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Turtle & Canary, Tuesday, 10/06

Didi was both sad to see Del gone again, and happy the visit had gone as well as it had. She didn't see her family as often as she might have liked -- it was interesting to see how she slipped into the big sister pattern even as a mortal.

In honor of her sister, she set up a special promotion:

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He's very wary of the green mouse squishies. Thank you, come again!

She's there and everything.

I always kind of want to visit Delirium's world. It is trippy.

Jono's fingers were getting sore from far too many attempts to play the same Bullet For My Valentine music for the past three hours. It wasn't that he liked the screaming emo music much, really. It was that the guitar solo in Tears Don't Fall was actually fun to poke at. That was his story, and he was going to stick to it.

It was his 'lunch' break now, either way, and he figured that since he didn't eat, he might as well make use of it to be social, instead.

//Afternoon, gel.// He nodded a hello as he rested his elbows on the counter. //Looks like we made it through th'weekend in one piece.//

~~Eras passed and the earth moved before~~ Didi leaned forward towards him with a grin. "We did," she said. "I got so distracted with Del I didn't ask if you had a guest."

Del was Like That.

Del certainly was a force of nature, wasn't she?

//That's quite alright. I'm quite certain that if yer had the misfortune of meeting Jubilee, yer'd never forgive me for it.//

Well, okay, maybe he was being a little harsh, there. But Lee had been a force of nature in her own right, and knowing that Jono was interested in Didi would have probably meant an interrogation of some sort, at least.

Didi gave him a look. "She can't be that bad. Pretty name, anyhow."

//It's a nickname,// Jono replied, shrugging faintly.

Codename. Whatever.

//Short for Jubilation Lee. And she's a bloody terror, I swear it. Cost me bloody near two-hundred quid on Chinese food on Saturday alone.//

"... how do you even eat that much?" Didi wondered rhetorically. "Is she the size of Professor Dukes?"

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Jono made a derisive sort of snerking sound. Yes, in his head.

//Hardly. She's practically half my size. Still a kid, in too many regards, I think. She was hell-bent on eatin' it all t'spite me.// And then he was smirking. More or less. //Th'fact that she spent most of Sunday revisiting it all more than makes up for it, really.//

The teens of Generation X were such a caring bunch. Really.

"... ew," Didi commented, wrinkling her nose for effect. "And Jubilation's a pretty name, too. Where do you know Miss Eats-all-the-Chinese-Food Lee from?"

//The last school I went to,// Jono replied, still smirking somewhat.

Look, the only thing that made the expense and having to watch Lee eating for hours worthwhile was the fact that she'd suffered for it, too. He was allowed to be at least a tiny bit spiteful.

//She was in my class.// A pause. //It was a rather small class.//

"Oh, okay," Didi said. "You don't really seem like the little tiny school type to me."

Fewer people looking at him, sure, but that was Jono's Issues. Jono's personality seemed urban to the core.

Jono was urban to the core.

His face, on the other hand, wasn't.

You had to make such concessions, when people took to spitting on you in the grocery lines for being a dirty mutie. Or trying to kill you for the same.

//It was a... somewhat specialized school,// he ventured. //Run by people like me. Run for people like me. I agreed to go when I found myself quickly running out of other options, luv.//

"Did you like it better than here?" she asked curiously, understanding what he meant. "I mean, I can see where it would be easier, I just -- did it make you happy?"

//I stayed here, didn't I? After all, I didn't fit in there, either,// he replied, lifting a shoulder. Casual. So very casual. //Th'only student there who didn't ever seem put-off by the way I looked was Penance.//

A pause.

//And she's got bright red, razor-edged skin. And doesn't speak. Ever.//

Freaks among freaks, unite.

"And she calls herself Penance," Didi observed. "Not exactly a hard code name to understand."

She had decided that, when Jono seemed especially driven to self-pity, she'd talk about something tangentially related. It wasn't that she didn't care; it was that you can only be sympathetic so much before you run out, even if you're technically Death.

It was a sound strategy, actually. If you could get Jonothon off on a tangent, he'd be more likely to cling to it for dear life.

//Actually, she doesn't call herself anything, really. We're not certain if Penance is even her real name. But it's better than th'nothin' that we had to work with otherwise, and so Penance she is.//

When weird mysterious old mystics who never spoke actually bothered to say a word in connection to something, you went with it.

"So, what, did you flip through the mutant book of names until somebody's finger landed on Penance?" Didi wondered, being unaware of weird old mystics.

//That's more or less what most of us do,// Jono chuckled. //Penance sort of had hers handed to her when she was left on our doorstep. Th'one that left her there said it before he took off.//

"Her dad?" Didi asked. "I mean, that's the ... insanely obvious ... first thought."

She tilted her head to the side. "And did you have another name, there?"

//Probably not her father,// Jono replied, shrugging. //It's complicated, really. She was dumped onto our doorstep shortly after bein' pulled from the grasp of th'same individual that tried to suck the marrow from my bones not more than five minutes after I first wound up in America.//

He squinted one eye a little, to show exactly what he thought of that.

//And I did have another name there, yes. It was...// He tilted his head a little. //Codenames are bloody ridiculous sometimes, yer know? I just sort of ended up with this one, and it stuck, and, well.// And there he went, shrugging again. It was weird, sharing this with someone who wasn't on the team, who already knew who he was. Awkward, somehow. //Chamber. They call me Chamber, there.//

"Complicated," Didi repeated with a firm nod. "And I think I like the marrow in your bones."

She smiled a little as he talked around the codename. "Jono, it could be so, so much worse. Chamber just sounds like a band."

... Leave it to Didi to make Jono's codename sound awesome. Huh.

//When yer put it that way, luv, yer make me almost want t'try to form one, yer know.//

Chamber and the Plonkers. They'd be brilliant.

Jack needed something to take the edge off. Grape Judas should work. "What the...?"

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