Light of May ::: an original roleplay

Who: Mason and Jameson.
Where: The police station; the break room.
When: Mid-afternoon.

( It wasn’t often they caught sight of an undercover cop in here. )

Who: Liam and MacKenna
When: After school
Where: Streets of Scarlet Oak

( Hold up a second, now I got something on my dirty mind )

Who: Cheyenne and Sammy
Where: The guidance counselor's office
When: Shortly before school lets out, after this.

( Sammy wasn’t above begging not to be expelled. )

Who: Rupert and Daphne
When: Late afternoon
Where: UofM Library

( Whether we like it or not )

Who: Aiden, his familiar Lee (NPCd) and Carter
Where: Anywhere But Here
When: Late evening/early night

Ever since the bridge bombing things had not been going too well for Aiden. The whole disaster had set James on edge and triggered a whole bunch of traumas Aiden couldn't even begin to be able to help with, which had put him and their relationship in a very bad place. Unable to help her, and with her faithful little lapdog Patrick showing his firm dislike of their relationship whenever he could, Aiden had been going back to his old drinking ways, when since he had found James and gone to live with her this had not happened.

Tonight he was miserable, had been drinking cheap tequila on the sly behind the counter, despite his familiar Lee showing his distinct disapproval all the way from the back room where he was lying down in a makeshift dog bed. Then again it wasn't like this kind of job required you to be too sober, he reckoned. And it wasn't like anything too bad could happen here; Aiden had seen his fair share of bar fights, which meant that another one wouldn't even make him bat an eye. Aiden just went about his job, exchanging the occasional bout of telepathic chatting with his familiar as he went.

Who: Carter and Halne.
Where: A gas station just outside town.
When: Late evening.

( Control was important, that was one of the first lessons Bennett children learned when they were set on the path towards becoming hunters and it was one Carter had taken to heart early on and never forgotten, not even for a moment. )

Who: Moira and Gabby, with Urist (NPC'd)
Where: in the woods near the river
When: afternoon, after classes

( And now I'm lost in paradise )

Who: Liliya & Mercy
Where: Liliya's office
When: Morning

( Announcing yourself was for the ladies and Mercy had never once been accused of being one of those. )

Who: Drina and Leland
Where: just outside the Golden Dragon
When: early afternoon

( It was silly, and a little obsessive, but there it was. Logic and Leland rarely ran down the street holding hands. )

Who: Sam.
Where: The Summers home; Sam’s room.
When: Late morning.

( Sam had never had a room this big to himself before. )

Who: Castel and Keira, featuring Noctis (NPC).
Where: The park.
When: Early afternoon.

( He actually liked snow. Not for the same reasons that children and other innocents enjoyed it, but there was something pure and powerful and unapologetic about it that he couldn’t help but appreciate. )

Who: Jo and Lotti
Where: The Summers residence
When: Late afternoon

Today had been a pretty full day for Jo, what with class and voluntary work afterwards. When she arrived home she was dragging her feet, and while her mother insisted everyone put their things away as soon as they got home to avoid clutter this time Jo just threw her messenger bag on the couch and threw herself on it right after. Immediately her stomach started grumbling violently and Jo decided to put off the passing out on the couch for a few minutes to raid the kitchen. Coming back to the living room Jo was carrying the biggest sandwich she could possibly eat without dislodging her jaw, and a glass of orange juice. Setting the food on the coffee table Jo pulled off her boots and turned the television on to watch a rerun of some sitcom.

It was then that Jo found it strange that she hadn't found anybody between the living room and the kitchen. "Helloooo?" She called, mouth full of food. "Anybody home?"

WHO: Ronnie and Savvy
WHERE: Starbucks
WHEN: Early Morning -- Around 6:30 AM

( When Ronnie pulled into the Starbucks' parking lot at six twenty-eight that morning, there were two, technically three things at the forefront of her mind. )

Who: Cole and Sammy
When: Afternoon
Where: SOHS

( I look ridiculous... )

Who: Harper and Kahlan
When: Afternoon
Where: Sherry's Bakery

( You think you can just walk into a place and convince them to give you a job? )

WHO | Cheyenne & Darkliss
WHERE | Cheyenne's office
WHEN | Morning

( She was safe here... right? )

WHO: Darklis & Micah
WHERE: A hallway, SOHS
WHEN: After school

As the bell rang signalling the end of the school day, Micah breathed out a long sigh of relief as he slammed his book closed and filed out with the rest of the students. Of course, there was no real breath involved in that entire motion, but it was a habit that he had yet to break. First of all, school sleepover was finally over and Micah was grateful. He'd planned on not even participating - there were kids who didn't - but his mom (who was still in some form of careful denial) looked at him like he was going to break her heart if he went to school in jeans. So he'd gone in a decent pair of - what else? - grey pajamas, though he'd thrown on a hoodie and skullcap on. The cold didn't bother him but he always dressed for the winter (even in the summer) so it wasn't a stretch to add the scarf on. As he switched out his book for the rest of his clothes and his backpack, his mouth twitched as the flower bouquet his mother had painstakingly arranged from the garden came into view. In a moment of weakness, he'd tried to get his mother's mind off the fact that he was dead and started going on about homecoming and how he'd been nominated for king and pretended he was excited about it. The question of 'who are you going with' popped up and Micah ad libbed. He couldn't tell her the exact truth. That entire thing was preposterous and he didn't want his mother to keep asking him about her so he'd come up with the next best thing: blah blah blah there's another vampire at school. And then his mother - who perhaps had been reading the Twilight novels or something - created some sort of sick romance in her mind. And asked him what he liked about her (he said something about her hair) and then made him a bouquet. To ask her to homecoming with. ('How could anyone say no to you?') Easy.

( You leave me numb and I'm not sure why. )

Who: Jackson and Lida.
Where: Lida’s house and the surrounding area.
When: Late evening.

( Moving furniture and cleaning up what was left of the vampire’s mess was all well and good but it didn’t satisfy a need he felt deep down inside. A need for something not unlike vengeance, or at least for some sort of justice. )

Who: Angelica & Derrick
Where: Ad Gustum
When: Night

( Some vampires had the funniest kinks. )

Who: Elsie and Zach
When: Early morning
Where: Outskirts of Scarlet Oak
What: Running, other stuff?

( It had been a few weeks... )