The Girl in the Tomb

[sugarlips]

[It feels as if she's only closed her eyes for a moment, but some part of her knows that isn't true. More time than that has passed. How much time, she couldn't say. She isn't even rightly aware of what the fuck is happening, at first. She just realizes that she's aware again, after a period of time of not being aware.

Then she realizes that her mouth is warmer than the rest of her. Because there is another mouth on her mouth. Her eyes snap open.

A shock of red hair and scrunched up eyes greets her and shocks her into a very undignified mmmph!!?]

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[bonebutchblues]

[ did you know that you're not supposed to open your eyes at any point during a kiss? Gideon did not know that. Did you know that you're supposed to close your eyes when you kiss because eye contact while kissing is EXTREMELY AWKWARD? Because Gideon didn't know that either.

There's a long beat where gold eyes stare into hers. They flash with surprised, then embarrassment, then relief. The warmth at her mouth pulls away quickly. ]

[sugarlips]

What?

[She asks, staring wide-eyed at Gideon's stupid golden eyes and stupid freckled face.]

What? Did you do?

[bonebutchblues]

OK, great. Everything seems to be in working order.

Get up baby, leave the magazine. We gotta go.

[ from outside the tomb there is the soft noise of claw being dragged across stone ]

Now.

[sugarlips]

[We are not thinking about how Gideon calling her baby after kissing her makes Harrow's intestines feel all soft and weird. Nope.]

What did you do, Nav?

[Her voice tightens, lifting in pitch.]

If you think I'm going to step out of this Tomb and let you do something stupid...

[bonebutchblues]

Sweetheart, I already did something stupid. Something stupid is at the door and it would very much like to come in here, and it probably will at any moment, so let's! Fucking! Go!

[ grabs her by the arm to haul her out of the coffin ]

[sugarlips]

I am not! Going to let you! Sacrifice yourself! For me! Again!

[She thrashes like a wet cat, trying to squirm away at the same time she tries to summon up a skeleton to grab Gideon in return. The sudden movement to standing has her head spinning and the edges of her vision going white, though.]

Ugh...

[bonebutchblues]

[ Gideon says something, but the ringing in her ears is too much to make it out. Something about Palamedes, and "your boney ass." Then the ground suddenly lurches away from her as she is hauled over and up on Nav's shoulder ]

[sugarlips]

[Her ears ring and her head swims and Harrow's construct falls away to calcium dust. She's hauled over Gideon's shoulder and only barely has enough energy to beat her fists uselessly against the cavalier's back as she's carried away like a pointy sack of potatoes.]

Fuck... you....

[bonebutchblues]

Fuck me yourself you coward.

[ slogs into the freezing water, the scratching is getting RAPIDLY LOUDER ]

Deep breath, boneybuns.

[sugarlips]

GIDEON NAV-

[She's definitely going to swallow water.]

[bonebutchblues]

[ WHELP that sounds like a personal problem, because Gideon is diving down into the frigid darkness, one arm still firmly around her necromancer ]

[sugarlips]

[Gurgles and flails! Knees Gideon in the chest! Bites her ear!!!]

[bonebutchblues]

[ this is becoming quickly a problem for Gideon as well, especially when the bite causes her to gasp out some of her precious air. She surfaces, spluttering, trying to both tread water and hold onto Harrow. ]

Oh my god! Stop! Stop it you fucking lunatic! We are getting the fuck out of here, we are getting out of here now so please fucking don't kill us both maybe!?

[sugarlips]

[She coughs out water and greasepaint, giving up her flailing to instead cling onto Gideon like her life depends on it (it kind of does).]

You... you're coming with me? No stupid leave-Gideon-Behind self-sacrificing heroics this time?

[She looks pathetic, wide-eyed, paint-melty, her voice desperate and high.]

[bonebutchblues]

[ treading water with a clinging idiot is slightly easier than treading a flailing idiot but honestly not much. ]

Yes! Fuck! Maybe if you calm down, Sextus can even get us in the right bodies! Now will you please! Hold! Your god damn soul breath!

[sugarlips]

[She goes limp at the "yes", falling against Gideon with a soul-deep relief. A smile even flickers onto her face at the mention of Palamedes.]

Okay.

[Her fists re-bunch around Gideon's clothes and she lets her face fall against her shoulder.]

[bonebutchblues]

[ they both briefly go under again as Gideon is completely incapable of supporting this nonsense ]

Hug later! Swim now!

[sugarlips]

[Shut up and embrace the ritual drowning, Nav.

Harrow considers arguing that she's not hugging but decides against it. She just stops being deadweight and nods.]

[bonebutchblues]

[ at the nod, Gideon grabs her hand and dives ]

[sugarlips]

[She squeezes that hand, inhales, and follows. She feels weak and ungainly but whenever she can’t manage the swimming, Gideon drags her along. Something poetic, there, probably.]

[bonebutchblues]

[ down they go, down and down where it is darker and colder. Down down until Harrow can't tell if the darkness is due to the depth or encroaching unconsciousness.

Then, suddenly, there is a light above her, and something hard at her back. Pins and needles explode across her every limb and digit. Welcome home, honey. ]

[sugarlips]

[She starts to wonder if Gideon even knows where the fuck she's going when suddenly she sees the light. She gives one last determined push toward it...

And wakes up in her body. Unpleasantly. She gasps and shakes, feeling cold and hot and numb at once.]

Eugh....

[bonebutchblues]

[ not so far from her, someone is groaning the word "balls" over and over with escalating insistence ]

Balls balls balls balls balls balls balls balls balls!!

[sugarlips]

[For a long moment she just breathes heavily, trying not to implode.]

Gideon Nav when I can move again I am going to kill you.

[bonebutchblues]

[ hold on, still booting up ]


Nggggggghhhhhot if I kill you first, bitch!