Kaileigh "Kai" Gillis (needmorecowbell) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2011-03-14 20:05:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2009-08-12, kai, saoirse |
But don't take it easy on me
Who: Kai and Saoirse
Where: Heme
When: Late evening
Note: Incomplete
Now that Seer never slept - which was still awesome, by the way - that meant Kai could more or less bug her whenever. It would be like the cooler version of college. Way cooler, seeing she was still alive.... er, ish. Was there even a PC term for that? Not that Kai would ask, seeing she was the anti-PC all the way, but all that mattered was that she was going to go see her friend at Heme tonight. And to think the girl had never been there. Probably because it was always crowded or something. But it was a bar, which meant booze, and Seer would be bartending... maybe... hopefully. Let’s just say Kai didn’t exactly call to make a reservation for this meet up.
Entering the place, her eyes just lit up, completely amazed by everything inside. Totally made Twilight look like shit. Shuffling through the people, Kai made her way to the counter and searched for a certain redhead. She had so much to catch up on with her. Drinks would come first obviously, maybe some dancing after, who knew! Kai was game for anything. Not seeing Seer immediately, she placed her bag down and lifted herself up on the counter to lean over and get a better look. “OH MY GOD! SEER!” Kai grinned like an idiot while flailing her arm around to get her attention. Because, you know, the initial squee wasn’t enough.
Kai would have been hard to miss, even without the screaming and ridiculous grin. Though Saoirse still struggled back and forth with this whole ‘human relationships’ thing, she was glad to see the girl. Even if she wasn’t, she wouldn’t have been able to send her away. She still had way too much guilt over letting everybody believe she was dead in the first place. The redheaded vampire strolled Kai’s way, sighing and shaking her head at her old friend. “Nice earrings,” she commented. “Truly tasteless. You look like a tourist.” Saoirse was smirking though, so hopefully Kai still had her immunity to her humor.
Kai immediately gasped. “You noticed!” Only she would be happy over such a pair of earrings. “I thought they would be perfect, you know?” She poked at them with a smile. The most random of things delighted the girl. “Though seriously, you expect anything less from me? At least I’m not wearing my Grumpy Bear shirt.” Plopping down into her seat, she flicked some hair out of her face while bringing her bag back down to the counter top. No need for it to be randomly floating. “So! What’s up?”
Saoirse leaned against the bartop in front of Kai, her bangles jingling merrily as she came to a stop. “Grumpy Bear goes over well with vampires. We’re a very grumpy people. You know, broody, dark, tragic... yelling at you damn humans to get the hell off our lawn,” she replied, flashing a fangy grin. “I’m working, that’s what’s up. You? You drinking?” She figured that was a pretty stupid question, but hey. No good to presume.
Even if she was alive-ish, dead-ish, whatever-ish, at least Seer still had her sense of humor and that was always appreciated. Kai flashed a grin right back, sadly not toting the same badass fangs as her friend was. “Grumpy Bear is totally the vamp amongst the other Care Bears.” That idea amused her way too much. “And fuck yeah drinks!” She threw her arms up, excited about this prospect. “Gimme a Jack and Coke for starters, girl!” Wow, and to think that Seer was always the designated driver back in college and now she was mixing up the drinks.
The irony of the situation wasn’t lost on Seer, either. She hadn’t the faintest idea what the hell she was doing when she first flew back out here, but a couple of books and a bartending class later and she felt like a natural. Maybe it was in her blood. She was Irish. She got Kai’s drink, managing to resist the urge to throw in any Tom Cruise in Cocktail style bottle twirling while she did. Kai was so enthusiastic about everything, it was kind of hard not to play a little. “I’d say drinking on a Wednesday must be a bad sign, but you seem to be in a pretty good mood.”
“I’d think me not drinking is a bad sign,” Kai wiggled her finger in the air before squeeing over said drink and took a big gulp. “DAMN. YOU’RE GOOD.” Someone’s glass down the counter randomly spun out of control due to her excited outburst, but no harm done. It would be bad once the light bulbs started exploding. “Actually, things have been pretty good.” She paused and made a face. “Well... sort of good. It’s a long story.” Her eyes shifted about the place as if to make sure no one was listening in on them or something. “Long story short, I bumped into your ex on Saturday. Like, you know.” She raised her eyebrows. “That one.”
It took Seer a moment to figure out what Kai was talking about, and once it clicked, she waited for the surge of anger. It didn’t come. Okay, sure, there was a slight hint of annoyance just at being reminded of his existence, but... that bitter hurt and anger wasn’t there anymore. Maybe she really had moved on. Seer shrugged. “Yeah, I did too a couple times. He’s dead to me, I don’t care. I didn’t even think to warn you he was in town.”
Wait... Seer knew?! Kai’s jaw nearly dropped. “THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME?! HOLY CRAP, DID YOU WANT ME TO KILL HIM ON SIGHT WHEN- oh, you probably did.” Kai threw her head back to laugh and snort at that one. “Well! If it makes you feel any better, I kicked him in the crotch the second I saw him, so hopefully that’s worth something.” She wasn’t going to tell her friend about his apologies to Seer. Geez, Kai wasn’t the messenger of everybody. If the guy wanted to do it, then go do it to her face, god. Though from the looks of it, he already tried. “So, did you get to kick Graham in the balls, too?”
Seer wasn’t sure if she could put to words her past few meetings with Graham. And really, ethically, she wasn’t sure if she should. There were some things the psychotic little pissant probably just didn’t need to know. Like the fact that one of the many women he was currently fucking had tried to kill her. And that wound still hadn’t entirely closed back up again. She couldn’t help but smirk faintly at the idea of Graham being kicked in the balls. Too bad she hadn’t thought to do that herself. She probably would have popped both of them. She shrugged the question off. “I saw him a couple of times. The last time I told him not to come here anymore.”
Wow, really? That was all she got? A shrug? And to think that Kai got fucking kicked out of her own dorm room for this prick way back in the day. “Oh snap, really? That bad, huh?” Well, no shit, every thing considering, Kai was now surprised that Graham was alive when she saw him, seeing he already bumped into Seer. “I take it that’s going well? The him never coming back here again thing?”
“I was furious with him,” Seer admitted. “But I’ve gone past hate. I don’t think I hate him anymore. I nothing him.” He’d always be her first love, but that part of her life was over. “He hasn’t come back since. Why the hell would he, anyway. There are plenty of other places he can go drink himself stupid. Last I heard he was trading blood for drugs with this vamp bitch I hate, and screwing her and at least one more other girl too. Where’d you run into him?”
“Whaaaaaaaaaaat?” Trading blood for drugs with a vampire? Why that actually surprise Kai was beyond her, but... “Shit, people actually DO THAT?!” Apparently Graham did. The idiot was on a life mission to fuck everything up or something. “Oh! Right. That.” There was another reason to this story, she swore. “So uh... there’s been this guy I’m kind of seeing and I promised him a gig at The Ark because I’m working there and stuff, right? Really cool guy! You’d like him. Has the whole southern gentleman thing going on for him. But uh... yeah, said guy? Total biffles with numbnuts ex of yours over there.” Kai just gave a look like she wanted to beat someone’s head in and then rolled her eyes. “Yeah, that went over well after the show.”
“You’re surprised?” Seer had to ask, trying not to chuckle. She raised an eyebrow at the mention of Kai seeing a guy, partially wondering why she hadn’t heard about this yet, and winced faintly at the idea of him being friends with Graham. Yikes. Well. That was maybe one guy she never needed to meet. “You gonna be able to deal with that?” she asked, leaning further against the bar. After all, Kai had never liked him. Even before he broke Seer’s heart and she made the room-mate help her burn the bed.
“I’m only surprised that someone somehow broke the what-the-everliving-fuck-o-meter. Really now!” Graham Donovan was the fucking president of that club and probably the only member for all she knew. “But... I don’t know.” Kai heaved out a massive sigh. “I mean, he’s really cute and nice to me and plays guitar and stuff... I don’t know! I haven’t had a guy stick around me beyond a party. This is all new and foreign to me! I mean, it’s not like he blabs on and on about his friend all day, you know? I had known the guy for a good two or three weeks before this whole awkward turtle meeting happened. I just... think it’s kind of lame to dump someone because of who their friends are... even if they suck. OH MY GOD, I DON’T KNOW!” That said, Kai chugged her entire drink down and fluttered her eyes. Wow, ok, that was strong. Looking over to Seer, she just extended the glass out and smiled. “Uno mas?”
Seer knew, despite ‘nothing’ing the douche who should not be named, she was bound to be biased as far as this whole potential clusterfuck went. “As long as he’s nothing like his friend. That’s the last thing you need. And at the first sign that they might share more than just musical tastes I want you to kick him in the balls to be safe.” She refilled Kai’s drink, smirking faintly as she did. “Oh. Hey. I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but I think I know why you may have immediately hated the Twathop.” She paused, smirked a little more, and went on. “Fire elemental. Full-on socially retarded fire elemental.”
She expected Seer to be a bit one-sided with anything pertaining to said douchebag, but she appreciated her logic, seeing that was totally not Kai’s thing. “Oh, trust me, he’s nothing like his friend. Shit, dude, I can’t even figure out why they’re friends aside from the musical link. And I’ll do way more than kick him in the balls.” Rigby had much to fear if he ever made Kai upset. And thank god Kai didn’t even touch her glass when the redhead passed it her way, because it immediately shattered and booze was spilled everywhere. Kai couldn’t control her powers and she would apologize in a second, but right then her left eye could not stop twitching. “HE’S. A. WHAT.” There was one thing Kai Gillis couldn’t tolerate and that was fire elementals. The whole lot of them were, yes, socially retarded. And that was putting it lightly. “Oh my GOD, that fucking explains EVERYTHING! I KNEW I hated him for a reason! God damn fucking fire elementals and their fucking fire and fucking arrogance and fucking tempers and... FUCK.” Kai wasn’t pissed at all, what were you talking about?
It was times like this when Seer’s vampire perks really came in handy. The second she saw the glass even begin to crack she was in action, moving faster than the human eye could see. She used her bare arm to sweep the shards of glass into a trash bin, and immediately dropped that and hit the counter with a rag. “Jesus, Kai!” She was just gonna... maybe not tell Gray about this one. At least a few weeks had passed before someone from her past had come in and caused a scene. New record, right? And then she had to laugh. “Oh yeah, their tempers. You’ve really got room to talk there.”
Finally snapping back to reality, Kai clamped a hand over her mouth as a hint of sadness swirled in her eyes. “Oh my god, I’m so sorry,” she spoke after dropping her hand. “That’s so my bad, I’ll pay for that one.... and another. I promise not to make it go ‘splody this time.” She gave Seer a shy smile while tapping her fingertips together before laughing along with her. Anyone else would have set her off with a comment like that, but she knew when Seer was joking around. “Hey you! I should get some credit for actually surviving my crazy ass family! Besides, don’t you have crazy fire elementals in your family, too?”
Seer smiled softly and shook her head. “It’s okay. Everybody gets one,” she teased, as she finished wiping up the mess. A nearby patron was staring like that was the coolest thing he’d ever seen, and Seer waved her fingers at him in the ‘run along’ motion. He quickly averted his gaze. “I have Neil,” she replied. “Neil’s not so bad. I mean, he’s crazier than fuck, but he means well. I couldn’t say that about Twathop.”
Kai snorted at the idea that Graham got upgraded to Twathop. “I don’t think anyone who suddenly gets the nickname ‘Twathop’ means well ever.” She giggled a bit before propping her chin up on her hand. “So I take it all is well in the Land o’ Seer? Surviving the demon apocalypse and serving drinks and stuff? All in a days work, right?” Something like that. It had been a few days since she shot her friend a text, so not that much could have happened, right?
Seer had to giggle in return. “All I know is if he was twathopping when he was with me I give you full permission to kill him.” If she didn’t do it herself. She nodded at the question though. “All’s well. I mean, I kind of had a slight run-in with one of the things, but it worked out okay. One of the bouncers gave me blood.” She made a face. “It made me a vampire telepath for a day or so. That sucked. Land o’ Kai?”
“A slight run in with a demon?” Seer made it sound like that is was no big, like she pulled an Indiana Jones and whipped out a gun and one-shot it after it flailed around like a moron. “I still need revenge on a demon that cut my power and thus shorted me on my supply of 80s cartoons.” Because no one fucked with Kai in that department. “Aside from that, same old same old. Living under my friend’s bed and getting pumped about classes starting again soon.” She flashed a smile that went away after a second. “And... wait, telepathy? Was the bouncer a telepath?” Shit, how did that work?!
Seer laughed. She had her throat slit. Kai had her cartoons interrupted. Truly, they knew no limit. At the question, she shook her head and gave Kai a ‘to be talked about later’ sort of look. She was not about to out Nic, and especially not at his place of work. “Some bloods just do different things is all. Yours would probably make me high as a kite.” She wrinkled her nose up. “I am not one for the psychic blood. I guess that’s not surprising.”
Ahhhhh, one of those things. Kai totally respected that. At least it would make for juicy gossip later. “Really? So does that make me like, a walking, talking joint to some of you guys?” She probably shouldn’t have asked that out loud, but it was Kai. Thinking usually didn’t happen half the time. Didn’t help there was booze in her system either. At least she wasn’t dancing and stripping on the counter tops. “I give you props for drinking blood either way. I think I’d go crazy if I couldn’t have my booze.”
“A little,” Seer answered, laughing softly again. “Or a bad acid trip. You never really know.” Not that she’d experimented with it that much. The one time she’d hit the stuff hard, she’d ended up in one of Graham’s dreams. Yeah, never again. She was kind of wondering if maybe she shouldn’t have brought up the blood, though. Kai meant well, but it still made Seer feel a little sad. She remembered the first time she’d had to feed and how much she’d hated it. At the same time, she thought Kai sounded a little like Gray - missing a good drink - and that made her smile. Shit, I’m hopeless. “Well, I don’t miss that at least.”
Kai wasn’t sure if she wanted to be like pot or acid and was tempted to ask Seer to try and see for herself, but right, she just said she didn’t like the psychic blood. That and Kai wasn’t exactly keen on getting bitten by some random vamp. “You still have everything else going for you! I mean, college classes, you got a pretty damn kick ass job here, and you have me!” Kai bounced in her seat at the idea. “I might get old and prune-y at some point, but there’s no getting rid of me!” She was just happy that Seer wasn’t killed... like for reals killed.
Therein lied the problem for Seer. Kai was going to get old. Kai was going to die. Assuming Seer managed to stop getting herself into dangerous situations, she wasn’t. She was going to outlive Kai, and Kai’s children, and their children... shit, she hated thinking about this. She just managed to force a smile and nod. “I do,” she confirmed. “And I’m glad.” Scared shitless, but grateful all the same.
Kai didn’t really think of it like that, but then again, in Kai’s mind she would always stay mentally young and had no issues living in the now. Dwelling on the future wasn’t something she liked to do, seeing that brought even more worries to her. “Speaking of college classes,” Kai wiggled in her seat in anticipation, “you taking anything bad ass? Maybe we’ll have something together. Can scout out hot music guys for you, too!” Kai wiggled her eyebrows with a devilish grin. “How was that saying going again? Drummers do it harder, guitarists finger faster, bassists do it deeper, and frontmen do it louder?” Only Kai would deem something like that as a saying.
Seer couldn’t resist the epic vampire +10 facepalm on that one. Yeah, Kai hadn’t changed. At all. “And how is your guitarist’s fingering? Are you already familiar with his technique?” Hey, Kai started it. She rolled her eyes and stood up straighter, having to take a moment to fill another drink order. It bought her time to think, anyway. “Well, auditions for the symphony and philharmonic orchestras both start on the first of September, and I’ll definitely be going for that. I was thinking I’d see if I could better my chances and try out for the symphony orchestra with both the violin and the harp. As for hot music guys... well... I’m just not really looking right now.”
“Dude,” Kai leaned in with a shit eating grin on her face, “A fucking plus!” Probably way too much information, but when did that ever stop Kai? She sat and listened to her friend talk about the auditions, also eager for the same thing. Hell, Kai was willing to do just about anything as long as she could bang away on some drums. Didn’t matter if it was a rock band or orchestra. “Oooo, dude, that would be sweet. Harp seems like one of those old school instruments, you know? Not too many people do it and are good at it.” Seer rocked pretty much anything she touched and Kai would be there to be her cheerleader and flail pompoms. But forget auditions, because now they were on the topic of guys and if Kai’s head could tilt to the side like an owl, she would have been all over it. “What?! No hot guys?! Oh my god, dude, do you at least need me to hook you up with a starter pack from Wonderland? Because I totally will.”
Of course. Of course Kai already knew that. And the last time Seer had gotten any had been Graham. No wonder I’m such a broody mother-effer, she thought. And as Kai went on, Seer had to wish she hadn’t used up her epic facepalm of the day. She noticed a vampire at the end of the bar looking very amused, and she shot him a nasty look. He quickly looked the other way, and Seer returned her attention to Kai. “No, I do not, but I don’t doubt how fast you’d get on such a task,” she replied. “I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself as far as... that... goes.”
“Are you kidding me? I’d be on that shit like white on rice!” There were just some things a dildo could do that a guy’s dick couldn’t, just like how girls didn’t have beer-flavored nipples. Kai tried, it didn’t work. Either way, she snorted to herself in amusement. “I’m sorry, but you need to get laid. I don’t mean to keep bringing Twathop up, but wouldn’t it be nice to know the last dude you did it with wasn’t him?” She raised her eyebrows and sat back. “Tell me I’m wrong. I’ll wait!”
Saoirse was so very glad she no longer possessed the capability to blush. Dammit, Kai, she thought, glaring briefly at a man she suspected of eavesdropping. That was all she needed, for vampires of her house to overhear this and give her a good ribbing later. “Keep your voice down, will ‘ya? I’d like to keep my personal life personal. It’ll happen. Eventually.” And she was trying not to think of Gray when she said that. Trying and failing. Whoops.
Kai promptly slapped one hand over her mouth in hopes to shut herself up, then raised the other in defeat. She had to remember that not everyone was as batshit crazy as she was in every department known to mankind. Finally dropped her hand from her mouth, she mouthed ‘Sorry!’ to Seer and then leaned back into the bar. “You know I’m just looking out for you. I’ve missed you! And if it means I need to choke a bitch or go crazy on the buy one get one sales at Wonderland, you know I’m a shoe in.”