Laurie and Crystal - Return Flight

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So these two blondes walk onto a plane... While on the way back to New York from Venice, Laurie and Crystal discuss relationships.



Laurie carefully peeled the top off her orange juice cup, and yet still managed to spill the sticky juice on her fingers. It was just typical really, and she wondered if the airline created these things just for the purpose of spilling things on people. She picked up her bag and fished around inside it for her packet of wet wipes, making a small ahha! of triumph as she pulled it out and proceeded to wipe her hands.

"Are you looking forward to being home?" she asked her companion in the next seat.

It had been two days now since Eamon had left, and she wondered how he was, and whether he was keeping himself safe. She had resisted the urge to phone him, thinking that perhaps she should give him at least a week to be somewhere in cell phone range. It was not at all that she was worried that he would have second thoughts about what they'd decided before he left.

Crystal's head turned to face Laurie, the younger blonde pulling the older blonde out of her thoughts. "Home?" she asked, a bit puzzled. "I am not going home yet, Laurie, I intend to stay at the mansion for a few weeks before returning to Attilan. Even then, if you keep to your decision to take up your travels once more, I still intend to travel with you if you so wish it."

"Oh! Right," Laurie said, smacking herself on the forehead lightly. "Sorry, I keep forgetting that you don't consider the mansion 'home' like I do. Won't Forge mind me taking you away for even longer though?"

"He could come with us if he wished to, yes? Or, perhaps, at least join us for a part of our travels as Monet and Kurt did?" Crystal pointed out.

"Hmm, that's true. You sure he'd want to travel with us though?" Laurie asked her friend. "I did get into a fight with him not that long ago on the journals, although maybe if I went and talked to him about it."

"I am sure that I can talk him into taking a vacation with me," Crystal said. "I will have to check with him to see when he is not busy, of course. Perhaps you might wish to e-mail him or try speaking to him on the journals before paying him a visit if you believe that he is unhappy with you?"

"True, you would have certain abilities that I lack," Laurie said with a grin before turning to look out the window beside her. They'd leveled off now, and appeared to be flying at cruising altitude, or so the announcement over the loud speaker said. "What's it like? Being away from him, I mean. Do you miss him all the time, or just from time to time?"

"Can anyone ever truly miss someone all of the time?" Crystal mused out loud. "People might say that they do, but can they really mean that literally? I keep busy, Laurie, as does Forge. Everyone must continue on with their lives, even when they must be apart from those who are close to them. Not everyone is able to be in a situation where their friends and family live close by and people do not have to be missed. No matter where I am, there will always be someone to miss."

"I never thought of it that way before, and it's true I miss my friends from time to time, and my parents. But not always, and especially when I'm busy it's different." Laurie mused, leaning back against her chair now and trying to find a comfortable spot in the economy class seat. They weren't as bad as some of the smaller airlines they'd traveled on, but they were still economy.

"Eamon and I, um, well, I don't know. We sort of decided to try and give 'us' a go before I left. I don't know how it'll work out, we're such different people but it feels good."

"Do you feel that you will be fine with the situation, however it ends up working out?" Crystal questioned. This wasn't the first time the two of them had talked about Eamon, of course, but this was now after and Crystal had not wanted to press Laurie before. She was Laurie's traveling companion, not her mother; yes, she had come to keep an eye on Laurie, but not to keep her from living her life.

"I don't know yet," Laurie admitted, finally turning her head to look at Crystal more fully. "I told him I couldn't promise not to get hurt. He seemed like he accepted that. I don't know if it's weird that this feels so much less complicated then anything else in my life."

"Have you accepted the possibility of being hurt? Not that a relationship with anyone else would be free of that risk," Crystal noted, also wondering if Laurie had considered the possibility that she might not be the one who wound up hurt in this relationship.

"Yes, although that particular thought isn't exactly one I enjoyed, or enjoy. Morgan gave me the rundown on what could happen when I ended up answering Eamon's phone accidentally." Laurie responded with a sigh. She still felt uneasy when she thought of that conversation.

"Laurie, no one enjoys having such thoughts," Crystal laughed. "I hope that it did not take speaking with Morgan to allow you to realize that this might not lead to 'happily ever after'. However, not everyone is looking for that, or they are not looking for it right now. It is up to you to decide what is best for you, what you want and what you need; while I am sure that others will have their opinions on this recent development, should you choose to tell them or should they find out, you are the only one who can truly decide what will or will not make you happy."

"Thank you," Laurie said, a genuine smile lighting her face briefly before she turned back to the window. "Sometimes I feel as if I have to defend every decision I make."



After returning to the mansion, Crystal goes to her suite for some very NSFW time with Forge.



In fact, what's going on in this suite is so NSFW that there is no log. Let your imaginations run wild. Move along people, there's nothing to see here. These two haven't seen each other for quite some time. They don't want you to watch. Let's give them some privacy, ok?


Disclaimer: No actual NSFW logs were harmed in the making of this post.