147 Howls: Christmas is coming

[coyote_walking]

Snow always makes me feel more Christmas-y. Hard to believe that this is my, wow... my fourth Christmas in this place.

I see the mistletoe is out in full force today, so be careful around it if you don't want to be kissed by random people. Or, you know, arrange to be under it if you want to be kissed by someone in particular.


[Mercy's out and about today, dropping off baked goods at the Welcome Center, working at the magic store, doing some last minute Christmas shopping, and, of course can always be found at some point at her house or working on the project car in her garage. Somehow she always gets distracted enough to forget about the mistletoe, so please come kiss her!]

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[harrydresden]

"I meant I was Wiley Coyote but I forgot, the whole coyote thing. Heh."

He looks amused. "Seem pretty proud of that."

[coyote_walking]

"All right, Wiley. I'll remember to keep an anvil handy in case you get out of hand," she teased.

And raised an eyebrow. "Well, his wife didn't set me on fire for it." Yet. "So sure what's not to be proud? How many people get to say they kissed the Merlin?"

[harrydresden]

... "Er... I think that might be a trick question." He's going to say he'd really rather not add that to his list of accomplishments but Mercy doesn't need any more fuel for the teasing. "Seems like it would be pretty unforgiving to set you on fire for something the city did and you couldn't control."

[coyote_walking]

"Yeah, that was our thought," Mercy said with a grin. "And all things considered it's hardly the most uncomfortable or awkward mistletoe inspired kissage I've had since I got here."

[harrydresden]

"Oh yeah?" Have a look of interest Mercy, it's your own fault for bringing it up. He sets the cup down and waits patiently for her to tell her story because come on, that has to be good, right?

[coyote_walking]

Mercy laughed. "Oh, come on. You really want to hear about random weird kissing adventures?"

He probably did. He was a guy after all.

"There was this one year... a friend of mine came by to drop off some spaghetti and meatballs he'd made for me. It was the first time either of us had run into the mistletoe and it was all over my garage and... Let's just say that despite our best efforts we kept getting caught under the stupid plants."

She shook her head, smiling as she remembered. "Luckily, we were good enough friends that we got past the embarrassment. It was a bit of a learning experience. Never kissed anyone with piercings before."

[harrydresden]

Well, there were probably worse things than getting stuck kissing a pretty girl over and over although it did sound a little embarrassing. His brows rose again at the piercings. "Sounds kinda wild." He knew people with piercings but he hadn't gone and kissed any of them. Mostly because one was his apprentice which would be wrong and one was a hellbitch of epic proportions.

[coyote_walking]

"His girlfriend forgave him."

Mercy made a face. "The guy I was seeing told me he didn't care who I kissed. That sort of turned out to be the beginning of the end."

[harrydresden]

He winces a little in sympathy. "Ahh, awkward."

"Also uh, that guy kind of sounds like an ass. Or like he was trying to pretend he didn't care."

[coyote_walking]

"Yeah, well, as it turns out it was your brother, so..." She shrugged, though the memory of it clearly still hurt. "I can't pretend to understand why he did things anymore. But, well, I'm sure you know all too well how angsty Thomas can get."

"Anyway, I was thinking more about Priestly when I started the story and not Thomas or I'd have picked another story, sorry. And piercings, well, they were more... interesting than I'd imagined they'd be."

[harrydresden]

Harry goes quiet for a second and his face grows serious. There's a conflict of emotions between a pang of lonely worry for his brother and exasperation for being an ass to a nice girl like Mercy and a hint of understanding for a situation in which would probably not be good for him to be going around kissing Mercy for fear of killing her.

"Thomas does a very good impression of an ass."

"Priestly?" Wasn't that a guy from TV drama? "I suppose at least you had fun?"

[coyote_walking]

"Yeah." She was quiet for a moment. "He went through a lot, though. Fallout from back home and... I guess, bottom line, he wasn't happy being with me - couldn't trust himself or me enough to do that. So, he started sleeping around, I think so that I'd be the one to break things off. I just hope he's happy now. Back home, I mean."

Mercy smiled. You kind of had to when you were thinking about Priestly. "We laughed a lot about it afterwards. And yeah, I think if we'd both been single, we might have tried to see where things could go. It's all in the timing and mine's never been known for being that great."

[harrydresden]

Harry just rubs his temple. Sounds like Thomas trying to keep someone away from the danger his hunger presented. He was good at really making the other person want to kick him in the balls sometimes. Hells Bells. "Sorry, sometimes Thomas goes about things all wrong. He's ... doing not too bad at home actually." He won't talk about Justine helping but it might put her mind at ease to know he's ok.

"I could tell you stories about timing. ER.. well, I'd rather not but suffice to know that I get it. Intimately." Have a wry smile.

[coyote_walking]

"I'm glad," Mercy said quietly. "I hoped he was happy there."

She grinned at him. "I think we can just agree that we'll try and avoid too much TMI, yes?"

[harrydresden]

"I bet, being an ass or not, he'd be pleased to know you were doing ok here too." He frowned a little at her, worry nagging at the corners of his eyes but decided not to harp on something he couldn't do anything about. He was going to kick Thomas when he got home even if he couldn't remember why he was doing it.

"Yeah," He grins at the change of topic, "Sounds like a solid plan."

[coyote_walking]

"Maybe," she said. "I try not to think about it too much. It's all water under the bridge anyway, right?"