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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:41 pm
"Van are you ok." Issac was smiling at him in the mirror as he said this, "You seem out of it." He raised an eyebrow,"we don't need anyone dying here. Are you sure the music was written write?"
What did he mean written right? Van reached into his jacket and pulled out an envelope full of copies of music. He ran his eyes over it. It was so perfect all of the proper ghost notes would be made by this score as long as the right tempo was kept. "Yeah it's perfect." Had he written this?
Van's father spoke up, "All right boys let's do this for the league, Issac follow me, Ivan wait for my signal you'll know it when you see it." They walked out the door into a larger room filled with a number of people dancing in elegance. Van saw the orchestra and realized he had just enough copies to pull it off. They went down the steps Van and Issac on either side of their father running their hands on the banister as they went.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:47 pm
"Where are we going?" Ciara asked her, trying to keep an upbeat sort of tone in her voice. Once thing was for sure, she couldn't act like her normal self there. She had to act like the person she would've grown up to be if she had lived the life of luxuries and elegance that she would have if her mother had not been murdered by her farther.
Serena laughed, stopping and looking at Ciara. "What, you don't want to go talk to all the boys? What's wrong, Ci?"
Ciara shrugged, looking around at the various boys in the room. In her opinion she just saw them as the disgusting perverts they most likely were, she didn't see a single gentlemen. Therefore, she was far from impressed. However, she did then see a familiar face walking down the stairs not too far from where she was. Van?! She thought, staring at him surprised.
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:01 pm
"Alright Van go meat with your orchestra, we've been paying them to much for them to play this worthless stuff." Van's father nudged him toward the orchestra while he and Issac went to talk to a young man.
Van had no idea but he thought it best to go along with things till he figured out what was going on. When he reached the orchestra the people stood and the president asked for the score. Van handed her the envelope and watched her disperse the papers of deceit among the group. She had been the one conducting waiting for Van to get there.
Van lifted his hands and the orchestra readied. He started to conduct and listen to the music being eminated, he had never heard anything orchestrated sound like this it was beautiful but it's beauty belied it's purpose.
[lets say that it sounds like an instrumental version of snow by Red hot chili peppers]
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:16 pm
Confusion still overwhelmed Ciara as she stood there, looking back towards Serena with a blank look on her face. What was going on? She was oblivious to the things going on around her. If her life would've ended up being like that she wasn't that sure if things were that bad the way they turned out. Of course, that wasn't what she was focusing on at that point. All she knew was there had to be a reason behind what was happening and she was going to figure it out.
"Oh no!" Serena declared, an irritated look crossing her face. "Here comes my brother."
Ciara laughed in a gigglish sort of way, trying to fit in. "Oh c'mon he's not that bad." She said, assuming that to be true since when she had known him before he was very sweet.
"What are you talking about?" Serena asked her friend confused. "Are you forgetting all the whores he's slept around with, Ci?"
So even the boy I was supposed to marry is a perv... Ciara thought, her self-esteem plummeting as she did so.
"Why Ciara, you look lovely today." Ciara's betrothed, named Matteo, said with a charming smile.
"Get your sick a** away from here." Serena said bitterly to her older brother.
Matteo then laughed, reaching his hand out for Ciara to take. "Shall we dance?" He asked her, ignoring his sister.
Ciara looked towards her friend and back towards Matteo unsure of what to do. If she acted like she normally did she would've snapped at him telling him how horrible of a person he was, but in the world of riches she couldn't' do such things. She was supposed to marry him. Disrespecting him was far from allowed, which is why she took his hand becoming irritated as he pulled her close once they reached the dance floor. She tried to think of plesant things as she danced with Matteo, but failed miserably. The only thing pleasant she noticed at that moment was the song that was being played.
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:26 pm
Van would never admit it but he was enjoying himself. He started to move his body with the music, it was all perfect right down to the ghost sounds his ear was trained to here and recognize. He flipped to the last page of the music reading it as he went. He was looking for something within the host notes and he found it.
It was a sound signature that he had always put at the end of his peices when he acctually sat down and wrote things a simple reminder that he was the creator and deserved the credit. It caused people to only like the peice if he was the one conducting in this case or playing in others.
Van was certain now that he had written the piece and that told him everything that he needed to know, he had his fathers favor.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:34 pm
"I can't believe you still hang out with my sister." Matteo said to Ciara with a laugh, the two of them still playing through the moves of the dance.
Ciara was confused by his words, the confusion having never left in the first place. "Whatever do you mean?"
He then laughed. "You don't have to act so innocent around me. I know your secret.
That statement just added to her confusion. What was he talking about? Before her only secret had been the fact that she had become an assassin, but that couldn't be true in her 'parallel life'. She was supposed to be happy there.
Matteo frowned, confused by her reaction, but he merely shrugged it off. "Well, the plans are in set."
"What plans?"
"Oh Ci, stop acting so naive." Matteo said with another laugh.
[Um what are you planning on doing XD?]
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:45 pm
Van finished out the score and turned to the director, "Take five, now." He collected the score, he would have to burn it later.
Van looked out into the crowd of dancers and saw his father nodding and his brother talking to some ladies off to the side. As he scanned the crowd Van found Ciara with some strange guy. He had to get close enough to either talk to her or something.
Van stepped down and waved off whatever women approached him. He moved over to the Piano and struck a few odd chords making one of the ditz run into Ciara and her partner. Van ran over to the area where the ditz ws slightly giggling. "I'm sorry about that my friend here has had a bit too much to drink."
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:49 pm
Ciara, having been knocked down on the ground, started to snap at the boy who had said he was sorry. "Sorry? Why you-.." She then stopped upon turning to look at who it was. "Van?' She asked him, looking at him confused.
"Who the hell are you?" Matteo asked Van bitterly with a glare, not even helping Ciara off the ground.
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:57 pm
Van winked at Ciara before turning with his mischievous smirk to the young man, "Ivan Van Lichtenstein, I am one of the owners of your orchestra for the night and the writer of the piece you just heard." He wasn't lying so he was able to say it while looking into the slick idiot's eye.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:05 pm
"Actually, it's my orchestra..." Ciara muttered, getting up and brushing herself off.
Matteo still looked towards Van with a glare, ignoring Ciara's words. "Stay away from us." He said coldly, grabbing Ciara's arm, which resulted in Ciara slightly glaring at Matteo wishing that she could kill him right then and there.
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:10 pm
Van had to think fast, he wanted to get her away from him and soon. "Someone's compensating." Van said it loud enough that the twit should have heard him he only hoped that his insults would be enough to piss him off.
Van felt the cold metal on his neck of his two daggers if anything got bad he was pretty sure that his chain was upstairs.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:18 pm
"You shut the ******** up!" Matteo snapped to the boy getting more irritated by the second. It wasn't just the fact that the boy had been rude in the first place. In fact that didn't even bother him all that much. The worst thing in his opinion was the way he saw Ciara look at the boy. She seemed to know the boy, and even possibly feel for him. In his opinion he could fool around however much he liked, but Ciara couldn't go near anyone. It would be frowned up by others.
"Calm down, love..." Ciara said soothingly to Matteo trying to calm him down. Last thing she needed was for a fight to happen in the twisted reality she was in at the moment.
Matteo then glared at Ciara, pushing her away from him. "You shut the hell up too." He said bitterly, which confused Ciara considering he had been nice to her up to that point.
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:23 pm
"Alright tiny, let's calm down." The simple minded fool was falling for it, even better was that Issac had his hand on his weapon. Van knew that no harm would come to him if he was in his father's favor.
Fall victim to your rage, be blinded by it's power, So that I may be prepared to strike, and be gone within the hour.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:30 pm
"Who the hell do you think you're calling tiny?!" Matteo retorted, his anger increasing to rage.
Ciara sighed, shaking her head. What was happening? The life she could've had was still horrible. Was she just destined for horrible things to happen to her? Maybe she was just as bad as her father had always said. Even worse, Matteo had ended being much like her farther.
Happiness seemed like it would always be far from her. "Keep yelling at him and I'll just leave." Ciara said to Matteo in a hushed bitter voice. "I don't want to be seen with you like this."
"Then get the ******** away from me." Matteo said angrily to Ciara.
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Jessie my love Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:41 pm
Van's smile broadened, "Well it certainly wasn't him." Van pointed to his brother standing behind the enraged man holding a gun to his head.
"Just calm down before things set out of control." Issac spoke with a smooth calm voice. He had always been a sweet talker to people.
"I'll just let you two figure something out, while I go use the restroom." Van turned his back and walked off to where Ciara had gone. Maybe this could serve a double purpose after all.
Dance my puppets dance, in web that I weave, dance pretty marionettes, even after I leave.
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