[Mixed Muses] A Meeting with Simon Skinner

[his_sarah_jane]

It has been a long week and Sarah Jane is ever so grateful when her attic door opens up to Milliways again. While she has found herself really enjoying Luke, Maria, and Clyde's company, a part of her still seeks to be alone. And to be in the company of adults that will accept her.

So, it's with a cuppa and her notebook that Sarah settles into a booth. She won't admit it to herself, but she's looking for someone in particular. Christmas shopping has been taking it's tole, resulting in her buying a few gifts she hadn't planned on. Including one for her one-night stand.

If he ever shows up.

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She smiles a little at that, returning to her seat.

"Have you had a decent week then?"

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He shrugs. "I suppose you could call it that."

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She's not used to having to make small talk either. "Did you do anything interesting?"

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"Not really."

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"Oh," she murmurs.

Right now, she isn't so sure what else to say.

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"There's not much to do around here." Plus, when you are depressed, you can live in the middle of the busiest city in the world, located mere minutes away from the most spectacular sights the world contains, and find nothing to do. Largely because you don't feel like doing it.

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Sarah Jane nods. "Well, I suppose... if you'd like, you could come to Ealing. I could say that you're an old friend visiting from out of town."

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"Ealing? Is that where you live?"

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"I inherited my aunt's home after she died," she explains. "It's lovely, although far too big even with Luke living there now."

Sometimes she still misses her small flat in South Croydon. There had been so many memories there.

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"Sounds like the perfect place for a haunting."

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"I don't believe in ghosts, Simon," she answers with a grin. "Otherwise I would be more than likely to agree."

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"You don't? I'm sorry to hear that."

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"Why?"

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He leans back in the bench, grinning playfully. "You don't seem to believe I exist."

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Despite the morbidity of the statement, Sarah Jane smiles. In her opinion, it's much better to joke than to brood.

"Oh, but you're not a ghost. You're quite corporal, Simon. And you don't go about haunting my flat here, do you?"

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"I already have the sheet. All I need are chains and I'll be fit for the job."

Pause.

"And a way to get into your flat."

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Sarah Jane winks. "Chains?"

Well, that certainly has potential in a rather randy way she can't help but bring up. It isn't any fun to act your age all the time anyway.

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"I think they'd be rather restrictive."

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"Not if applied properly," Sarah answered without missing a beat.

Perhaps a one night stand could be turned into something more akin to a fling. She certainly wouldn't mind. It had been so long since any sort of relationship anyway.

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"You speak from experience?"

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"Oh, do I wish."

They were only fantasies, fantasies a young girl had about a scarf and a curly haired man. They were fantasies that never came true.

"Absolutely none to speak of, unless you count a particularly trashy romance novel I read in my youth."

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Simon inclines his head slightly, his face a mixture of disapproval and amusement. "Never saw the appeal of romance novels."

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"Most men don't," she answers with a laugh. "If it helps, I never saw the appeal of war movies."

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"...my favorite movie was The Red Shoes, if that tells you anything."

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Sarah's grin brightens. "Then why the stigma against romance novels?"