Nexus: A Little Knowledge

[save_us_alice]

Alice is worried. Just a few minutes ago, Victor sent her a message via PINpoint asking her to meet him in the Nexus to discuss something "of grave importance." She doesn't know what he wants to talk about, though it's obviously quite serious. Nervous, she makes her way over to the meeting spot he assigned. What on earth could he have to say?

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[deadgirlsliekme.livejournal.com]

Victor pats her back. "I'm glad to hear that," he says. "And no, it doesn't. It was hardly your fault you ended up in there. And I believe you when you say you're fine now." He suddenly smirks, a rather odd expression for him. "Though I don't know about fully sane. You are the girl who discovered Wonderland."

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

"Hmph. I'll have you know my madness is quite pleasant," Alice huffs playfully. "If you have a problem with it--"

[deadgirlsliekme.livejournal.com]

"Alice, I live next door to a man who is half-clockwork and can control the weather. Both he and his best friend were kidnapped by Faeries. Both he and I passed through a Rift into an entirely new dimension. I now have the ability to leave my body for dead and become a ghost. And before any of that, I managed to bring a corpse back from the grave by inadvertently proposing marriage to it," Victor says, deadpan. "I have to say, it appears I thrive on madness."

More seriously, he adds, "I really do want to make this work. I don't know how, yet -- I mean, you can't keep disappearing off to here, and I can't visit your world -- if I'm not the right Victor for it, there will be confusion, but it might be worse if I am -- but I want to."

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

Alice laughs at his little speech. He most certainly has her there. And she is absolutely relieved. "Good."

She gives him a little squeeze. "I want to too," she tells him, with a soft smile. "I really like you. And I liked that future I saw. We'll figure something out, I'm sure."

[deadgirlsliekme.livejournal.com]

Victor smiles back at her. "Well then -- would -- would you -- would you l-like to go on a d-date sometime?" he offers up.

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

Alice feels a warm glow all over. "I'd love to," she whispers. Goodness, if Aunt Susan could see her now. She probably wouldn't believe it was her niece.

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"Wonderful!" Victor pauses as he realizes something. "Er -- just give me some time to d-decide where." Whoops.

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

Alice chuckles. "That's fine." She gives him another squeeze, feeling surprisingly content. She doesn't know how this will all work out, but on some level, she's confident it will. Probably the level that remembers being thirty, and being his wife.

[deadgirlsliekme.livejournal.com]

Victor squeezes back, then looks down. Alice looks so lovely right now. . . . Does he dare?

Well, he can try, he supposes. He leans down, eyes fluttering closed and lips pursing.

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

Alice is surprised at his boldness, but it's a pleasant surprise. He really must be serious if he's doing this. Smiling, she goes up on tiptoe to meet him halfway.

This kiss is much nicer than their previous ones.

[deadgirlsliekme.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a sentiment Victor agrees with muchly. Now that much of his anxiety has been quelled, he can actually enjoy kissing Alice.

He breaks it after a bit, smiling down at her. He doesn't regret the loss of Burtonsville at all now. So this is why people think love is so wonderful.

[save-us-alice.livejournal.com]

And Alice?

Is thinking pretty much the same thing.