infinituscindy (infinituscindy) wrote in the_nowhere, @ 2013-04-14 01:12:00 |
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Entry tags: | c: hale santiago, c: kenzi, p: aimee, p: cindy |
LOG: KENZI AND HALE @ THE DAL.
Who: Kenzi and Hale Santiago.
What: Finding each other and Kenzi finding the Dal.
Where: The Dal. Building ii.
When: Friday April 12, 2013
Rating: R for safety.
Her fashionable shoes stopped dead in their tracks when she saw a very familiar building. Kenzi had been through this area many times before and that building had never been there. She knew this place. It was home. She glanced around to see if she had maybe been transported back to the crack shack she shared with Bo. She felt a little disappointed that she was still here in this place. Her next explanation was maybe she was dreaming. Her left hand pinched the skin on her right arm but she didn't wake up. She was still here. Eager to investigate, she crossed the street and opened the door to the Dal.
The excitement was bubbling inside her but she tried not to get her hopes up too high. She wasn't fond of disappointment. But she couldn't help wondering if Hale and Dyson and Trick were inside. The door shut behind her and Kenz surveyed the room until they landed on a very familiar person. Her eyes lit up with excitement and her smile was so big it literally hurt.
"William Haley François Santiago," Kenzi called out, grinning. "When the hell did you get here?" she asked, closing the distance between them before nearly tackling him in attempt to hug him. He was a sight for sore eyes. Her mind briefly wondered in the other two were lurking around somewhere but Hale had her attention.
Hale had been roaming around the city he found himself in trying to get an idea of where he was, and looking for signs of anyone he knew when he saw the familiar entrance to the Dal in front of him. It seemed the logical place to wait for his friends to show up. If he found the place chances were they would too. He made his way inside and frowned a little when he realized Trick wasn’t there but that didn’t stop him from leaning across the bar to get a bottle and a glass.
He’d started on his second glass when he heard a familiar voice calling his name and he turned to look at Kenzi with a happy smile lighting up his face. “Hey there lil mama,” he told her, his mind going back to the night before and how he’d seen her last. “You got the key out I see” he told her wrapping his arms around her tight as she almost knocked him over with her hug. “I was worried you wouldn’t get out” he told her quietly.
There were so many feelings flooding through Kenzi right now. Relief, happiness, excitement and weird little butterflies in her stomach when he called her that. It had been forever since she had seen him. Long enough to almost forget that he had closed the door in her face. Kenzi had the most confused look on her face when he asked about the key. Though she wasn't willing to let that deter her. As soon as they broke the embrace she slapped his arm. "You ash-hole!" Her words far from angry. Her tone held more annoyance than anything. If she'd seen him that day, she'd have been a lot more angry. As it was, she'd had weeks to get over it.
"Key?" she questioned. "So worried I'm sure. You're too busy for your human friend Kenzi now that you're the big bad sort of ash," she rambled. "When you know it was kind of a life or death situation!" There were too many times where people brought up the fact that she was human, the fact that she didn't belong. Trick had tried to chase her out before their attack on the Garuda! And then Hale basically slamming the door in her face. Especially when she needed him. Bo was too busy with other things. Everyone was too busy with Fae matters to pay attention to Kenzi.
Hale couldn’t help but notice the confusion on her face when they broke apart and he laughed at the insult she threw at him. “What’s that for? he asked, smiling at her again. Nobody spoke to him the way Kenzi did and it was one of the reasons he liked her as much as he did.
“Yeah the key. To the handcuffs. That I had to put on you last night at the inauguration” he explained, his own confusion evident. “Lil mama I explained that last night. Why I’d been acting that way. I thought you understood because you asked why I didn’t just tell you that to begin with” he said reaching out for her hand.
His laugher earned him a scowl. "That's for being a dick," she told him, folding her arms across her chest. "I needed to talk to you. I needed help and your little lackey slammed the door in my face." Kenzi's hand unconsciously scratched at the spot where the rash had appeared that day. She’d remembered feeling scared and alone. Bo was having crazy succubus hunger and hadn’t been much help. She had thought Hale would have been there for her. She hadn’t known what to do.
"Kinky," she quipped, when he mentioned that he had to put handcuffs on her last night. "I think you've had too much of the hooch but it’s flattering that you're fantasizing about me and handcuffs," she teased. Kenzi didn’t resist when he reached out for her hand. “Hale...I haven’t seen you in weeks.” She had no idea what he was talking about. She’d been stuck here in this place for weeks.
It took Hale a minute to figure out what she was talking about. The incident when they’d shut her out of the room had been weeks before and he’d hated having to do that to her but he’d needed to focus on his meeting right then. And he couldn’t ever seem to focus with Kenzi in the room. “I didn’t know. I thought you were just coming by to hang out and I wanted to but I had to focus. That’s the only reason they didn’t let you in” he told her quietly.
He grinned at her teasing and drained his glass. “You’re the one who drinks too much. And last night - was not something I’d fantasize about,” he told her seriously. “Kenzi - you were at my inauguration last night. Or at least you were at the Dal to attend. I didn’t get to see you until the end of the night when I was trying to get you to leave before the Morrigan saw you after her vote” He looked at her for a few seconds longer. “You don’t remember any of it do you?” he says, feeling a small stab of pain. He’d told her how he felt and she didn’t seem to remember it.
"I was coming by because I fucked up and I was paying the price for what I'd done," she murmured, remembering the Norn's words. Feeling the contents of that jar touch her. It sent a shudder rippling through her body. She meddled in Fae affairs but she'd had no choice. They needed Dyson whole and she willing paid the price for it. Just as she willingly went back and saved Dyson from the Garuda. "I was coming by because I didn't know what was happening to me."
The seriousness of his tone made her wonder what happened. It made her wonder what she didn't know. "The Morrigan? What the hell was the Morrigan doing at a Light Fae inauguration?" she questioned. She didn't understand why she would be there. The absolute confusion was clearly readable in her eyes, the furrowed brow. It just didn't make sense. "She's dark fae." It was something that wasn't easily forgotten. She caused them hell every chance she got. She shook her head at him. "Impossible I was here," Kenzi said, gesturing with a wave of her arm. "Well not here. I wasn't at the Dal. Because that totally wasn’t here before. I meant I was in this crazy town, in my room with Bo and Erin last night."
Hale heard the murmured words and gave her a serious look, reaching out to pull her into his arms and hold her close to him. “I’m sorry lil mama. I didn’t know. What happened?” he asked quietly, hating the fact that he hadn’t known something was happening that had shaken her up so obviously.
“The elders said Light and Dark had to work together. I thought that having her there was a good idea. I was wrong. She used it for her own reasons,” he told her, a hardness in his voice that wasn’t normally there. “And trust me Kenzi, you were there last night. I wouldn’t forget that. It was the only good part of the night for me, getting to talk with you and straighten some things out.”
Kenzi leaned into Hale's embrace, any traces of anger or annoyance had been completely replaced. She bit her lip, chewing on it for a moment before bringing her eyes up to meet his. "I kind of threatened the Norn," she told him, an apprehensive and awkward smile on her lips. She had more of an 'Oops' expression on her face. Kenzi had a feeling as acting Ash, or as he was telling her, as Ash now he might not be too crazy about her plan. "With a chainsaw," she added quickly. "The Norn had said there would be consequences and this black ooze fell on me and this rash started to grow," Kenz explained. "Then I got kidnapped by this fae because of it. Bo figured it out though. Bo, Tamsin and Dyson found me."
"Thank you Captain Obvious. I could have told you that would happen if you asked me." She didn't hold back any of her sarcasm. It was her bratty reaction. There was no filter between her brain and her lips sometimes. Noting the harshness in his voice, she softened a little. "I'm sorry but I don't care what the elders want. She doesn't want to play by any of the rules." If only Kenzi had know what had gone on last night, all the things that had been said, the accusations thrown at her. "So you apologized for being a dick?" she asked playfully, trying to interject a little humor into the conversation.
Hale had to fight to keep from laughing at the look on Kenzi’s face when coupled with what she was telling him. “You threatened the Norn with a chainsaw...” he repeated, amusement obvious in his voice despite his best efforts. “Why?” he asked her, curiously. And then his brain caught up with the rest of what she was telling him. “Show me” he told her, needing to see where it had been. That she was okay now.
He frowned at her when he heard that sarcasm, knowing that it was just her response to things sometimes. “I doubt even you could have seen this one coming Kenzi. She started something last night that... I don’t know how to fix it. I don’t know if I have the support to fight it. She’s Dark. I think that comes with the territory. I’m bound by those rules though.” He gave her a half smile, refilling his glass and handing it to her. “Not exactly. I explained why I’d been acting that way”
"We needed Dyson back. It was the only thing I could think to do," she explained. "We were getting ready to go up against the Garuda. We needed Dyson whole and I'm the only one who isn't bound by fae rules." It was a ballsy move and one she knew could have, well, did backfire on her. She exposed the area of skin that had been marked by the rash so he could see. "It's gone now," Kenzi added, though she didn't know if it was more to reassure him or herself.
Kenzi reached out to rest a hand on his arm, silently telling him he had her support. She might not be fae but he always had her support. And she always stood next to them when it came down to a fight. Even if she was a regular human. She was taking a sip of the drink as he continued. She raised her eyebrow, her interested piqued about this explanation. "Seeing as how I wasn't there…do I get that explanation now?"
“A chainsaw lil mama? Remind me never to piss you off,” Hale says teasing her gently. He looks at her arm, running one hand over the area she showed him, reassuring himself that there was nothing there that his eyes couldn’t see. “I didn’t know Kenzi. Nobody told me,” he says quietly, looking her in the eye.
Her hand on his arm comforted him, that unwavering support another thing he valued about her. She didn’t have to be in the fight the way the rest of them did but the fact she chose to be meant a lot to him. “If you want it” He took a deep breath before continuing. “You’ve never been just a friend. If something happened to you, I wouldn’t be any good to anyone. And right now I need to be better than I’ve ever been” he tells her deliberately echoing the words he’d said to her the night before
She couldn't help but laugh at his teasing remark. "Says the guy who can make peoples brains explode through a whistle!" She wanted to say thats because he wasn't around but she felt that she'd been hard enough on him. She knew she didn't need to drill that point any farther. Instead she grabbed his hands and simply said, "I know."
Kenzi was silent as he explained what he apparently explained last night. She was going over what he'd said again, playing it back in her head as she searched for something to say. It took her several moments before she found her voice. "Asshole! Stupid…Why didn't you tell me that?" she asked. Kenzi wondered why he'd act that way, distance himself for so long…why he'd never told her this before. You know maybe when he had asked her to be his fake girlfriend.
Hale flinched a little at the memory of what he’d almost done to her because of that spider. “Siren defense system lil mama. That’s all that is. I like the other things I can do with my whistle more” He gives her a small smile as she grabs his hands. “I’d have been there if I’d known.”
The whole conversation was following the lines it had the night before when he’d explained things the night before. “Because I was scared,” he told her simply. The honest answer was still the best answer.
She knew that hadn't been him. That Hale could never be capable of doing that to someone, let alone her. After all that damn spider had her trying to kill Bo too. She had come closer than she ever should have to actually doing it. Luckily Lauren was able to kill the bastard in time. "I think my favorite is the hangover cure," Kenz teased, remembering the day he did that for her. It was better than any other trick or drink concoction she had ever tried. She opened her mouth to speak but closed it instead. Her brain to mouth filter showed itself, swooping in to keep her from saying, 'I like the things you can do with your hands more'. He does give a good massage but she didn’t need to tell him that.
“Scared?” she repeated, not sure why he would be scared. He was the Ash. What did he have to be afraid of. Part of her thought another reason might be his communities reaction. It would be the only thing the dark and light fae would ever be able to agree on; fae and humans didn’t belong together. His father and his sister made that pretty clear. “You? Scared?”