my weight in quarters

[keyed_up]

Soph's not immune to large coins anymore. She has now ducked into Milliways briefly, which she could - "never do before" - and left without incident. And Bella says she's torchable. So supposedly she could do almost anything, now.

What she wants to do is this.

She finds Tony - ahahaha, she can teleport now, no spending a pentagon every time wincing when she remembers where they come from - and says:

"Let's go blow my weight in quarters on arcade games and finish that James Bond marathon?"

(She has other friends, who she knows better than Tony, but they don't know about stuff, she wants to keep it that way, and she's going to be in a bit of a mood about stuff for a while; better to put them off until she's got her equilibrium back.)

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[toblameforit]

"That," says Tony, "sounds like an awesome plan."

[keyed_up]

"I know, right, I am brilliant. Uh, can you spot me the quarters, I think Bella is ninety-nine point five convinced I'm not -" Giles impression! - "evil in some way, but conjuring arcade tokens is probably counterfeiting and would not help with that thing."

[toblameforit]

"I will absolutely spot you the quarters," he laughs.

[keyed_up]

"You're the best. So how's tricks?"

[toblameforit]

"Meh," he shrugs. "The usual. Still working on improvements to the arc reactor."

[keyed_up]

"Fun stuff. Hey Jarvis, can you find where an arcade is around here, because I fail totally at knowing that thing."

[poeticterms]

"Happily," he says. "Do I assume you will be driving, or would you prefer to teleport?"

[keyed_up]

"Going with Tony, so, sign me up for shiny car," says Soph, winking at Tony.

[toblameforit]

Tony giggles.

[poeticterms]

Jarvis lists several arcades in driving range.

[keyed_up]

"Awesomesauce. Do any of those have skeeball? Who'm I kidding, every arcade that exists has skeeball - okay, which ones have DDR?"

[poeticterms]

This narrows the choices down to two!

[keyed_up]

"Aaaand which one has the better pinball selection?"

[poeticterms]

We have a winner!

[keyed_up]

Hooray! Soph traipses to the garage.

[toblameforit]

Tony traipses after her!

"Viper still your favourite?"

[keyed_up]

"You know it."

[toblameforit]

"Viper it is."

[keyed_up]

Soph hops into the red car's passenger seat. "So apparently I can torch now, you don't have to be extra extra careful driving me."

[toblameforit]

"Yeah, but I'm gonna be anyway, 'cause I don't actually like car accidents," he snorts.

And they're off!

[keyed_up]

Wheeeee!

"I mean you should be careful, you just don't have to, like, not speed or anything radical like that."

[toblameforit]

He giggles.

[keyed_up]

"Bella says I can decide whether to tell Mom and Dad that I'm only recently real. That's how she said it, 'only recently real'."

[toblameforit]

"Yeah, that's one way to put it, I guess."

[keyed_up]

"I kinda don't think I will. Not soon anyway. My friends neither. I like having pockets of normalcy."