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[sweetsalome]

    Hirooooooooooooooooooo!  It's a full moon out tonight!  Will you show me the rabbit on the moon?!

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[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro pops in.* Come, come, come! *He's bundled up in a parka. After all, it's snowing and icing in New York tonight. He'll wait for her to get dressed up.* We will have to go elsewhere, though. The moon won't be seen here.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

*She bundles, because it would be foolish not to. Hat, gloves, scarf and boots before she tucks her arm into his.* Where are we going?

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Wherever you would like where the weather will let us see it. South would be good.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

You don't think we could see it in the backyard? I'm still all bundled up.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

It's snowing out there. We do not have to be gone for very long at all, just enough to show you the moon. It will probably be cold unless we go to islands. It snowed in New Orleans today! 8 inches!

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the snow, it's pretty! *She peeks out the window for a moment.* But it looks bad out. Did it? Wow, that's - kind of odd, isn't it? Eight inches is a lot.

*Thinks about it for a moment.* Maybe somewhere with a little less snow, North Carolina? Idaho?! *Now she's just naming states.*

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro gets out his Blackberry and looks at the Weather Channel.* According to this, it is cold, but clear in New Orleans. We could go there. You will still need your coat and mittens. And we can see the snow!

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Oh! *She gasps, her eyes wide and then she bounces around next to him.* Yes! lets go there, I want to see the snow.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro grabs her around the waist, even if he can mainly feel coat. One minute they're in New York, the next they are standing in Lafayette Park, looking at the snow all over the ground. The moon is glowing overhead. There are very few people out and about tonight.* Oh, it so pretty.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

*Looking around, her eyes wide as she peers at all the snow and the bright lights that illuminate the chapel and the statue of Lafayette. Even with the snow out people are still walking and drinking.* God, it is.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro pulls out his phone and holds it towards the statue of Lafayette.* Do you want me to take a picture of you with the statue?

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Great idea! *Grinning, she pulls away and hurries over to the statue of the general on his horse and strikes a pose.*

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro snaps a few pictures, letting her change poses if she wants between shots.* It almost glows with the moonlight and the snow.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

It's beautiful, magical really. I don't think I could picture this anywhere else. *Grinning she beckons him close with a finger.* Lets take a picture together!

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Hiro runs over and holds the phone out so he can get a picture of them together with the statue.* Say 'cheese'!

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

*Pressing her cheek to his, she beams and says "cheese" at his prompting. After the picture is done she turns her head to kiss him hard.*

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

*Reflexively, his fingers tighten on the phone, so they get caught in the kiss. Hiro holds her close, damning the cold for the fact that they're both lumpy coats and that he can't hug her as close as he wants.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

*Slowly pulling back, she gave a breathless laugh, her cheeks flush from the cold and the kiss. The coats do prove to be a problem but she presses as close as possible, sliding a hand into his coat pocket.* Show me the bunny on the moon.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

He points up at the moon. "You see the large dark area and the smaller one over it? That is the rabbit's body. Then those two longer masses are his ears. In front of him is the usu, in which the mochi is made. He takes his kine and pounds the rice to make the mochi. Usually it takes 2 people to do it, but he can do it all alone."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Salome tilts her head up, following his finger up to the moon. She peers at the moon closely until she finds the shapes that he describes, a grin breaks out on her face and she nods quickly. "Oh! I see him, he does look like a bunny! And mochi is good, it's eaten a lot around new years, right?"

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Hiro nods. "You can get it year round, but we eat the most around New Years. You can get mochi ice cream, too. My favorite is green tea."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

"I think I have had the ice cream, but not without." Linking her arm with his she puts her head on his shoulder. "What is it like, living on the moon?"

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"Cold," he says. "All the bunnies have to huddle together when they finish making mochi. However, they are all friends and around the tiny fire at night, they sing songs about the pretty blue planet and the warm sun."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Salome beams at his story, she loves when he tells her stories. Even in the winter cold she doesn't mind standing around as long as he's there with her. "Do you miss being away from your bunny friends, or are you happy to be on the pretty blue planet?"

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"I like the pretty blue planet. It is warm and has beaches so I can sit by the water and see my friends on the moon. All of my friends envy that I am here."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

"Do you they ever come down and visit?" She puts her chin on his shoulder and kisses his ear lightly.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes. They tell me all the gossip. They show up at the dark of the moon so that no one will see they are gone."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

She was silent for a long time, cars driving slowly through the slushy snow filled street in front of them. Behind them, in the ice cold stillness the sound of music came from a bar still open. "Will you take me there one day?"

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Hiro nods "They want to meet you. They want to see a woman who shines like the sun."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Laughing happily she pulls him into a deep kiss, her lips cold against his, but it only makes her smile broader in their embrace.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

He grins as she kisses. "They think I have quite the imagination. I have to prove it to them." He looks at the snow around them. "It is so strange to see this area covered with snow."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

"I think they would be very happy with what you've done so far." Looking around with him, she pulls back and to a stretch of clean snow. Picking some up she formed it into a snow ball before throwing it at him.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"Oh! You are asking for it." He grabs more snow and makes his own snowball. He throws it at her and hits her in the arm.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Giggling madly she gets hit by the snowball before scooping up snow and hitting him in the side with it. "Can't get me!"

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

Hiro grabs more snow and throws it at her. It whizzes past her ear and hits a tree behind her. "Oooh, you are tricky!"

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

"Tricky like a fox!" Laughing she throws a handful of snow as a distraction before wrapping her arms around him in a snowy hug.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

He dodges the snow, but gets wrapped up in her arms. "Foxy lady. Do you have nine tails?"

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

Looks behind as if to check and then shakes her butt. "I only have two! When will I get the other seven?!"

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"I do not know. Perhaps when you play more tricks!" He hugs her closer, loving the warmth.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

"I must play more tricks! I feel naked without the rest of my tails." Laughing she returns the hug, nuzzling his cool cheek before stealing a kiss.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm, we did not play the trick at the football game. I will help you get your tails." He kisses her back, then rubs her nose again.

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

She made a face, "Pickles! I knew we forgot to do something." There is a moment of silence as she kisses him. "We should make General Jackson talk!" She points up to the statue of a man on the horse.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"We could get some kind of mike or something and put it in his mouth and talk out of that," he giggles. "I could freeze time and no one would see me do it."

[sweetsalome.livejournal.com]

"Would it count for me if you did it?" She grinned over at him and clapped her hands together.

[powered-otaku.livejournal.com]

"I could hold your hand. That way you would not be frozen with everyone else. And you could do the talking!"