Rm 217 late afternoon, Saturday

[fantastic_torch]

Johnny woke, found Savannah's note, and groaned. Half an hour later he got up long enough to take a hot shower, then laid back in bed, Desitny curled up on his chest. He knew he drank too much last night but at the time, that was exactly the point. Things had been sort of rocky with Savannah, ever since Wednesday and he more or less needed the respite in the form of alcohol.

Just today he was paying for it.

Where was Ronan when he needed him?

[Door's open as is the post.]

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[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"I'd feel like the biggest outsider in the history of outsiders," Eve said. "And honestly? That's kind of why I added some of the stuff in the grimoire. 'cause I knew you'd probably be looking through it to see what she was getting into. I wanted you to be able to understand at least some of it."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"That's about how I feel right now. Between you, Sean, and Savannah. I feel like... " not a superhero, that's for sure "...well, helpless describes it pretty well."

"I'm sorry Eve, I know you're trying to help me, at Savannah's insistence, and I do appreciate it. I was going to read through that book before I gave it to her." Johnny studied her, his eyes intense. "You wouldn't give her something, allow her to do something, if you knew she could hurt herself beyond repair, would you?"

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"Fuck no," was Eve's succinct reply. "Later in her life, maybe. When she's twenty-five or thirty and has had more time to harness her power and understand it and work with it. But not now, when she's still so new to it all."

She looked at him. "And that's a total maybe. I promise I'm not intending on showing up on her doorstep in a decade with that kind of spell. I'm just saying, if I were of a mind to give it to her, it wouldn't be now."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He nodded. "Thanks. I needed to know that, from you."

Johnny shook his head, his look almost rueful. "Savannah, she's got this mind of her own and I think that scares me the most. I think she thinks she's stronger than what she is, and attempts to handle possibly more than she can control."

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

Eve couldn't help laughing. "Um, yeah, she gets that from me. All of it. Even stronger than it is in me, if that's possible."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I believe it," he replied, chuckling.

"Just so you know," his tone grew serious, "I've warned her; someone touches her, I'll kill them."

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"Oh, not without me getting in on the action." She heartily approved of the 'kill anyone who hurts Savannah' plan.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'll make sure to leave an untorched piece, just for you," he smirked.

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"Excellent." She gave a thumbs up.

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

He laughed. "You wanna hang around or you want me to just tell her you stopped by?"

[blackmagic-eve.livejournal.com]

"You can tell her I stopped by." Eve smiled. "And Johnny? I'm glad we had this conversation."

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"Will do," he said, smiling. "Yeah... I know."