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Bella is hanging out in a Jarvis - the familiar one - handwriting a nonaggression proposal-slash-bribe. Has to be handwritten. Damn fussy demons. At least it's okay for her to conjure rather than personally harvesting the weird ink she's supposed to use.

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From:

cross_and_bow

"I don't know anyone named Sophia."

From:

keyed_up

[...Sherlock? Bella's gone nuts.]

From:

eversomuchfun

[In what way has Bella gone nuts?]

From:

keyed_up

[She - she doesn't know who I am, I thought she was fooling the first few times she asked me who I was and what I was doing in her room but I think she's serious. She's interrogating me in some random - place - it's cold as balls - she says she doesn't know anyone named Sophia.]

From:

eversomuchfun

Sherlock sighs.

He teleports to the current location of Bella and Soph.

"Dear Juliet," he says, "describe to me the problem."

From:

cross_and_bow

"Do you know who this is? Because I don't, but she was in my room anyway, and there was an extra bed in it, and stuff that doesn't belong to me, and I know I haven't been home as much since I stopped needing to sleep but I'd think Charlie'd tell me before taking in a boarder."

From:

keyed_up

"I'm Soph," says Soph plaintively.

From:

eversomuchfun

"She's your fucking sister, love."

From:

cross_and_bow

"I don't have a sister. I have never had a sister. I am an only child, like all the other Bells except Aurora!"

From:

keyed_up

Soph starts rubbing at one of her eyes unhappily.

Edited Date: 2013-06-02 01:58 am (UTC)

From:

eversomuchfun

"You are not and have never been an only child," says Sherlock. "And if we're going to have this conversation, I suggest we have it indoors."

From:

keyed_up

"She was for, like, a year," says Soph.

From:

cross_and_bow

Bella looks skyward. "What, you want to go talk about this in a Jarvis, I have no idea what she is, because she's not my sister, I have a completely coherent set of memories from where the perfect recall kicks in all the way through ten minutes ago with no sister, frankly I don't want her anywhere near a being I like that physically can't torch while we can't get Downside."

From:

eversomuchfun

"And I have a perfectly clear set of memories from the day I met you that include your sister, and I assume your sister can say something similar, and here she is. Until ten minutes ago you've never had a problem acknowledging her existence. Something has changed, but before we find out what I am not going to advise treating Soph like a hostile fucking demon."

From:

cross_and_bow

"Of the two of us I am not the one likelier to be affected by mind-affecting magic!"

From:

eversomuchfun

"Fine, then let us extend this beyond the two of us," he says, and brainphones Tony and both Jarvises, with Soph and Bella included in the call.

[Indulge me for a moment: how many siblings would you say Juliet has?]

From:

toblameforit

[...Is this a trick question?] says Tony. [One.]

From:

poeticterms

[My sentiments exactly,] says a Jarvis.

[What on Earth is going on?] says the other.

From:

cross_and_bow

[I am an only child! I always have been! None of you are mentally opaque, something must have happened to you.]

From:

poeticterms

[We've met Soph,] says a Jarvis. [You can watch the video yourself. I don't know of any spell both powerful and sophisticated enough to alter my recordings. A mind-affecting spell might alter my personal memories, but the data I have on file is a separate matter, and I'm verifying the records as we speak.]

From:

cross_and_bow

[Yeah, she's got a bunk bed in my room too, but why and how would somebody go through my memories - my protected memories - to subtract a sister?]

Edited Date: 2013-06-02 02:22 am (UTC)

From:

keyed_up

"I'm cold," murmurs Soph.

From:

cross_and_bow

"If you were my sister I would've wished you up protections, like Aurora gave Lexi, and you would not be uncomfortably cold! We're only in Canada, not the South Pole!" Bella points an accusing finger.

From:

eversomuchfun

"Your sister, like yourself, has a bloody magical immunity," says Sherlock. "To torching, interworld travel, and any coin above a pentagon, as well as a haphazard assortment of local spells."