[[Ice Skating]]

[queenspeedy]

Things were weird.

Those three words could sum up Thea's Darrow experience. Weird-scary, weird-silly, weird-crazy, it didn't matter. All that mattered was that they were weird, and that the one person who seemed to make them feel normal was her tall, magic-wielding friend. Which was strange in itself, but Thea had stopped questioning those things. It had honestly felt as if forever had passed since she had normal friends who weren't there just because of her last name and what they wanted.

Molly couldn't care about any of that. She had her own family issues, and they were utterly unlike anything Thea experienced. It was possibly what brought them together -- that their lives were so different and yet they understood what it was to be both a warrior and completely shaped by who their parents were.

Today was going to be as normal a day as either of them could hope -- Darrow willing. Ice skating up at Kagura couldn't go that wrong. Thea strapped on her rented skates and grinned up at her friend. "Who do you think is faster?"

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[thewinterlady]

The flare of frustration and sadness was hard for Molly to miss. Her friend had always been tight-lipped about her life back home, opening up gradually as they got to know eachother, and Molly hadn't ever pushed her. She knew how hard it was to trust, and even when you did, how hard it was to talk about certain subjects.

"Of course. Like I would leave anything out. I'm going to have questions too so, you know, be prepared for too much information." She said, trying to wipe away the hint of gloom coming from Thea.

[queenspeedy]

"Suddenly we are planning a club, a dating site, and a relationship guru service?" She laughs at it, Molly's efforts obvious, and welcome. Thea sips at her drink and nods. "Honestly, I'm not the best to give advice. I dated the wrong kind of guy, a lot. And when I found the right one, his secrets got in our way."

[thewinterlady]

Molly nodded. She might not know about dating or sex, but she knew people well enough to know that they could hurt you without even trying at times. "Hey, I am literally a virgin. Any advice is worth it's weight in gold as far as I'm concerned." She said, smiling gently. "And the right one must have been good for a while, right?"

[queenspeedy]

"He was. I kinda thought he might be again," she admits, unable to keep the longing from her voice. She wishes so much that Roy were here, that they could have another chance. "But that's another world. Literally."

[thewinterlady]

Putting her drink down, Molly reached out and hugged Thea to her, arm around her shoulder. She wasn't a particularly tactile person, but the ache coming off her friend deserved comforting and Molly could do that. "Thea..." She said, and let the moment of sympathy stretch, before she smiled and nudged her shoulder into Thea's. "Maybe we need to get you a date." She said, hoping to break the tension a little.

[queenspeedy]

There aren't many people that Thea feels comfortable being that close to, something that had only exacerbated since training with Merlyn. But Molly has moved past that line, and she doesn't freeze or pull away from the hug.

She laughs, nudging Molly back. "Maybe we do. Or maybe we can focus on you and this mystery bar we're going to open for a while."

[thewinterlady]

"Let's do that." Molly said with a laugh. "We need to figure out what we're going to call it." She said thoughtfully. "I'm not good with names."

[queenspeedy]

"Not Verdant," she says, thinking of her bar back in Starling. She misses the place, both incarnations about it. "That was Ollie's name anyway. We'll come up with something. Less... Green."

[thewinterlady]

"'Verdant'?" Molly asked, eyebrow raised. "Yeah I think we can try for something a little more us." She said with a chuckle and then thought about it. "I mean...it's kinda beat up, but the bones are good. Little bit like us. Are we going to keep it that way? Industrial?"

[queenspeedy]

"Absolutely. Bare, and strong." She likes the image, she likes comparing it to the two of them. "We'll figure it out."

[thewinterlady]

"I like it." Molly said. "Now we just have to figure out everything else that goes into it. Like music. I have no idea what the music scene is like here. Or anywhere really."