Skylar James Bale (socialiterocker) wrote in btvsal, @ 2010-03-06 14:53:00 |
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Current location: | Avarice |
Current mood: | amused |
Entry tags: | brayden bale, place: la, skylar james-bale |
He'll Never Think of Hot Chicks the Same Way
Who: Brayden and Skylar
Where: Avarice
When: Friday Night, 3/5
Displaced in time? Not necessarily in his own reality? Right now... Brayden Bale didn't give a DAMN. He was hanging in Avarice, listening to awesome music, watching hot chicks dance and flirting with most of them. Now, as Ministry's "Golden Dawn" played, he turned his attention to the dance floor, where... holy... he caught the gyrating form of one particular hottie... granted, he was just seeing her from the back, but, with a rockin' body like that? Combined with the multi-colored hair? Jackpot. Wearing black, practically skintight jeans and a loose tee with his band's logo on the front, he walked up behind her, talking just loud enough for her to hear him. "Hey gorgeous... wanna dance?"
Skylar was enjoying a night to herself while Ben was doing some club business. They were only going to be here for a few hours, then she would be going home to her daughter while starting to also prepare for the imminent arrival of her other child, seemingly a son. She was fine with that. Someone had to carry on the Bale name, after all. When someone asked her to dance, she turned, smiling, very ready to basically tell him that thanks, but not interested, but immediately got that kick in the head that screamed at her just like it had been with Ami and Bella. Well, she did know that he was around, after all.
OH GOD! The moment she turned around, Brayden paled. Like, as if he had horrid food poisoning. "Oh blessed JESUS!" he screamed, almost girl-like, and RAN to the bathroom, dry-heaving. After a few moments, he walked back out, eyes bugged out, looking as if he'd seen a ghost, before his eyes locked with Skylar's again, filled with horror and shame.
Once she realized that it was her future son had been the one to ask her to dance, she just started laughing. Might as well warp your children early, it seemed. "So...that offer for a dance not open anymore?" she asked with a grin.
"Oh lord.... I'm never going to be able to have sex again." As he was saying it, a gorgeous little redhead in a miniskirt walked past him. "...or at least for another fifteen minutes."
She laughed. Yep, definitely Ben's son. "Why don't we get a drink and talk then? I'm curious to talk to a child that actually likes me for a change and doesn't curse my name." She couldn't help it. She'd like a slightly less biased opinion from one of her children, after all. "Well, you can have a drink. I can't."
"Dude... you don't care if I drink? And you know who I am. Damn... I *knew* my 'rents were always bad-ass. Just KNEW it." He grinned, trying to forget the fact that mere moments earlier he'd been unintentionally checkin' out his own MOTHER. "And why can't you drink? Didn't seem to mind much where I'm from..." of course, the drinking she did then seemed to come more from a place of depression over Bella, but that was another story.
"That's slightly disconcerting," she mentioned, but brushed it aside. It apparently wasn't HER future, anyway. Still, he was a part of her future. She could feel it. "I'm pregnant. I just had it confirmed with the doctor, so no drinks for me. And no, I don't care that you drink. I'm sure that you do it anyway, so why not be able to keep an eye on you while you do it?"
The little redhead seemed to be eying him up, so... he continued talking to Skylar, but damn if his eyes weren't exactly on HER anymore. "Well... it's good to see you again, anyway. Wasn't sure how to approach you, ya know? Kim just went and practically tackled Uncle Brandon, but that's not really my style."
"I heard about her," Skylar said with a grin, sitting down at one of the VIP tables after walking over to it with Brayden. "While approaching me for a dance isn't exactly the best way to do it, well, at least the ice has been broken now."
"Oh god..." He felt almost sick again. "I didn't know it was you!" Well. She was certainly a lot more playful at this age, he had to say that... "So... how's the trim at Dad's other club?" Sadly? In his time? He actually talked to his mother like this.
She giggled. "It's pretty good, actually. Have you been there yet?" Probably not. Ben was there far more often, so Brayden would have been spotted by now if he had. He was a dead ringer for a Bale, after all.
"God, I gotta see if I can score with any of them. I'm 8 for 10 with the girls at the one back home..." Good lord. He really had no filter for that mouth.
"Do you always talk to me like this?" Skylar questioned, more out of curiosity than disgust or anything like that. She just sort of wondered.
"Well... yeah. We pretty much tell each other everything." And then? Not because he was being sweet, but just because he really held NOTHING back, ever, "I mean, you're pretty much my hero. You and Dad are the best."
"I am?" Now that was something different to hear from what she was more used to. "Do you have any siblings?" she asked him. Hopefully they were just from her and Ben and not any illegitimate children from Ben's past that had popped up, but, well, she couldn't really say anything if they did, you know.
"Yeah... one. Brandie. She's a good kid. In other words, WAY different from me." Another shot of brutal honesty there... "Oddly enough though, none of that may matter here..."
"No, I think I'm pregnant with you. Just a feeling I have, sure, but I think it's correct," she said to Brayden with a smile. "Besides, Bella is here. Well, baby Bella, anyway. Maybe I can do better by her here."
"Oh, enough with that noise." He scoffed, rolling his eyes in that vaguely Ben-like manner. "You did FINE by Bella. I don't know what the hell happened to her memory when she popped up here, but you were GREAT to her. Well, until the whole vampire thing. But that wasn't your fault."
That made her face drop. "What vampire thing?" She didn't know what happened in the future, after all. "Is this about the vampire she was...is dating? I'm not worried about that. As far as vampires go, she could do a lot worse."
"Long story. Probably won't happen here anyway. But became a vampire, tried to go back in time to kill herself as a baby, blah blah blah." Sensitive!Brayden was obviously quite similar to Ben, pre-Skylar. "She fucked you up pretty bad, you dusted her, the end. Then she came BACK to our time, fully human, not remembering shit, and saying you and Ben were all awful and shit. Hell with that shit. You're both GREAT parents. Seriously."
Skylar let out a shaky breath. "Well, she came back here right before I broke up with Gwen, so it was really a bad time to see me." Then again, if she had stayed with Gwen, she may have eventually thrown herself from a window. Not the greatest thing in the world, but she was unhappy and Gwen didn't deserve to have someone unhappy with her, after all. "I'm glad to hear that I'm actually a good parent. I sort of wondered about that, considering."
"Don't get me wrong, I mean... Pat and Patience were great to her too. And I guess 'she' was too." He sneered a bit, obviously NOT a fan of Gwen. "But I guess what I'm saying is.... Bella's full of SHIT if she thinks you guys were bad parents."
"Well, I can't help but feel a little relieved when you say that." Might have been a selfish thing to do. "Even if I do hear that my oldest daughter was turned into a vampire and I had to take her down." Not great at all, actually, to have to hear that.
"I love Bells, but... she's a goddamn Diva and a half. Has been since she started getting all famous. Little pop queen and all." He rolled his eyes, looking more like Ben with every action.
"Oh, so she's a pop singer?" That was almost as disconcerting as hearing that she became a vampire and tried to destroy herself in the past.
"Yeah. Fitting, really. But enough about her. Let's talk about better, more important things." Then? That prototypical Bale grin. "Like me."
"Now how did I see that coming?" Skylar asked with a smirk. "Fine then. Let's talk about you. What do you do in your time, other than bag every pretty girl you see?"
"Well admittedly, that takes up a LOT of my time..." He mumbled, "but otherwise? I'm a senior in high school, and I'm in a band."
"You're in a band?" What child of Skylar wouldn't have some sort of musical ability? "What do you play, your band?"
"You're in a band?" What child of Skylar wouldn't have some sort of musical ability? "What do you play, your band?"
"Who else is in there with you?" She had caught him saying the world 'we' of course.
"Only one you'd have heard of is Karissa Van Warren. Hot, more annoying than a Jerry Lewis film festival, but a helluva drummer." Wasn't he sweet?
"So, that would be Kevin and Buffy's kid, right?" Yeah, she had heard that from Chloe. That was an interesting conversation. "Why so annoying?"
"Jesus. She's JUST LIKE CHLOE. Plus she's friggin' smitten with me. I swear, bang a chick one damn time and she gets all clingy and wants to date you and shit." He shrugged, like he honestly didn't get it. "Still, I gotta say... I think she's a better drummer than even Chloe."
"Well, it's impressive to hear that she might be a better drummer than even Chloe," Skylar said after a minute. "If commitment isn't what you are looking for, then you have to be careful about who you sleep with."
"Yeah. From now on, I need to avoid one night stands with people I know." Ah, yes. Because THAT was the lesson he was getting from this.
Skylar sighed. "Better than not learning anything at all."
"Waitaminute..." Come on. He was gonna think of this EVENTUALLY. "Mom. Seriously. Chloe. She's like... barely older than me here. And I've seen what she looked like at 19."
"Yeah, she's still very young, and very much in love with another woman, so if you go there, you'll deeply regret it," Skylar pointed out to him. "Besides, you now have nothing that she wants."
Bray just stared for a minute, before giving a little bit of a wince. "Ok. First? I should probably just stay away from anyone you're friends with. And second? I think I need to stop talking sex with you. I'm starting to creep myself WAY out here."
"That's probably for the best, on both counts," Skylar pointed out to him. She wasn't as weirded out as he was, but she could totally understand his weirding out.
"Right. So! You, um... you guys even got your first album out yet here? I'm guessing not, but hey. Also? High School sucks when you can't lord it over everyone that you're the son of Ben and Skylar Bale. Seriously." Come on... like he didn't flash that at EVERYONE back in his school?
"I bet it does suck that you can't show off to everyone who your parents are," Skylar said with an indulgent smile. "We're working on the album, though. So, it's not out yet."
"At least I can say I'm a Bale. That still holds currency here. Just not AS much, you know? And seriously. Just in case things start to differ more here? Trust me. Like you did in my world, drop the James when you get married. Hyphenates are lame. Embrace the bad-ass that is the family." Oh, yeah. Just what Skylar needed. Advice on coolness from her UNBORN CHILD.
"Being a Bale is worth a lot," Skylar said to him. "And I never planned on keeping James as a name, so don't worry about that." She liked her family name, but she was just traditional in that aspect."
"Hey. Just making sure. Cuz I've seen the old articles and such, when you were 'James-Morrison'..." Oh, did he look like he just drank sour milk when he said that one. "No offense, but Dad deserves better than what you gave that chick."
"Ben does deserve better, in so many ways," Skylar agreed. Then again, Gwen deserved to get better. Everyone deserved good right now, after all.