Emma's Flat, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Wednesday Afternoon.

[icecoldfrost]

Classes were done for the day, and while normally Emma would be doing some stupid group team-building project with the other students in her human development class, she was skipping whatever stupid feel-good heart-to-heart nonsense the teacher had come up with this week. With an excuse! ...kinda! Candy was coming over once she was finished with work tonight so they could practice for summer internship interviews. Which meant Emma was putting away her groceries and prepping to make an utterly ridiculously large amount of tacos.

Look, she and Candy were growing girls. And they were not going to give in to the self-hate of the American media and body-image magazines. Because tacos. They were not just necessary to live, but to deal with the stupidity of the human race and their male counterparts who were jostling for the same jobs and complaining about how it was 'unfair' that the girls had the 'advantage' of being female.

No, Emma hadn't been experimenting to see if she'd suddenly developed psychokinesis last week in class, why did you ask? Really. Setting someone on fire with her brain, while potentially therapeutic, wasn't actually helpful.

Yet.

[OOC: Open for calls, texts, you know the drill.]

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[icecoldfrost]

"Never. You're going to be ridiculously good-looking for your entire life, utterly ageless and making the rest of us look bad," Emma said. "Gravitas wouldn't suit you at all."

[bitten_notshy]

"I think I just decided that I don't care whether you can lie or not," Jack said. "Thank you. You'll be beautiful forever too, do you know that? I couldn't make you look bad."

[icecoldfrost]

"Being fabulous is my tertiary mutant power," Emma agreed cheerfully. "I wonder...if I shifted to diamond and stayed that way, would I live forever?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Probably, but you'd have to give up food and sex and everything else fun in life," Jack said, a touch whiny. "I miss flesh-and-bone Emma when you're a diamond. Do it when you're 90 and have already enjoyed everything else. "

[icecoldfrost]

"Careful, Jack," Emma teased, "it almost sounds as if you do have time to miss me, amidst all those pieces of paper."

[bitten_notshy]

Jack considered that for a moment, drew a breath.

"The worst thing in my life right now," he said quietly, "isn't the bits of paper or the lycanthropy or this insane island. It's that we've never found a way to be in the same place for more than a few months. Of course I miss you, I'm just -- stubborn. As are you."

[icecoldfrost]

"I should remember not to make blithe one-off comments like that on days you're cursed with honesty," Emma said. "I'll make you a deal, then, Mr. Priest. Should I fail spectacularly in finding honest employment, I'll come back again this summer."

"Although I feel compelled to point out that you wouldn't like me half as much if I was sweet and pliable."

[bitten_notshy]

"Of course not, there's no point in being with someone who makes it too easy on me," Jack shot back. "But I'd love it if you could come for the summer. I'd be in a much better mood if I was having sex regularly. And I did not mean to say that."

[icecoldfrost]

"I might be in a better mood if I was getting laid, but then I remember how much I hate the vast majority of humanity for their stupidity," Emma offered dryly.

"And I did mean to say that."

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm sure you did," Jack sighed. "Just ... keep not hating me, all right? I don't care if you hate everyone else; it rather flatters my ego."

[icecoldfrost]

"I should send you to Dite's with a gift card, that will cheer you up," Emma decided. "I think you're allergic to these 'Truth Days,' they make you utterly morose."

[bitten_notshy]

"I can't lie, it's Passover so I can't eat anything tasty, and it's the full moon," Jack answered simply. "Any two of those things would have me a bit whiny. With all three I'm drowning in melodrama. Tell me a joke, I'll cheer up."

[icecoldfrost]

"Why couldn't the baby Jesus be born in New York?" Emma asked her Jewish werewolf lover. "Because they couldn't find 3 wise men or a virgin!"

Really, Jack, you should know better than to let Emma tell jokes.

[bitten_notshy]

Jack laughed. "Thank you. Now I'll remember other people's religions are insane too."

[icecoldfrost]

"You're welcome," Emma answered, laughing along with him. "Should I send you some of the macaroons they sell at the kosher deli? The tasty ones?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Please do, but only the coconut ones," Jack told her gratefully. "I don't really care for pistachios, but you seemed to like them so I didn't say anything last time."

[icecoldfrost]

"I like everything that resembles food," Emma pointed out. "But coconut it is. I'll drop it in the post for you this afternoon."

Along with a few other things, probably. She might as well fill a box, and Jack clearly needed a care-package.

[bitten_notshy]

"Thank you, darling," Jack said, and closed his eyes. "I should go, but -- I'm glad I called you. I like your voice."