Sloth [Prudence]

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Sloth [Prudence]

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Ever since Lorelai had basically ‘given’ Robin her apartment, he had claimed it as his own. The fridge was filled with all kinds of things - mostly junk food and alcohol. Although the alcohol couldn’t get him drunk, it still tasted good. And now that he was pulling in a steady stream of money from what little work he did for Mora, he could afford to be frivolous and buy an at least half decent beer. The white wine was middle of the range, but it did well enough.

There was a bakery he could go to nearby the Honeymead internet cafe, too - he had a habit of going there to buy whole cakes. There was that saying people like to spout. Something about having a cake and eating it too. Or something. Robin couldn’t quite remember, but he relished the thought that he did have a whole cake. And he could eat the whole thing and there’d be no consequence. He wouldn’t get fat. He wouldn’t get diabetes. His veins wouldn’t clog up and he wouldn’t die of a sugar overdose. It was a bit like heaven.

Even if he did find it quite odd that he hadn’t really liked sweet things before. Now, he couldn’t get enough of them.

He tried to keep the apartment clean, but he was a boy. Generally, most boys of his age and temperament were not so good at keeping things clean. Though, he was rarely there. Just when he woke up, and when he came back for the night, before morning. He’d met an interesting girl at the cafe; one who wore a mask that she never took off. She was strange, and refreshingly blunt. It was clear she was not quite right in the head, but that’s what made her good company. She was strange, but it was clear that she was intelligent. Robin had grown attached to her company.

Tonight, though, he found himself sprawled on the couch. There was a Star Trek marathon on TV; he’d had to sit through these episodes as a boy. It was the only thing his father had watched. He thought he hadn’t like it at the time, but now it was something that he missed.

The only light in the apartment was the flickering from the television. Aside from the sound of the show, there was, every now and again, the rustle of fingers in a bowl of very salty popcorn, and the inevitable crunch. Robin’s eyes were wide - would almost be square, if such a thing were true. Glued to the television like he was in a trance. Although he wore a hoodie, the hood pulled up over his head, he wore only boxers on his lower half, socks at the end of his lanky legs.

There was satisfaction, in doing absolutely nothing at all.
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Tonight was unlike any other night. School had once again started for the winter and spring semester and Prudence was back at it again. She did this; went to school for a solid year, or six months or so, and then took off a semester or a year. She had taken off this time because there was a lot going on. Nathaniel and Lori primarily, she wanted to try and be a good wife and a half way decent sire this time. Her last few mini's either were retarded and died, or just acted retarded and were still around, or flat out died and weren't seen again.

Her fear of a short marriage made her want to put effort into her new one. She had not been lucky in love, but supposedly third time was a charm, right? She hoped so. With things being settled down, Lori was busy with levi and with Robin [so she assumed] and Nathaniel and her relationship being as strong as it was months ago, Prudence decided to give school a shot once again. Just part time-two classes. nothing that would tear her attentions away from anything that needed her utmost attention at the drop of a dime.

English 2 was her other class that was on Monday and Wednesday from seven to nine at night. This one was her favorite of the two. Shooting Reconstruction. Prudence knew a lot about guns and so this had high hopes for her when she signed up for the class. It was that, or files, foliage and features. She decided that would be for next year, or in the summer if they offered it at night. unlikely, but she could get lucky. The red head would have to wait and see.

With the class finally done, and the woman confident that she had picked the right classes this semester; partner a boring class with a fun one was her logic, Prudence decided to head to the caverns. there were still a few hours before the sun would rise and she suspected she would find her hunky man meat there. The red head bolted into the bathroom on the main floor, checked under the stalls to make sure no one was in there through vision of feet, grabbed her tome and was off the campus grounds and in the apartment of Lori's.

The first thing she noticed was the television and the light source from it, followed by what was on it. Ewww. Lori and Star whatever it was? Who would have known her mini was such a nerd? the second thing she noticed was the outline of someone not Lori. It was a male, definitely a male. She could see his big feet in his socks and so Prudence naturally assumed it was Levi. At first. Only because they were doing the horizontal tango and such. But Levi and Star Wars? Star Trek? Pru knew it was something nerdy like that, but what it was, wasn't known or cared about really. Who cared what someone watched? Even if it did surprise her. Prudence moved around the couch to see a hooded figure in shorts. What the hell? This was not Levi and as soon as her eyes adjusted, the red head knew she was right.

"What the heck is going on here?" Eyes focused on Robin before looking around the apartment. "Where the heck is Lori and Levi?" She wanted to add, did they know you were treating their apartment like a waste land, but decided against it. "Is this what ya do? Just sit and rot your brain all night, every night?" Pru moved to stand in front of the television, wanting his sole attention.
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Robin had turned as soon as he heard movement; frozen like a squatter caught somewhere he shouldn’t be. And yet he wasn’t a squatter. He was living in a place he had been told he could live in. The owner had given him full permission to live there. This was his place, for as long as she allowed it. So he had to force himself to relax.

When he realised it was not the owner nor her constantly growling boyfriend (had he ever heard Levi actually string a sentence together, or could the guy only growl?) he did relax. Only a little, however. Although it might not have been the owner who’d come to check in, it was instead the owner’s keeper. No, probably not keeper. That probably wasn’t the right word for it. Lorelai might object. Prudence might object. One of them might. Didn’t matter. It wasn’t a word he would use out loud. Lorelai definitely wasn’t his keeper… thought the more he thought about that, she may as well have been. This was her place, after all, and Robin had made no effort to carve out a home of his own. Ever since his girlfriend had kicked him out years ago, he’d got by either crashing on other people’s couches or living in a motel.

The choice, as Prudence confronted him, was to either continue to chew the mouthful of popcorn and swallow, or spit it out. In a moment of rash indecision, Robin spat it out, the now-soggy popped kernels softly plopping back into the bowl.

Even before he’d emptied his mouth of the food, he was shaking his head.

”Of course not,” he said, the words uttered with an amused kind of vehemence. At least he knew he was telling the truth.

”I think I’d go insane stuck inside all the time. I go out. Just…. Not tonight,” he said. He blinked. And then remembered that the woman had asked him another question. Truthfully? Prudence intimidated him a little. Maybe it had something to do with her red hair.

”I dunno where they are. I thought… I mean, on the internet…” he said, fishing for his phone, but realising it wasn’t in his pocket. It was on the coffee table. While he reached forward to get it, he miscalculated the movement and a whole bunch of popcorn spilled on the couch.

”…I’ll clean that up. But,” he said, picking up the phone, the thumb happily and hastily swiping the screen to find the page he needed. The thread. The post. He turned the phone to face Prudence.

”She said she’s not living here anymore. She didn’t specify where she’d be…” he said. And he was glad he hadn’t said what had first come to mind. Didn’t you know she doesn’t live here anymore? The last thing he wanted to appear was insolent.
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Prudence watched the popcorn fall to the bowl and was suddenly glad she didn't eat anymore. If she needed to and hadn't, Robin would have made her lose her entire appetite right then and there. Still, she didn't move as the red head waited to hear what he was doing here, in the dark, by himself like a creeper. That was Mordie's nickname sometimes, not that she said it out loud often, but Robin was soon gonna be the King of that nickname.

The woman let her stance ease up after he started talking, knowing he couldn't possibly do nothing and not go out. He needed real food. Vampire food. Though, she suspected Robin probably had a stash of bags in the fridge, which made her nose crinkle a little. The woman had to be hurting really badly to take some blood out of a plastic bag.

He started talking about the internet and that's when the woman remembered. Lori and Levi had moved to a new place. "Oh, that's right." Prudence nodded her head, not really bothering to look at the phone that was shown. "I thought that hadn't happened yet. The whole move thing. Know where they moved to? A new apartment in this building or?" Not that she was going to go look for them right now, or any time soon, Prudence just liked to know where her mini's might be at if she needed to find them at the drop of a dime.

"And uhm, sorry for barging in unannounced." The woman scratched at her cheek before looking around the room they were in again. "But uhh, some of us have tomes here, so might be a good idea, or at least a good thing, to remember that." To spare any awkwardness Robin might feel if he was running around in less than what he was wearing now. To her? Wouldn't bother her one bit, a body was typically just a body and most of anyone's body did really little for her other than that delicious man meat she was married to.
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Robin tossed his phone to the other end of the couch before he started to gingerly paw at the spilled popcorn, dumping it back in the bowl from which it had spilled. It probably wouldn’t be beyond him to keep eating it - what was a little dust with one’s meal? - but he knew that would appear far too sloth-like and, well, plain odd. Shock-horror, he actually gave a **** what this woman thought of him.

He had to glance up when she asked her question, though. He had to blink. He wasn’t sure whether he’d mumbled, or whether he just hadn’t said the right thing. He swallowed, before clearing his throat. His throat was dry. Too much popcorn, and not enough to drink.

”She didn’t specify where she’d be,” he said, and cleared his throat again. ”I mean, no. She didn’t say where they were moving to. I know as much as you do on that front. Maybe they wanted to go somewhere that was private? Maybe they didn’t like that they’d given tomes out to this place, and that anyone could walk in on them. At any time,” he said, glancing over his shoulder to that bare space in the middle of the floor where, at any moment, any one of their small family could drop in. It was, now that Robin thought about it - now that he’d been reminded of it - slightly disconcerting. Maybe they had a point.

It was hard to think of Lorelai as being married and having moved somewhere to be away from people, though. Not the Lorelai he knew. The Lorelai he knew was caring, always concerned about those she cared about. And she was open. Social, in her own kind of way. Or so he thought. Maybe he didn’t know Lorelai as much as he thought he did; she was all grown up now, changed, to be with a man that she loved.

Or maybe it was more ominous than that; maybe she thought she loved him, and Levi was instead controlling. Manipulative. Robin’s teeth bared in imitation as he recalled Levi’s constant growls, though Robin didn’t grown himself. It was a weak imitation, and he was obviously lost in his overactive imagination. Just for a second.

Robin sucked in a breath and remembered where he was. He brushed salt and crumbs off his hands onto the front of his hoodie, the hood of which he pushed away from his head. As if that would neaten his appearance, somehow. Make him look a little more proper.

”Yeah, sorry. I’ll uhm… I’ll clean it up a bit,” he said, assuming Prudence was referring to the lack of cleanliness. Really, Robin thought, she’d just caught him on a bad day.
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Prudence remembered the first night she met Robin-the night her mini sired him. Or, well, the night she fed on him and practically killed the guy, then tried to get Prudence to sire him, which she objected of course, and made Lori do it. It was Lori's doing, so she should learn how to clean up her own messes. Just like Robin. No wonder he didn't have a love interest in his life, who would want to date someone who made substantial messes on their nice furniture?

"I don't think I know much about ya." Prudence started out, ignoring his words about cleaning up, but wanting to know more about Robin's background and what he was capable of. "Other than your name, and that you were friends with Lori. Did ya two come from that same place? That weird sounding place that sounds made up almost?" Prudence moved to sit on the table that was in front of the couch, which was indirectly in front of Robin. Pru didn't adhere to the rules of personal space, if people were uncomfortable by her sitting next to them, that was their prerogative not hers. It wasn't like she was touching him or threatening him. The red head was just sitting in front of him-which, probably would intimidate anyone in his shoes because she was a lot, lot stronger than him. That was an assumption, but one Prudence was willing to wager in her favor given he seemed the type to just lounge around and watch movies all night.

"She tell ya anything about me?" Prudence had decided to give up on trying to find out where Lori and Levi had moved to for now, figuring she could ask Lori later. Nothing specific, just the building they lived in. Lori knew where most her places were at and Pru was willing to be had a key to at least half them-so who cared if Prudence knew what building she lived in? "How I came to sire her, or my life before? What I was a human?" There was no reason for Prudence to be sharing anything about her life, other than the simple fact that when people asked questions and expected answers, usually others did the same in return. "Ya should meet Mordie. He's my bestie and first friend in this city. Have ya met him?" Prudence figured it was probably unlikely, but she didn't keep tabs on her mini's as much as she used to, which meant she kept even less of a tab on those sired by them.
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”Hoshkosh?” he asked. Yeah, he was pretty sure that was the name of the place. Robin’s memory, sometimes, wasn’t capable of retaining small pieces of information. Like names.Names were often lost to the ether. But he could remember faces! That was good enough, wasn’t it?

”Yeah. I stayed there for a while with my girlfriend at the time. She left, and I stayed on for a bit. Lorelai was… she was kinda different, then. But basically exactly the same as she is now,” he said. He remembered the Lorelai he had met; the innocent, wide-eyed girl who’d seemed so naive about the world beyond her home. No, she didn’t seem naive. She was naive. She’d wanted to leave, then, but had been reluctant. Too afraid. And now look where she was!

Robin shook his head in answer to the other questions, though the shaking faltered only at one.

”Yeah, she told me how she was sired. You saved her life, yeah? Turned her instead of taking her to a hospital. She didn’t tell me anything else about you, though. Well - you know, besides how wonderful you were. I don’t know how many times I got told you were a goddess…” he said. Though, thinking about it now, he hadn’t heard Lorelai call Prudence a goddess recently. At least not for a couple of months. Though she’d never said anything bad about her, either. Maybe now that Robin could get to know Prudence himself, and had met her, Lorelai didn’t find it necessary to extol her virtues quite so much.

Robin knew that Lorelai had a good head on her shoulders, even if it could sometimes be a little too naive. A little too innocent. But he knew that she was not prone to gossip, and any juicy details she might be privy to in regards to Prudence’s life would have been kept secret. These were things that, if Robin wanted to know, he could find out on his own. The way that Prudence mentioned it, he wondered if it was pertinent to the conversation. Rather than ask - yet - he instead shook his head. Again.

”I have not had the pleasure of meeting Mordie…” he said. He’d never heard the name before in his life.
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Robin seemed unsure of the answer to give to Prudence when she was mildly snooping around about his past and how he came to know Lori. Prudence had traveled a lot when she was human [obviously], but most every place she ever stopped and performed at, she remembered like it was yesterday. The woman only nodded at his uncertainty of where he came from, indicating that was the place Lori had talked about.

"Different?" Prudence asked, believing that somewhere in those sentences, Lori was a wild child with a free spirit and gave some people a run for their money. But deep down, Prudence knew better. Lori was too proper and polite to ever give anyone a piece of her mind.

Again, she gave him another nod when he mentioned that Prudence had sired her instead of letting her die, that she didn't take the woman to a hospital and then snorted when Robin was on about her being some kinda goddess. "Yuh. I don't think I did anything extraordinary to deserve that title, but it's stuck." Prudence didn't especially like being referred to as that, it was a little weird and made her uncomfortable.

"Not surprised." Prudence scoffed when Robin said he hadn't met Mordie yet. Not when he sat around watching crazy sci-fi shows all night. "He's kinda a loner-keeps to himself, his girlfriend and me and Nathaniel." Prudence never heard him speaking about anyone else-not in a long time. "So, I kinda hate standing around and stuff, and I'm not sitting on that couch-" Prudence looked around, then looked back at him. "And this is kinda awkward since this is your place now..." Prudence trailed off, putting both arms behind her back and stretching the muscles in her arms out as she leaned forwards. "Ya want to go out and do something?" Prudence asked with a shrug, not caring what his answer was, but making the offer anyways.
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Robin, on the other hand, thought that the reason he hadn’t met this Mordechai person was because he was described as a loner who kept to himself. Robin wasn’t sure how he was supposed to meet people if they kept to themselves; but he didn’t ask. He assumed that if this man was so important to meet, someone, somewhere would introduce Robin to him. Otherwise, Robin knew nothing about him but a name, and a name wasn’t a means of communication.

Even though Prudence referred to the apartment as Robin’s place, now, he begged to differ. It wasn’t really his place. It was still Lorelai’s place - the tomes all led here. It wasn’t his place, it was everyone’s place. A conduit through which everyone passed to get from one part of the city to another. Robin nodded, and stood up. When he stood, flecks of popcorn dropped to the floor.

”...I’ll clean it up later,” he said. ”I’ll go get some pants,” he added. He wasn’t sure what Prudence had in mind, but he hoped jeans and a hoodie would do, as far as attire was concerned.

He didn’t take long. He pulled on some jeans and his shoes, and even managed to run a brush through his hair. When he came out of the bedroom, he almost looked presentable, aside from a few stains on the hoodie from the butter in the popcorn. But they were barely there - barely discernible, unless someone was paying really close attention. Robin wouldn’t know - he had removed all the mirrors from the apartment, if there were any there to begin with. He gave himself nightmares, if he ever happened to catch himself in the mirror.

”Where do you want to go?” he asked. As intimidating as he might find Prudence, at times, he was curious. He wondered why Lorelai’s apartment was the conduit, when Prudence was the sire. The ‘goddess’. Or was Lorelai just more organised?

He didn’t answer Prudence’s vague query as to how Lorelai was different; he wasn’t really comfortable discussing it. Becoming a vampire would change any person. Meeting a man and getting into a serious relationship can change people, too. It was a fact of life.

So he stood there, looking like his usual awkward self, a silly smile on his face as he waited to learn what his sire’s sire like to do of a night time.
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Robin seemed to take the offer without actually stating such. He mentioned cleaning up later and going to put some clothes on. Well, pants. He had clothes on already-but wearing boxers around town in the dead of winter gave people an odd look. Wearing just boxers out in public at any time of the year would give Robin [and her] a weird look. "Thank **** for that." Though her tone was short and to the point, there was a glimmer of amusement from the redhead's lips as she watched Robin stand up and move out of the room.

While he was gone, Prudence looked around to see what, if any changes had been made to the place since Lori gifted it to her mini. Pretty much everything looked the same to her, minus a thing or two that stuck out. The mess Robin had made in a couple places and then other odds and ends which clearly spoke 'male presence,' in the apartment. From what Prudence could remember, while Levi and Lori lived here-things seemed pretty much the same and just as organized. Prudence had to give that to Levi. He was organized, a trait the red head liked in anyone, so Prudence found herself liking Levi a little bit more when Prudence recognized the quality about the guy.

Robin returned with not only pants on, but shoes too. She nodded her head, glad things were starting to move in the right direction for the guy and her, before making a noise that implied she was thinking. Something along the lines of a 'hmmmm.' Was heard as Prudence thought about what to do. "Guess it kinda depends on what ya like to do. I'm not gonna drag ya around town doing things I like to do. Don't work well for Lori and doubt it works well for ya." Maybe it was unfair of her to group him with Lori-but Prudence had to admit Lori was a little...weird sometimes and so she assumed he would be too in some respects because they lived in the same place and grew up together.

"Do ya like to fight? Work out? Shoot or stab things? Pottery? Painting?" Prudence hoped he didn't. She didn't much care for that kind of arsty ****, but she would stick it out for him, since she did the same for Lori. That was what family did, right? Do **** they don't always wanna do.
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