extradimensional space

[thaumobabble]

Here is a house.

It is pretty and trim and green-and-cream and really ought not to be able to hold itself up like that, and yet here it is, somehow defying the laws of architecture. It is surrounded by a neatly bordered garden of ornamental and useful plants of all sorts: here vegetables, there herbs, there spell components, there rows of flowers.

There is a sign out front. It says only: Magic. Not, Beware, Magic or Magic Emporium or anything like that. Just: Magic.

Sitting on top of this sign is a cream cat with smoke-dark points of color on each paw, his ears, and his face and tail.

All in all, you could be forgiven for thinking that a witch lives here.

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[thaumobabble]

"Okay. So, do I just - wait till she does figure that out, or are you going to tell me, or what?"

[allthebrightest]

"How to say it is not my problem," says Tony. "Whether to say it is. Okay... how good are you at secrets?"

[thaumobabble]

"...I write things down, but my notebooks are pretty well protected and mostly not interesting to anyone else, and I can not write things down if you need me to. I'm fine at not telling secrets but I'm better at lying by omission than outright."

[allthebrightest]

"Okay. Fine," says Tony. "The secret is, you will be sharing us with... each other."

[thaumobabble]

Bella blinks.

"I don't think I need to write that down to remember it," she remarks after a moment.

[allthebrightest]

"Yeah. And please don't tell anybody, because people get weird about that."

[thaumobabble]

"I'd imagine. I won't tell anyone."

[allthebrightest]

"Will you get weird about it?"

[thaumobabble]

"I... can't think of any reason to object, really. It's unexpected, but any number of answers could have fallen into that category. Not my personal speed, but then I don't have a sister or any cousins I much like, so how do I know."

[allthebrightest]

Tony smiles tentatively.

[thaumobabble]

Bella smiles back. "So, me, valuable lesson on sharing, done, cue cute repeat of the overture theme."

[allthebrightest]

...Tony laughs.

"You are the cutest!"

[thaumobabble]

Bella giggles. "I have serious competition, though!"

[allthebrightest]

Brightly: "So, I think we should kiss some more now."

[thaumobabble]

Bella does not even collect her non-sleeping-in clothes first, she just traipses (clumsily but not falling-over-ly) Tonyward and plops down beside her and kisses her.

[allthebrightest]

Tony snuggles up and kisses back.

[thaumobabble]

Yaaaaaay!

[allthebrightest]

D'awwwwwwwwwwww!

[thaumobabble]

Snuggle snuggle kiss Bella's gonna marry at least one princess and this is pleasing and kisses are pleasing and snuggles are pleasing.

[allthebrightest]

Bella is pleasing!

[thaumobabble]

So is Tony!

[allthebrightest]

Why, yes! Yes she is!

[thaumobabble]

It's so good that they're agreed on this point.

Kisses kisses kisses normally Bella would be trying not to get too into this when Sherlock might reappear at any moment but under the circumstances she supposes few things could possibly matter less.

[allthebrightest]

Yeah. That.

Smart Bella.

Mmmmmkisses.

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