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 Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:55 pm
2nd Floor Check the map in case of doubt of the allowed areas or the description
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:21 pm
____The Balcony (RP with Rabid and Ike)
"God damn zombies."
Crow sat out on the balcony with Lenore, fuming and trying to calm her frazzled nerves.
They'd just had to experiment with her serum.
She'd tried to explain. It hadn't been ready. And now.... now, there was a horde of undead donated-to-science cadavers roaming around the lab, drooling on the other experiments and causing all kinds of ruckus. She'd had to take a personal day - if she got slobbered on by just one more overaffectionate animated corpse, she was going to scream.
Lenore sat off to one side, reading a book. She was pretty bored - she wished she could have someone to talk to that wouldn't start yammering about the inconveniences of the walking dead everytime she opened her mouth.
"Oof."
Closing her book with a snap, she looked around without much hope for a bit of fresh company.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:27 pm
"Aha! Crow!" Rabid laughed and leaped out onto the balcony, "I was hoping to see you here! I heard something about...zombies?"
Ike followed reluctantly behind his mother, once again dressed in goth garb. His sour mood had gotten a bit better, and he had reverted to a kind of depressed-antisocial state.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:38 pm
Already hitting a mood upswing, Crow jumped up and clung to Rabid.
"It horrible - freakin' research cadavers roaming around, chewing on the test rats, eating the brain tissue samples, trying to raise hordes of the living dead and take over the world - and I'm not getting paid!" Crow howled, looking furious over the last statement more than anything else.
"Until I get this mess sorted out, I'm on 'administrative leave without pay' - it's not like I was the one trying to revive the dead - well, technically I was since it was my serum, but it was that hack Jefferson and his little mutant monkey demon thing that injected 'em - but dammit, that's not the point! I'M NOT GETTING PAID!"
And that was truly the worst crime of them all.
Brightening at the sight of Malachi, Lenore jumped up and scooted over next to him.
"Hey, Ike!" she said, looking genuinely pleased to see someone who wasn't rambling about zombies.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:43 pm
Rabid laughed and patted Crow on the back.
"Damn, that sucks," she said, "Remember...if you ever need to borrow Liam..." She trailed off.
Maybe that wouldn't be the best idea.
"What's been up lately, aside from Night of the Living Dead sixty-eight?"
Ike gave Len a half-hearted wave and attempted a smile, only succeeding in making the right side of his mouth twitch. The boy gave a sigh of defeat and flopped to the ground, sitting cross-legged.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:57 pm
Letting go of Rabid and trying to gather her wounded dignity, Crow nodded randomly and plunked down on the bench again. Motioning for Rabid to join her, she shrugged and bit at a claw absently.
"Not much, really - kinda got into the Sims game Ike let Len borrow. Didja know you can drown 'em?" she said, suddenly brightening. She had to admit, she loved torturing the little pixellated people.
Especially the one she'd named Jean Michel.
"Anything new with you?" she asked, glad for the company." Julian's been in a super good mood lately - wanted to thank you for that," she added a little wryly. "It's nice to not have him trying to kill everything that moves when he's in the room."
Uh oh.
Deciding to broach the subject carefully, Len knelt next to Ike and gave him a cautiously curious look.
"Everything okay?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:02 pm
Rabid made her way over, a strange bounce in her step, and sat beside Crow. She was content in listening and kicking her feet.
Until, of course, Julian was mentioned.
Her legs stopped moving mid-swing, and she felt her cheeks grow hot.
"No problem," she smiled and attempted to cover up quickly, "and nothing, really. Not aside from the last...excursion."
No. Everything's not okay. I feel like a mutant. I feel ignored. Totally ignored.
"Yeah, everything's fine," Ike murmured and stared out at the sky. There was no point in bothering Len with his problems. All she'd do was tell him how silly he was being.
Again.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:21 pm
Len's eyes narrowed slightly.
"You're not telling me something."
She hated that - the thought of people concealing things she wanted to know was galling. She had to know what was wrong.
"You can tell me - I won't say it's stupid or anythin' like that. Honest."
Noticing the sudden...embarrassment, was it?- Crow gave the slightest of smiles and changed the subject.
Like they thought they could get anything past her. If she could raise the dead, she could pick up on relationship milestones between her idiot brother and her best friend.
"Gods, I'll remember that one for a while. Crow/Liam hybrids....guagh. Just thinking about it gives me the willies." She said, laughing lightly to ease the sudden silly tension.
"What did he think of that whole mess, anyway?"
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:25 pm
Although greatly thankful for Crow's change of subject, Rabid was a great deal less thankful for the subject matter.
She was beginning to see Liam's side of the story.
"Erm...he didn't have much of a reaction, actually," she bunched her mouth up to one side momentarily and furrowed her brow in thought, "We had a...long conversation after you left. About things."
Her poor, poor Liam.
Ike huffed and refused to make eye contact as he spoke.
"You will, but alright," he swished his tail in frustration, "I feel like a freak...and I feel ignored. By you."
He turned toward Len with wet, neutral eyes.
"All of you."
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:40 pm
Caught a bit off guard, Crow gave Rabid a slightly startled look.
"About what? Iffen it's about that whole bodies-in-the-tree thing, I really was gonna get them down." She said, adding hesitantly, "Eventually. I was gonna get them down eventually."
Feeling a rush of guilt for something she didn't even realize she'd been doing, Lenore shifted around so that she was sitting next to Ike. She gave him a worried look, wringing her hands slightly.
"I...I didn't mean to ignore you, Bah. Honest," she said, feeling almost panicky. She owed him a debt, and hurting his feelings was certainly no way to repay it.
"And...I don't think you're a freak. You're Ike. There's a difference."
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:03 pm
"Naw," Rabid laughed at the memory of Crow's big announcement at the party, "Nothing like that. It was Sim-baby-induced."
Ike sighed and turned back out toward the sky.
"None of you meant it. That doesn't mean it didn't happen," he sighed sadly, "and you can say that real easy. Your blind spot isn't in the middle of your face. You don't have huge ears. You have shape to your face."
Why was it that he always told people everything they wanted to know?
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:28 pm
Crow bit back a grumble at the thought of the digital worm-baby, making a mental note to drown a couple more Sims as punishment for their ability to reproduce.
"Murgh."
Lenore hunched her shoulders guiltily, copying Crow's favored look of whipped-puppy embarrassment unintentionally.
"I...umph. Well, at least you got normal hands and feet," she offered weakly. She held out her hands, splaying her overlong fingers. They were covered in smalls cuts and scrapes, and the knuckles bore the look of being permanently skinned.
"Half the stuff human's an' like all the other Mishaps can do, I can't. Like playing guitar," she said a bit darkly, fuming at the memory of her failed attempts.
Realizing she probably wasn't helping, she folded her arms and looked at Ike with a carefully neutral expression.
"You're my buddy, Ike. That stuff ain't important to me. You're... you."
She paused, feeling inadequate.
"I dunno what else I can say..."
She scooted a little closer, hoping he wasn't angry with her.
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:34 pm
Ike lifted a hand and flexed his long fingers. Sure, they weren't as long as Len's, but they were certainly not natural-looking. He then slid his leg over close to her and lifted his pant leg slightly, pointing to the bend in it.
"My bloody ankle," he murmured and gnawed on his lower lip, drawing blood, "I just hate it. Loathe it. I look like someone's pet." He gave another sigh and turned toward Len.
"I guess I'm not angry," he draped an arm around her shoulder momentarily, letting it soon drop to the ground behind her, "You're one of my best friends, and good little Malachi isn't allowed to be angry. Not Malachi. Ike. Good little Ike."
He snorted, his pupils narrowing to slits.
Just get rid of her.
"God damn it, William. Shut up."
"Look, Crow," Rabid knotted her brow in concentration, "I know you seem to have some kind of...burning hatred for Liam but...just...I dunno."
Never before had she so desperately wanted to betray a good friend.
"Give him a chance."
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:45 pm
Crow drew back a little, surprised again.
"I don't hate him - I like him. I just don't see that much of 'im, and when I do...well, there's usually some kind of innuendo going on that puts me in the mood from hell." She said, a little defensively.
Feeling a burning feeling of discomfort in her stomach, Len drew back a little again.
"Look, I'm not saying that. You've got a right to try to rip my throat open - I never said you're not allowed to be angry, Ik-Malachi."
Briefly wishing she could be alone again, then shrugging off the thought quickly, she fiddled with the cracked spine of her book pensively.
"And you're nobody's pet. You're not an animal, you're a freakin' person. I heard someone wanted to turn you into a coat once. You tell me where to find her, and I'll kill 'er for you."
It wasn't the smartest thing to say. But she meant it.
Really meant it.
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Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:56 pm
"Erm...I...well..." Rabid shook her head before a slightly maniacal smile crept onto her face.
Muaha.
"That's just a front," she waved a hand dismissively, "You two should talk some time soon. Get to know each other and whatnot. He's not such a jerk any more with William gone."
"No, I don't," Ike attempted a smile, "You misunderstood." Upon hearing the pet statement, though, he drew back and snapped forward toward Len, making a horribly animalistic growling sound. Perfect example.
His face them dropped to neutral.
"I know you don't think that," he shook his head and shrugged, his tail thumping angrily, "but that doesn't stop other people. I can't even go to see a movie without being screamed out of the theatre. We tried when my mum and Julian were off doing whatever it is they do."
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