Hallows End

[nyoka]

Knoton couldn't help but smile as Emily hissed at him, "Awww Sweet Emmy, I so-wee I made you mess up.." He began to pout forcing his lower lip to protrude and then leaned to give her a peck on the cheek.

The loud clatter forced him out on stage looking down to see a little blonde pink thing flumped on the floor with the stage gear. Frowning, Knoton bent down to 1:help the woman and 2: try to figure out the situation, no one was really by the stage so she had to be curious or something. Fortunatly, a man dressed obviously as Robin Hood came to help, so he busied himself grabbing the gear and putting it back up. "Well, it doesn't look like there are any damages."

Putting the last cord back in place, Kaydence came up to the stage hooked on a man. "So you are the infamous Caleb? Right on, I'm Knoton nice to meet you." Grinning he shook Caleb's hand turned and winked at Kay.
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The moment all the equipment and when she fell, everything kinda got hazy in Cera's brain. There was really no thought process at the moment, other than being decieved. She knew she was placed in a chair at a table by Cian and Erika was playing her babysitter, but all she felt was hurt and confusion.
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Still standing at bar side is when Erika realized that Cera knocked over the stage equipment, looking at her down on the floor in a pink mess, Erika couldn't help but laugh. Oh gods, why does Cian feel the need to torture her so much, gods only know how Cera felt just from being here.

Making her way over to them, Cian again placed Cera in her care after they were seated at another table away from the stage. "Yes Master.." was her sarcastic reply to him.

[Demeter]

Cian smirked and wrapped an arm around Tale in a half-hug. "It shouldn't take me long to get out of this thing. I'm planning on slipping Cera enough alcohol to get the girl loosened up and once she is nice and tipsy, I'm changing and then we can have the dance. That goes for the both of you," he said while pointing to both Lia and Tale before a new voice entered the conversation from his right

Cian grinned at the man talking to him after turning away from Lia and Tale. Lovely eyes and dark brown hair greeted him. "My name's Cian and I like..." Cian trailed off as he noticed a second man attach himself to Lysander, a mad grin coming over his face. "Why, Dominic, long time no see. The last time I saw you must have been a few months into Saiyuri's pregnancy."

Cian grinned as he took Dominic's body position in, the way he leaned against Lysander's back and the chin resting on his shoulder. "I take the divorce is final, Dominic, or you wouldn't be here. With another man." Cian smirked as he pointed out the obvious in what he was seeing, he turned his gaze back to Lysander and smiled at him. "Give me a few hours and then I'll be back for a dance with you." Cian looked back up to the second story and the table he'd left Cera at to see the girl watching him. "I've gt some stuff to take care of."

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Lysander stiffened when Dominic all but plastered himself to his back. When the other man addressed Dominic, Lysander blinked, interested that a man that all but oozed some sort of sexual attraction would be on such terms with his puppy. He smiled at Cian and grinned at the offer of dancing. "I'll be waiting for you then," and he watched the man as he walked away.

Lysander turned to Dominic, quickly wrapping an arm around Dominic's waist in order to keep him in place. "Puppy, how do you know him? He doesn't seem like your normal sort of friend but he knew you." Lysander grabbed the trayed drinks they'd ordered and pulled Dominic towards the darkened corners. He found a little niche on emptyness with hollows in the wall for the drinks and pulled Dominic closer to him, in order to hear the man when he spoke.

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Demeter smiled at Nikolas. "The drinks can wait. I wanna dance with you. I remember dancing with you before Rowan. It was one of those few things that got me through his two year old temper tanturms."

Demeter fitted herself against Niko, resting her head against his shoulder and letting her body follow his with the music. "All yours all night long. Whatcha gonna do with me?"

[Races The Night]

Daine snarled as he entered the club, he didn't like the raw noise and smells assailing him. He did a quick overview of exit and entrances and potential places of escape, where not to be cornered, where he could move to fight should the need arise. He never really let his guard down, even in events such as these. A few Weres caught his eyes. They could sense a similar ebast within him unlike the humans posing as Weres.

Anthony watched Jezza bound off from them in search of her sister, then turned to Daine. "Stop it." He said.

"Stop what?" Daine replied, distracted

"Doing that creepy shit you do." he emphasised with hand gestures. "You enter a strange place and your eyes are all over the place, looking for escape routes. You're like some caged beast."

Dainiel glared at Anthony sharply until the younger Were withered under his scrutiny. "I am a caged beast, never forget that." He snarled. "If you don't have an escape route, you're a dead wolf, pup. Just remember that." There was a snap behind his final statement and he pushed past Anthony to sidle off to the bar.

"Wouldn't like to be the kid knocking on his door asking for trick or treat." He muttered, jamming his fists into his pockets. When tehre was no answer or witty remark to his comment, he realised that he was alone among the crowd. "Jezza? Jezza!"

[Maira]

Dominic's head was spinning. He'd just essentially claimed Lysander with his body language and the person he had claimed him from was a friend of Saiyuri's. Shit shit shit shit. In response to the incubus' question, Dominic answered simply and grumpily, "Yes Cian, its final." He was about to ask L if they could get away from Cian when the older vampire accepted a promise for a dance later and then took the drinks and Dominic's waist and lead him to a dark corner.

He wasn't overly thrilled that somebody his wife, no... ex-wife, had seen him out on the town. Let alone with another man. She would never let him visit Lani if she found out. Fuck. His night was just getting worse the more the thought about it. So instead of focussing on the shitter his life was taking a dive into, he focussed on L and his question. "He is a friend of Saiyuri's. They went to college together." Other than that he wouldn't say anymore on that issue so he snagged his drink off the tray, took a sip, and then realized that L had ordered for him. Hmm, whatever it was it was good.

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When Cian turned his attention from Lia and Talbot to two other people, Lia was completely and utterly distracted by the feel of Talbot's lips on her neck. It was one of the most sensitive places on her and Talbot knew it and used it almost to the point of abuse. When he was distracted though, Lia came back to earth and turned to see what he was looking at. "Who're those two?" Lia asked Talbot curiously.

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Emily, like the rest of the band, had hopped down off the stage and had been picking up the knocked over equipment when she heard somebody calling, "Jezza? Jezza!" Dropping the piece of equipment she was holding, Emily searched the crowd until she spotted the man who had been shouting her dead sister's name. Rushing over to him she tapped him on the shoulder and asked, "Who are you and why are you calling for Jezza?" When he looked rather baffled she told him, "She's dead. Has been for over a year now, nearly two. If you thought that I was her, I'm sorry. We got mixed up a lot before she died..."

[Races The Night]

Anthony turned around at the hand on his shoulder and his face showed relief. "Jezza thank go-!" He was about to be thankful for finding her and inf act his arms were already reaching to bear hug her when the woman turned a very venomous tongue on him. "Who the hell are you?" He exclaimed, withdrawing his hug, all bravado gone in the face of such fury.

[Maira]

Emily hadn't even noticed that the man was reaching out to hug her and didn't noticed when he pulled his arms away. What she did notice was his tone of voice as he asked who the hell -she- was. The nerve of some people! Clearing her throat she got ready to reiterate to him her name and the fact that she was Jezza's sister when a pair of arms snaked out and around the man and a familiar voice said softly, "Anthony, that's my sister Emily."

All temper fled Emily as she looked into her sister's blue eyes. Her own filled up with tears and her chin began to quiver. Her hands which had been clenched in angry fists were now covering her mouth as she whispered questioningly, "You're alive?"

Jezza gave Anthony a quick squeeze, more for an extra ounce of strength than anything, then walked around him toward her older sister. "Alive and well Em, though not quite as you remember me." Jezza didn't get to say anything more than that before her sister grabbed her and pulled her into a tight embrace. Jezza could feel the sobs shaking her sister and she found it hard to resist giving into her own emotions. Only the fact that they were standing in a crowd of strangers kept her from breaking down too.

After only a moment, Emily got herself under control and pushed Jezza out at arms length and demanded, "And just where have you been? We thought you were dead you know. We burried your shredded clothes" While she may have been asking hard questions, the look in Emily's eyes was anything but. In fact, she looked like she was going to start crying again at any moment, or laughing.

Jezza did laugh and said cheerfully, "I've been off galivanting in England, living it up with my wolven buddies. I'm sorry you thought me dead but at the time, right after I'd been Changed, my pack Alpha wouldn't let me contact any of you and after that when I finally got away it was too late. And of course, when I saw in a magazine that you had joined an up and coming band made up of not so human bandmates i figured I could finally tell you just what happened so here I am." It all came out in a rush, as things tended to do when Jezza was excited or nervous, but she hoped her sister understood what she'd said. Just in case she didn't she added softly, "I'm Wolven now Em, and you're a Vampire. We're both different than we were but hopefully still family." Now she was looking at her sister with hope in her eyes. She wanted nothing more than for her sister to accept her despite her new identity.

Emily was rather overwhelmed by Jezza's outburst and rambling but she had gotten quite used to it as a child and it only took her a moment to decipher everything. Even without the clarification at the end she would have gotten it and she just stared at her sister open-mouthed. After a moment her eyes wandered up to the ears and down to the tail and she just gaped even more. "Wow, are those real then?" she asked as she reached up to touch one of her sister's wolf ears. As she did so, the ear twitched and Emily jumped with surprise. "Jess, that's not nice! Don't scare me like that you pest! Gods, you haven't changed at all have you?" Jezza just smiled and shook her head.

At a noise from behind her, Jezza was reminded of just who was with her and she turned to Anthony, pulling her sister a little closer, and said, "Anthony, I'd like you to meet one of my older sisters. This is Emily." Then turning to her sister Jezza said, "Em, this is one of my packmates and my... umm... friend Anthony. He came with me from England so I could meet you." Then, looking around for Daine she added, "Another one of our packmates came too but he seems to have dissappeared. I bet he escaped to the bar." With that she turned to look at Anthony curious if she'd been right about Daine's whereabouts.

((ooc: sorry, the girls got away from me....))

[Shinigami]

Caleb smiled as he shook Knoton's hand. "Infamous am I? Well, in that case, don't believe a thing Kay's told you. It all has to be lies if I'm infamous." He got an elbow in the ribs as his sister huffed at him, but he smiled back at her. Kaydence rolled her eyes as she set about finishing up the introductions.

"Well, you've met Knoton now. Tech is running around somewhere trying to get this mess straightened out to his liking. And this is-" Kay stopped short as she was drawing her brother over towards Emily. The girl had moved off into the crowd towards someone Kay assumed she knew. "Well, that was Emily. Once she heads back I'll introduce you."

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Talbot made a face when Cian drew him into the half-hug, trying to keep his bare skin away from the itchy looking shirt his friend was wearing. His expression changed to one of delighted mischief as Cian spoke of his plans to loosen up Cera and dance. Once his attention was drawn towards the couple standing behind Cian he smiled.

He was listening closely once Cian mentioned the name Saiyuri. He'd heard it before from the younger Incubus, and was surprised to hear about a divorce. Tale knew Cian was one for fun, but when he mentioned a later dance with the second man and rolled his eyes. 'If that boy's not careful he'll give Cera a heart attack, even drunk.'

He nuzzled against Lia's neck once more as everyone else cleared away from the bar. He did know of the nice little sensitive spot on Lia's neck, and he lived to exploit it as he did once again. "Well, one of them Cian knows. I think he called him Dominic. Apparently he's Saiyuri's ex-husband."

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Nikolas smiled as he began dancing with Demeter. He had remembered dancing with her as well, and he had missed it dearly. Though he had wished he could have seen Rowan grow to the age he is now, even through the tantrums. He wrapped his arms around Demeter's waist as she laid her head against his shoulder.

Niko's eyebrow raised as she spoke. "All night long, huh? And all to myself? Hmm, well I have a few ideas. One of them happens to be dancing until neither of us can stand." It had been a long time since he'd been out for the night like this, and since he'd be sharing it with Demeter he was determined to enjoy it.

((ooc - bah, sorry for taking so long. I've been sick with past week, so my responses probably aren't the best, but I got it out.))

[nyoka]

Erika was watching Cian as he wandered off to talk to some people at the bar, knowing Cian he was already imagining their clothes on his floor. The club was filling up fast but still nothing major had happened, other than Cera knocking over the gear.

Turning to look at her sister, she saw her with her hands buried in her face, not crying but hiding. Did she miss something when she was watching Cian. No wait a minute, Cera must have seen Cian do something otherwise she wouldn't be hiding just from the gear faux pas.

"Cera, hey what's the matter?"

Cera ignored Erika, she didn't want to even think about what she saw. Maybe she just thought it was Cian, there are quite a few people in here. Maybe someone else has that same costume to, as soon as that thought crossed her mind she knew she was grasping.

"Cera, you know I won't leave you alone and I will get it out of you eventuallyyy...... You better tell mee..., or I won't stop talking like thiss...."

Cera sat there still ignoring her, it wasn't until Erika kept repeating "Tell me, Tell me, Tell me...." did she find that annoying and say something just to shut her up so she could resume her denial. Looking up from her hands, ignoring the whole bar/ stage area, "I saw something that must have been wrong because it doesn't make sense."

Erika started poking her, "No tell me what really happened, none of this wishy-washy bull crap"

Cera didn't want to form the words, if they were said they would be true and no denying it then. "It's about Cian..."

"Shit..." Erika broke her off, "Did you see him with other people?"

Cera didn't have to say a word, her expression said it all, pale and sobby. Erika looked at her and broke out in a grin at first that progressively grew into a laugh. "Stop laughing, its not funny and that means he is cheating on me...!" Under her breath she also put in "..with a man.."

Erika was able to calm her laughter for a bit, "Well actually it is funny," Erika grabbed her by the shoulder to look into her eyes, still repressing the urge to burst with laughter. "Cera, do you really know what Cian is, I mean what type of creature he is?"

Cera looked down towards Cian, easily spotting him due to his feathered hat. A puzzled look grew on her face, "I know he is some type of Custos, I found that out after he rescued me from Ted." Lowering her eyes to the floor she remembered how confused she was when she found out that he was a Custos and that she still liked him. "I guess this makes him a really bad Custos then, especially if he can go around using everyone including me."

Erika grabbed Cera's chin and made her look at her. "Cera I'm going to tell you this so maybe you can understand why he is "using" people, as you so put it." Cera looked at her sister with eyes and the expression of a lost puppy. It took Erika a minute or two to put the reality of Cian's persona into terms Cera would understand and not freak out.

"OK, so obviously you saw Cian "with" other people, I'm assuming you saw him kissing them, well kinda like how he does you. Anyways, let me ask you this, when you first met Cian were you drawn to him, not like you wanted him but you knew there was something about him...?

Cera straightened her features a bit, "Yea but I thought that's how everyone feels when they really like someone."

"OK, so you know about his really flirty side, and we're talking really flirty here. Well that is because that is him, his Custos, whatever you want to call it."

Cera sat quite, her expressions changed from puzzled to worried the whole time. "Cera, I'm trying to tell you that Cian is an Incubus, or Incubi however you pronounce it. Do you know what an incubus is?". "No"

"OK, let me give you the text book answer, Incubi are Custoss that come to women in dreams and feed off sexual energy.."

Cera's eyes grew really big and began to breathe heavily, "What..."

"...But in all reality, its the incubi that put out that energy and you, and everyone else men and women alike, are drawn to it and they get to feed off of that energy."

Cera turned paler than the moon and began to panic, "But Cian isn't, but then that means.... I don't.... This isn't really happen.... Oohhhhh...." Cera stood up and looked at the door, Erika had to grab her wrist and pull her down back into the chair, her pulse was really racing. "Cera, listen this isn't a bad thing, nothing bad has happened to you and in all actuality I think if you are with Cian you are more protected than in your house."

Cera huffed and rested her head on the table, a whine escaped her as her forehead made contact. "Cera, look you can whine all you want but it doesn't change that fact that Cian will do what he does best and your feelings for him. If you haven't noticed, he kisses all of his friends..." She grinned as Cian was looking now up at them, "..it isn't meant to harm anyone, he is feeding off of their energy as they are his"

Erika let her sit in silence as Cera was mulling over things just said. A little bit later, Cera picked up her head and looked at her sister, still not really in a talking mood all she said was "Do they have Strawberry Smoothies here?"

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OOC: Alright I know, its probably not good but its all I got so now others can stop harassing me

[nyoka]

"What a crappy night." Obviously Ami wasn't very happy about anything tonight, it was Halloween which wasn't his favorite thing at all. And on top of that now he was being made to go into a dark club that some of his buddies had recently found. Stepping out of the cab and following his friends inside, he was hit with the sense that this place was not just inhabited by humans. "Perfect, just perfect." After rolling his eyes he sauntered over to the bar area.

After getting his Guinness, his drink of choice for the heaviness to it, and finding a seat he scanned the club. So obviously the band wasn't going to start soon, they were placing the gear in place for the show. And as he counted, there were only about 15 heads at most. "Well at least there are costumes, its always good seeing women in nice tight, show everything off costumes." He was forced to wear something, his buddies chose a vampire with fake teeth and blood and a twisted version of Frankenstein made to be more sexy than scary. Ami settled on one of the classics, a Pirate, but not taking it from the recent movie release. Just black shredded nylon pants with boots, a nice but tattered French shirt and scruffy hair and stubble. Not to forget the sword, that is what made him a pirate in his opinion.

There were all sorts of people in all sorts of costumes, none really caught his eye. But there was one, it was pink and nice, very out of place for this dark hole. Staring at the girl in pink he examined her features, why did she look so familiar? And why was she in this place?
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OOC: You guys made me do it ^_^

[Demeter]

Cian took to the stairs two at a time. Cera was looking odd. He stopped by the table and grinned at his girl. "Hey, Lovely, are you okay? You're looking a bit off?" Cian growled and glanced around the small crowd of people on the second floor. "Is anyone bothering you?" It hadn't been all that long since the Ted Fiasco and he was still paranoid that someone was after his girl. He honestly didn't know what it was about Cera but he was drawn to her like others were drawn to him. "Erika, you've been keeping an eye on her, right? No one's bothered her?"

Cian swept his gaze down to the first floor and spotted a human-ish young man starring upwards. "Cera, why is that guy staring at you?"

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Lysander eased behind Dominic and latched his hands onto the pair of shoulders in front of him. "I highly doubt that a man like that will be running off to tell your ex anything," he said while rubbing circles into the man's back. When Dominic turned his head, L just pushed it back around. "I know what you are thinking. You run into a friend of Saiyuri's and all but plaster yourself to another man. You are thinking about your child and your chances to see her as she grows up."

Lysander rested his chin on Dominic's shoulder. "This is a night to relax, not worry yourself sick over something that may not happened. Now, finish off your drink while I flag down a waitress for another round." L said before grabbing his rum and coke and letting half the liquid slid down his throat. "We will be dancing, even if I have to glue you to the dance floor."

[nyoka]

Cera sat up straight away as Cian came near, and in Erika's opinion too straight up. She didn't even make eye contact with him when he began asking about her. Poor girl, she was terribly confused and didn't know how to react to this new information she just received about how her own personal hero is some kind of sex monger. Knowing she had to say something to him at some point she managed to squeak out "I'm fine." at left it at that, completely ignoring the fact that Cian said someone was looking at her.
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Erika studied the exchange between her traumatized sister and Cian while sipping on her drink. Cera was still in her clam up drama mode and wouldn't talk so she had to break the silence.

"Bothered is such a relative term these days, she is fine more or less and I'm guessing she will be better... soon enough..." Diverting her eyes away in a suspicious manner she returned to her drink. Erika knew she was egging him on but why not have a little fun in this dramatic situation.
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Ami was still at the far end of the bar when a man ran over to that girl in pink. He looked like he might be dressed as Robin Hood, there was no ignoring that feathered cap thing.

Struggling with his memories at the moment, he saw the exchange between the apparent 3 at the upper level. The blonde was someone he definitely knew from his past but with as many places as he had been in his life, there was no telling where from at least from this distance. She was stunning though, her golden ringlets and nice shapely figure was definitely his type. Now he just needed to figure out who that Robin Hood guy was and what kind of relation he had to the young lady he set his sights on.

Setting down his drink, he eased himself into a stool and returned his attention to her only to have the man stare back at him. Adverting his eyes rather quickly as soon as they made eye contact, Ami was hoping that he would only think that as just a glance. He began to scan the rest of the club in hopes to show that. Of course there was no way he was going to ignore them so he kept returning a glance every once in a while.

[Races The Night]

"So, who's this vampire?" Daine had appeared behind Emily, hackles rising at the distinct scent of 'bloodsucker'. He made quite an impressive sight, stood towering over the three like an Alpha would - for in Mikhail's absence, Daine was the recognised leader. He made a show of baring fangs.

"Not causing trouble I hope." He tssked. "It would be a shame to have to spill blood tonight." Sneering at the blood jibe, knowing full well to vampire's, blood was sacred and tow aste it was sacrilidge. He moved to stand beside Jezza, caging her in between himself and Anthony.

Anthony was a lot less outwardly hostile. "I apologise for his behaviour...he hasn't really had the best of times with vampires. But this is the infamours, Dainiel, tough guy, gut ripping extrordinaire." The sarcastic drawl was not lost on said celebrity and Anthony found a dig in the ribs coming swiftly his way.

Daine's head came up. "Emily, Jezza's sister, I presume, the resemblance is not lost on me."

"Nor me..." Anthony added as a side. "As it was, it was Jezza's idea to find you here - and one the pack could not refuse her, after her recent and brutal Change and introduction to our society. Be safe in the knowledge that we are a considerate pack who take care of their own, Jezza will not want for anything." His hand was back on the small of her back, he jsut couldnt stop touching her. That contact kept the ever present beast inside him at bay, content in the knowledge she was safe under his hand.

"Indeed..." Daine began, "Mikhail's a soft git. Christine and Abigail only have to look at something and its theirs. Milkwhelps, the lotta ya." Having assured himself that Emily was no danger to his charge and that, should something occur, Anthony was at hand, Dainiel gave said vampire a warning look before stalking off back into the crowd on his hourly route of exits. It was never wise to cage a wolf, least of all one as fractitious as Dainiel. The buzz of lights and drone of noise gave him a pounding headache.

Anthony watched his comrade leave. "Well introductions are over and off sulks mister oody pants. Ever the tortured, caged soul. That man needs some happy fluffy fluffy Teletubby things in his life."

[Demeter]

Cian looked away from the stranger to look at Erika. He eyed her. She was up to something. Cian perched himself into a chair where he could see the entire club and fixed his eyes back on the stranger. After gaining Cera's trust, after the whole Ted affair, he wasn't willing to let strange men into her life. He'd taken to picking her her up after work and dropping her off at the center.

"Hey, Erika, do you know that man down there," Cian pointed the man out to the more worldly sister and waited for an answer. "He keeps staring up here."

Cian watched as Cera sipped at her drink before flopping an arm over the back of her chair. "How are you doing, Lady. There are plenty of people working to keep you safe tonight." Cian picked up Cera's free hand and pressed a kiss to her fingers. "So, will I get to sleep on your couch tonight?"

[nyoka]

Cera delighted in the pure joy of strawberry smoothie, it took her mind off Cian for a moment and enjoyed the taste. This one tasted slightly different than the ones she was used to but they probably never made too many of these and new people never got it just the way she liked. Slurping it down rather fast, Cera took a moment to swallow and let the flavor dance on her tongue. It was when Cian picked up her hand and layed a kiss on her fingers that broke her out of her little strawberry heaven.

Looking at Cian again, the expression he wore and all of the information having a chance to process, she smiled. "Well, I'm not sure yet." Leaning back against the chair and relaxing some she again slurped down more of the drink resting some of her weight on Cian's arm. Looking up she did manage to see the somebody Cian was refering to, the one hudled at the bar. She caught his eye one moment and she stared at him for a moment but letting it slide by when she looked back at Cian and her little bit of heaven in a glass.

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Erika snickered from behind her glass and Cian glowered at her. Her eyes widened at Cera's drink disappearing rather quickly, ooo she needed another very soon. How fun was this nigth going to be if all of these odd events were happening just in the first hour or so.

At Cian's questiong, Erika turned and looked at the man he had pointed out. He wasn't looking at them and so she didn't get a real good look of his face. Erika studied him for a couple minutes and scanned her memory. "You know, he looks kinda familiar in the sense that I have seen him a lifetime ago, but if it is who I think it is, he has changed since last I remember. And even then I couldn't be 100% positive." Setting her glass down she continued, "I could go find out some more about him while I get Cera another glass..."

[Demeter]

Cian grinned down at Cera and just held her hand. He'd stay up in the loft area of the club for a while and then he would wander back on down, change his outfit and then dance the night away. Well, he would do all that after he found out who that man was. He didn't like strange men looking at Cera like that.

When Erika offered to get another round of drinks for Cera, Cian smiled at her. She'd just offered to go check out the stranger. Cian leaned back in his chair and, dropped one arm round Cera's shoulders, watched the entrance to the club as people streamed in. "Can I please sleep on your couch? I promise that I'll be a good boy."

[nyoka]

Cera felt giggly as she stared at Cian, forgotten thoughts already about her conversation with her sister. "A good boy you will have to be then." She leaned in and rested her head on Cian's chest inhaling his scent. "You know, that smoothie was a little off but it was still really good.." it only then occured to her that Erika left the table.

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Erika stood up as Cera was feeling a little more relaxed than 10 minutes ago, yeah it was time for another already. Walking around the table she let her fingers trail Cian arm, "Want anything else..?"

Making her way to the bar she didn't head straight for the man, but close enough to make some eye contact with. At least she could flirt a little and make him feel more comfortable about being approached by a zombie. A few stools off Erika sat and caught his eye turning on the playful flirt, things progressed from small talk to more informative.
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Ami sat at the bar sipping his beer and was having an internal fight, he really wanted to get to that girl and take her away someplace so it was just the 2 of them but the other half knew that would start something, especially now since his lady was now getting cuddly with Robin Hood. Putting his glass down he saw the red head get up and walk away from the table, loosing sight of her he got a little worried, even if his back was to the wall.

Right after looking up, there she was in corpse wear catching his attention with her eyes. Well why let an opportunity go to waste, she was with his future lady and why not find out some info, not to mention she was quite a looker herself.

"Hi, I'm Erika"
Ami grinned a charming smile "I'm Ami, nice to meet you.."

After chatting with Erika for a while, he got up the courage to ask about the girl in pink, “So Erika, how do you know that girl in pink you are sitting with?”

Erika smiled, she was waiting for this question, now would be the time to be a spy. “Oh her, she is my sister. Oh that reminds me, I wanted to ask you when we first started talking but it slipped my mind. You look really familiar to me and I noticed you were looking up at my table earlier. Is it possible that I might have met you a long while ago or met my sister up there?”

Ami was taken back by her question, he wasn’t expecting that kind of drilling so fast. “You know…” he broke for a moment and watched some of the partiers run by hollering obviously drunk already. “I thought that I might know your sister up there, I think it was almost 8 years ago that I knew her but I don’t think I could ever forget that gorgouous face she has.

Erika let a smirk curl her lips, now we were getting somewhere. “So I take it then you would like to met my sister from the way you talk about her..” She eyed Ami, waiting for a response.

Ami rubbed his hands, well yeah he wanted to talk to her but not like how Erika was proposing. “Well, I would but I think I’ll be just fine down here.”

There was a pause in the conversation with nothing more to say, Erika was dying inside just waiting to run back and let Cian in on the information he just spilled and Ami was nervously waiting for a way to get out of their chat.

The drinks Erika ordered came just then, a great way to end it. With a quick little goodbye to Ami, she meandered back up the stairs and settled herself back at the table.

Cera happily glomped onto the said smoothie as Erika broke down her info and intuitions on Ami. “So Cian, I think maybe you should wander down there and just accidently let slip about you and Cera. I think that might be rather entertaining…”

Cera was still nuzzled against Cian with her drink in one hand, pretty much refusing to set it down.

[Demeter]

Cian grinned at Erika with her blantent flirting and let his eyes drift up and down her body. "I may want something but that all depends on what you are offering me." Cian watched as she descended the stairs and approached the strange guy. He turned back to Cera and let an arm wrap around her shoulders. "I get to sleep on your couch. I like your couch. It's comfy. Will I get to make you breakfast in the morning."

When Cera kept her grip on her glass, Cian took a whiff and shook his head. It seemed that Erika had already gotten Cera started on the road to being loosened up. "Like those do you?" he asked.

When Erika returned with the drinks and said that he should take a visit downstairs, Cian turned his head and glared down at the bar. He knew he shouldn't trust that man. "I think I will make a little trip downstairs soon, once your sister releases her grip on me."

[nyoka]

Cera sat up and looked at Cian he mentioned her drink, "Yes I do, they are very nummy." She was happy at the moment, Cian was still here in his Robin Hood costume making them a cute couple and she had her strawberry. Taking a few sips she set the glass down, just finally catching his comment about Breakfast. "Well Mr. I don't think I ever made mention of breakfast."

Erika was eyeing her sister's composure closely, yea about 1 maybe 2 more of those "smoothies" and she could help with the costume. She did however need to get Cera's attention so Cian could slip away. What better way then to start some sisterly bickering, then Erika proceeded to tug on Cera's hair and randomly flicking her. Cera snapped at Erika to knock it off and then began an arguement. Erika was smiling and looked over at Cian, winked and nodded, she could keep Cera bickering for a while especially in her newly half inebriated state.

[Demeter]

Cian stalked down the staircase to the lower level of the club, grumbling about people seeming to interested in Cera. The thing with Ted had only begin to be forgotten about and he wanted to no one harming his girl. Cian sidled up to the bar and grinned at the bartender, his favorite was working this end of the bar. And then he turned his attention to the young man he'd squeezed in next to. "You, stay away from her," he said while pointing in Cera's general direction.

And then he leaned into the man's side, making sure that he took notice of him. "The last man who bothered her, and who upset me by bothering her, ended up ripped to pieces on his foyer floor. Do. No. Upset. Me."

Cian turned away and searched out the bathroom. He wanted out of this shirt. Cera was a nice girl but she had very little appciation for the finer things in life, like non-woolen shirts or, better yet, no shirt at all. Once he was in the bathroom, Cian stripped out of the shirt and stretched. He'd convinced Eros to free him of his limiters tonight. Halloween was the perfect night for Cian to let his wings out, mortals were wearing fake wings so why couldn 't Cian show off?

He still wore the silver bands around his wrists, those were jewelry and he'd added them to his clothing on his own...and he could take them off on his own. The wings were another story. He didn't have enough experience, enough power, to not have a mandatory way of keeping them hidden.

After he stretched out the white, feathered wings, grinning at the way the blue high lights flashed in the lights of the bathroom, Cian exited the room and waited to see who found him first.

[Maira]

When a voice sounded behind her, Emily resisted the urge to whip around and snarl. She didn't like the tone of the man and it took all her willpower not to judge him before she'd gotten to know him. After his initial words, the man walked around and stood on her sister's other side, effectively cutting her off from view of anybody but Emily. *Well,* she thought to herself, *at least he's protective.* Though at this point, it seemed his only redeeming quality.

She listened to the man, Dainiel, and grinned as tolerantly as she could manage until he left. Once he went off to do who knew what, Emily visibly relaxed and turned a more genuine smile to Anthony and her sister. At Anthony's next words, Emily couldn't help but snicker, and she laughed outright when Jezza made the same exact noise.

Even thought Daine had sulked off, Anthony hadn't removed his hand from her lower back and Jezza was feeling a bit giddy because of it. They'd known each other for quite a while now and while most of the Pack was affectionate and tactile in nature, it was rare for Anthony to touch her this much in a short period of time. It was probably just the strange atmosphere or something that had him acting protective. Those musings were lost when Anthony made his comment about Daine needing happy fluffy things in his life, she first snickered then laughed as Emily had done.

Both women glared at each other after their mirror reactions to Anthony then Emily took closed the distance between them and once again pulled her sister into an embrace. As she Emily slid her arms around her sister's waist, her hand brushed Anthony's on Jezza's back and she stored that little tidbit away for later. Were these two involved? If so she deffinately needed to find out more about Anthony and his faraway Pack.

*****

Dominic's head was still spinning from running into Cian and basically outting himself, though he still wasn't sure there was anything to "out"... Either way, he was still a mess. Almost like a zombie, Dominic let L massage his shoulders and drank down his drink like he had been told.

Having not said a word until the second round of drinks arrived, Dominic finally turned to L and asked, "You really want to dance?" He wasn't asking by way of invitation but mostly just because he was baffled why any sane man would enjoy dancing. High school dances had been torture for him and even at his own wedding to Saiyuri he had hardly danced. He just wasn't the dancing type with the exception of when he was either highly intoxicated or with a group of guys and they were trying to pick up girls. And of course, that second exception hadn't come into play in years. At the rate he was going with the drinks though he figured the first exception would be happening shortly...

*****

Lia's attention quickly drifted from the two men that Cian had taken an interest in as Talbot kissed her neck. It wasn't long before her hazy mind managed to force her hand to place her empty glass on the bar and drag Talbot out onto the dance floor. What with all the band's equipment having been knocked to the floor by Cera it was going to be a while before they played, if at all, so the music that was pounding through the house speakers was the substitue until the band was ready again. The music was more than enough for them to dance to and dance they did, always touching no matter how fast or slow the music was.

They had just gotten back to the bar after a fun round of dancing when Lia spotted something she hadn't expected to see until much later in the evening. How had Cian managed to slip out of Cera's frilly grasp so soon? The itchy woolen contraption of a Robin Hood costume shirt was nowhere to be seen as Cian exited the bathroom and in its place was a wonderfully bare upper torso and even more wonderful white wings.

"Holy Hell...." Lia muttered as she oggled Cian in obvious appreciation. She may have been very attached to Talbot but the feelings she had for him still confused the hell out of her, and because they confused her she couldn't help but get frustrated by them at times. This was one of those times where she was extremely frustrated. She had the sudden urge to go run at and jump Cian and drag him somewhere dark and private.... Damn incubus! His powers were at full power with the emergence of his wings and it just wasn't fair what it did to her. Of course, she always half felt that way about Cian anyway....

Looking from Talbot to Cian and back again, Lia chewed on her lower lip debating how best to word her request to basically go molest the other incubus then finally she asked Talbot, "Can I go claim my dance from Cian now? You've had me for nearly an hour now and he finally got rid of that evil shirt." Then, an evil smirk claiming her lips she added, "You can always come join us after the first dance if you want."

The evil smirk was fired by the memory of the first three-way dance Lia had shared with the two incubi. If it hadn't been for Cian getting both Lia and Talbot fired up with his wandering hands and incubus powers it was anybody's guess if Lia and Talbot would have gone home together that night and if they would still be together. She was also somewhat miffed that they had never gotten to finish that dance as Cian had been distracted by something pink that had wandered by. Well, this time she wasn't going to let that opportunity slip away if she could help it.

As she waited for his answer, Lia slowly started backing away from Talbot and towards Cian. When he nodded and smiled at her she smiled broadly back and turned and ran at Cian full on. When she got to him she slowed and stopped just behind him and ran a hand along the strong but delicate feathered wings sprouting from his back then she leaned in close and whispered in his ear in a sultry tone, "You never told me your wings were feathered Cian."

((ooc: sorry Shini, Lia made me do it! Hope you don't mind i wrote in Talbot's answer, it was simple and small so i figured you could work with it.))