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« Thread Started on Mar 1, 2007, 3:16am » | |
Rayned sighed as she twirled a sucker around in her mouth. Waiting in line for entrance into Asylum had to be the most boring thing in the world. Atleast she and the group she went out with on friday nights were near the front of the line this time. Rayne tugged at the sleeves of her coat and grumbled. All she wanted to do was dance and have a good time before work the next day. Standing in a line did not count as a good time.
Though standing in line did have some good points, she tought as she eyed the men guarding the main entrance to Asylum. It was the one on the right side of the door that had caught her interest. Not because he was good looking, which he was, but because of the hallow, tough look to him. That and he always seemed confused when anyone flirted with him. Her grandfather had told her that she had a sixth sense about other people and she just knew that this man was missing something in his life. Or he just needed to get laid. She been wrong about that missing something before.
Regardless of the man's need to get laid or not, Rayne had to remind herself to stay out of his problems. Birds and other animals were fine but people were expressly off limits. She still had the bruises from the last time she tried to help someone.
Being slammed into a brick wall not only hurt but led to a colorful array of bruises along her shoulders. Not to mention the collection on her knees and sides. She'd gained those bruises from trying to help out an abused wife. Her husband had not reacted favorably to her helping the woman out and had used fists and force to make his opinion known.
Once she'd found her wits, Rayne had used her staff on the man knocking him flat on his back and out cold. After that she'd vowed to not help people unless they asked her first. Not that her vow lessened her near instinctual urge to want to help people.
The fact that going up to this man and saying "hi, I couldn't help but notice that you seem to be lacking something emotionally. I would like to help you find that emotional something. Let's have coffee" seemed like a bad idea that helped keep her insticts at bay.
Rayne signed again as the crowd shuffled foward and pulled the sucker stick from her mouth. There was still a ball of candy on it so she stuck the sucker back into her mouth and twirled it around. When a shout was issued from somewhere behind her, Rayne groaned. Her groan turned into a yelp when someone shoved into her back. The bruises there were still painful and the muscles had knotted up from sleeping in weird positions.
Rayne swallowed down the pain but couldn't help yelping again when an elbow dug into the tender flesh of her back, right between her shoulder blades. The crowd was pushing and shoving to make room for the fight that had broken out between two men a few yards away from her.
The demon part of her was snarling, wanting to be let out and give those men a pounding but she'd always been taught to never unleash any side in the middle of a public space.
Rayne fought against the crowd, trying to move forward, away from from the jumble of limbs that sought to bump into her. She knew that she had to be whitefaced and she was dizzy. She hadn't taken any sort of pain medication, hating the way her mind was fuzzed over by the chemicals and now she was paying for it. Those bruises were deep and still a dark blue color. The elbows always seemed to find the soft spots.
Rayne eventually fought her way to the empty space behind the rop that blocked off the entrance. The group of bounces were already handling the fight but that one man, the one that lacked something emotionally, was still standing guard at the doorway. Rayne looked at him as her mind took a sick, slow turn. She'd passed out from pain before and she was pretty sure that she was about to plant her face into the cement at the man's feet. she looked at him, whimpering when her vision blurred and four lookalikes took the man's place at the door. "I sure hope you know how to catch," she mangaged to croak before her body pitched foward while her eyes rolled backwards.
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« Reply #1 on Mar 3, 2007, 2:10pm » | |
Liam had been working at the Asylum for a couple weeks and by now he'd gotten used to the crowds that gathered outside before the club opened. The fight that started tonight though, he had no experience with and the other bouncers ran off to handle it ordering Liam to guard the door. The lion grumbled and growled at their lack of confidence in him but did as he'd been told. Up until about a month ago he'd been quite used to taking orders and it was a very easy habit to slip back into. Plus, he didn't think that his way of handling those involved in the fight would go over too well with the general public...
Taking a few deep breaths to get his temper, and his lion side Sakhir, under control Liam watched all the shoving and shouting and just glared at the crowd in general when they started shoving closer to the door to get away from the other idiots. Suddenly a woman was before him, he wasn't sure just where she came from, and she was horribly pale. The nxt thing he knew, she was saying she hoped he knew how to catch and hen she passed out!
In an instant Sakhir and Liam jumped to grab her before she hit the ground. Once they had caught her, Sakhir went back to just watching and left poor Liam completely utterly confused as to what to do with the unconcious female. He looked behind him as the club doors opened and more bouncers came out, one of them gestured with his head at Liam to take the girl inside so that's what he did.
The club was still quiet as he entered and he was able to make his way quickly across the empty dance floor. Coming to a door that was marked "Employees Only" he juggled the girl a bit so he could get a hand free to turn the handle and then shoved through once it was open. He made his way to the low-lit employees lounge and gently depositted the unconcious girl on the lone couch in the room. Not sure what to do next, he grabbed a soda out of the fridge and sat at the table across the room from her and watched her for any signs of waking.
((ooc: I'll post Liam's bio soon... I have it all handwritten and just need to actually type it up and post it))
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« Reply #2 on Mar 6, 2007, 1:33am » | |
Ish, her head hurt as if it had been slammed into brick wall, not her back. And that went for her while body. Rayne groaned and turn her head to the left. She was in a strange room. On a strange couch. And, she could see it just out of the corner ofher eye, in a room with a strange man. Rayne scrambled up into a sitting position and whimpered when both head and stomach rolled.
Rayne glanced around the room and clutched her hand against her stomach. "Oh god, I think I'm going to be sick," she said before running another glance around the room. She saw no bathroom and no handy trashcan. Maybe the second helping of her mother's ravoli hadn't been a good idea.
When the strange man shoved a trashcan into her hands, Rayne leaned over it and dry heaved. Nothing came up but more pain. She dropped the bucket to the side of the couch, and flopped back onto the couch. "I still feel sick. Did someone ram an elbow into my stomach?" she muttered to herself and reached a hand down to grip the side of the trashcan just in case her stomach revolted again.
Eventually, her stomach did rebel and emptied itself of dinner. Rayne straighten from leaning over the couch and used the back of her hand to wipe her mouth free of spit and bile. "And now I feel better," she said, having forgotten about the strange man, and sat back on the couch.
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« Reply #3 on Apr 7, 2007, 4:06pm » | |
Liam hadn't been watching the girl long, the music hadn't started out in the club yet, when she finally seemed to be coming to. Judging by the sudden draining of color from her face when she bolted upright, Liam took a wild guess and gently shoved a trashcan into her hands. At this point Liam's training and upringing indicated he should just walk away from the girl and leave her to take care of herself. For some reason though, he just couldn't leave her. He did however return to his seat across the room to give her some space.
When she finally did more than dry heave, Liam cringed at the smell more than the action or the sound. Whatever she'd had for dinner hadn't fully digested and above the smell of stomach acid, his lion nose picked up a hint of pasta sauce and meat. Luckily for him, he hadn't eaten yet...
When she muttered to herself about feeling better and she leaned back on the couch, Liam cleared his throat and asked quietly, "Do you need to see a doctor?" He was asking more to cover the club's ass than out of concern for the girl but he supposed it probably sounded like he cared. He didn't even know the girl, why -would- he care? He was only watching her as closely as he was just in case she was going to faint again or be sick again.
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« Reply #4 on Apr 18, 2007, 9:16pm » | |
"God, no doctors please. My brother is one and he's already poked and prodded at me and probably do another round of proding when i come home looking like this" Rayne grumbled as she slowly pushed her way up. "Did someone smack those idiots upside the head. I swear if they were fighting about something idiotic, like sports, I'll have more done to them then just a smack upside their heads."
Rayne stood up, whincing when her head spun around and she quickly sat back down. "She held a hand out to the guy across the room when he started to get up. "No, don't get up. Just stood up a little too fast. You the guy who caught me? Thanks for that. Now, if you would be so kind as to get me a cab or something. Wait...god....I only have enough cash to cover the cover of this place. Gods, how am I going to get home now?"
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« Reply #5 on Apr 18, 2007, 11:15pm » | |
Liam watched the girl, becoming increasingly more uncomfortable as she talked. There was just something about her demeanor that rubbed him a little wrong. When she started asking rhetorical questions about how she was going to get home, Liam just watched her cautiously. He couldn't tell if this were a psychotic episode related to the fainting or if she was just generally this spazzy...
As if on cue, one of his co-workers came into the breakroom and nodded to the woman before walking over to Liam. Speaking softly, Bryant told Liam, "Take her to the doctor or take her home. Just please whatever you do don't let her out of your sight until she's with doctors or family. Those idiots outside got arrested after they took out a couple more people so we're already under the microscope." The man was about to turn and leave when Liam answered just as quietly, "I don't have a car Bryant, how do you expect me to get her anywhere?" Bryant shrugged and answered, "You caught her, she's your responsibility now." Then he did turn and leave.
Liam sat staring at the door as it closed behind Bryant's back for a few moments before turning his attention back to the girl. Clearing his throat, Liam asked, "Do you need cab fair? I can help with that but the club says I have to go with you wherever you are going to make sure you get there safely." He was obviously leery about the idea but likely not for the reasons that Rayne would have thought. Why couldn't he just let this girl fend for herself like he was raised? The longer he was away from the Pride, the more he realized how outside the "norm" they lived...
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« Reply #6 on Apr 19, 2007, 6:36pm » | |
Rayne strained to listen to the talking men, seeing as they were probably talking about her. She only managed to catch the words home, cab, and door. When one left, leaving her alone with her recuser. She turned to him. "Walk me home please. I don't want my family freaking out. If they see me walking up with some strange guy, they'll just assume I wanted to be alone with said strange guy."
Rayne wobbled around in a small circle. "I hate people. This is why I work with animals. People make concious choices, animals act on inscinct." Rayne turned to look at the other occupant of the room. "So, do I have to walk home alone?" she asked while tugging on the hem of her coat. "Cause I live on the outskirts of town, in the old, historical area."
Rayne knew what lay between the club and her home. The bad part of town, where no one should walk alone. There were people who could walk through those streets alone, like her aunt Dream. Most people took ten very big steps backwards at a very fast pace from Dream.
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« Reply #7 on Jul 29, 2007, 2:20am » | |
It didn't take Liam long to come to the conclusion that this girl was indeed always this spazzy. He listened to her talk for a while and when it seemed she was done he answered her, "I have been told to see you home or to the doctor safely, if that means walking you home that's what I'll do."
His tone was very business-like as he said it but in his head, Liam was wondering just what she'd meant by her family would assume she'd want to be left alone with the strange man. He eventually decided that this was just another quirk non-Pride people had.
((ooc: crappy i know, sorry!))
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« Reply #8 on Nov 24, 2007, 12:08am » | |
Rayne led the way home. It took a good thirty minutes on a busy night so she knew they'd be walking for a while. Once they were out of the club district, Rayne turned to Liam. "So, tell me about yourself. I'm not going to walk in complete silence." Rayne stepped around a puddle and turned so that she was walking backwards.
"Come on, buddy, this is gonna be a long, quiet walk if you don't start talking, I'm just gonna have to start talking about completely random things. Like Dr. Newbian, the vet I work for. Completely useless except when he's caring for animals. Has no sense of the term body odor. I swear he only takes a couple of showers each week."
Rayne kept walking backwards, trusting that this guy would warn her if she was about to fall off the sidewalk or anything else. "And then there is the other people I work with..."
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« Reply #9 on Dec 1, 2007, 1:47am » | |
Liam had been enjoying the night as much as he could in a hectic booming college town. There were so many people, so many smells, so many possible threats. The last thing he needed was for something to jump out of one of the alleys while he tried to walk this girl home.
Then the girl started chattering away. She even started walking backwards while she was talking. Liam just didn't know what to do or say even when she prodded him for information. He actually found her a bit amusing. She was very animated and so totally unlike any other female he'd grown up with. He was slowly coming to realize that his 'family' was not normal and that what -was- considered normal was just incredibly strange.
When she took a breath, Liam decided to oblige her and told her in his slightly guarded tone, "My name is Liam and I grew up in Arizona with a big... extended family." That was all he really knew what to say without going into too many details. And anyway, details weren't his specialty.
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« Reply #10 on Dec 1, 2007, 1:57am » | |
Rayne's first question was "How big of an extended family? Cause I've got a huge family. My mom is one of eight children! Eight! And then I'm just one of five children and most of my aunts of children. And then their is my sister Saiyuri. And my brother Oberon. Okay, So I'm really one of seven children."
Rayne, spun around so that she wasn't walking backwards and clasped her hands behind her back. She winced as the muscles in her back protested. "So, how extended is your extended family? And Arizona? Arizona must be interesting. I've spent my entire life here. Well, most of my life. I've visted Europe and other countries but that's about it really. What about you? Have you ever visted another country?"
Rayne used a light pole to spin herself around in a circle. Her body's natural healing abilities had already numbed the pain in her back so she allowed herself the movements. "It's a pretty nice night, isn't it? I mean, it's not raining or hailing or anything. Not even a cloud in the sky." Rayne spun in circles with her arms raised. Laughing she lowered them and grinned at Liam.
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« Reply #11 on Jan 5, 2008, 2:40am » | |
"Well," he started slowly, "I am one of many... cousins, is I guess what you'd call them, but I don't have any siblings." Then he listened to her as she rattled on more about her family. When she started asking more questions he just kept walking in silence. The sound of her voice, softer than most he knew from growing up, was strangely soothing to him.
Once she started rambling randomly about the weather, he couldn't help but smile slightly. Her little twirl around the light pole also caught his attention though he wasn't exactly sure why. She was a very odd woman, definitely not like any of the females he grew up with.
"This is actually the first place I've ever been besides where I grew up," he eventually answered Rayne. She had asked so many other questions but he just didn't really want to answer. He was not big on talking in general, and even less so about himself.
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