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Who: Alexander, Anthony, Bakura, Banagher, Hajime, John, Lyall, Ravindra, Reilanin & Vanessa
Where: Alex & Ravi's apartment
When: Friday, Sept. 13th (ooooh)
What: Movie night!
Warnings: --

[ and so it happened that tonight was a movie night slightly different from the one alex, anthony, john (and ravindra, when he wanted to be included) had grown accustomed to -- namely, the volume of bodies had doubled, plus two. the cats were split in opinion; adhirat sought shelter in ravi's room, while olivia got cozy with anyone who'd give her the time of day and gomez poked around and occasionally darted off.

the more the merrier -- for anthony's sake, partially, as holing up in an apartment couldn't have been very fun (thought alex) while his peers enjoyed (or enjoyed to hate) school. bakura was a friend of his, so alex was more than happy to have him over. lyall could always use a break. hajime had been an invaluable asset at the water bust and seemed like a swell guy. john was an 'of course'; a founding member of movie night and someone alex got along with splendidly. vanessa, well.

vanessa could do with the company of good people. she seemed to get along with banagher fine, too, and alex was fond of both of them.

as for reilanin, he was basically continuing to offer the branch of friendship, or something like it. he'd actually been surprised when she accepted the invitation. as a librarian, she was probably familiar with the movie they'd be watching tonight.

twilight (or the save the earth equivalent of). ]

[ ooc: more or less a mingle log! throw up your own threads, go hog wild, yeah!
here's the apartment layout for reference. they're on the second floor! ]

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"It would be terribly awkward for that to happen when there are still three more books to convert into movies..."

Ah, Rei, couldn't you be a little horrified along with Vanessa?... instead she simply seemed a little confused and mostly accepting.

Oh, wow, was that ever the wrong thing to say.

"They made four of these?"

Yes, Vanessa is that out of touch with pop culture. And right now she's feeling happier about that by the minute.

Edited 2013-09-14 07:20 (UTC)

"Ah, I believe there are some spinoffs as well... one in particular has become very popular, it seems it was written by a fan of the series and not the author herself." Perplexed, she blinked up at Vanessa, uncertainly squishing the mochi, unused to facing strong feelings about things that was not in an emergency setting. "I believe that one is slated to become a movie as well...?"

Okay... she might have been taking the movie a little too seriously but she couldn't help it. If the alarm bells going off in her head just from watching the movie had actual sound, the entire block would have been evacuated. And unless she was missing something, the movie was trying to convince her it was romantic.

"Spinoffs...?" She blinked a few time and then sat back against the pillow propped up between her seat on the couch arm and the wall, arms folded. "If I ever woke up and found somebody watching me sleep I'd probably try to stab them."

It reminded her of a few relationships she had back in university, actually... with about the same amount of feeling put into it.

"Would you? I suppose it isn't a bad reaction." She tilted her head a little, looking at Vanessa thoughtfully. "Though the chances of a vampire doing something like that-"

Ah, well... that sort of thinking kind of ended when you found out you were turning into a werewolf. Things stopped being impossible.

To make sure, she leaned over a little, to find Alexander in the group. "You wouldn't do that, would you?"

"I'm not even talking about vampires."

It wasn't even that Vanessa had a bunch of bad relationships to think back on, since that would involve getting close to somebody in the first place, but she didn't need a relationship for this crap to put her on edge a little.

She leaned forward a little as well when Reilanin raised that question to Alex, looking across the room at him, as if to add support to the question.

Answer carefully now, Alex.

"Huh?" His mind rewound a few seconds, latching onto Reilanin and Vanessa's conversation that had fallen into his periphery.

Then, "Only if you want me to." It was accompanied by an arched brow and a flicker of a mischievous grin.

Vanessa just shook her head slowly, keeping her eyes on Alex.

"Not even as a joke, Alex. I wasn't kidding." She gave him a very serious look. The most serious look. "I have the knife and everything."

"Then obviously you don't want me to."

"I would prefer if you didn't do it to me, too."

Just felt we should be clear on that.

"...I'd be able to tell if you were there anyway."

Don't look now, Rei, but you're getting a weird look from Alex.

After a considerable pause in reply, he asks, in lower voice so as to not disturb the others from hearing the movie quite as much, "What do I smell like, anyway?"

#priorities

Eh? She stares at him a moment, then her eyes seem to defocus a little and she gives the air a sniff.

Hm. She can tell apart the fabrics he's wearing. That was one of the easiest things to start with, linen and cotton and leather and polyester. All that stuff. If he used any soap or shampoo. She takes her time, sorting it out from everyone else's smells. Vanessa's she's gotten used to, sitting next to her. Lyall she already knows. The meringues and their sweet and lemon smell.

There's a brief pause as she considers. It's almost as though she can't smell him much at all.

"I can't place it. Not normal." She doesn't know how deep his echoes have gone, doesn't realize his heart's stopped and his blood doesn't move anymore. There isn't much for his body to produce if it isn't doing that.

"Coppery, maybe? But that might just be part of what's on you, not you yourself. It's hard to tell right now."