The roof, Tuesday morning

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia wasn't singing. She wasn't reading, or writing, or brooding while staring out at the town or dancing. She wasn't even eating brownies.

She was just lying on her back in her swim suit with a pair of sunglasses on and some sunscreen and generally just enjoying the feeling of the sun on her body.

She may or may not also be taking a nap.

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

A certain shadow may or may not have blocked the sun on her face for a moment before disappearing as well.

That shadow may well have been that of a certain young man carrying two heavily laden plates of breakfast-y foods he had handwavily thrown together in the third floor common room.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia blinked awake behind her sunglasses at the sudden change in environment, wondering if it was a cloud.

There may have been a fair amount of extra blinking as she woke up from an odd dream.

She peered around the roof.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

A bottle of hot sauce hovered in front of her blinking eyes for a moment before Walter set it down next to the plate he had set to her side.

"Good morning again." He started in on his own breakfast without further comment, although the steam that wafted from the cup he took a sip from smelled suspiciously more like a product of Brazil than China.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia grinned and started liberally dosing her food with hot sauce. And the Brazilian steam was a lovely addition to the morning.

"Best way to wake up, ever."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter smirked and pushed the thermos toward her. "I thought our wakeup at the Arms was a bit better than this one, but I might be biased, since I'm already awake."

[nadiathesaint]

That one was much longer ago for Nadia than for Walter. "Ohhhh yeah. That one was very good, as well."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter sometimes forgot and then was forcibly reminded that things had changed. He had another sip of coffee and put that aside. It was still a good morning.

"Are you planning to stay up here putting on such a nice display for the birds all day?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Not all day. The temperature is nice and there's a breeze and I just thought it would be nice to not be inside all the time."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"That makes sense. It's summer and so much of life here still happens inside the dorms." Or at work for him.

[nadiathesaint]

"When we're not in the cabins, anyway. It's odd. I used to spend so much of my life outdoors. Now I'm only out here if I make a point to be."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It's different when you come in off the street. Having a safe place, even a place like here, which isn't the safest place, is still a home, right?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I definitely started thinking of it that way before I left. Guess I'm starting to now, again, too."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Good." Walter set his coffee aside and started in on his food. "How are your dreams now that you're back here?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Pretty much normal." Well, the one she'd just had wasn't normal, but she doubted it was prophetic.

Just . . . odd. And never to be spoken about aloud.

"You know, any time I dreamed after getting injured in Argentina, it was always just about me. Not about anyone else. There really is something about Fandom."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I can believe that. Where else can you take the bus to London, after all? And so many of us from some different times, and different versions of the same reality who are here?"

He shrugged and speared a bite of egg. "I suppose it's no odder that what happened with the elixir here might affect you differently here."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shuddered slightly. She didn't like thinking about the elixir. "Yeah. Like it might have affected me more permanently, or something."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter reached over and rubbed Nadia's shoulder. Some things clearly hadn't lost their power over her, even with the time that had gone by.

"We just spent the weekend thinking we were other people for no reason at all. Not just us, this time, but half the bloody island, apparently. And what happens? Most people write it off as 'a Fandom thing.' This other matter doesn't seem any stranger, and a little easier to explain."

[nadiathesaint]

"Yeah, but it's just me." Nadia shrugged, trying to push the darker feelings off. "But maybe I'm done with that. Like I said, I haven't had any weird dreams since I got back. And I have landed on my head."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Good. Let's think about things better suited for a sunny summer morning. I didn't mean to take our conversation this way."

He had another bite of egg and thought of a piece of good news. "Pippi said she'd ask Pip out again."

[nadiathesaint]

"Yeah?" Nadia brightened considerably. "Great! I should start poking Pip about that again, too."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Now that Pippi is determined, you might want to hold off on poking him," Walter said, taking up his fellow male's side.

"Just imagined a determined Pippi Longstocking coming after you for a date. I don't think you'd need poking from other people."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, there is that. I just think the two of them would be good together." Nadia shrugged. "I can't really say why, I just do."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shrugged. "I know that Pippi thinks so, and I think Pip can be trusted not to try to hurt her. That's going to have to be good enough for me."

[nadiathesaint]

"You don't see it?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"No, but I don't have to."

[nadiathesaint]

"Probably not," Nadia still gave Walter an odd look before shaking her head and smiling. "Be nice if you did, though. It would mean I'm not crazy."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter grinned and set his plate aside. "If it makes you feel any better, you're saner than I am."

[nadiathesaint]

"Hmm, but I'm thinking that's not saying a lot."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shrugged easily. "I'm pretty sure by most standards, it's not."

[nadiathesaint]

"Look at us, just two crazy kids."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It seems to work for us most of the time."

As long as no one was trying to convince him of the sanctity of human life and such.

[nadiathesaint]

She wasn't likely to be doing that, any time soon. Not after what she'd done in Argentina.

"We've got a system."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"We look sane in comparison to each other, you mean?"

[nadiathesaint]

"We keep each other from going completely nutso?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"That sounds better than what I said."

[nadiathesaint]

"I try."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Walter leaned over to give her a kiss. "As things people get out of a relationship go, keeping each other semi-sane is a good one."

[nadiathesaint]

"Semi-sane and happy is the best you can ask out of life."