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Mina was almost at the point where she didn’t expect Rue to make it to the roof. They seemed like they were in the full throes of the drugs by now, and soon it was going to be Mina’s turn too. Fortunately for her, Rue had a solid ten or so minutes on her, so she could probably get at least a beer and another cigarette in her before it fully kicked in. Her friend hadn’t been particularly forthcoming on what the side effects were, though it seemed like Rue was in complete bliss currently. That and a lot of spinning colors. The spins had already started when she went downstairs, but the bright lights hadn’t made their way out yet. At least she didn’t think they had. There were so many colorful lights on the street they were staying that she had no idea anymore.

Popping one of the beers open with a quick zap from her wand, Mina took a long swig of it, only pulling her mouth away from the bottle when she saw Rue’s shape climbing through the window. “I thought you were out cold,” Mina commented as her friend sat down next to her, though looking like they were having a hard time standing up. That was definitely going to make the climb back inside interesting, especially with both of them fucked up. Pulling two cigarettes out, Mina lit them both at the same time and dangled one in front of Rue’s lips as she puffed aggressively on her own. “Nah. It sucks. I don’t remember buying it either.” There was a lot she didn’t remember from the last few days, or even from the last few hours for that matter.

“When am I supposed to start seeing things again?” she whined, letting her head fall onto the top of Rue’s, who had decided Mina was going to be the support beam on the roof. If one of them was going to fall at this point, they probably both would. They weren’t that high up anyways. Not that she was going to check right now. She didn’t trust her legs anymore.

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tears of glittered waves.

WITH THE BREEZE HITTING THEIR face, Rue inhaled sharply and quickly especially as Mina spoke, while the musk and stench of whatever alcohol Mina was waving around at her, plus the crisp, damp fresh air filled her nose. Rue knew she was safe by her friend's side, but was way too high to figure out where she was again. Briefly opening her eyes as she rested her head on Mina's shoulder, the lights of the city simply took the Weiss' breath away. She couldn't say much anyway, the dryness in her throat overwhelming her and somehow, high Rue made a mental note that it would be something to change in the future.

With Mina waving a cigarette by her lips, they leaned in, taking the object out of her friends fingers with her lips, while her hand rose slowly as she puffed on it. Exhaling the smoke, Rue's fingers slowly tapped to rid the muggle drug of whatever ash was holding on for dear life. "Probably stole it." Rue replied, lips lifting into a smile. The colours the city lights gave off only intensified as Rue looked upon them again, a happy sigh leaving her lips as she continued to look at them. Feeling something heavy lay on top of her, Rue's eyes slowly looked up, noting Mina had rested her head against Rue's. "How long has it been?.." She asked, the sound of their own voice droning out in their mind, while in reality - Rue sounded completely normal.

"Mine...Kicked in...Sixteen minutes.." She wasn't making sense now and while a part of the Weiss knew that, other parts of her fell in line with whatever effects the drugs were having on her. The zoning out, bright colours and euphoric feeling, mixed with the bitterness of the cigarette...Rue rather enjoyed it.

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“Mmm…maybe,” she hummed under her breath as Rue took the cigarette from her. Mina didn’t recall nicking anything from the liquor store, but that only meant it had been Rue. She wasn’t really one for stealing unless she absolutely had to. Shit whiskey certainly wasn’t a necessity for her either, though she could definitely see her snagging a pack or two of cigarettes if given the chance. They were expensive over here. Since graduation, she had been buying them out of the magical stores where they were severely underpriced. But in the good old United States? Way too much even for the cheap ones. Turning to Rue’s experimental magical drugs was probably going to be the way forward from now on, and Mina secretly hoped it would scratch her nicotine itch that she had started to develop.

As for how long it had been, she wasn’t quite sure. Puffing on her smoke a few more times, she let out a deep exhale through her nose, feeling burn all the way from the back of her throat. “Ten? I ca-can’t remember,” she hiccupped again halfway through her thought. Rue pointed out that it had been sixteen minutes for them, though that had Mina wondering what state her friend had been in while counting. “Is that sixteen sober minutes? Because like, I’ve had a whole lot of everything by now.” Except the muggle shit that the kids at the party were taking. There was very little of that stuff that she trusted, especially when she didn’t even know any of them well. Rue’s potions could kill her right here and now and she would still take another one if given the chance. “What comes after the spinning?” Mina asked, though once again she was unsure if that was due to the potion or the excessive drinking. When she had tried going down the stairs earlier, it had taken forever, and she sort of assumed that was from the potion.

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tears of glittered waves.

IN NORMAL CASES, RUE KNEW that between the two of them, she was the one to typically steal whenever she was out of her mind. It didn't feel right to do so in her day-to-day basis, especially since the Weiss hated risk-taking without a secure plan. Puffing away at the cigarette she had stolen out of Mina's fingertips, Rue continued to relax, dozing off ever so slightly and once again almost missing the questions Mina had asked. Hanging her mouth open as she tried to form an answer, Rue's tongue nor mouth didn't cooperate with her brain at first before the Weiss closed their mouth, allowing a sort of processing time for her body to catch up upon.

Breathing in the smoke cloud Mina exhaled, Rue slowly peeked an eye open, the scenery around them slightly hazy and spiny for Rue, and the glittery tear feeling had seemed to develop under Mina's eyes too - except it was a figment of their imagination yet again, a simple effect caused by the drug. "Shit..Your eyes..They're.." Rue stopped themselves, drifting off while gently reaching up to touch Mina's face. "Maybe..It'll be any moment now.." Rue added quietly, poking Mina's cheek gently. "You start seeing..Bright lights..and colours, kind...Gets slow..And glitter..A fuck ton of glitter.." Rue slowly looked down at their hands as they spoke, the bundle of imaginary glitter pooling over their fingertips. How long had it been since she had taken the potion herself?

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There was silence from Rue as Mina asked about the timing for everything. She didn’t even know if her friend was awake anymore, since their eyes were closed, at least until she saw a hand bringing up a cigarette. Whatever the potion did, it was clearly going to be visually stimulating. Which begged the question: were all of these things Rue had been talking about for the last ten or so minutes from this potion or from something else they had consumed during the night? Mina sort of remembered what she had put into her own body, but her friend had disappeared for a while there, before the sudden reappearance at the end.

Mina stared down at Rue, watching as they started mumbling something about eyes and reached up towards her face. She took Rue’s hand in her own as her friend poked at her cheek, drifting off into a tangent about how it could be any moment now before it kicked in. There was something about glitter, which Mina sort of remembered in her own hazy thoughts from earlier, but she hadn’t reached that point yet.

Or so she thought. Watching Rue stare down at their own hands, Mina’s eyes followed. Was she supposed to be seeing something there? Because from what she could tell, there was glitter on Rue’s face. She mimicked her friend’s poking from earlier where she saw the glitter. “I-I think I see it,” she stumbled over her own words. “Or…you didn’t have glitter, right?” It hit almost like she had walked straight into a wall. One second she felt fine, and the next it was overstimulating all of her senses. It faded in and out in an almost kaleidoscope fashion, and she now knew why Rue had such a hard time walking down the hallway earlier. “It’s all over your face,” Mina laughed as she tried to rub away the non-existent glitter on her friend’s face. “Looks like you shagged a clown.”

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tears of glittered waves.

BRIEFLY HOLDING MINA'S FACE IN her hands, Rue knew that the timing of when Mina consumed the potion would eventually reach its peak. Rue wasn't the type to lie about the effects about her potions, even though the majority of them were in their experimental phase. Since the passing of her father, creating such things provided a new feel of emotions for the Weiss, and she knew somewhere down the line she would probably abuse the feeling of it all. But for now, the feeling of this potion in all of its glittery feelings was enough.

Opening their eyes a little wider, the Weiss noticed how Mina looked at her. Looking back up at her friend with a slight wider smile, she recalled the days she believed she even had a crush on Mina. It was an odd feeling, swept up in the grief of her father and the disconnection from her family but Rue knew the two of them could never work. Especially since the Oliveira had an undying love for booze and cigarettes instead. Barely paying attention to Mina's next set of words then, Rue almost missed her friends confession to seeing the glitter.

It only sparked a new fuse in the Weiss' high as soon enough Mina was laughing down at them. Rue sat up then, cupping Mina's face completely as the non-existent glitter pooled out of her eyes. "I have glitter...And you! You have glitter too." They laughed, rubbing at the glitter that left Mina's eyes and watching how it trickled over Rue's thumbs and fingers. To an ordinary person, the two of them looked insane. But in Rue's mind and in the midst of the high, believing in it was enough for her. "It's all over your face!" Rue added in repetition, laughing a little louder. "A clown? Come on...You know I have higher standards.."

Laughing for a little longer while the glitter filled Rue's hands, the Weiss let out a sigh of relief. Mina was finally experiencing what Rue had felt - for what felt like hours now. "Don't...Even bother...Trying to walk.." They added, moving to rest their head in the Oliveira's lap once more. "It'll all just...start spinning.."

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The wild laughing that ensued as they both seemed to have realized that the potion’s effects had fully kicked in for Mina as well, echoed into the dark, swampy New Orleans night. If she hadn’t been high as all get out, she probably would have been complaining about the humidity that was making her clothes feel like they were glued to her skin, or the swarm of mosquitoes that were probably having their fill on the two of them by now. Hopefully they liked glitter blood, because that was all Mina could think about through her chuckles of hysteria.

Rue seemed exceptionally excited that the potion worked, as it meant Mina was officially their first test subject for this strain. She didn’t exactly understand why glitter was the main effect, or why it pooled out of their eyes and got everywhere like it did, but it was thoroughly enjoyable so far. Then again, glitter was supposed to get into every nook and cranny in the first place, so Rue making the potion simulate that made a lot of sense. Maybe.

With her friend running her hands across her face, Mina started to touch her own cheeks after Rue said the glitter was on her face now too. It dripped down from her eyes like tears, similar to what she was seeing Rue’s do, and smeared on her fingers when she tried to wipe it away. Had it been actual glitter, she probably would have freaked out. Right now she was too drunk and high to even both with getting upset, because she felt fine.

“I would,” Mina laughed about the clown shagging. “You gotta experience everything once, Rue. Clowns included.” And a clown would be better than the frat bro that had been hitting on her back at the party before Rue came to the rescue. She could find one of those guys at literally any house party that was currently going on.

Her friend warned her about not attempting to walk, though said it as they laid their head back down on Mina’s lap. That wasn’t her plan, and she was still lucid enough to remember what Rue had fetched her and dragged her to the bathroom, stumbling the whole way. “Spinning is better than uhhh…yeah,” Mina trailed off as she forgot where she was going with her comment. Everything was happening all at once with her senses, and she wasn’t sure how to interpret it anymore.

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tears of glittered waves.

REALISING HER POTION HAD BEEN a success for the first time since Rue had begun experimenting was rather exhilarating for the Weiss. With just the one potion that mimicked the actions of a muggle drug but in a higher frequency only had Rue's technical mind grinding into gear and thinking of all the other various creations they could create in the future. Especially since now Rue had no plan on giving up. Though in the moment itself, Rue couldn't help but continue to laugh, her laugh turning into a cheerful giggle the more glitter that pooled out of her friends eyes and even their own.

The mass of the glitter had intensified but Rue wasn't going to object to it - it only meant through positive stimulation the potion could keep going for hours on end, regardless of when it was ingested to begin with. "Gross." The Weiss giggled out, closing her eyes while her mind only continued to stimulate her. Happily, Rue's smile only widened, though with her body slowing down, the brunette felt nothing more than relaxed. "Better than...Than what..?" Rue questioned, feeling their own words beginning to slur the more her senses opened up to everything. It felt like when the Weiss first consumed the potion, everything all at once with barely any room in the middle to register it all.

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It really wasn’t about whether or not shagging a clown was gross or a matter of respectable behavior. Obviously she wasn’t going to saunter on down to the closest muggle carnival and drag a clown by his red nose onto the Ferris wheel and ride him all the way to the top. She’d done that before, minus the clown. “No really. I’d shag a clown if it was like, his side gig or something. Obviously not in the whole get-up. That’s too much even for me.” Glitter or not, there was something about the make-up that just didn’t do it for her. Once it was all off though, she could get down with it. There were often times where she knew exactly why her parents worried for her safety, because running around trying to jump the bones of clowns at American circuses absolutely did not bring up the nicest images in the world. If anything, it would have to be a well-touted Bozo, and less Pennywise.

What was spinning better than again? Rue had asked immediately as Mina trailed off, and she already couldn’t remember what she was going to say. “Better than…” she said again and failing to find what her brain wanted to put into words, instead snorting because it was funny to her. “This is nice,” Mina said after a few moments of silence, already forgetting that she had been trying to figure out what had been forgotten on the tip of her tongue. She tried to move her head to see where one of the drinks she had brought out onto the roof was, but was met with a blast of spins and colors in her eyes so she laid back down. “Where’d I put my cigarettes…” she said loudly as she patted at her pockets trying to find them. They had also come with her out onto the roof, but getting up and searching was only going to bring the lights back. “Ruuuue, can you check my pockets. I…I can’t find my hands in the glitter.”

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tears of glittered waves.

AT THEIR FRIEND'S RESPONSE, RUE couldn't help but laugh once more, picturing a disorganised moment between Mina and a side-gig clown, trying to get it on but disrupting themselves. It was an odd and graphic image, but with the influence of the potion the Weiss consumed, it left Rue in a fit of giggles. "I-I just..Tried t-to imagine it!.." Rue spoke, fighting through their laughs in order to get Mina in on the joke. It was definitely a terrible joke, but considering how high the Weiss was currently, everything and anything was funny to them. As Rue tried to look up at her friend through the mass of glitter that left their eyes, Rue couldn't help but smile softly, noting how Mina had lost track of her words - similarly to how Rue felt.

At their friends request, the Weiss found themselves whining quietly, arms flailing before her hands tried searching Mina's pockets, finding the cigarettes effortlessly. Taking one for themselves, Rue took out another one, resting it comfortably between Mina's lips. To most people, being this comfortable while oddly high was..Well - odd. But to Rue or hopefully to the both of them, this was just their version of normal. Rue couldn't see themselves falling romantically for Mina, especially since the two of them had their issues of their own. "Found them loser.." Rue trailed off, lifting their finger as they felt like a genius. "Could you light me up?.." They slurred, moving to slowly sit up, fighting back against the vivid lights and colours that hurt their eyes.

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“The red…the big red nose would get in the way,” Mina joined her friend’s laughing fit, now also visualizing a clown going to town. All semblance of seriousness about finding and sleeping with a clown had gone out the window now, and her giggles turned into wheezes. The last thing she needed to be doing right now was rolling off of the roof and onto the ground below. Even in her glittered state, she was sure that would hurt. If not immediately, definitely tomorrow morning. Nursing a broken hip with a hangover? No thank you. “I…I take it back,” she exhaled between a long, raspy laugh. “I’ll only do it if you’re there to witness it. Nobody would believe me otherwise.” All of the laughing aside, what a strange conversation the two of them had found themselves in. She couldn’t even remember what had started it all, but every time the word ‘clown’ popped into her head now, she was imagining one of the scary muggle movie ones that chased promiscuous teens around with a chainsaw. Not the male stripper kind that she was sure both she and Rue would prefer.

Requesting help in locating the pack of cigarettes ended up being more of a task than she thought. Mina moved as efficiently as she could in her current state to make each pocket available to her friend’s hands, eventually finding them exactly where she had just looked. “Thanks love. Wouldn’t’ve known what to do with myself if you went searching in my back pockets,” Mina teased as a smoke was placed in between her lips. Of course at Rue’s request for a light, Mina located her lighter instantly. She didn’t trust herself in this state to do it with her wand, especially that close to their faces. That was absolutely a recipe for disaster. Flicking the lighter a few times, it eventually sparked in front of Rue’s cigarette, and then Mina did the same with hers. The first huff of nicotine felt like nothing compared to the potion that was currently making its way through her. All she really wanted was the ability to do something while going through the high, and smoking always helped in her opinion. “I think this is the best night we’ve had here so far,” Mina hummed as she laid back down on the roof.

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tears of glittered waves.

RUE COULDN'T HELP BUT SNORT at their friend's response, the silly conversation being more laughable and enjoyable than it truthfully was. The thought of glitter pooling out of Mina and a clown's eyes, covering the red nose was far too amusing for a stupidly-high Weiss. Mina joined her then, in the fit of giggles, that only resulted with Rue's sides hurting from how much they laughed.

"Shit.." She muttered, suddenly remembering remembering the muggle item that fit perfectly between her two fingers and even in between her lips. As she waited for the lighter from her friend, a dumb grin growing on her lips as Mina continued to speak. The Weiss snorted once more, grimacing at the thought of Mina fucking a clown. "I hate the thought..." Rue exhaled, the smoke clouding around them. "I hate the thought more than the thought of us ever hooking up." There was a time Rue was completely head over heels for their friend, but knowing their differences, addictions and troubles they had separately - and how the two would never work, the love died down - but the friendship only grew stronger.

Rue couldn't help but grin even wider at Mina's tease, raising a brow and slowly turning her head to look at the Oliveira. "You say that but you love almost anyone grabbing your ass." A brow slowly rose while Rue's eyes glazed over once more, the glitter-like filter returning and therefore slowing Rue's actions once more. Mina lit the Weiss' cigarette and Rue felt nothing but bliss as they took a slow drag, letting her head drop as ash slowly dropped from the cigarette. "You think so?.." Rue questioned, turning their head slowly to face Mina, watching with a small smile as she laid back down.

Rue followed, slowly laying down and lifting their hand to bring the cigarette back to their lips. "What stage are...Are you at now?.." She asked, finding that Rue was walking up another hill of high-ness. "My whole..sight just..glossed over again...Did I create heaven?.."

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If she could remember how to move each part of her body independently of one another, she would have jokingly pinned Rue down following the comment about the two of them never hooking up. Mina had thought about it before, and absolutely wouldn't have been against it if her friend wanted to. She knew such a thing wouldn't ruin the relationship they already had. Maybe make it weird for a bit? Sure. But what wasn't weird between them already? They were laying on a roof in New Orleans, high out of their minds on an experimental drug that neither of them knew the full side effects of yet. If anything were to accidentally happen between them, tonight was one of those nights where mistakes could happen. That meant being able to move though, and that was basically impossible right now. "What?" she responded slowly, trying to make it sound like she was shocked. "Could be fun. Everyone says...everyone says..." Mina blinked a few times because she couldn't even remember what she was saying anymore. She still questioned if blinking was like normal or if there was an unknown passage of time included with it, because it definitely felt heavier than normal.

Rue was saying something about ass grabbing, and in between blinks and giggles, Mina made a few inaudible noises that were supposed to be words. Was this potion supposed to cause tongue-tying too? That would make so many things hard to do, assuming the user could figure out how to move their body on their own again. "I think it is," Mina slurred as she led the hand holding the cigarette to her mouth with the guidance of the hand that was movable. "This is a...uhh...a fun fucked up. Good stuff, Rue." She heard her friend describing what was going on with themselves, but Mina was incapable of responding. The mixture of her cigarette smoke and the light from the lamp post down on the street was making her focus hard on the swirls. This was some magical shit right here.

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tears of glittered waves.

DESPITE THE FACT THAT RUE definitely didn't know their own name right now - or even location or what had even happened in the last few hours, she felt some kind of pride within her for finally creating a potion that outlived the expectations of all of her other experiments.

Reworking the inner works of a potion had its cons, especially when it came to extending the duration of the potions effects. Rue anticipated that around this time, they would be coming down from their high, and would require a few more drops on their tongue to keep the high going..But considering the state her body was in - Rue didn't need absolutely anything.

As Mina's words sound rather drawled and stretched out in Rue's eyes and somehow their brain, Rue had to remind herself to breathe, her body slowing down to a point where every manual function a body required was suddenly forgotten about. "Everyone..says what..?" They managed to get out, taking another deeper breath, filling their lungs with the air that somehow felt stolen.

Mina's slurs only resulted with a giggle out of the Weiss that didn't feel like it was happening in the moment it was. Their body was so slow that any normal paced movement felt oddly strange to them - like some off-putting sensation. "Thank you..Thank you.." Rue began, knowing that at this point Mina was either spacing out or close to passing out. There was no in between really. "But..I...feel you're...gonna...hate this...part..." They added, while their hand moved upwards, feeling like a slow-motion sequence just to rest the cigarette between their lips.

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What the fuck were they talking about again? Rue was asking her what everyone said, but Mina couldn’t even remember which part of their conversation so far that was in reference to. “Everyone says…everyone says that clowns are scary, right? But I don’t. Like the funny red…uhh…red ball ones.” Funny red noses. She couldn’t remember the word in the moment, and tried to mime to Rue the word she was missing. Touching her nose and then pulling her hand away from her face, Mina repeated herself, “The clowns with red balls, you know? Not like their balls balls, but their balls.” She snorted as she made her comparison, hand practically slapping herself in the face as she continued her awful game of Pictionary. Merlin, she’d love to play that right about now. Or any board game really. Too bad neither she nor Rue had brought any with her, and she couldn’t remember if this place had any lying about.

“Should we go inside?” Mina asked as it became apparent that there was more to this stage of the potion. Falling off the roof wasn’t exactly something she wanted to do, even though it wasn’t that far. There was a moment of clarity when she started to stand up to check exactly how far the drop down was, immediately placing herself back onto the roof as her legs noodled underneath her. “That was close,” she laughed before taking a long drag of her cigarette. Smudging it out on a roof tile, she started to crawl backwards towards where she could see a beam of light coming from the window they’d climbed through earlier. “Grab the drinks,” she pointed out before going back through the window, hitting the back of her head on the raised windowsill as she failed to fully duck inside. “Fuuuuuuuck.” She was going to forget where that came from when she woke up in the morning.

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