fandomhigh | Destiny & Free Will, Week V [Monday, Period 4]

Current Mood: calm

Entry tags:

destiny and free will

Destiny & Free Will, Week V [Monday, Period 4]

As the students came in today, they'd probably all be pleased to notice the lack of desks. Instead, there were huge piles of pillows and blankets heaped around, and the television set up in front of the room. Ghanima was showing affection in the best way she knew how, with pastries from JGoB and carafes of coffee and juice from the Perk.

"We'll delay the discussion of the 'omnis' until next week," she said cheerfully, once everyone had picked a spot. "Today, we're watching a movie that involves destiny."

[ocd up!]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"She ... was rather panicked, at first." Which was a mild way to put how she woke screaming. "But she calmed down and then..." Eleanor tilted her head. "She asked to feel my pulse."

"There was a version of you in that other world," Karla said slowly, carefully. "That Eleanor was a vampire."

Eleanor had heard some things about that other world, about the existance of vampires there, but...the idea that she would be one of them...

All she could think to ask was, "How? I mean...why me?"

"You're gifts, I'm betting," Karla said quietly. "Most vampires were especially vulnerable to fire. You weren't."

"Oh. I suppose that makes some sense," she admitted. Then, after a moment, quietly, "I ... almost don't want to know what I did there, but some part of me wants to anyway."

"You don't have to tell me, of course," she added. She could always find out from someone she didn't know quite so well. Maybe it would be better that way.

"I will tell you if you really wish to know," Karla said quietly. It would hurt, but she would spare Leda that pain.

Eleanor considered for a long moment. She did want to know, but didn't want Karla to go through any more than she already had.

"Only if you feel up to it. I understand if you don't want to talk about it."

"I don't, not really," Karla said. "But it is your right to know. Especially since it might affect things between you and Leda, at least for a little while."

Karla looked away for a moment, composing herself and her thoughts. "You may be able to get more information out of Dinah. As a vampire, she knew other-you better than I did. My first major interaction with you was the night that other-you killed Leda." Her eyes were soft and compassionate as she broke the news to Eleanor. "I think she made Leda enjoy her death, by magic, but she bled her dry. I arrived too late. The vampire was done and Leda was too far gone to save."

And then, as if that wasn't enough; "During the final battle, we chanced upon one another. That's not true, I had been actively searching for your--her--magic. I found her and we fought and...I won." No need to give the graphic details. Eleanor could surely understand what winning entailed.

"I'm so sorry." Karla hid behind the curtain of her hair, waiting for Eleanor to respond.

There was a long moment of silence as she digested this. Leda. She'd killed Leda? Little wonder Leda reacted the way she had upon seeing her.

"I ... don't know what to say. I wouldn't have ever thought myself capable of such acts." She studied Karla for a moment. "There's nothing for you to be sorry about. You did what you had to."

"That wasn't you," Karla said, fiercely, raising her head to look at Eleanor. "That was a creature with your face. It had your powers, your memories, but that's all."

Dammit, she had to cling to that belief. Otherwise, she'd go mad.

"My memories? How so?"

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Destiny & Free Will, Week V [Monday, Period 4]

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!

Re: The Movie!