trade my soul for a wish

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.

Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.


with Mark (kappa)

with Adanya (Aestrix)

with Sable (kappa)

with Ari (andaisq)

with Metella (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Steel (Rockeye)

with Daphne (Maggie)

with Edie (Maggie)

Comments

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Better me than someone who doesn't know how to deal with it."

[from_scratch]

"Which would be nothing but noble of you if you were deliberately sabotaging your car so that you could clear creepy buildings of their abundant creepy inhabitants, but something else has got to be going on. Like, minimum, a fairy who doesn't like you or finds you entertaining is following you around during rainstorms."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Why would it be a fairy? I'd think a gremlin would be more likely. In fact I've often suspected that I have a gremlin problem, but I've never been able to prove it."

[from_scratch]

"New hypothesis: I am not a time traveler, I am a dimensional slider of some kind. Might your would-be murderer have Internet access? The internet's been moderately popular for a bit by 1999, hasn't it?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yes, it is, and no, he doesn't. Or I doubt it anyway. This is the 'cabin in the woods' type of creepy building; he'll almost certainly have left me no way to call for help if I got free."

[from_scratch]

"Damn. I could make a laptop, I cannot make a subscription to whatever godawful dialup service is currently in vogue. ...He's my summoner, and if he dies I go home. I want to keep an eye on him, unconscious is fine though. If I make you a car can you find civilization?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I have a car. If you make me a spare tire I can find civilization. He could fit in the backseat, it wouldn't be the first time I've brought one of my B-Movie villains home."

[from_scratch]

"Right then." Cam zipties the villain up with suddenly appearing zipties. "Just how thoroughly in this dimension should I avoid appearing in public winged on a scale from 'meh' through 'trenchcoat' to 'cut them off'?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Everyone on campus knows Jaromira is a vampire. You don't have to trenchcoat if you don't want to, although I recommend it when we're not actually at Borgia University."

[from_scratch]

"Okay, no coat. You want to help me drag this guy to your car?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Sure. So your universe only has demons, angels, and fairies besides humans, huh? What kind of demon are you?"

[from_scratch]

"There's not really kinds per se. I'm just a demon."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"We definitely have kinds of demon. Most of them are bad news, but incubi and succubi are okay."

[from_scratch]

"I mean, demons where I'm from vary in personality. Some of them claim those terms but it's not because they have different powers from the rest of us or anything."

Into the car goes the villain. Cam presents Daphne with a spare tire.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Daphne changes the tire with the ease of long practice. "I don't actually know that much about the power types of various demons, but incubi and succubi look much more human than most. I actually thought you were one when you first appeared. This guy probably did too and that was why he was so surprised. Are your wings going to interfere with riding shotgun?"

[from_scratch]

"I can fold 'em up pretty small." Behold.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Cool. It's about another half-hour back to campus--ironically enough, I was coming back from visiting Kanimir."

[from_scratch]

"The vampire."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I think I only mentioned that Jaromira was a vampire, did you guess that they were siblings from the names?"

[from_scratch]

"Sort of, I confused the names entirely, it's the 'mir' part."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Ah. Well, yes, what happened was that Kanimir invited me and several of my friends in--we're a sort of unofficial club, we were on an unofficial club trip--locked them in his dungeons and tried to coerce me into sleeping with him. I grabbed his fang in such a way that I could yank it out if I pulled on it right and made him let them go. Jaromira showed up on my doorstep a few weeks later to tell me she was impressed, one thing led to another, and now Kanimir won't hurt me because Jaromira cares about me and she's the only person in all the world who matters to him."

[from_scratch]

"What an interestingly sociopathic person."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I can't say I've ever put it in those words, but you're not wrong. Luckily, Jaromira is *not* a sociopath. If she hadn't believed her brother deserved what I threatened to do to him she would have been a lot less happy with me for it, I'll tell you that."

[from_scratch]

"That's often the way of things. Is Kanimir a danger to others?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Not usually. I think he probably would have let my friends go even if I'd just refused him instead of managing to be a credible source of harm. He knows what Jaromira won't forgive, and I don't think he's ever crossed that line."