Honolulu Heights, Friday

[chosehumanity]

So several people had been promised a housewarming party - and George had managed to convince Mitchell not to invite everyone in the whole neighbourhood, so chances were it might not even end in disaster - which would double as a 'welcome back, Annie!' party.

That meant tea. And biscuits. But mostly loads of tea. (And little finger sandwiches; Annie had insisted, claiming they were 'classy'.)

And leis. Annie had been vocal about those, too.

But: now the place was ready, after a week of running around and shopping and arguing and laughing and then running around some more. Time to celebrate.

[[ for those who were invited, and for anyone who thinks they might have been invited! ]]

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Re: Talk to the Star of the Party

[bitten_notshy]

The way Annie said that, there was only one answer. "Yes. Yes, I am."

Even if it was hard to remember when he was picking alligator scales out of his teeth.

"I just would have rather had no change at all -- but that's never a choice, is it?"

Re: Talk to the Star of the Party

[whowantstea.livejournal.com]

Annie let her gaze wander around the living room, so much bigger than the tiny, cozy front room in the little pink house where she'd died.

And somehow she was thinking of this as the biggest change? She shook her head, both at herself and in answer to Jack's rhetorical question. "No, it never is. I think I'm glad of that too, though. I was afraid for a long time that nothing would ever be different for me now, you know?"

Re: Talk to the Star of the Party

[bitten_notshy]

"Not exactly the way you do," Jack hazarded. "But I can imagine."

He ran a hand through his hair, feeling foolish for whining about his new superpowers and monthly inconvenience to Annie, of all the people in the world.

"So you feel different?" he asked. "Not just from when you were alive, but from before -- you went away?"

Re: Talk to the Star of the Party

[whowantstea.livejournal.com]

"Well, here is certainly better than where I was after."

She hadn't really thought of it quite that way, as a change in herself, rather than her surroundings, so it took Annie a moment to answer the real question. "I suppose I... yeah. I felt like I was finished. Just...over. George was going to be normal, Mitchell was going to get himself killed, and I'd be haunting that place until they knocked it down in twenty years and put up Council flats. And then I'd be haunting Council flats."

Re: Talk to the Star of the Party

[bitten_notshy]

"Of all the depressing ways to waste eternity," Jack said. "Just listening to all the people yelling at their kids would make you mad after a while."

He managed a bit of a smile. "I'm glad none of you were finished."

Re: Talk to the Star of the Party

[whowantstea.livejournal.com]

Annie laughed, then frowned, because yeah, it really, really would, then settled on a smile herself. "I don't know what's going to happen now. And that's...rather brilliant, really."