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Alanna Faulman (flighty_munk) wrote in light_of_may,
@ 2010-01-19 22:13:00

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2009-06-30, kiley

A bit surreal
Who: Alanna and Kiley
When: Somewhere around 6:00 p.m.
Where: Starbucks

Alanna was totally going to blame the fact that she had forgotten to study for her exam the next morning on the fact that she had gone out with Aaron. It had distracted her from starting to study when she had meant to... and then she had needed to go and get her iPod replaced because of the ghost and now, well, now it looked like she was going to be up all night trying to get all the information she needed to crammed into her head. Sitting on her couch and staring at her books and notes made it look like a lot more than she was capable of that night. She had forgotten to go shopping again which meant that there was no source of caffeine anywhere...

Starbucks it is! Grabbing the notebook filled with the best notes - she could study when she was there, relax a little in the air conditioning - the redhead sighed and ended up grabbing a few books to shove into her backpack. She might as well take it all just in case she got distracted or way too comfortable. But not her laptop, oh no, that was not coming or she would never get anything done. Satisfied that she was set, Alanna locked her apartment as she left and hopped in her car to drive to Starbucks.

It was not exactly busy inside, thankfully, but it was not empty either and she had to wait behind a few people before she got to the register. Her eyes were on the menu, still trying to decide, when she caught a scent that almost seemed familiar - one of those she had known before she was bitten, so it was blurry if a scent could be called that - but there was something there, a predatory smell, that caused her entire body to tense, eyes darting towards the door automatically. And then they came back to settle on the person behind the counter that unsettling scent was coming from...

"Kiley?" Alanna's eyes were huge from a mixture of scenting a predator and seeing someone she had known in college. "Hey! It's been forever, you sm... seem different." Surely Kiley was not going to jump at her or anything like that, no matter that she smelled like a predator. Like Liza. "Uhh... wow, this is awesome. You doing okay?" Her gloved hands were dancing along beneath the counter top, heart racing uncomfortably fast because no matter what her head said about knowing Kiley her senses were disagreeing.

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flighty_munk
2010-01-30 11:13 pm UTC (link)

Part of Alanna was sure that Jamie came every month out of some sort of moral obligation, which she was fine with because it was her fault, but she had the advantage of knowing it was because she was her friend too. There were advantages to being good friends with your telepathic aunt after all. Even if most people did not really know Felicia was a telepath because, well, people got a little offended when they knew that you were able to rifle through their thoughts so easily. Alanna, of course, was long since used to it and thought it extremely convenient to not even have to talk.

"High school English... yeah good luck with that." Alanna would never be able to handle it, not with how quickly language seemed to be declining. "With all the abbreviations and that because of texting..." She shook her head. Much easier to deal with teeth and all the things that the world's new supply of caffeine and sugar did to them. At least she could fix it. "And I think I could have a knowledge of all of them; though I bet vampires have the teeth most different from humans. I mean, were's teeth don't change." She flashed her own as proof. Still perfect. "Though it'd be nice to see if I was wrong." She sipped at her drink thoughtfully. "Wouldn't it be cool to be a vampire dentist, though? People ask what I am and I tell them that... bet they'd do double-takes all over the place."

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kileyanne
2010-02-01 05:33 am UTC (link)

At the very least, Alanna had someone else there with her for the full moons. Kiley spent hers locked in a cage, Corwin in his own cage not far from hers. There had never been anyone else there, no one else to know her secret. For a year, she'd stuck to that rule. And now there were people who knew - Morgan, Darcy, Alanna. Maybe this really was something she couldn't keep inside, that she needed to get off her chest.

"Well, I'd be the teacher. And I'd like to think I'd be stern enough to hand out a failing grade to a student who gives me a paper with 'lol' or 'brb' written in it." Honestly? Kiley's own texts were completely readable, and she never used shorthand, only a smiley here and there. If they wanted to write like that, they could save it for their personal emails, not schoolwork. "I'd imagine so, yes, what with the fangs and all." Fangs she didn't like thinking about, though she knew her jaws in wolf form would be at least as deadly. Though she hadn't seen Vol's body herself, thank god for closed casket funerals, she knew how her friend had died and what those fangs had been used for. Had she been in Alanna's place, she wasn't sure she could do it. "You'd make a name for yourself, that's for sure," she said instead, "first vampire dentist in Scarlet Oak?"

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flighty_munk
2010-02-03 08:55 pm UTC (link)

"Oh I hope so," Alanna nodded. She could see Kiley doing that, actually hoped to see it happen because kids getting away with that was just crazy. Words existed for a reason and needed to be used when you were actually doing something like writing a paper. One of her professors as an undergrad had given a stern lecture on exactly that subject because someone had thought it would be okay... yeah, that had not been fun for anyone. "And fangs are scary, but... I don't know, they're just scary. I'm totally allowed to think that because my teeth are never anything frightening. What's a chipmunk going to do?" In her animal form the scariest thing she could do was charge through a pile of dead leafs or something.

"Eh, maybe. Someone else could beat me to it." She was not a dentist yet after all, supernatural or otherwise. "I've gotta say, this is so not the conversation I imagined having next time I saw you. Way weird, right?" Kind of like them.

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kileyanne
2010-02-04 01:16 am UTC (link)

Kiley had been an English major all through college, and always had a healthy fascination with words and stories. Though she wasn't so good at writing her own bestseller, she wouldn't let any of her students butcher the language like that. She recalled a speech one of her professors had made, discussing author Tim O'Brien's grammar rant about all they had was "26 letters and a handful of punctuation," and it had always stuck with her.

"I agree, fangs are totally terrifying. And I have, you know, wolf teeth. I'd be scared as well." That was for Kiley's own reasons, just like how she was afraid of hybrid weres. "You never know until it happens right?" She went to take another sip of her drink, only to find the cup empty. Kiley still shook it a little, as if she could force the ice cubes to provide her with more caffeine. "I never expected this either, but it's good - I missed talking to you." So what if the two women were a little left of center? Alanna was a friend, and Kiley missed her friends a lot in the last year. Maybe there was something to that pack mentality wolves had after all.

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flighty_munk
2010-02-04 05:53 am UTC (link)

Until it happened... yeah. That was true for way too many things these days. "That just means we'll have to get together again!" Alanna pointed out happily. It was weird of her to let any of her friends disconnect like had happened with Kiley, but then it had been a hard time with both of them so really, special situation as far as the redhead was concerned. And one that did not need to be repeated because what was the worst that could happen to either of them now? Becoming vampires... ooooh, no, don't think about that one. That's a really bad one to think about.

Her eyes caught a glimpse of the clock as she did her routine check of the surrounding area and the path to the door, and she sighed. "Worst part about summer classes? Studying for exams when you know most everyone else doesn't have to worry about it. I've loved talking with you but I bet you've got to get back to work... and I've get to memorize some nerve-endings." Alanna rolled her eyes and nudged her backpack with her foot. "Best distraction from studying of the summer, that I've got to give you, Kiley." Even if she still felt bad about the fact that her friend had gone through something so similar to what she did. With the addition of a lost family. Yeah, she was definitely going to have to remember that keeping Kiley cheered up was tops of her list when she had the time.

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kileyanne
2010-02-04 05:08 pm UTC (link)

"Agreed. Even if it's just for movie night or something, we are totally getting together." Kiley needed some happy moments in her life, and getting to hang out with a friend she hadn't seen in a while was definitely one of them. This was what she'd hoped for, when she said she was going to go back to living her life, the way she had before she was turned.

She glanced down at her phone, making a face. "And my break's over, too, so I've got to head back to work. But it was great to catch up, even if it wasn't the news either of us expected." Both turned into weres on camping trips, around the same time? Who would have thought? "And you know me, I'm all for distractions. Best of luck with the nerve endings, I guess, and definitely call me, okay?" Grabbing her lunch stuff, Kiley turned to throw her now-empty cup in the trash behind her. "I guess I'll see you around?"

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flighty_munk
2010-02-04 07:33 pm UTC (link)

"Movie night! We are so having a movie night," Alanna seized on the idea, already listing out movies that would be fun to watch. She was going to have to put some actual planning into this... when she did not have to study. No more distractions. Kiley had definitely taken up all slots as the distraction of the day. "And you'll definitely be seeing me around, promise." Alanna held one hand up, doing the Girl Scout thing, before grinning and dropping it back down. "Have fun at work, Kiley!" Alanna made a mental note to scan her planner - or the excuse of one that she tried keeping up and always forgot about after a few days of being good about it - and figure out when would be good for watching movies.

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