fandomtownies | Lighthouse, Wednesday evening

Jack was exploring. She'd sauntered around the town itself to familiarize herself with the shops and services and parks but there was only so much of the adorably European architecture that she could handle without turning into a walking vomit bomb. Heading to the fringes seemed to be a good plan. Get some space, look at the water, give her head a chance to clear. Time to think and some nice empty scenery in which to think.

The lighthouse was also an iconic testament standing on the shore. Pursing her lips, she regarded it and then shrugged. "Yeah, ok. I won't be able to see it from the top anyway."

Was access to the stairs locked? Did she care? They hadn't made the lock she couldn't crack. Sometimes even without damaging the door. Jack headed up the stairs to the lantern room. There was a catwalk outside but the wind at the shore level had been cold so she imagined it'd be plain nasty at this height. Staying inside seemed a better idea. The windowsills were made to be sat on anyway. Whether that was the purpose of the design held no interest for her. They were big enough to fit her butt and even let her turn sideways so she could rest her back against the side and bring a knee up to loop her arms over.

Jack glanced down at herself and imagined the picture she was presenting. 'Scary Bitch Gazes Out A Window In A Moment Of Reflective Contemplation'. The very idea of it made her snort an indelicate laugh.

Yeah, right. It was a nice view though. She really could get used to the view. The sky was calm and overcast but the water was choppy. Dark waves broken into whitecaps on the rocks. The splashing, rushing noise a muted metronome to break the silence. It suited her.

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Jack considered those words. "Necromancy's that whole bringing back the dead thing, right?

Then she squinted at him. "Are you the fucker that made the band in the bar? Because if you are, buddy, you and me are gonna talk about that."

"Good lord, no!" Bob protested. He shuddered. "I haven't done any of that in over a millennium. I can't anymore. And I never would've done any work that shoddy."

Jack didn't even blink at the longevity but she relaxed a little bit when he said he hadn't made them. "Good. They seem like a decent fuckin' group of zombies and I want to slap whoever made 'em for not doin' a better job so they're not dropping parts all over the fucking place."

She liked the zombies. They were neat.

"Could you do anything for 'em? To fix 'em so they don't just drop bits like that?"

"That depends," Bob said dryly. "What are your feelings on possession?"

"Not real great, why?" Jack eyed him, "I'm not real good at giving up control even on my best goddamn day."

"I need a body to do magic." Bob stepped through her, because he was a dick like that. "Boo."

Jack arched a single unimpressed brow. "Oh goody," she deadpanned, "my very first ghost."

She tilted her head and considered it. "Could you fix 'em if you had a body? Not to like, murderous rambling asshole zombies, but enough so they didn't keep falling apart all sad as fuck?"

Well, hmph. Take all the fun out of it, why don't you?

Bob sighed, then shrugged at the question. "Honestly, I'd have to look into it. I've never paid them much attention. I'd have to determine what sort of spell or what-have-you is keeping them alive and where it's faltering. Then I'd have to see if I could augment it without getting myself into even more trouble."

She loved to murder things including other people's joy.

"Definitely a nope on the more trouble part," Jack said firmly, "Kitty just had a goddamn baby. Trouble ain't what she fuckin' needs. The rest?" She lifted a shoulder. "We could talk about possession. There'd have to be some rules including the time I get my damn body back and what-all you could do with it while you were puppeting it around like your very own dolly made of meat. Fuck knows you couldn't do worse to it than I usually do but the last thing I need is you pissing off people I care about."

"Oh, really?" That got Bob's attention. "I assure I'm a perfectly amenable houseguest, and can provide references, should you like. You would still maintain the ability to veto my decisions at any time."

He might get out a smart remark or two before she shut him up, if it came to that, but he doubted that would be a problem.

Jack shrugged again, "It's a thing I'd be open to. Check it off my fucking bucket list or whatever. Couldn't be that much worse'n some of the shit I've done on purpose for shits and giggles like I said. Have to talk to Kitty first and make sure she's ok with her band bein' messed with."

She tilted her head at him. "So what's a necromancer do other than raise zombies?"

Bob leered. "I'm all about you doing awful things if you let me ride along."

Bob no.

"Necromancers work in life and death - healing, speaking with the dead, bringing back the dead for real, not just as zombies, as well as host of other, non-restricted, magics."

He grinned again. "So tell me about the awful things you do."

Jack eyed him and answered calmly, "Murder, assault, drugs, stealing, arson, piracy, theft of military craft, destruction of a space station, vandalism. Pretty much done it all. Kidnapping, once, but that was a fuckin' accident cuz I didn't know the ship I jacked was a goddamn slave ship until afterward and it shouldn't count as kidnapping seein' as I let all the fuckers go. I'm really only good at killing things but lately? I been tryin' this teaching thing. Not teaching killing, just other skills. I seem to be doin' ok at it. Kind of a surprise."

She ran a hand over her scalp. "This place is too quiet."

Bob sighed. "That doesn't sound like fun to me," he lamented. "Destruction of a space station, though? There's a story there."

"Well," Jack said consolingly, "You're old. My kind of fun's probably a little fuckin' much for you."

A shrug. "Not much of a story. I had a real goddamn bad day and threw a shuttle into a space station on a moon. Space station and moon both made a big fuckin' boom. Then I got charged with vandalism."

Lighthouse, Wednesday evening

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