Sarah Elric

Late at night Sarah is curled up against her husband in her sleep, unconsciously nestling closer to him as her dream becomes more and more distressing. She whimpers and moans, not quite sleep talking but clearly distressed.

Having stopped being a pony a while ago, Sarah was back to work taking care of bratty pre-teens and attempting to teach them something despite their efforts to not do any such thing. In all honesty she was really hoping to get more assignments with high school aged classes now that she'd graduated, but they were few and far between, much to her displeasure--mainly because the multiverse liked to unlock kid's powers around that age and in all honesty, she was not well equipped for controlling an unexpected outburst, AV Field or no.

So it was another day of subbing for eighth graders and dealing with the budding cliques and attitudes, which left her tired and wanting nothing more than to get home and collapse on the couch. Unfortunately, she had an errand she needed to run first, close enough to the school that she was comfortable enough simply walking there rather than trying to PIN her way around. Tsuri was curled up on her shoulder, dozing lightly with one set of eyelids closed and the other half-way following them.

Sarah was not sick. She wasn't. That coughing that had started this morning was just...well, she always gets stuffy noses off and on, right? It's like once every three months, no big deal. And she always gets headaches after a long day at work...that start halfway through the day.

Okay, so...it's a 24-hour bug! She works with kids, it's inevitable. Yeah, she'll have to take a few days off so that she doesn't get yelled at by irate parents, but it's not a big deal. It's not like she's really sick! No need to worry at all!

This train of sad Elricy-rationale is what has Sarah curled up on the couch with her DS and laptop, wrapped up in a fuzzy bathrobe and stifling coughs until they burst out in a nasty-sounding volley. Pity her?

Sarah PINs back to the apartments after her little fiasco freak-out, sighing in relief once she's back on the grounds. Now that the adrenaline is wearing off, she's kicking herself for freaking out so easily given the circumstances and not trying to lure Dante into an impromptu trap (of which she has concocted five since she called for the Gate). But there's not much to be done about it now, really, other than reorganize and figure out what she SHOULD do next time.

...and a shower before telling everyone else. Ed doesn't need a heart attack from smelling the Gate and possibly Dante off of her.

Sarah knocks on Ed's door, a tupperware full of cookies and other assorted sweets under her arm.

So I was re-reading one of my Pern books yesterday, and realized that...while Tsuri is a rather common annoyance/presence in the Nexus, I've never put a general info post for my headcanon for how fire-lizards work in the Nexus. SO I'MMA FIX THAT NOW. Not all of this is strictly necessary knowledge, but I feel like making a huge-assed list. :|b

( o rite cuts are good huh )

Once everyone had split off to do their own things (the younger Edward to go get his chest looked at and the landlord's family to figure out how the hell to prevent this from happening again), Sarah cleans up the mess of her dropped groceries as best she can, then leads the homunculus Ed down the hall to her apartment, unlocking the door and opening it for him. "I guess I'll be ordering in tonight."

((Takes place after this thread.))

After Ed had woken back up, Sarah went about collecting the rest of the family together, and grabbed her pendant as well. She'd also bothered the human Ed to grab a little bag he'd been pretending he didn't have, just in case.

"So, I guess we're all ready, then?"

Once the LOL has worn off, Sarah knocks on Ed's apartment door. She's wondering about his lack of decision so far.

Sarah is currently sitting on the front steps, idly reading through a book while waiting for a certain girlfriend to come home.

She is also slightly more male than usual, but that's just a minor detail, really.

The night after her family's discussion about what the Gate had offered, Sarah was sitting in her bedroom puzzling over the deal herself. While she was more than willing to make the deal if it meant not having to leave her homunculus boyfriend behind (she still remembered that LOL he'd gotten, and it only made her more determined to not let that happen), there were a few new details about it that made her pause. The main thing was of course the matter of her own God, Jehova being how He is, and the fact that the one she would make the deal for was still perfectly capable of dying permanently without the benefit of the safety net the rest of the family would receive worried her.

...well, she did have that pendant, even if she was technically only supposed to use it for the monthlyish training sessions. And she's not going to ask all the questions they'd thought of, just a few. Sarah hops off the bed and pulls on a bathrobe so that she's dressed in more than just some sleeping shorts and a tanktop, then pulls out the pendant from its place in her locked personal drawer. "...hoy."

Sarah has been LOL'd again, though it might confuse some to find out that this was on purpose. She's got a plan to make a brat of herself to a certain family in her own, very speshul way.

With herself being an adorable and fuzzy little kitten and Tsuri told to keep herself scarce for the moment, she trots around to the first building and start nosing around to find a way in without anyone noticing her, or find wherever William is. He'd be able to blow her cover with just a sniff, and that'd just be no fun.

Sarah knocks on the door of her homunculus fianceè's apartment. It's been a while since she last hung out with him, so a visit is more than due. "Hey, it's me! You home?"

Sarah had been sitting and chewing on the offer of a favor from the Gate for the last few days, rolling the idea over in her head while her imagination went wild (quite against her will) of the various situations to use it in. None of them were terribly pleasant, and how would she know that another situation wouldn't come up where she might need the help? Given her family it wasn't that far of a stretch.

Well, her mind had piped up, what about my magic? Then I could keep protecting myself without their help. She'd sat and chewed on that for a day longer--she gave that up willingly, and in a deal with Yuuko, for God's sake. Don't get much more permanent and Equivalent than that. And what if they couldn't even do that sort of thing? But then again, couldn't she just ask? Hell, they seemed to like her well enough, and they're not asshole enough to say that just asking was the favor in itself.

Now she sits curled up on the couch under a mass of blankets with Tsuri curled and huddled close around her neck. Having mostly come to a decision now, it was just a matter of nerves. She hesitates a moment--would they even be paying attention to hear her?--before speaking. "Um...can I ask you two a question?"

Sarah knocks on Edward and Alphonse's door at about nine o'clock with a nervous grin and a small box in her hand.

Today, there is a Sarah. She is on a mission, a mission which will hopefully end with her happy and cozy with a certain homunculus under some blankets and maybe with some hot cocoa as well.

Step one of her mission: knock on his door.

Why did she think she could do this. Why oh why oh whyyyyyyyyy.

She'd already sent out the notes to both her boyfriends the previous day to meet her at her apartment at the same time, though neither were informed that their alt would be there as well. She was wearing the corset and underwear she'd found that would hopefully distract the both of them from killing eachother underneath the loose side-tie dress she was currently wearing. It was all set and ready for her to make her try or be thoroughly embarrassed trying.

What she had failed to prepare for was how the hell she was going to top the BOTH of them into this in the first place! Idiot idiot idiot...!

(( WARNING: POTENTIAL SPARKLEPEEN WITHIN. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. ))

Sarah had the doll to complete her half of the exchange nearly complete, just adding on the final touches and trying to remember how she'd managed to tie that knot for the noose before. Being stuck with fur and paw-hands at the moment was not helping matters, but it wasn't hampering her progress by much.

Once she's finally done she chews on a nail, thinking a bit. How exactly was she supposed to call them here? She somehow doubted that making bad comments to draw their attention would make them too happy, and with what she was considering that would not be best for her intentions. And she was sure they didn't keep a constant eye on the apartments.

...or at least she hoped not. That would be several layers of creeptastic, and they really didn't need the help in that area.

Well, nothing ever got done without trying, right? "Um...you guys wanna shove in the last stakes, or should I?"

If one is hanging around the Elric Apartment complex today, one might notice a very panicked bunny hopping around and making little bunny noises as it does so. With the way the resident green fire-lizard is chasing it around, one might think that it's unwelcome, but there's been several chances for Tsuri to swoop down that have been passed up.

It's morning, and a very sleepy Sarah grumbles a little in the semi-dark room, mistaking the nightlight-lamp for sun coming through her blinds and pulling the covers over her head. Tsuri twitters groggily in her ear, and for a moment she pays her no heed.

Until she remembers where she is, and why she was there. "Gah!" She sits bolt upright and looks around for her phone, before also remembering that it was still in her apartment with probably not a few irate messages from her work.

Then she realizes that the clothes she was wearing before the LOL did not deign to reappear on her now. "Oh, son of a goddamn bitch ass-wiping fuck. ED!!"

(( Turns into smut partway through hurrrrrr. ))