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Vicious_Cycle ([info]vicious_cycle) wrote,
@ 2011-06-24 12:20:00


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Entry tags:nicholas salem, rose knight-rand

Challenge thread
It had led him here - the demon sense, drawing the rider like a moth to a flame. It had been a long drive, but none of that mattered. Even from hundreds of miles away, he could feel the summoning ritual taking place, the sound almost maddening as these cultists sought to open a portal directly into Mephisto's realm. He didn't know how they'd come by the Darkhold page, and they clearly didn't know what they were doing - but it had to be stopped.

As the chanting reaches a crescendo, moments before the knife plunges down at the naked sacrifice, prepared for just such purposes, the flaming cycle comes bursting through one wall.



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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 12:51 am UTC (link)
Nick, on the other hand, is no good at reassurance, distinct from the rider in this only in that he doesn't actively try and be disconcerting.

The hospital is the first stop, dropping the girl off, and letting Rose get her checked in.

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 12:54 am UTC (link)
The one thing Rose didn't like is having to leave her sword behind but it isn't as if she can bring it into a hospital. Rules and all. But she comes out looking no worse for wear.

"The girl will be fine. They'll call her parents. I'm not sure she knows what happened back there... which might be for the best. She felt normal to me."

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 12:59 am UTC (link)
He nods in non-commital fashion, not really fit to comment on anyone's mental state or what's for the best.

"Hop on, if you still want the booze. I'm feeling some serious drinking coming on."

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:06 am UTC (link)
She nodded climbing on. She still wants that booze. She carries fake IDs for days like these when she needs to forget something.

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:08 am UTC (link)
Normally, he'd take her back to the garage- cheaper, and the whiskey is just fine, but he's a long way from home. He heads for the nearest suitable looking bar - cheap, enough space they can get some quiet. There's times he prefers more revelry and atmosphere. Right now, he just wants to drink until he can no longer see the sins of his victims.

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:13 am UTC (link)
Rose had witnessed some of what the men had done. Something inside of her had howled for punishment. But she knew better than to dive in. So she had waited until she could free the girl.

Still she felt guilty. So she would be drinking to wash away the guilt she felt like she was carrying around. At least it looks like no one is looking too closely at her ID.

Good.

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:15 am UTC (link)
Even in this form, when he's in a mood, somehow Nick rarely gets ID'd, just something in the stare.

They get a quiet table out of the way.

"What's your poison?"

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:20 am UTC (link)
"Whiskey."

It's no good for her but she puts a few bills on the table. She had made sure anything she carried looked really wrinkled up. No reason to give away she has real money when she's trying to blend in.

For someone who is kind of an innocent in so many ways she is good at blending.

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:23 am UTC (link)
He nods. "Good choice." he agrees, before ordering shots of J.D., and insisting they keep them coming. Nick is anything but an innocent, and he doesn't drink like one.

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:26 am UTC (link)
The way she drinks it's obvious she isn't experienced but not so much that it draws attention. She doesn't look at at anything except Nick and the table during her first three drinks.

"You know.... You're not the first Rider I've seen."

Such a weird way to start things off but it's God's honest truth. Not that Rose is sure she believes in anything or anyone after days like today.

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:27 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, I've known another one. And have the memories of two before me." Which he doesn't want. "You know Johnny, Danny or Roxanne?" he asks, delaying after each name to drink to each one of them in turn.

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:34 am UTC (link)
"Roxanne," Rose said with a nod taking another drink.

"I went on this.... crazy adventure. With a group called the Exiles. Don't... don't really remember what happened but I ended back here. In a coma. Woke up. Went back to work."

She shrugged as if to ask what else could she have done. Sitting back wasn't her style and trying to piece together things from before was difficult. Might be why she was doing solo stuff like this when she could.

"I remember she was good people though."

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:40 am UTC (link)
"She was." he agrees, lifting his shot glass in a toast. "We got together for a bit when the Exiles hit this world. I was there when she died." he replies, raising the cup higher. "To Roxanne." he adds, hoping she somehow didn't end up sharing the final fate of all the Riders.

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:46 am UTC (link)
"She died?" Rose shakes her head.

"That must have been after I got put in that coma. That fight was... I can't remember a lot of it. Fuck."

Rose goes silent drinking a little harder. Anger and grief were reasons enough to drink.

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:50 am UTC (link)
He nods, turning his shot glass over and slamming the next one. "Nothing you could have done."

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 01:53 am UTC (link)
"Still sucks," Rose mutters. "But. At least we stopped what was going to happen. As much as it hurts to think on it anyways, we did what was needed at the time. Each of us went with the Exiles for a damn good reason."

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 01:57 am UTC (link)
"That's what she said... well, also that, good reason or no, you had no choice in the matter."

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Rose shook her head. "You get a choice.... just not one you can say no to."

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 04:20 pm UTC (link)
"Fair enough. Congratulations on escaping your term of service then."

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-25 07:13 pm UTC (link)
She tilts her glass in a salute. "Here's to being home. Least I got back on the horse.... Next time I go after a cult I ain't going under cover though. I'm more of a 'hit things till they cry uncle', type."

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-25 10:26 pm UTC (link)
"Nothing wrong with that." he says, saluting, slamming his drink, then ordering a J.L. Hooker special - one bourbon, one scotch, one beer for each of them.

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[info]irondragon
2011-06-26 12:04 am UTC (link)
The bourbon is easier on her system. Scotch though she will regret in the morning, the beer too. She should know better than to have anything with wheat in it but the virtues of being as good as she is means she can focus her morning meditation on healing what wheat does to her.

"Nope. It's.... It can just be easier to fight."

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[info]vicious_cycle
2011-06-26 01:32 am UTC (link)
Nick is only barely showing the alcohol, history of hard drinking and all. As soon as he's getting deep into the beer, he has the waitress set up another round.

"Damn right, I'm all for going with what's easy."

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