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Cade Skywalker ([info]karkdestiny) wrote in [info]wariscoming,
@ 2011-04-28 21:01:00

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Entry tags:allana solo, cade skywalker, jaina solo, maureen johnson, noah puckerman, santana lopez, shilo wallace

Who: Cade and all his guests! And eventually an unfortunate soldier.
What: A not entirely healthy party followed by an even less healthy voyage to the dark side.
When: Starts at 8pm Lawrence-time. Everything comes crashing down a few hours later, around 1am.
Where: Cade’s luxurious, stolen-money funded big house.
Warnings: Given the nature of the party, I would say high PG-13 or even R.

As the sky finally lost its daily battle with the night and darkness crept over Lawrence, things were heating up in an affluent suburban neighborhood near the outskirts of the city. While most people were settling in to late night television, one house in the neighborhood was operating at a capacity that could make some clubs jealous. All the windows in the particularly large house were thrown open, leaving nothing to prevent the blaring, aggressive beats of the music within from pouring out. Anyone coming up the long drive could hear it, even from the end of the drive, and the bass was so heavy that by the time you got up to the house, you’d be able to feel it pounding in your bones. Though the rest of the guests had been told 8pm, it seems that some showed up early, as the house was already on its way to filling up as the faces that were actually familiar to this party’s host began wandering in.

Cade, for his part, was already clearly lost to the pounding beats. Or perhaps it was the cocaine he’d snorted with a few of the ravers he’d invited, or the three shots of Patron and four beers he’d already had. Not that these were things an eighteen year old was supposed to have, but when you could wave your hand and make people think whatever you wanted, fudging a number on an ID was hardly the most difficult trick in the book. At the moment he was dancing on the second floor foyer, but as the song changed from something from Eminem’s most recent album to the Aerosmith/Run DMC version of Walk This Way, he took what he considered an express elevator downstairs so he could be nearby when the important guests actually arrived. The express elevator, in this case, was simply a running start and a huge, Force-cushioned leap from the second floor foyer right down into the Great Room, where the front doors opened into. He’d abandoned his big billowy coat and Mandalorian chestplate in his bedroom earlier, and was simply wearing an unbuttoned black button-down shirt, a pair of leather pants in the same color, and his usual boots. There was already a light sheen of sweat on his forehead and a slight reddening in his cheeks, but whether that was from the dancing or the booze and coke was impossible to tell.

(OOC: Since the majority opinion seems to be thread it, here it is! Feel free to subthread away. I’ll be putting up a thread for Team CADEWTF a little later on tonight.)



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Allana&OTA
[info]sanguinesolo
2011-04-29 08:13 am UTC (link)
Allana edged in the door and paused in the entrance for a moment, eyebrows arching slightly. The scene in Cade’s house was nothing she hadn’t seen before (Vegas and then a friendship with Jennifer Check was a surefire way to get a crash course in partying even after an adolescence spent traveling with grandparents) but she hadn’t expected anything this crazy, not with the way her cousin’s Force signature had been spiraling into desperation and edging towards a level of darkness that was making her uncomfortable. She’d expected drinking and music loud enough to crack a skull, had been looking forward to it even. She ventured into town more than most of her family, and had pretty much haunted the local diner in the late hours since her arrival. After the first shock of the massive spike of despair and death in the Force she’d realized that some of those snuffed lives had been familiar: Loren, the waitress with the scumbag boyfriend she was always swearing she would dump one of these days and Toby Jennings, a night-shift security guard who had asked her last Christmas whether she thought his daughter would like a gift certificate to the Gap or Forever 21 better had been among Alema’s second one hundred. The fast-talking coffee cart owner who had once told her not to “worry about the math” had died before them, in the first influx of the bugs. Then there was Anakin’s disappearance from the Force, her fault for teaching him, and the mind trick Alema had played on her mother which had faded now but still troubled her. All in all she had been as eager as anyone to have a couple drinks, obliterate her ability to think coherently, and just let go for a little while. She’d expected other people from among the displaced and maybe a few locals Cade knew. This, though? This looked like half of Lawrence had shown up and brought every pill and powder they could get their hands on.

Well, she reminded herself, this is Cade after all. The guy lives alone in a, like, five bedroom house. Ostentatious is just part of his thing right? She’d come to the party at least partially to keep an eye on her cousin, but she was still hoping he’d manage to bring himself back from the edge the way he always seemed to.

As if on cue she saw the aforementioned cousin taking a Force-cushioned leap from the second floor and laughed, shaking her head slightly as she turned around to shut the door behind her. Well, brooding about things that might or might not happen is useless right? Probably worse than useless given how well Cade responds to people tsk-ing at him, she decided, and when she turned back towards the crowd she’d brightened from mild surprise/concern to appropriately enthused and impressed by the chaos around her. Worry or not there was still a certain thrill just in being at this kind of party. She had seventeen years of grandparent monitored travelling to make up for and fifteen variants on the waltz to un-learn after all, and so when someone offered her a filled shot glass she downed it without hesitation in a motion she’d finally learned to make fluid, letting the liquid hit the back of her throat before she could gag on it the way she had her first couple attempts back when she’d gone to Vegas. The guy who had offered her the shot took her elbow and started to tug her towards the dancing, the rules of party-noise communication excusing them from any small talk. She started to shake her head, she wanted to see if any of her friends were around (not one in particular, she told herself firmly, not at all) but reconsidered at the last second, embarrassed by the impulse to hang around waiting, and followed along instead. Any friends who got here later were perfectly capable of finding her after all. The trajectory towards the dancing on the first floor would take her by Cade anyway and it would be polite to at least say hello. Because this place is all about the polite and ‘hellos’ can totally be heard, she thought wryly, laughing to herself.

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Allana&OTA
[info]nightwingingit
2011-04-30 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Kon had shown against his better judgement. He remembered Clark had once told him to never second guess his instincts and he wished that he'd listened to his advice on this one. His first instinct had said the party was going to be a bad idea, and the instant he got inside Cade's classy party he knew he was right. There were drugs being passed about, liquor in every direction. It made him a little more then uncomfortable. Cade supposedly had it under control..whereever he was. But still, Kon decided that staying out of view and out of the way was his best bet. So he stood near the booze and sighed.

This was the worst idea he'd had since he'd been there. Beer he had expected, but drugs?..that was another thing entirely. He didn't quite know how to react to it. If Superman were there, he would be telling Kon to get his act together, get out, or break it up Kryptonian style. Kon didn't want to be that guy, so he folded his arms uncomfortably and looked around to see if anyone he knew was loitering about. He severely doubted anyone he knew would be in this crowd. There were a few girls he hadn't seen before, none of which he was interested in. He let his eyes pass over them and then move along toward the dance floor where he spotted a familiar figure. Allana was part of this crowd? The thought worried him, but then he remembered things weren't exactly as they seemed, She'd mentioned Cade once or twice. Some relative or something.

Uneasily he left his corner and waded through some very drugged out looking young adults. Clark could never hear about that party, ever if he wanted to keep his freedom. Clark didn't seem like the type who was looking for a reason to ground him, but Kon didn't want to test those waters just incase he was wrong. It wasn't his idea of fun, poking a stick at Superman. Approaching Allana from behind, he tapped her on the shoulder and gave her a slightly strained grin. "Hey."

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Allana&Kon
[info]sanguinesolo
2011-05-01 09:40 pm UTC (link)
The guy she was dancing with was all feet, and given how crowded the place they were dancing was it had turned into more of a mosh pit than a dance floor. If it wasn’t for the Force shield she’d quickly thrown up over her feet (a use her great-uncle had probably never considered in their lessons on the technique) they would have been a mass of bruises by now. That was all a part of the crazy though, she’d decided, and she’d thrown herself into it, flinging herself around the floor with the rest of the dancers. After some initial, flailing gracelessness when she’d first started going out dancing with Jen she’d discovered she rather liked earth dancing, it wasn’t so hard if she just thought of it the way she did learning a new close-combat move from her aunt and imitated the movements of the people around her. The shot she’d taken combined with the mixed drink she was steadying with the Force amidst the chaos of the dance floor (another moment for generations of venerable, or at least mostly dignified even in their dark side tendencies, ancestors to be proud, right?) had relaxed her muscles, she didn’t feel anything too awful in the Force (well, Cade felt dark, but he was handling it, right?), and she was actually starting to have a good time… if by good time you meant obliterating any thought more complicated than ‘Music loud. Drink good,’ which, honestly, she kind of did. Sure, it was crazier than she’d expected but she wasn’t planning on taking any of the more exciting drugs, uncomfortable with being that out of control, and she wasn’t the type to judge what other people were doing as long as they weren’t hurting anyone.

When she felt a tap on her shoulder she whirled around and grinned in a moment of unguarded happiness as she recognized Kon before quickly ducking her head on pretense of watching out for a particularly uncoordinated dance move from the dance partner she’d turned away from. There’s nothing wrong with being happy to see your friend she told herself, suddenly disconcerted at second guessing a simple gesture like a smile. It was just that Cade’s teasing and Clark’s knowing glances certainly hadn’t been subtle even though it wasn’t as if she and Kon had ever even done anything that would indicate that they were more than bickering friends and…well she didn’t know where, exactly, she was going with this train of thought, all she knew was that it suddenly seemed very important not to seem happier to see Kon than he was to see her. When she’d stepped a bit away from the crowd and looked back up again the grin had been replaced with a smirk and she cocked her head slightly, “Hey, I was beginning to think you were going to chicken out on coming,” she teased, voice raised a little but not a complete shout, she was counting on Kon’s super hearing to save her vocal chords the strain.

Which, speaking of strained… she thought as she noticed the aforementioned quality tightening the edges of Kon’s smile. She nodded towards the door, a few feet behind them, that led out to the covered back porch and then started across the room towards it, trusting Kon would get the message and follow. Kon might have super hearing but she didn’t and she preferred stepping outside for a moment to an endless round of ‘What did you say?’ ‘What?’ ‘Huh?’ Outside the music was still pounding and there were several people scattered around smoking or tripping in a less chaotic setting, but it was actually possible to carry on a conversation.

Allana waved aside a small bag of powder someone held out in her direction (offering an illicit substance seemed to be the accepted form of greeting at this party where there were so many drugs flying around that no one needed to get jealous or horde their stash) and hopped up onto the railing that stretched between the two pillars holding up the balcony above them. She let her legs dangle and took another sip of her drink before noticing Kon’s empty hands. “Not drinking?” There was no particular judgment in her tone, Rose stayed sober for the most part and Allana had never thought of it as a big deal, it was more curiosity. Kon’s usual cocky attitude didn’t exactly fit with by-the-books-no-drinking-till-21.

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Allana&Kon
[info]nightwingingit
2011-05-01 10:01 pm UTC (link)
Kon couldn't help but give Allana's dance partner an unimpressed stare until he seemed to get the idea that the dance was over. He caught himself and raised an eyebrow as he watched her pull away to talk to him almost instantly ditching the uncoordinated moron. "Me chicken out? Never." Though he was cautious. All the same he needed to be. it was a rare thing for him to lose control of a power, but should it happen there were many civilians about and he didn't want to risk accidentally maybes. So he kept his eye on moving and swaying drunks and others that were high out of their minds. It made him uncomfortable. There was no denying it, but he was trying not to let it show on his face just how uncomfortable. Allana could enjoy it and she was a good guy Jedi type, so why shouldn't he? Why did he have to hear Clark's bitchface voice in the back of his mind telling him to leave immediately? It wasn't fair.

And on the subject of not fair, it wasn't fair that Clark had him thinking about Allana in ways he probably shouldn't be. When she turned to smile at him, he couldn't help but brighten. "Remember who you're talking too, sidekick. I never chicken out." And that was part of the reason he was there at all. He didn't want to chicken out, even if he knew internally it was a bad idea. He didn't know Cade very well, or the Jedi really. He didn't know what they were capable of save for what Allana had told him she could do and shown him. If things got out of hand, would he be able to handle the situation like Clark taught him? He was young, but Clark had taught him to take control of bad situations that arose. With his powers it was the best end result for everyone if things got wildly out of hand. Judging by this crowd, Kon wasn't going to be surprised if something happened that night.

The white powder bags had him on edge. He knew exactly what it was, and it didn't put him in party mode any better then the idea of drinking did. God since when did Clark rub off on him so much? When did he become a boy scout? That was always Clark's gig. He ran a hand through his dark hair in a slightly frustrated manner as he nodded and followed Allana out to the porch where conversations could actually be heard over loud music. Super hearing got obnoxious after a while, so he was grateful for said escape. "Nah. How much would it suck if I got drunk and you all got crispy fried?" He grinned a little once he could finally speak at a normal human level away from the pounding music.

He wasn't sure if he was physically capable of getting drunk honestly. Clark once told him he couldn't. But with his Luthor DNA, who knew. He was able to get poisoned by alien space bug things. "Looks like you're used to this kind of thing?"She fit in pretty easy, despite the drugs and liquor. Kon on the other hand really didn't know how to react besides stop the party. Take it down.

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Allana&Kon
[info]sanguinesolo
2011-05-02 01:57 am UTC (link)
Now that they were out of the crowd Allana could see that Kon was definitely out of his element. She noted the disapproving glances he was shooting off at everyone with anything stronger than a drink in their hands and raised her eyebrows in surprise. Then again, she mused as she took another sip of her drink I guess it makes sense. Clark’s supposed to be his mentor and the guy is probably in the dictionary next to ‘rules.’ I mean, he charges around stopping muggings and wears a cape because his mom made it for him. He is probably not so much big on the drugs. She couldn’t tell, however, if Kon was following along with Clark’s beliefs, nervous about being caught at the party, or merely feeling awkward in an unfamiliar social situation.

"Looks like you're used to this kind of thing?"

“Does it?” Allana asked, brightened and sat up a bit straighter before it occurred to her that, coming from someone obviously uncomfortable in this scene, that might not exactly be a compliment. “I mean,” she went on a little self-consciously as she swung her legs above the ground from her perch, “this is my cousin’s party so I do know someone here. Plus, when I first got here, I hitched a ride with Cade down to Vegas and hung out there for like a week. Then one of my best friends, you might remember her, Jennifer Check? She had a couple pretty crazy parties, not crazy like this, mostly drinking and, um—“ she cut off and blushed as she realized the embarrassing impossibility of saying ’and attempts at crazy orgies’ to Kon, “and, um, you know, other stuff. After a while it kind of stops fazing you, you know? And it can be fun, you know, just saying ‘hey, screw it’ to all your responsibilities for a little while. Won’t get to do that when I’m older, back home, too much scrutiny.”

She took another sip of her drink and let her gaze wander out over the porch and yard, and bit her lip. “Back home though? Definitely not, I was totally sheltered. I mean, everyone always said they weren’t going to coddle me, and I did hear a lot of stuff normal kids didn’t I guess, I went with my grandparents on peace-keeping missions and no one ever censored current events for me so I saw a lot of stuff. Drugs or parties though? No way. When I first got here I wasn’t even used to hanging out with people my own age. I mean, I couldn’t tell anyone my real name or make friends and actually be honest with them at home, much less get to see,” she waved her hand to indicate the scene around her, “any of this.” It was weird, when she’d first gotten here she’d wanted nothing more than to go home. She still missed her versions of grandparents and Jaina as well as Ben, Anji and even great uncle Luke and his lectures desperately, but going home meant losing the people here. It might even mean forgetting them. It meant going back to Hapes and never having the opportunity to be an irresponsible teenager again.

“What about you?” she asked as she shook off the semi-serious mood she’d somehow slipped into and smiled up at her friend. You are too easy to talk to sometimes. I have to watch that or I’ll end up embarrassing myself. “You seem kind of…not so much used to this?” The tone was, again, curious rather than judgmental. Somehow this didn’t seem like something to tease Kon about, easy as it would be to mock his sudden responsible side.

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Re: Allana&Kon
[info]nightwingingit
2011-05-02 02:23 am UTC (link)
It was both really. Though this Clark in their current reality was probably a little less harsh then his, there were still times he worried about getting judged too harshly for making mistakes like wild booze filled parties and the like. Force of habit really. Where he was from, most people thought Batman was a scary mentor. But Superman was absolutely perfect in every single way, and Kon was most definitely not. He was still a teenager, he still made judgement errors that got him a disapproving look that he was giving to most of Cade's house guests. It was actually a pretty good replica of his Clark's displeased face. It was almost too bad that Clark wasn't there to see it. The way she corrected herself made Kon realize that his words could have sounded a little insulting, so he just grinned a little. " It's not a bad thing, since you seem to know how to handle yourself unlike most of these people.." He trailed off, and still sounded like he was scolding the party goers.

He shook his head a little and looked at her curiously. "Vegas huh? Been there once. But it wasn't so much fun as it was mission, evil bad guy, and possible end of reality." He continued to watch her and seemed a little lost on what she was trying to say, but shrugged. " I can see that. This place actually, ending up here didn't faze me as much as it has most people. This is the first Alternate Reality with a Biblical apocalypse, but not the weirdest I've seen. " He admitted with a tiny shrug and folded his arms as he leaned next to her. "Sounds nice." Kon sometimes wished he could forget about being Superboy for a while, but then he was constantly reminded of how the world needed Superman and Superboy and destiny didn't take no for an answer.

"Seems complicated. But at least you get to do it here. " He was always on the side of the glass being half full, another thing he could blame Clark for. Always tried to be positive like him and hope for the best of things. "Where I was living there weren't many parties like that..I mean there were typical high school parties that had a similar tone, but between being with the Teen Titans on the weekend, and being Superboy I guess I never really even had time to try it. " He paused and smirked fondly at a memory. "Living in Titans Tower was almost like a party. We were based in San Fransisco, it's a city that never sleeps. " It was clear he missed home. "There was always someone to hang out with, but you know minus the whole booze and drugs and plus some freaky meta super human powers."

"What's it like, having family around?' Kon never really had a real family of his own. He had the Kents for a while, but he was more or less adopted and never really felt at home there. "It was weird you know, I finally accepted Smallville as home and then ended up here. At least not everything sucks about it though." He looked up at her pointedly and offered a warm smile. "I like some parts of it."

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{Somewhere around arrival-time}
[info]tricksterjaina
2011-04-29 08:23 am UTC (link)
Jaina was pretty much more than ready to chill out, get a little more than vaguely drunk, and forget this whole nightmare of a week and a half - or the whole last month or two - had even happened, at least for a few hours. It seemed like Lawrence was even more stressful than back home was - okay, maybe not quite, it was probably about the same, but at least there, the rules made sense.

Here, in Lawrence.... anything could happen - and did. There were countless variables and things that could go wrong, and it seemed like the chances of them going wrong were a lot higher than she liked.

The whole Alema debacle with the giant bugs, alone, had been... draining. Feeling people die constantly for more than a week, not being able to do anything to stop it - and then a hundred people, all at once, on top of the normal numbers? It was hard, blocking that kind of thing out. Jaina wasn’t the only Jedi - or psychic in general, really - in the city who had been having a hard time with all of that. It made her angry - not far enough to cross a line, just just far enough that she could see that line. Far enough that Jacen had seen it and told her to stay away.

Jacen didn’t trust her. Anakin didn’t trust her. She wasn’t sure what she’d done that had made that happen, didn’t know how to fix it, but there it was..

...and she wasn’t even going to think about the whole issue with Gabriel, and how stupid she was being by even caring what happened to the archangel.

So, okay, a party wasn’t exactly her ideal environment, ordinarily - there were occasions, certainly, but for the most part she was a bit more of a fan of the quieter forms of relaxation - but tonight she was going to give it a shot. Maybe it would be fun - or at least a chance to drown her thoughts out with the loud music she could hear before she even reached the house. It was loud enough to get lost in, and right now that sounded perfect. Quiet would leave her too much space for thinking, too much space to start feeling the sawed-on nerves sensation of grief in the apartments around her own, in the streets and buildings and city around her.

It was here, too, that grief. But here it was numbed down, tucked away under forced-bliss and drinks and chemicals, under the heavy beats of the music and the rules of socialization that said everyone wore a mask in public to hide any problems they were dealing with. Jaina’s own mask - a bright, albeit slightly uncertain, smile on her face as she pushed in past the collection of strangers and into the house.

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Maureen and OPEN!
[info]divaneedsastage
2011-04-30 04:01 am UTC (link)
A party was just what the doctor ordered, and Maureen sure as Hell wasn't going to miss a good party. She spent a while on her appearance, after all Maureen wouldn't be herself if she didn't invest a good amount of time making herself look good. Not that she didn't think she looked good without make-up, but she liked enhancing what God gave her. After she perfected her look for the night, Maureen made her way to the address Cade had given. She was going to dance and drink to her heart's content, and hopefully hook up with someone, or even a couple someones, while at it. She had no idea what to expect when she arrived, but she sincerely hoped it would be one Hell of a party.

Arriving fashionably late, because it took her that long to get dressed, Maureen could hear the pounding of the music from the drive. She smirked, knowing that was a very good sign. When she made it inside the house, the sights she found were, to say the least, something out of her dreams. People everywhere, snacks, booze, loud music. This could even be better than the Clit Club! Well, if there was a woman in rubber here, then it would be perfect, but Maureen was perfectly content with what she saw. Slipping into the crowd, Maureen quickly found herself a drink, then managed to find a spot to dance. Maureen had a very good feeling about this party. Though she'd make an effort to stay away from the illicit drugs as best as she could. Drugs weren't exactly her thing. Alcohol was about as far as she went with making herself feel good and having a good time.

As she danced, she glanced around at the people, looking for any familiar faces. Not that she'd really grown close to many people, but she could always make friends quickly. Keeping them, however, sometimes proved difficult. No one really ever understood Maureen and her need, and want, to have fun regardless of what that meant. Though she tended to grate people the wrong way because she was so set in her ways and was unwilling to change. Sure, she'd played lap-dog for Joanne for a while, but she'd finally snapped and had enough of being good. Nothing rewarding ever came of being good, so instead Maureen liked being the bad girl. Closing her eyes, Maureen moved her body to beat of the music, and just let go. After the stress of staying in her room because of the evil space bugs, Maureen was more than ready to let loose.

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Shilo and OTA
[info]mistakendestiny
2011-05-01 12:23 am UTC (link)
Shilo had yet to leave Cade's after the sleep walking and bug biting incident. Mostly because it hadn't been safe to do so and then there was the party the next day. So really, it had seemed to be pointless. She was just going to be coming back as it were. Not to mention the government types were there and after everything that had happened back on Sanitation Island, Shilo wasn't exactly looking to make enemies with the government. For all she knew, they could turn on them and do who knew what. True, it had been all of GeneCo and it's influence, but they had control of the government or so it seemed, so the wig wearing seventeen year old was wary.

At first, the music had been far too loud for the sheltered teen's liking, but she was getting used to it. Or going deaf. She really couldn't tell for certain. She had done a lot of watching of people, trying to get a feel for what to do in such a situation. Goodness knew her father would have freaked if he knew she were at such a gathering, but her father wasn't there. Last she knew, he was dead. So what did it really matter? So watching people doing all sorts of illicit things was a learning experience.

Watching some people sniff something off of the table, Shilo scrunched her nose up. They seemed to enjoy it, but Shilo just couldn't understand why someone would want to sniff something off a table. It really didn't seem all that sanitary. Note to self, she wasn't going to be trying that. Moving through the throngs of people, the teen pushed herself into the kitchen and went in search of something to drink. Not that she really knew what anything was, but that was the point of this, right? To try new things? At least things that didn't seem like they would be completely unsanitary.

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Shilo and Puuuuuuuck!
[info]fullcommando
2011-05-01 06:34 am UTC (link)
If there was a party worth going to, Puck was there. Yeah, he was a dad who pulled more hours than the average guy his age would, working to support his family and all that, but Puck was still Puck. He loved to party and, with all the shit that had been going down in Lawrence lately, he knew he needed to go out, loosen up, get crazy drunk, and have the best goddamn time he'd had in a while. The bugs and their ugly bitch leader were gone, the party was on, and Puck was more than ready to bring himself, his badassery, and - above all else - his poor, attention deprived stash of weed out to play. Tonight he was getting fucked up and he didn't really care who knew it, because both he and everyone else deserved it. That was why they were all here, right? Fucking aliens come along and pull some crazy attack of the giant twenty-legged monster shit on them? If someone was at the tail end of all that, at a party like the one Cade was throwing now, and sober, then said someone was either not human or the biggest prude in the whole wide world, because Puck was pretty sure that everyone else was here to get wrecked. He was beginning to realize that if you lived in this city, you kind of needed to in order to get by sometimes. He had to slack on it a lot more than he wanted to on account of having to take care of and protect Beth most of the time, but knowing that she was in good hands tonight made it real easy for Puck to slip back into that party animal persona that he used to be so well-known for back when he was still trudging through the halls of McKinley high school.

Half stoned and working up a buzz, Puck cruised his way through the crowd of people swarming Cade's place. It was a solid party. People drinking, people dancing, people making out in dark corners without a single care in the world as far as to who might be watching the show - so far, so good. Everything that Puck had predicted and then some, because his high school grade drug usage seemed to have nothing on the snow that he'd spotted a few people dosing up on in the next room over. It wasn't anything he hadn't seen before, nor was it something that he hadn't tried before, but Puck was pretty chill with smoking his own stash up first before he started raiding anything else that was on the floor.

Elbowing his way into the kitchen, Puck dropped his empty beer bottle into an already overflowing trashcan, side-stepped some dude who looked like he was tripping on a real special kinda high, and started for the fridge for another drink.

There was a girl there when he got there. Dark hair. Pale. Not ugly, though. Puck popped open another beer, hoisted himself up so that he was sitting on the counter beside the fridge, and leaned over so that Shilo couldn't possibly grab at anything that was in the fridge without noticing him.

"Hey," he started, going for The Nod. Yes, The Nod. A lift of the chin, a casual eyebrow raise. It was a patented move. He knew it well. "What's up?"

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Shilo and Puuuuuuuck!
[info]mistakendestiny
2011-05-01 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Once she was in the kitchen, Shilo looked around. There were still a lot of people in here, going for punch bowls and the fridge. She wasn't sure if she could trust the punch bowl. She hadn't exactly been paying attention during the drink preparations. She probably could, because a lot of people were going for the punch bowls but who knew what was in it. Stop being so afraid. Mentally chiding herself because the whole point of this was to get out of her sheltered shell, Shilo steeled herself and started towards the fridge. She would start with something that was in there. Loosen up. That sounded like it would be a good plan. She would work her way up to the unknown drink in the punch bowl. Because as naive as she was, Shilo wasn't that naive. She knew that the punch wasn't simply punch. Not at a party like this.

At the fridge, Shilo was about to open it when Puck appeared out of nowhere. There was no way he could be talking to her. After all, why would anyone talk to her? Well, Allana and Kon had talked to her since she had been there, but they were exceptions to the rule. Right? So looking around, Shilo was confused when she saw that he was, indeed, talking to her. Now how did she react?! She wished Graverobber was there to explain this to her, but she had a feeling that, despite his own dealings with illicit materials, he would not exactly be keen on her in this setting.

"Um... hi?" Folding the synthetic hair behind her ear, Shilo took a breath. She could do this. She could hold a conversation with someone, she could! "Nothing much. You?"

That was how it went, she had seen other people respond similarly. Though she hadn't seen much of The Nod. She wasn't sure on what to think of Puck, but she'd feel it out. She couldn't learn if she was cowered in a corner all night because she was severely out of her element.

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Shilo and Puuuuuuuck!
[info]fullcommando
2011-05-02 11:33 pm UTC (link)
She seemed nervous. The hell was she so nervous about? Probably me, Puck realized, arms folding over his chest confidently. She didn't know how to deal with a guy like him approaching her. It was just casual conversation, for now, but judging from the looks of it, casual conversation was more than what this girl had been getting all night. Which sucked. Where were her friends? Didn't she realize that this was a party? You were supposed to bring people. Or at least interact with people. It really didn't look like this girl was doing much of that. She didn't have any friends lurking in the kitchen, waiting around for her to get her drink so they could go back to doing whatever they were doing, and there was something about her demeanor that screamed loner. And, really, the loner thing kind of confused Puck, because who came to a party to hang out with themselves? It just didn't make sense.

Bringing a hand up to brush through his mohawk, Puck flashed the girl a smile. All righty, then. The loner status was gonna have to go out the window. He'd made a few new friends in the next room over, but he wasn't too bothered with them. Two of them were dating, probably off making out in some abandoned room by now, and the other was tripping out on something fierce, so Puck was pretty sure that if he went back in to hang with her, he'd end up having to clean up puke and escort her around all night. It was better to leave her to it, that way she could go skip off to wherever her friends were and he wouldn't have to be weighed down for the night. This was better. He'd make with the socializing with this pale chick here and maybe, with his help, she'd be able to loosen up and have a good time.

Judging this girl on the spot like that was more than a douchey move on his part, but Puck was kind of a douche anyway - an assumptuous douche at that - so it really didn't seem like such a big deal to him. He needed to ditch someone, she needed to hang out with someone. As far as he was concerned, it was win/win all around.

"Hanging out," Puck told her, shrugging. "Pretty good party, huh? That Cade dude had the right idea, starting up something like this after all that shit."

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Cade and OTA
[info]karkdestiny
2011-05-01 01:22 am UTC (link)
Cade was buzzing. This wasn't a metaphor. As he wove his way through the sea of bodies dancing in the Great Room, he was actually shaking. Carelessly tossing an empty bottle of pills over his shoulder, he closed on one pretty girl in a sequined shirt, tiny black skirt and nothing else and pulled her close. He didn't know her, would never see her again, and as he began grinding his hips against hers and locking her lips with his, he didn't give a damn. She wasn't a person to him, not really. She was a thing, something to try and banish the writhing, rotting darkness that was always eating away at him.

He was already moving on before she could even start to kiss him back, leaving her standing bewildered for a moment. She wasn't the first girl he'd done that to so far, and she really wouldn't be the last. She wasn't helping and she wasn't so pretty as to be that interesting, so what little interest she'd actually held was gone. Why bother wasting time? He moved on through the crowd, sampling a few others here and there as he moved toward a table that held two coolers packed to the brim with bottles of what he'd been assured was the best microbrew in the city. Cade ducked out of the writhing mass of bodies long enough to pluck one from the cooler and then dipped over to where a group of people were snorting lines of cocaine off what appeared to be a fold-out card table.

Without really stopping his forward momentum he dipped and spun, burying his face in a line of coke which he proceeded to snort. The startled guests protested, but as he finished his third dose of coke for the night he just laughed, told them to fuck off, and sent the cap of his beer bottle spinning toward one of their faces. He didn't bother hanging around to see if it hit, instead ducking right back into the dancing, sliding up behind a random girl and sliding his free hand around her waist. "They didn't tell me one of the fed's most wanted was here today," he purred, dipping his head close enough that his breath could be felt on her ear. "'Cause it's gotta be a crime to look that good."

It was a terrible pick-up line but he was half-drunk, tweaking out, and getting lightheaded from some random pain pills. His usual skills were well beyond him at this point.

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Cade and Santana
[info]sandbags
2011-05-02 02:38 am UTC (link)
Santana thought that a party was the perfect solution to this whole...bug thing. Then again she was still trying to nurse the rejection that had come from Brittany, so anything to take her mind off of that was good for her. She didn't like sitting around and doing nothing, hell, she didn't like this whole situation; it sucked with a capital 's'. Being dragged to drab, boring, and stupid Kansas was awful. Then again, Ohio wasn't really the best place in the world either. It was taking a lot to get used to all of this right now. The fact that Quinn, Puck, Tina, and Kurt were here....sort of made it easier, it meant that she wasn't completely alone. None of them compared to Brittany, though. The two were best friends, and more. Santana wanted to be much more. In her heart of hearts she knew damn well that she wasn't bi-sexual, though that had been what she had told Brit. She wasn't ready to deal with all of her feelings and what they meant, even more so now that she was in a strange place. Though, she was a television character. People could see her life on TV and that was something that was weighing heavy on her mind too. Santana didn't like to think too heavily on things, so....it was time to party.

She'd never been an angel, not by any means. That was exactly how Santana had gotten her clothes for the party. She was really good at shoplifting. Not that she had ever needed to shoplift, she'd always gotten a thrill out of it. The red halter top that she'd chosen showed her cleavage off perfectly and her shoulders and arms were exposed. She'd chosen a pair of straight legged jeans to go with the halter top, and topped that off with a pair of wedges that were pretty comfortable. She was hot, and she knew it. Her hair was down and curled, which just topped off the whole look, pretty much. She didn't get to the party exactly on time, but who the hell came to a good party early? Fashionably late got you far more attention.

Santana had gone light on the booze thus far. She had already had about two drinks and that had been after she'd danced and then during a break from dancing. She was feeling pretty good at the moment too. Santana had literally just flitted through the crowd and gone back to dancing. She was just slightly surprised when she felt a hand slide around her waist. Santana didn't really care who it was, the face didn't matter. She knew automatically that it wasn't the person she wanted to be close to. Anyone would do, though.

Hearing the distinctly male voice practically purr in her ear, Santana let a smirk pull at her lips. That wasn't the best pick-up line she'd ever heard, but hey, she'd take it. Turning her head, Santana could see it was the guy she'd flirted with on the boards. He was hot, and she could appreciate that, definitely. Turning toward him, Santana leaned in sensually to speak into his ear, "I'm a bad girl, what can I say. It's fun to be bad."

Santana figured she didn't have to try too hard right now. This guy probably wasn't that picky. At the same time she didn't care, whoever was available was fine. Anything for the attention and to drown out some of the pain that Brittany had caused. This made sure that no one really knew...unless they watched that damn show, but she was hoping that not many people did that. She pulled back to take a look at the guy again, a slight smirk, allowing her body to move to the beat of the music.

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Team WTF
[info]karkdestiny
2011-05-01 01:30 am UTC (link)
(OOC: Sorry this took so long, folks. RL stuff. Also, this is gonna take a few comments, so bear with me.)

Cade was so far out of his head at this point that it was any wonder he wasn’t having a legitimate out of body experience. He’d stripped off his shirt hours ago and at this point didn’t even know who he was dancing with. For that matter, he was so lost to the desire to be anywhere but in his own skin that he couldn’t have told you who’s lips he was devouring right now. There was only one thing he could tell you, really.

He could tell you that he still felt like death warmed over.

It didn’t matter how many drugs he snorted or swallowed. It didn’t matter how much booze he poured into his system. It didn’t matter how many pretty girls he rubbed up against or made out with or grinded against. Even coked up so high that most people would have been seizing, he couldn’t get away from that terrible yawning darkness inside. Some days he could almost pretend it was gone. Some days he could almost convince himself he was okay. But all the death in Alema’s clusterfuck tore down those pitiful little self-delusions of his. In the end, it was all he could do to cling to some last little shred of sanity as flashbacks assaulted him and his delusions wore away. Left bare of his defenses, all he could do was try to cower away from the abyss whatever way he could. He’d hoped that crazy bitch with the dead friend would pick a fight with him and give him the excuse he needed to release some of the pressure building behind his eyes, but she hadn’t. Left without that release, his sanity was like a pressure valve trying to hold back an ocean’s worth of steam.

That’s why he was throwing the party. He wasn’t celebrating a damn thing. What was there to celebrate? That wasn’t what the party was for. The party was his last ditch attempt to will the dark, twisted little genie back in the bottle, but even that wasn’t working now. He could feel it working on him. Eating away at him. He just wanted to get away from it all. He just wanted to feel good, but even his usual methods of battling back the pain he’d been living with for seven years were no longer working. Drugs, booze, flesh, nothing was helping. And the more Cade hurt, the more the pain tore away at chunks of who he was, the more he felt the urge. The deep, gnawing hunger he’d felt since Ossus.

The hunger to make everything that lived die.

It was probably not the greatest time for an annoying little voice to interrupt him from kissing on…whoever it was he was kissing on. Cade tried to ignore the little gnat, but it kept calling his name insistently, and the lips that he was trying to lose himself in pulled back, jerking him back to a level of awareness he definitely did not want to be at. He glared balefully at the girl and spun on his heel, already dismissing her from his mind, and instead focused on a short redheaded kid that looked barely older than him. “WHAT?!” He punctuated the gesture by grabbing the guy by the collar and jerking his face closer to his, his lip curling in anger. “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT?” Cade didn’t add that if it wasn’t important, the guy was liable to get thrown into a table.

Taken aback by the violent gesture, the guy stuttered for a few minutes before getting out a reply. “Dude, ease up!” The guy tried to wriggle out of Cade’s grasp, but Cade was more than used to holding on to struggling opponents. His grip was solid. “There’s a soldier at the door or something, dude! We’re fucked.”

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Re: Team WTF
[info]karkdestiny
2011-05-01 01:32 am UTC (link)
A soldier at the door. The thought should have sent Cade into a panic. There were drugs all over the place, not to mention a lot of underage drinking. Jail was a very real possibility. Most people would probably have been running around like chickens with their heads cut off…but that didn’t happen. Instead, a strange sort of calm fell over Cade. His features smoothed out from the angry snarl they had been, and he even let the guy go. “A soldier, huh? Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.”

“Take care of it? He’s gonna-”

“You relax now,” Cade replied, the slight wave of a hand being the only clue he was even doing anything. “You really want to just mellow out with the stoners over there.”

“Man, I am so fucking stressed. I should go chill with the potheads.” Cade chuckled, gave the guy a brief attaboy, and then started shoving through the assembled gathering, apparently uncaring as to who, or how hard, he shoved. He happened to be on the lower floor this time, so it didn’t take him long to get to the door. The whole time he walked, he continued to half-dance, his head bobbing all over the place and turning his shaggy blonde hair into an effective veil over most of his face. He finally seemed to calm as he neared the door.

He spotted Shilo there and tilted his head, giving her a strangely gleeful smile from under his hair. There was something off about the smile, something just a little too wide that made it look less happy and more demented. Just as soon as it was there it as gone, hidden under the hair again, and then Cade threw open the door with far more exaggeration and fanfare than was necessary to greet the soldier. To any onlookers, the soldier seemed pleasant enough. He didn’t start off yelling, despite the volume of the music, and he didn’t seem to be making aggressive behaviors. From the soldiers end, it looked as if all he really wanted was a friendly chat.

That wasn’t what Cade wanted.

The smug look plastered to his face and the animated body language were the first clue that Cade wasn’t listening. Whatever the soldier was saying, Cade just seemed to be blowing it off. People near the door may have heard a few shouted obscenities, with Cade more than once telling the soldier what he could go do with himself, and even a few borderline threats. There was nothing clearly threatening, but everything that could be heard sounded smug and patronizing. It was clear this wasn’t sitting well with the soldier, but he seemed to be trying to restrain himself, even as Cade moved the insults on to a more personal nature. Finally Cade could be heard shouting the word “cocaine” and a second later “mother” “dog” and “fucking”. At which point the soldier’s eyes got very wide, and then very narrow, and then the soldier wasn’t having a friendly chat anymore. He started to try and shove past Cade, and Cade stopped him with a hand on his chest, shouting something about a warrant, though considering he’d just admitted to having cocaine in the house, anyone that knew the law would know that was no longer strictly necessary. Another much more heated argument began and lasted for several minutes, this time with the soldier shouting and Cade just laughing in the poor man’s face.

And then all hell broke loose.

With a jerk of one hand, Cade used the Force to yank the soldier off his feet and into the house. It wasn’t so much a little tug as it was a horribly forceful throw, sending the heavily armed soldier sailing about ten feet into the room, where guests hurried to get out of the way of his rough landing in the Great Room. Cade spun on his heel and began advancing on the downed man, neglecting to even close the doors. The soldier, for his part, rolled onto his back and struggled a bit with an assault rifle strapped to his person. Normally it would have been faster, but a guy had just telekinetically thrown him ten feet, the poor man could be excused for being slightly less collected than he usually would have been.

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Re: Team WTF
[info]karkdestiny
2011-05-01 01:32 am UTC (link)
Unfortunately, those few seconds lost him the advantage. Already at the soldier’s feet as he leveled the rifle, a single Force pull drew his father’s silver-hilted saber from his belt and a simple twitch of his thumb ignited the green blade. One smooth cut severed the barrel of the rifle from the rest of the gun, and a wave of Cade’s free hand jerked what was left of the weapon from its owner’s hand and flung it carelessly off into the room. Before the soldier could react, Cade brought his free hand around and up again, using the Force to grip his spine and jerk him into the air. Hair still veiling his eyes, Cade began a slow progression around the screaming soldier as if sizing up prey. Suddenly the party was over and, while the music still throbbed, nobody was dancing anymore. Cade didn’t care. Hell, he didn’t even notice. Every single ounce of his being was focused on the hapless victim he was holding restrained in the air.

It was almost comical, in a twisted, horrifying sort of way. The soldier hung there like a marionette who had lost all but the string on his back, limbs limp due to Cade’s vicegrip squeezing his spine tight. Cade was a shirtless eighteen year old with nothing more than a single saber on his person, and the soldier was fully armed and armored and had at least a decade on his aggressor. “Does all that armor make you feel safe, soldier-boy?” Cade’s voice could be clearly heard screaming out over the music, drawing even more attention than a floating soldier had previously. “HUH?!” That too-wide smile lit up his face again, but as it did, he threw back his head in a raucous laugh that finally revealed his eyes.

His bloodshot, red-orange eyes.

“I’ll let you in on a little secret,” he snarled out, and then almost too fast for people to track, slashed out four times with his saber. Each slash found its mark, and a second later the body armor and weapons adorning the soldier dropped away, leaving him starkly less guarded. For his part, the soldier looked completely panicked, and it was more than obvious he had no idea what was going on. Raising his voice even louder, sounding as if the scream was torn from a wounded, dying animal rather than a man, Cade shouted, “NO ONE IS EVER SAFE!”

And then the soldier jerked in the air as Cade’s grip went from his spine...to his throat. Again Cade said something, but this time it couldn’t be heard over the clash of the music. Those close enough or those that could read lips, though, could make it out clearly. “Die…”

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Re: Team WTF
[info]mistakendestiny
2011-05-01 04:56 am UTC (link)
Shilo had no idea what she had been drinking. It was interesting and it made her feel all... fuzzy. That was the word for it, right? She wasn't really sure to be honest. She was just aware of the fact that she felt hot. People had tried to offer her drugs, but the teen had managed to stay away from that. She had seen what Zydrate had done to people, and while she didn't know exactly what she was being offered, the way it was done left her feeling as though she probably shouldn't partake in anything. It was just the alcohol. No one actually offered it to her, it had just been there. So she had been drinking it, figuring that it was safe. It should be, right? After all, people did illicit things in the streets for the most part. It was packaged differently. Or so she thought. Shilo had no idea how the world worked so she had no idea that drinking alcohol was probably a bad idea for someone who didn't realize what they were doing.

Because of the feeling of heat, Shilo had been pushing her way to the door when the soldier had shown up. She had watched as the door was answered and the red head went to get Cade. Suddenly Shilo wasn't so worried about getting outside to cool off. She was worried about what the government person wanted. After all, it couldn't be to come to the party, it had been going on for hours, and while people had been coming and going, it was a little late to be just showing up. So Shilo remained where she was, watching warily.

And then Cade showed up. At first she thought that things would be fine. But the smile he gave her was unsettling. It left her feeling even more vulnerable and scared. Repo men were scary because they wore masks. But if they grinned like that, they'd be even more terrifying. But maybe she was just over reacting, that had to be it.... But the conversation left her ill at ease. Cade was obviously playing the soldier, messing with him. Something about this was wrong, she just couldn't put her finger on it. At least, she couldn't until Cade used the Force to bring the soldier inside. Then things got interesting.

Shilo watched in stunned horror as he started to attack the man who, from what she could tell, had been trying to just get things to calm down. Shilo was sheltered, violence scared her. It made her think of her father. Of Rotti. Of things she didn't want to think about at all, things that still gave her nightmares as it was all so fresh in her mind. But what could she do? She was a weak seventeen year old and Cade had saved her life.... But this wasn't right.

Jumping as Cade raised his voice, Shilo snapped out of her haze and moved forward, eyes going wide at the last word. Self preservation kept her from grabbing onto the eighteen year old's arm, but she did still move closer.

"Cade, stop it!" It wasn't like she knew what to say in these situations. But he had to stop and someone had to say it.

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Re: Team WTF
[info]tricksterjaina
2011-05-01 05:12 am UTC (link)
This was not what Jaina had expected when she’d accepted the harmless-looking little pill from that... guy. With the hair, and the piercings all over his face, and the happiest Force-sense she’d felt in a while. She’d expected happy - and even that she wouldn’t have been okay with trying if it weren’t for the fact that she was already more than pleasantly drunk, melting into the chair she’d planted herself in. So she’d accepted the pill, the ‘gift’ the grinning kid with the green in his hair and the giant pupils had delivered to her, and she’d taken it with her next drink.

...now, though, she was starting to think maybe that was a bad idea. She could hardly see straight, like she was wobbling around when she was sitting still, and that giant squid in the corner wasn’t going to go away on its own. She had to do something about it. No one else seemed to notice it, and she couldn’t sense it in the Force, and, just, as soon as she could figure out where her feet had gone she was going to go over there and have a serious talk with it about it’s behavior. Wiggling it’s tentacles around, draping itself over the backs of couches in the middle of a party... it was rude, was what it was. And after the Killiks, she didn’t really think anybody was going to take very well to a giant pink squid creature. It needed to go home.

And after she dealt with that, she’d deal with the moose she was pretty sure had walked into the kitchen ten minutes ago. Force only knew what kind of trouble a moose could get up to in there.

Earth parties were weird.

She finally managed to find her feet - they were right there, attached to her legs, draped over the arm of the chair - and stand up on them. Walking was a little harder, ‘cause the ground seemed to have turned into a giant spongey thing, but she managed, heading for the couch and the misbehaving squid, practically swimming through the crowded room and the syrupy air, moving in slow motion, or maybe everyone else was just moving really fast...

She was distracted from her target when she sensed, more than saw, everything come to an abrupt halt. She spun in place, trying to find the source of the stillness - and the source of the abrupt dark blot that had just grown. It had been there earlier, and she was pretty sure she’d been worried about it earlier, but then she hadn’t been anymore, and she hadn’t noticed, but this, now - she could feel it, and she headed off in that direction, floor squishing under her feet, following the crowd of curious partiers.

Oh, there was a guy floating in the air, and Cade was yelling at him, and he had his lightsaber, and, what? Was this... a thing? This must have been a thing, like something that wasn’t supposed to be going on. Cade wasn’t supposed to feel that dark, right? Right. And she didn’t think this was the pizza guy, and Cade was facing the wrong way to be fighting off that houseplant that had eyes and fangs, so obviously this wasn’t about that, either, which meant it was bad news.

She shoved past some people to stand at the edge of the group that had pretty much left a big empty ring of space around Cade and the floating ...soldier? Whatever he was. “Uh, heyyy,” Jaina started, and then gave up on words because they were hard to come up with, and her tongue felt weird and almost like it was foam. Stupid drugs. She didn’t have time to get them out of her system right now, she’d just have to improvise.

Using the Force to pull on his lightsaber would probably work, right? Right. If he didn’t have his lightsaber he wouldn’t kill that guy with it, and not killing that guy would be a good thing, and, so, right, yes. Good plan. Except reaching out with the Force felt like reaching out into some kind of wiggly ...thing that wiggled, that made it kinda hard to focus on the lightsaber. The end result was a couple of Force-pokes in Cade’s general direction before she finally got what she was looking for and pulled.

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Team WTF (FTW!)
[info]sanguinesolo
2011-05-01 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Keeping an eye on her cousin had proven easier said than done. The place was crowded, she was a little buzzed (she’d felt weird getting properly drunk when she knew Kon would be sober), she was talking to Kon…and if she was honest, even with the best of intentions, she hadn’t wanted to see what was right in front of her. It had been a long, horrible couple of weeks. She mostly just wanted to be a teenager at a party talking to her friends, not worried about which member of her family was going dark side this week. So she danced and chatted with people and, crazy as the party was, had a good time. She could probably get a buzz off the minds of the people around her alone and the alcohol fueled-one she had built for herself only helped. Everything’s fine, she told herself, or as close to fine as it can be. We’ll all figure it out or get it out of our systems or whatever. If Jacen can keep from going Sith again through all this then it can’t all go to Hell now right? The music was loud, the people around her were having fun, she was having fun, and everything was going to be fine.

…and then the darkness from Cade’s Force signature spiked, hitting her like a physical blow, and for a moment she was a child again, just after leaving Dathomir, hysterical at the darkness she thought she felt in her uncle Luke and thinking not again, not again. This time, however, she wasn’t a child with no options except panic, and she whirled away from her conversation mid-sentence and took off down the stairs, shoving people roughly aside with the aid of the Force as she moved towards the source of the darkness. She had been further away than Jaina or Shilo, and had arrived on the scene just in time to hear Cade scream at the soldier he was holding aloft with the Force. She started shoving her way through the last few people between her and the action as he stripped away the man’s body armor and broke through the circle as Shilo called out to him to stop and Jaina reached out (with a strange sort of hesitance and…okay, she wasn’t even going to think about that right now) with the Force for his saber.

For her part Allana stepped into the middle of the circle and put herself physically between Cade and the soldier as well as she could with him floating like that even as she concentrated on throwing up a Force shield around the soldier. The shield didn’t cover her, it hadn’t occurred to Allana that her cousin might hurt her, even accidentally, and she had no idea if it would be effective—Cade was much more practiced than her and probably stronger, but she had to try. Maybe just feeling the resistance of the shield would help bring him to his senses, or at least make him hesitate long enough for the rest of them to get the soldier away. Her actions were steady enough and decisive, point A to point B tactical maneuvers, but her eyes were wide and the hand she extended, palm out, as she threw up the Force shield trembled minutely.

“Cade, come on, let him go,” she called, tone almost pleading as she raised her voice to be heard above the music and finally looked her cousin in the eye. Despite thinking she was prepared for it, she couldn’t stop herself from flinching at the red-orange tint she saw there.

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