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 Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:25 pm
Rogue could see the memory of Alexz's mother come to the forefront of Alexz's mind. Her mother seemed caring. And from the memory it felt as if Alexz knew that.
Her own mother was aloof as was her father. They hated Kaei's aversion to society. Funny...they would certainly laugh now.
She then saw Alexz being turned. She felt it as well as the memory replayed itself quickly. "I'm sorry to bring up the unpleasantness of the memory...but your control even then." She looked to the scar at Alexz's wrist. The pain of all of their turnings.
Rogue felt a familiar presence inside the club, her senses heightened from Alexz's blood. She didn't know what would last and what wouldn't, but she hoped she wouldn't go mad with the soft chatter of voices. She wondered how Alexz found solitude.
Rogue brushed her hand against the side of Alexz's face. A most daring movement she could have made, but she held no fear in it.
"This has meant a lot to me. I haven't had much of a clear head in quite a while. But you won't for much longer if you don't feed. I am not a very good judge anymore about what I need and don't need, and it seems you feel the same. If there is anything you ever need, you know I am here. I am indebted to your kindness."
She kissed Alexz on the side of each cheek as the French did, and began heading downstairs towards the familiar face inside the club.
"It seems you've enjoyed your dinner." She slid into the seat next to Lily. Rogue's guards informed her when people used the rooms upstairs.
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 8:31 pm
Lily turned and grinned at Rogue. She wouldn't exactly consider her a "friend", then again she always did have a problem with people...living or otherwise. Rogue was hospitable enough whenever they ran into each other, they weren't exactly giddy school girls but neither of them had been for quite some time.
"I certainly did, love" she took a drag from her cigarette and a quick sip from the second glass of Jack she ordered. "Did you admire the handy work?" She giggled "It's been awhile, I'm afraid that I've let myself get a bit rusty. Not as...artistic as I used to be."
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:10 pm
Rogue nodded to the bartender, and he slid a scotch on the rocks her way. "No. Not quite. I'm surprised your here, really. What brings you to New York, let alone this establishment, dear," Rogue smiled a coy smile and lifted an eyebrow in mock curiosity. Rogue couldn't tell herself if she should be sincere.
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:25 pm
Lily took a healthy swig from her glass.
"I've been asking myself the same question for the last few days, I never thought I'd swallow my pride and come back here. Vegas has always been more of my scene anyway, there is a lot of fun to be had after hours." She downed the rest of her Jack in a quick gulp and gave the bartender a gentle nod to bring her another.
"You're probably the only person in this city that even took the time to say more than two words to me, not to mention provide stimulating conversation which is hard to come by here," her lips curled as she took a drag from her cigarette and flipped the ashes in the tray in front of her. "I've never accomplished much, even with centuries under my belt...I've mostly just torn through place after place. I'm sure it's no secret that I'm a bit less than...personable," she paused to reflect and grin before continuing, "I want to be taken seriously, I want to be respected for once rather than be your 'run-of-the-mill' homicidal beauty queen that people would rather look at than listen to." She laughed and sipped at the newly refreshed glass in front of her.
"That is why I'm here," she looked at Rogue and gave her a warm and sultry smile. "I lost my title a long time ago. So where else can bankrupt, stunning, old-world debutantes go to chase their dreams but in The Big Apple?" She let out a soft chuckle and quickly changed the subject. She never did well with heart-to-hearts and hoped to leave it at that. Rogue was the only person that she would have aired her business to and she just let the only person, that was even close to making her feel the need to explain, know why she had chosen this bar stool and pack of stale cigarettes over anywhere else on the planet.
"So, it seems you've come quite a long way since we last exchanged pleasantries and 'caught up'," Lily pulled her flame red locks to the side and switched up her crossed legs to get a little more comfortable, "what's new with you?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:37 pm
Rogue took a few drinks of the scotch before her while Lily was speaking.
"As many might argue, I am not without reason and a heart...whatever heart we can have." She took out a cigarette and lit it, flipping her lighter in her fingers pensively while she drew in the smoke, then spoke.
"We have all the time in the world for accomplishments...not that anyone requires anything of you...I wonder. Which title was yours in those days? Many of us had a moment or two." Rogue smiled a coy smile. She had indeed had an authorized era of killing, and specialized at it as a deathdealer to lycans and vampires alike.
She took a long drag on her cigarette, thinking about how 'far' she had come. "I'm just in another place, today..." She spoke softly, her mind getting the better of her, and she started to glance off as if in another world. "The void is tearing me apart..." She looked to Lily and her eyes began to glow a bright emerald as if on fire.
"I am an Elder of two vital parts of our species...but in regard to controlling the void or dealing with it...I know not what that means, Lily." She tilted her drink back and set the glass on the counter.
"Even now at this age, there is a very human part of me that fights to take the forefront of my existence. I tell you, we are both what we once were and what we are now...there is hardly an in-between...I know our dependence and survival is in our lack of moral, but I know there is something to the idea of restraint....So. As these ideas filter through my old and rusty mind, I am reminded that any sanguinarian nature must be taught restraint to survive at all....We don't go killing through the streets without reason, after all..."
She looked to Lily then, meeting her eyes.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:47 pm
Lily met Rogue's gaze with her ice blue stare. She took a drag and let the blissful calm come over her with the inhale, then the exhilaration of the exhale.
"Human or otherwise, we are all creatures of our environment. We've just been around long enough to witness the change, the development, and the evolution of society and not many can say that. I like to chalk my existence up to nothing but lifetimes of experience. We're older than dirt but I know that I can still get myself into plenty of trouble as if I haven't matured a day over 20. The only problem is that so many of us allow this simple fact to justify the pompous disposition and the need to stare down their noses at anything or anyone," she sipped at her whiskey and took a moment to enjoy the warm burn of alcohol on her throat.
"So what is going on here? I've heard some small time bar talk from here or there but haven't gotten a solid answer from anyone. I haven't really seen too many familiar faces, other than you, and anyone can see that trouble is brewing from miles away..." she took a drag and flagged down the bartender to order another round for herself and Rogue.
"If we're going to talk 'shop' and politics, we might as well be well lubricated," Lily let out a soft laugh and smiled at the bartender while he set their glasses in front of them.
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:24 pm
Rogue grinned. "Trouble? From miles away, you say?" Rogue laughed. "I have no idea what you're talking about." Sarcasm.
There was always some heat about to start burning people, and Rogue couldn't begin to explain properly the amount of threats coming their way...especially her. She took a swig from the glass before her.
"My personal troubles with the void are my own. Possibly a few others, but that's for those who have stared into its depths. I am no master at any such thing. There are others, but the title does not belong to me. I am just a victim of its fire." She took another drink feeling the fire of the alcohol to match her words.
"And any trouble you think you hear about is probably true. If you didn't notice, the buildings around my lovely establishment here have been decimated. Someone is coming after us. Club FM, and Demonic Ties also had buildings blown to bits, surrounding them. Someone is trying to point fingers at all of us...make the cops and FBI investigate us all over again. We can't have that, but before we knew who was bribing whom."
Rogue moved hair out of her face with a swift motion of her hand. "My own personal trouble a-brewin'...? I may or may not have threatened a vampire by killing his lycan lover who just happens to be one of the top hunters in New York."
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:16 am
Dylan walked in to the bar, people already filling up the majority of the seats in the joint. She had to sit at the bar counter if she wanted anything. The scents of the people filled her nose, and she thought she smelt hunters. 'great,' she thought to herself, 'why did this bar have to be the closest one?' Planning her evening out carefully, she sat down on the stool and ordered a blue moon.
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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:31 pm
Lily let out a sarcastic chuckle, finished with an exaggerated sigh, and ordered two tequila shots.
"Looks like you might be in a spot of trouble, m'dear," she smiled and pushed the second shot infront of Rogue before knocking back her own and tapping down the empty shot glass.
"Well, I don't have too much to offer you but my services if they are needed. I need to find some kind of work."
Lily took another long drag from her cigarette before stubbing it out in the ashtray before her and continuing the nursing of her glass of Jack on the rocks.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 12:29 pm
"Tell me about it." Rogue threw back her shot, then set the glass on the table.
She pointed to the glass, and held up two fingers to the bartender signaling another.
"I'm surprised you're offering service of any kind to the coven...Last I heard you were disinterested in any of our...work."
She smiled coyly.
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:01 pm
Lily threw her head back, arched her shoulders in and let out a simply beautiful, and seductive, yet delicately understated laugh ( 3nodding ).
"You've heard well then, that is not too far from the truth," she gave a polite nod to Rogue for the drink and threw back the shot.
"I suppose this is where I make the long, detailed, and eloquent monologue about my past and where I've 'lead astray' from the way of darkness," she gave a Cheshire grin and and sparked yet another cigarette (what was this? I'm sure about three already but when lung cancer isn't a problem I guess it doesn't cause too much stress sweatdrop ). "It's taken me a long time to mature. I was a debutante when I was turned, born to French aristocrats. French is my native tongue but the years have helped to form the perfect English to be in this country," she took a long drag and slowly exhaled, extending her neck and curving her lips.
"I never had lived while my heart was still beating, I was raised for my beauty in those days and still see it as some kind of currency...a girl can never have too many weapons, you know," she winked a perfectly lined, and glued eyelash, "I've been an adolescent for some time now, and I have never really needed to grow up so blowing through city to city like a tornado and leaving everything wrecked behind me is kind of my thing..." Lily laughed and downed the third round of tequila she had ordered for Rogue and herself between a wink and grin.
"...the usual...childhood things, I suppose, but now it's time to grow up and be a big girl. Rebellion, vinyl, and push-up bras can only get you so far for so long, love." She sat up straight, crossed her legs, pulled her hair to one side (the way she usually did when she knew she was around her "own", to expose her scars, respect was a key component she was missing and nobody took her seriously to begin with), and slapped a sexy, full lipped grin and finished her thought "I want to be a New York girl now."
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 1:43 pm
"A New York girl you say?" Rogue's own French accent lingered in her speech.
"And yes, I have heard about your....love for theatrics?" She grinned and looked around the club, a slight grin on her face, no doubt amused.
"Wreaking havoc, going from tavern to tavern, destroying village after village for the sheer pleasure of destruction. I do remember those days in France. I also remember cleaning up after some of those days. Granted, the fight for power in those days among humans made it easy enough to disguise."
She lit a cigarette and took a long drag pensively.
"Even now there is evidence from so long ago...many of our own people killed by hunters because of carelessness. Vampires not cleaning up after themselves in light of their bloodshed..."
Rogue was pointing a finger without pointing a finger. She was waiting for Lily's reaction. Rogue needed to know if she was trustworthy. Sanguinarians were hard to pinpoint in terms of loyalty...they would be often torn between duty and bloodlust while in combat, sometimes getting themselves and teammates killed. It took more restraint to work as a Deathdealer...Is that what Lily wanted? To be a Deathdealer?
Rogue took a long drag on her cigarette and looked past Lily for a moment down the bar noting someone ordering a Blue Moon. She touched this someone's mind and found the name Dylan, and Rogue felt this Dylan's discomfort at picking this bar. She whispered into the newcomer's mind...No need to be tense. Have a drink, take a load off. Not everyone here bites...
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:13 pm
Lily locked her frosty blue gaze with Rogue's equally powerful heated stare and cracked a coy smile. It wasn't only the fact that this was not the only time she had taken on a question of this nature, to see if she could muster the self-control to take orders and make herself useful rather than going straight for the jugular, but that she saw the spark that the old world beauties such as her and Rogue always had, that made her bare her teeth. They never did completely lose their knack for etiquette and the mannerisms that they were brought up with and any true lady...definitely knew how to work the "board room" questions in with commonplace pleasantries and delicate conversation.
"My only true weakness is that I've never had a great knack with authority figures..." she let out a throaty laugh and took a drag before continuing, "...I have the biggest problem with men...To say the least," Lily gave Rogue another coy wink and sipped on the glass of Jack that had been defrosting in front of her.
"I have the skills, I've lived a long time, and had a hell of a lot of fun doing it," she stared at the bartender refreshing her glass and raised one perfectly manicured eyebrow. "I know it isn't usual protocol, but a girl has to make a living..." she took another long drag and ashed in the tray beside her "...I've done plenty of..."freelance work"...we can say, I've had plenty of practice with strict orders, solitary and group "sport", and though it has never been my strong suit...I do well with discretion, I've just always been one for a little 'infamy' where I can get it."
She took the last hit off of her cigarette and stubbed it out before taking a long swallow from her glass.
"I am stylish and I've had a long time to mature and be gorgeous, witty...if given the opportunity, I have plenty of intellect...though I don't often flaunt it, and I have my own arsenal of weapons beyond just beauty and brains...and a "New York Girl" seems like a good title to shoot for out of the gate," she smiled and ordered another round.
"Besides, anybody with an ear to the ground knows this is the place to be if you're ready to fight the fight and are good on your toes."
((HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! 4laugh ))
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 2:08 pm
Rogue laughed. Lily certainly had character, that much was certain.
"This is the place to be, eh? Is that what they say."
She smiled in amusement. "So what exactly would you want to be hired for if you're looking for a job with...us..." If she had special skills, Rogue wanted to know about them. She wanted to utilize the strengths of their...'family'.
She took a long drag on her cigarette.
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:18 pm
Lily laughed took a slow drag.
"I've always been one that enjoys a challenge," she slowly exhaled "I've always worked well under pressure. As long as it doesn't involve technology...I'm a little lost there."
"I had a hard time adjusting to the land line, cell phones, computers...it's all a little too convenient for me, there is a lacking of mystery that I can't get over."
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