its a city of strangers

[notwitty]

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[polydeukes]

[She gives a salute in return.]

On it.

[Then, she leans in to kiss her.]

I love you.

| for Mia

[havethings]

Love you.

( A quick kiss is all she needs before finding Mia's contact information. )

Flying back today or tomorrow, but packing is the last thing I want to be doing. Want to get a legal drink with me at the bar?

[blackstarred]

[Mia is surprised, but if William's going to be off having a clandestine romantic moment, Mia should be able to have some fun too.]

Sure. Have a place in mind?

[havethings]

We're insular from Mystic Falls, very what's here is what's here. The bar in the hotel?

[blackstarred]

[They could. But also ...]

My uncle has a club here in Prague. I promised him I'd check it out if I ever came through. Want to try it with me?

[havethings]

Sure. Meet you downstairs?

( And she does, letting Mia take the lead. )

How many clubs does your uncle own?

[blackstarred]

... A lot. It's kind of his thing.

[She opens the door and turns to lead the way down towards the latest franchise opening of Verdant.]

He inherited a lot of money from his father and decided that the best thing to do with it is invest in a field of business he would have hated and be wildly successful.

[She rolls her eyes. She loves her Uncle Tommy, but he's a little ridiculous.]

[havethings]

So, to spite his father.

( How foreign a feeling. She held resentment for hers for so long, but she'd never do something because he hated it, or them. Not yet, at least. )

I don't know what the equivalent for me would be.

[blackstarred]

His dad was also an actual supervillain.

[Not that Hope's isn't. But ... no actually, Malcolm Merlyn and Klaus might actually be on the same level at some points in their lives, so she's not going to bother to correct herself.]

Spite seems to be the best approach when it comes to dealing with Malcolm Merlyn's legacy.

[havethings]

Is it always fathers?

( It's not, sometimes, it's mothers. Her mother was probably the villain in someone's story. Her grandmother certainly was. )

[blackstarred]

... Only because the mothers are usually dead.

[It's comics source material, we know what these origin stories were.]

But no. I'm sure there are some evil moms out there too. Or aunts, in the case of Allison Argent.

[havethings]

Or grandmothers, in the case of mine.

( She thinks. )

And grand aunts.

( She smirks. )

You could find someone on the planet who sees any one of my family members as villains. My dad was. For a long time.

[blackstarred]

[Mia nods before shrugging.]

So was my dad, technically. I mean, he saw himself as a hero, but in his early years he did some pretty shady stuff. Star City hated him on and off.

| for Josie

[jockwitch]

( Other than rescuing Bonnie, a lot of their plan was a spectacular fail with a body count.

Still, nobody on their side died.

Lizzie has sat with her phone in her hand for the past hour. She oscillates between opening Hope's contact, her sister's, Danny's, even Ethan's, but can't bring herself to message anyone. Danny didn't accept his birthright and now they have another witch (maybe) to worry about. Internationally, anyway.

At least she has some time to herself. Josie can find her in the hotel bar, too, but at a booth, nursing a cosmopolitan she thought she'd like. Leave it to a newly graduated woman. Still, she sips under lidded eyes as she tries to see how Carrie Bradshaw could ever appreciate a drink like this. It's, like, all vodka. )

[polydeukes]

[Josie wanders down after talking to Hope, and finds her sister sitting at the bar. She goes to slide in across from her and raises an eyebrow at the drink.]

Not enjoying that one?

[jockwitch]

If four middle-aged, heteronormative sexpots can drink Cosmos, I can, too.

( She scoffs and pushes her drink away. )

But, there's nothing cosmopolitan about a basic drink I should never have ordered.

[polydeukes]

If it's not your drink, it's not your drink.

[And they (hopefully) will have time to find out which one is. After all, that's what college is for.]

There are many, many others to try.

[jockwitch]

And so little time.

( ... )

Before the next monster or hunter or witch bitch.

[polydeukes]

Hopefully we'll have a little bit of a break from those.

[She tips her head to the side.]

Have you talked to Danny?

[jockwitch]

This was supposed to be our break.

( Oh. That. )

Not since we all went to our rooms. I'm trying to think of what I should say, but nothing can really live up to, "I'm sorry you lost your chance at leading your coven, and, also sorry about your dead relatives." Which is why I was doing my best impression of Carrie Bradshaw. Even though we all know I'm more of a Samantha.

[polydeukes]

I don't think this was his one and only chance.

[There will be other opportunities, other solstices. Nothing is as final as it usually is with these things.]

But I also have a feeling he won't really want to talk about that. Unless you want to talk about that with him?

[jockwitch]

I'll talk about anything. I know what happens to me if I bottle it all up. Not that I'm him.

( She sighs. )

But, no. That's not what I want to talk about.

[polydeukes]

[She nods.]

I think he just needs a friend right now more than anything. And you two seemed to ... connect.

[jockwitch]

And he is a step-up from Sebastian, MG, and Ethan.

( She does have a thing for accents. )

[polydeukes]

I will take your word for that. You know him better than I do.

[Josie shrugs.]

I say go for it.