7241/Grim Relations: A Quiet Moment

Grim Relations: A Quiet Moment
Date of Scene:	06 August 2021
Location:	The Robin's Roost - Chelsea
Synopsis:	Bart comes across a sleeping Peebs. Phoebe and Bart have a few moments of heart-to-heart.
Cast of Characters:	Phoebe Beacon, Bart Allen

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Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    For someone who hated to travel too long outside of Gotham and who had nothing to do outside, like say actual school, Phoebe had been somewhat absent from the Roost in the last week. She hadn't been to see her mom in two weeks, though shot texts and answered that she was busy with a tutor, or she was at Aikido. The Aikido dojo hadn't seen her for just as long, and not even Nate 'Nacho' had really kept up with her.

    So finding her passed out with a book of demons from various cultures open in her lap, her head tilted back, eyes closed, wearing a heavier sweater and a blanket over her lap was almost as unusual.

    Most of the time she's got her back to the floor and her face actually in the book that she's attempting to take in by osmosis.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen hmms as he comes across this, he looks at his friend, well good to h ear she is ok, and has read she recently had a bit of an adventure. He ponders getting het some covers but she has the blanket. What do they do for friends when they find them sleeping in the movies.. Hand in warm water.. no that is not a nice one. set up something to startle them when they wake up? Na. He will let her sleep. He does get his tablet, and finds a place to look through it, and does something very difficult for him. He tries to be quiet.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe would be very glad to not have the hand-in-warm-water trick. That's mean. He doesn't have to be quiet long -- Phoebe gives a rather unlady-like snort, startling herself awake and mumbling something about fire and collapsing stone -- but as the dream fades, she winces, blinks, and spies Bart.

    ... being still and quiet.

    She blinks at him in surprise.

    "... did I miss anything?"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen will shakes his head a bit and says "Na, nothing going on, just sitting here looking through a few things." He holds up his tablet, and says "How you doing aint seen you in a while, you ok?" and while not long for others it might have been an eternity for Bart, but he does try.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "... I found a mentor for magic. And then got looped into toppling a Hindu temple, had my first experience with divination by blood magic and then had a minor trip to Whitechapel." the girl replies, and she leans her head back. "Where I got a crash course in binding. Oh. My. God. I am so wiped out."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks to her, and says "So, your going to be our magic person and healer both. going to be the White Witch or something?" He asks with a smile, and says "You need something? I can run out and get some of most anything you would like to have." He offers.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Well... kinda already am?" Phoebe gives a slight smile as she sits up. "Uh... a strawberry soda and Little Debbie birthday cake bars?" she questions, and reaches for her pocket to pull out some cash to give to Bart, taking her eyes off him for a few seconds.

Bart Allen has posed:
Yup, thats all it takes and he is off. He heads to the factory to get her the freshest Little Debbies, he can, and hits a dozen different stores to get different types of soda. Then a quick stop by a chemist to dip the bottles for micro seconds into some super cold liquids, but just long enough to get the bottles to almost slushy. He then is back, and has the stuff on the coffee table in front of Phoebe, only eleven different bottles, the first one he left in a pico second to long and well, it is in the freezer to warm up.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Speedsters are surely friends with the best benefits.

    So there are now a bunch of happy confetti cake bars, several slushy strawberry sodas, and Phoebe is holding out a twenty-dollar bill as she looks at the haul.

    "... you know, I would have been happy with the bodega across the way." she remarks in amusement, and she opens one of the sodas very, very carefully.

    "... my powers are all inborn magic. So, I sought out someone who maybe I could learn more from and still be nearby if needed." she explains, giving a wry smile back to Bart. "So... hopefully I'll pick up on the skills quick, you know?"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen doesn't take the money, he will sit down pulling up a bag of chips from where he stored them beside his chair. This bag has writting on it, looks like from some Asian based company. He looks to her, and says "You just be careful, that stuff can be dangerous. My Gramps has a villain who claims to be a magician but is actually just using high tech stuff to make it appear like it. If you need any help will do what I can, I may not know anything about magic but I can take you to like stonehenge or something if you need to go to magicy spots.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "I'm -- not quite there yet." Phoebe admits with a smile. "And yeah. I'm careful. John has been teaching me in leaps and bounds..." her brows furrow "... kind of..." she trails off, and she leans back. "I know there's a lot I can do, but I'm hoping I can use some of what I'm learning to focus or... maybe kinda hide my powers. Pretty much everyone I've met who can sense it can sense /me/. Makes it a bit difficult to hide... and..." she leans forward quietly. "... the demon dogs. I can feel it. Something is going to happen agani with them soon."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen frowns and says "We going to have to put the boots to some ghost buster dogs? I mean I don't like or want to hurt any kind of cogs, but if we have to. Is there a way to sooth them, and make them less evil? Maybe make them into just mystical dogs?"

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "... Bart. They're not dogs. They're... they don't even look like the creatures from Ghostbusters." Phoebe blinks a moment. "They're just these... quadrepeds. With massive mouths in their chests and eyes that are just above the maw. They don't have heads." Phoebe states, and she draws one leg up, resting her chin on her knee. "ONe Laura and I fought was able to move its face from its chest, through its body, to its back to spit acid on Laura."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen hmms and nods his head a bit to this and says "So, will holy water, crosses, garlic and such have any effect on them? I know thats mostly vampire stuff, but I don't know if that works on other things or not. I wonder if speed lightning might effect them oddly.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "I don't know yet." Phoebe states, and she leans forward a moment.

    "Whatever they are, they keep getting bigger. They're smart enough to talk. Second one didn't though." she taps her fingers against the bottle, looking down at the slush. "What properties does speed lightning have? Same as regular lightning but...." she turns, looking over to Bart with curiosity "... quicker?"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen grins and says "Mostly like normal lightning, but there are some people who worship the speed force, mostly a bunch of kooks, but they are there. Normally it is just like a normal electric shock, but have heard ideas of other ways to use it.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "... okay, now you're going to have to expound on the speed lightning and there being other ways to use it. I've only ever been in the rickshaw or been carried about." Phoebe gives a wry grin, and she opens another birthday cake bar and hands it over to Bart. "Spill it. I've talked about myself enough."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks over and says "Well the lightning is just part of the speed force, though we can use it to extend things. I can sometimes pull speed from people, and use it to go through walls, and even of course time travle.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "When you pull speed from people -- do they go slower? Like, is it something you can also temporarily impart?" Phoebe questions, her eyes rising up as she listens intently to Bart.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks to her and nods a bit "With enough practice can cause people to not be able to move, and the time travel wll you know I was born on the 31st century.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Which... also doesn't explain how the current Flash is just your granddad with the natural order of things. People who experience time at a slower rate because they are faster than everything around them should in fact live shorter lives rather than longer -- theoretically speaking." Phoebe adds. Her lips purse slightly.

    "... why did you come back to now, Bart? What was the purpose?"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen looks to her, and says "He was in the future when he had my dad. It is not a slow aging or anything." He offers in explanation. "Ok, when I was born, I had the speed force already inside me, they had to put me in a VR rig to keep up with me teaching and letting me interact I was 12 in two months. Mom and Grandma sent me back to get help to slow my aging to normal.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "... that is a heck of a thing." Phoebe purses her lips again, and gives a slight smile. "Two months to Twelve. Then to the past to age normally, with normal friends? Well..." Phoebe glances up a moment, considering "... normal as superhuman friends get, I suppose."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen nods, and says "Wally was able to use the speed force, to fix me so I aged normally. Then I lived with Max Mercury and then the Original Flash and now I am here

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    "Is it difficult to have so many friends who don't experience things the same way you do, Bart?" Phoebe questions, drinking down some of the strawberry pop slush. "Is it just a constant state of 'hurry up hurry up'?"

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen makes a so so motion "It was somewhat, but Max taught me a lot about speed, and dealing with others, it is part of why I have the snails, training.

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe gives a smile.

    "I remember the snails. In Gotham's sewers. Before I even wore armor -- that feels like... like a lifetime ago." Phoebe frowns a moment, then smiles.

    "... I'm glad you don't feel isolated."

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen nods and says the aquarium is in my room. I never really knew real people there, was here when I got to know people. So, you feel isolated ?"

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe gives a small smile.

    "Sometimes I forget that you rescued me from The Silo. ANd I dream that I'm still in that tiny chamber and get scared that my dream is reality, and reality is my dream. I'm still processing a lot of things." she admits quietly.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen will move to hug her and says "Well we are always there and will always come looking for you if we don't have ya with us."

Phoebe Beacon has posed:
    Phoebe allows the hug -- and she hugs Bart back.

    And she tries not to cry.

    "Thanks, Bart. You're the best." she whispers quietly.

Bart Allen has posed:
Bart Allen rubs her back, and keeps the hug as long as she needs it.