So many kids in so many places...

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah Smith has been laying low ever since the ball. It doesn't look good to anyone to be kicked out on your ass by a First from a party, and so he hasn't been particularly interested in coming back to be... teased, confronted, whatever. As lame as he thinks the local Neq is, he knows it's not wise to confront this guy, or even really be seen after

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[allmydiredreams]

Babel is also at the Gauche, for once, feeling a little weird still on account of the spell a few days ago -- the nightmares get worse around them (and are occasionally the cause of them). But being in one place also makes her restless.

Hey, someone not in their room! ...someone who looks a bit sheepish and like he doesn't want to be noticed. Too bad. Babel walks over to him, rather purposefully, with a little friendly-mischievous smile on her face, and very clearly says, "Sneaky sneaky," at him. "There are windows for when you don't want to be caught, you know." Not that there actually are any accessible windows on the outside of the Gauche, other than the sunrooms (and those windows would have to be broken), but that is entirely beside the point.

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah just glares at Babel. Great. He's back on Neq territory and is immediately confronted by a tiny annoying thing. Wonderful.

"Who says I was trying to be sneaky?" he snarls. He's very much not in the mood to deal with tiny annoying things.

At least he's restraining himself from killing her? Or giving it his best shot?

[allmydiredreams]

Babel stops, crossing her arms and fixing Noah with an 'I'm not stupid' look. She felt that sneaky coming in. And she feels the fact that he wants to kill things now, but she's a silly girl and that's never stopped her from socializing before, so it's apparently not going to stop her now.

"Felt it," she says. "And if you didn't look like you weren't supposed to be here or didn't want to be noticed, maybe you wouldn't draw so much attention to yourself."

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah squirms. Tiny things that can tell things about him are freaky. And they make him very very uncomfortable.

"Who said I didn't want to be here?" he snaps back. "You can't tell that. I want to be here. Completely. Maybe you're the one that doesn't want to be here, chicky. Maybe you're projecting your feelings onto me. Ever think about that?"

Because your defensive TOTALLY makes it seem like you want to be there, Noah. Totally.

[allmydiredreams]

Babel gives him an exasperated sigh, and the look doesn't leave her face. "Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much," she says flatly. "And if I didn't want to be here, I'd leave, nothing stopping me." She shrugs. This guy isn't on her very short list of 'people to lie to' (sad thing is, Vaughn is, but that's only to protect him), and even if he is a demon, there's a no-violence-rule and...well, possibly Babel's actions need to justification, because it's Babel and when does she really consider her self-preservation anyway?

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah just keeps glaring (and at that point, that's all he really can do. Fucking Neq and his fucking rules.) "Methinks the little twerp should keep her nose in her own fucking business," he growls. "Before the little twerp loses some limbs." He knows that if she lives here (which... odds are she does,) that she's aware he can't actually hurt her, but it's not a good threat anyway. God he wished that Jer was back. Or pretty much anyone who would be willing to hunt with him, fuck the rules. He needs a good kill in again.

[allmydiredreams]

"Little twerp doesn't have to worry about that," she retorts, crossing her arms. "She was just pointing out that obvious demon was obvious." In her opinion, Big Twerp is being ridiculous. She was only trying to help, after all. Possibly she just likes annoying people on occasion.

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah glares and in his closed mouth, rolls his tongue between his teeth. He cannot kill this girl. He cannot kill this girl. "Little twerp should notice she always has to worry about that," he shoots back. Because ooo, he's sooooo threatening right now. "Because one day when the Neq's not lookin', obvious demon is going to obviously kill her."

And yeah, Noah's being rather ridiculous. He's just crabby.

[allmydiredreams]

Okay, so now he's just arguing to be argumentative. "Don't rely on the Neq to protect me, it's the clouds, and doesn't matter what you do," she says, though her own tone is more resigned than argumentative at this point.

"Start over." Because this is the best choice. "Why are you here, if you don't want to be?" Why she expects him to even answer that question is completely beyond the narration at this point. "Could kill and not come back."

Because egging on the murderous demon is a good idea, Babel.

[tryandmakemedie]

"Oh, yeah, sure, the clouds are gonna save you." He rolls his eyes. "You obviously haven't been here that long, darlin', haven't seen that much."

He shifts uncomfortably at her questions. Why hasn't he left yet? It's so true, he could just kill and run, kill and run, he'd done it his whole life. So why not now?

"'M waiting for someone," he says gruffly. And that's all. He's not saying any names at all. "Plus, there's some hope of a job, maybe. Dunno." He pauses. "Why are you here?" he snaps at her, back to his old self.

[allmydiredreams]

"Been here a long time, been shot and all." She shrugs. "Not dead, and older than you." She doesn't actually know this, but...there's a pretty damn good chance she's older than every single person she ever meets, unless they're gods, and she hasn't met one of those yet. Spirits, maybe, gods, no.

She catches the slight shift in his bodybeat, but blinks at the gruff question. "You skipped a little bit," she says. "I live here now."

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah eyes her. "You?" he asks, the distaste obvious in his voice. "Older than me? Somehow I doubt it, darlin'." Oh Noah. If only you knew.

But it's the next comment that makes him glare at her angrilly. "I do not skip," he growls at her. "EVER."

[allmydiredreams]

Babel is unimpressed. See her unimpressed face? This is her unimpressed face. "Yes, me," is all she says. "And not actual physical skipping." She demonstrates by skipping in a circle around him. "In here."

Yeah, Babel, touch the murderous demon on the chest. This is a great idea.

[tryandmakemedie]

Noah growls at her and slaps her hand away. "Don't touch me," he says. "Ever again. Never." He pauses, glaring at her with as much hatred in his eyes as he can muster (which is quite a lot). "Who invited you here anyway?"

Noah. Your defensiveness helps nobody.

[allmydiredreams]

Babel gives him a 'I will touch who I want' look -- yes, it's a look -- but draws her hand back. She raises her eyebrows, shoving her hands in the pockets of her jeans. "You have to be invited? Is this fancy dress?" she says, little smile still on her face. "Malek brought me here. Who invited you? Where's your tux?"

[tryandmakemedie]

"I came here by myself. I wouldn't need a goddamned invitation anyway, I never do. They probably don't want me here anyways."

And he doesn't want to be here, so there. Except he needs to be here, because here is the only place he knows of where he's safe from the stupid coldbloods. Damn archangels. Damn little girls. All he wants to do is crash for a good long while and not deal with anything right now, particularly little girls.