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.

Comments

[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.

[cross_and_bow]

"Only if you get to know them and ask for their permission first," says Bella. "Otherwise that is sketchy Peeping Tom behavior."

[pythbox]

She spins around and addresses Sherlock.

"Can I spy on you in the shower?"

[eversomuchfun]

...

He cracks up.

[cross_and_bow]

So does Bella.

[pythbox]

Minnie bats her eyelashes.

"Pleeeeeease?"

[eversomuchfun]

He giggles helplessly.

[cross_and_bow]

"Face it, Sherlock, you're pretty edible," giggles Bella.

[eversomuchfun]

"Oh, I'm well aware."

[pythbox]

"You are," sighs Minnie.

[cross_and_bow]

"Well, Minnie, if you can confine yourself to wheedling and not turning-invisible-and-lurking-without-consent, I think I can try freeing you from the prom," says Bella.

[pythbox]

Minnie nods several times and tries to look as innocent as possible.

[cross_and_bow]

[Hey, Giles, I fixed the ghost's rage issues. Is there any particular reason I shouldn't un-confine-her-to-prom if I can do that with a square? She displays no interest in anything more nefarious than maybe spying on movie stars in the shower and seems willing to agree to not do even that.]

[pythbox]

[...This is a little out of my depth,] Giles admits. [But, er, benign hauntings are possible... to my knowledge, no one's ever tried to reform one.]

[cross_and_bow]

[Well, curing her anger issues took a square, but the square went, which wishcoins only do when they work, and then Sherlock volunteered as bait for a fit of murderousness since her standard methods wouldn't work on him and she did not try to murder him. Okay then. One free happier ghost, coming up, if a square can do it.]

Wish. Square goes.

"See if you can leave now?" Bella says.

[pythbox]

Minnie disappears.



Minnie reappears again and gives Bella an enthusiastic hug, solid if a little chilly. Then she spins away and plants a kiss on Sherlock.