible business.

[ Mumble, mumble, misunderstandings with the waiters ... ]

[notascratch]

Whaaat, Oldies should get privileges.

[ikols]

Right? [ And they do, it's just. Loki. He suspects the Rep has something to do with it after he sent her those red roses to the official office, whoops. Sighing forlornly, he stuffs his hands in the pockets of his coat. ] But I've tasked Captain America with harvesting some on my behalf next time, so who knows? I live in hope.

[notascratch]

Hey, livin' the dream.

[Captain America? Sounds like a character in a comic her brother Lyle would read.]

Get all the mozzarella sticks you want. Rinse, repeat, y'know?

[ikols]

Great as my cravings are, you could have some of mine if you wanted. I'm watching my trim figure.

[ Patting his already flat scalemaille tummy. ]

[notascratch]

[Congratulations, Loki. You have made Claire Bennet laugh genuinely.]

Hey! I'm trying to watch mine, too. [She pats her stomach in kind.]

But I guess that's what cheerleading is for. Exercise and stuff.

[ikols]

You're a cheerleader? Ah, but that takes talent, I'm jealous! I think I'm a little too heavy for that, but perhaps one day I'll try. [ He gives her a polite bow, just to be Oldie Worldie about it for the sake of gaining a sweet girl's laugh. ] I am Loki of Asgard, definitely not pyramid-topping material. Much too heavy!

[notascratch]

Thanks.

[There was pregnant pause before Claire answers again.]

... Yeah. Um, sort of? [The squad kinda kicked her out after she crashed Brody Mitchell's car into a wall, but eh. Details. She became Homecoming Queen in the process?? \o_O/] I was co-captain of my squad back home.

[That earns him another laugh and an attempt of a curtsy in return.] Claire Bennet, Loki of Asgard.

[Tilting her head at him after straightening up, furrowing her brows in thought.] Nah, you can be a base. The smaller girls [Like her.] get to be the toppers and fliers.