Night on the Town (NJ)

[Demeter]

Troy sat on the arm to the couch Ali had perched herself on. He stuffed his hands into his pockets and winced as he glanced around the living room. It really was quite a mess. What was he saying? It was a disaster area. Clothing, books, empty pizza boxes. It was a glorfied bacherlor's pad for three college juniors.

He tried to be inconspicous as he nudged one of those empty pizza boxes under the couch. And, oh gods, there were some beer cans from last time the three of them had sat around, after midterms, on the sidetable. He really hoped that Chase wasn't offended by just how...unkempt his living arrangments were. And Ali...well, Ali had seen this mess enough times for him not to care what she thought. "So, Ali, what did and didn't you hear?"

[Shinigami]

<<Don't worry about it, Falcon Muse ^^ It's more than enough. We do short posts and long posts, though I think I'm a little too long winded sometimes, lol ^^>>

Darien smiled leaning down and kissing the back of her hand lightly, inwardly wincing at himself. Manners was one thing, but he didn't wish to scare the girl off or make her apprehensive of him, unsure of his intentions. Kissing her hand could be taken as an attempt to flirt, and he didn't wish to flirt, did he? His smile was back in place as he righted himself. "Well, I'm glad I can be of service. If you're looking for someone than the best bet would be to sit at the bar. It's raised a bit, and there is much less of a crowd. I can can gladly show you the way if you'd like."

Darien let it end with a questioning tone, nodding a bit towards the bar. He paused for a minute, waiting to see if she would follow before he lead her in the direction of the bar. His seat was still vacant, as most of the clubers would rather take their drinks out onto the dance floor instead of sitting around at the bar. This left most of the seats open actually, so Darien didn't really push for Mio to sit next to him as he ordered another drink.

[Maira]

As first Chase, then Troy, basically asked Ali what she had heard while she was eavesdropping Ali flinched inwardly. Her outward appearance was calm though and when she answered, her voice was steady if a bit on the quiet side. "Well I got there right after you slammed and locked the door Chase so I pretty much heard everything. By the end I think my brain was reeling a bit though so I may have missed some stuff there." Other than that, Ali had no idea what to say. She didn't even have an idea what sort of questions to ask. She just wanted to know as much as Chase was willing to tell her so she could be there for her brother. What were there parents going to think?

That question to herself, brought about another train of thought for Ali. What would her parents say to finding out she'd been dating Grace for the better part of 6 months? How on earth was she going to get Grace to give up on the idea of finding out what had been bothering her tonight? Should she even tell Grace? Too many questions and absolutely no answers flowed through Ali's mind as she waited for Chase to get on with whatever he planned on telling her.

To take her mind off of Grace, Ali looked around the livingroom trying to find something for her mind to concentrate on. Only then did she realize just how typically 'bachelor' her brother's apartment was. All the old pizza boxes, beer cans, and just general untidyness. Her fingers began to itch, she wanted to clean it up. How could boys live like this? Instead of giving in to her urge to get up and start cleaning, Ali just gripped the pillow she was snuggling even tighter and turned her gaze back to Chase, waiting patiently for whatever he was going to say.

[Shinigami]

Chase nodded as he listened to Ali, figuring she had been the concerned sister and had immediately followed them off the dance floor and to the bathroom door. His mind had been racing too fast and been too muddled for him to notice her following. Most likely she heard most of it, but he did a little recap. "So I take it you heard about the fact that we're not "undead" and all that stereotypical crap, and that we're alive, we eat we breath, we drink, marry, have kids, and get powers. Is there anything else either of you want to know? I know I have to explain the bloodlines and a few other things to Troy anyway." Leaving an invitation for her to stay and listen in if she needed or wanted to.

Chase figeted slightly, taking is slight reprieve in speaking to look around a little more. It was.. well, cluttered, but it didn't look much different from his own place, as they had four guys, all seniors in college and busy as hell. Needless to say, they didn't clean very often. His own room was probably a pig stye. He had been up most of that week pulling all-nighters just to finish one of his projects and he knew he hadn't taken any time to remove the used plates and glasses and other dirty dishes and food containers.

[Maira]

Ali nodded at each point Chase made. Yes she'd heard all of what he mentioned if a bit muffled through the door. When he finally got to the point where he was hinting she could either stay or go for the rest of it Ali said, "Well, Troy said I could stay the night so you might as well explain it to both of us otherwise I may have to be reduced to listening at doors again." As she spoke, a playful smile spread across her face. It may have been scarey to see the blood on Troy's neck and know why it had been put there but the reality of the situation wasn't too terribly overwhelming. At least at the moment. In the morning, once Troy had been turned, that might be another story completely.

So that Chase wouldn't have to look back and forth between the siblings, Ali scooted down the couch far enough that when she yanked her brother off of the arm of the couch he had more than enough room to sit comfortably. Once he was situated, she leaned her head on his shoulder and cuddled with his arm. Troy had always been like her walking talking teddy bear as they were growing up and it didn't matter how old they were, he likely always would be.

[Demeter]

Troy listened as Chase spoke to Ali, absently nodding his head. He reviewed for himself just what Chase had told him while in the bathroom. He still needed to settle all that information into his own brain. His brain was still trying to bend itself around the fact that he'd wake up with fangs.

Troy yelped as Ali yanked him down from the arm of the couch. He growled at her while she just mader herself comfortable next to him. "Brat," he muttered but wraped an around around his sister's shoulders. Troy settled in and propped his feet up on the couch. He turned to Chase and sighed. "You should just start with the bloodlines and work your way out from there. And didn't you say something about a council? What is that all about?"

[Shinigami]

Chase smiled at Ali. "Well, we wouldn't want you to have your ear plastered to a door for however long this'll take. That could get quite uncomfortable." His smiled turned into a soft chuckle, hidden behind his hand, when Ali yanked Troy onto the couch and proceeded to use him as a pillow. He was glad Troy would have Ali to go to if he needed it.

Chase sighed, leaning back in the chair and slouching. There was a lot to tell, though he didn't really have to explain -everything- that night, but he was sure Troy would want to hear as much as possible before he turned, so he knew what to expect. "Well, how about I start with the bloodlines and work my way to the council? That part is a little complicated. Anyway, there are seven bloodlines: Moriba has telekinetic or mental powers, Keahi (which will be you) has fire powers, Asnee has power of electricity and lightening, Sadira has power over water, Aran has power over earth, Anila has power over wind, and the Kasi have psychic or powers of divinity."

Chase took a breath, pausing a moment to let the information sink in a bit, but he moved onto the basics of the council. "The Council is just like a group of elders, really, but they're powerful, so others follow them. We don't really have any other set rules except for the strictness with turning others, but that's just to keep from catching attention. The Council is made up of two of the oldest and most powerful vampires of each bloodline; always one male and one female. They stay as a Council member until they're killed or willingly give up their possition to another. Most of the pairs of the Council are married. Infact, Bryce and Makayla, the two Keahi Council members, are my parents."

[Maira]

Ali smiled smugly when Troy draped his arm around her shoulders, he was such a wonderful teddy bear. As Chase started listing off all the different bloodlines and their powers, Ali's interest grew. She'd had no idea that Vampires were that varied.

She was about to ask what specific things Troy would be able to do with his fire powers when Chase moved onto his brief run-down of what the Council was. When he rather casually mentioned that his parents were the Council members of his bloodline her eyes got wide and she blurted out, "No wonder you were panicking about biting Troy!" As soon as the words were out of her mouth, she slapped a hand over it. How could she be so stupid and blurt things like that? She'd thought she'd gotten a better handle on herself.

Clearing her throat and smiling rather sheepishly she added, "What I meant was, since you said the council is rather strict about turning people, I can understand why you were worried about what happened." Well, better late than never to say the right thing.

[Shinigami]

Chase had paused, both to take a breath and to give his two listeners a chance to ask questions and comment. He blinked when Ali blirted out her comment, but smiled. He heard her "correct" herself a moment later. "Yeah.. the Keahi line is a bit more struct. Well, actually, my father is a bit more strict, but I think if I go through my older brother first and have him explain it he'll be a little more lax.. he's less angry with my brother."

Chase scratched the back of his neck, sighing. "He's lax on my little sister, too, but she's still young. And a complete daddy's girl, and the only girl, I might add. I'm sure my mother can talk him down. You probably won't have to be there. It'll just be me getting lectured... infront of the entire Council.."

[Demeter]

Troy swallowed a snicker when Ali corrected herself. That little habit of hers had been fun when she'd been adjusting to her teen years and her attitude had scraped the wrong way against their mothers. He'd still never seen another person turn that shade of purple. His attention was dragged back to Chase when he said that he'd be the one getting lectured in front of the council and winced. "I can image that that won't be fun. I suppose that since things are going to start changing in my life. I'll need to tell my parents something. I have a feeling that we are going to get along like sandpaper on a finely crafted piece of furnature even more now. I guess I had just better bite the bullet and tell them about one of the recent variations of my life."

Troy groaned and tilted his head back towards the ceiling. "I'll tell them that I've met someone. They'll ask what her name is. I'll tell them that the relationship is still quite new so I don't want to risk anything with -him-. They'll completely freak out and toss me out of the house but it will probably be for the better."

Troy rolled his head to the side and looked at Ali. "Any other questions? Hows the arm?"

[Maira]

Cuddled up against her brother, Ali was starting to get drowsy again and it was the last thing she needed at the moment. She listened half awake as both guys rambled. First Chase about how he'd wind up getting lectured by his father (she'd been on the recieving end of a lecturing father before) and then her brother about their parents flipping out when they heard he was involved with a guy. She'd had rather the same thoughts about how their parents would react when she finally told them she was with Grace.

She was nearly asleep when suddenly Troy's voice was louder and speaking to her. She opened her eyes, glanced first at her brother as what he said started to sink in, then she looked at her arm. Already the shadow's of Grace's fingers where she had gripped Ali's arm were plain to see. By morning, the light purple marks would be dark and vivid.

Looking back up at Troy, lifting her arm so he could see, she asked worriedly, "How the hell will I explain this to Mom and Dad?" Being involved with a girl would be bad enough, being involved with one that was apparently abusive (as that would be all her parents would see thanks to the bruise) was something else completely.

Quite awake again, Ali sat up out of her brother's casual embrace. Reaching up, she took her hair down out of the rubber bands, ran her fingers through it and then looked at Chase and Troy. "You boys say goodnight, I'm gonna hop in the shower." Then just to Troy she asked, "Can I use one of your shirts for pj's?" When he nodded, she leaned in, gave him a kiss on the cheek and got up off the couch. As she passed Chase in his chair she leaned down and planted a kiss on his cheek to whispering, "I love my brother, be good to him or I -will- find a way to hurt you."

~~~~~

By the time that Ali was finished with her shower and dressed in one of her brother's wife beater tank tops and her panties the guys were gone from the living room. Either they'd both gone to Troy's room or Chase had gone home and Troy had gone to bed. Didn't matter either way, she was tired and was glad the living room was empty so she could crash on the couch.

Grabbing an old comforter out of the hall closet, Ali made her way back out to the livingroom and dumped it on the couch. Then she wandered into the kitchen to get herself a glass of water, last thing she needed was to be dehydrated come morning. Taking a couple sips, she refilled the glass then headed back out to the living room to go to bed.

Just as she walked past the front door it opened, admitting Troy's two roomies, James and Dylan. "Hey guys," she said as she passed them, not even batting an eye that she was wearing next to nothing, not to mention dripping wet, in front of two of her brother's friends, she'd known them since they were all small. Setting her glass of water on the end table near the couch, she flopped onto it and pulled up the comforter she'd brought out earlier. She was asleep in minutes

[Shinigami]

Chase was smiling as he watched Ali nod off on Troy's shoulder before she was brought back around by Troy's question. He arm would no doubt bruise, but it would hopefully heal quickly. He watched as she decided to go off and get a shower, and was left blinking in surprise when she kissed him on the cheek, but smiled lightly as he heard the threat that came with it. He gave a mock salute and chuckled speaking up as she walked away. "It's surprisingly easy."

He turned to Troy, a little bit of nervousness setting in. Chase wasn't quite sure of what to do or say now that he was left alone with Troy for the first time since he dragged him into the bathroom at the club. He decided he'd make a gracefull exit, or as close to gracefull as he could get at the moment, and head home to get his interrogation over with. Darien was sure to have a lot of questions, and he knew the guy was gonna grill him for all the answers before he'd be allowed sleep. "Well, uh.. You have my phone number, in case you need it. Just, uh, refrain from touching anything tomorrow morning until you give me a call. Your skin will probably be too hot. I should go. Before your roommates get back that is."

Chase nodded his fairwell, moving to the hallway where his shoes were and popping them on quickly. He glanced back at Troy for another second, smiling before he walked out and closed the door behind him.

***

It took Chase longer than expected to get home. Mainly because he hadn'tbeen paying attention to where Troy's house was in relation to the club, so he had gotten a bit turned around. He had managed to find a street near his house that was familiar to him. He opened the door and was surprised to see Gershom waiting up for him. Alex was probably asleep, the only one of the four with weekend classes. Before he could ask, Gershom promptly told him that Darien hadn't come home yet, and probably wouldn't be back for a bit.

Chase gave Gershom the puppy dog eyes, just wishing to go to bed, and unlike Darien, Gershom relented. He stood and shook his finger in Chase's face. "You -will- be explaining all this to the three of us tomorrow, and -you- will telling your father. No letting Nikolas bail you out." Chase grumbled, nodding as he walked off, he hated living with a Kasi -and- a Moriba. It was a total invasion of privacy all the time.

[Demeter]

Troy watched with a soft smile as Ali left the living room and turned his head to look at Chase. They were once again alone. Troy nodded his head. "I'll probably have Ali call in the morning so expect a phone call from a very grumpy girl sometime before the afternoon. And I'll remember not to touch anything. I'll just stay in my room and hide."

Troy followed Chase towards the front door and leaned against the wall while the vampire put his shoes on. Troy didn't know what to do with his hands, so he just stuffed them into his pockets. He tugged on free froma pocket to wave at Chase and watched him walked down the street.

After closing the door and flipping the deadbolt, Troy headed for the stairs. It had been a very long night and all he really wanted at this point was his bed and some quiet time. He passed by the bathroom, yelled at Ali to hurry it up as the hot water heater was tiny, and entered his bedroom. He stripped down to his boxers, flopped across his bed and yanked a worn comforter over his body. Troy tugged his pillow over and stufed it under his head. It was long before he was out like a light.

***

James glared over his shoulder at Dylan and his giggling coed. Where the man found the girl, he would never know. James stared up at the house and sighed. Sometime ago, he'd lost track of Troy. He wasn't quite sure if this was a bad thing but something still made him twitch about the last time he'd seen his oldest friend. Troy had been all but physically wrapped around another man on the dance floor.

James had been that listening in when Troy had, after moving out of his parents home, confessed that he thought he might be interested in men. Apparently it was. As it was, the windows to the house were dark so one of three things had happened. Troy had wandered off with his newly found friend and was currently enjoying himself, or he'd brought that newly found friend home, in which case, James was hunting up some cotten to stuff into his ears. He loved Troy like a brother but the walls were thin and while Troy's interest in men didn't bother him there was just some things he didnt' need to hear. Or, the last of the options, Troy had come home alone and was currently asleep.

James fitted his key into the lock and pushed the door open. He rolled his eyes at the giggling coed as Dylan eased the two of them past the door and up to his room. James sighed. It looked like he would be hunting up some cotten as well. There were times when he wished he had Troy's ability to sleep like the dead.

James closed the door and toed off his shoes while locking the deadbolt. James looked up just in time to see Troy's baby sister waltz by. James, thinking that Ali had had yet another fight with her mother, grinned at her and walked on down the hallway. It wasn't until he was halfway to his room that he realized just what Ali had been attired in. Troy's baby sister, who just the other day had been playing in a mud puddle and making mud pies, had just waltzed by him wearing a man's wife beater tanktop and her underwear.

James shook his head and stared over his shoulder. He had been seeings things, right? Ali hadn't just walked past in nearly nude, had she? James shook his head again and bolted into his room. He did -not- need to be thinking about Ali in her underwear.

***

Troy groaned and shoved his covers away from his body. It was too hot in his room and he was still as tired as the night before, if not more. Troy groaned and rolled onto his back. He yawned and ran his tounge over his teeth. His eyes popped wide open when he felt the elongated teeth. Oh gods, he been hoping that had all been just a dream. With everything still just a bit fuzzy, Troy reached over the side of his bed for something to throw. All he could really remember from the night before was that Ali had stayed over and he was supposed to call someone.

Once his hand closed over the metal stapler that was, for some reason, next to his bed he flung at the wall oppoiste his bed. That was James' room. Troy didn't even notice the smell of heated metal hanging about his room now. Once a scowling James poked his head his head through the door, Troy gumbled at him to wake up his sister.

***

James swallowed. He'd hoped that it had just been to much to drink last night but apparently little Ali really was only wearing her panties and a tank top. The girl had sprawled out on the couch and only the important bits were now covered by the comforter she had snagged the other night.

James blinked. There was a dark ring of flesh around her arm. He'd have to find out what it was from later, as, from the cursing going on upstairs, he needed to get Ali awake and soon. Maybe she could calm Troy down. And explain why his room smelled of heat.

Troy lightly shook Ali's shoulder. "Come on, Ali, wake up before your brother loses it," he said right as something thudded in the general area of Troy's room.

***

Troy stared down at his alarm clock and whimpered. He'd fogotten to turn it off the previous morning and it had gone off. He'd swiped it off his night stand and now he had a smoking alarm clock on the floor.

Troy whimpered again, and huddled under the sheets still on his bed.

[Maira]

Ali felt the hand on her shoulder, she felt her body being shaken gently, she even heard a familiar voice trying to wake her. She wasn't ready to be awake, not by any means. To get away from the pesky hand and voice she rolled over onto her belly, the blanket sliding off of her onto the floor. Only when that happened, when the minimal warmth it had been giving her barely covering her as it was, did Ali wake up fully. She may have been awake but she still didn't want to be and when the voice would not relent she growled, grabbed the pillow she'd been using and threw it at whoever was speaking before finally sitting up and glaring at her waker.

Blinking the sleep out of her eyes, it took Ali a moment to realize that it was James who'd woken her. "Damn it James, why did you wake me up?" She knew she should be nicer, she really did. However, glancing at the clock, she saw it was still quite early and only an idiot would wake her that early. An idiot or a very desperate person. From the look on his face, James was the latter of the two. Calming down a bit, Ali grumbled out, "What?"

[Demeter]

James dodged away the pillow Ali had flung at him. He'd been temporarily blinded by the fact that Ali's blanket had fallen completely off of her body. He did not need to see that. It it already caused him enough problems the night before. Those were bad thoughts.

James picked up the pillow and tossed it onto the chair next to the couch. He turned around so that Ali could, maybe, cover herself back up with the blanket. "It's your brother. There is something wrong with him. I mean, it's normal for him to throw things at the shared wall between our rooms but it doesn't normally feel that hot in his room. And he wasn't looking to good."

James sat down on the coffee table and twiddled his thumbs. "Ali, he wants you. I don't know what for but he said to get you."

[Maira]

Ali crossed her right leg over her left and crossed her arms and glared at James as he sat on the coffee table. "You woke me up because my brother is having a hissy fit? You've lived with him for how many years now and you woke me because he's grumbling and throwing things and his room is warm?"

Only when the last few words were out of her mouth did ALi realize just -why- her brother wanted her. Scrambling up off the couch and over the back, Ali grabbed the cordless phone from its cradle in the kitchen and bolted up the stairs to her brother's bedroom.

Opening the door quickly she ran inside and dodged to one side to stay out of the way of any more flying objects. She could smell what smelled like burning plastic and looked down just in time to miss stepping on the ever so slightly melted alarm clock. "Oh shit, Chase wasn't kidding," she mumbled under her breath before she finally came to rest on the edge of her brother's bed.

"Troy, I have the phone but I really don't think you should use it considering what you did to the poor alarm clock. What did you do with Chase's phone number, I'll call him." Her voice was still a bit squeaky from sleep but she tried to keep it as even as she could, she didn't want to panic her brother at all, he was probably already a bit frantic.

Troy mumbled something about the number being in the pocket of his pants from the night before and Ali just asked, "You're joking right? How am I supposed to find it in this mess?" As she asked this she looked around her brother's bedroom in dismay. Giving a sigh, she set the phone out of Troy's reach and started searching his pants pockets. Luckily it was in the first pair she picked up. "Okay, that was too easy," she mumbled as she poked the numbers into the phone.

The phone only rang a couple of times before a sleepy but now somewhat familiar voice answered. "Chase, he needs you get over here." That said, she hung up on her brother's boyfriend.

[Shinigami]

Chase was woken by the shrill ring of his cell phone and started cursing as he flailed his arm around, trying to find it. He only gave the number to a select few people, and it felt rather early for any of them to be calling to chit-chat. He managed to find his phone next to his bed on the floor and answered it after a few rings, his voice muffled in sleep. "Hello?"

The response made him blink, not quite understanding what was going on. Until the events from the night before came flooding back to him that is. He cursed, hanging up the cell phone and jumping off the bed, rushing through his room to find clothes. He yanked on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt as he was hopping and stumbling out of his room. He managed to find sneakers, which where Alex's, but he didn't care.

Gershom was an early riser and therefore got to witness Chase's near panick. He tried to block his path to the door, but Chase growled. "I need to go Gershom, or you want his younger sister getting third degree burns?" It had the effect Chase wanted, which was getting Gershom to let him out. He bolted down the street and thanked the gods that he had made sure to pay attention when he was leaving. He cut through as many allies and tiny backyards as he could before he reached the gate.

Chase decided no to bother with it and just took a running leap over it. He had no idea how bad the situation was, and it was still fairly early, which meant Troy's roommates were most likely still home. That could be dangerous. He tried the door, but it was still locked, so he knocked loudly in his haste, using the moment to catch his breath.

[Maira]

Shortly after Ali hung up on Chase she said softly to Troy, "Okay brother mine, since you decided to wake up the household so damn early, I'm going to go make coffee for the guys." That said she took the herself and the phone safely out of Troy's range.

On her way downstairs Ali stopped in the bathroom long enough to brush her teeth and her hair, splashing some water on her face when she was done. She herself didn't drink coffee so she needed the water to get her alert enough to order her thoughts. Last night had actually happened. Turning off the water and the lights, Ali made her way down stairs softly.

Reaching the base of the stairs, she padded over to the coffee pot and started getting it ready for Troy's room mates. She had just gotten the pot full of water and was getting ready to pour it into the machine when a pounding sounded on the front door. She jumped and dropped the glass pot on the floor a few shards slashing into the tops of her feet. "Shit!" she yelped as she tried to jump out of range of the glass shards only to step on another one. "Damn it damn it damn it!" she hissed as she hopped out of the kitchen towards the front door.

Yanking the door open Ali glared at Chase and yanked him inside by the collar of his shirt, for a small woman she could be pretty strong when she was pissed. "Thanks for getting her so quickly but next time use the door bell," she growled as she shoved him towards the stairs past the kitchen and her bloody footprints. "He's upstairs second door on the right, just across from the bathroom." Once Chase dissappeared upstairs Ali started cursing again as she hobbled back to the kitchen.

[Shinigami]

Chase yelped as he was yanked inside the house, grumbling about the fact he didn't even know there -was- a doorbell, let alone in the calmest state of mind to look for it. He could tell which room was Troy's, just by the heat he was currently giving off. He was about to rush upstairs when he hesitated at the smell of blood. he glanced Ali over and saw her bloody footprints on the ground. He hissed lightly and figured she must have dropped something and had to walk through it due to his loud arrival, so he toed off his shoes quickly for her to use, not really staying longer to make sure she saw them.

Chase rushed up the stairs, now barefoot as he had forgotten socks in his haste, and rushed into Troy's room. His skin heated immediately to accomodate for the temperature in the room and he forced it up higher as he approached Troy, laying a hand on his arm before moving it to his cheek. "Shit. Troy? You with me?" He made sure to get his attention before continuing. "You're gonna hate me fore this, but.. I think we're gonna have to dump you in an ice bath. You're way too hot for me to try and help you cool down on your own."

[Demeter]

James watched the show from the living room. Ali was running around, making a mess in the kitchen, letting strange people in the house and breaking things. And apparently knew exactly what was wrong with Troy. And, hey, wasn't that the guy who Troy had been wrapped around last night?

James decided that it was time for some answers. He was awake before noon on a saturday...something was going on. He stalked around the couch and into the kitchen, where he saw Ali trying to clean up the broken coffee pot. And then he saw the blood on the floor. James wiggled is toes in the broken pair of slippers he'd thought to put on before coming down and walked across the kitchen floor. Without saying anything, he picked Ali up and set her on the counter before picking up where she'd left off. "You just stay there for now and tell me what the hell is going on."

***

Troy whimpered when he heard the door open. Now he was coming to bug him when he was feeling miserable. He heard the familar voice as if he was outside of his body and latched onto it. Troy rolled towards the voice and shuddered when it said ice bath. Normally he wouldn't go anywhere near anything as cold as ice but that sounded sooo heavenly right now. He was to freakin' hot for it to a be a good thing. And he'd probably made his alarm clock useless. "Okay," he muttered out and sat up. He was just going to sit on his bed until he was told what to do.