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This vampire nest was supposed to have six vampires in it. This trip to L.A. was supposed to involve this nest as the first stop of several. This time Sherlock's information is imperfect.

[Fuck,] says Bella, after having burst through the door, masked and armed with her stake, [they're having all their friends over today - help -]

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cross_and_bow

"Oh, good. Sherlock, are you done with the book yet?"

From:

bitofafiction

"The book and I have concluded our business."

From:

cross_and_bow

Juliet makes herself a square just for the novelty and summons the book from across the room to catch up. (Snuggling with vampire-Sherlock all the while.) "Okay, I'm glad I thought to check this before stacking up some powers, apparently version one of teleportation had no safeguards against appearing with somebody not in a state to be appeared to," she says mildly. "Shell Bell invented a patch, though - oh, she was visiting a one of you when she came up with it, Tony - and she's got a revision to some of the defenses, that makes sense after she got killed by that nuke - and of course I want to be able to add nodes to the brainphone network, I'd almost neglected that - and -" She closes the book. "I think I'm all set to evil me some powers, unless anybody has last-minute suggestions or somebody wants me to be able to read their mind like Stella and Shell Bell do theirs or what have you."

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eversomuchfun

"Do we want dear Juliet reading our mind?"

From:

bitofafiction

"I don't know, do we?"

From:

eversomuchfun

"Well, which state is the easier to change our mind from later?"

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cross_and_bow

"You can certainly always tell me to stop. Neither Stella nor Shell Bell leaves theirs on all the time. And apparently Shell Bell has to ask her Sherlock to slow down the adjustable brain speed thing in order to be able to catch more than half of what's going on anyway, if she hopes to work in real time. Or we could design the power backwards - projection instead of inspection - and stick it to you before you consolidate, and then you can change your mind at will without having to rely on my ability to suppress my curiosity - although I don't know if that will work with me, because mental opacity. Or," she shrugs, "you'll be making the evils anyway - I won't object if you ask me to remove it, or decide you don't want it now but want to go ahead and incorporate it later, as long as it's understood that not adding it with my first batch will take a separate evil."

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eversomuchfun

"Skip it for now, then."

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cross_and_bow

"Okay. Am I forgetting anything else? Oh, I know. I want to be immune to drugs as a general class of thing unless I decide otherwise," she says disgustedly. "Arthur Mallory oughtn't have been able to do what he did. I'll fold that into my version of the regen, I think, they'll just dissolve on contact if they try to touch my metabolism without an invitation."

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eversomuchfun

"Good plan."

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cross_and_bow

"I may as well see if I can fit Stella's past-viewing power onto the same evil. Could come in handy. I hope I blind Arthur Mallory when I attend his trial with his stupid magic-seeing power. Sherlock, do you know what happened to my fire wand? Did Giles grab it, or what?"

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eversomuchfun

"I took it while no one was looking and left it with Jarvis."

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cross_and_bow

"Okay, good. The fact that it now belongs to a mint means it probably can't be usefully passed along - I'm going to try to avoid making Shell Bell's mistake that led to it ever making sense to give it to me in the first place - but it could've been bad to have it floating around."

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eversomuchfun

"Yes indeed."

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cross_and_bow

"Okay. I'll evil me some stuff, I'll hex you some stuff, are there any more details you need to work out between you about how you want to consolidate yourselves?"

From:

bitofafiction

"No, I don't believe so."

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cross_and_bow

"Do you want to wait a bit to see if you think of anything, or shall I just rapid-fire everything under discussion?"

From:

eversomuchfun

"Go for it."

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cross_and_bow

Evil on herself. Ah, that feels better, that feels much better. All of Sherlocks' requests, applied to the vampire one. "There's me and you powered up, and -" She focuses on the parameters of the merger. Human Downsider one as the template for the torching and the soul, plus vampire's memories, lack of self-loathing, magic grafts, technical vampirism plus the new immunities - and the vampire one loves her, she is sure to note in her wish design that this is to be included -

She takes a deep breath.

She closes her eyes.

She wishes on the evil.

From:

eversomuchfun

"Well," says Sherlock. "Look at me."

From:

toblameforit

"Lookit you," Tony agrees. "Being all one of you and stuff."

He claims first hug on the new Sherry.

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cross_and_bow

Juliet allows it without protest.

The previous non-vampire Sherlock might have guessed something about what vampire-her did, but he did not remember it, and she is not sure to what extent the consolidation may feel like learning something new.