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Ahh, the late October evening air is crisp and sizzling with the bustle and excitement permeating 6th Street. Just an hour or two ago, the streets lay quiet and calm, like before a storm. And what a storm it is. Tonight is the biggest night of the year for Lorne - the only night he can go out with a bang (so to speak), and glam it up without having to worry about mobs and pitch forks and torches and all kinds of peer pressure. He can be lean and green and having a fabulous time. For any other demon with a sense of dignity, Halloween is the be all and ban all of faux pas-es. It's a night where silly wannabes co-mingle. It is just not done.

But Lorne will do it and do it well for every year he can muster. He'll be in his hundreds, old and wrinkly and hunchbacked, and he'll still come here for the big event.

***

And when the darkness has fallen over the city, and the parade lights up the city streets with eerie lights and chilled merriment in equal doses, Lorne dances down the line like it's 1999, all feathered up, glammed up and having a ball.

You never know who you'll bump into, and the best part? You can pop into a coffee shop or a restaurant on the way, get to know someone better anytime you want to. If he should be so lucky tonight, it would be the icing on the cake and the cherry on top.

Date: 2008-08-21 06:43 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
And, well ... did she?

"There are sides," she says finally, low. "Doesn't mean either of them's right. I thought ..."

Her arms are folded tight around her stomach again, against the ache and nausea, but she can say this; she can say this to him because he has no idea who she is.

"It doesn't matter what I thought. People got killed and it was my fault."

Date: 2008-08-21 06:56 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
"How do you think it matters, then?" It's sharp, sharper than she would ordinarily dare, but all the rules of ordinary seem to have been put on hold for the moment.

Date: 2008-08-21 07:22 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
"You don't know anything about who I am," she snaps. "And maybe we should."

Her hands are down at her sides, clenched into white-knuckled fists; she's pushed away from the wall to face him directly.

"Maybe we deserve to, and maybe if I had the guts I'd have done it months ago, and what fucking difference would it make to anybody?"

Date: 2008-08-21 07:38 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
Not much at all; there's a gust of warm air from somewhere in the distance, moving their way.

Very low: "So if I'm trying not to die because I don't want to, even if I deserve to, what does that make me?"

Date: 2008-08-21 09:48 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
"Human." She laughs hollowly. "What would you or me or anything like us even know about being human?"

(At the far end of the platform, where the track enters the tunnel, there's a steadily growing gleam of light against the tiled wall.)

Date: 2008-08-22 08:29 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
She looks away from him, and stares down at the tracks. There's a flicker of motion as something small, a rat or a mouse, dives into a hole under one of the rails.

The rumble of the oncoming train is getting louder, and her voice underneath it is just barely audible.

"Maybe."

(Soft and clear in her memory: Took off the mask. See the lies in the truth. Now you know who killed you.)

"If it's that or be a killer for somebody."

(Same memory, different voice: Live through this.)

Her feet are aligned precisely on the yellow safety line warning commuters not to get too close to the edge of the platform. She sways, just slightly, with the wind of the train's approach.

"They would have had me kill you."

Date: 2008-08-22 09:47 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
"Because you're a demon."

Her head turns back to him as the train comes thundering into the station, a rushing wall of gray metal and white light and roaring noise, and black hair blows about her masked face in the whack of wind that follows it.

"Because I'm a Slayer."

Date: 2008-08-22 10:03 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
There's a pause, one that seems longer than it is.

The doors open with their habitual two-note bing-bong.




"Yeah," she says, and turns to step into the subway car.

Date: 2008-08-24 04:35 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
The last thing she's going to do is lead him to anyplace she's comfortable.

She nods, silently, and turns to study the map on the wall of the subway car.

Date: 2008-08-25 10:12 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
When they come up into the October night, she leads the way around toward a large abstract sculpture in black. There's a low stone ledge there, anchoring the railing around the entrance to the subway; it's wide enough to serve as a bench, and that's where she sits down.

It's not too cold out. Not cold enough to be uncomfortable for some time.

Date: 2008-08-27 10:51 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
From: [personal profile] sunnydalealum
She shakes her head and raises her hand palm out in a no-thank-you pantomime at the offer of cigarettes.

"'The Show Must Go On,'" she says involuntarily, placing the reference.

Date: 2008-08-28 10:29 pm (UTC)
sunnydalealum: (Beth Lehrer)
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She gives a bitter laugh behind her mask.

"You got three hours?"

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