want_take_have: (Don't make me come over there)
Faith Lehane ([personal profile] want_take_have) wrote2012-11-21 01:42 am

004 - If you say you want a player, then I'll be good to go

[For a few weeks, Luceti had seemed almost...promising.

The draft had been more than a little horrific, but that was oddly comforting, really. Felt like home, monsters and hellmouths and all...though she could have done without the power drainage. And finding out that there were folks in the enclosure who weren't aiming for puritanical denial had given her hope for finally making a go of it. But the draft was quickly done (and lost). She was avoiding Ivan, determined to keep it at a one-night-stand. And then everyone started talking holidays.

Thanksgiving. Right. 'Cause they had all sorts of things to be grateful for, being kidnapped and locked up.

Training at the Battle Dome wasn't taking the edge off, and there weren't any missions active enough for her liking and, without Drusilla around, patrolling was weak sauce. All of which meant she was in a worse mood than usual. But she never was a dwelling and moping kind of girl. No...much better to keep moving. And if she couldn't skip town, well...she'd deal with it in other ways.

So, tonight, she'd ditched her usual jean jacket and t-shirt and dressed for a night on the town as she heads into Cloud Nine. Tonight, she wants a drink, a dance, and a distraction.

Late in the night, after a few drinks and when she slips outside for a cigarette, she flips open her journal to actually address anyone who is still awake]


Y'know...there's something creepy about a place with no crime. I mean, hey...the warm and fuzzies are great, so long's there's no experiments going on. But c'mon. Someone around here's gotta want to act out, sometimes. Punch things. Curse. Screw someone. [she paused to take a slow drag and blow the smoke out, watching it billow and curl before it disappeared in the night air.]

Being here, sometimes, is like getting dropped into a purgatory full of boyscouts. [from her tone, that isn't a compliment. On the road to righteousness or not, someone is bored.]
herotypical: [ neutral ; angry ; spike ] (✝ sugar water)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-11-21 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Be careful what you wish for.

[ yes, buffy's awake. and yes, she remembers when luceti used to be wilder. but now, even the more dramatic personalities seem to have rounded out their edges. ]
neverplaysfair: (Why don't we play one last Game?)

[personal profile] neverplaysfair 2012-11-21 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You never know about those around you here. It's natural to be wary when you have no idea what you may be faced with in retaliation.
wildbluevagner: (holo - meek wave)

[personal profile] wildbluevagner 2012-11-21 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Time for sarcasm.]

But isn't it refreshing to always have someone ready to help you cross the street?
Edited 2012-11-21 19:04 (UTC)
complicatedliar: (the devil's horns)

[Written]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-11-21 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
And how.

It has something to do with the preponderance of self-described heroes itching to beat someone half to death, I would say.
herotypical: (✝ and whispers to all of the above)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-11-21 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
If you look close enough, every small town has its cracks. Its troublemakers. [ jack used to be one. could still be one. ] Effing and blinding or brawling in the streets? Not exactly the only way to not be a boyscout.
herotypical: [ neutral ; sad ; action ] (✝ guilty about feeling guilty)

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[personal profile] herotypical 2012-11-21 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
...Join the freakin' club.

[ she would have thought that drusilla's absence would make her feel...happier. safer.

but she's just more uncertain than ever. ]
Or just wait until it's nearly your fourth year itch instead of your...how many months has it been, now?
herotypical: [ neutral ; uncertain ; angry ; sparrow ] (✝ i courted a sailor)

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[personal profile] herotypical 2012-11-21 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Haven't you heard? We're only good for zombie-busting. Cultist-busting. Slaughtering the infected and the crazy. Noble work, that.

[ it's so wrong. it's so very wrong. but her recent and utter dissatisfaction actually has her functioning a level where she can speak candidly with faith.

because faith, at least, understands. the frustration that came without fulfilling that basic, built-in function. the thumping heart and the dreams. ]
complicatedliar: (so very unimpressed)

[Written]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-11-21 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I am heartily sick of melodramatic lectures myself.
spohkh: (Bemused)

[personal profile] spohkh 2012-11-22 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Spock can usually be found in the Dome...
As he was walking by one of the training rooms he noticed a woman who seemed rather distracted... He normally would have left it alone, but she could be ill.]


Excuse me Miss? Are you in need of assistance?
deadpoet: (That's all folks)

[personal profile] deadpoet 2012-11-22 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
You can say that again. Worse bit is, there's not even anything decent to watch on the telly. I went on one of those missions for the Malnosso just to get one for myself. The bastards tell me I haven't yet got enough. For one week of kicking around rocks underground. Bollocks, is what it is. The whole bloody place.
dragmire: (Final Departure)

[personal profile] dragmire 2012-11-22 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Surprisingly, Ganondorf was a man who enjoyed music. Cloud Nine offered it, sometimes, in a way that was enjoyable enough for the large red haired man. He had noticed Faith was present, but she was of no interest to him. When she left, he lingered a little longer to listen to one last song. But as he was leaving, he stopped at the door long enough to listen to her message to the journals.

It was indeed an intriguing one. A girl who longed for vice in a town so utterly devoid of it.

Dressed in long robes rather than his usual armor, he descended down the steps as he walked past her. As she concluded her message, he spoke up with his own observation.

"The quiet life does not suit you, does it?"
complicatedliar: (all according to plan)

[Voice]

[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-11-22 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[He sounds amused more than anything.]

Not all that often, but Tony Stark delivers them with a particularly arresting flair.
so_shik: (confused)

[personal profile] so_shik 2012-11-22 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
So what's stopping you? [She's genuinely curious, actually.]
dragmire: (Quiet Contemplation)

[personal profile] dragmire 2012-11-22 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
There was a distinct look of displeasure as he regarded the smoke. The practice was not unknown to him, but he found it distasteful.

"Indeed? There seem far too few in this place."

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