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Remember how I found you there

WHO: Catwoman, Delirium, & Lucifer
WHERE: Somewhere. In the City.
WHEN: Afternoon of March 30th, prior to the aquarium thing
WARNINGS: Pie
FORMAT: quickpara

After the whole mess at the ball the previous night, Selina needed to get out for a while. Go for a walk. Be a normal person in a normal place.

Hopefully not run into Godzilla.

It was a decent day out. Cool and windy, but you could feel the impending spring. Or at least Selina could, used to seasonal flavors of cities as she was.

She had no particular destination in mind, simply wandering the streets she'd come to know in the past five months at whim. She kept a sharp eye on her surroundings -- she didn't know how not to at this point -- but not seeking. Simply observing.

Street kids were one of the city elements that Selina always noticed. She'd been one herself in another life. But the thin frame and brilliant red hair of one girl she passed brought her to a halt. At first she thought it was Holly, younger and still lost. But the resemblance was only superficial.

Still. There was something about her.

Selina paused. "Are you all right?" she asked the girl, not entirely sure why.

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Delirium was lost. Except that she was used to being lost so it really shouldn't have mattered, but now she was lost lost lost. She didn't know where her brothers and sisters were, couldn't feel the way to her realm. She had searched and searched and searched for a labyrinth and a place of desire and a place of dreams, but simply couldn't find one that led her back to her siblings.

So she had curled up in the doorway of some building and merely sat, letting her edges fade slowly until she could feel herself slipping and then-

Delirium turned the full force of her gaze on the woman. "What?"

Selina had seen a lot of weirdness in her day. Mismatched eyes shouldn't have struck her as odd in the least, not after dealing with the likes of Two-Face a couple of times.

But there was something strange there in her gaze.

Selina blinked, decided to ignore it.

"Are you all right?" she repeated. "You look a little pale." The understatement of the year.

Delirium stared at her bare feet for a minute then back at the lady, eyes flickering about. Tracking the movements of light and air behind the woman.

"Um..." she began, then quieted a little. Delirium knew the woman (she knew lots of people, not as many as her sister, but she still knew lots of people), but the name didn't come readily. She should ask, but the words changed direction half way through and instead came out as "I got misplaced."

Ah. One of those that had been ported in, most likely. Selina stooped down closer to the girl. "Me too," she said quietly. "Let me guess, you were suddenly in that building over there." She gestured to Stark Tower rising in the distance.

"There are a lot of us who had been brought here. Is there anyone you know in the city?" Not like Selina needed yet another kid to keep an eye on. But just walking away wasn't in her nature. Not anymore.

Delirium followed the woman's gesture with her eyes and then looked for awhile at the building. Oh so she had gone in a circle then. That was comforting at least. Circles were nice.

"My family isn't here," she said, "And I can't find the right way to get back home. But Lucifer is here. And Tank Girl knows who I am too. There were others who knew who I was but some of them said they didn't know."

She knew Lucifer. And Tank Girl. Okay then. Selina had absolutely no idea what to say to that. How that even worked.

"Are you hungry?" she asked the girl. When in doubt, feed them.

Delirium wasn't sure what that had to do with anything... She also wanted to know what the word for a man who only walked under bridges and caught fish from the wings of planes and used them to make words was called, but the question wasn't forming properly on her tongue so instead she nodded and said "Yes."

Selina nodded and offered the girl her hand. "There's a diner just around the corner that has really good pie. Whatever you want, my treat." She smiled a wry smile; this really was starting to become a habit.

Hopefully, this one wouldn't turn out to be somebody's clone.

Delirium stared at the hand offered to her for a minute before taking it. She was starting to like this lady. She was a little like her big sister... The thought made her smile and the words come out a little easier.

"What kind of pies?" she asked, taking the lady's hand and standing up on spindly legs, "Are they the kind with rats in them? Those don't taste very good, but the ones with the little baby berries in them are very very good."

The smile was reassuring. The talk of rat pies... less so. The way she formed her sentences was starting to remind her a little bit of River. Her free hand unconsciously drifted to her side, where the dark haired girl had sunk a knife in all too recently.

"No rats. Pretty sure they have strawberry, though. A bunch of other ones too." She led the redhead down the street, hoping her lack of shoes (another thing she had in common with River) wouldn't be a problem. "I'm Selina."

Edited 2009-03-31 05:45 (UTC)

"Hello, Selina," she said, padding along next to the woman-ah, Selina- and keeping a hold of her hand, "Do they have cherry? I like cherries, I ate some once when I was looking for my brother with Dream and the cherry stones told me that when I grow up I would be a kangaroo."

She thought for a moment, before asking, "Do you think Tank Girl will know how to grow up to be a good kangaroo?"

"They might, not sure. We'll ask them." She had to smile at the last question. "If anyone would, it'd be her."

The diner in question was one she'd been to a few times. Not a favorite spot, but certainly better than some of the dumps she'd tried. The waitress behind the counter looked like she was about to say something about no shoes and no service. Selina silenced her with a sharp green glare.

She handed the girl a menu, taking seat on a worn stool. "Looks like they do have cherry," she murmured, glancing at the display case.

"Can I have cherry then?" Delirium asked as she climbed up onto the stool, immediately starting to spin a bit on the stool. She was starting to feel much more comfortable around Selina and this almost as if by default seemed to open up her gestures.

"Selina, have you ever been on an aeroplane?" she asked, settling down long enough to draw patterns on the top of the counter with the tip of her finger. If she stared enough she could see swirls and dips and dives.

"Sure." She signaled to the waitress, ordering a slice of cherry pie and milk for her companion, coffee for herself. She wasn't particularly hungry, but diner coffee? She never said no.

"Airplanes? Yeah, plenty of times." Selina wondered if maybe they had another case of time displacement. "You?" Belatedly, she realized another question she'd forgot to ask. "Sorry, I didn't get your name."

Delirium kicked her feet a little as she answered, laying her head down on the counter to look at Selina.

"Uh-huh. I've been on them lots of times," she began, trying to remember that there was a point to what she was saying, "I like them because when you go way up in the clouds everything looks so magical and special and the clouds look so pretty like a magical place where everything is okay and sometimes I just want to go walking through them so I can be in that place..." A pause. She was getting off track, what was the track again? "But I've been in the clouds and all it is is wet and could and empty... But aeroplanes are nice because they're in-between places..."

Oh there it was, the point. "This place is an in-between place too," Delirium finished, pleased she had been able to make the point she was searching for. She hadn't even noticed Selina had asked for her name.

The waitress brought their order. Selina sipped her coffee, black and too-hot, pondering the girl's comment. "It does seem to be between a hell of lot of different worlds," she mused. "Of course that means the question is where are we headed?"

Delirium answered promptly and matter of fact, "To Death. That's where everything goes sooner or later."

She dug into the pie like a 5 year old on a mission and was soon licking the sticky cherry filling off of her fingers.

"Well... yes." Selina quietly slid a spoon towards the girl. Just in case. "I was thinking about the more immediate future. Planes usually have a destination." Of course, you usually had an actual choice about getting on board.

She snagged a stack of napkins from the dented metal holder and laid them next to the spoon. Just in case.

Delirium put the offered spoon to use, although it didn't do much good to prevent the red gunk from smearing across her lower face and cover her fingers.

"I don't know," Delirium said, frowning and beginning to turn in on herself, "Which is bad, I should know, I should know, even though I'm not Destiny in his garden with his big book. I know things that people don't think I know, but just because I can't say them doesn't mean I don't know them. But I can't find any of the right roads or the right places to look and I can't find my realm from here..."

Selina had gotten pretty good at piecing together nonsensical soliloquies over the past few months. "What kinds of things do you know?" she asked. There was the girl who could see hints of the future and the girl who could read minds. Maybe she was like that, maybe something else entirely. "And none of us can find the way home."

Delirium finished her pie before she answered, licking the last of the red goop of the spoon.

"I know lots of things!" she said, suddenly brightening again, "The name for the jelly in people's eye is called Vitreous Humor and how to call up little glowy worms and write things on walls so that I won't forget words!" Delirium turned to Selena going absolutely still and her blue-green gaze intense, "I know the paths outside of Destiny's garden."

Selina froze for a moment. There was something about those words, her eyes. Something that she just didn't...

Blinking, she shook her head a little. What the hell was that? She was probably just losing her mind again.

"Do you want anything else?" she asked quietly, staring into her coffee cup.

"No thank you, I'm done now," Delirium said, kicking her feet, the previous intensity gone as if it had never been there. She liked the cherry pie, although it didn't have the stones that talked to her, but that was all right.

"All right." Selina slid a few bills out of her purse, horribly overtipping the waitress and not even caring. "Look, do you have some place to go? There's the MAC at the very least..."

"Lucifer Morningstar said he was going to come and get me and asked me if I would mind staying at his place and I said I was going to stay in an alley I found that when you look at the broken glass on the ground the right way you could see through to the other side of the world, but staying with him sounded nicer so that's what I'm going to do," Delirium said, still kicking her feet absently.

If she looked closely at her big toe on her right foot, she could see that it was starting to squirm a little, like a salmon fry hatching from it's egg.

"With Lucifer," Selina repeated, glad she'd already finished her coffee. That wasn't the type of thing you wanted to hear while drinking anything. "Are you... sure that's a good idea?"

"Uh-huh," Delirium nodded, "He never minded me, but he fought with my brother before he closed down Hell and went to play the piano. He went to my brother's funeral and said I was me there which I think meant I said the right things, but I don't know because I haven't gotten there yet."

By now, Selina's head was starting to spin. "Sounds like you... know him then. If you're sure..."

She crossed her legs and rested her hands on her lap. "I'll wait with you if you want." Hell if she knew what was even going on at this point, but she really didn't want to leave the odd little girl by herself.

"I know him, of course!" she said cheerfully.

Delirium smiled widely at Selina, "That would be nice! I can show you my fishies!" By now her entire right foot had turned into a mass of shimmering fish, slowly breaking away and swimming about the legs of the stool and dodging the movement of Delirium still kicking her legs.

There weren't too many things that could really startle Selina. But this? This was definitely one of them.

"Do you... usually turn into fish?" she asked blandly, eyes riveted to the creatures swimming through the air.

ooc | I'd say Lucifer can come in pretty much any time now? XD

The fish swirled around Delirium, humming softly. "Yes, sometimes," she said, tipping her head to the side, "Sometimes I don't notice it and then it takes me a week to put myself back together."

[ooc: I'd say so.]

He -- felt wasn't the proper term Lucifer would ever use for how any of the Endless simply seemed to exist in the peripheral of Creation, but here, as he stepped out from the portal that he brought him to her, it seemed to be the only word that made any sense.

"Delirium," he called out as he stepped from the portal he had made and onto the street, the sound of his voice much like static in the air, crackling at its edges. "I suggest you stop that before someone else takes notice."

Things were starting to get a little too weird for Selina. She'd dealt with magic before, true. With aliens. Shapeshifters and vampires and mummies. But little girls turning into aquatic swarms and teleporting guys who claimed to be the literal Satan (either insane or... not lying) were just a little bit outside of her comfort zone.

Still, old habits. Selina glanced away from the blond stranger with the hair-raising voice to the girl -- Delirium, apparently. "Are you going to be okay?" she asked, surprised at how uncertain her own voice sounded.

Delirium leaned to the side, nearly falling off the stool in the process of putting her foot back together, and greeted Lucifer, "Hello. You don't think they would like the fishies?"

A puzzled look went to Selian. "Of course. Unless I have a bad day or I get lost, but usually I can find my way back, so it will all be all right."

The Morningstar shook his head, failing to spare even a cursory glance at whomever it was that was talking to Delirium.

"No, I do not."

He motioned over to the glowing, iridescent door.

"Come along now, Delirium."

Edited 2009-04-03 05:14 (UTC)

Selina's eyes narrowed the slightest bit at being ignored by "Lucifer". Strange as the whole situation was, certain things were always going to twinge poorly.

Well, two could play that game. Selina's eyes shifted away from the rude blond man to Delirium. "Let me know if you need anything, okay?"

Things fell in order like they do every know and then in Delirium's mind and the smile she gave Selina was focused and very old. She leaned forward and Selina a light kiss on the cheek. "Okay. When you remember me again, we can go and play in the puddles and sing songs together," she said.

She hopped down off of her stool, dancing a bit towards the glowing doorway. "Do you ever feel like Dorothy in that one movie?"

It was a sweet gesture, but the smile and the kiss left Selina feeling slightly dazed more than anything else. "Sure," she replied, not even hearing what Delirium was proposing, not really.

The question, though, snapped things back into focus. "Not really a dog person. And I don't think clicking my heels will do a hell of a lot." She managed her own smile. "But yeah, I know what you mean. And not just because the Scarecrow's around."

Delirium brightened, "Really? I always liked the Scarecrow, he was my favorite!"

She chuckled just a little. "Different Scarecrow. You wouldn't like this one as much. Besides," and Selina smiled at this, "everyone knows Dorothy had the best taste in shoes."

Edited 2009-04-03 20:54 (UTC)

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Remember how I found you there

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cutest icon ever

It kinda is. :B

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Delirium's thought process defies short para... ><;

Heh XD

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Pfft skipping Ian becaus he's on hiatus and Lucifer's rude

OH SNAP! He is a bit, isn't he?

Re: OH SNAP! He is a bit, isn't he?