The Lion Plays Tonight (Open)

[Seamus McAllister]

Seamus smiled at the woman when she mentioned not being from there and was just about to reply when she got into a minor argument with her friend. He shrugged to himself as they talked and took a sip of the water in his hand. When the two stopped arguing and the woman asked about getting him something stronger than the water. He grimaced inwardly at the suggestion then replied, "Hate to break it to you, but your hit was a love-tap compared to some of the hits I've taken. Just a bit unexpected." That and I don't particularly like strong drinks.

He held out his hand for the streak-haired woman to shake. "Me name's Seamus, by the way. Seamus McAllister. Been tryin' to enjoy my last night of freedom before I go to the House of Night tommorow with me mate Derren..." Seamus looked around the room to see if his friend had come back from wherever he was to no avail. "Who I'm guessin' is gettin' a free shag as we speak."

He laughed slightly at the tenacity of his friend then asked the woman, "So, what is it exactly that caused you to stay here, then? 'Cause I can tell purely from the way you're sittin' that you're bein' forced into this. That, and I have this funny feeling that your friend over there is blackmailing you somehow." Seamus gestured towards the blond woman who had offered to help him and talked to the woman he was talking to now quite sternly before.

[Night Tenjo]

A free shag? Ugh, how unsavory can a guy get. Night thought rolling her eyes as she tried to figure out how to answer his question. "Well," She started looking down at the hand without accepting it. "For starters i don't remember asking your name. And sadly Allison seems to think that if i don't socialize with you shes going to force me to put up with some other guy who thinks with his lower head..." She said her words full of spite while her lips held a cruel smile and seemingly gentle tone. Night sighed. "Why aren't you trying to go get a free shag like your friend?" Night asked looking over in the direction of the bathrooms, noticing the friend headed there with a girl on his arm.

"Better question, why aren't you asking him for a free shag?" ALli interrupted looking at Night with an innocent smile.

Night blushed before the slight embarrassment was replaced with not so slight anger and annoyance. She clenched her fists which were resting on her lap just under the bar top so Allison couldn't see and use it as a tool to threaten her with a certain call to a certain doctor. "Because..." Night smiled trying to think of a way out of the situation. "Isn't it considerably unlady like to ask for a free fuck?" She grinned with harsh pride in it.

Allison paled knowing that grin was pure evil and that it would be time to back off a bit. "Well, I should probably get back to work." She said walking off to the stock room.

"I should leave." Night said finally being able to leave without Alli around to stop her. "I'd apologize for the hit but clearly there's no reason since as you put it was a "love tap"." Night said grabbing her keys and bag. "But i will apologize for whoever you owe money to for whatever bet you just lost for not getting in the freakish vamps pants that will now be walking out the door." She said as she started walking through the crowd to the exit.

Alex laughed as Night left the boy behind. "Cynical as usual." He laughed.

[Seamus McAllister]

As Seamus watched the woman beat a tactical retreat back through the club to the door, he said to the man behind the bar, "She seemed nice. A bit on the cynical side but she seemed to be approachable otherwise. Apart from the slapping thing."

The other man barely suppressed a laugh as he replied, "Well, that's Night for you. She always seems to be that way. Never been able to work out why though."

"Her name's Night?" The man nodded. "Well, she certainly seems to be as cold as her namesake."

"Trust me mate, if you hit on her, she's either gonna rip your bollocks off or shoot you in the face. Name's Alex, by the way." Before the younger man could reply, he continued. "I know your name, I overheard you saying it to her."

"Right... Just out of curiosity lad, but is she worth chasing or not?"

"Like I said, bollocks or gunshot. Choose your poison."

"Does she have a gun?"

"Nope."

"Then I'll take my chances." With that, Seamus stood up from the bar and started towards the rift that Night's departure had caused in the crowded room. He walked quickly through, trying to catch the woman. Finally seeing her almost at the door, Shay called, "Night!" He ran the last few metres towards the woman then said to her, "Listen, I know what you might think I was trying to do back there, but, honest to Nyx, I was not trying to do anything of the kind. I was just trying to..." That's when Seamus realised that he had just chased a woman he knew nothing about through a club just to tell her he hadn't wanted a one night stand with her. He sighed then said to himself, "Holy hell, I'm an idiot..."

[Night Tenjo]

Alex laughed a bit before remembering a few small details about Night. She doesn't usually have a gun but she's one hell of a fighter and tends to carry a knife or two hidden on her person at all times. "Poor bastard. Hope she doesn't neuter him." Alex said as his lover came out.

Night heard her name and turned. "At least you're aware of your problem, so perhaps there is some hope for you yet in the world. But do you take pride in stalking a woman who's already hit, insulted and turned you down? Are you a masochist or just mad?" She asked with a very gentle hint of her mothers rooted accent coming out. "How the hell do you even know my name? Alli tell you?" She asked looking suspiciously over the strange boy's features. "Well I suppose it doesn't matter much. What do you expect to do with my name since you have it? For that matter if you are in fact not fancying a bit of a shag from me.... Why did you follow me?" She asked seriously with a calm an smooth voice and the tiniest hint of a blush barely detectable in the dark lighting of the lobby area to anyone not actually looking at her face. For a moment she saw bewildered wonder in the boy's eyes. "Why?" She asked under breath as she began drowning in the blue depths. Somewhere in the back of her mind her instincts were telling her to leave but somewhere else wouldn't let her move.

[Seamus McAllister]

Seamus listened patiently as Night talked, thinking of what he was going to say the entire time. When she finally said, "Why?", Seamus replied with a smile, "Well I'm not sure about the masochist part, but the mad part is definitely true. And as for the reason why I followed you..." He tried not to look embarrassed as he shrugged and said, "I have no idea. If you want to know the truth, I didn't think this far ahead." He laughed slightly in embarrassment then looked around to try and find some way out of the situation. Finding no such salvation, Shay decided to try and fix the whole situation when he saw the way that Night was looking at him.

Deciding not to ask about it, Seamus said in an effort to save the entire incident, "But like I said, I only wanted to say that I didn't want to sleep with you." Suddenly realising what he had just said could suggest, he quickly added, "Not that you're not pretty or anything, I just don't believe in doing that type of stuff..." Seamus stood there in a bit of an awkward silence before saying dejectedly, "This isn't going well, is it?"

Before Seamus could continue the conversation that was going nowhere, a pair of drunken humans walking behind Night stumbled and fell over, knocking the Red Vampyre towards Shay. He went to catch her and stumbled back as he did, catching his foot and falling to the ground with Night on top of him. After what seemed to be the most awkward silence Shay had ever experienced, he shyly said, "Hi..."

[Night Tenjo]

Night could hear the drunken chatter behind her but she dismissed it. And in doing so didn't prepare her for being bumped from behind. As she started falling toward the strange boy she felt him try to grab her and prevent the fall but tripped over his own feet and feel with her on top. Her legs on either side of his waist. Hips pressed tightly against one another. Night reacted fast enough to at least put her hands out and stop herself from crushing against the boy plastered on the floor. Her palms were flat against the thinly carpeted floor and were resting just above Seamus' head. This was a bad day to let her shirt be unbutton as far as it was. She thought as she felt the boy's jaw move against the top of her breasts as he spoke. His chin pressed against her exposed flesh.

All she could do was blush. Every inch of her skin set on fire out of shear embaressment from the closeness. She moved back a bit trying to sit up on the boy's lap. His hands on her hips from tryng to prevent the fall and his head resting on the top of her breasts she wanted to leave, needed to leave... but she couldn't feel her legs. They had gone weak and her brain couldn't process and tell them to move through the hellish tremors going through her nerves. Oh, goddess.... She thought trying to get off of the boy without making things worst. All she could manage so far was sitting up, pushing her hands on his chest to sit up completely straddling Seamus' groin. She gulped as her throat dried and she tried convincing her legs to move before anything worse could happen,

[Seamus McAllister]

Shay felt like laughing at the situation that the two of them had gotten themselves into but he felt that that might make the whole thing worse. He planted his hands on either side of his body and pushed, sliding himself out from underneath Night and into a cross-legged position in front of her. He could see how deeply embarrassed she was about the whole thing and smirked slightly about the fact. Seamus then stood up and grabbed the Vampyre's arm to help her up. He helped her over to a chair near the entrance and sat her down on it before saying, "Sorry about that. Didn't expect myself to trip over my own feet."

After dumping himself down in the chair next to Night's, Shay continued, "Now, I know that this night has been incredibly crazy and very unlucky, but I think that most people would agree with me that you're a very pretty lass. I mean, if Derren was still here and not shagging some air-head, he would be all over you, trying to flirt with you and everything, but he's not. But I digress, and I know this is gonna make me sound off me nut, but if there was any way I could fix this...?" He shrugged hopefully, hoping that there was some way that Night wouldn't go crazy and try to kill him.

[Night Tenjo]

Her shoulders and body started shaking with her head down. She could feel a worried and confused gaze from Shay who was sitting next to her. "Hehe..." she started softly which would almost sound like she was starting to cry. She inhaled sharply as her quiet snicker started to grow into a chuckle. "That whole thing... haha... sounds off your nut... haha..." Night laughed lifting her head up with a gracious and genuine smile across her lips as the joyous sounds started dying down a bit as she began getting teary eyed. "What kind of nutter are you? Saying your mate would be all over me?" She said hiding the bitter hurt of her own self demeaning words behind the smile and laughter. "Have you gotten a good look at any part of me but my chest? Most guys will just mock me, laugh and walk off... but you..." She said starting to get worked up and back to her cynical way while standing to face the still sitting Shay. "You take a hit from me... come up to me and end up getting a verbal assault... completely dissed and turned down... follow me out with nothing to say but that you didn't want to shag though I'm apparently shag worthy... mocking me by saying your mate is with some moron but would be all over me... and though this whole nights been a disaster..." Nights expression started to change back to a smile a smirk rather. "Yet... haha... you want to try again?" She asked trying to hold back her laughter to see the boys reaction. "What did you have in mind? Setting me up with your mate? Or what? I'm a bit confused about how you would fix this?"

[Seamus McAllister]

Seamus looked at the woman with a look of a form of being appalled and amused at the same time. He got slowly up from his chair as Night was talking and finished until she had finished before saying, "Holy hell. Are you bloody serious? Do you seriously think I did all this just to try and hit on you? Sweet Nyx, either you're a massive idiot or you're seriously messed up in the head. The only things I've heard you say about yourself or anyone else all night are negative, not a single positive word or compliment at all. I wasn't trying to insult you when I said that Derren has run off with an air-head, I was saying that he was an idiot for it, much like the lass he's getting lucky with. The reason I didn't do any of the stuff you say that other guys do is because of the fact that you were hurt because of a stupid fight that I was involved in and I was worried that you might have been seriously hurt, which, if you didn't know, if called being a decent member of society."

As he had been talking, Shay had been walking closer to the Red Vampyre in a manner which wasn't meant to be threatening but still was. "Not only that," he continued, "But I'm still offering to help and you're still mocking me. My guess is either you're too fucking stubborn to accept help or you just like mocking people for not being selfish like you!"

[Night Tenjo]

Night was shocked and took a step back. Her expression of fear, interest and dumbfoundedness, a face she hadn't made since witnessing her parents being murdered when she was little. Her breathing became hard as the boy still approached her. She was terrified and unsure. No one talked like this to her, no one who knew her, but even as the fear started to trigger a change in who was in control of her persona she didn't want her to come out. She didn't want to hurt this boy. "S-stop..." She whispered hoping he wouldn't advance any closer to her. Night reached for and pulled out on of her knives hidden under the back side of her shirt and swung it up to Seamus' neck without thinking about his movements toward her.

The blade was barely pressed against the nape of his neck but she never carried around dull weapons. A thick line of blood started to slide down his collar bone and down his shirt covered chest. Her fear grew not because of how close he was to her but because of what she had done.

Then it hit her. The smell. Usually if blood splattered against her lips while fighting she'd spit it out because it never tasted right. The smell of blood in a fight was only ever good when Yami was out, only ever blood lusting when fighting, completely dominating and enjoying a fight with the intentions that someone would die. Whenever Night fought the blood smelt disgusting, wrong, almost vomit inducing. It never smelt or tasted good when it was freshly split around her. So why? Why do i feel so weak...? She thought as her fingers loosened their grip around the hilt of the small blade. Why does it smell so sweet? Night thought as her eyes began fogging up. Why do i feel like I'm burning inside? She thought unconsciously licking her lips as her eyelids fell half way shut, a fiery blush growing deeper in shades across her cheeks. The knife fell delicately out of her hand and stuck into the floor point down. Night panted as she dropped to her knees. "What's wrong with me...?" She asked breathlessly before looking up at Seamus with lust and desperation in her eyes.

[Seamus McAllister]

Quickly grabbing a napkin off of a nearby table, Seamus pressed it against the cut opened by Night's knife and made sure that the woman was alright. He replied to her question by saying, "You seriously think I would know?" After seeing the look in the Vampyre's eyes, he sighed and said to her, "Come on, let's get you up." Still holding the napkin against the cut, Seamus helped Night onto her feet with his free arm and guided her over to the same chair she had been sitting in before.

He helped her down gently then went back to pick up the knife that Night had held to his neck. The thing looked like one of those knives you would see in all those kung-fu and ninja movies that Derren was so fond of watching. Seamus picked up the knife then moved back to the table where he had gotten the napkin from and placed it on the table. He then walked back in front of Night, knelt down and asked her, "That ever happened before? Not the knife thing, but the whole collapsing at the sight of blood incident." Shay sighed slightly, suddenly remembering why Night had pulled the knife in the first place. "Sorry, by the way. If I hadn't confronted you before, you wouldn't be in the state you're in now..." Unsure of what to say next, he shrugged and waited for whatever tirade she was going to launch into next.

[Night Tenjo]

Night was still very flushed and though she was still panting her breathing wasn't as hard. She looked down at Shay who was looking up with worry and had obvious sincerity in his eyes when he spoke. She felt so strange and confused but for some reason it felt good. Night had never desired blood like this. When fighting it was always a murderous blood lust when Yami was out but never this. No she'd never felt like this. She would drink blood when weak, but never fresh blood. I've never wanted to drink from someone. Not like this... She shook her head to the negative when asked if she's ever dropped at the sight of blood.

Night still felt the euphoria due to the smell and still wanted to taste him. But her mind wasn't as clouded now as it was a moment before. The brutally cynical girl's eyes began getting watery, and tears started to form but as they got thicker to become actual tears they grew darker in color, not the normal clear salt water. The liquid forming along the rim of her eyelid was red, blood began gathering in her eyes then trailing down her cheeks. "I'm so sorry..." She whispered still breathing hard through the panting, still blushing in dark hues. Her fingers clenched the fabric of her pants as she sat with her head down trying to avert Shay's eyes. No one but Alli and Alex have seen me cry since then... No one... I can't let him see me like this... Night thought trying to hide as much as she could from where she currently sat. But what do i do, Nyx? I can't just leave and let him bleed... But i can't let him see me so weak... after the nasty things I've said... and done... Night thought, praying Nyx would give her an answer as she lifted a hand over her mouth before she could verbalize her sorrow and confusion.

[Seamus McAllister]

Seamus was slightly taken aback by the blood coming from Night's eyes but wasn't completely repelled by it. As he felt himself weakening from the amount of blood leaking out of his neck, the Fledging reached out with his free hand and squeezed the woman's arm reassuringly whilst saying gently, "Don't be. It was my stupid actions that got you into this state in the first place." Shay lifted the napkin very briefly from his cut to see it still bleeding and the napkin soaked soaked through with the red liquid.

He sighed quietly then playfully said to Night, "You want to talk about anything? 'Cause I'm probably going to pass out from blood loss soon and I'm probably going to need someone to call an ambulance." Shay smiled at her, hoping that she would be able to get slightly better seeing in his state. Suddenly thinking of something, he asked, "Want to talk about why you cry blood? Seems to me like a very interesting talking point." Shay squeezed the Red Vampyre's arm again, trying to get her out of whatever state she was in. As he waited for her reply, Seamus felt the edges of his vision becoming darker and became slightly light-headed.

[Night Tenjo]

Night shook her head again as she covered her mouth. "N-no..." She said through her tears. How could she talk about her tears and why they were red? She cried from so many torturous things as a child she never wanted to think about them and certainly couldn't speak to a complete stranger about it.

Meanwhile Alli and Alex were working again. Alex hadn't told Alli about Shay chasing after Night they both thought they were gone. Neither knew they hadn't even made it out the door until Alli felt a shiver. Alli was human and wasn't supernaturally special as far as anyone or herself knew but for what ever reason she would out of no where feel a breeze where none was present or a shiver down her spine without cause. But usually when it happened it involved Night in some way. They met on a windy day when there wasn't supposed to be wind. Whenever Night would disappear or run off the wind would always flow toward where ever she was leading Alli and Alex there. But whenever there was a chill down her spine... Night! "Alex.. did Night go home?" Alli asked panicked.

"She headed for the door why?" The blond man asked.

"Somethings not right..." Alli said worried.

Night felt Shay's hand on her arm, squeezing it. She blinked a few more tears away to clear her vision and saw the small cut was bleeding more than it should've and made her realize she must've hit a major vessel just right. Her breathing became panicked at the thought of how bad she had actually hurt him. Her tears didn't stop as she slid of the car to the floor to be at eye level with Seamus. "An ambulance won't make it in time around here." She said with a terrified look of guilt and fear on her face as her words came out gently and soft. Her tears slowed but didn't cease. She bit her lip trying to think of an alternative to what she was currently contemplating, to the thought of actually asking to do such a thing worried her. But then the smell got to her again as she cupped the young mans face to hold it up as his head looked like it was gonna fall from the loss of blood. "I-I could..." Night stuttered unable to find the words as she looked back and forth between his eyes and his wound. "I've never... but I..." She bit her lip as it looked like there wouldn't be much more time to waste but she couldn't find the words to ask and she hoped he had and answer.

[Seamus McAllister]

Even though Night wasn't explicitly saying anything, Seamus had a rough idea of what she was suggesting. He moved his hand from her arm, placed it gently on her cheek and said reassuringly, "Whatever you're thinking, lass, do it. It's probably better than the alternative."
As he was talking, Seamus heard Derren leave the bathroom that he had been in for seemingly the entire night and also heard him cry out, "Holy hell. Shay!" Derren ran up to where his friend was kneeling and looked with daggers in his eyes towards Night. "What the fuck did you do?" He asked with barely restrained anger in his voice.

Shay weakly put a restraining hand on his friend's arm and said "She didn't do anything, Dezza. Leave her alone."

Reluctantly, Derren sat down on one of the chairs used by Night and Seamus previously and said threateningly, "If she tries anything, I'm going to kill her."

Shay smiled weakly then said to Night, "I suggest you do it now rather than later or else Derren might start getting jumpy." He removed the soiled napkin from his neck then tried to move closer to her only to feel himself falling into what felt like a pit of darkness.