plurk meme { 2018 } au august

[iluvroadrunner6]

Completed: 31/31
Running Word Count: 63,180

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august 8: power swap | felicity & vi | 1,046

[iluvroadrunner6]

“This is so weird.”

Vi is sitting on one gurney in the Dragon’s Light wing, and Felicity on the other, both of them trying to shake off the woozy feeling they’ve been fighting since they came back from their mission. Felicity isn’t sure if it’s the slime that this particular Shadowkind had covered them with or the fact that she suddenly has Vi’s powers that is wigging her out more, but she hasn’t stopped growing flowers everywhere she goes since it happened, and she needs to slow down.

“You’re telling me,” Felicity sighs as she tries to curl her hands into fists as though that will stop the tingling in her fingers. “How do you turn this off?”

“It takes practice.” Vi smirks. “Just breathe, flower child. We’ll figure this out. Hopefully one of the clerics will be able to switch us back.”

“Bad news,” Rosario says as she strides back into the room. “We can’t switch you back.”

“Well, there goes that plan,” Felicity sighs. “Why not?”

“Because it’s not an ailment?” Rosario gives a small shrug. “Upside though, whatever switched your abilities is definitely on a clock. Odds are you give it a couple days and you both will be back to normal.”

“Okay.” Felicity takes time processing that particular statement, rubbing her hands against the sides of her legs for a moment as she takes that in. “Okay. It’s just a couple days. What’s the worst that could happen in a couple days?”

Vi makes a face as she goes. “You had to go and say that, didn’t you?”

“I know. I regretted it the minute it was out of my mouth.” The two of them slide off the gurneys and Vi places her hands on Felicity’s shoulders as they make their way out the door.

“C’mon. We’re going to teach you how to chill out.”

- - - - - -

Chilling out, it turned out, meant leading her in the back to Gus’s grove of trees and teaching how to grow pot. It did not stop the trail of flowers reflecting Felicity’s mood that followed them out of the castle and into the woods, but it did lead to Felicity sprawled out in the grass, lazy and boneless, as wildflowers sprouted up around them.

“It’s like the earth is humming,” she murmurs with a pleased sort of tone, before popping her head up to look at Vi. “Is this what it’s like for you all the time?”

“More or less,” Vi replies as she takes her own drag off the joint before passing it back to her. “I didn’t realize that wasn’t normal before. Or, I mean, I knew it wasn’t, but it was my normal, so I didn’t really care, you know? But now I kind of miss it.”

“Mmmm.” Felicity takes another inhale and exhales slowly, trying her best not to close her eyes and fall asleep. For all she knew, she would wake up having grown a field of sunflowers in her sleep. “I wonder if because I got all your flower power, you could open a lock in six seconds flat. I mean, it’s not a power power, but …”

Vi’s eyes go wide a bit at that, before she pushes herself up very quickly from the dirt and flashes a wide grin at her best friend. “Do you have like practice locks and stuff?”

“Do I have practice locks.” She stamps out the joint before she reaches up to grab Vi’s hand to help pull her to her feet. “I will set up a whole thief obstacle course.”

As they head back into the castle, giggling as they go and manage to take over one of the training rooms with a rather acrobatic obstacle course. Vi finishes it in five minutes flat, coming in just inches of Felicity’s best record.

Okay, this? This is cool,” Vi grins, before she goes to collapse on the bench next to Felicity. They’re still feeling a little buzzy, and Felicity drums her fingers against her chin for a moment.

“I wonder if there’s any cool stuff in the castle we could find.”

“You mean like breaking into people’s rooms?”

“Nah,” Felicity pauses for a moment, before she rethinks that. “Although …”

“You want to break into someone’s room, don’t you?”

“I kinda want to break into someone’s office.”

“Is this the kind of person who’s office is going to get us into trouble.”

“Oh, definitely.”

“Then we probably shouldn’t.”

“Right. Probably shouldn’t.” There’s a pause. “But if we’re theorizing …”

Vi pauses, before looking back at her again. “What did you have in mind?”

- - - - - -

It’s safe to say that trying to break into said office doesn’t go as intended.

They’re busted easily by one of the section heads due to their intense lack of subtlety, and while they are excused because it’s extenuating circumstances, they’re high, and they didn’t actually succeed, it still feels a bit like they’re being sent to the principal’s office when it gets reported to Wynn.

Regardless, a few days later, as promised, Felicity wakes up in the morning not surrounded by wildflowers and feeling a bit like herself again, and as she makes her way down to breakfast, she smiles a bit as she leans over Vi’s shoulder.

“Glad things are back to normal again?”

“Immensely,” Vi says as she inches over with a smile, then tips her head to the side. “You know what would be really great though?”

“You want me to teach you how to pick locks?”

“I really do,” Vi laughs. “I don’t want to infringe on your skillset, but sometimes you’re not around and it could definitely come in handy.”

“You got it,” she grins, before reaching for her own stack of pancakes. “We can get started after breakfast.”

They both turn to dig in and get some food in them, before they’re both startled by Gus making his way closer and placing his hands down against the table for a moment. “I was gone for a week. Either of you want to tell me why my grove is completely covered in sunflowers?”

Felicity and Vi look at each other for a moment, before Felicity looks up with a small shrug.

“Oops?”