Streets of Fandom near Graveyard, Friday Morning

[chosehumanity]

Another week gone, another couple of days spent hauling bodies from a hospital to a funeral home, waiting for them to reanimate. Mitchell had strayed onto the island early, wandering. His own thoughts were a messy jumble; he could use some quiet.

He wasn't even sure when he'd wound up so close to the graveyard, but there he was. ('It's a bit like raising an army, isn't it?' Seth had giggled about the last fledgeling. Somehow that had felt utterly, utterly wrong - they were working to improve the world, here, not raze it to the ground - and he'd been out of it since.)

"Some days, my soul's confined and out of mind, sleep forever," he sang, softly, and mostly under his breath; a little louder, he added, "Sometimes my darkest friend is me again, have you ever--"

He didn't quite realise anything strange was going on.

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[chosehumanity]

What were they even arguing about, at this point? Mitchell had the feeling they were wandering off the path somehow, except he wasn't really sure what the path had been to begin with.

He blamed the melodrama, himself.

"Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all, but lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall," he sang, and winced internally. (And externally, actually. The oh god, the drama was as visible on his face as it was on hers.) "Lend me your eyes I can change what you see, but your soul you must keep, totally free."

He could swear the island was just doing it for the heck of it, now; and making him pace around Kate in a broad circle at the same time. (Experimental choreography. Bah.)

[vanillajello]

Kate was eyeing the pacing with a look of pure what the fuck are you doing now, but she didn't actually get to voice that.

"I don't know what to do 'cause it's always been you who helps me to make up my mind."

Ugh, was that even remotely true? She supposed occasionally yes, but. Whatever.

She'd meant to grudgingly ask him for a job at the movie theater, originally. It had been a vague idea, come from how she'd quit her debt collecting gig the day before. She didn't quite feel that would be happening anymore.

[chosehumanity]

Give it a week. He was long overdue for losing his status as Vampire Employee of the Month anyway, not that he knew that.

Mitchell's foot halted mid-pace as he found, to his relief, that he was regaining control of it. He jerked it back like he'd been burned, taking a full step back after that. He gave the whole situation a jerky shake of his head.

"Jesus!"

No, that wasn't singing.

[vanillajello]

Kate gave him a sour look. "Can we call it a day? Now would that be okay? Can we just go our own separate ways?"

Yeah, she looked even more sour when she realized she hadn't stopped singing even if he had. That would sadly keep happening to her all day.

But at least she got to sing what she wanted to say.

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell ran a hand roughly through his hair, trying to focus. Right. Okay. Fine.

"Fine," he said. "Fine, whatever you like, Kate." The anger took him by surprise. "Whatever, right?"

He took another step backwards. Going, now.

[vanillajello]

Kate didn't move. She'd do that once he was gone, probably. Maybe her legs felt wobbly, or maybe she was making some sort of a point. She didn't know.

"Yes, Mitchell, whatever," she replied in short, clipped tones. Being able to speak wasn't much of a consolation. "Just a stupid human, right?"

[chosehumanity]

"Yes," he snapped. "Thuggish, and self-involved, and cruel. And you, you don't even know what the fuck you want from anything, so whatever."

[vanillajello]

Kate managed not to wince, though she wasn't sure how. "Because you're such a fucking paragon of knowing what you want, Mitchell," she retorted. "Really. I'm so impressed you didn't get whiplash from how fast you decided to start hating on humanity."

[chosehumanity]

"I tried to be like you," Mitchell shot back. One foot at a time, he was walking away, one step back, then another. "I really did. I thought that you lot were good, something to look up to. Fool me once, yeah?"

[vanillajello]

"Well you didn't try hard enough!" Kate snapped, standing still, as if frozen except for her face and mouth. "People are assholes but that's part of the deal! What, do you think you're somehow better than us now?"

[chosehumanity]

"It doesn't take much," Mitchell snarled back, "To be better than the lot of you!"

He was going to regret that later.

[vanillajello]

"Well." Well. That stung more than it should have. "You're definitely still human when it comes to being a dick to people who give a shit about you."

She shook her head, pulled on a mask of indifference.

"I don't think I deserve any of this, but... Whatever."