Outside the Dorms, Very Very Late Monday Evening/Too Early Tuesday Morning

[suitably_heroic]

It was raining.

It was not raining very hard, but it was definitely raining at the insane time the sirens went off across the school. The lawn outside was slowly but surely turning into a wet mess, and the grass was just high enough in some places that it might leave wet splotches on an unsuspecting passer-by's pants.

Clearly this was a great time for a fire drill.

It was clearly also a great time to test the new volume on the sirens, which blared even harder than they had ever done before. Hope you didn't have to take any tests in the morning, kids!

[[ has a firedrill! students, have at. ]]

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[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace might not have been able to read narrative, but he could piece together the train of thought there. Which earned Natalie a sigh and an eye roll. Enjoy.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie could roll her eyes right back at his eyerolling, so there. "Because going to a mansion where someone's guaranteed to keep me warm and dry is such a stupid thing to do."

Plus she even had Sam's credit card number for stuff like this.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad we can agree on that." For an only child he was pretty well versed in bratty brother moves.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie reached out to smack him on the shoulder, but even that was mild because she was tired. Which was possibly also part of why she did that in the first place.

"You don't have a single good reason for why I shouldn't go, so don't be an ass."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Such violence," Jace said, though he felt pretty good about getting that kind of reaction out of her. "I thought we've discussed my reasons before."

If not discussed, he had made it pretty clear he thought Sam was a waste of time.

[whenshewasnice]

"I'm wet and miserable," Natalie pointed out, in case it wasn't obvious from her mood and everything. "That doesn't change anything?"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Nope," Jace said simply. "You might've gotten a little leeway from me if I thought you were just using him but I know you better than that."

[whenshewasnice]

"You know so much and yet understand so little," Natalie drawled, glancing away. "Remind me again why I'm supposed to like you?"

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Because we're family," Jace answered. "And I suppose my dashing good looks are an added benefit."

[whenshewasnice]

"You look like you were forced into rain in the middle of the night," Natalie retorted. "It doesn't really balance out stomping on my happiness."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Are you saying I don't look good wet?" He was ignoring any accusations of happiness stomping, thank you.

[whenshewasnice]

"I'm saying I don't care whether you look good wet or not." Also, that he was a grade A happiness stomper. "It's about a universe away from what I want or need right now."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Oh good god," Jace muttered. "Go then. I'm just trying to look out for you."

He was. In his own Jace way.

Look, he had a weird childhood. Birds were murdered.

[whenshewasnice]

"And I'm trying to give you chance to play the brother," Natalie replied, maybe just a little more acidly than she'd planned to, "and put your own messed up psyche aside for half a moment."

Which was probably a little too much to ask, considering she herself wasn't all that keen on seeing past her childhood trauma most of the time. No murdered birds there, but she did think she'd lost her one super true love at age eleven.

Plus she could get a little melodramatic when she was sleep deprived. Apparently.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you can turn that off and on with a switch," he said. "I'm not about to be supportive, but I can leave it alone if that will make you happy."

[whenshewasnice]

"It won't and you know it." She sighed and rubbed the side of her nose with her hand. "Wrong person to talk to, nevermind."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Well at least you know that." Better than her attempting and making things worse on the both of them. "Look, I'm sorry for being harsh. Harsher than usual. I'm like a cat when it comes to getting wet. Demon guts, fine, but a light spritzing of water and I get all thrown off."

[whenshewasnice]

"Middle of the night, we're all at our worst," Natalie said, though she didn't sound like she believed that, not entirely. "It's fine."

She didn't believe that, either, but it didn't sound like it mattered.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace didn't necessarily believe her either, but he let it be. Talking things out wasn't one of his many talents and they probably would have been better off just giving each other space.

"I'm gonna go try to find Alec."

[whenshewasnice]

"You go do that."

She, for her part, was going to try and see if she could borrow a phone from someone. Sam probably wasn't sleeping, anyway.

"I'll see you when I can deal with you again."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

Jace's shoulders tensed at that comment, but he bit back any reply. In his opinion that alone showed how much he didn't want to irritate Natalie anymore than he already had.

Instead he gave her a slight nod and walked off before his bitch reflex got the better of him.