[Thursday, September 2, 2004.] I'll revamp Luke into a kung-fu guy with an accent. "You vill learn ze Hamlet or face ze vun thousand fists of pain!" (Sorry, didn't realize you were starting.) [That's right, it's still Thursday. And Luke now has an accent. That makes him even cooler.] (Thursday! Aiee!) [Krista, Ivy, and Jeremy are just leaving Wendy's! Presumably Charlotte's still in there, working at her fast food type job.] ( Wendy's takes off, headed to Alpha Centuri! ) (Woosh!) (It was that ship you built at the end of Civ. Okay.) * Krista is heading out! She was wearing red and white _before_ Labor day, which made it okay. [She is! And it's dark now. So much for the sun setting. The ground's still wet from the rain earlier.] [The parking lot is near deserted, and the overhead lights are just a touch flickery: not bad, but still not in the best repair.] * Ivy 's leaving too! WHOO. * Krista waves slightly at Ivy and Jeremy. After a moment she adds, "Travel safe, the both of you..." * Ivy waves back to Krista. [Krista's car is there! As is one Krista doesn't recognize: a dark blue sports car. A pair of teenage girls are peering in the windows; nobody you recognize. One of them looks up and waves cheerfully at the three of you as you leave.] (Responsiveness!) [Jeremy waves back, too, and then he focuses on the *other* girls. "Uh," he says articulately.] * Ivy eyes the girls questioningly and then gives an unsure wave. * Krista smiles a little at the girls as she walks casually towards her own car, which has nothing to do with weird girls. * Krista still has a boring car, too. [Jeremy blinks, then walks over. "What're you doing?" The one still looking in the window raps her knuckles against it, while the one waving over - a pretty enough brunette neither Ivy nor Krista recognize - grins. "Stealing it."] [Jeremy doesn't seem to know how to take that. "You're what?" he asks incredulously.] * Ivy follows after Jeremy. She cocks her head at the girls, as if she's confused by something. * Krista 's suddenly looks over at the girls more carefully. Their faces, actually, as she replies in a stern voice, "You had better not." [Krista has a hard time looking at the one intent on the contents of the car, as her hair covers her face, but the brunette looks normal enough. If... awfully happy for someone about to commit grand theft auto. Speaking of her, she sniffs. "And why not?"] * Krista replies matter-of-factly, "Because you just got caught doing it?" * Ivy glances up to Jeremy, trying to gauge his face. ["That's a dumb reason. If we were worried about getting caught, I wouldn'tve *told* you."] * Krista pauses for a moment, then sighs slightly and glances around for a pay phone. If there's one around. [Jeremy is still flustered. "But- you can't just- That's my car!"] ( F, Jeremy. That lie gets an F. ) ["Really? That's too bad," the girl says callously. Then she looks Jeremy over. "You are cute, though. Maybe we can steal you, too." His face turns red. Well. More red.] * Ivy eyes the girls and then glances over to Jeremy. She grabs his left hand. Well, that'll help if he needs to dodge! [Jeremy's hand is grabbed. The girl pouts. "Aw, does that mean you're taken?"] [Krista doesn't see one outside, but she remembers there being a phone inside the Wendy's.] (I'd say Ivy was cock-blocking... but I don't think it counts in this case.) (Snark.) * Ivy steps a bit closer to Jeremy. These girls are weird. * Krista frowns after her looking around and starts to head away from her car back towards the Wendy's with a long stride. ( You're all freaks. Luckily I'm safe inside my Wend- OMG get out >.< ) [He also obviously thinks these girls are weird. "Doesn't matter," he replies angrily. "Just get away from the car." The brunette shrugs. "Sure." She looks over at Krista's attempt to leave, and she jumps away from the car, running to block her off from the fast food... er, goodness. "And where are you going?" she asks cheerfully.] * Krista replies, stepping a bit faster, "Inside?" * Ivy squeezes Jeremy's hand a tinge tensely. [The girl steps to one side, getting in Krista's way. She's just a little shorter. "Wrong!"] * Ivy 's hand squeezes more than a little tensely at that. * Krista bumps into her accidentally and puts her fingers to her glasses to straighten them. "Oh, sorry." Beat. "Excuse me?" [Jeremy winces, just a little. Ivy's got a strong grip.] ["Not excused," the girl chirps, and then she tries to push Krista back.] * Krista is easy to push back, slightly unsteady on her nice shoes as she IS pushed back. [Krista is shoved back, and she goes stumbling, almost losing her balance. That weak little push was a lot harder than it looked like it'd be.] * Ivy slides behind Jeremy, her chest right up against his back, her hand still clutching his. One hand behind his back now. She's so helpful! [Jeremy looks over and yells, "Hey!" NOW he doesn't seem flustered, and he pulls his hand from Ivy's grip and marches over to the girls.] * Ivy doesn't follow. She bites her lip though. * Krista almost stumbles and looks back to the woman. "I thought you were stealing a car," she comments. ["Changed my mind," the girl responds. At this point, the other girl looks up from the car with definite interest.] * Krista smiles a little as she takes another step back. "That's... good." ( Ohhhhhhhh no it's not. ) [Jeremy gets between Krista and the brunette. "Lay off her," he growls, just as a heavyset black woman bursts out of the Wendy's. "BREAK IT UP!" she bellows.] [Right behind her is Charlotte. How nice!] * Charlotte peeks out from behind the woman. (And now is a GREAT time for me to go to the bathroom. *scrams*) * Krista jumps slightly from surprise before looking over to the loud heavyset woman, then to the threatening brunette, then back again. * Ivy looks over to the newcomers as well, a sigh of relief causing her to stop gnawing on her lip. [The woman charges right for Krista and Jeremy and the brunette. She looks, frankly, like she could kick all your butts just on sheer mass. "*No* fighting in this parking lot. That means you. Get food or get out." Brief pause. "Actually, just get out."] [Jeremy relaxes a little. He nods. Go voice of authority keeping him from having to hit a girl!] * Krista looks to the woman and nods quickly. "Of course." [The brunette turns to look at the new lady. She seems... disappointed, but definitely not intimidated. "But I don't wanna. Ash 'n' me came for some fun."] * Ivy starts slowing walking over Jeremy's way. [Jeremy looks over at Ivy. And the big black lady glares down her nose at the girl. "Get it somewhere else. Now leave."] (We're rolling good.) (It's the female factor. Keep it up Dicey.) (*Pets Dicesuke*) (* Rolls for Jeremy. ... I'm sorry, Jeremy.) (... Well, that just seals Mike's theory.) [Krista notes that the girl by the car? She's moving away from the car now. Towards them. Ivy and Charlotte notice a... shift in her features, and if you can't guess what that is, I have to wonder why you're playing this game.] ( She's a mime! Oh no! ) * Charlotte speaks up! "The cops are already on their way." * Ivy turns to look at the car-vamp full-on, eyeing her warily. [Jeremy keeps himself between Krista and the brunette. His attention's focused on said brunette again, whose arms are folded. "Really?" she asks.] * Krista nods along with Charlotte and catches the movement out of the corner of her eye, but... didn't catch the face, so why would that seem weird...? * Charlotte nods. [Krista eats pavement, as the girl from by the car suddenly speeds up and slams right into her, knocking her to the ground! It's cold and wet and *painful* down there, and if she cares to look up, she can see that the girl's face reminds her a lot of a certain Brian's, complete with yellow eyes and ugly forehead and SHARP POINTY TEETH. Very not a good prize.] [The brunette grins and grabs the black woman's arm, twisting it painfully. She lets out a shriek. "How about not."] (And since we're not bothering with init, uh, I'd like actions from you darlings. And I'm sorry, Krista, but I managed to roll a ten for her. o_o; They're women.) (Ha ha.) * Charlotte stares wide-eyed, then runs for the Wendy's! * Krista cries out as she gets slammed and messes up her dress. At least she doesn't lose her glasses. "Aa-auch!" She looks back towards her assailant and her eyes widen. "No." * Ivy looks a mix between terrified and confused. She closes the distance between her and Jeremy, behind him once again. Her head's peeking out to watch the scene though! ( Don't worry! I'll call Harry Dresden XD ) (YAY!) * Krista tries to scramble away from the vamp towards her car. [Jeremy doesn't even look towards Krista, given the shriek and all, and runs for the brunette, trying to slam into her full force. She just smirks and drops the woman's arm, stepping to one side and letting Jeremy go by. "*That* isn't nice of you," she chides the football player. Jeremy stumbles to a halt and spins, just in time to get her fist in his face, and he steps back, looking totally disoriented and dazed, but still on his feet.] (I swear, dicey DOES have it in for the boys.) (All... one of them in this scene.) (Er, not dicey, but dice in general. Well. His spirit is here.) * Ivy gasps, her eyes going wide. She looks unsure of what to do. [The quiet vamp chases after Krista who, uh, needs another defense roll. I'm sorry, Krista!] [The vamp girl gets close and stumbles, of all things, grasping at the barest edges of Krista's clothes. She ultimately misses.] [The black woman is staring at the scene and backing away, slowly, clutching her arm. She looks thisclose to turning into a gibbering mess.] * Krista slams her keys into he car door like she was born to unlock cars, and if she can she dives inside to get her bookbag (and the stuff out of it if she can!) [Krista succeeds her Unlock Door check, and her bookbag is in the passenger seat! How handy.] * Ivy is still looking unsure. But finally, she starts inching toward Jeremy, her face filled with concern. [Krista dives into her car and starts fumbling with her bookbag, but she finds her Physics notebook before anything else.] (You get whatever it is for free next round, Krista.) (Yay.) (Assuming you live that long. 'Course.) (ALL GONNA DIE!) [Jeremy doesn't seem to have a taboo against punching girls, for the record. Because after wiping some blood off his face, that's what he does: right in the gut, and she oofs and nearly doubles over. She responds by trying to kick him in the groin, but he does manage to get out of the way of *that* one. (The dice aren't that mean.)] (Good. That's a harsh roll with after effects.) (Yes. o_o;) ['Ash' regains her footing and makes a grab for Krista's no doubt kicking feet, trying to drag her out of the car.] [She gets randomly kicked in the hand and growls, recoiling just long enough for Krista to find whatever it was.] * Ivy gets to Jeremy! But since he's fighting, she's smart enough to not get close enough to mess up his mojo. She glances over to seeing Krista struggling in the car and then back to watching Jeremy fighting. Hrm, where to do nothing. Decisions, decisions. * Krista pushes the notebook aside and whirls around to face the woman with... double-fisted cross action. Seriously. Two giant freaking wooden crosses, one in either hand, as she says forcefully, "Back, demon!" (HA.) (Can't knock them BOTH out of my hands!) (Never think about that, do you Buffy writers!) (... Well now she *has* to. Vamp pride and all.) (Pfft. The one in her left hand is sharpened.) [The 'demon' was in the process of making another grab for Krista, though when faced with those crosses, her eyes widen and she ends up taking a step back.] (*writes* Send... more... experienced vamps...) * Krista glares back at her and says in a good imitation of a nun voice, "I said back off!" (Instilling the fear of rulers into little children everywhere.) [Jeremy and the brunette are circling each other; Jeremy lunges for her, shoving her into one of the light posts. Her head knocks painfully against it, but she grins and reaches up, grabbing the poor boy in a bear hug. Jeremy does the sensible thing and tries to break free, his eyes going wide as *now* she's definitely vamping out. "Oh, yeah," she comments even with teeth. "We're keeping you."] [The demon girl tries to push forward at the cross, but she growls again and recoils, backing up a little more. She glances around.] * Ivy 's face goes completely fear-filled. She opens her mouth wide, "Je-"... and begins coughing. * Charlotte charges out of the Wendy's bravely wielding Durandal, the legendary holy sword Roland used to cut a pass through a mountain! ... No, wait, it's just a broom. Nevertheless, she rushes out and swings it over head at the vamp about to eat Jeremy. * Krista takes a deep breath and then steps towards the vamp and says again, "Begone, evil thing!" ( Charlotte knows Kung Fu :o ) ( Charlotte is 38% Xiang-Fei ) [Charlotte runs over and SLAMS the broom on the vamp's head so hard that it actually cracks and splinters into two. She now has half a broom (but it's probably better to fight with) and a vamp who's been jarred into letting go of Jeremy.] [The vamp reels, dazed, and looks over at Charlotte. She blinks, then puts a hand up to her forehead and feels blood there. "You *bitch*," she snarls. "You messed up my hair!"] * Charlotte backs away, holding the broken broom shakily. [Jeremy, for his part, was exerting himself so hard in trying to get out of her grip that he actually falls over. Elsewhere, the vamp Krista's warding keeps backing off, back towards Jeremy's car. She looks like she's thinking.] ( That really was his car? O.o ) (Won't say, but he called it his car, so that's the car I'm saying it is. ;P) (In descrip.) * Ivy rushes to Jeremy's side, eyes all for him, and not at all for his soon-to- be-gone car. (*comes back and reads what's been going on* Ivy talked. A full third of a word. Cool.) [Jeremy scrambles to his feet, and the brunette rushes at Charlotte, who can roll dex + getting medieval to get out of the way. Or kung fu. Her pick.] (She's a chatter-box, that one.) (Actually, it was a pretty cool dramatic moment, given that there is a ton of build-up about Ivy's mysterious not talkin' ways.) (^_^) (Today's been a good day for moments, as it were. ^^;) [Charlotte scrambles to one side of the vamp! Meanwhile, the other vamp? Glancing between Krista and the car. Hm. She reaches back and actually slams her fist right through the window, setting off an angry, shrill car alarm.] * Ivy stands up when Jeremy does. She grabs hold of Jeremy's hands, stepping in front of him. She shakes her head at him, fear and concern written all over her face. ( Don't fight the vamps, Jeremy! Run away with me! To Milan!) (Yeah, Milan!) * Ivy also jumps at the very loud car alarm! * Charlotte scrambles away unsteadily, holding the broom handle between herself and the vamp. She swings again, trying not to get her opponent a chance to recover. [Jeremy's hands are trembling, and he jumps at the alarm, too. He looks past Ivy to Charlotte and vampy girl, and he drops Ivy's hands, pushing his way past her to help the Visored Wendy's Defender out.] * Krista bites her lip nervously, hesitant for a moment, and then jumps at the girl with the normal cross in her right hand and the left-hand cross pointy-end- out towards her in her moment of distraction. [The quieter vamp pulls her bloodied hand away from the window, breaking off a large shard of glass, just as she turns to Krista, who's rushing straight at her. She doesn't even have time to react as the cross plunges into her heart, and she stares at Krista, eyes wide, as she poofs into a large cloud of dust.] [Krista is now covered with vamp remains.] ( Krista is now covered in as much dust as came out of my computer when I cleaned it a few days ago >.> ) * Krista takes a deep breath, the one she was holding in her nervousness... and then coughs as she breaths in vampdust. "Oohf *cough* Did it..." a weak smile crosses her face. [Jeremy rushes for the brunette, but she steps just out of the way and to the side, circling Charlotte, still snarling.] [Charlotte brings up her broomstick, blocking the girl's punch and knocking it just off course.] * Charlotte jabs the broomstick at the vamp, pointy end first! [Charlotte misses *badly*, getting air again (maybe she's better at smashing than stabbing), and the vamp stares at her. "What the hell was tha-" and oofs as Jeremy does a picture perfect tackle on her, knocking her and himself down to the ground. Now her head's bleeding even *more*. Good thing she was there to cushion his fall!] ( Woot! My attack was so bad it distracted her! ) [The vamp screams and kicks Jeremy off, jumping on top of him as he scrambles to get out of the way. This time, she's making up for the last one by getting a solid grip on his neck.] * Charlotte rushes at the vamp, trying that stabbing thing again! She stabs straight down, her being on the ground and all. * Ivy's eyes do that widening thing again. Her facial features look positively terrified. She moves toward them, attempting to shove her body against Jeremy's in some funky attempt to do... something. It's not an attack. It's not a shove. But she does try to move her head close to Jeremy's neck... not that smart. She's trembling at this point. * Krista takes a moment to get her breath, a slight shudder running through her before she regards the ongoing fight, swallowing, and starting to head over. [Ivy lowers herself towards Jeremy, and as she does so, the lights above flicker radically, as do the ones in the Wendy's. The light in the lamppost actually pops, going out in a shower of sparks, which nicely match the electric ones forming at her fingertips...] [... And shoot, directly into the vamp. She shrieks and jerks upwards, straight into Charlotte's downward-plunging broomstick o' doom, and bursts into ash, covering the lot of you.] (Woot! *High fives Charlotte*) ( Huzzah! ) [Jeremy, sensibly, lies there. Covered with ash. Okay, he coughs, too.] * Charlotte is frozen in her downward stabbing motion for nearly a full five seconds. [Another light pops out, and the rest brighten up to normal, along with the lighting inside the Wendy's. Charlotte's boss is nowhere to be seen. The car keeps beeping angrily. Nobody comes out to check it.] * Ivy takes in the scene, horror still on her face, even though the vamp is clearly dust. She darts off of Jeremy and then begins scooting away from everyone as fast as she can while on her ass. (Crab crawl!) * Charlotte then drops the broom handle and falls to her hands and knees. "Oh god," she mutters, starting to cry. "Oh god, oh god, oh god..." Check it out, she's more religious than Krista. * Krista 's eyes go super-wide and she stops approaching. "My word..." she whispers to herself before her eyes flick to Ivy, then to Jeremy, then to Charlotte as she starts walking slowly, putting her hand to her chest and wincing. "Are... are you alright?" [Jeremy slowly pushes himself to a sitting position. He's shaking, and he looks down at his own hands, then reaches up to wipe ash and blood from his face. He proceeds to stare at it.] * Ivy finally stops as she hits her back against the loudly beeping car. She jumps when she touches it, but then pulls her legs in with her arms, looking to be trying to hide in plain sight. * Charlotte doesn't seem to hear Krista. She falls to a sitting position, still hyperventilating and crying. (Wow. Who knew Krista would be the most together at this point.) (I did!) (She's been mentally preparing for months. And has Cel-esque willpower. It's a lot easier without a teacher or bully around. >_> <_<) (Whoa. That's a lot of WP.) (And she's arguably been through worse re: vampire attacks.) (Cel-esque?) (I think they're referring to Summer's UD character.) * Krista crouches down near Charlotte and Jeremy to put a hand on Charlotte and look to Jeremy... then to Charlotte and to rub her back VERY tentatively. "Charlotte... they're gone. The..." A pause, then, "... things are gone." (Yeah. Celine. She's all witchy and stuff.) [Jeremy looks up at Krista and Charlotte, then turns his head round to see Ivy. He blinks.] * Charlotte turns her head towards Krista, but her eyes don't focus on her, not does her expression change. ( I thought they were referring to the big green slug guy in DBZ ) * Ivy 's still bunched up, her body slightly rocking back and forth. ( Krista was only using 10% of her full power! ) (>_>) [Jeremy gets up, very slowly, and makes his way shakily over to Ivy. He plops down on the wet ground next to her. Neh, he's a mess anyway.] * Krista looks at her shell-shockedness and then rubs her back a bit more firmly. "It's gone, Charlotte... shouldn't you head back inside?" Beat, and a weak, "It's warmer in there...?" [He reaches over and hugs her. And bleeds. But the hug is most important.] * Ivy tenses at the hug, but when he doesn't cry out in pain, she relaxes a slight bit, and hugs him back very tightly. * Charlotte finally seems to notice Krista. She nods and gets up, picking up her weapon as she does. She stares at it and laughs. "I broke the broom. Sophie's going to kill me when she finds out." (I remember a time when I didn't use run-ons constantly. Ah, those were the days.) * Krista stands slowly and says quietly, "I don't think she'll worry about it too much." She looks over to the hugging couple and shudders slightly again, crosses hanging at her sides. "Thank God we are all well." (Damn vamp messing up the car! Now how is Jeremy going to be able to take her out for chicken nuggets again?) (Heck if I know.) (Ivy's his sugar mommy.) (You'll find the money for the window.) (Ha!) * Charlotte heads back into the store as per Krista's suggestion, picking up the other half of the broom as she goes. Once inside, she decides to clean the tables, until noticing she's still covered in ash. She makes her way to the washroom to clean up, only to break down into tears again when she sees her face in the mirror. * Ivy keeps holding onto Jeremy as if he might vanish at any moment. A couple of tears slide down her cheeks, but she's not all out crying. A tiny sob, really. And she's all bloody now. Gee, thanks, Jeremy. ( So, Ivy... Would now be a bad time to tell you I'm actually a woman? ) * Krista looks after her and takes a step... but doesn't follow, looking down to her pointy cross. "I did it, Father." Beat. "I did the right thing." (Bwah! Hey, his rolls sucked too much for that to be true!) (He is not. The bad rolls prove it.) (Ha ha.) (Whoa. Look at Nic and me being on the same page!) ( Well... He could still be gay, though! ) (Dice like boobies.) (Dicey is a known womanizer.) (From Sayuri on.) [Jeremy doesn't care. He hugs Ivy back, also about as tightly as he can. In the distance, they can hear sirens. ... And a way-too-loud car alarm.] [Session End.]