you know i won't let you get away.

[seeingyou]

WHO: OPEN to all passengers.
WHAT: General mingle log for the first part of the month, including new partner pairing stuff.
WHERE: Navi, all over.
WHEN: Now until the next event (through Feb. 20).
WARNINGS: If things get messy and/or upsetting, please put warnings in your comment subject lines! And if you absolutely can't keep from strangling your new partner, please report it on the death page.

Hello, passengers! Today begins just like normal, but it’s far from an ordinary day. On this fine point in space-time, passengers will notice a little something different when it comes to the glyphs marked on the backs of their hands.

They're glowing. The light is a deep shade of blue, and it's slowly blinking on and off. Maybe it's searching for something? It's entirely possible, because affected passengers will also feel a gentle tugging sensation that stops once they've come face to face with their partners. The glyph will switch to glowing a steady blue once partners are synced with each other, and they'll be able to communicate telepathically with each other, too.

Have fun getting to know each other a little better! Or, you know. Yelling at each other. Just try to keep the murder to a minimum, OK?

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[relance]

Is Julia surprised by both of them ending up on the ground with Harry making a screech that hurts her ears as it echoes around the garden? Nope, not in the slightest because she knows Harry and all of his screeches, and even if they're loud they're so fucking welcome that Julia cannot believe it. There's been too much that's going on and that has been loss since she'd arrived here, so Julia is going to take whatever she can get considering happy things. And Harry's arriving is a very good thing.

"Who else would it be?" Jules just beams at him as she rises to her feet and offers him her hand to help him up. "God, I cannot believe you're here. I mean, shit I wouldn't have wanted you to leave Cameron and whatever to be in fucking weird ass space, but I'm so glad that you are. I've been going insane here. People are just so fucking stupid and you would have thought that I'd be used to it after Sarah but this is a whole different level of fucking dumb."

[exlibrisharry]

At least if he's going to be tackled like he wandered onto a football field it was by someone he knows. Someone he trusts, who wouldn't have shoved him in a locker in high school or let him get demolished at work. He grabs her hand and pushes up from the ground onto his feet.

"It's that bad? Not that Sarah's dumb." He still feels protective of his weird cousin-slash-boss, but that's an afterthought as he opens his arms for a hug -- one that won't knock him off his feet this time.

[relance]

Jules hugs him tightly, but not too tightly because he’s basically a human stick and one of the few people on this or any other planet that she cares about frankly. But she does sigh dramatically (because she’s Julia) when he mentions that Sarah’s not stupid.

“These people? Totally stupid. Well not totally. There’s a few who are okay. There’s a guy here from Magnus who is funny. We’re from after him but he stopped the Stranger ritual last year. There’s Murmur who’s cool and Jack who I like. Most everyone else is a fucking moron.” Julia just snorts a bit at that.

“Especially the guy who I’m like psychically bound too. He’s a fucking moron and a half and a skeptic.”

[exlibrisharry]

Harry's thin bones shift a little under her tight hug but they do that when a strong breeze blows anyway and frankly he'll take it now. Julia's presence is comforting and for a second he gets choked up: having someone here he trusts is extraordinarily lucky. He'd say it was too good to be true if he didn't hate literally everything else about this so much.

By the time he replies he's swallowed the lump in his throat, though he doesn't release her from the hug. "That's more smart people than we had back home." He doesn't know any of these people and getting his hopes up feels like a fool's errand but still, it's something.

"What'd he do?"

[relance]

"Kinda reminds me of you at the beginning honestly. But he's definitely a hell of a lot older and has been dealing with this shit a fucking lot longer too. He's like psychic and there's some demon shit that I don't even know what the hell. And trauma. So much fucking trauma." While Julia is a fucking asshole, she's not the sort of person who would go into what that person's trauma actually is however, because she really wouldn't want someone to do that to her. Well, she'd probably actually murder someone who did that to her, especially these days but six of one and half a dozen of the other honestly.

It tells a lot about how much Julia actually trusts him that she doesn't pull out from the hug which she would have for anyone else on any planet. But this is Harry, and what it comes down to it is her puppy and they've gone through entirely too much shit to end up not being like one of her favorite people on earth. (Though she does like Cameron too. And occasionally Sarah, at least after everything with Fiona and the firetruck. Kinda hard to live through that shit and not like someone even a little bit, even for someone like Jules.)

"Have you found the person you're supposed to be partnered with here? Like there's a weird pull to it."

[exlibrisharry]

"Are demons a real thing now?" That's excellent. He'll believe it when he sees it, of course, but if he's learned nothing else over the last few months it's that nothing he believes affects reality. And if they are real, of course they inflict trauma. What doesn't, at this rate? (Beyond, in his personal experience, werewolves.)

They'd been through a lot together, a lot of stupidity and supernatural bullshit and conspiracy and confusion, and it's fitting if not weirdly coincidental that they're back together dealing with the unknown. But damn, at least they're due for something good.

"I don't think so. There's no way I can sign up to be partners with you, is there?"

[relance]

“I wish there was. It’s bullshit that we can’t chose. I think I’ve had three partners here? Four maybe. But all of them have left save for Strand.” For Julia who is always the one who happens to leave, it’s an entire thing. Sometimes abandonment issues are a thing even if you don’t like it that there’s someone hanging around in your brain other than you. It sucks. But at least some of the more annoying ones have left—Julia is very glad for that.

“The demons are real in his world I think. There’s someone else from his world too. It’s weird because there’s so many different,” Julia stresses that world, because she knows that there’s at least one Angel on board who showed her his wings and there are other people that don’t precisely smell human. It’s a hard thing to gage honestly. But.

“Would you believe there’s someone here from The Magnus Institute in London? He’s the archivist there. I’ve never met him before but he stopped a ritual just like we did. I think you’d like him actually. His name is Jonathan Sims.”