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Tweak says, "It stinks!"

Gin Weasley (chasing_gin) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-08-08 21:28:00

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ayla, cassie ainsworth, clark kent, complete, daisuke jigen, day 10, elminster aumar, faith lehane, gabrielle, ginny weasley, giselle, haruka tenoh, hurricane party, kadaj, katara, legolas greenleaf, max evans, michiru kaioh, rogue darkholme, rose tyler, sailor neptune, sailor uranus, scott evil, seeley booth, sonya blade, susan pevensie, temperance brennan, the doctor, xena

Hurricane Party!
Who: Ginny and the other residents of the resort
What: Hurricane Party!
When: Day 10, around 7 PM.
Where: The White Sands Resort Bar and Club
Rating: PG? I don't know what crazy shenanigans are going to occur.
Status: In progress.

Ginny hated being stuck indoors.

She almost literally been trying to climb the walls in her frustration when she'd decided to throw a hurricane party. She hadn't met many of the residents, and figured if there was anyone else as irritated at being stuck inside then they'd appreciate the change of scenery. It'd also give people a chance to mingle and meet. She wondered if there were others from her world here besides Tonks.

The planet had been most accomodating to her ideas. The club was currently themed for a luau, and small lanterns shed a soft glow over numerous smaller groupings of tables as well as over the dance floor and bar. She hadn't been sure what the other residents might eat, so she'd asked for a large selection of snacks. The bar was well-stocked as well. She didn't recognize all of the things stocked, but she did notice a bottle of Firewhiskey and what appeared to be butterbeer.

Now all this party needed was people. Maybe she'd get to see Max again.

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poeticmisery
2008-08-11 11:00 pm UTC (link)

Had Pete been around to see this, Clark was sure that he would have gotten no end of ribbing for this whole thing, especially the way that he blundered around like a moron around the hot babe in front of him. Not that he would forget Lana so quickly, but he was a teenager, he had hormones, and looking at Faith's body really, REALLY... made him want to shoot heat vision. Unfortunately, with the level of skill that he was demonstrating so far, he had about as much chance at scoring with faith as he did of giving Jor-El a big hug, but to the Smallville Farm Boy that sort of thing was the furthest thing from his mind right now. Well, not the furthest... okay, it was sort of there if he actually stared at her bare stomach for too long, the way her hips hugged her jeans.

Clark noted that she was downing a beer, and rather quickly at that. He was going to say something, but he held his tongue. Goodness knew he already looked like a big enough goody goody as it was. Despite being brought up 'right', like any other kid he wanted to have a good time, wanted to be popular. In his quiet moments the deepest part of him wanted a simple life with a wife and kids, but right now, with Faith standing in front of him, a little excitement seemed like it was going to go a hell of a long way. He did have to check himself to make sure that he wasn't on Red-K, but as he thought on it he felt the appropriate amount of guilt over the whole situation...

That and, he still was acting like a fool. Clark had taken the last sip of his soda when Faith had so bluntly asked if he was trying to pick her up, which caused him to nearly spray it, his eyes widening slightly as he choked on his drink a little, not thinking to move as the young huntress grabbed and tugged at him. It'd feel something like trying to move a pillar at first, and the suit did little to soften the rock hard muscles of his arms beneath the fabric. That was twice in the past few days he'd been caught off guard, and for a moment Clark was afraid that the woman in front of him would catch on that something was wrong, especially when she gave him another appraising look.

But then she was tugging him, and Clark had just enough time to set his empty can on a table before he let himself be pulled along with her to the dance floor. There really wasn't much stopping it at this point, as he'd feared, Faith wasn't one to take no for an answer. Hopefully she was just interested in hanging out with him, or else things would likely get awkward towards the end of the evening, but Clark tried not to think about that. He tried not to think about the fact that Lois was likely going to come in any minute, see him with another girl and give him an earful about Lana and betrayal.

"uhhhh, I'm really not much of a dancer..." Clark tried to protest as Faith continued to drag him along, his blue eyes staring out towards Katara lightly as if she could somehow help him, but she seemed to still be talking with the white haired kid... Inwardly he prayed that the band didn't decide to play something sultry or slow, he got the feeling Faith would be more than happy dancing way too close for comfort.

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dark_slayer
2008-08-12 01:18 am UTC (link)

It didn't take her very long at all to gulp down the rest of the beer, and she set it negligantly on a table as she dragged him towards the dance floor. He was large, larger than she thought, but part of being a Slayer was super strength. Otherwise, she doubted she could have moved him far. He was only semi-willing, after all, and much larger than her. And much more muscular than she would have assumed, given his dress and way of carrying himself.

"Whatever... just let the music move you..."

The song was a fast-paced one, which suited the young woman just fine. She could enjoy a good slow dance as an excuse to grope and make out with someone, but really moving her body was what it was all about. She didn't recognize the music at all, but it had a good beat, as they say, and she could dance to it. She put her hands on his shoulders as she swayed to the music, encouraging him to open up and let go.

"This is supposed to be fun... stop acting like I'm torturing you! So... wanna tell me why you're hiding that body of yours? I think there's something here that doesn't quite add up..."

She was, after all, a Slayer, and people who hid stuff like his body were usually demons or vampires, or something else of the sort. Certainly something to be cautious about, and years of Slayer training don't go away overnight. Sure, some people said that business and pleasure shouldn't mix, but to her, her calling was a pleasure. And she very much wanted to know what the story was of this young man with the manner of a slightly shy, awkward teenager, but the muscled, strong body of a God. Or demon, which was what concerned her more.

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poeticmisery
2008-08-12 01:58 am UTC (link)

Clark found himself surprised at how hard she was gripping him. It wasn't exactly normal, or maybe she was just really forceful with it. But with Faith it seemed like it was hard to actually keep track of one moment to the next. He tried to open his mouth to say something about the fact that she'd just downed a beer in the span of a couple of minutes and looked... well, his age, but then they were on the dance floor, and she was moving rather well, he had to admit. Part of it made him feel a little self conscious. After all, she seemed not to mind that she could very well be the center of attention, but Clark was usually not in the spotlight for very long. Outside of wanting to do it in sports, it really made him feel uncomfortable, probably because where he came from, he had the world's biggest secret to hide. He wondered if Faith came from a place where she wouldn't even bat an eyelash at it.

"Alright..." he said as she told him to go along with the movement. It was... not awful, but it was clear that Clark was not a dancer beyond being lightly casual. He seemed more the type who would be good swing dancing or dancing to an oldy than he was just moving his body along with faster paced music, but, he was at least trying, even if he was failing in a completely cute and geeky way. He was good enough not to step on her feet the whole time he was doing it, at the very least, which was probably more than she could say for some guys.

As her hands went to his shoulders, he lightly placed his hands on her hips, but it was so faint that it was obvious he was a little afraid of touching her. Well, that and he wasn't exactly used to it, a cute girl being interested in him. For a brief moment he was afraid that for whatever reason she might be out to kill him... usually girls that were hot and fascinated with him turned out to have some obsession with killing him, but he blotted the thought out of his mind. He was going to have fun even if it killed him tonight... or at least try.

Slowly she felt him relaxing into her arms and a light smile touched at the corners of his mouth as he started to get into it, blushing a little as she told him he acted like she was torturing him, looking away, not really sure what to say that. But her next words made him stiffen slowly, his muscles tightening lightly beneath her fingers, so much so that it would be impossible for her to ignore. "What?" He said, and he stared at her with eyes that held such innocence that it seemed impossible that he could be a demon in any stretch of the imagination.

In reality while his strength was still developing, someday he'd have enough power to lift cities with his might, and many would regard him as a god, or at the very least a godling. At the moment though he was just a silly country farm boy in the arms of a girl who had more experience than 10 of him combined. Still, he tried to play it off like nothing happened, his eyebrows raising slightly. He was a rather good actor when he put his mind to it... if he hadn't been his secret would have been revealed a long time ago, especially with Chloe sniffing at it.

"I usually try not to get naked in the middle of a party..." he said with a wry smile, as if she'd been asking him to take off his clothes. "Tends to freak people out..."

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dark_slayer
2008-08-12 01:48 pm UTC (link)

Faith was never one to worry about if people were paying attention to her. Actually, she rather liked it, and if it happened, so much the better. But this wasn't all about fun anymore, because she had a mystery to solve. What was his story? Somehow, she didn't think that he would be really eager to tell her. He had a secretive sort of attitude, but oddly enough, it didn't seem to be in a really malicious way.

His misdirection was partially effective, though. She was still curious, but didn't think he was necessarily dangerous. Still, you never could tell, and she would have died a long time ago if she wasn't as cautious as she was. She had nothing on Buffy, of course, who was much more tenacious than she herself was. Buffy probably would have had it out of him in two seconds, or beaten the hell out of him until he told her what was going on.

Faith, however, was a different creature. So, essentially, she dropped it. Though she would keep her eye on this man, of course, and be ready in case he ever became dangerous. Other than that, well, she might be curious but if he wasn't a threat, she didn't actually care all that much.

"Yeah? Too bad... with a bod like yours, you'd be fighting the chicks off with a baseball bat... not that you'd need one with arms like there."

Seductively, she ran her small hands along his muscular arms, before smiling at him and continuing to dance. When she felt the touch on her hips, she laughed at how light it was.

"I'm not going to break, you know... you're going to have to try harder than that..."

The dark-haired Slayer moved her own hands down to rest on his, and firmly redirected them so they were resting in the small of her back. They were much closer now, although their bodies were still a few inches apart.

"Much better!"

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poeticmisery
2008-08-12 06:57 pm UTC (link)

If Faith was trying to solve a mystery, she was going to have to try quite a bit harder than she was doing. After all, Clark Kent was the self proclaimed 'Fort Knox of Secrets' for a reason. Faith might have lived in a world where other people were like her, accepted her, were friends with her, to a certain extent anyway. Clark, on the other hand, had no one like him in the entire world. The closest thing he had was people who had powers like his own, however, for most of them, that power turned them into something twisted, something unrecognizeable. Deep down inside, especially after coming into contact with Red Kryptonite which tainted his mind, Clark feared that he might become that way someday. That all of his powers might somehow make him think that he deserved to rule the world with an iron fist. It was what Jor-El wanted, but his biological father could go get-...

Clark stopped thinking about it and concentrated on the girl in front of him, who was starting to relax. It was becoming clear that he'd have to be at least a little flirtatious or else he was going to blow his cover, he just didn't want to go too far. Faith might have been the love 'em and leave 'em type, but Clark, on the other hand, was as virginal as the freshly fallen snow, however hunky he looked.

And it showed when she got him to blush as she mentioned it being too bad that he didn't get naked, internally thinking he may have taken the joke a bit too far. One thing was for sure, Faith was the type to share what was on her mind. Either that or she was a good actress. Clark swallowed a little, and opened his mouth to comment, but closed it again, not thinking of a good retort to her statement. He guessed he had an okay body, but he'd never thought of himself as the sort of guy who could walk around without a shirt and have all the girls stare.

He blinked at her comment about not being fragile enough to break, and looked away momentarily. How did you tell someone that you were dancing with that you could probably tear them in half even if they'd been made out of titanium alloy? Oh right, you didn't. And distracted as he was his hands didn't resist where she lead them until they were already there, absentmindedly almost sliding down into her jeans before he came back to reality and blinked a little. His hands were surprisingly soft for as muscular as he was, but then again building callouses would have taken quite a bit more work than Clark could have done without attracting attention. Slowly his hands slid up her back, away from the danger zone and rested a little higher than she might have wanted, but it was clear that was all she was going to get.

"So how about you, huh?" Clark said after a moment, his eyes narrowing on Faith, and suddenly it was becoming clear that the tables were turning. "I don't know many girls that can jerk a guy off his feet like that... Are you an amazon or something?" he said, then realized after a moment that she might be. Hell, he didn't know... and if she was, well, that would be awkward...

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dark_slayer
2008-08-12 07:32 pm UTC (link)

Faith had decided early on that there was no point in keeping most of what she was a secret. Lestat had already read her mind, after all, and there was no real reason, no way to kill vampires or slay demons, here. So why keep the secret? It didn't make much sense, and she'd never seen the point in putting a whole lot of effort into something that had no point.

So, when he looked at her appraisingly, she just laughed, winked at him playfully, and didn't even hesitate before telling him the truth. Or, at least, as much of it as she thought he could handle. He seemed a bit naive. She wouldn't want to break his brain or something.

"I'm the Slayer... I kill vampires and shit like that. Or, well, I did before I was taken."

That was about all the information that she would was important, so she just continued to move with the music, pleased when he seemed to loosen up a bit. Not much, he was still moving like he was uncomfortable with the whole thing, but progress was progress. His discription of her actions had her laughing.

"Flattering, but... no, I'm not an amazon. Just strong, train alot, all that junk."

Deciding that talk was waste of breath that could be used for more important things, like dancing, she threw herself even more energetically into the movements. She didn't really know where this was going, but who cared? As long as she had fun along the way, it was all good. Maybe she'd make an effort to get him into bed, and maybe not. It would all depend on how it felt at the time. That fact that there was no way he wasn't a virgin didn't bother her, either. Challenges were fun, and Xander had been one when she'd jumped him.

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poeticmisery
2008-08-12 09:17 pm UTC (link)

"You kill... vampires..." Clark said, somewhat incredulously, staring at the woman for a moment as if he were a normal person on her world who had never even heard of blood suckers. "Like, dracula, I'm going to bite you in the neck and suck out all your blood style vampires?" He said, his eyebrows still raised, clearly amused by the development. Of course, Clark had, like most normal people, only really had experiences with vampires from campy B movie flicks, where the vampire action was half comedy and the girls were very... titilating. Then again, now that he looked down the lean body of Faith, maybe it was all starting to make a whole lot more sense than he'd given it credit for at first...

"Man, and I thought my world was screwed up..." he said with a gentle smile. Still, the inner reporter in him didn't exactly want to let it go at that, and Faith seemed pretty comfortable with the subject, so he continued. "So, in case I ever meet one, what IS the best way to kill a vampire?" He asked, clearly not understanding that a Slayer in itself was a special title and had special abilities associated with it. Clark wasn't exactly a slouch, but he probably couldn't put a stake through someone's heart with a flick of the wrist at 30 paces either.

"Oh, good, for a minute I was kinda worried I'd said something offensive..." Clark admitted when she mentioned not being an amazon. "It's kind of crazy to think that anyone here from any world could be here right in front of... you..." Clark trailed off as Faith started to give him that somewhat hungry look again, that made him a little worried about the possibility of a slow song coming up. She was awful close right now, but at least it wasn't bumping and grinding... somehow Faith struck him as someone who would be into that if the mood was right.

Despite her desire to save her breath and just enjoy the moment with him, Clark was... well, a talker. Especially when he was nervous, which he clearly still was a bit with the extroverted woman who was nearly in his arms. "So, are you actually from America? Is there an America in the place you come from? I met someone today who was from somewhere where there were only four tribes of people on the planet..." he said, shaking his head as if the idea was still hard to process even now. He got the feeling that Faith was enjoying his questions less and less though.

"Want to get a drink?" he offered, rather sheepishly. Yeah, not so good with the ladies, or knowing what to do with one, even when she practically jumped in his lap.

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dark_slayer
2008-08-12 10:04 pm UTC (link)

She didn't, actually, have a whole lot of experience in telling people just who she was. Before Mirage, the only people who had known were people that would understand, who had experiences with just what the Slayer was. She simply wasn't used to the reaction of people who had no idea, and it threw her for a loop in a way that most things didn't manage to do.

Still, nothing phased her for long. Not even the inadvertant murder of the Deputy Mayor had kept her down, not for long. So she shrugged the whole thing off, except for a slight mischievious urge that wanted to show him just what a Slayer could do. He obviously had no idea. But this was a party. So she just leaned over and whispered, her breath tickling his ear.

"Someday, I'll show you... but don't worry, I'll be gentle. The best way to appreciate the Slayer is to see her in action and you look strong enough to give me something close to a decent challenge."

Just as he'd feared, the music switched to a slow song, and the seductive young woman draped herself over him. It wasn't as bad as it could have been, though. She kept her hands draped around his back, rather than grabbing for his ass like she would do in a different mood. She was fairly mellow right now. It had been awhile since she'd been in a fight.

"Yeah, I'm from the good old U S of A, California, most recently. Before that, all over." She laughed a little. "There's some weird people here, for sure. It bends my head, kinda."

She pulled away and looked at him with a small smirk on her face. Finally, she shrugged and un-draped herself. She had been dancing, and was a little thirsty anyway.

"Sure, whatever."

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poeticmisery
2008-08-13 12:24 am UTC (link)

Clark realized a little after the fact that Faith might think that he was being a bit rude with how he was treating her given profession. He supposed if he actually had to fight vampires all day long, he might not think it as funny as he did, but it was hard to picture a vampire as something other than a bad actor bearing their fangs overly wide and posing for the camera. He thought after the fact that he should ask her if she used garlic. He had to wonder how many things that were just jokes in his world actually translated into real life ways to fight vampires in hers. He wondered if one man fighting off hordes of super powered mutants might be considered entertainment in her world, but the thought of asking her just seemed a little too absurd to bring up.

As she leaned in towards him, Clark's body stiffened slightly as the lithe curves of the slayer slid along him and her breathy voice whispered softly into her ear, causing a light shiver to run down his spine. Especially at her words, which at first made him a little frightened that she knew more than she was letting on, and then a little panicked because despite himself the slayer did really have a way of pushing his buttons in a completely opposite way then Lois did. He swallowed slowly and looked at her, his eyebrows raising. "I think I can do without being slain, and I'm not a vampire..." he said with a light chuckle. He didn't think she was serious... think, anyway.

And then there came on a slow song, and Clark felt the young woman's body press against his own, and another, very different part of his body began to stiffen, along with his back. It was extraordinarily embarassing for him, but then agian, he WAS a teenage guy with a fair amount of hormones and not too much experience. And it was for the best that Faith didn't grab his ass, or he might have pulled her hands from his butt regardless of how strong she was. He felt like a cat on a boat surrounded by water, and there was a slightly panicked look in his eye as if he were getting in over his head.

But in the next moment she mentioned she was from California, and finally took his suggestion to go get a drink. When she wasn't looking Clark tugged at his collar. For some reason it felt hotter than a blast furnace in here. He put a hand lightly on her back to stick with her as they made their way through the people. Even though his nerves telling him to dash the same way he had when presented with the awkward situation with Lois earlier, he forced himself to stick through the situation. Lana, after all, was more or less out of his life at the moment, and, even if she hadn't been, it wasn't like he could tell her the truth... Faith, on the other hand, might understand where he was coming from better than anyone he'd ever met...

It was at least worth hanging around, even if he felt like at any moment he was going to get mauled like a piece of meat...

"So, what do you want to drink?"

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dark_slayer
2008-08-13 02:10 am UTC (link)

This whole thing was highly entertaining to the young woman. She'd been determined to have a good time, and with a homegrown farm boy like this one, it was impossible to have anything but. Alright, so it really didn't hurt that he was cute, and the aura of mystery around him that she still sensed, though only just, was enough to keep her more than intruiged. With Faith, chances were good at any given time that she'd get bored and go away, but at the moment, there was not even a remote thought of that.

She had felt his physical reaction, of course, and the more mischievious part of her wanted to encourage it, see how far a shy young man like him could be tempted to go. Another part of her, though, was very thirsy. Also, she suspected if she had, he might jump out of his skin. So she allowed herself to be lead away, and soon they were beverage table. Wondering what would happen, she ordered a shot of Whiskey. The golem didn't even hesitate as it handed it to her, and it didn't take her long to down the thing.

She saw the look he gave her at her drinking, when she was underage. Most places in the world, of course, she wasn't, but the US had some strange laws, and she didn't feel bad about breaking that one. Or really any of them, actually. Also, she wasn't in the US anymore, so all bets were off. Still, she rolled her eyes and smirked at his reaction.

"Alright, Daddy, I'll lay off the booze and be a good little girl. For now, anyway. Um... I'll have a root beer float!"

Soon, the drink was in hand, and she was sipping it. To be fair, it was much better at actually quenching her thirst than the whiskey, or even the beer, had been. Idly, she dug the spoon she'd been provided into the pile of ice cream and licked it off, making eye contact in a very suggestive way as she did so.

"Seriously, though... you feel strong, stronger than you look right off the bat. We should fight sometime, you can show me how good you are. Or... I can show you how good I am."

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poeticmisery
2008-08-13 07:07 pm UTC (link)

It was probably not only amusing for Faith, but for anyone who was watching as well. Clark didn't do so well with disguising his awkwardness with situations, especially when it came to romantic ones. Yeah he could pretend to be a klutz in order to avoid people suspecting that he was really an alien from another world, but when it came to a hot body pressed up against his, he became easier to read than a young adult novel. As Faith pressed to him a unique mixture of fear and discomfort was on his face, so much so that it looked as if he were about to burst, though probably not in the way Faith might have thought. All in all he was one step short of jumping out of his skin before she finally let him up for some air, and he more than happily walked with her over to the bar for a drink.

Clark was so releaved in fact he didn't really notice when she ordered a shot of whiskey, but then did a slight double take before staring intently at the menu as she downed her shot, now and again giving her a sidelong glance as if he wanted to say something about her drinking habits, but thought that she might suddenly tell the entire place what a loser he was and have everyone laugh. For his part he didn't actually ever get drunk. His dad had told him there'd be a time for it, but, when on Red K he'd had a beer or two, and had realized then that whatever physiology kept him from being hurt also kept his body metabolizing alcohol in a way that humans couldn't. Which basically meant no beer buzz.

"Uhm..." Clark finally started to say, and was relieved when Faith made it clear she would stop drinking, even if she treated him like a parent for it. It was hard, trying to get people around you to make smart choices... harder still when you desperately wanted to fit in, especially given that it was Clark's only real way to fit in, given that sports and other physical activities were more or less off limits to him because of his powers. And in a farm town, there wasn't much more to being popular then being a football star or having a hookup for an awesome party. Not that Clark hadn't hosted a few of those, inadvertantly... but it wasn't something he was too comfortable with. Really though, if Faith hadn't said something he probably would have just let it slide... uncomfortably.

"I'll have one too..." he said, staring at the golem for an extra moment, clearly new enough here to still be somewhat taken aback by them. Then agian, Clark didn't think he'd ever get used to the servants, especially not with the way they could take a punch. Remembering it he rubbed his knuckles on his right hand lightly and took up his rootbeer float, taking a long slow drink of it before turning to look back at Faith, who was now rather erotically licking some icecream from her spoon as she stared at him.

If causing Clark to choke on his drink was the desired effect, she got it. The farm boy's eyes flew open slightly as he inhaled the fizzy soda down the wrong tube, as it were, and put his hand over his mouth as he coughed lightly, blinking a little as he felt the foam tickle his sinuses. Smooth, really smooth. "Sorry..." Clark said after a moment, looking away from her out to the dance floor as if someone out there was going to holler that they'd found his dignity and he could he should come get it.

At Faith's comment he turned back to her, and shook his head slightly. "I'm just a country boy..." He said with a small smile that seemed to hold that mysterious secretive air that was catching Faith's interest. Not that he realized it, of course. But it was probably becoming clear to Faith that the man in front of her wasn't going to admit it if there really was something special about himself. "I'm sure anyone who spent as much time as I do bailing hay would be just as strong..." Clark lied calmly. It made him feel bad to do so, but Lois was here, and he was pretty sure that even around here, being an alien was something special. Heck, Katara had only met one, but she'd talked about him...

"Do you challenge every guy you dance with to a fight?" Clark said, loosening up a little as he attempted to shift the conversation away from himself again. "That's gotta be pretty hard to top on the second date..."

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dark_slayer
2008-08-13 08:25 pm UTC (link)

There would be far worse ways to spend an evening, the dark-haired Slayer mused to herself, than teasing the hell out of some poor farm boy. Very entertaining. The sputtering, the coughing, and the looking around furtively. Of course, she might well find it amusing. She'd never really had an awkward stage, not one that she'd let anyone seen, anyway. Maybe she would have felt less amusement and more sympathy if she'd ever had a similar experience. Then again, maybe not. Faith wasn't exactly a sympathetic sort of person.

Getting bored with the distinctly unalchoholic drink, she set it down and leaned against the bar, glancing around at the rest of the party. She glanced over at him just in time to see the small smile, and made a comment that sounded almost off-handed.

"You know, I am going to find out what you are. That was kinda my job back home, and I was really damn good at it. It's cool, though, you don't have to admit it. Make it a challenge, that's fine by me."

She laughed at his question, as if she hadn't just dropped that bombshell, and shrugged, casual and at ease with the whole situation. Of course, that was only on the outside. Inside, she was wondering if he would suddenly turn dangerous, since she'd basically just told him she was going to find out all about him. Sometimes, that made people nervous.

"No, only the really hot ones. What's wrong, you scared? Don't worry, I won't beat you up. Not too badly, anyway."

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poeticmisery
2008-08-13 08:54 pm UTC (link)

He could tell just a bit that Faith was getting restless, at least slightly with her drink. He on the other hand nursed his almost predictably, not really too fast or too slow. He took a bite of ice cream and looked at her to see her watching him with some interest. She certainly was a strange way to spend a time at a party. Not that Clark was complaining. He'd come here half expecting that he'd have spent the whole time just watching the other people present, and despite the fact that she seemed spoiling for a fight, he was having a decent time with her. At her comment to him though, Clark did something probably not too many guys did...

Looked at her like she was crazy.

He'd long ago perfected the skeptical squint of his eyes, which made it look as if Faith had just commented that her aunt was really a flying purple people eater, something so completely ludicrous and impossible that it wasn't even funny, but rather just a bit strange. Then slowly his eyebrows raised as if slightly embarassed that someone might have heard her. Not looking around as if he was afraid for himself, rather like he was embarassed for her. Clark tried to force a smile then and let the awkward silence between them go on for a moment before saying softly, almost under his breath, but just loud enough for her to hear: "ooookay then..."

Slowly he turned back from her and started to look around the room, almost as if HE was losing interest in HER. She had seemed rather fun, but Clark was more careful of his secret than anything else. Hell, he'd let Lana think he was a jerk on more than a few occassions, just so that he could hide what the fact that he was indeed an alien from another world with super powers. His blue eyes looked at Katana again, and had she not still been talking to the pale haired boy he might have gone in her direction as rude as it was...

But Faith it seemed wasn't one to be perturbed, coming back to his statement with one of her own, half compliment, half challenge. Clark, on the other hand, didn't really look flattered by it at all. Instead he looked at her as if she might have gone crazy again and took a step back. "All joking aside, I really don't fight girls..." he said, honestly. It was a good thing Xena wasn't close enough to hear that little gem. Thankfully he'd not had the pleasure of meeting the Warrior Princess just yet.

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dark_slayer
2008-08-13 09:16 pm UTC (link)

He probably didn't realize but, but she regularly said and did things that made the more normal people around her look at her like that. It had stopped bothering her a long time ago. Someone as wild as she was, who pulled as many hare-brained stunts as she did, was pretty much immune to the 'You are completely and totally insane' look.

"Whatever you say, sexy. Hey, maybe you'll get lucky and I'll get bored before I find out. It could happen."

Her dark eyes narrowed as he spoke those words that she thought were much more insulting than the look he'd given her before. He wouldn't fight her because she was a girl? She'd killed a man, for crying out loud. She was no delicate flower. She nearly slapped him across the cheek right then and there, and a dangerous look flashed in her eyes.

"Don't say shit like that... I'm a girl, but I could kick the ass of most of the people in this room, at once probably. Don't fuck with me, farmboy."

One more dangerous look, and the seductively-clad woman turned away. She had no idea who she was talking to, of course, or that Clark probably could rip her apart with his bare hands, and quite easily. All she knew was that he was no longer interesting to her, and she was going to find something else.

"Later, unless you're very lucky."

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poeticmisery
2008-08-13 11:03 pm UTC (link)

Clark began to sweat inwardly a little as Faith seemed completely unphased by the way that he looked at her, as if she were mad. The only person he'd seen with that much interest in unraveling his secrets while not caring what was thought of her was Chloe Sullivan. And if Chloe could be his best friend and be constantly trying to get it out of him, Clark wasn't too afraid of Faith. She was a lot more seductive than Chloe though, and Clark was fairly certain that if she'd thought for a minute that pushing his buttons sexually might have gotten the truth out of him she'd have gone for it. As it was though, Clark was glad for the space she was giving him, and had a secret fear that him getting dragged back onto the dance floor was in his immediate future.

To say he was sad when Faith gave him the death glare would have only been half correct. He was sad he had to lie to her, and that she was somewhat upset by it, but she hadn't really left him a lot of choice, either, and he'd decided long ago to protect his secret at all costs. Not just for his own sake but his families sake, and he sake of those close to him. He put his mother and father in enough danger by having them know about his secret. Pete had nearly gotten killed over it, he couldn't risk sharing it with someone else and having them get hurt by the consequences, even though it meant that he didn't have close friends, and those close friends he did have didn't know the real him.

For a moment he was sure he was going to get slapped and prepared to turn his head so she didn't hurt herself when she did it, but Faith turned away at the last moment, leaving him with the half threat about her intentions as far as he was concerned. Somewhere in his head he could hear Pete's voice chastising him: 'Man Clark, only YOU could have a girl all over you one minute then make her want to kill you the next...'.

Clark waited until she was out of sight before he breathed an audible sigh of relief, and slowly took a long drink of his float... well, at least that was probably all of the major excitement for the evening... right?

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