"'Course. Hey, but maybe let's not mention this to anyone else, all right? I've got kind of a reputation as a huge pain-in-the-ass that I have to maintain and if Hange knew I was here not being a superficial jerk, she'd want me to be like that all the time.
And that's exhausting. I couldn't keep up with that kind of pressure."
"I'll never tell anyone, Beetlejuice. You have my word," says someone who
is, if anything, a little too good at keeping secrets. "This can be just
ours."
Amiable enough, he nods, sticking his hands in his pockets.
"Wellll, Bill murdered my pet sandworm so her corpse has been stinking up the place until Hange gets the Big Guy to resurrect her but meanwhile she's probs busy dissecting her."
"Big Sandy is great but she doesn't always get that I'm her pal and I guess she kept trying to eat me when I was a living kid last week. Bill was protecting my dumb ass."
"Yeah, she's great. Was great. She was thirty feet long and had two heads. I loved that little monster."
BJ, a thirty-foot-long snake is not little.
"She's working on it. Didn't like her size for some reason, so if she comes back, she's going to be pocket-sized. Poor kid; tries to do what instinct and nature tell her and gets killed and resurrected completely powerless."
"Well, at least being smaller means she'll be able to explore?" She's
trying to focus on the positive, where she can find it. "I'd have hated to
have my lion cooped up in my room for all the time I've been here."
"I.....I don't think so," she says haltingly. "And I've never tried it on
a human, I...I'm not sure what would happen. Lion didn't exactly come back
exactly the same as he was before."
"...not like you would see in a movie," Rose hedges. "But I was using a
power I was used to using on inorganics, and he's lived for much longer
than a regular lion, so..."
She can't in good conscience say she didn't make a zombie lion.
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"Didn't mean to be all Doom and Gloom on you."
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"I kind of asked you to, right?"
She squeezes his hand.
"Thank you for coming over."
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And that's exhausting. I couldn't keep up with that kind of pressure."
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Rose sniffles and nods.
"I'll never tell anyone, Beetlejuice. You have my word," says someone who is, if anything, a little too good at keeping secrets. "This can be just ours."
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"Thanks Rosie. You're amazing."
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"So are you."
She kisses his cheek.
"I...I'm going to be okay. I think. I just...have more to work out than I thought I did."
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"Yeah. I get that. Nice thing is, you're not invisible anymore. You're not, like. Alone alone."
A pause.
"That made more sense in my head, I swear."
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"I think I get it."
She looks around. Looks at the door.
"Shall we go somewhere else? I...I don't really want to be in here right now."
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"Just so you know, my room is being fumigated right now. Wanna crash at Ford's again?"
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"...Let's just go for a walk."
She's not sure she wants to deal with Ford.
"Why fumigated? Who's doing that?"
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"Wellll, Bill murdered my pet sandworm so her corpse has been stinking up the place until Hange gets the Big Guy to resurrect her but meanwhile she's probs busy dissecting her."
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Rose pauses at the door and looks back, horrified.
"He - why? Why would he do something like that?"
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"....oh. Oh."
Well, that's a little different.
"I hope Hange can bring her back. I'd like to meet her."
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BJ, a thirty-foot-long snake is not little.
"She's working on it. Didn't like her size for some reason, so if she comes back, she's going to be pocket-sized. Poor kid; tries to do what instinct and nature tell her and gets killed and resurrected completely powerless."
He can relate.
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"I think that's what happens to a lot of us," Rose suggests softly. "She just got missed out for a little while, I guess."
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"Well, at least being smaller means she'll be able to explore?" She's trying to focus on the positive, where she can find it. "I'd have hated to have my lion cooped up in my room for all the time I've been here."
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"Did I know that?"
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Rose shakes her head.
"I travelled with a pride in the desert, for a while," she says. "When one of them died, I...I brought him back."
That's a thing she does, y'know, reviving the dead and giving them magical powers while turning them immortal.
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He stops walking, gaping at her.
"Can you do that here?"
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"I.....I don't think so," she says haltingly. "And I've never tried it on a human, I...I'm not sure what would happen. Lion didn't exactly come back exactly the same as he was before."
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Try to sound less hopeful there, BJ.
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"...not like you would see in a movie," Rose hedges. "But I was using a power I was used to using on inorganics, and he's lived for much longer than a regular lion, so..."
She can't in good conscience say she didn't make a zombie lion.
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"Man, Rosie. You're amazing."
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