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darker_london2006-03-03 03:32 pm
juniper-berries.livejournal.com) wrote in darker_london2006-03-03 03:32 pm
Kait/Pierre/Renee/Deirdre, Meeting Deirdre; G
Pierre had slipped a piece of paper into Kait's hand just before they had parted ways at the gay rights rally. In the end, she hadn't ended up meeting again with Amanda and Hannah and had had to apologise to them about it the next day.
She still didn't know what she thought about Renee. One thing was firm in her mind though: Pierre certainly had reason to be fearful, or at the very least, cautious about her. This wasn't the Renee she knew. But was it a bad thing that it didn't make her love the other girl any less?
Unfolding the paper later, Kait had realised that it had on it an address along with the short message: Come over Friday night. Okay, so that was what she was doing now.
The house, when she came up to it, was pretty. Nice side of town too. She didn't know how long she was going to stay. Didn't know if she wanted to talk about Renee with Pierre. Perhaps they could talk more about the dojo idea, or something equally neutral.
Either way, it was with a deep breath in that Kait lifted her hand and knocked on the front door of Victoria Lane.
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 01:24 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Deirdre was busy making an "Oh you are the best person ever" cake to give to Father Peter on Saturday. She had just finished icing it when a knock sounded at the door. She wasn't expecting anyone, but she took the icong knife with her, licking the chocolate off it as she answered the door. And incredibly hot girl stood there, looking slightly...nervous?
"Hey there! Can I help you?" Oh please let me help you....
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 01:47 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait blinked. "Uh.. is Pierre here? I was told someone called Pierre lived here?"
Why was there a person licking a knife always the sort of person who answered the door in unknown homes?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 01:51 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh yeah, Pierre's here. He's probably playing Final Fantasy. He says he loves Lulu, but I think he secretly likes Auron better....aaand you have no idea what I am talking about. Come in! Do you want anything to drink or some cake?" She showed her frosting knife again and smiled.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 01:55 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
The blank look that Kait was giving the redhead as soon as she mentioned the words, 'Final Fantasy', as though she would understand seemed to penetrate only a few sentences into it. There was no effort made to explain what it was, but it clearly wasn't that important. Peirre was actually here. That was what mattered.
"Thank you," she murmured, stepping over the threshold. "Umm, no cake, thank you."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 01:57 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh ok, no problem." No one ever refused Deirdre Cake! "I'll just get Pierre for you..."
Running into the loungeroom, she found Pierre lying on the couch, staring at the TV.
"Pierre? There's a girl to see you. She's hot!"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:05 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
She's hot.
Kait had been following a little behind Deirdre, at a bit of a loss, truth to tell. She stopped shock still when she caught the end of that comment. Had she imposed where she shouldn't have? Should she instead have just waited in the hall?
Hot? Despite herself, a little smile curled Kait's lips.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:08 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre's eyes lit up instantly. "A hot girl to see me? Hooray!"
He leapt up off the couch, Final Fantasy immediately forgotten, and stepped out to find...
"Kait!" he exclaimed, before remembering the note. Aaaaiiiieeee!! He had meant to make sure Deirdre was out of the house when he saw Kait. Not that he had any subterfuge in mind... he had been planning on meeting her here, and then going somewhere else. Why he couldn't have just met her elsewhere... stupid. Well, it was impossible to think straight around Renee these days. That must have been what it was...
"Kait. Uh..." What to do? Out with it, boy. That was best. "Kait, meet Deirdre. Deirdre, this is Kait... we met in France..."
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:13 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Deirdre."
Renee's exgirlfriend. The one who had attacked her. But Renee wasn't acting entirely herself these days. The redhead seemed... normal. And Pierre had forgiven her.
Oh god. Kait felt herself flush red. If what she had been told was right, what must Deirdre think of her in the part of the breakup with Renee?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 02:16 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait. Renee's first girlfriend. Well she could certainly understand WHY. Wow. So this was the girl Renee had hidden from her. But that wasn't Kait's fault. Deirdre walked over to Kait and held out her hand, "It's really nice to meet you." And she meant it.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:20 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre held his breath as Deirdre extended a hand to Kait. So far, so good. It seemed there was no anger on Deirdre's part... well, she had always been good-natured before... the incident.
Kait seemed to have disappeared into herself, at least for a moment. Hopefully Deirdre's friendliness would draw her out again. Kait was a good person. She would see reason... right?
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:20 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Say something, idiot. "Hi. It's nice to meet you too." Well that didn't sound sincere. Actually, Kait wouldn't be surprised to hear that she sounded as much like a fish choking on nothing but hair as she felt.
Of course. She knew why the other girl looked so familiar now. Helplessly, she glanced up at Pierre who was standing by, still seeming a bit shell shocked himself. Why had he brought her here?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 02:23 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Deirdre felt that the girl still was not comfortable. Deirdre didn't know how to make her feel better. But blurting out 'I don't blame you for anything' didn't seem like a good idea.
Instead, he put a gentle hand on Kait's back, looking into her eyes for justa second, and then turned to Pierre. "Did you guys want me to leave you alone?"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:27 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
The physical contact from anyone else would have had Kait jumping almost out of her skin and right into Peirre's arms, Scooby Doo style. Instead, there was just... something, about Deirdre's manner, and Kait felt quite at ease.
She could see why Renee had gone out with this girl. At least, the Renee she had known.
She braved a smile in Deirdre's direction. "Just for a little while? If that's okay?"
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:31 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Well," Pierre said, clearing his throat. "It might be best if Deirdre was to be here..."
This wasn't quite what he had intended, but they all knew Renee, after all. Maybe three heads would be better than one.
"I just... am very worried about Renee. And I know you both are too. So I think maybe we should talk. I do not know... I want to help. But I cannot alone. Maybe we all can... together?"
If he had known that things were going to pan out this way, he might have invited Scarlett as well. But then, things being as they were... ironically, it was probably safer having Kait in a room with Deirdre than Scarlett. God... that really drove home just how fucked up things were at the moment.
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 02:37 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Now Deirdre was torn bewteen wanting to make Kait feel better, and wanting to talk to the both of them.
"I can stay if you want." She glanced at Kait. "I haven't been around her for awhile, obviously, but the Renee I saw the other night wasn't...it wasn't her. She was scary. I don't know how to help, I...I highly doubt she'll listen to ME." Deirdre took a seat on the couch and sighed.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:42 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait didn't know what to say. The last time she had spoken to Renee, the other girl had told her that she wanted both her and Scarlett. Now how exactly was she expected to phrase that to Renee's ex girlfriend in polite conversation?
In the end, she did the closest thing to slumping in a chair in the living room, with an upwards look to make sure it was okay she did so.
"Well Pierre, what are you suggesting, exactly?" she asked. Avoiding the other issue at hand was clearly the best choice.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:51 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre sighed and sat down on the floor between them. At least this way if he ended up being the mediator, he didn't appear to be "siding" with either of them...
"I really do not know," he said, looking towards Kait. "But I think we should at least all talk about what we have seen. Just so we all know everything that is going on. Like the other night," he said, turning to Deirdre. "I do not know what Kait has seen, but we have seen terrible things in her room. She... there was blood on her wall and her floor. She told me she was practicing... tel-e-kin-e-sis," he sounded the word out, not being terribly familiar with it. "But I did not think that meant lots of blood. And swords. Lots of knives and swords."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 08:39 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Telekenesis is just moving things with your mind. No swords or knives or blood. Unless you were moving swords with your mind and you were bad at it....anyway, that has to be a lie. I don't know much about witchcraft either, but could it be some sort of darker ritual?"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 09:50 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait just shrugged, looking at them both. "I've never understood her things for magic, like Pierre. I wouldn't be any help in the asking of these sorts of things."
Though even as she said this; words that would have been truthful only days ago, she found that she could hold neither of their gazes for long, and ducked her head. It didn't count that she had been to the Couldren. It didn't mean she knew anything about blood in Renee's room. Nothing she had done had ended in blood!
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 10:51 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"So we know she has been lying to us," Pierre nodded sadly. "It might help if we actually knew what she was trying to do... Maybe Scarlett would know...?"
He sighed heavily, looking to each of them in turn. The really pertinent question had finally worked its way to the front of his mind. "What does Renee want?" he asked of nobody in particular.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:03 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Again Kait found herself biting her lip against information she knew she had. What if it was the very information that they needed... somehow? Okay, so just because Kait couldn't think of how it could possibly connect...
Then a potentially spiteful notion came to her and she said it almost without thinking. "Perhaps you are asking the wrong girls. Scarlett has been spending more time with her than any of us."
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[info]seminalsemiotic
2006-03-03 11:09 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre turned his full attention to Kait. The implication was clear in her words... but he couldn't believe it. The shock of her even suggesting something like that silenced him for a moment.
Finally, he spoke. "Kait... do you think that Scarlett might have something to do with this? That she might..." be responsible? No, that couldn't be true... "... know something important?"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:13 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait was shocked. That wasn't what she had meant from her words before. Personal bitterness shouldn't have had a place in here of all things. She understood that now. Oh god. What had she gotten Renee and Scarlett suspected of now? She felt sick.
"No! No, that's not what I meant at all..." she drifted off lamely.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 11:19 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre nodded, his thoughts tumultuous. Kait may not have meant what he had thought, but the seed had been sewn now. All implication aside, there was no stripping the essential truth from Kait's words. Scarlett had been spending more time with Renee than anybody else...
"We should talk to her as soon as we can," he said neutrally. What more could be done? He didn't want to be laying blame, especially when it was completely unfounded.
... But was it?
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:21 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait looked sorrowfully up at the redhead... Deirdre. The other girl had been seeming to draw more and more into herself as the conversation had gone on. Still feeling bad about her earlier jibe, Kait tried to make it better by bringing her back into the swing of things.
"Umm, what was that about cake you mentioned before, Deirdre? Some of that would be lovely right now..."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 11:40 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Sure, I have the cake. It's in kitchen. I mean-ugh." She smiled lamely at the girl. "Follow me. You want some too, Pierre? Oh...There's a party tomorrow night. I-I know Renee will be there. I could ask her to talk. I guess we'll see what happens. You want to come, Kait? It should be a nice distraction at least." She walked into the kitchen and got out the cake she had made for Father Peter. Reluctantly she cut a slice of it and placed it on a plate, offering it to Kait.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:42 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"A party? Uhh, sure," Kait didn't want to say that she really didn't know many of the people who were likely to show up, so instead filled her mouth with cake. "Mmm, this is so nice," she said truthfully. "I like your plan, Deirdre. This.. talking behind Renee's back... I don't like the feeling of it."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 11:44 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"I don't either. but I don't want her hurting herself. Or...or anyone else..." she trailed off. Whatever Renee was doing was mostlikely her fault anyway.
"SO yes-talking is good. Did you want something to drink?"
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-04 12:01 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre dug into the cake, a hungry boy as always. "Got milk?" he asked in response to Deirdre's offer, blissfully unaware of the cultural reference.
"It is just so hard to confront Renee herself," he sighed. "She reacts with such... anger. She will not hear a word against what she is doing." She will not hear a word that is not Scarlett's. And yet Scarlett had seemed so good for Renee... what was really going on there? Was Scarlett hiding something, protecting Renee? Or was she even worse off than the rest of them, drawn through terror in Renee's wake? How did it even come to be that he thought such things of Renee? Had it really come to this? Was she now... the bad guy?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-04 01:04 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Deirdre giggled and handed Pierre a glassful of milk. "Don't get a mustache!" She sat and watched him down the entire glass. She turned to Kait. "DO you know he eats more than all my other housemates combined? I mean sure, two of us are models, but still..."
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-04 01:18 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh yes, I remember how much he eats!" Kait grinned. "You should have seen this time that me, Renee, Pierre and Emileo went to an all you can eat bar over in Paris. When they said 'all you can eat', Pierre certainly took care of that offer!"
Kait giggled at Pierre's face. This was fun, just lounging around Deirdre's kitchen, relaxed now that they were no longer talking of Renee.
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-04 01:35 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Well I made him a pizza and he ate the whole thing and then yelled AIIYEEE because it was too hot. Our Pierre is quite the guy, isn't he?" She flashed Pierre a huge adoring smile.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-04 01:38 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Our Pierre. Except he wasn't... at least not hers and Deirdre's. Whenever this kind of conversation had gone on above Pierre as though he wasn't even in the room, it had always been with Renee.
In an odd way, she almost wished that she wasn't instantly getting along with Deirdre so very well right now...
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-04 07:43 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"I am a picture of manhood!" Pierre agreed. "It was like on The Simpsons, when Homer makes the lawsuit against the seafood restaurant!" He grinned and stuffed his face full of more cake to accentuate his point.
"But I need it to keep up my action," he spoke around the cake, then finally swallowing it. "By the way, Kait," he added, "I found a dojo we can join. It is not far from here, it is only a ten minute walk from Regents because they want young people. It should be a lot of fun! And the Sensei is a bald man with a big mustache!"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-05 04:15 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"The general anime stereotype then?" Kait grinned. "That's fantastic! What day this week would you like to go check it out? I finish early on Tuesday; that would probably be the earliest I could make it..."
She still didn't know what she thought about Renee. One thing was firm in her mind though: Pierre certainly had reason to be fearful, or at the very least, cautious about her. This wasn't the Renee she knew. But was it a bad thing that it didn't make her love the other girl any less?
Unfolding the paper later, Kait had realised that it had on it an address along with the short message: Come over Friday night. Okay, so that was what she was doing now.
The house, when she came up to it, was pretty. Nice side of town too. She didn't know how long she was going to stay. Didn't know if she wanted to talk about Renee with Pierre. Perhaps they could talk more about the dojo idea, or something equally neutral.
Either way, it was with a deep breath in that Kait lifted her hand and knocked on the front door of Victoria Lane.
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 01:24 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Deirdre was busy making an "Oh you are the best person ever" cake to give to Father Peter on Saturday. She had just finished icing it when a knock sounded at the door. She wasn't expecting anyone, but she took the icong knife with her, licking the chocolate off it as she answered the door. And incredibly hot girl stood there, looking slightly...nervous?
"Hey there! Can I help you?" Oh please let me help you....
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 01:47 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait blinked. "Uh.. is Pierre here? I was told someone called Pierre lived here?"
Why was there a person licking a knife always the sort of person who answered the door in unknown homes?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 01:51 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh yeah, Pierre's here. He's probably playing Final Fantasy. He says he loves Lulu, but I think he secretly likes Auron better....aaand you have no idea what I am talking about. Come in! Do you want anything to drink or some cake?" She showed her frosting knife again and smiled.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 01:55 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
The blank look that Kait was giving the redhead as soon as she mentioned the words, 'Final Fantasy', as though she would understand seemed to penetrate only a few sentences into it. There was no effort made to explain what it was, but it clearly wasn't that important. Peirre was actually here. That was what mattered.
"Thank you," she murmured, stepping over the threshold. "Umm, no cake, thank you."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 01:57 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh ok, no problem." No one ever refused Deirdre Cake! "I'll just get Pierre for you..."
Running into the loungeroom, she found Pierre lying on the couch, staring at the TV.
"Pierre? There's a girl to see you. She's hot!"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:05 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
She's hot.
Kait had been following a little behind Deirdre, at a bit of a loss, truth to tell. She stopped shock still when she caught the end of that comment. Had she imposed where she shouldn't have? Should she instead have just waited in the hall?
Hot? Despite herself, a little smile curled Kait's lips.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:08 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre's eyes lit up instantly. "A hot girl to see me? Hooray!"
He leapt up off the couch, Final Fantasy immediately forgotten, and stepped out to find...
"Kait!" he exclaimed, before remembering the note. Aaaaiiiieeee!! He had meant to make sure Deirdre was out of the house when he saw Kait. Not that he had any subterfuge in mind... he had been planning on meeting her here, and then going somewhere else. Why he couldn't have just met her elsewhere... stupid. Well, it was impossible to think straight around Renee these days. That must have been what it was...
"Kait. Uh..." What to do? Out with it, boy. That was best. "Kait, meet Deirdre. Deirdre, this is Kait... we met in France..."
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:13 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Deirdre."
Renee's exgirlfriend. The one who had attacked her. But Renee wasn't acting entirely herself these days. The redhead seemed... normal. And Pierre had forgiven her.
Oh god. Kait felt herself flush red. If what she had been told was right, what must Deirdre think of her in the part of the breakup with Renee?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 02:16 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait. Renee's first girlfriend. Well she could certainly understand WHY. Wow. So this was the girl Renee had hidden from her. But that wasn't Kait's fault. Deirdre walked over to Kait and held out her hand, "It's really nice to meet you." And she meant it.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:20 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre held his breath as Deirdre extended a hand to Kait. So far, so good. It seemed there was no anger on Deirdre's part... well, she had always been good-natured before... the incident.
Kait seemed to have disappeared into herself, at least for a moment. Hopefully Deirdre's friendliness would draw her out again. Kait was a good person. She would see reason... right?
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:20 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Say something, idiot. "Hi. It's nice to meet you too." Well that didn't sound sincere. Actually, Kait wouldn't be surprised to hear that she sounded as much like a fish choking on nothing but hair as she felt.
Of course. She knew why the other girl looked so familiar now. Helplessly, she glanced up at Pierre who was standing by, still seeming a bit shell shocked himself. Why had he brought her here?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 02:23 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Deirdre felt that the girl still was not comfortable. Deirdre didn't know how to make her feel better. But blurting out 'I don't blame you for anything' didn't seem like a good idea.
Instead, he put a gentle hand on Kait's back, looking into her eyes for justa second, and then turned to Pierre. "Did you guys want me to leave you alone?"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:27 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
The physical contact from anyone else would have had Kait jumping almost out of her skin and right into Peirre's arms, Scooby Doo style. Instead, there was just... something, about Deirdre's manner, and Kait felt quite at ease.
She could see why Renee had gone out with this girl. At least, the Renee she had known.
She braved a smile in Deirdre's direction. "Just for a little while? If that's okay?"
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:31 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Well," Pierre said, clearing his throat. "It might be best if Deirdre was to be here..."
This wasn't quite what he had intended, but they all knew Renee, after all. Maybe three heads would be better than one.
"I just... am very worried about Renee. And I know you both are too. So I think maybe we should talk. I do not know... I want to help. But I cannot alone. Maybe we all can... together?"
If he had known that things were going to pan out this way, he might have invited Scarlett as well. But then, things being as they were... ironically, it was probably safer having Kait in a room with Deirdre than Scarlett. God... that really drove home just how fucked up things were at the moment.
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 02:37 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Now Deirdre was torn bewteen wanting to make Kait feel better, and wanting to talk to the both of them.
"I can stay if you want." She glanced at Kait. "I haven't been around her for awhile, obviously, but the Renee I saw the other night wasn't...it wasn't her. She was scary. I don't know how to help, I...I highly doubt she'll listen to ME." Deirdre took a seat on the couch and sighed.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 02:42 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait didn't know what to say. The last time she had spoken to Renee, the other girl had told her that she wanted both her and Scarlett. Now how exactly was she expected to phrase that to Renee's ex girlfriend in polite conversation?
In the end, she did the closest thing to slumping in a chair in the living room, with an upwards look to make sure it was okay she did so.
"Well Pierre, what are you suggesting, exactly?" she asked. Avoiding the other issue at hand was clearly the best choice.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 02:51 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre sighed and sat down on the floor between them. At least this way if he ended up being the mediator, he didn't appear to be "siding" with either of them...
"I really do not know," he said, looking towards Kait. "But I think we should at least all talk about what we have seen. Just so we all know everything that is going on. Like the other night," he said, turning to Deirdre. "I do not know what Kait has seen, but we have seen terrible things in her room. She... there was blood on her wall and her floor. She told me she was practicing... tel-e-kin-e-sis," he sounded the word out, not being terribly familiar with it. "But I did not think that meant lots of blood. And swords. Lots of knives and swords."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 08:39 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Telekenesis is just moving things with your mind. No swords or knives or blood. Unless you were moving swords with your mind and you were bad at it....anyway, that has to be a lie. I don't know much about witchcraft either, but could it be some sort of darker ritual?"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 09:50 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait just shrugged, looking at them both. "I've never understood her things for magic, like Pierre. I wouldn't be any help in the asking of these sorts of things."
Though even as she said this; words that would have been truthful only days ago, she found that she could hold neither of their gazes for long, and ducked her head. It didn't count that she had been to the Couldren. It didn't mean she knew anything about blood in Renee's room. Nothing she had done had ended in blood!
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 10:51 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"So we know she has been lying to us," Pierre nodded sadly. "It might help if we actually knew what she was trying to do... Maybe Scarlett would know...?"
He sighed heavily, looking to each of them in turn. The really pertinent question had finally worked its way to the front of his mind. "What does Renee want?" he asked of nobody in particular.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:03 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Again Kait found herself biting her lip against information she knew she had. What if it was the very information that they needed... somehow? Okay, so just because Kait couldn't think of how it could possibly connect...
Then a potentially spiteful notion came to her and she said it almost without thinking. "Perhaps you are asking the wrong girls. Scarlett has been spending more time with her than any of us."
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[info]seminalsemiotic
2006-03-03 11:09 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre turned his full attention to Kait. The implication was clear in her words... but he couldn't believe it. The shock of her even suggesting something like that silenced him for a moment.
Finally, he spoke. "Kait... do you think that Scarlett might have something to do with this? That she might..." be responsible? No, that couldn't be true... "... know something important?"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:13 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait was shocked. That wasn't what she had meant from her words before. Personal bitterness shouldn't have had a place in here of all things. She understood that now. Oh god. What had she gotten Renee and Scarlett suspected of now? She felt sick.
"No! No, that's not what I meant at all..." she drifted off lamely.
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-03 11:19 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre nodded, his thoughts tumultuous. Kait may not have meant what he had thought, but the seed had been sewn now. All implication aside, there was no stripping the essential truth from Kait's words. Scarlett had been spending more time with Renee than anybody else...
"We should talk to her as soon as we can," he said neutrally. What more could be done? He didn't want to be laying blame, especially when it was completely unfounded.
... But was it?
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:21 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Kait looked sorrowfully up at the redhead... Deirdre. The other girl had been seeming to draw more and more into herself as the conversation had gone on. Still feeling bad about her earlier jibe, Kait tried to make it better by bringing her back into the swing of things.
"Umm, what was that about cake you mentioned before, Deirdre? Some of that would be lovely right now..."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 11:40 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Sure, I have the cake. It's in kitchen. I mean-ugh." She smiled lamely at the girl. "Follow me. You want some too, Pierre? Oh...There's a party tomorrow night. I-I know Renee will be there. I could ask her to talk. I guess we'll see what happens. You want to come, Kait? It should be a nice distraction at least." She walked into the kitchen and got out the cake she had made for Father Peter. Reluctantly she cut a slice of it and placed it on a plate, offering it to Kait.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-03 11:42 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"A party? Uhh, sure," Kait didn't want to say that she really didn't know many of the people who were likely to show up, so instead filled her mouth with cake. "Mmm, this is so nice," she said truthfully. "I like your plan, Deirdre. This.. talking behind Renee's back... I don't like the feeling of it."
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-03 11:44 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"I don't either. but I don't want her hurting herself. Or...or anyone else..." she trailed off. Whatever Renee was doing was mostlikely her fault anyway.
"SO yes-talking is good. Did you want something to drink?"
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-04 12:01 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Pierre dug into the cake, a hungry boy as always. "Got milk?" he asked in response to Deirdre's offer, blissfully unaware of the cultural reference.
"It is just so hard to confront Renee herself," he sighed. "She reacts with such... anger. She will not hear a word against what she is doing." She will not hear a word that is not Scarlett's. And yet Scarlett had seemed so good for Renee... what was really going on there? Was Scarlett hiding something, protecting Renee? Or was she even worse off than the rest of them, drawn through terror in Renee's wake? How did it even come to be that he thought such things of Renee? Had it really come to this? Was she now... the bad guy?
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-04 01:04 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Deirdre giggled and handed Pierre a glassful of milk. "Don't get a mustache!" She sat and watched him down the entire glass. She turned to Kait. "DO you know he eats more than all my other housemates combined? I mean sure, two of us are models, but still..."
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-04 01:18 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Oh yes, I remember how much he eats!" Kait grinned. "You should have seen this time that me, Renee, Pierre and Emileo went to an all you can eat bar over in Paris. When they said 'all you can eat', Pierre certainly took care of that offer!"
Kait giggled at Pierre's face. This was fun, just lounging around Deirdre's kitchen, relaxed now that they were no longer talking of Renee.
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[info]deirdre_ionuin
2006-03-04 01:35 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"Well I made him a pizza and he ate the whole thing and then yelled AIIYEEE because it was too hot. Our Pierre is quite the guy, isn't he?" She flashed Pierre a huge adoring smile.
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-04 01:38 am UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
Our Pierre. Except he wasn't... at least not hers and Deirdre's. Whenever this kind of conversation had gone on above Pierre as though he wasn't even in the room, it had always been with Renee.
In an odd way, she almost wished that she wasn't instantly getting along with Deirdre so very well right now...
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[info]eligible_boy
2006-03-04 07:43 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"I am a picture of manhood!" Pierre agreed. "It was like on The Simpsons, when Homer makes the lawsuit against the seafood restaurant!" He grinned and stuffed his face full of more cake to accentuate his point.
"But I need it to keep up my action," he spoke around the cake, then finally swallowing it. "By the way, Kait," he added, "I found a dojo we can join. It is not far from here, it is only a ten minute walk from Regents because they want young people. It should be a lot of fun! And the Sensei is a bald man with a big mustache!"
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[info]juniper_berries
2006-03-05 04:15 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreen
"The general anime stereotype then?" Kait grinned. "That's fantastic! What day this week would you like to go check it out? I finish early on Tuesday; that would probably be the earliest I could make it..."