Burning Valentine

[Noelle]

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

Guaninas Cave
Valentine Day 2015

< Ripper > this looks like a good place to camp out
* Noelle drops her bag of items and pounces on the man, wrapping arms tightly around him "Missed you bunches and tons! Welcome home"
< Ripper > oh, you've seen me plenty
< Noelle > Yes but now you're whole and I can touch you and feel you and kiss you and hug you and love on you!
< Ripper > I've just needed some time to decompress on a few things
* Noelle kissed his cheek "I understand love. I got some stuff accomplished while you were away anyway"
< Ripper > good, good. I appreciate you looking after the childer
< Ripper > ...odd/funny thing is you've treated him better than your own. <.<
< Ripper > but I suppose it's been good practice?
< Noelle > I adore him
< Noelle > My own all fucked off
< Noelle > And I see him as mine anyway. Pretty much.
< Noelle > Did I mention the ****** that tried to attack him?
< Ripper > remember though: he's his own person and not a belonging to anyone else
< Ripper > and yes; you did
< Noelle > Yes yes i know. Which is why I let him make the call on what to do.
< Ripper > although I doubt it was directly a Grigori retaliation
< Ripper > and more likely just a fledgling acting out
< Noelle > I don't think it was. I think it was some young idiot trying to pull a fast one
< Ripper > indeed.
< Noelle > Now gimme a kiss and Ill give you your marshmallows
* Ripper starts to accumulate the sticks he had gathered into a pile and begins to douse them off with lighter fluid
< Ripper > I don't plan in eating any...
< Ripper > but it's at least something that's traditional to do
< Noelle > I didn't think so. You'd be awfully sick. What are we doin with them?
< Noelle > I brought pillows so we can be comfy and blankets and your requested items, blood packs in the cooler aaaand something extra
< Ripper > jus' hanging out really. I had of a mind tonight and watch the Sun rise
< Ripper > if only as a reminder even that it's still there
< Noelle > You're the best
* Ripper toasts a few marshmellows moresly, burning a couple and setting a few on fire.
< Ripper > speaking of childer...
< Ripper > did you see my Sundial at all while you were out and about?
* Noelle starts to lay everything out and get the night organized. Blankets and pillows were set up nicely near the mouth of the cave so that they could watch the sun rise. "I haven't seen her in a while...It's been a couple weeks at least."
* Ripper starts sticking the melted concoctions out onto the walls of the cave, arranging them into a gooey fresco
* Noelle watches him, giggling a bit. "Roderic is going to love his new artwork"
< Ripper > I doubt it...although I'm positively sure he'll get a kick out of the rolls of toilet paper we've left behind :lol:
< Noelle > We could get some mud and rub wads of it in them and then leave them around >.> He might think a Hobo was staying here
< Ripper > naw...I'm not really into the point of defacing this cave. It's just a quiet spot I've always admired and it's been here both longer than Roderic and I
< Noelle > You know this is the first place we went together...other than when we dueled
< Ripper > although I also recall not staying here for very long *laughs*
< Noelle > And then we went swimming...and the fae got you!
< Ripper > that was after
< Ripper > though I did get a fae ravished while at here too as well
< Noelle > Was it a different time entirely?
< Ripper > well duh
< Ripper > each and every second is
< Ripper > yanno
* Noelle chuckles
< Noelle > Hey...I had something commissioned for you. Want to see it?
< Ripper > <.<
< Ripper > another present gift?
* Noelle bounced on her feet a little
< Noelle > Yes...
< Noelle > A Valentine's Gift
< Ripper > alright, since you're so excited about it
< Noelle > Not the one I've been promising. I don't have that in hand yet.
< Ripper > as long as it doesn't get rubbed in my face again later
* Noelle rummaged through her bag before pulling out a brown paper wrapped canvas. "Open"
< Noelle > What do you mean?
< Ripper > I don't need or want anything from you
< Ripper > ...besides what I ask for usually
< Ripper > but thank you
< Noelle > I know love
< Noelle > Just...open it
< Noelle > I had Alex paint it
* Ripper lazily tears a claw over the packed paper.

< Ripper > oh blimey--that looks....indecent o.o
< Ripper > *belts out a laugh at it anyways*
* Noelle blushed and smirked
< Ripper > and not really in her normal wheelhouse of things even...
< Ripper > but I suppose that's a vary of talent
< Noelle > It was a special request >.>
< Noelle > You can keep it somewhere private if you'd like
< Ripper > I'll make sure it gets posted prominently *smiles*
< Noelle > >.<
< Noelle > Do you like it?
* Ripper deigns her with a rare affection.
< Ripper > :* I can't say that I don't
* Noelle blushed even more, kissing in return "I'm glad you do. It was a little embarrassing asking for something so...risque, but I wanted it for you"
* Noelle found it risque at least
< Ripper > well...Quartermaines, you know...
< Ripper > bunch of erotic mother fuckers
< Ripper > ...literally quite >.<
< Noelle > >.> You must have been skipped with that one
< Ripper > ...
* Noelle smirks as if daring him to prove her wrong
< Ripper > I've never been a Quartermaine
< Ripper > only ever been turned by one
< Ripper > but I'd severed that bloodline directly
< Noelle > You are direct descendant....soooo kinda sorta
< Noelle > Yeah yeah I know. Just as I have mine

[Ripper]

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

< Noelle > Yeah yeah I know. Just as I have mine
< Ripper > just not quite as messily
< Noelle > There was no mess in mine. I just...stopped talking and left.
< Ripper > you know my story
< Noelle > Actually...I don't love
< Ripper > although each chapter of it is unwritten
< Ripper > no? suppose that I never do talk about it much
< Noelle > Nuh. You've never liked talking about your previous family
< Ripper > but the highlights is: Q-ball had me disowned good properly--as only a first generation could
< Noelle > Well **** her.
< Ripper > never did
< Noelle > Thank god
< Ripper > although I may have been the only one there then excluded
< Noelle > ...Who all have you slept with since being a vampire?
< Ripper > you
* Noelle blushed "Really?"
< Ripper > although I've been fucked in the arse a few times
* Noelle choked and laughed
< Ripper > which really is the bottom lesson on family
< Noelle > I've only been with four people...ever. Including human life.
* Ripper was speaking figuratively; but hoped that had been assumed. <.<
* Noelle had assumed
< Ripper > oh, really? that number had gone up since last I'd remembered
< Noelle > No...
< Noelle > Boyfriend back in high school, Shamus, Ryland and you
< Ripper > so you say, so you say. It's not really none of my business
< Noelle > Well...Zwei stuck it in me but I told him to be gentle cuz...well I hadn't been with anyone in a loooooong time. And he got pissed and stormed out and then left me.
< Noelle > This conversation just got weird >.>
* Noelle looked at the painting "I like it. It's dark, it's a little edgy, it's kinda sexy...it's us"
< Ripper > even more than Queen Cuey, it were Elizabeth Swift who made it clear there was no family of mine
* Ripper turns slightly reminiscent.
* Noelle nudged him down and climbed into his lap, kissing his jaw "You have family now. You have Kane, Sun, the other that sleeps...and you have me"
< Ripper > *shakes his head slightly from side to side*
< Ripper > that's a lesson which I've still yet to give him-yet it's important that I do so one of these nights
< Ripper > there *IS* no family for us; and it's dangerous yet to assume that there is
< Noelle > Why is it dangerous for me to consider you my family?
< Ripper > for you it's more incongruous
< Ripper > as we're not
< Noelle > i know we're not legit family. But you are my chosen family.
< Noelle > You are who I tie myself to.
< Ripper > if it certainly suits you to do so--I've never had much problem with words
< Ripper > *laughs again*
< Ripper > in *THAT* respect at least
* Noelle smirks
< Noelle > I'm happy you're home
< Ripper > so tell me something new? certainly anything must have happened while I was away that doesn't relate to us directly?
< Noelle > There was an earthquake...were you here when that happened?
< Ripper > a quake? I remember the ground shaking, but it were only in my dreams
< Ripper > I didn't spend much this time around gazing in a look while upwards
< Noelle > It was a big quake love...the streets were cracking and power lines falling. No it was more than just a quake...it was a huge storm with it too
< Ripper > the veil is thin enough now as it is...
< Ripper > but was it a big one?
< Noelle > Yes
< Ripper > >.> no structural damage then I hope
< Noelle > I got stranded for a bit with a bunch of unlikely people
< Noelle > Tons
* Ripper doesn't need to specify where he is talking about.
< Noelle > I've gone over the church and a few of our other locations. No damage for the most part. The house is being worked on right now. I hired a crew
* Ripper goes silent again, falling into a deeper musing
< Ripper > signs and portents...
< Ripper > something new has awakened
< Noelle > Hmm?
< Ripper > nothing *dismisses it to himself*
< Noelle > You think it wasn't a natural storm/quake?
< Ripper > just a crawling down my spine that I feel
< Noelle > Something more is coming?
< Noelle > That's what I thought...
< Noelle > Something powerful
< Ripper > I don't have any proof of what it is or might be
< Noelle > Nuh, nor do I. But I am sure of it
< Ripper > just that there's legions enough, and some of them mostly older than we are
< Ripper > others might know more *makes a point of inquiring about it more further*
* Noelle ran fingers through his hair "Will just have to keep our eyes and ears open"
< Noelle > Want to know your other gift?
< Noelle > The big one
* Ripper winks.
< Ripper > surprise me
< Noelle > But i want to give it to you tonight and I don't have it yet
< Noelle > And there's nothing i can do about it
* Noelle stretches out next to the fire, using his lap as a pillow
* Ripper pets her idlely as he stares into the flames.