Email to Bethany from Domino

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To: [skater chick]
From: [the witch's big sister]
Subject: our favorite witch



Very forward of me, I know, to be emailing you out of the blue like this. But see, Amanda gave me her passwords so I could reassure the school as to the fact that she was among the living, if a bit cranky, and I couldn't help but see your email. Feel free to thwack me next time you see me. I just couldn't not seize the opportunity to reassure you, too.

Amanda is really going to be okay. She's back in her own room, in her own bed, and pretty happy to be out of the medlab, I think. She managed to survive relatively unscathed, given what was going on, but she's going to be pretty sore for a while. Her voice is pretty much shit - long story - so a phone call might not be in the cards for a while - and her hands are all scraped up, so typing's a hassle. I'd offer to be her typist, but she's sound asleep at the moment, so... I'll remember to offer when she wakes up, though.

Don't fret too much. She'll be back on her feet soon, I promise.

Domino

Comments

Subject: No mocking the speedsters. Gotcha.

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Yeah, mine's a bracelet. Sounds like she's giving them out by the sackfull.. and from the sounds of it, it's a damn good thing, too. Truck bomb? Christ, if I didn't know you were okay, what with the typing and all, I'd be fretting about you, too.

Wait. Nate's charm, sleeping on the job, on Saturday. He was there, too? I haven't met him, but Amanda goes on about him a lot, and.. gah. Guh. Is he okay?

-B.

Subject: charms and stuff...

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Yep. Truck bomb. I'll tell you the whole sordid story if you want, when I see you. In retrospect, it's kind of like something out of a Tom Clancy novel. Kooky fun.

And as for Nate... yeah, he was there too. He'll be okay, but if you haven't met him yet... well, you may want to wait a few weeks. He probably wouldn't make the best first impression at the moment.

Definitely remember to tell her about your bracelet helping you out, okay? That's the sort of thing that'd do her good to hear this week. Just between you and me, she's feeling a little down over the fact that she couldn't do much to stop a bunch of psychopathic brainwashed killers. I tell you, her and her impossible standards for herself...

Dom

Subject: *Kooky fun*?!

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I know all about making bad first impressions, so yeah, I'll wait to meet him 'til another, saner time. Geez.

I will. I will go on about it at great length, in great detail, and maybe even in that smokey voice she likes so much, if it'd make her feel better, even if it kind of hurts my throat a little if I do it for too long. Kathleen Turner, I am not.

Psychopathic brainwashed killers? And you're talking about this shit like it's normal? Dear God, Dom, do you have any idea how long ago I'd have had a nervous breakdown and just given up if I lived the life you people seem to?

I should ask dad if he can tell me how much the NYPD knows about what happened. If they're clueless, he'd probably love to talk to you about it so they know what the hell happened.

-Bethany

Subject: hmm...

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I'm rather liking the idea of you doing a Kathleen Turner impression. It would look good on you.

As for this being normal... think of it as a slightly different world that just happens to intersect with the one you live in, kiddo. I guess that makes me a traveller from a different world? Heh. I kind of like that.

And now I'll be honest and admit that I babbled a little more than I should have - I've had far too little sleep these last few days, in my own defense. I'll just ask you flat-out not to mention me to your father. I don't know how much Amanda's told you about me, but cops and me, not a good mix.

Dom

Subject: Guh.

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I'll do the voice for you tomorrrow. Promise.

You aren't a traveller from a different world, though. You're.. you. You're Domino, Amanda's surrogate big sister and (I like to think) a friend. Nothing otherworldly about it. It's just.. seven shades of bizarre and more than a little scary to know someone whose life sounds like the video games the PTA wants to ban, or something. It's hard to think of this stuff as being normal for anybody.

Bad Dom. I won't mention you, so long as you don't do anything where it'd fall under his jurisdiction. But if you screw up in dad's city and I find out about it, I don't care how much I like you or how good your puppy dog eyes are or how pissed Amanda'd be at me.. cop's daughter. So.. behave. Please? Begging you to be good when you're in town? Because I'd never be able to forgive myself if I had to do that to you.

-Bethany

Subject: promises

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It's maybe more like the fringes of this world, rather than a different world entirely. Out on the edge where little things like law and civilization don't mean quite as much as they do here. I've never known what it was like to live anywhere else - remind me to tell you about where I grew up sometime. Makes moving back to the center of the world a little rough at times.

And I promise, I've never done anything inappropriate in your dad's city. Not planning to, either. The only way you survive in my line of work is to know when to respect the line and when to cross it, and this is not the place for the latter.

If it'll put your mind at ease, there are people looking into what happened on Saturday, and I'm talking about people who are properly equipped to deal with the sort of bastards who could do something like that. And that's about as much I can tell you without giving you stuff that you really don't want to know...

Domino

Subject: I'll hold you to them.

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I'm getting that impression. Makes Brooklyn seem like a picnic, I'm guessing? If I were old enough, I'd say I owe you a drink for when we talk about that. Damn my luck.

I believe you. And I trust you.

It does help. So long as somebody who can do something, and is supposed to be doing it, is doing something.. then it's all good. If dad doesn't get called in to help, even better. I worry about him when he goes to work enough as it is.

-Bethany

Subject: never guess I'm Asian, would you?

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And yes, that was a hint. Although to hear Nate tell it, when he first 'adopted' me I spoke with a British accent. Ah, well. All part of the enigma that is me.

I imagine it's hard sitting and waiting. I never had to do that very much, just the first couple of years I lived with Nate and GW (I don't know if Amanda's ever mentioned GW to you?). Then I started going out and taking the insane risks with them, which was hard in an entirely different way...

And now I really am rambling. Think this is a sign I ought to try and get some sleep?

Dom

Subject: Always had a thing for asian girls.

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You are a dark and mysterious stranger from a far-away land, where laws have no meaning and civilization.. doesn't exist. Dun-dun-dunnnnn.

I don't think she's mentioned GW, no.. but yeah, sitting and waiting blows. It's a case of the helplesses, I guess - I know dad's capable, and I know I'm.. not, and definitely not cut out for that kind of work or much of anything beyond schoolyard fistfights. It never really gets easier. I take a little aikido, since dad got sick of me coming home from the skate park with more bruises than the other guy, but I could never do what he does. I don't want to. I just want to write and take pictures. Makes it easier and harder at the same time, if that makes sense at all?

Now we're both rambling. We should definitely sleep. There will be hugs and Kathleen Turner impressions and hopefully ice cream tomorrow. I'll call as soon as I'm on my way.

Thanks, Dom. I really do appreciate that you wrote. Lots.

Sweet dreams.

-B.