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[gospel-of-mary.insanejournal.com]

WHO: Mary Magdalene & Huitzilopotchli
WHEN: Tuesday evening
WHERE: His place
WHAT: It's a proper dinner date without touchings.
WARNINGS: TOUCHINGS, says Mary tba

Looking in the mirror, Mary thought her hair might be starting to go darker again, but it was hard to tell. She would have chalked it up to the change in her life that was the Aztec, but the shifts from red to brown across decades didn't usually need the influence of a war god, just ever-fluctuating human beliefs.

She had put on a blue dress but peeled it off again and thrown it onto the bed, changing for something far more casual and not in the Hummingbird's colour. Then she'd changed again and put on the dress she'd first seduced him in that night long ago and while she admired the way it made her look and the memories it brought up, that was all the wrong way to go. Another outfit thrown onto the bed before Mary finally settled on a red dress, one she considered alluring but not overtly seductive. Then she put on jewelry, and took it off, and put her hair up, then down, then up again.

Mary felt utterly frazzled by the time she was ready to leave her place. She spent money she didn't really have a took a taxi to Huitzilopotchli's area of the city, having him drop her a few blocks from his building so that she could use the short walk to calm herself.

She didn't know what tonight was going to be like, or what she was to expect (or what would be expected of her), and all of it made her heart tighten as she knocked on the door and waited.

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"I remember," he'd felt oddly bad about that one and wasn't sure he'd do it again. He'd been too focused on impressing her and not knowing which was right, and what wrong.

"I think it would be best if you can accept that in yourself, then others. We make family Mary. Being alone is just that. Alone." He gave her a smile, "Perhaps I see more then what your church makes of you. Perhaps I like the challenge."

He shrugged. "Perhaps I just like you, difficulties aside. We are more then what life makes of us."

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"Well, let's just blame Judas for my trust issues and leave it at that," Mary said with a tight smile. No, she knew it wasn't all him, but it was so easy to blame Judas for everything. "I'm working on the acceptance of myself. You actually help with that." It seemed somewhat strange to her, but there it was.

"A war god who enjoys a challenge," Mary teased lightly. "I'm shocked." Her smile warm. "And I like you too, but you already knew that."

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"I am pleased I'm helping." He wasn't sure how, but he went with it. He'd tackle the rest of her issues later. He knew he had plenty himself.

"The world is shocked at it, really." He smirked, "and yes. But I like hearing it too."

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She was glad he liked hearing it, that he was still interested in her. (She kept remembering that morning after Valentine's Day and tried to push it away.)

"This date of ours," Mary admitted, "is actually turning out a lot less awkward than I expected." She'd thought they would sit silently, unsure of anything to say. But even the spaces in conversation so far had only been while they considered their words.

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He chuckled to that, "I do agree with you there. I would like to do this again if that's alright with you.

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"Yes," Mary agreed with a bright grin. "More than alright with me." She wondered how long this 'dating' phase would last between them. Mary (being Mary) hoped it would be sooner not later that she was allowed to be physical with him again. That kiss a few days ago had only helped remind her how much she missed that.