and we are conscious of a long town history

[cross_and_bow]

Prom arrives.

Bella wears her indigo dress and her indigo heels with their straps that go all the way up her calves, and she nukes Sherlock some breakfast, and she waits.

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[pythbox]

"Much," she says, and she twirls around, her outdated dress floating through the air.

[cross_and_bow]

"D'you think you'll be less angry now, or did it not help that much?"

[pythbox]

...She grimaces.

"I don't know. I don't feel angry until... I feel angry, you know?"

[cross_and_bow]

Bella nods slowly. "I have a little bit of magic," she says. "I'm going to try and see if it can un-angry you, okay?"

[pythbox]

Minnie eyes her suspiciously. For a moment.

Then she nods.

[cross_and_bow]

Bella tries a square to cut the... rage issues.

To her surprise, it goes.

"I think that worked," she says. "...Do you feel any different, or is there no way to tell unless you run into something that would make you mad?"

[pythbox]

Minnie spreads her hands helplessly.

[cross_and_bow]

"Well," says Bella, "what would normally make you mad? My boyfriend is a vampire, if we can get him to make you mad then it's not such a big deal if you try to drown him..." [Have attempted to cure ghost's anger management problem with square, square went, require test subject to see if it worked before I can declare the case closed.]

[pythbox]

"He doesn't go to Sunnydale, right?"

[eversomuchfun]

[I volunteer,] he says dryly.

[cross_and_bow]

[Thought so. Thanks!] "Right. Never has."

[pythbox]

"Where is he, then?"

[cross_and_bow]

"He's been keeping watch at your haunted sink."

[pythbox]

She grins, and disappears.

[eversomuchfun]

[Here she is,] Sherlock reports. [Not attempting violence.]

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet jogs to the other bathroom, checks for witnesses who might wonder at her presence, and pokes her head in.

"So normally at this point you'd be trying to strangle and/or drown him?" she asks Minnie.

[pythbox]

"Yup!"

She forms her hands into exaggerated claws, makes a silly face, and floats toward Sherlock for an unmenacing few inches. Then she shrugs.

"Nothin'."

[cross_and_bow]

"...Okay, cool!" Pause. "But you're still here. And somehow I don't think the magic coins I have can revive the dead."

[pythbox]

Minnie shrugs unhappily.

"I guess. Being a ghost wouldn't be so bad if I could leave this stupid half of this stupid building."

[cross_and_bow]

"Then what would you do?" asks Bella.

[pythbox]

"Go places," she says, flinging out her arms dramatically.

[cross_and_bow]

"Sure, but, like, would you be doing mischief, making walls bleed and teakettles explode, spying on hot actors in the shower, whatever?"

[pythbox]

"...Ooh," she says speculatively, when Juliet offers that last suggestion.

[cross_and_bow]

"I really cannot approve of spying on anyone in the shower, you see," says Bella. "But if you were going to be a well-behaved wandering ghost I could see if I could cut you loose."

[pythbox]

"Not even a little, tiny bit of spying?" she wheedles.