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Tweak says, "so many things lately"

Vaughn Davis (shebringscurses) wrote in bellumlogs,
@ 2010-07-11 10:31:00

Entry tags:

black forest witch, dracula, quasimodo, shere khan

Who: Vaughn & Sam & Vlad & Sebastian
What: The Jane demasking.
Where: Lobby to begin with.
When: Early evening.
Warnings: TBD.

Jane's life was comfortable. It was safe, professionally orchestrated between the pages of library books and lonely, long walks in the city. It's infrastructure wasn't built on the bloody edge of a thousand knives, a hundred threats, or a swarm of cackling dreams. Jane's life was so comfortable, it was the warmth of a down comforter. Vaughn had crawled beneath the glowing furnace of Jane, warmed her hands away from the frostbitten chill of her own reality. Now, she was cozy. Now, she was Jane. Why should she ever go back from this? She was getting closer to degreasing Daniel's resolve. He was drinking again, she knew. That alone was another nail in their mutual coffins.

Summer was here, and the sun stayed up long after it had a right to. Dinner bells were ringing in every happy home, but the sky was still dayglow. The horizon was set aflame in a cotton candy swirl of brain matter and tangerine flesh. Jane put out her cigarette on one of the front steps of Bellum and swept through the front doors of the lobby. She exhaled long after making her way across the tiles of the lobby, infiltrating the cool, machine conditioned air with the musk of her own tar and toxicity.

Her dress was a noncommittal shift of bruised plum linen, it fell like a funeral shroud around the subtle carve of thin limbs. 90's culture combat boots ruined the illusion of delicacy, they laced angry and black up the bone white display of her calves as she slithered to the mailboxes.

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nobleblood
2010-07-13 05:32 pm UTC (link)

Vlad knew that the other two men were too new to know who Vaughn was, which meant he was the only one who recognized her for who she was - the woman who had terrorized Boyd, Daniel, and Rosalie; the one so many people hated and who had seemingly disappeared after surrendering Boyd's money. But she hadn't left, had she? All she'd done was return under a completely different identity.

He wasn't afraid of her, but even so he knew that treading carefully would be a wise idea. That was why he shot a warning look at the dark-haired young man who called her evil, a look which clearly said to be quiet. The last thing a newcomer wanted to do was call Vaughn 'evil'. It was wasn't a good idea.

Looking between the two men, he tried to figure out which one had intercepted her disguise - one had bumped into her, which might have explained it if he had some sort of power-stealing ability. Keeping his gaze partially on Vaughn, he turned toward the man who'd voiced his question. "I know her," he said simply. There was nothing more needed... not yet, at least.

	tiger_says_rawr 2010-07-14 12:50 am UTC (link)
	Brilliant suggestion! And if Vlad had no idea what happened, well, Sam wasn't going to tell him since he seemed so eager to dismiss everyone. Oh well! "Sounds like a plan. Nice seeing you all," he said politely. Yeah, what a fantastic interlude. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)