darker_london | Pierre/Kait/Renee, Gay Rights Rally; PG-13 (Reply)

It was a fantastic turn out. Bopping heads crowded the street as gay right activists had their say in the rally. Kait was keeping special care to make sure that she remained right close to Hannah and Amanda once she met up with them. It would be only too easy to lose one or both of them in the middle of all this chaos. Pierre still hadn't shown up yet. He had said that he knew where they were meeting, hadn't he?

And then they were moving; Amanda's hand motion and, 'come on!' shouted to make herself heard. With a bit of a nervous smile, Kait walked on into the mass. Hannah grasped her hand to make sure that she kept up.

Dimmly, Kait wondered if she would see either Renee or Scarlett here... neither one of them had spoken to her of an interest in appearing today.

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[info]eligible_boy
2006-02-27 10:58 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
This was the first time that Pierre had seen so many people in one place in this country. Hordes of English people crowded the streets, chanting loudly about the right to love whomever one pleased. While Pierre was all for today's cause, he found himself somewhat nervous at the prospect of not finding anyone he knew and getting hopelessly lost in this strange city. Sure, he had been here before, but never alone...

He was a little late by the time he reached the corner, but at least there were blessedly few people here. Maybe Kait would return here and notice him...

He took a few deep breaths, trying to find his centre. He needed to remain calm. Mental discipline. That was all this required. He could find his way home with little to no trouble if he had to. He knew this. He just had to realise it.

Good. Now then. Where was Kait?

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[info]juniper_berries
2006-02-27 11:19 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Come on over here. I know a couple of people who will be handing out banners." Amanda motioned impatiently across to Hannah and Kait. Kait just felt lost in the swell of everyone. She thought she had seen a television broadcaster just before. Hopefully she hadn't been in anything he'd been filming.

A banner was pushed into her hand, with the instructions, "You hold it up. Wave it around a bit if people get in your way, but I didn't tell you that."

Still no sign of Pierre yet. What was she supposed to do; listen out for someone calling out in French expletives? Even if that could have been heard from any logical distance, Pierre wasn't the sort to call out like that.

"Umm, maybe I should head back with this," Kait told Hannah. "I had a friend who was supposed to meet me at Empire."

"Want us to go back with you?" Hannah called back in reply.

Kait shrugged. How far were they likely to move in the time it took her to hurry to Empire and back?

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[info]eligible_boy
2006-02-28 12:13 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
So many banners! It was practically impossible to make out any distinguishing features of people with all those things in the way. What was a boy to do?

It was tempting to just grab one and go solo, now that Pierre had calmed his nerves and made his peace with the crowd. He was about to find one of the activists, when...

"Pierre."

He turned to face the voice that had pronounced his name in a French accent. Renee. She was dressed in a short leather skirt and black velvet cleavage top. High heels raised her to 5'8", still a good five inches shorter than Pierre. Somehow, though, she seemed to be the more intimidating of the two.

"What are you doing?" she asked, her tone almost condescending enough to make him sound stupid. But not quite.

"I was looking for Kait," he responded, unsure of how to play this other than the truth.

Renee peered into the crowd, sunglasses hiding her gaze. After a moment, she ploughed into the crowd, Pierre fighting to keep up behind her. It was a strange turn-about. Normally, crowd-parting was his job.

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[info]juniper_berries
2006-02-28 12:25 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
That was the reason why she didn't pick out Pierre the moment she saw him. What had used to be a generally standard view of the two brunettes standing next to each other had become uncommon and somehow shocking to Kait when she saw Renee and Pierre together.

Above all things, that told her how wrong things seemed.

But no, there was still more wrong to be felt as Kait knew herself to be pausing in the action of calling out to draw their attention to her. Renee was with him now... surely he wouldn't need Kait to be there as well? In all things, what she most wanted to just avoid was that discomfort that had been there between her and Scarlett when they had gone to pick Pierre up just the other day.

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[info]eligible_boy
2006-02-28 12:36 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Kait!" Pierre called. Immediately, he felt a pang of guilt. Why? They had arranged to meet here, it wasn't as if he was crashing her... Oh.

It was Renee. Pierre actually felt guilty for inflicting Renee on Kait. Fuck... when did things get so bad? This was beyond ridiculous. Too late now, though. Renee had seen her, was heading straight for her. Only fair to give Kait warning now.

"Kait!!" he called again.

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[info]juniper_berries
2006-02-28 12:42 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait took a deep breath in to steel herself; the other half of her was yelling run, run back to Hannah and Amanda and safety.

"Pierre," she said, forcing a smile, "Renee. Fancy seeing you here."

Oh, what she wouldn't do for a swig of that courage potion right about now.

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[info]seminalsemiotic
2006-02-28 12:45 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"I could say the same thing," Renee replied with raised eyebrows. "I would not have thought activism was... your scene."

The crowds here were more fiery, starting to jostle about. This would be interesting...

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[info]juniper_berries
2006-02-28 01:22 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh, well, I... came here with friends. From school," Kait finished lamely. Oh blast! This was a turn about, in all ways. She remembered the first time when they had seen each other again in London. It had been Renee who had been flustered then. Kait's memory of that girl bore very little resemblance to the girl who now stood in front of her.

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[info]seminalsemiotic
2006-02-28 01:41 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"I see," Renee said flatly, betraying nothing. "Nobody I would know, then?" Not Scarlett?

"Hey, pizza!" Pierre exclaimed, all too suddenly. He placed a hand on Kait's arm, ready to guide her away. "Do you want some?"

Renee's head was turned towards them, but Pierre couldn't see her eyes at all. Inwardly, he was thankful.

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[info]juniper_berries
2006-02-28 01:45 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"No, well, yes, but not well." Kait backtracked when Renee looked at her oddly. "It's Amanda and Hannah... from when we went to see the Bill Henson exhibition..." from when we had understood each other; loved each other, so I thought, ran through Kait's mind briefly.

Pierre's hand tugged on her arm, tugging her too out of her thoughts. "Umm, no. I ate before I came here," she murmured. "I really should try to get back to Amanda and Hannah though. Would you like to come with me?"

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[info]seminalsemiotic
2006-03-02 03:21 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Very well," Renee answered before Pierre could get a word out. She glared poison at him through her sunglasses. What the Hell was wrong with him, trying to get away from her like that? Great git.

She cut in front of Pierre, practically shoving him out of the way, to loop her arm through Kait's. Hell, it seemed appropriate at a gay rally. If she was here, then she was hardly in a position to object... right?

"Lead the way," she said, with the first smile she had shown all day. Nevertheless, it wasn't an entirely comforting expression.