Log; Ongoing

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When Friday, February 19, Evening, so very backdated
Rating PG
Characters Harry Dresden dresden4hire and Vicki Nelson acceptingeyes
Summary Vicki lost a bet so she owes Harry dinner.
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Harry would have felt bad about making Vicki take him out to dinner except he was too smug about being right. Of course, he would have preferred to be wrong about one of her enemies coming to the City if it wasn't for the whole, "I'll wear a dress" deal he made.

Harry figured he at least owed her the courtesy of showing up in a suit jacket and slacks though if she had to wear a dress. Of course, being so formal might have made it seem like something more, but Harry wasn't going to think on that.

Arriving outside her door, Harry knocked on it and waited so that they could walk to the restaurant together.

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[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"Why do you need to stand outside the store?"

She assumed everyone would just watch it at home, unless of course you didn't have one.

"Wait..you don't have a TV?"

[dresden4hire.livejournal.com]

"Nope," he said, shaking his head. He couldn't remember the last time he lived in a house with a TV. Maybe he never did.

"My magic causes problems with technology. I would fry any TV I got too close to. So I stand outside the store and watch them sometimes."

[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"Oh.."

She had never thought that magic could do that. It must have been hard for him then since he could probably not have used a lot of things she used daily.

"If your magic causes the problem though, how come your Network device is still working?"

He used it, she knew it was fine, but if his magic caused problems with TVs, why didn't it affect the device?

[dresden4hire.livejournal.com]

Harry gave a bit of a shrug. It was a complete mystery to him as well, one that he didn't really have any answers to.

"I don't know, it's the only thing that works," he said. "I think it's part of just how the City functions. If I didn't have the device I wouldn't be able to participate in all the angst."

[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"Hm.."

It seemed everyone had the device at least, although it wasn't always useful. She figured the deities must have found a way to make it work around him, despite his magic.

"That does make sense. After all, how could the deities take pleasure out of watching you suffer if it was never on the Network?"

[dresden4hire.livejournal.com]

"Exactly, I'm sure they could make it so I could use any technology here, but that would be too easy," Harry said with a nod.

Really, he didn't miss it and it only bothered him because it bothered other people and inconvenienced them.

[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"They don't like anything easy here."

She had seen that enough times in the curses that they brought in. Some of them were a lot more complex than she would've thought and there was never an easy way to avoid them.

"I think there's enough excitement around here as is without including technology. You don't even really need to watch TV here, just look at the Network on a curse day."

[dresden4hire.livejournal.com]

"Exactly, why do you think I'm so amused by how upset you get by getting in a dress?" he said, flashing her his best innocent smile. "It's great."

[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"That's not quite the fun I had in mind," she said, glaring at him. She didn't forget that he was always the one amused by the clothes changing curses.

"Although I suppose it's better than being turned into a man for a day."

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"Oh, of course not," he said, just grinning even more.

"And I've never minded turning into a woman, although I never remember it after I do," Harry said, pausing for a moment. "Although from what I understand, my female form is very upset to find out she's really a man."

[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"I think you were lucky then. I remember being a man and it was certainly strange."

[dresden4hire.livejournal.com]

"What was the weirdest part?" Harry asked. It was an odd question he knew, but it wasn't like you got to ask that sort of thing every day.

"It all just feels normal to me."

[acceptingeyes.livejournal.com]

"Probably having a male body was the weirdest. There's a lot different on a girl's body."

She'd found it almost like being in someone else's body for a day since parts of it were so unfamiliar to her. She'd never been a man before and had never even considered certain things until that day.

[dresden4hire.livejournal.com]

"Well, and I might be biased here, but I personally think you look much better as a woman than a man," Harry said, grinning at her. Personally, he thought being in a woman's body had a lot of things to get used to, but to each his own.