♡ Why doesn't it work? ♡ (Closed)

[Lorelai]

Prudence's words made sense, even to Lorelai. She'd known for a while that she would have to talk to Levi and find out just where they stood in regards to one another and she'd been putting it off for long enough now. Fear kept her from pushing the subject, as she was frightened that if she pushed the Italian too far that he might leave her. The time for fear had long passed. It was time for answers. The timid blonde sat up a little straighter, her hands stilling in her lap. Nodding, more to herself than to Pru, she resolved to ask Levi soon, and with that decided that avenue of conversation closed.

"I don't believe I've met Annie. I've met too many to recall them all though." Her soft words held a hint of sadness, even if it didn't show on her now more confident seeming features. "I'm not sure what I see Pru. I call them ghosts. I see so many. They can't all be wraiths. And they are so demanding. There are times when I rarely get a moment's peace. And then others when they are so quiet that I could almost convince myself that such things do not exist."

Lorelai's turquoise eyes searched those of her sire, seeking understanding. Did Prudence know what she went through on a daily basis? Did she know that she and Levi were her personal shields against the darkness, and that it was easier to block the creatures from her mind in their company. Levi knew. He'd known since the day they met; the day he'd found her crying in an alleyway. Secrets were always easier spoken of to a stranger. She could not have known then who Levi was, or who he would become to her.

You talk to me a lot too.
I know.
That's not healthy you know. Talking to yourself.
*sighs softly* I know. But in my defence you are rather difficult to ignore.
*laughs*

The blonde had been talking to herself more of late. It was something she'd always done, so she didn't really worry about it all that much. She saw the internal dialogue as being completely normal. How could she not? She had no other reference to go by. The only thing that ever confused her, was that her conscience could hold such a differing opinion to her own. Sometimes it encouraged, sometimes it berated and most of the time, she ignored it. Ignoring it was becoming more difficult with every passing day, but she was reluctant to acknowledge that fact.

[Prudence]

Prudence was listening to what Lori had to say about the ghostie things she saw on a daily basis. Prudence had always thought it was just wraiths-they were every ******* where in this city, but now she wasn't so sure. Why would other people's wraiths talk to her and demand things from her? Key word-wraiths. Maybe one or two here and there, but constant demands seemed to Pru like Lori was seeing something different.

"Ya would know her if ya saw and heard her. Can't forget that face and slang. And ya tell them other ones ya ain't doing **** for them. Can't be trusting everyone and everything just cause they ask ya something, or are nice, or demand **** from ya." Prudence shook her head, thinking about her wraith that thought she was the real Annie Oakley from whenever, when she wasn't anything more than a woman who thought she was that woman. Prudence was a little disappointed when she put two and two together, when she sat down and talked to her wraith on the early nights PsychoCliff had fucked off and vanished, but the woman had been with her through thick and thin. Prudence wouldn't let the wraith go without one hell of a fight. And here they were three years later almost.

The statuesque woman's facial features formed into a small smile as she thought about her wraith, but shook her head and looked back at her mini-vamp. "So, ya gonna have a chat to that man of yours and stop the stressing?" Lori hadn't said anything else in regards to her and Levi, so the red headed woman thought things were okay, but she wanted to make sure before moving on. "I was thinking that maybe sometime, we could hang out or whatever. Nothing crazy or anything. Just a girls night." Prudence crossed her arms at her chest, not really sure what a girl's night entailed, but Lori might agree to it [hopefully] and spit out some ideas about the things they could do without Prudence having to offer anything up. She doubted Lori wanted to stand around shooting targets or something.

[Lorelai]

trust. Did she have to trust the entities that asked her for help? No. She didn't think she had to, so mistrusting them should be somewhat easy. It didn't come naturally to her, being suspicious of the motives of others, but if Pru thought it prudent it couldn't hurt, could it? Was it a command even? To mistrust the beings? Possibly but it wasn't worth arguing against as she didn't think she had to trust them to help them. Most simply wanted messages to be passed on and it couldn't hurt to be a little more cautious around the ones that wanted her to physically intervene on their behalf. As for Annie, with the description she was given, was almost certain she'd never met the being. It wasn't something she'd lament, as not seeing spectral creatures always came as a relief to her, but then this one was different; it was Pru's wraith. Pru had control over a creature she'd never encountered.

Don't go feeling all left out. It's a good thing.
Is it?
Yes it is. So don't go worrying over nothing.
Okay.

The thought was pushed from her mind as the conversation moved on with barely a nod from Lorelai to say that she agreed with the woman. And yes, she would be talking to Levi and she definitely needed to stop stressing, though both were easier said than done and she would wait and choose her time wisely, even if it did mean extending her torment for a little longer.

"I will speak with Levi," she reiterated aloud, so that Pru had more than visual cues on which to judge her. "And a girl's night sounds like a wonderful idea. I'd love to spend some proper time with you, alone."

The words were possibly a little creepy sounding but they weren't meant to be, Lorelai was simply excited by the prospect of spending some one on one time with her sire. Not only would a little time alone with another woman be a welcome change, as she missed her female friends from home and seemed to struggle to make acquaintances in the city, but being in the company of people she was related to and cared for seemed to help protect her against from the entities that plagued her on a daily basis.

"What would you like to do? Perhaps we could make it a weekly engagement? Or bi-weekly? Whenever you could manage. I would definitely welcome the chance to spend time with you outside of work on a regular basis."

Once again, the words were probably phrased in such a way as to make the other woman uncomfortable but there was nothing behind them, besides a little hero-worship that is. The woman was of course a goddess and any time she would free up to spend with Lorelai, wasn't something the blonde could pass up. Despite the fact that she practically worshiped her sire, it was perfectly understandable (from her point of view at least) that a childe might want to spend time with and bond with their sire. They shared blood, a lineage, a connection, even if Lorelai wasn't entirely happy about it.

[Prudence]

Lori was nodding her head and agreeing with Prudence which made the redhead feel relieved. If she agreed that meant no more talking about Levi things, or those creepy ghost things. If Prudence could see them, she would definitely do something about it, but they never seemed to be around when Prudence was around. Which begged the question...was Lori really seeing something that was real, or was she crazy? Which was entirely possibly, CC was crazy, so why not another vampire she sired?

"Uhhhhm." Prudence rolled on the balls of her feet and then shrugged her shoulders when Lori asked what they could do after suggesting the weekly or bi-weekly thing. To most people the way Lori phrased her statements might have been weird, but not to Prudence. Not anymore. She knew Lori was kinda clingy and needed attention and stuff, which was why Prudence was going out of her way now to let her know she had Prudence's attention. "I don't really know." Prudence scratched at her cheek before she looked around. Prudence didn't really do girls nights or anything with girls, so this was going to be difficult for the both of them. "We could shoot stuff." The first thing that came to her mind because that's all she did. "Or maybe craft things." Like traps and bombs, but Prudence knew she wouldn't be that lucky. "Like stuff. That people craft. That's not dangerous." She added in, as if the thought hadn't crossed her mind. Nope. Not one bit.

[Lorelai]

"Like a pottery painting class?" The blonde asked when Prudence mentioned an evening crafting things, as traps did not come to her mind. The thought made her smile though, as she couldn't imagine her sire seated at a crafting bench painting flowers on a ceramic plate. It wasn't something she was particularly good at herself, truth be told. Despite years of practice, Lorelai wasn't very good at artistic endeavours outside of cooking and dressmaking, and she couldn't see Prudence settling down to enjoy either of those two pursuits either. But of course, Prudence was a goddess, so whether Lorelai could imagine her sitting down to do these things or not, she was absolutely certain that if Prudence lowered herself to do such menial tasks that she would do them extremely well.

"I'm not very good at anything that requires pencils or brushes in order to make something more visually pleasing," she admitted, her head lowering slightly, as she suddenly realised she wasn't really worthy of having alone time with the woman before her; her time was far too precious. "But I will try if that is what you wish to do. I will not condone shooting Prudence and would rather never touch a gun but I have seen those games they play at the amusement park, and I think I could perhaps try something like that."

Lorelai didn't have much desire to try that kind of task, but if it was what Prudence wanted her to do, she would of course give it a go. Once at least. Possibly twice if Prudence insisted. Thankfully the woman still had no idea what kind of power she held over her, and so Prudence would not demand that she do something against her will.

[Prudence]

Prudence thought about the initial suggestion by her mini-vamp as she got comfy in her seated position, as the two moved past the topic of Levi. Prudence was glad for that because she hated doing the matchmaker thing [not that she did it often-or ever] and was bad at it. Only until recently had she become lucky in love and even then, Prudence expected Nathaniel to one day disappear from the city. If he did that, she knew it would be for a good reason-his daughter, and while Prudence would try to understand, it wouldn't hurt her any less.

"Pottery something or another?" Prudence wanted to laugh at the suggestion, but she knew it would hurt Lori's feelings to downplay her suggestions, even if they were absurd and crazy. Pru sitting around making tea cups or something crazy like that? Prudence would probably make something really ugly because she lacked that feminine touch most women had. All women but maybe her, had.

But then an idea formulated. If it turned out really bad and really super ugly, Prudence could use whatever was made as target practice later on by herself when Lori wasn't around. What Lori didn't know, wouldn't hurt Prudence and who wanted ugly art in their home anyways? prudence didn't even have any art in her home, let alone was going to keep any ugly art in her home. Even if she made it.

"Okay. We can try that." Prudence nodded her head before grabbing a phone book from the desk drawer on the right side and skimmed through it looking under A for Art and then finding a couple art classes for painting and sculpting and something called scrap booking and finally something that just taught pottery or sculpting and not two or three of the before mentioned.

The redhead grabbed her cell phone from off the desk and placed a call to the place, asking for night classes and early night classes. Just in case she had to come by the bar during the peek hours for some trouble. A credit card was pulled out to hold their reservations, Prudence reciting the numbers to the woman behind the phone on the other side of the line and then confirming the time, place and date. When the call was disconnected by Prudence, she looked over at Lori and smiled. "Next week Wednesday at nine p.m. Wanna meet up here first and then go over there together?" She probably should have asked if Lori and Levi had plans first before taking Lori away from Levi, but what was one night out of a couple months that he couldn't live without her mini-vamp?

[Lorelai]

The blonde wasn't entirely sure what it was that prudence was agreeing to do. Were they going to a pottery class or were they going to the amusement park. Whatever they were doing though, it didn't really matter, as Lorelai would have done almost anything in order to spend a little extra time with the woman she revered. She sat patiently waiting for her sire to continue, for her to explain, only she didn't, instead she grabbed up her phone and started looking through it. Lorelai sat in silence, watching the red haired beauty. She watched as her expressions changed and knew that she'd found what she was looking for, before she lifted the device to her ear. She was asking about night classes, so Lorelai knew they were going to take some sort of class together and the light fluttering of wings began in her stomach. She was going to spend time with Pru. Regular time. Provided the classes could hold their interest. This was more than she could have asked for and she couldn't stop smiling. When Pru was finished on the phone, she began asking where they should meet the following Wednesday and at first all the timid female could do was nod. Her excitement had stolen her words.

"I'll meet you here," her tone was such that her emotions were easily readable within it, that was if her smile and nervous fidgeting didn't give her away. "I'll be sure to make sure I bring appropriate clothing by the night before so that we can go straight there."

Her nerves quickly overtook her and she began to wonder if she should confess to Prudence just how bad she was with art of that nature. She could sew like a demon but she couldn't paint worth a damn. She'd yet to realise that the class Prudence had signed them up to required her to create something from clay, but the time was coming when that would be known to her and then she would definitely have to say something. Whatever she made was bound to be hideous, even if she did have a delicate touch. The night, when it came, would definitely be one of surprises, as both women would learn just how talented, or untalented they were in that area.

[Prudence]

Prudence saw the smile on Lori's face and smiled back at the woman. The look of excitement slightly contagious as Prudence wasn't the type of person to smile over doing something that probably would suck in her mind. But, Pru was trying to make an honest effort at spending time with Lori, even if Pru knew she would end up making a big mess, nothing nice or worthwhile would be created by her own hands.

"Clothes?" Prudence echoed after her childe, not even having thought that. It was a good thing Lori mentioned it because Prudence would have shown up in her every day regular attire and probably ruin something she at the very least liked wearing. "Good idea. I'll probably stash something there too, if ya don't mind?" Prudence looked around the office, then back to Lori, the contagion of the smile wearing off due to the break of facial contact. "If Levi don't mind. I'll put it in a bag by the door." She was trying to make headway with Lori's relationship with her mini, even though she didn't know much about the guy, other than he was sired by CC, barely talked face to face or on the family C-net. Really, all Prudence knew about Levi was he and Lori were dating, they were living together and he didn't much like Prudence. At least that was the feeling Prudence got from their initial encounter. She sort of decided to leave the guy along, and he apparently did the same. It didn't bother her, not everyone could appreciate her awesomeness.

"Things with you and Levi will work out. Just got to be patient." Prudence returned back to their original topic of conversation, attempting to reassure Lori, as it seemed like things between them were coming to an end. "I should go check on what's going on in the bar at some point tonight." Prudence slowly stood up and picked up a couple of invoices and piled them in the corner to her right, as to remind herself to deal with them at a later time tonight. "Ya need anything else? Ya gonna be okay?" Prudence's eyes moved off the invoices and back to her mini-vamp.

[Lorelai]

The blonde shook her head. Of course she didn't mind if Pru kept some clothes in her own office. She wouldn't have cared if Pru kept clothes at her flat either, for emergencies of course. It made a certain kind of sense. And then all too soon she was aware of the fact, yet again, that she'd encroached upon the female's time for long enough.

"Oh no Pru. Of course not. I'm fine. I'm more than fine. I'm perfectly content. And I'm sure Levi won't miss me even a little, as he'll likely be working. He works ever so hard."

Lorelai got to her feet before running her hands through her hair. She looked around the office, as if searching for a reason to stay or perhaps the quickest way out and then she lightly shrugged her shoulders.

"Please don't let me keep you," she spoke in her usual soft, submissive manner as she rounded the desk and wrapped her long, slender arms around her sire. "Thank you Pru; for listening to me and for arranging such a lovey activity for us to do together." She leaned in and pressed her lips to Pru's cheek before pulling away. "I'll see you soon. Please do take care of yourself."

Before she'd even stepped away, she disappeared. She'd tomed home to her apartment with renewed purpose and resolve. Not only did she have plans to spend time with Prudence outside of work, but she also knew that she had to confront Levi, sooner rather than later, as to what the true nature of their relationship really was.

[Prudence]

Prudence only asked if she could store clothes in her own office because Lori sort of used it more than she did. With the whole waking up naked in the back of the bar, Lori more or less got dressed in here every night and some nights Prudence barely popped into this place. It just wasn't the same since she was finally able to close that chapter of her life. The one she held on to for so long, believing and semi-hoping that one night Cliff would come back the same Cliff she knew and was married to.

Time and time again, Pru thought of making this something different. But she never was inspired enough to think about what that something different could be. "By Lori! See ya next week." Prudence called out to the woman right before she tomed away, refocusing her thoughts on her mini and not what was going on behind the scenes.

With Lori gone, Prudence got up from the desk she was sitting at and moved to the main part of the bar, where she would bring up a couple kegs, a couple bottles of jack and tequila and then head out in search of the man who inspired her to live a different life.