Pick Your Poison, Friday Afternoon
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Well, Adrian was a plant, so dinner wasn't happening tonight. Pam could live with that. It gave her time to finish up the salve she'd been working on for Octavia.
Which meant spending most of the day upstairs, messing around with chemicals, but... eventually, it was done.
Done and tested, if in a limited way.
She eyed the little container, and let out a breath. Right. Time to go downstairs, make some coffee, and blow off some steam.
Maybe, she reflected, once finally downstairs, she could get Adrian some fertilizer, as a treat.
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Which meant spending most of the day upstairs, messing around with chemicals, but... eventually, it was done.
Done and tested, if in a limited way.
She eyed the little container, and let out a breath. Right. Time to go downstairs, make some coffee, and blow off some steam.
Maybe, she reflected, once finally downstairs, she could get Adrian some fertilizer, as a treat.
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Date: 2024-11-29 05:21 pm (UTC)Not that anyone here had rage, or anything.
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Date: 2024-11-29 05:26 pm (UTC)Not too deep. Not when she and this Harley had finally achieved some kind of a detente. "But eventually, it escalated. He pressured me into becoming part of his experiments." She rubbed the edge of her cup idly. "When I woke up in the hospital some time later, barely back from the brink of death, I found out he'd run away."
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Date: 2024-11-29 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-11-29 06:33 pm (UTC)Although:
"Wait, 'more or less'? What the fuck's that mean?"
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Date: 2024-11-29 06:35 pm (UTC)"Woodrue was many things, but 'brilliant' was definitely part of it," Pam said. (There was something gratifying about the anger, though, much as it was an echo of a similar anger on a similar face many years ago.) "He wanted to find a way to meld human and plant DNA. He found it. I was a successful experiment. So was he."
She shrugged. Looked out the window.
"Killing something like us takes a little more effort than usual."
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Date: 2024-11-29 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-29 07:50 pm (UTC)"I ate him."
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Date: 2024-11-29 07:53 pm (UTC)There was a beat of staring, and then:
"You ate him?!"
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Date: 2024-11-29 07:55 pm (UTC)Why yes, Harley, she had changed since college.
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Date: 2024-11-30 03:52 pm (UTC)Just possibly not for the reasons the average person would have. "Was it gross?" she asked. "Jesus Christ, Pam, not to get all literal with toxic masculinity, but that sounds like it would give a gal the shits like no other."
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Date: 2024-11-30 04:02 pm (UTC)And-- surprised herself with the laugh that followed. Oh, Harley. (Was that affection on Pam's face? Probably dangerous territory.)
"It was really gross," she said. "They always say 'eat the rich', but they never warn you about the taste."
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Date: 2024-11-30 07:46 pm (UTC)(That was the story she was sticking to, anyway.)
"Guess ya should just -- well, guess that it's gonna be fucking rank," she scowled. "'Cause some people've gotta suck all the to their last second on this rock suspended in space!"
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Date: 2024-11-30 07:49 pm (UTC)She gave her ponytail a tug. (Ugh, Harley-not-Harley had her fidgeting.) "But he won't be bothering me again," she settled on
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Date: 2024-11-30 08:37 pm (UTC)"Good," Harley replied, with a firmness that bordered on comical. "Means I don't have to start considerin' a revenge mission. Which is it's own kind of good 'cause I don't think I could stomach a guy like that."
She was going to think about... her Pam. Eventually.
And wonder.
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Date: 2024-11-30 08:43 pm (UTC)"No, I don't think you're the man-eating type, peanut," Pam said - gently, for her standards. "But I appreciate the sentiment."
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Date: 2024-12-01 09:08 pm (UTC)"Wait, what'd you call me?"
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Date: 2024-12-01 09:14 pm (UTC)Oh. Oh. Pam winced. "Sorry," she said. "'Peanut'. It's a thing-- I lost track for a moment, I'm sorry."
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Date: 2024-12-03 05:41 pm (UTC)Very Harley how the end of that question went all sorts of high.
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Date: 2024-12-03 05:43 pm (UTC)She really needed to keep that affection out of her voice, ugh. At least she somewhat hid it behind something wry and dry this time.
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