The Things We Do (Axel)

[Velveteen]

--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--


Velveteen - Tameka Vassey. Just the very thought of that woman brought about a mixed bag of emotion for Velveteen, that varied from frustration, amusement, affection, more frustration and sometimes anger. She was a trial at best but Vel could not help but like the woman none the less. The circumstances that led to Meka’s turning weren’t the most favourable and she knew at times she was simply being unreasonable with her expectations but that is how it worked. That is how she worked. Coddling them didn’t do anyone any favours.

Meka also had a knack for sharing way more than Vel needed to know about most everything and this was no exception. The woman was torn between amusement and disgust and the mental images she was left with long after Meka left verged on traumatising. How was she ever to be able to deal with Axel without feeling nauseous? And the idea of the two of them in her hot tub? Surely Meka was only joking. That was a little too brash….even for her. This did not stop Velveteen from sharing the conversation with her husband though. If she had to suffer it then so should he. That was what love and marriage was all about after all.


Micah - Where the hell did Vel find these people? Really he wanted to know. Normally he could tolerate Meka. She was loud, brash, crude and she wasn’t afraid to tell someone like it was. Micah respected that. Sometimes he thought she was simply misunderstood and that underneath that crass attitude there was a woman who was just looking for a place where she could belong and be herself. Something else he could respect and understand. Until the conversation that he had had with Vel and what Meka had done. Then his tolerance for the girl just kind of went south. Way south.

Micah didn’t care who Meka chose to spend her time with or who she chose to give her affections to but he would be damned if she was gonna do it in his hot tub. And the things Vel had told him...yeah he was scarred and damaged for life now, thank you very much. There would be no clandestine meetings in his hot tub if he had anything to do with it. What was his was his and Micah didn’t share very well. So he’d come up with a plan to deter his wife’s childe and once he had it all together, he went to his wife and laid it all out for her.


Velveteen - She had tortured him with explicit detail and the pained expressions that contorted his features when they had spoken were clearly indicative of this. Why Velveteen thought that would be the end of it she would never know. She should have known better but still, when he did come and tell her of his plans all she could do was laugh. The whole thing really was laughable and his concerns about escaped bugs being in places they shouldn’t be amused her. Yes it was funny. She didn’t really think Meka was being serious about sneaking up there, just like she didn’t really think Micah was serious about his plan. Perhaps if she had she may have reacted differently. Perhaps he wouldn’t have taken her laughter as some sort of consent.


Micah - Vel had been amused when he told her what he was going to do. She’d laughed and so he took that as permission to do what it was that he wanted to do. Normally he wouldn’t care if someone wanted to come up and spend some time relaxing in the hot water but after the conversation that his wife had relayed to him, in great detail much to his horror, it just wasn’t gonna happen. So he’d grabbed the items that he needed and headed out to where the hot tub was located. Carefully he started to lay the traps. A bear trap, a shrapnel bomb, a proximity mine were first, followed by a poison trap and a toxic gas trap. Last he placed a sensor just so he’d be notified. Anyone else would have probably asked him first before they tried to go in so he’d be able to warn them. And Vel knew what he was going to do she he wasn’t worried there. With everything in place the only thing left for him to do was wait.

It didn’t take as long as he thought it would. One minute he was sitting in the Eyrie doing absolutely nothing when the sensor that he had placed went off and the explosion that followed could be felt throughout the entire treehouse. Epic. Truly it was. Micah waited a few minutes then headed upstairs to assess the damage. Just as he suspected it had been Meka but...well she was far worse off than he had thought she would be. The girl was floating face down in the chlorinated water and on closer look she appeared to be missing her legs. He only had one word to say to that. “Oops.” He stared at the floating girl for a few more minutes before he reached out with his mind to contact his wife. ”Uhh Vel? Can you come up to the hot tub please? We have a bit of a problem here.”

[Micah]

--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--

Velveteen - She’d been busy downstairs at the crafting bench trying to fill a few requests for security and knock out bombs and various other gadgets and it was starting to wear on her patience and vitality so his words in her mind were a much welcome distraction. She arched a brow at the cryptic message and wiped her hands off on a nearby rag as she began to rise. Her first thought of course going to the usual problems with such things. “Uh oh. Have we sprung a leak?” . It only took a minute or so before she was stepping out of the elevator on fourth. She called to him as she made her way through the hut. “How bad is it? We aren’t gonna flood the treehouse are we?”

Micah - If only it was something small like a leak. This was much much worse. He’d almost killed her childe which he doubted she would approve of. In his defense he’d warned her and told her what he was going to do before he did it. “Ummm. It’s not a leak.” That was all he was going to say on it. She was just going to have to come and see the mess for herself.

Velveteen - Velveteen rounded the corner and stopped dead in her tracks. Her eyes widened and her hand flew to her mouth. “Oh my god. What the fu-....She wasn’t joking. Neither were you! Holy ****.” She knew straight away it was Meka even though she was bobbing lifelessly face down in the bubbling water. “What a mess.” She stood motionless for a minute. her eyes darting between the hot tub and her husband. “Well ****. Now what?” Was all she could say.

Micah - He was slightly offended. “I told you what I was going to do! Did you think I was joking??” Micah never joked about **** like this especially when it came to the remote possibility of things happening in his hot tub that had nothing to do with him and his wife. He looked at the bits of floating on the surface of the water and the legless Meka face down. “She did..things...with that guy.” He wasn’t going to name names even though it was just the two of them. Meka was in no fit state to hear him or even care about what he had to say. “What if those...bugs are catching?? What if Meka left one behind and it was just waitin for the opportunity to crawl up your… you know” He waved his hands in her general direction, his face a mixture of horror and something else that he wouldn’t even be able to describe if he wanted to.

Velveteen - Velveteen just stared at him for a moment, mouth open, as she processed what he was saying before bursting into a fit of laughter. He was completely serious. As was the legless body floating in the hot tub right now. Were they really having this conversation? The whole things was just...comical. Surely was going crazy. Surely right now she looked crazy. The were standing in a scene that looked like something out of a war zone and she was laughing. The vampire closed her eyes and pressed her fingers to her brow as she struggled to get a grip on the situation. “Yes you did tell me...I didn’t think...I didn’t….I just…..didn’t think. Obviously.” She took several steps closer until she stood beside him and looked down at her childe. “We have to pull her ou….” She didn’t get to finish as she leaned closer, her eyes narrowing slightly. “Are her legs gone?”

Micah - “You didn’t think I would do it.” It wasn’t a question. He looked at her and narrowed his eyes as his arms crossed over his chest. Whenever he said he was going to do something 9 times out of 10 he did it unless she stopped him. Like all those times he wanted to shoot someone, like Meka. Maybe he would have to start blowing people up. Looking at Meka once more he decided that this was much more satisfactory than a bullet to the groin. Which was what he had planned to do if the girl hadn’t triggered his traps. “Yes,” he said quite pleased with himself. “Her new name is Meka the Legless.” Meka the Maneater could wait till her legs grew back.

Velveteen - Velveteen tried. She tried so hard to maintain a level fo decorum and not keep laughing but she just couldn’t seem to fight it. It was wrong. It wasn’t funny. Well...maybe a bit. She really should have known better and not taken any of their words so lightly. That will teach her. She stifled another round of chuckles and looked up at her husband. “She must have taken the brunt of it. How did it do this much damage without blowing a hole clean through the *** of the hot tub?” Obviously the steel reinforcements were worth the extra effort even if this was not their intended purpose. She chuckled once more and waved her hand dismissively. “You are gonna have to fish her out of there. I’ll get a rubber sheet. I wonder. If all her bits are there and we kinda put her together like a jigsaw puzzle will she like….come back together do you think?”

[Velveteen]

--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--


Micah - “She probably did.” He looked at the bits of charred and blackened metal and who knew what else that littered the surface of the water. “Looks like that modified shock cage did it’s job.” Oh he hadn’t meant to let that bit slip. Vel might be mad about that because from the looks of it, that was gone and now she’d have to make another one. Damn. “Wait what?” His head snapped up and he looked at her in growing horror. “FISH HER OUT?! WOMAN! She’s NAKED!!” Surely she didn’t expect him to haul Meka out of the tub, did she??


Velveteen - Velveteen gave him one of those poignant looks at the mention of her shock cage. She wanted to ask how long he had known where it was being as she had did her best to hide it but any further questioning was cut short by his near panic. “Well of course she’s naked! SHE WAS ABOUT TO HAVE SEX IN OUR HOT TUB!” Her voice rose to match the volume of his and again...for what seemed like no reason she started laughing once more. “You blew her up. You work it out. And make sure you get as much as you can find.” She wrinkled her nose as she looked over the edge and into the dark, bloody water. She certainly wasn’t going feeling around in there. “Besides..you’re taller!” What that actually had to do with anything she had no clue but she did her best to make it sound valid.


Micah - “STOP!” He covered his ears so he didn’t have to hear her go on about Meka’s sex life. Or what she had planned to do in their hot tub. He was definitely freaked out now. The bombing of Meka couldn’t have come at a better time. “I ain’t touchin your naked childe woman! Go...fetch me a fishing net or something and THEN I’ll fish her out.” He was getting past the point of being ridiculous now and he knew it. But still, fish a naked half dead woman out of the water? He had his limits damnit.


Velveteen - “A what? Where the **** am I gonna get a fishing net?” The look of disbelief on her face was a little over exaggerated but really? That was not one of the things she had just lying around...well maybe at the Cimmerian. “Babe..you have touched more naked women than I have had manicures. She is like..unconscious or dead or something. She won’t feel a thing let alone have a chance to enjoy it.” She flashed him a dark grin, obviously getting a dark satisfaction from his level of unease here. “Look. I’ll put the sheet here and you just gotta go from there to here. Real quick. Then we can carry her inside and work the rest out. Ok?” She didn’t even wait for a response and was already part way through the door.


Micah - “Or a really long pole or something I don’t fuckin know.” He snapped his mouth shut and glared at her dangerously. “I don’t care if I’ve seen more naked women than that guy that owns the Playboy Mansion I STILL ain’t-” Micah didn’t get to finish his sentence because she was already gone. He turned his glare on the floating, legless body. “This is all your fault. I’ll get you back for this.” Like he hadn’t already done enough to her as it was.


Velveteen - Velveteen was still chuckling as she fetched a couple of rubber sheets from beneath the crafting bench. Why did she find this so damned amusing. She should be pissed, she should be mad at both of them and yet her she was on the verge of laughing her head of. maybe it was some sort of coping mechanism or maybe her time her had just twisted her that much. As much as she also would have enjoyed watching him fish her out with only a pole she didn’t have one of those either so he was just gonna have to...improvise. She returned and laid out first one and then the other rubber sheet on the wooden decking. “Grab her top half there first so we can see what else we might need to go looking for.” Her chin tilted upwards and she squinted as she looked into the trees overhead. “I hope no body parts are gonna randomly fall on us.”


Micah - She was kidding. She HAD to be kidding. Grab her top half?? That was too close to places on Meka that he never wanted to get close to but one look at her told him she was quite serious. Micah poked at Meka’s body and watched slightly fascinated as it sank below the bubbling water then rose back to the surface, like a buoy or something. “Where the **** did her legs get to anyways?” He gave the unresponsive body a push to flip it over and cringed when he got his first good look at the girl. Sighing he carefully grabbed her under the arms and pulled her from the filthy water to lay her on the rubber sheet.

[Micah]

--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--

Velveteen - “I….don’t know. You are gonna have to feel about in there and see if you can find them.” Velveteen blinked as she looked down into the womans face. The whole situation suddenly more real as she gently pushed the wet hair from her face. “jesus Meka. What am I gonna do with you?” She asked quietly in the same voice she often used when talking to the dead. “Make sure you get as much as you can babe. I dunno if it will help any but it can’t hurt.”

Micah - First he had to fish her out now he was supposed to look through the water for Meka’s appendages? Really? Micah really wasn’t very happy about that at all. It was the woman’s own fault for testing fate by taking a dip in a place that she didn’t have permission to go and now he had to go fishing for her legs? He was tempted to get a fishing pole to see if he could hook them that way but somehow he doubted that Vel would approve of that. “They’ll grow back on their own. Why do I have to go diving for them?”

Velveteen - At the sight of her childe’s face something changed. It was no longer as funny as it was several minutes ago and suddenly getting her back together and awake was the most important thing. She looked up at him from where she was crouched over the woman...well part of her. “Babe….Please? I’m sorry for tormenting you and I know she shouldn’t have been up here but...She’s not all bad. We can’t leave her like this. Please?” Her sterling eyes were wide and pleading and any amusement that had lingered was all but gone.

Micah - He wanted to tell her that Meka deserved it. He wanted to tell her that he wasn’t sorry for what he had done because truthfully he wasn’t. Meka liked to push and somehow she always managed to press the buttons that set him off at the drop of a hat. He didn’t know why, but it was inevitable. Micah rolled his eyes towards the sky and silently counted to 10 so he didn’t say something that he would regret. He knew that if he opened his mouth something snarky and altogether uncalled for would come out so without a word he stepped up to the tub and reached down under the water to search for Meka’s legs.

Velveteen - She could tell almost what he was thinking by the look on his face and she didn’t have to be a telepath to know that her husband was far from happy right now. Meka was a special brand of irritating and she had managed to somehow push Micah all the wrong ways in her short time here. She also knew that he only tolerated the woman as much as he did for her. These were just few of the many reasons Velveteen loved him and a soft smile played across her lips as he began the search through the water. “Thank you.” She whispered quietly though she knew he would hear. She did silently hope that this might pull Meka up a bit, even though deep down she kinda doubted it.

Micah - “Welcome.” He muttered as he searched through the blackened water. It would probably be so much easier if he could see but that really wasn’t possible. Too much debris left behind from the explosion from the traps obscured his vision. After a few minutes he arrived at the conclusion that there just wasn’t anything left behind for him to find. “There isn’t anything here.”

Velveteen - Velveteen frowned and first looked at Meka and then up at her husband when realisation suddenly dawned on her features. “She’s a shadow.” As if that was all the explanation that would be needed. How had she not realised that earlier and saved the man all that mental anguish. “Looks like she is just gonna have to do it the hard way. ****. I might have to strap her to a skateboard or something. I aint playing nurse and runabout.” The dark haired vampire stood and grabbed one end of the sheet, waiting for him to grab the other. “Will take her inside. I’ll get her dried off and covered and I dunno...wait for her to wake up I guess.” She shrugged then, totally not looking forward to that moment.

Micah - Tameka was a shadow. Of course that information would have been useful before he’d gone limb diving but he didn’t voice that. Vel was upset by the condition of her childe and Micah knew better than to aggravate her any further. He was just lucky she wasn’t all that pissed at him but even if she had been it wouldn’t have changed anything. He still would have trapped the hot tub and he was pretty sure Vel knew it too. Micah bent and grabbed the opposite ends of the sheet and waited for her to direct him to where she wanted to take Meka. It was going to be interesting when the girl woke up, that much was certain.