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[Lysander - Nope]


Lysander could feel violence beating at his chest like the wild hooves of a trapped horse and he wanted nothing more than to turn his sword on Melvin. But he knew he couldn't do anything, even if he attacked him, the other man had a shield that would make it utterly utterly pointless.

He wouldn't give in to violence.

He could taste blood and it ran down his chin, making him shudder and want to retch. He felt oddly dizzy and no longer in the mood for dares. He needed to thank Merric for diverting Melvin, needed to be polite, but he didn't have the power to.

Instead he reached out for Roswell almost instinctively and led him by the hand out of the room without a single further word about any of it. He didn't know if any amount of brushing his teeth would ever be enough.

Lawrence could not be more pleased about it honestly.

[ Cassie / Anything / Superhero Rescue ]

"Full theatrics? Gimme a minute." Cassie giggled, already blushing a rosy red, as if she had pregamed on her way to dare night. She may have been a shy girl, but shy girls knew how to get ready to party.

Cassie disappeared for a few minutes, and would return to the party in full Batwoman regalia. She found Nash quickly, and touched his elbow to announce her presence.

"This theatrical enough, pretty boy?" A sloppy smile, Cassie didn't even know this guy, but the soju was already deep seated in her brain. Nash received a playful peck on the cheek, and Cassie was off to rescue...

The poor woman trapped by the tickle monster! "Fiend!" Cassie shouted, somehow having managed to perch herself atop a couch. "Unhand that poor woman, at once!" A deliberate hand was pointed at Kai and Tzei.

The costumed woman jumped down, right in front of the tickler and tickled, a Very Serious look on her face. "You don't wanna see what they do to ticklers in Arkham, do you?"





[Lex / Anything (Minor) / 2 Dares / Solo]

Lex gave Peyton an appreciative nod and raise of the brow, giving her rump another good look. Damn, if only he were 18...
"Not a bad choice; thanks for the show." Lex stuck his tongue out playfully, then headed back to the couch, and just watched as Cassie did her thing. Man, he loved Deus.

Wait...was that Zeke? In boxers? Jesus... "Dude, what happened? You get lucky when I was looking away? Wait, where's Mr. Ever? Is he in his boxers too?"

Merric - w/Melvin ( anything )


He hadn't really expected it to work, except it had. And it had gotten Melvin off of Lysander, Merric's heart clattering in his chest as Melvin took ahold of his jaw, his face flushed. There was an instinctive panic, a slow burning devastation as he heard the clatter of footsteps and realized that Lysander had gone, and taken Roswell with him.

He blinked, feeling a little underwater. "Yes..." Merric managed, the graze of Melvin's lips against his cheek fluttering, and he reached out, threaded his fingers through Melvin's hair and pulled him in for a kiss, a real one, as though by doing this, in some way, he could make up for what had just happened. As though he could somehow erase the taste of Lysander and take it back. It was a little clumsy, but Lysander had, at least, taught him well, Merric giving it everything he had before his teeth sank into Melvin's lower lip with startling force.

Then he pulled away, jerking back, his chest heaving.

"Thank you," he said thickly, and felt like he was going to be sick, his head spinning.

Lex - Anything (Minor)

Lex gave Dai a looooong look, possibly angry, and very much burned. ********, ********, ********. If you listened hard enough, one could hear the slow hiss of air escaping from the teen's ballooned ego. "Fine." He said, grudgingly, sharply. Tanned hands took the ring with a jab like motion, then slammed it on his ring finger, all while grey eyes gave Dai a pained look.

A deep inhale, a quick exhale. Regal gave assurances from inside his head.

"My most embarrassing secret? Well..." Any attempts to fabricate a story were shortchanged and cut off. ********. "Fine. I was 12, in 8th grade. We were running laps in P.E., and I had been holding a whiz in for a long time..." God, he could remember the shame, the same warm trickle that mirrored the urine on his legs. "I tripped over my shoelace, faceplanted, and... ********, dude, I ******** pissed myself in gym class. Tried to play it off as falling in a puddle, but not in ******** Nevada."

The boy was obviously frustrated, and hurt now. He wanted to just shove that incident in the trash, like his soiled shorts. "Got sent home, and mom had to transfer me to a new district because the bullying about it got so bad. Hope your happy with yourself."

Dai - Anything

Dai arched a brow, and nodded slowly. Honestly, he understood that one, but found it less embarrassing in his mind then admitting he'd lost his virginity so his sister's ex-boyfriend. His expression was mildly sympathetic, though. "Good luck on the rest of the questions." He paused, then said, quietly, just loud enough for Lex to hear, "Please don't tell Seren what I said during mine. You will hurt her, very badly." His own voice, as he said that, trembled, a hint of misery in his words.

[ Zeke w/ Hikaru & October - Wearing the ring now ]

To him, at least, that seemed like a woefully long time to have gone without being physically intimate with another person. There were a few things he'd have liked to have said to that, but in the end, he thought perhaps it was better not to say anything. She was uncomfortable enough discussing this here, with an audience. He could wait, sure there'd be another opportunity to speak with her.

So he'd smile down at her, offering a little wink as he reached down to take her hand, the one with the ring on it, so he could very gently slide it free from her finger. "Let's give someone else a turn, hmm?"

He was ready to slip the thing onto his pinky when Lex, from across the room, finally seemed to notice Zeke's lack of clothing. "Not yet, Kid, but the nights still young," he called back with a rakish grin, and then slid the ring onto his finger.

"There, now," he settled comfortably into the couch, hands folding across his bare stomach. "Fire away."

Hika - Anything

Hika's cheeks pinked again at the wink, and was surprised, watching him remove the ring. It was an odd thing, somehow, but she did not argue. Indeed, she felt MUCH more comfortable now that the ring was off of her hand and she no longer had to worry about people asking her things she did not want to answer to a room full of people she barely knew.

She watched him put it on, though his interchange with Lex made her brows rise, because she wasn't sure what was going on there, but it was an interesting interchange.

She bit her lips, looking at the man, her eyes distant for a moment. Finally, she sighed at herself, and her lack of courage to ask the real questions, and instead, a little shyly, reached over and tapped his Octopus tattoo. "Is... there a story behind this? If so, would you tell me about it?" At least she could ask about something she WAS interested in, even if it wasn't anything like the sorts of things people usually would ask.

And then Nash asked HIS question, and her cheeks pinked again. And even MORE when he fluttered his lashes at her, but she, shyly, got up the courage to wink back. Comparatively, a victory.

[ Peyton - Anything ]

Peyton snorted under her breath as she passed Lex on her way to reclaim her seat on the floor. "Eat your heart out, kid."



[ Gretchen w/Kenton & October ]

"It feels like a ring," she answered with a cheeky grin, ready to slip the ring free, but paused as October gave her another question.

"Well now," she glanced up and to the side at Kenton, then to October himself, and then out into the room at everyone else. It wasn't as easy a question to answer as one might assume. The person she most wanted to kiss wasn't there. He wasn't even on the island anymore. Overseas in another base. So then, who in the room would she choose?

Lips pursed, she reached over to give Kenton's chin a gentle pinch. "Mr. Polk has a handsome mug, but you're not bad yourself." This last was said to October. Honestly, she didn't know any of them that well, and could see enjoying a kiss from quite a few of them.

Now that she'd answered, she pulled the ring free and offered it over Kent.




[ Soleil w/October ]

"I don't think I've met you yet," the girl said as she held her hand out for the ring. "October, right? Nash's big brother?"