Cade Anderson // Howl Pendragon (swallowastar) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2011-03-13 03:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | cade anderson |
Who: Cade Anderson and NPCs
What: Cade does a good deed. ... Sort of.
Where: New York City
When: Sunday morning, March 13th
Warnings: Language and hints of adult themes, but nothing graphic.
It was a cool Sunday afternoon as Cade stepped out of his New York City apartment door- which was really just a portal to his castle back in Canada- so he could walk around and possibly get some groceries. The unfortunate thing about magic castles is that no matter how hard you try, they just won't provide food. And Cade had definitely tried. He'd run out of poptarts and bacon two days ago and bread yesterday. His stomach was getting tired of his laziness and was demanding food by growling angrily; he really couldn't put it off any longer.
At least the walk to the market was a short one from the small and rundown apartment building Cade had set up shop in. He wasn't twenty feet away from the store in question when, while passing by an ally, he heard a scuffle and the distinct sound of a woman's protests. Cade grinned a mischievous grin and immediately turned on his heel and into the narrow gap between the tall brick buildings. The woman- a pretty blonde thing in too short shorts for the weather- was vainly attempting to push away a tall, muscular man in dirty clothing that was holding onto her wrists with one large meaty hand and trying to feel her up with the other. Well. It certainly seemed as though Cade had arrived just in the nick of time to save this woman. Lucky, lucky him.
"Hey!" The clear and sudden shout startled the man who turned to look at the scrawny boy at the mouth of the ally. "Now, I may be wrong- though I'm usually not- but it seems to me like the lovely lady here doesn't want your company. I'd suggest leaving now. After all, there's probably something else you need to be doing."
The man just laughed. "Like fuck I am. Piss off, kid, we're busy." The woman struggled even harder to break free, but it was no use. Her assailant had to be a good six foot two, and clearly worked out. She on the other hand, barely would have scraped much past five and a half feet tall and looked more dainty then a fresh spring daisy.
"No. I think that you really have somewhere else to be. Don't you?" Cade lifted one of his hands, the rings on his fingers glinting softly in the afternoon light, and flicked his index finger at the man. Just one finger was all it took. The man let go of the woman as his arms suddenly snapped to his sides like they'd been glued there. He gaped at Cade- his mouth opening and shutting like a fish out of water while his eyes bugged out. "Ah-hah!" The young magician's smile could only be described as devilish, all the way up to the expression in his eyes as he cooly regarded the other man. "Yes, I can see you've remember that incredibly important thing you were meant to attend to right now. Well, don't just stand there! Get going!" This time Cade twirled his finger in the air, completing the wordless spell on the man. Without any choice or any way to struggle against the magic that'd been used against him, the man was forced to march away from the woman and down the opposite end of the ally, still too stunned to say anything about what was happening.
"Toodles!" Cade waved enthusiastically at the back of the retreating man, still baring every tooth in his broad grin. When the man was finally gone, he approached the woman. "Miss, are you alright?"
She just stared at him, her brown eyes wide with some emotion Cade really didn't feel like figuring out. Ugh. The frightened damsel type. Well, he'd take what he could get. A damsel was better then no woman at all, of course, and it'd been a couple nights since he'd been on a date. It'd been even longer since he'd gotten a date out of one of his rescues, which was kind of disappointing. Women always loved it when their knights in shining armor took an interest in them. Well, almost always. He just wished this particular woman would stop making that weird face at him.
Finally, she seemed to get her wits back about here. "Y-yes, I'm fine. Thank you so much for... For whatever you did." Wiping at her eyes with the back of her hand, she gave him a watery yet appreciative look, the corners of her lips only twitching upwards a little. "I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't come."
Cade nodded in what seemed to be a sympathetic fashion. "You look a bit shaken up still. Maybe I could take you out to dinner tonight? Make sure you're okay?" He slipped his arm around her shoulders, his eyebrows raised hopefully at her as he tried to lead her back onto the street. "I know this great-"
SMACK
"HOLY HELL, LADY!" Cade stumbled away from her, his hand going to his sore, red cheek from where she'd just slapped him. His gaze was incredulous has his fingers gently probed his cheek, wincing a little at the pain. This one was definitely going to bruise. This chick was a lot stronger then she looked. "What was that for?!"
The blonde glared at him, all traces of her previous soft spoken demeanor gone in a flash as anger took it's place. "You bastard! You only helped me because you wanted a date! Asshole!" Cade had to dodge another swing that she took at him, yelping as he nearly tripped over a crack in the pavement. "Asshole!" She flicked her middle finger at him before storming off through the same end of the ally that Cade had originally entered through, wobbling a little in her flats. Cade didn't particularly care if it was because she was angry at him or still shaken up from the other man's advances.
"YEAH, WELL YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN A TERRIBLE DATE ANYWAYS! AND YOU'RE WELCOME!" Letting out an annoyed puff of air, Cade smoothed out the wrinkles of his shirt, glaring at the ground. "'You only helped me because you wanted a date!'" His mumble was high pitched and mocking as he pulled an annoyed face before speaking normally again. "So nice to know people think so highly of others these days. There was also the doing the right thing, factor!" Well, okay, so it had mostly been for the date. But he did want to help her! Sort of...
He ran his fingers through his hair and mussed it back into place, rolled his shoulders and neck, and then stepped back out onto the street. Well, there were plenty of other fish in the sea. And who knows? Maybe there'd be some hot cougar he could flirt with at the grocery store. Pleased with the thought, Cade whistled a merry tune while he walked to the market, all thoughts of the altercation he'd just been a part of completely slipped out of his mind and memories. It wasn't worth recalling, after all, so why bother remember it? It wasn't as though the people he'd run into had been important or special. All that mattered was the here and now- and right now, he had a cougar to find.