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: Taking its Toll :

Posted: 23 Mar 2014, 22:27
by Enver Marshall II
--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--
This RP takes place on Monday 17th March 2014.
Keara: “But likes he does not on the floor to be. Unable he is then for under the covers to creep if cold he is.” The concern for his wellbeing was all too obvious. “Though perhaps blanket for him make I could…if proper bed he has. Something comfortable and warm you must for him buy,” she nodded her head and settled in with him. She’d missed her husband in every way possible and so when he began talking over all the things they had to discuss, she allowed herself to close her eyes and let her fingertips trace his scars as she replied.

Enver: "Proper bed? He's not a person." Enver grumbled. "I'll see what the pet store has." He added in, mostly to appease her. Whatever they had, Gizmo was getting and he better be happy about it too. Enver was tired of talking about Gizmo. The dog would get what he got and that was the end of it. He was becoming spoiled and not by him either. He never thought she'd be the one spoiling the damn thing, even if it was her gift. As the night came to an end and everything that seemed important to Enver was discussed, the dog was moved from the bed anyways, with or without Keara's protest, so Enver could enjoy the first night in about a week with his wife, how he had wanted to.

Keara: It had been moving more for the last few days and causing Keara more than a few issues; a fact she’d tried to keep from Enver as best she could as she didn’t want him fussing about her with every little twist and turn and possible nibble it was making inside of her. Tonight however the pain was far more intense and she was almost certain that it was trying to free itself from its fleshy prison. “Enver?” she groaned, gripping her stomach as she tried to free herself from the duvet that was wrapped around her. “Think I do that Enos this world wishes to greet.”

Enver: He knew this was coming. It was a guarantee, but so soon? He wasn't ready to help birth something out. Not that sort of something. He looked up from the papers he had been looking at and then at her. Enos. Why the hell she named it was beyond him. The thing wasn't anything other than a pain in his *** the last two weeks. More than likely a pain in her *** too. He dropped the folders, stood and moved to her side. He'd seen movies where women gave birth and had been in one or two flicks himself where that scenario happened. They laid down. Always laid down. On their backs. She was already in bed, so she just had to get on her back. "You should be on your back." Enver moved to her side of the bed as Gizmo went zipping around the room, yapping ferociously as Enver knelt beside her. "It hurts I'm sorry for that, but you've got to stay on your back." He frowned as he tried to push her on her back, gently, but forcefully.

Keara: “Enver!” she growled, trying to bat him away. “Wish I do out of this bed to be. Know I do not the mess that creature cause shall and if survive I do…need I will this bed in to lie.” She screamed as the thing clawed and gnashed within her. It seemed quite determined to get out and obviously knew which route to take, or so it seemed, as it wasn’t trying to get around her spine. “Help me out,” she said grabbing his shoulder and pulling him towards her slightly to emphasise how serious she was.

Enver: He sighed as she pushed at him and tried to get out of the bed. "Yeah, but-" Enver started to protest before he decided against it, grabbed an arm with his hand and tugged her up and out of the bed. "Not really sure birthing something standing up is a good idea for anyone..." He muttered before Enver searched for his wife's face. "What should I do? Should I shoot it?" He looked at her stomach, where the thing was making itself known by moving all around, kicking and punching was the best way to describe what Enver saw and then back at his wife. "You should, ahh, breathe." Breathe? Did he really say that? Enver resisted the urge to slap his forehead with his palm before he cleared his throat. "Helps in human birth." He explained, as if that statement could be explained.

Keara: A low, guttural growl escaped her lips, though whether it was from the pain or aimed at her husband was something Enver would have to work out for himself. “Said I did not that wished I did for standing to be…though…strategic advantage have that would…if able I am for creature to attack.” For all their talking, this was the one thing that hadn’t actually discussed. They’d spoken about how best to fight it and yet never how best to position her for when it tried to emerge. The comment about breathing seemed to be ignored; at least she gave no verbal reply to it. “Behind me…Behind me you should stand. Keep me standing.” She nodded her head before the pain had her bending over and gripping her knees. The thing was damn near through and she knew it. Whether or not she’d live or die was something that was about to be decided.

Enver: He should get something. A gun, a knife, hell, even a lamp to hit it with as it came out. So she could do what she needed to do. Buy her some time. At least that was what Enver thought, so he took a step to his desk, but then stopped. What if he headed there to get a gun and it was too late? He had missed everything and she died? No. Best he stayed put and did as she said. Enver moved around his wife and wrapped an arm under her breasts, but right above her belly and under her belly to hold her. As he did this, Enver tried to think about how best he could help her at this moment in time and so, the male tried to hold her firmly, but gently. Reassuringly that everything would work out fine, they'd get through this together. As if he were trying to inspire her in some sense and he was, with his natural allurist abilities. "We'll be alright. I've got you beautiful." With her before him, and he behind her, supporting her, Enver no longer felt as if he were a fish in water. He felt as if he could do this with her and do what was needed.

Keara: If his behaviour last week had let him down, his behaviour today would be his saving grace, as he did exactly what she asked and she loved him for that. As he held her and boosted her abilities, she smiled; though the smile didn’t last long as Enos made his way into the world. She let out a rather loud scream as it made its final attack to free itself and then…nothing. The creature was gone. Keara collapsed against her husband, having only been able to stand throughout the ordeal with his support and now it was over she had no need to stay strong, but why it was over or where it had gone was beyond her. “Its…its…where did it go?” she asked in a weak voice, her eyes searching the room for it. The incessant barking of their pet ceasing, as if he knew the threat had passed.

Enver: How long would it take to get out? What would happen? What could they do in the seconds it would take for Enos to get comfortable with the new surroundings and realize there was the two of them in the room with him. It. When she collapsed against him, Enver felt the need to step back and tug her with him, as if getting her away from the thing that had just come out of his wife. Only, there hadn't been a need to, because it was gone before Enver pulled her too far away from it. "Go?" Enver asked, confused as he bent at his knees, put an arm under her knees and hoisted her up in his arms. "Gone. Not here anymore." He said, relieved. "Forget it." He put her on their bed and was once again at the bed side of her. "Can only give you so much blood...can you heal?" What he really meant to ask, and maybe it was in his tone, was, 'Are you going to be alright?'

Keara: She wanted to wrap her arms around him and never let go and yet her wounded stomach seemed to be causing some sort of weakness in her, as she was placed on the bed without any protest. Her mind was still racing, the adrenaline pumping and still she had no strength. Where had Enos gone? Why had he gone? Had she done it? Had Enver? Hell, the thought that Gizmo’s bark might have frightened it away even crossed her mind. “I…erm…” she looked to her midriff to inspect the damage; Enos had done quite the number on her. “Time and energy to heal this require shall.” The injury could best be described as critical in nature and yet she hadn’t lost a vast amount of blood with it. Well not as much as she had the week before when she had cut herself all over. “Heal…heal it some I can. Then tomorrow perhaps heal it further I can. As for blood…I…erm…” while she seemed oddly coherent, she was also slightly disorientated what with all the theories running through her brain.

Enver: Time? Taking time didn't sit well with him, but what could be done? He couldn't heal it for her, as much as Enver wished her could. "Don't worry about blood. It'll get sorted as best as it could. If I could call someone to help you out with some heals..." He stopped his train of thought, knowing she'd deny it. He sighed, closed his eyes and tried to boost her blood as much and as best as her could, focused on trying to get her help as best as he could.

Keara: “Enver…A moment’s pause take you should. Require this also I do…” She focused on her stomach and healed it as best she could. Enver seemed focused on the idea of making her better and this was perhaps the only way she could calm him down and stop him worrying for long enough that she could give the matter some real consideration. Luckily for Keara she had crossed the Immortals bridge and acquired the quickening power and was therefore able to partially heal the wounded are and allow her to feed again. Enver had already boosted her blood a little and as much as she appreciated that, she was more than willing to drain a few blood bags so that he could conserve his own energies. “Perhaps…a few blood bags for me you could fetch?” This task would not only have him doing something useful, it would allow her the quiet to think over what had happened, as unlike her husband she wasn’t willing to just chalk it up to it being a lucky escape, she wanted to know why it was gone and possibly even where?

Enver: "Blood bags?" Enver looked at her confused. "Leave you?" He asked, flabbergasted that she'd want him to leave. "I mean, I'd have to leave. Anything could happen. That thing could come back!" Enver shook his head. "I can text Crash to get some and bring it to the boat." He looked around for his phone. "I'll meet him outside the boat." He reassured her.

Keara: She sighed softly and tried not to show her disappointment in the fact that she wanted him out of her hair for a bit. “Acceptable that is…but…if staying with me you are. Need I do for this over to think…Perhaps lie with me you will?” She patted the bed next to her. Of course she was more than willing to talk things through with her husband, she just needed for him not to dismiss the conversation out of hand. They had done and were doing all they could for her health and while she was still in some considerable pain, she was covering it or rather controlling it well.

Enver: He grinned when she accepted the middle ground. Enver moved from the bed to swipe his phone up from the desk he had been sitting at and proceeded to text Crash, telling him to bring ten blood bags. Enver knew she didn't need that much, but he'd rather buy too much than not enough. "Yeah. Course." He put the phone down, moved to the other side of the bed and crawled in to it. "You sure you're alright?" Enver propped himself on his one arm to look down at her. "Besides that big hole in your stomach. I mean-you don't think you're going to die? Right?"

Keara: She shook her head. “I…well…explain it I cannot. Dead I should be. Creature us attacked should have. Want I do the reason to know why that came to pass did not. In Nox’s favour perhaps we are and yet still, explains it it does not. Done something we must have.” Her tone was serious and showed the fact that she was heavily preoccupied by it all. She hadn’t even responded to the small whimpers from the side of the bed. Having been over excited before, Gizmo too wanted to check on his mother and was pawing at the bed, a fact that both Enver and Keara had missed or ignored over the space of the last few minutes.

Enver: Enver looked at the wall as she confirmed what he thought should have happened. Keara should have been dead. Hell, maybe even him too, once the monster turned its attention from her to him. "I didn't do anything." Enver looked back at her as a sigh came out between his lips. "Not that I didn't want to. Thing was so damn fast. Out, then gone. Had nothing to do with it." Enver's phone vibrated, indicating Crash was outside, or close to. "Crash is here." He hopped off the bed. "Be back." Hs leaned over the bed and pressed his lips to hers and went off to meet Crash topside.

Keara: A soft smile was her only reply before he left, her brow furrowed ever so slightly as she tried to think over what could have happened. She could summon the beasts. In fact that was one of her plans, as she’d noted that having two such creatures in one place would have them at each other’s throat. She could have thrown it even to give them time to run away. Teleport herself out and summon Enver. Tome home. So many ideas she’d had to try and get away, with the hope of returning later to try and kill the beast when her strength had returned. But she hadn’t done a thing…had she? She was mentally listing each of her gifts, dismissing each and every one as she thought of it. “Oh…” she said aloud to no-one as she remembered that the creatures themselves could teleport. Then she realised that, that was stupid, as Enos had no reason to go anywhere else when his food source was right there before him. “Teleported it was.” It was the only thing that made sense and yet she still wasn’t convinced she’d done it.

Enver: He got the bags from Crash, the exact amount Enver had asked and then an attempt at a quick sale of some pot, which Enver waved off with a furrow of his brows. It was Crash's way of life and Enver knew it before he decided to replace Hannah with this guy, but Enver had made it pretty clear that he was trying to behave with his drinking and drug use. Crash never pushed it, but it didn't mean he didn't offer every chance he could. Once Crash went off to go do what he did every night at the city's clubs, Enver headed back down to his wife. "Got those bags of blood, beautiful." Enver called out at he headed down below. "Still doing alright?" He asked as he made his way over to her, Gizmo following along, but still being ignored for now.

Keara: She pulled herself up a little on the bed and held out her hands to him as he returned, wanting either him or the blood. “Alright I am. Perhaps. At least…Well…Sure I am now that Enos teleported was. And well believe I do not that he himself that did. No reason had creature for us alive to leave. Yes?” she was talking rather quickly as all the thoughts had worked her up a little and now that she was coming to terms with the fact that she had survived this (even if it had mauled her half to death escaping), she was feeling quite optimistic.

Enver: He frowned. "Well, I can't teleport. So it had to be you." Enver sat down on the corner of the bed before putting the bags between them as he got comfortable on the bed. "Doesn't make sense he'd leave us." Enver nodded his head in agreement. "I mean, you're not in tip top shape." He cleared his throat. "So where'd you send him to?" Enver picked a bag up and offered it to her outstretched hands.

Keara: Keara snatched the bag a little greedily. She still didn’t like the taste of them, not when compared to blood direct to the vein but beggars can’t be choosers, so she made do with what was available to her. If everything went well, she might even be able to go hunt tomorrow; a fact that made her smile even as she ripped into the bag and drained it dry. “Thank you. And…Send it away I did not. No location had I in my mind for it. Though…hmm…” It had to have been her. Enver couldn’t do it and it certainly wasn’t Gizmo. “Gizmo!” she called out, having forgotten about him. He was still pawing at the covers whimpering pathetically in an attempt to get attention. She reached down and scooped him up after placing the empty bag on the dressing table. “I’m okay Gizmo,” she said holding him before her, the pup wriggling in her hands as he tried to lick her nose. “Are you okay?” she turned him around, holding him under the belly before running her hand down his back. “Go see daddy,” she added as she placed him on the bed; daddy being a name she had never previously applied to Enver.

Enver: Enver frowned at his wife. Nothing made sense. He knew he couldn't teleport anything. Not that he knew of. So it had to be her. And it was obviously not the dog. He watched her interactions and then shoved another bag in her direction. "Think you need to finish getting your fill. You sure you're alright?" He picked the dog up and put him on the opposite side of him, not sure the placement of the dog in the middle of them was the best idea, being she seemed so...happy? All things considered.

Keara: “Oh…good idea that is. Going to ask for another I was. And another. And another,” she laughed and took the second bag from him, drinking it down as greedily as she had the first. “Bad it would be if I Gizmo wished to drain thusly. Yes?” The pup had his paws on Enver’s legs and was wagging his tail. “Wouldn’t it baby,” she said in what could only be described as someone else’s voice, as Keara did not do baby talk. “Want you do not for mummy your fuzzy little neck to bite do you?” The pup barked, as if trying to answer her, obviously knowing that she was talking to him. “Another please?” Her tone returned to normal as she addressed her husband. “Think you that teleported it could have been without my intent?”

Enver: "Ahhh..." Enver blinked and then gently set the dog down on the ground, where he figured it was the safest at. "Dog isn't for dinner, for starters." He shook his head and then did something very human. A hand went to her forehead to see if she had a temperature, but then he pulled it back when he realized they were more or less the same temperature. "I didn't teleport it." He said, rather seriously as Enver handed another bag to her. "How's the healing going along?"

Keara: “More blood required is,” she said grabbing at his wrist as he pulled his hand away from her head. “Taste you do better than these things.” The bag was crumpled up in her free hand before being thrown to the table with the first. “And…” she pulled him a little closer, showing that despite her injury she wasn’t completely helpless. “Know I do that he not for feeding is.” She tapped Enver’s nose with the index finger of her free hand, before springing up from the bed just long enough to lightly kiss his lips. Gizmo squirmed and barked on the floor, jumping at the bed on his hind legs.

Enver: "I, ahhh...don't think you should be moving so quick. All things considered." Enver got up off the bed to follow after her. "Don't think I taste all that good either. Might be a bit delirious. From Enos." He moved around to her side of the bed, stood in front of her and pushed at her shoulders, gently. "Should lay back down." He coaxed her. "You still have some bags to drink."

Keara: She hadn’t planned to get out of the bed but she’d spent so long in the damn thing recently that all she wanted to do was jump up and down and run around the room. Gizmo clawed at her ankle, barking until he as scooped up by her once more. This time she held the tiny pup under one arm as Enver tried to coax her back to bed. “Lies he does,” she said jostling the little creature as the baby talk returned. “Yes he does. Daddy lies. Very tasty he is. Isn’t he Gizmo. Yeah…know that you do too.” She was ruffling his head in an affectionate manner as she tried to ignore her husband to a certain extent. Not that she could ignore him for long, as he was right, she did need to rest and feed. While she was trying to ignore the pain in her abdomen, it was still there. She discarded the pup off to the side and grabbed for Enver’s waist, pulling him to her as she did. “Return to bed I shall if come with me you do.”

Enver: "Well, yeah. Thought I would turn it in for an early night." Enver allowed her to drag him with, a frown still on his face. "How you doing? Seeing things as they are? Not seeing double, are you? Or triple? Sound a little strange, truth be told." Enver was on the bed and tugging her down with him. "I mean if you want some of my blood, I'd give it to you. But pretty sure once you get past tonight, you'd not want that. It's like a law or something you follow." He reminded her.

Keara: She bit into her lip and gave him a very cute look as she snuggled up to him. “Know that I do. Silly boy. Lost my mind I have not. Only…True it is. Taste better you do,” she grabbed his wrist and pulled it to her lips before kissing it gently. “Said I did not that drink you I would as if food you were.” She was looking him in the eyes as she spoke, ignoring the small and fuzzy critter that was trying to worm his way between them. “Though more blood require I do,” she said softly before sinking her fangs into his wrist. True to her word, she didn’t drink from him; they rarely drank from one another as that path was a dangerous road to tread upon but vampires could ingest a small amount of each other’s blood with practice and so she licked the wound before replacing his wrist with his lips, as she kissed him fiercely.

Enver: "Well, maybe you could lu-" His words were cut off as he felt her fangs in his wrist, his eyes narrowing suspiciously. It wasn't as if he didn't like it any, but this was a game neither one of them really could play for too long. Not with her missing half her stomach and who knew what else? He growled, a slightly aggressive one that hinted at a warning before she shut him up with a demanding kiss. He returned the kiss with the same tenacity, before his hands found both her shoulders and then pushed her away from him. "I don't think you're feeling quite right. I mean, look at you." He made a gesture to her abdomen area with his left hand, before he looked at her face. "Where'd you send Enos too? Think, Keara."

Keara: Pouting a little a small whimper escaped her lips before she sat up on the bed and reached out to grab her squirming little play mate. “Mummy doesn’t know where Enos went…Does she?” she said holding Gizmo before her face, close enough that this time he could lick her nose, his little tail wagging as she did. “Tell Daddy.” She held Gizmo out to Enver, as if the little creature was going to repeat her words. Before Enver could take the pup from her hands and put him back on the floor (again) she pulled him back and tucked with under one arm as she reached over the bed to try and get another blood bag with her free hand. “If teleported it I did…” she began before she bit into the bag and began to drink from it. “Erm…” she mumbled, the liquid still filling her mouth. “Hmm…” Once the bag was empty she screwed it up and threw it to the table. “Perhaps instinct it was?”

Enver: He sighed, and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Dog can't actually tell me something, you know. They just...bark." His teeth gritted together before he shook his head. "Alright, so you don't know where he is. I'm sure he'll be showing up somewhere in the city sometime soon." He shrugged his shoulders. "Instinct? What do you mean?"

Keara: Keara shrugged as she tore into the fourth and probably final blood bag she’d be drinking that night and shrugged her shoulders at Enver’s question. Gizmo began squirming, wanting to be put down and the moment Keara complied with his wishes, he went bounding over to his daddy. “Powers sometimes instinctual are. Yes? Know that you do. Need you do not for to concentrate on certain things. And well…” she paused and considered it further. “Like…perhaps…well…yes, like when perform rituals I do. If demi-fae escapes does, sent away it is so that harm me it cannot. Need I do not over that to think. Just happens it does. Perhaps same thing with Enos happened. In danger we were and so sent away he was. That makes sense…yes?” She had no idea why it could have worked that way but it was literally the only explanation she had, as she really hadn’t tried to teleport the thing on a conscious level.

Enver: "Ahh, sure?" He shrugged, not knowing anything about how teleporting worked or rituals." His eyes dropped down to the dog, his eyes narrowing at the thing as it demanded his attention, more or less. "Think the dog needs a walk or something." He muttered, not liking all his energy at the moment. Mostly because of the way his wife was acting and the dog didn't seem to notice or mind.

Keara: “Think I do that, that it must be. No other explanation do I have. Work I shall in days that follow for creatures to hunt. Find Enos perhaps I shall not, but kill I can more of his kind. Do it now I would but…well injured I am. Quite badly. So wait it shall have to till healed this would is. And Enver…no walk does he require. Wishes he does for you his head to pat. His walking noise different is. More urgent. Squirms more he does,” she smiled. “Dances then he does. Have you that not noticed?” What with being cooped up on the boat for a while, she’d had time to study and learn the small creature’s habits. For the most part they were quite simple and she was already picking up on the subtle nuisances in his limited range of noises.

Enver: "I'm sure someone else will find him before you get a chance to." He assured her as he looked away from the dog and focused back on his wife and her words. He knew the dog didn't have to go outside, but the thing was being so damn annoying. "Well, thought I'd check to see if it was outside." He shrugged his shoulders. "Enos was, that is." He clarified. "Think you need more blood than that?"

Keara: She shook her head as she crumpled the bag up and then reached behind her to place it with the rest before taking a moment to inspect the wound. There wasn’t as much mess as she’d expected; not that she was really sure what she expected. Her blood and form had a tendency to fade away and the creature hadn’t been harmed in anyway and so all things considered, the room had gotten off lightly, as perhaps had they. Keara crawled over the bed and off the end. Not that she needed to crawl but she was in a very odd mood. She then poked her head up over the side of the bed to look at Enver, only to find Gizmo staring back at her, a shrill, singular bark escaping his cute little muzzle. “Shhh,” she told him, even going as far to place a finger to her lips like that might help him to understand what she wanted from him. “If outside he was,” she began stroking Gizmo behind the ear, “then heard him we would have.” That said walked over to the cupboard to retrieve one of her nightdresses, in the hope that it might actually fit her again now. This time she hadn’t crawled, but instead walked with her arms outstretched, placing one foot directly in front of the other as if walking an imaginary tightrope.

Enver: "What in the hell is the matter with you?" He growled out as Enver got out of the bed. "Should be sitting down, lying down, resting." He scowled at her, the dog being ignored again as he followed after her. "What is it you need so damn bad to be getting out of bed, after just birthing a ******* monster?" He grabbed his wife from behind and gave her a small shake, hoping something would rattle up there and make his wife...sane? Normal?

Keara: After being shaken she dropped down low to the floor and hugged her knees. She rocked herself ever so slightly, but not out of fear, this was just a nervous habit and her conscious mind was trying to stop her from crawling on all fours again and possibly lying down to listen to the floor. Despite her behaviour and desires, she replied as normally as she could, her replies all being single word statements. “Nightdress. Clothes. Clothing.”

Enver: He sighed, ran a hand through his hair and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Sorry. You're just going to exhaust yourself. All things considered." He moved past her and to where her things were at, pulled out a few things and headed back to her. "Should go back to bed. We could watch a movie?" He suggested, hopeful she'd take the offer.

Keara: She flinched away from him, her mood having shifted into one of mistrust, something Gizmo responded to as he began barking at Enver from the bed, his little legs padding back and forth over the duvet. He couldn’t jump to the floor as it was a little too high for him but still, it didn’t stop him from trying to voice his own little opinion on what was going on between his owners. “Shhh,” she said to Gizmo before sinking to the floor and pressing her ear to it. “Listen.” There was nothing unusual to be heard, at least there wouldn’t have been to anyone else but to her there were faint whisperings to be heard.

Enver: "Great. Now the dog is acting up again." He groaned and shook his head as Enver came up short of hearing anything in the boat or outside of it. Outside of the damn dog. "Think you two have been spending too much time together. Time to get off this damn boat at the least." He scowled as he moved to the dog, put him on the floor and turned back to Keara. "Where we going? It's too small in here for all of us. Things are getting weird in here."

Keara: Gizmo began sniffing around Keara and she reached out and squished him a little too hard to the floor, the poor thing whimpering as she obviously caused him some discomfort. “Shhh…Hear I cannot when speaking you all are.” She released Gizmo and began tracing Celtic patterns on the floor with her left hand. While this perhaps wasn’t strange as Keara was in some ways equally talented with both hands, she was right handed and only used her dominate hand for writing and drawing; something her husband would likely notice, if he was paying enough attention. “No,” she whispered, “The darkness safe is. Nox protect us shall.”

Enver: He noticed it, but with her being out of her mind, quite literally, Enver didn't put much in to it. "Right. Well, I'm going to go. With Gizmo. Back home." He moved to the dog, who was now coming bounding his way, realizing it made a mistake by going to Keara. Enver scooped the dog up and tucked him under an arm, holding him under his legs and kept him in place by that same arm. "To our family. The ones we've not seen in a pretty long time. Who probably want to see you." Sure, he was baiting her, but it wasn't below him if the situation called for it.

Keara: She didn’t hear his words, not really. She heard the noise they made, sure but the words themselves meant nothing, it was the sound of his footsteps that pulled her focus and she half looked in his direction. Keara still lay on the floor, the clothing next to her, her hand still tracing symbol after symbol and now she was muttering to herself, her gaze looking right through Enver. “No. No. Yes. No.” She was replying to unheard questions from unheard voices that likely only existed in her mind. Enver had never seen her like this but this was a common sight to some of her family that had had known her in that first year after her re-emergence. She hadn’t had an episode like this in quite some time as her mind was far stronger now than it had been and she’d learnt to focus on things that kept her grounded in the real world and yet something had happened for that mental control to slip.

Enver: "Look, there's nothing there. And no one is talking." Enver sighed, exasperated. His wife hadn't been his wife in weeks now and now she was worse than she was before when she was pregnant. "Come on." He growled and stalked back over to her, stepping in some of the places she had been tracing, intentionally. "I want to go home and I want my god damn wife back." He sneered.

Keara: Either she didn’t see him or she didn’t care as her hand worked over and around the placing of his feet, seeming not to take any notice of him. “Hear you do. Stay. Safe here is. Shhh…” Gizmo squirmed as if asking to be set back down, for as much as he didn’t like the energy coming off of Keara, he didn’t like the frustration he was feeling from Enver either.

Enver: "Great." He muttured, put the squirming dog down and then went back to the bed. He sat on a corner of it and watched her. "So, what's it saying? The wood? Time for a polish?" He muttered wryly.

Re: : Taking its Toll :

Posted: 23 Mar 2014, 22:28
by Keara Aithne
--The following transcript was a live chat roleplay--

Keara: There was no discernable reply from her as the hushed whispers dropped in tone once more. Her hand still working on the floor. If he was going to snap her out of this, he was going to have to do something more than just mock her, as she had no comprehension of what he was saying or that he was even speaking at all. Gizmo didn’t dare to get close enough to Keara to let her grab him again and after circling around her, he came to sit next to Enver. The small pup looked up at him as if asking him what was going on, his little tail ceasing to wag for the time being as he wasn’t sure of the situation at all.

Enver: "Don't look at me." He grumbled to the mutt, thinking on things. "She's your mother." He pointed out, rolling away to grab his pack of cigarettes off the bedside table with a sigh. "Don't suppose your endearing sister is around. Hanging around here." He looked around, hoping the ***** was around. She was useful, sometimes.

Keara: The wraith didn’t like getting involved in their relationship and she hated helping Enver in any way unless directly instructed to do so. As it was she really only choose to involve herself if Keara was in any danger and she couldn’t talk her down herself. While he hadn’t really been asking for her, she was there, though she’d missed the birth. Sometimes she just knew she was needed and would find herself being drawn back to her sister. “I do have a name you know,” she said materialising over by the door. “You could try calling to me directly. I mean I’d probably not answer but well…I’m not one to give up the opportunity to point out how useless you are.”

Enver: "Yeah, yeah. Shut it, unless you're going to be useful. What the hell is wrong with her?" He pointed to Keara, as if he didn't think Deanna would see what was wrong with her and what it was she was doing. "Something’s not right." He lit the cigarette, his eyes glued on to his wife as he waited to hear what was wrong, if she even knew herself.

Keara: “Well done. You noticed that eh?” Deanna shook her head, the dark mass of non-existence hair shivering about her in shadow form. “What have you done? To snap her out of it?” she asked as she floated nearer to her sister to see what was going on.

Enver: "Ahhh." He ran a hand through his hair. "Well, I, ahh...told her we should go back home. To see her family. Well, I said I was going and figured she'd want to too. Was making her stir crazy not to see everyone. She didn't budge any at that. Then I tried to shake her out of this trance of hers." He shrugged. "Other than that, not much. She's pretty much ignoring everything except that damn floor. About ready to find an axe or something and chop a hole in the boat."

Keara: “Oh great. She’s talking to the floor again…Right well we both know she loves the sound of your voice. God knows why but she does. So if that hasn’t snapped her out of her episode then she must be pretty far gone. You do know your wife right?” she was of course taking this opportunity to have a dig at Enver. “I mean I wasn’t with her when she first came out of that realm but I know back then that people just had to kind of ride it out… but I know why it happens. If that helps?” She didn’t wait for a reply before continuing. “This usually happens when she’s exhausted. Mentally exhausted that is. You need to get her to focus on you. Did you try stamping your feet near her? Or picking her up maybe? She has a thing about touch. You likely didn’t care enough to notice that but she used to have to touch everything; walls, lamps, anything really. When it came to objects she was seriously tactile, it was people she didn’t like near her. Till you came along.” Deanna sneered and rolled her eyes, not that Enver could have seen that particular action. She hated him and had no idea what Keara saw in him but for whatever reason the crazy vampire loved the loser, so for better or worse she too was stuck with him. “Do I really have to spell this out to you? You’re her anchor now. You keep her grounded…and well sane. Most of the time. So…” she waived her hand at him expecting him to know where she was going with this and waiting to see if he’d actually do what was necessary.

Enver: "I didn't notice? You're kidding, yeah?" He pointed to his wife, who was on the ground, tracing the flooring. "Can't miss that." He glared at her. "I know mt wife, god damn it. I've seen her do those things." He grumbled. "And I've talked and she's ignored me every time. So doubt my voice is going to do much of anything." He reminded her. "Or baiting her with her family." Another reminder. "Maybe I could try a power." He rubbed at his jaw, thinking on it. "Yeah, that might work." He shrugged, got off the bed, stepped over to his wife and sat on the floor in front of her. "Hey beautiful." He started, looking at the top of her head. A hand, the one without the cigarette wrapped around her arm and gave her a goofy grin. "You know, starting to think you don’t want to get dressed." He waggled his brows at her, then used an ability that normally riled her up, in a way he hadn't intended it to (pacification)

Keara: “Oh my dear Lord. What does she see in you?” she half asked, half screamed at him, her spectral hands being thrown into the air. “You really are useless aren’t you. I tell you what to do and you go and do…what exactly?” Deanna sighed, folding her arms in disbelief. Keara didn’t respond to the power as she usually did, as Enver had only ever used it on her when she was incredibly angry with him. Right now she was incredibly calm as it was, so the power did very little other than cause her to stop talking altogether and close her eyes. “Are you ready to listen to me now? Seriously? Are you so stupid that you’d ignore the advice I’m giving you. You think I’d steer you wrong in this? Seriously!”

Enver: "Well, you know the saying...You attract more flies with honey." He scowled at Deanna then gave a shrug. "Might be more warm to your ideas if you weren't such a, ahhh, *****." Since she was fine with calling him useless, then he'd say it how it was right back at her.

Keara: “I may be a ***** but I’m not stupid enough to ask for advice and then ignore it. Your wife is laying on the god damn floor for crying out loud and you haven’t even thought to pick her up. Okay. Fine. I tell you what. ‘Cos I love my sister I’ll spell this out for you. First, pick her up off the damn floor!” she screamed. “Sit her on your lap. Hold her so she doesn’t fall off and get her to look at you. Then try talking to her and if that doesn’t work…Slap her or something. Kiss her even. Just snap her out of it.”

Enver: "Look. I'm not going to slap my wife. She sort of, you know. Gave birth to a monster thing a handful of minutes ago. I've thought of it, mind you, but it seemed like a dick move with half her god damn stomach ripped out of her." He sneered at the wraith, wherever she was, sighed, then did as she asked him to. Slowly. "Come here, beautiful." He coaxed her as he pt the cigarette in his lips, reached out for her other arm and tugged her in to his lap. "I'm sure Jonah is itching to see you after all this time. Or even Sara." He choked out the last bit, not being a fan of Sara's.

Keara: Gizmo had found his way next to Enver again, still cautiously keeping himself out of range of Keara’s hands. While he was partially used to Deanna’s presence, he wasn’t used to her making so much noise, so when she started barking (as that was how the pup heard her screaming) he cocked his head to look at her and then went bounding over and began jumping at her shadowy form, as if trying to see her off. Having been pulled into Enver’s arms, Keara went still only really moving to adjust herself in his arms like a sleeping child. As for Deanna, she wasn’t sticking around where she wasn’t wanted and since her sister was obviously going to be fine, she vanished and went topside.

Enver: He sighed. "Come on, Keara." Enver growled, shaking her a little in his arms. "We've got to go back home. Everyone's going to be worried. Peter. That poor kid worries about every damn thing. Surprise he hasn't had a menta-never mind." He shook her again, then lightly slapped at her cheek with his hand. "Hey. I said we're going home god damn it." He kept slapping at it, until he decided to put a hand under her chin and forced her to look up at him. "Let's go home." He said, in a voice that seemed to be asking, more than stating at this point.

Keara: It was the first slap to her face, gentle as it was, that began to bring her round and she groaned in a slightly disgruntled fashion. She wriggled on his lap as he spoke to her and when he forced her to look at him, she sighed softly. “Home?” she replied in a dreamy far-off sounding voice.

Enver: A slow grin pulled on his features. "Yeah. You know. The asylum. Where Jonah, Peter, Shannon and them are all at?" He left Sara out of the mix, because saying her name more than once in a night was pushing it for Enver. "You know, after you're healed and all that." His eyes moved down to her gut, as if he needed to remind her, which he might have, given everything, before his eyes moved over to the wraith. "Sorry about that cage things a few months back." It wasn't a complete thank you, but it was probably the best he could muster up at the moment for the ***** of a wraith. "Gizmo's itching to get out and about somewhere too." He acknowledged the dog, with a nod, trying not to grin being it more or less defended him to Deanna.

Keara: The more he spoke, the more the spark in her eyes returned. Deanna hadn’t lied, she did love his voice and now that she was looking in his eyes and listening to the sultry sound she adored, she was soon back to her normal self. “Go home tomorrow we shall? Yes?” she asked, her hand reaching out to tenderly stroke his cheek. “Who are you…What cage?” she asked, her eyes not moving from his face.

Enver: "Yeah. Tomorrow is alright. I guess." He nodded his head, grinning a little more until she asked who he was. "Enver. Your husband." He reminded her, somewhat annoyed, but tried not to let it show in his voice or face. "Cage doesn't matter. It was a while ago. She knows what it means." He assured her, not wanting to rehash that situation again.

Keara: “Know I do who you are…silly boy,” she smiled at him. “Wondering I was who talking to you were. Who is she?” Keara didn’t see Deanna in the room, but then to be fair she hadn’t even looked. At this moment in time she wasn’t jealous, as even in her hazy state of mind she somehow knew she had nothing to worry about as Enver wasn’t about to invite some random female over after all that had happened. Gizmo was back sitting next to his master all pleased with himself for having seen off the angry entry and was now rewarding himself with a good scratch behind his ear with his hind leg.

Enver: "Deanna." He said, looking around. "I'm sure she's still here. Watching." She had to be, waiting to scold him again for his uselessness or idiocy. It was too good for her to pass up in his mind. "might be topside by now." He shrugged his shoulders. "Come on." Slowly, he moved to stand, which wasn't an easy feat and he may have almost dropped her two or three times in the process, before Enver moved to the bed, sighed again and then plopped down on it. "Think you need more blood?" Enver asked, still holding her in his arms, his wife on his lap again.

Keara: “Deanna here was?” she asked, her question stating that she couldn’t actually see her sister herself. “No…No more blood do I require…But like I would for to dress.” There was something about him, she couldn’t tell what it was but it was like her heart broke every time she looked away from him. Having not really been with it when he pacified her, she had no idea she was under his spell, but then she didn’t really mind either, as she did so love to look at her husband.

Enver: "Yeah. At some point." He shrugged again, before he nodded his head, acknowledging that she didn't need any more blood. "Get dressed?" He asked, having forgotten she was heading that way. "Yeah. I guess that'd be a good idea. Really no hurry though. Being we're the only two in here. Well, besides Gizmo. Doubt he minds." Enver chuckled before his lips found their way to her temple.

Keara: As he kissed her temple, she bit her lip, one hand moving to cup the nape of his neck. Once her hand found it’s spot, her fingertips begin to play in his hair. “Able I have not been for such things in weeks to wear. Like I would for my wound to cover…Unless like you do for me so injured to see?” she couldn’t drag her eyes from his face, even if she wished too, (which she didn’t). “Enver? Why was I on the floor?”

Enver: "Ahh, because you were tracing the wood on it?" He shrugged his shoulders. "You were going over there to get some clothes and talking all kinds of funny, gave you a little shake and then you were on the floor talking about Nox and hearing the floor talk and all that." He frowned a little." That’s about the time Deanna showed up. Give or take.

Keara: “Oh…” she tried to pull away from Enver as she was quite embarrassed realising almost immediately she’d spaced out on him. It likely meant she needed to sleep and yet she didn’t want to sleep, or rest as she wanted to be near him, to look at him. It was a feeling that left her conflicted as she tried to pull away, for as much as she wanted to get off his lap and get her nightdress, she didn’t want to move.

Enver: "It's alright. We'll shake things up tomorrow. Change of scenery does everyone good from time to time. Maybe you'll be healed enough to see the family." He suggested with a shrug, then looked down at her again. "Not really bothered by seeing you like that. You've been worse, I think." He shrugged, then scooted her off his lap and to the inside of the bed. "So which one you want?" He moved off the bed to the nightdresses he had on the floor and held them up for her to pick.

Keara: She didn’t much care which one she wore, so the first one he picked up, she reached out for. “That do shall,” she couldn’t look at him and yet she couldn’t not look at him. Keara was starting to feel a little confused and out of sorts but she didn’t want to say anything in that moment as she wasn’t really sure what was happening and she didn’t want to make Enver worry for her. “Yes. Home tomorrow we shall go.” This sentence was kind of an afterthought but she thought it important to give him an answer.

Enver: He nodded his head, moved to the bed and handed her the one she picked out. "Yeah. Might be good for everyone to see you. Or you to see them. I'm sure Peter's pulling his hair out by now, thinking the worse. Should probably text him or something, come to think about it." He rubbed at his jaw with his free hand, then put the other nightgowns on the edge of the bed. "You really going to go and try to find Enos? After you're healed?"

Keara: “Mhm...” she replied as she slipped the nightdress over her head, stealing glances at him whenever she could and looking away like a shy schoolgirl anytime he caught her looking at him. “Like I would for my family to see.”

Enver: "What's wrong?" he asked, noticing the way she seemed to be fleeting all around with her eyes, and her head. "Something behind me?" He turned around not once, but twice to give his area a spot check and then looked to see if there was something on his clothes. "Got fade ooze on my ***?" He turned around again so she could get a good look at it, a large, **** eating grin on his face as he turned back around to look at her.

Keara: “Nothing behind you is. Least nothing that see I do,” she said as he looked around him warily. As he turned his back to her she bite her lip and had to hold her right hand with her left as she had an over whelming urge to reach out and squeeze on of his cheeks. “No. No ooze.” Her voice gave away that something else was going on as it was almost an octave too high and trembled slightly as if she were nervous.

Enver: "Well, something's up." He shrugged, noting the change in her tone of voice. "You think that he'll come back?" He asked as Enver sat down on the bed in front of her. "Would be sort of stupid to. I'd think." He shrugged his shoulders. "Now that you're starting to heal and full of blood. And with me around too. Don't forget Gizmo." He added in with a large grin. "Nothing gets past him." The dog was once again at the bed, begging to be lifted up and with them.

Keara: Keara reached out for Gizmo but when he saw her hands coming towards him, he ran and hid behind Enver’s legs. “What’s wrong with…Did I something to Gizmo do?” she asked thankful for the distraction and change in subject, even if she was still giving him sideways glances and biting her lip whenever she wasn’t speaking. The thoughts in her mind were a tad inappropriate all things considered and while she was used to them for the most part, she could usually switch them off if she wanted to focus on something else but tonight it was as if her mind was not her own.

Enver: "Ahhh....nothing he won't get over." He offered with a grin. "Give him a day or two. He'll be fine." Enver assured her. "So, you ready to watch one of my better flicks?" Enver asked her with a wide smile. "Heads up....I'm married in this one. To the character. On the plus side of things, at the end she was a beast to work with. Never worked with her again and turned down some roles once I knew she was the main woman in some of the movies." He added in before rising off the bed. "Or we could do something else? If you're too tired. With having just, you know." He cleared his throat and gave her a bigger grin. He didn't care what they'd get up to, he was just glad to have her out of her zombie state, even if she was still acting a little strange.

Keara: There was no way she could bite her lip and pout at the same time, so pouting soon took over. She didn’t like hearing of him being married, even if it was just a role. ‘What did I do to Gizmo?’ she thought to herself. ‘And why can’t I stop thinking of him…Not that I mind…But I need to focus…’ A soft growl that she thought was internalised escaped her lips. ‘And married? I do not like to think of him that way. He’s mine…’ Her thoughts span inside her mind and she began to feel a little dizzy with it all and despite this, she found herself on her feet. She moved to face him, as if she might kiss him, her hands cupping his face but she pulled back from the kiss at the last second. “What did you to me do?”

Enver: "Do?" He asked her, thinking on it for a minute. "Oh, I ahh, night have used a power." He admitted sheepishly before shrugging his shoulders. "Thought it might help knock you out of things. Usually puts you in a good mood." He chuckled, eyes on her.

Keara: There were very few powers her husband ever used on her and even fewer that put her in a good mood and yet even as she considered it she wasn’t sure what he was talking about, as none ever left her like this before. “Did you…No…That different effect on me has…Yes?” She was lost in those gorgeous brown eyes of his, even as she spoke, even as her thoughts tried to form. Though it explained why it hurt not to be near him, not to be looking at him.

Enver: "Did I?" He asked her, rubbing at his jaw. "Oh, yeah." He grinned, rather large, as he ducked his head down. "Figured it'd do something. Only, didn't it seems." He shrugged his shoulders, then looked around. "So, movie or?" he asked her, all too happy to breeze past the fact she'd been a zombie more or less for a while and the fact she had almost squished Gizmo and a few other things.

Keara: Her reply was to slap him somewhat playfully across his face for what he’d done, only the moment she did that she had an overwhelming urge to kiss him and so she threw her arms around him and kissed him deeply. As she pulled away she winced in pain and tried to force the unwanted feeling from her mind. “Know you do what that to me does. Only…Now different is. Need I do for near you to be. For to you to look. Thought I did that going mad I was.”

Enver: "Well, that's better than what you were!" He protested with a **** eating grin. "I'd not mind a little kiss or two." He winked at her, knowing it did more than that to her usually. He kissed her lips, this time scooting over by her and closer to her, so he could enjoy being near her. Which he did. "If you want help trying to track Enos down, I wouldn't mind helping. Not sure how I'd fair against him, truth be told, but is not something you should be doing by yourself. Doesn't really seem right or fair, really."

Keara: “No power need you upon me cast if wish you do for me you to kiss My Love.” Keara wraps her arms around his neck and stands as close as she can to him without letting her stomach touch him and then goes up onto her tip toes to kiss him. “And help me you may. Like that I would.”

Enver: He nodded his head, then looked around for the dog, wondering what he was up to. Any time something was too quiet, meant it was up to no good in his eyes. "Sounds good. I was thinking once the ice was all gone from the river, that we could take Lady out. Something different from what we've been dealing with the last month or so." He looked at her sidelong. "Maybe legitimately get away." He grinned at that idea, liking the sound of it. "Where's Gizmo at?" He asked, having not seen the dog as he moved to the television, put on the DVD player and popped the movie in.

Keara: He pulled away from her and she pouted again. This power couldn’t wear off quick enough. “Whatever you desire to do My Love. Sure I am that cope the family can without us. No trouble have they this time had. Yes?” Keara went looking for Gizmo and finally spotted him in the corner of the room chewing on something that looked like it might be Enver’s wallet. “Little thief,” she said as she moved towards him, the small creature bolting off under the bed when he realised he’d been caught. “Pay him enough you do not,” she swiped up the wallet and handed it over to Enver as she returned to his side. “Many toys he has but prefers he does for our things to chew.”

Enver: "Probably because he's a jealous ********." Enver scowled at the dog as he opened his wallet to see a few bills chewed up. "Great." He waved a finger at the dog. "Guess you'll be going hungry for a few days. Money doesn't grow on trees." He wasn't serious, but the dog thought it, as he dropped his head a little and gave Enver some famous puppy eyes. "And I guess there's not been any trouble. Doesn't seem to have been." He nodded, agreeing as he pushed play, came back to her and inched her to the bed with him.

Keara: “For what does he have to be jealous of?” she asks, almost unable to move from his side, even though she wanted to retire to the bed. She smiled when he began to nudge her to the bed. It was perhaps a ridiculous thought but it dawned on her that she hadn’t had any trouble going to see what Gizmo was doing and yet she couldn’t voluntarily move away from her husband. Perhaps the desire to do so hadn’t been strong enough, or perhaps the power had made her overly compliant in her desire to please her husband. As this thought crossed her mind she wondered if she even wanted to go sailing or if she’d just agreed to it to make him happy. Regardless, it had been said and she was as good as her word.

Enver: "You getting all the attention." He told her, like it was obvious. "Chews your stuff because he's threatened by you stealing it all from him and chews my stuff for giving you all the attention. Damn rascal." He scowled at the dog, waving a finger at it again before he bent down, scooped it up and put it on the bed, knowing he'd want to be up there the second he and her made their way in to it.

Keara: “So jealous he is of me? Or because wants he does your attention. Given him attention I have,” she said quickly casting her eyes to the pup. Gizmos was running back and forth along the edge of the bed, waiting for them to come join him and was excited by the fact that he hadn’t even had to ask to be put up there. Keara found her hands laced with her husbands, she didn’t recall taking his hands in hers (which was a little odd) but she didn’t mind as her thumbs began working the backs of Enver’s hands.

Enver: "Maybe. I'm no dog expert you know. Would have to ask Peter." Again, another shrug of his shoulders before he stepped in closer to her space and demanded a kiss from her with his lips. "Glad things are back to normal. That you're back as you should be." He nodded his head.

Keara: "Yes. Good that is," she whispered in a breathless manner, though she wasn't entirely in agreement as she still had to heal. “Watch we shall the film now?” she asked trying to push her agenda on him, as the bed was calling to her and she could think of nothing better than curling up in his arms.

Enver: He chuckled and nodded his head. "Yeah." He agreed, then nudged her to the bed until she connected with it. Once she was there, he climbed in to bed, partially, then coaxed her in to it with him. "Calm down, Gizmo." Enver barked out at the dog as he jumped over his legs, not once, but twice. Until Enver pulled his wife in to his lap. Then he moved to the top corner of the bed, on Enver's 'side' and claimed a spot.

Keara: She didn’t need much coaxing and as soon a she settled in the bed with him, Gizmo went to sulk at the foot of the bed, not wanting to be too close to her, only to edge back towards their feet a few minutes later. “And liked the actress you did not?” she asked as she settled against him, prepared to watch the film in silence once she got the confirmation she wanted.

Enver: Enver scoffed and shook his head. "Hell no. Too high maintenance for someone who was just starting out and too much of a princess complex. I wanted to punch her every time we had to kiss. Which was twice." He grumbled before clearing his throat. "She got bigger, fame wise, but don't ever see her working with too many of the same people or directors," He chuckled and shook his head. "She's not even that pretty or anything. You'll see." Sure, she wasn't bad looking and Enver knew it, but that wasn't something you told your wife. "She's got nothing on you." He winked down at her, not sure she saw it, but did it anyways.

Keara: She wasn’t sure what to make of his words but didn’t push it. It seemed he was going to get away with whatever he wanted to till the power wore of, there would be no fight from his wife and despite the fact that she was almost certain that she was annoyed at him, the emotion wouldn’t manifest itself. Resigned to the fact that she was pretty much under his spell for the evening, she got as comfortable as she could what with the wound she’d sustained and lay with her husband to watch another of his films.

Enver: Once she was comfortable and the dog was settled down, Enver settled down too. It wasn't hard for him to get comfortable, with her and with the movie that was playing. Not that he liked to watch himself on the big screen, but had it been any movie with her at his side he'd be as he was now. Enver rarely interrupted or said anything about the movie, maybe because he wasn't sure how she'd process the him being married, but not really married, so he thought it best to not dig himself a grave more or less.

Keara: She wasn’t sure what to make of the film. The story itself was relatively easy to follow but she wasn’t sure how to feel about watching the man she loved married to another woman. She had a relatively good imagination and had a hard enough time thinking of him married to his first wife but at least in that she was spared the torment of watching them together. Kind of. She’d seen some of the photos online but had stopped clicking when she became so annoyed that she was on the verge of throwing her laptop across the room. Some things were left best unseen, or so she had decided. “That…interesting was.”

Enver: "Interesting?" Enver frowned. "Didn't care for it, eh? It's alright. Our tastes are a bit different on a few things." He shrugged his shoulders. "can't win them all." He chuckled. "So, we're going back home tomorrow then? Looking forward to it?" She hadn't seen anyone but Peter that he knew about since the fadebaby ordeal, so he figured she must be eager to see them. Once she was healed. It was small talk, but he was making sure she was as she should be.

Keara: “Liked I did not for another in your arms to see. Even if pretend it is,” she admitted in a low voice. Gizmo, seemingly sensing she needed cheering up and content with the fact that she hadn’t tried to pick him up had started to creep closer to her and now sat down by her knees. “Oh yes. Happy I shall be for home to return. And for hunting to go. Feel I do stiff from my blade in so long not to wield.” Of course she had done a little practice in the last few weeks, just to keep her skills sharp but with her body being against her (as that was her perception) and with the limited space, she couldn’t really practice to the best of her abilities.

Enver: "Yeah, well that really doesn't mean anything." Enver assured her with a nod of his head. "You know. And won't mean anything if there are future films either that I'm in." He shrugged his shoulders, and hit the off button for the television since the movie was done with. "Be nice to go out again and not stay hidden away. Like criminals. Like we did something bad." He agreed, not so much with the hunting part of things, but with the feeling stiff or rusty on some things he used to do and stopped doing for the last month or so.

Keara: There was a phrase in there that caught her attention and it basically told her that he intended to do more films in the future. For the life of her she couldn’t fathom why he’d want to continue acting or how long he thought he could keep it up for, he was a vampire and so couldn’t go putting himself out there like that. “Enver…Know you do that one day stop you shall have too…Yes? Act you cannot forever. All too obvious then be it shall that human you are not.”

Enver: "Oh, yeah. But I still probably have another decade in me. Before I should look older than this, yeah?" Enver looked at her as he rubbed his chin. "Maybe even fifteen years." He said, speaking as he thought about it. "Until then, nothing really to worry about. Don't see a reason to turn down any gigs that might come my way." He nodded.

Keara: “Look good to me you do.” He hadn’t really asked how he looked but it was true and the only way that she could reply without really playing in to his fantasy. While there was every chance he could work for another 15 years, this wasn’t something she wanted to encourage and even in her pacified state she couldn’t or wouldn’t support it. “Rest I should…if allow me that to do you will…Know I do that dawn far off is but…tired I feel. So sleep I must. Please?” The request came seemingly from no-where but after her ordeal and her breakdown she was both physically and mentally exhausted.

Enver: "Yeah. Sure." He nodded his head, grinning from the compliment. Yeah, he could get another ten or fifteen years from being in the public image, if he needed to be. Not that he wanted to be, but sometimes it was good to shake things up a little. Enver got up out of the bed, headed for the light switch and flicked it off. He came back to bed, crawled in it after taking off his t-shirt and settled down to sleep. "Don't need to ask me if it's alright to do something. Usually." He reminded her as he tugged her in to the crook of his arm. He would make a few more suggestions about things they could do once they left and were back in the world as the night progressed until he knew she was asleep and then, surprisingly enough, sleep claimed him too. The last month was perhaps more exhausting then he thought.

Keara: She listened to the television, letting the background noise lull her to sleep more or less. There was something oddly comforting about the dull noise in the background and it was something that could keep Gizmo company while they both slept. The stiller the pair got, the braver the tiny beast became and once he knew they were both fast asleep, he crept across the bed and nestled himself in under the covers and against Keara’s back, the events of the evening apparently forgiven already. Keara slept soundly that night for the first time in several weeks, not making a single sound as she clung to her husband in the dimly lit room.