she's beautiful as usual with bruises on her ego
[19:27] * Elizabeth enters the bar! She's the pretty lady in the pencil skirt and seamed stockings, currently trying to make her hair settle down. Fucking...wind. Since when is there wind in the nexus?
[19:27] Maria: "Knocked up, Alex's kid, and then he died, so I'm in a weird place, but on the plus side I have an audition tomorrow. That oughta bring everybody up to speed. How are /you/, honey?" ...hi.
[19:27] * Maria waves at Elizabeth! :O
[19:27] * Elizabeth smiles, and waves back a little. She makes her way behind the bar to make herself tea. There's a vague air of treating the place like her living room.
[19:27] Laurel: "It'd ruin my darkly romantic mystery, Maria," Laurel informs Maria, patting her knee, and then is quietly amazed by the info splurge. /Well./
[19:28] * Wiley kind of stares for a moment. "Goddamn, wow. I'm good." He has to pause a moment or...several to laugh at Laurel and wave a little to the new lady, because he has some amount of manners.
[19:29] Maria: "Do you work here?" She's guessing by the vibe, and directing that question to Elizabeth, who doesn't REALLY look at all the type to work in a bar, but one never knows. "Aw, but I'm a curious type, I like mystery."
[19:29] Elizabeth: "Oh, no. My sister owns this bar."
[19:31] * Laurel grins at Wiley and waggles her eyebrows roguishly, because...fuck if her typist knows. BECAUSE. "No, no, both of you would get grey hairs listening to it anyway- then we should introduce ourselves. Hello, I'm Laurel, this lovely lady is Maria, and this charming young gentleman is Wiley." :3
[19:31] Elizabeth: "Elizabeth Weir," she says, warmly, offering her hand to Laurel and smiling at all of them.
[19:32] * Wiley probably gets this expression a lot around Laurel: http://userpic.livejournal.com/68516900/14314947 Like now.
[19:32] Maria: "...your sister is the one dating Chas?" She eyeshifts. A little.
[19:33] Elizabeth: "Threnody, yes."
[19:33] * Elizabeth allows a moment of *:/ worryworryworry :/*.
[19:33] * Wiley raises his eyebrows at Maria.
[19:33] * Maria watches her expression. "She okay?" >____> Maria has done nothing that Threnody might eye her for, what.
[19:34] * Laurel shakes her hand firmly and for a well-timed moment, finishing off with a squeeze before sitting back...on top of the bar. She looks at Maria as well, idly touching Wiley's shoulder as she pulls her hand back.
[19:34] Elizabeth: "I hope so." That's matter of fact enough. Elizabeth sips her tea.
[19:36] * Wiley has also done nothing Kenyon would be annoyed at. Like things on the hoods of stolen cars with...Irish wolf's sister. No, not at all. He settles on a barstool by his alpha-type and OBSERVES the...social stuff. Also? The amount of ♥ for Laurel from him is amazing the typist.
[19:37] * Elizabeth 's smile is a little strained.
[19:38] Maria: "Me too! You just missed Ethan, actually, he went off to go be awesome elsewhere."
[19:39] Elizabeth: "Oh?" Elizabeth laughs, quietly, turning a little to take Wiley out of her line of sight. It's not personal, dude, just...don't ask. :( "He's an interesting man."
[19:40] Maria: "Definitely. Did you ever get to see Hoppity?" She's totally going regale you all with the tale of Professor von Rayne, yes.
[19:40] Elizabeth: "I didn't!"
[19:41] * Laurel picks up nuances like breathing; there's all kinds of /arresting/ things going on in this bar she wants to figure out. Unfortunately, she can't actually just come out and say 'let me fix things for you'. That's socially tactless. So she focuses on Wiley instead, for a while. "What brings you here, then?"
[19:42] Maria: "Ethan made him! He's a frog. ...that talks. About demons, sometimes, but occasionally it just swears, I don't even know."
[19:43] * Elizabeth blinks. "...he made a swearing frog."
[19:43] * Maria tries to remember. "He had some guy's voice...that Rupert guy? Giles? His voice."
[19:43] * Elizabeth pauses, and just /laughs/. "I didn't know they were acquainted."
[19:44] Maria: "Ohhh yeah." Her tone implies LOTS of acquaintance.
[19:45] * Elizabeth raises her eyebrow, leaning on the bar on her elbows. "Oh really. I met Rupert in Hell, just before." She says that like it explains everything, and to some people it would, actually.
[19:46] Maria: "...the town?" Maria's been around this here Nexus for a while, okay. She hears things. Although not all of that story.
[19:46] * Laurel ...still eavesdrops on them over there. This is some /interesting/ stuff.
[19:47] Elizabeth: "The town, yes, in Wisconsin."
[19:54] Wiley: "Followed you here, actually." >_> Yes. There is eavesdropping here, also.
[19:55] Maria: "Ohhh. ...I never trusted Wisconsin." She does sound sympathetic, she's just also a silly creature, sorry, all. "Not after Dogma."
[19:55] * Elizabeth laughs, quietly, but...you know, there's not a lot of humor in it. Or any.
[19:56] Maria: "You should come to Chicago, it's nice there. When the police aren't...beating people and stuff, but if it helps they never do that to white people." ...hi. She likes Elizabeth, there's something familiar to Maria (to how she feels sometimes, too) there.
[19:57] * Laurel chuckles, quietly, and ruffles his hair gently. "Somebody probably does need to keep me out of trouble, yes." Elizabeth, don't make Laurel adopt you.
[19:58] Elizabeth: "I don't think that really /helps/ anything," Elizabeth says, wryly, and smiles at them both anyway. "My social life is a little quieter at the moment." ...really. You don't say.
[19:58] Wiley: "S'why I'm here." :3
[19:59] * Wiley .......said that to Laurel, mind.
[20:02] Laurel: "Then I'm perfectly safe." She smiles at him, then Elizabeth and Maria. "It doesn't, no, but a quiet social life remains good."
[20:03] Maria: "I have never had one of those." It's true. This is because she associates primarily with crazy people.
[20:03] Elizabeth: "It's sort of a necessity when 'finding a babysitter' becomes an issue." Elizabeth smiles, briefly.
[20:04] * Elizabeth is leaving out the part where half her social circle are off trying to kill stuff.
[20:04] * Maria perks up. "Yeah? Well, if you ever need one--I realize we just met--but I can do my best."
[20:05] Elizabeth: "I just might have to take you up on that. The girls are staying with me while our family's busy in Winnipeg--I don't think anyone anticipated it being this long."
[20:05] * Elizabeth talks more like a mom than a minder.
[20:06] * Wiley eavesdrops. >_>
[20:08] Maria: "Winnipeg," she says, softly, "Oh."
[20:08] * Elizabeth 's expression turns to concerned understanding. "You...had someone there?" That tone suggested past tense, yes.
[20:08] Laurel: "What's happening in Winnipeg?" Laurel asks, leaning forward and sipping her coffee as she lowers her voice. "If that's all right for me to ask."
[20:09] Elizabeth: "'Cold motherfuckers' are trying to end the world." ...imagine Elizabeth saying 'motherfuckers'. PLEASE. "Or so I was told."
[20:09] Maria: "Had, yeah." She presses her hand to her stomach, and doesn't say anything else.
[20:09] * Wiley perks up at that. Considerably. Hi.
[20:10] Elizabeth: "I'm sorry," Elizabeth says, and she is. Losing people sucks :E
[20:10] * Wiley ....in a 'oh god curious Theurge' sort of way. At the...world...ending thing. Anyway.
[20:10] * Laurel touches Maria again, because her hands are for other people. "Not in our world, but-" No, she can't go and save another city in her spare time.
[20:11] * Maria nods, and trains her gaze pretty squarely on her bare knees. She'll be this way for a while, and quiet, don't mind her.
[20:12] * Elizabeth tucks her hair back and finally takes off her jacket. Her eyes track movement that...isn't there, behind them, for a moment, but she returns her focus to Laurel. "I found religion," she says, still so wry.
[20:13] Laurel: "Did you lose it?" Laurel replies, gently, and shifts closer to Maria to put her arm around her shoulder and draws her in close.
[20:14] * Maria doesn't mind this, at all, she's just very much somewhere else, for the moment.
[20:14] Elizabeth: "I never had it in the first place." Tea. Needs moar tea. Could use a hug, too, but she's brittle and it might break her, sometimes.
[20:17] * Laurel can only be so many places at once, and there's a difference between a little girl (which is what Maria is, at least now and like this) and another grown woman, no matter how brittle. It takes a different approach. "Then that's good. Less guilt to get over, first."
[20:24] * Elizabeth smiles, briefly. "Yes, well. I think Hephaistos' style of religion will suit me better than anything I could've picked up as a girl."
[20:24] * Elizabeth worships the Greek god of the forge now, what up.
[20:25] * Wiley 's Tribal Totem is a Unicorn, and he worships the Moon and the Earth, he can't say much, really.
[20:26] * Laurel enjoys the Greek pantheon as well, though not perhaps particularly Hephaistos as much as others, but she smiles and nods anyway. "It's certainly more evocative. I have a certain fondness for Demeter, myself." Artemis, when she was younger.
[20:27] * Maria is aaaalmost roused by that. "Persephone and Demeter are my favorite of the Greeks. But Ishtar's my patron." Ishtar: sex, war, motherhood, love. Also kind of a drama queen, sometimes.
[20:28] Elizabeth: "Nathan -- Dr Scaevola, from the clinics, if you've been? -- mentioned how glad he was to see the altar, this morning." She lets her mind wander for a moment and smiles kind of vaguely, before nodding, interested.
[20:30] Wiley: "I was always sort'a fond of Athena." :V He likes the idea of people still worshipping the old gods, though.
[20:31] * Laurel sees what you sexed up, there, Elizabeth. B) She approves, even if it's not her cup of tea and she has no idea who he is. "Ishtar, too- I'll have to tell you a few stories about Athena when we get home, Wiley."
[20:31] Elizabeth: "I met Hephaistos in the nexus," Elizabeth explains, sipping her tea. "Blessings for weaponry and armor...well, I suppose it's very like me to 'find religion' for someone else."
[20:32] * Elizabeth isn't kidding, although they have no way of knowing that.
[20:32] Maria: "Athena always sided with the men," she remembers, "She was like a woman but--" Maria cuts herself off, listening to Elizabeth. "Are you one of his, now?"
[20:32] Elizabeth: "'Do this, and I will know you as my own'," she quotes. "I suppose so."
[20:33] * Wiley knows very little about Greek Gods, this is true! ".....That's what I get for relyin' on the internet for my Greek learnings." lulz.
[20:33] * Laurel laughs at that, softly, and nods. "It's a common affliction- yes, Maria, exactly." She rubs Maria's back gently. "...yes, I'm going to fix that immediately."
[20:33] Maria: "He wasn't a bad one. Aphrodite chose him for a reason." She smiles slightly.
[20:34] Elizabeth: "He made me blush, when we met," she says with a little laugh. "I should be more careful about how I phrase things."
[20:39] Laurel: "...you do realize you can't just lave us hanging like that, don't you? Tell us more, please?" This should be good, and helpful for everyone.
[20:39] * Elizabeth laughs again. "I asked him how he preferred faith to be demonstrated. There was a pause."
[20:39] * Wiley chuckles.
[20:39] * Elizabeth has teeth like pearls, apparently.
[20:41] * Laurel muffles her laughter against her arm, both hands being occupied. "Oh- /well/, then. I assume he had good enough manners not to-" Because then it'd be god asskicking time. :D
[20:42] Elizabeth: "Oh yes," Elizabeth laughs with her. "A pause was really enough for me to realise what exactly I'd said and who I'd said it to." A male Greek god, yes.
[20:46] * Laurel relaxes, the Black Fury creed not needing invocation just yet today. "He must have spent some time learning- and I imagine Aphrodite has been helpful."
[20:47] * Elizabeth leans on the bar. "My sister worked for Hermes, briefly, as well," she recalls.
[20:49] Laurel: "Busy place," she notes, "I wonder if anyone's seen Pegasus..."
[20:49] * Elizabeth 's grip on her teacup turns her knuckles white, but she just smiles tightly.
[20:50] Wiley: "Yeah." Thoughtful! Or...y'know, unicorn, but don't mind him, he's gone all quiet and buried himself in his thoughts.
[20:51] Laurel: "I'm sorry?" Laurel looks concerned instantly, sitting up straighter. "Did I- oh, I said something, didn't I." She looks instantly remorseful, shaking her head.
[20:51] * Elizabeth clears her throat, shaking her head (although her facial expression is at odds with that). "No, no--it's fine. It's all right."
[20:52] * Elizabeth flinches slightly, and out of no where.
[20:53] Laurel: "No, it's not." Laurel gets off the bar immediately, leaving Maria and her coffee behind, and moves to Elizabeth's side to touch her wrist. "Can I help you at all?"
[20:55] * Elizabeth doesn't stop Laurel from touching her, but she doesn't really encourage it, either. She closes her eyes. "I'm sorry, I don't think so." She just sounds kind of tired.
[20:58] * Laurel leaves her hand where it is, then. "I could try," she says, very gently, and maybe a little too close; Laurel, the white knight, always ready to hop on her white horse and ride off to save somebody's day.
[20:59] * Wiley ..... And that is why she is awesome. ♥
[20:59] * Maria excuses herself for a second, primarily because her typist is a little busy, whoops.
[20:59] Elizabeth: "I don't know where you'd begin," Elizabeth says, exhaling.
[21:02] Laurel: "Well, I'm going to start by asking what happened there, exactly-" She tracks Maria leaving out of the corner of her eye, and then gives Wiley a look and a quick little reassuring nod. She hates neglecting him. :/ "If that's something you feel like you can share."
[21:03] * Wiley smiles a little. He's alright! He's just chilling with his beer and contemplating thoughts of his totem and the Nexus.
[21:05] * Elizabeth rests her face in her hands for a moment before she straightens. "It boils down to delusions, hallucinations and...trigger words, I suppose."
[21:07] Laurel: "Oh." Wiley's state of quiet existing assured, Laurel can put her hand on Elizabeth's back. "And what I said was one- I'm sorry, for doing that, I had no idea." And she knows about having your control suddenly stolen away, too.
[21:08] Elizabeth: "Pegasus," Elizabeth clarifies, wryly. "Pegasus, Atlantis..." What the hell kind of delusions does she suffer from, exactly. She breathes carefully for a moment. "I was already--well, I'm used to ignoring him. Sometimes it's more difficult than others."
[21:09] * Maria has returned; however, she will be quiet, and...is she making something in the kitchenette. Yes she is. Because it was mentioned.
[21:15] Laurel: "Good days and bad days, yes. Does talking to anyone else help?"
[21:16] * Elizabeth bites her lip, hard enough almost to draw blood, as she considers how to answer.
[21:18] Elizabeth: "I use distractions," she says, finally. "My psychiatrist is no longer with us."
[21:19] * Laurel rubs Elizabeth's back for her. "Have you considered finding a new one? Unless distractions are effective."
[21:20] Elizabeth: "It's been brought up." Not by her, and that's not the tone of someone who has actually /considered/ it, no.
[21:22] Laurel: "Okay. Then it's probably time to be distracted. Quick, first word that comes into your help related to a vegetable is-" (Laurel is ridiculous.)
[21:22] * Elizabeth laughs and laughs and laughs for a moment. "Distractions include dancing, alcohol and sedatives," she clarifies, dryly.
[21:23] * Elizabeth pauses. "I prefer the dancing."
[21:23] * Laurel laughs with her. "We do happen to have a semi-qualified musical genius here. Wiley could DJ for us, if we asked nicely."
[21:24] Elizabeth: "I think my shirt is long enough that I could get away with dancing here." ...she does mean the skirt would have to come off, yes.
[21:24] * Elizabeth would NOT, ordinarily, but uh, it might help and Laurel might...worry less, which would be awesome.
[21:25] Maria: "I am always up for dancing," Maria contributes, absently, "I could teach you guys pole tricks." ...why. Also, what. "I'm gonna finish these manakish first, though." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pizza_manakish.jpg P.S. These are delicious, typist wants pizza ones immediately.
[21:27] * Wiley grins in a slightly mischevious way. Musix, he can handle. They can do the dancing. "Manakish?"
[21:27] * Laurel is a whirlwind, not a person. "...mm, maybe you should meet Maya, Maria." 'Ship, she has one. Pole tricks would be excellent for her fanfic. "Would you like a hand?"
[21:28] Maria: "Manakish! It's Lebanese, you'll like it, you need to eat more." EVERYONE EAT FOOD >:( ...hi. "Sure! Who's Maya?"
[21:29] Laurel: "She's one of the people I live with, she's absolutely adorable- Wiley can testify to this." She looks at Maria's cooking shenanigans with more interest.
[21:30] * Elizabeth is apparently more than happy for the focus to shift awaaaaaay from her. Much better.
[21:30] * Wiley goes to comandeer the jukebox. Musix!
[21:32] Maria: "Yeah? She need to eat more or is she interested in stripping?" Maya was almost a nun. Let's all remember that. P.S. Elizabeth, Maria is going to give you pizza manakish in a minute here, you are made of delicate.
[21:33] * Elizabeth is made of wee and fragile, it's true. She's boosting up onto the bar to take her shoes off, right now -- lace-up stacked heels, they go nicely with the rest of her outfit.
[21:34] Laurel: "Oh, I just think you should meet her," Laurel says, vaguely, waving her hand. "I like connecting my friends. Call it a bad, overbearing habit." She slips off her own shoes, black, sensible things.
[21:35] * Maria is dressed in those clear heels of hers that lace up, but she's not going to take them off. "Doesn't sound bad to me." She waits for the manakish to cook. >:E HURRY YOU. Imagine if Maria were pyrokinetic, she could make things THAT MUCH FASTER. ...that would be terrible, FYI, no one ever give her that sort of power.
[21:39] * Elizabeth finds any kind of dancing is difficult in a knee-length pencil skirt, okay. Everybody say hello to her ridiculous and expensive burgundy undergarments, which include a garter belt for those stockings she loves so damn much.
[21:39] * Elizabeth would be wearing things pale pink and frilly if she were twenty years younger.
[21:40] Laurel: "Some people find it odd that I matchmake friends," she notes, sounding much more cheerful without anyone careening off into the lands of sad immediately.
[21:43] * Wiley gets the musix a-goin'. Elefant is awesome, right? Right.
[21:44] * Elizabeth suspects ballet is not gonna work here. That's okay. She'll just adapt some International Latin steps on the fly; it's probably not the first time.
[21:45] * Maria 's typist figures it's pretty well established Maria has a four or five in Dancing on her character sheet is good at this, okay, and kind of holike. She will attempt to teach them things if allowed. She also brings a plate over while dancing just a little, which has food on it. EAT. >:O
[21:46] * Elizabeth dances kind of like she's running away from something, but...into herself. It's interesting to see.
[21:47] * Laurel shall steal her for a dance immediately, as it happens, and she's never had much in the way of first-hand formal training. She's athletic, she's done this before, and she's unconcerned about what other think- all of which are helpful, without making her polished.
[21:48] * Wiley will totally steal one of those manakish things as Maria goes by. B)
[21:48] * Maria dances around Wiley. "I promise not to tackle you any more. By the way." >_>
[21:50] * Wiley is danced around! He arches a brow. "Oh?"
[21:50] * Elizabeth has had quite a bit of formal training, although not as much as professionals, obvs. It takes her a second to adjust to dancing WITH someone, though.
[21:50] Maria: "Yep." She does...a thing with her hips which is pretty much stripper-specific, sry3say.
[21:52] * Laurel is a take-charge partner, shocking approximately three small mackerel in Norway who had never heard of her before.
[21:52] * Elizabeth has always been good at going with the flow >_>
[21:53] * Wiley eyes those...hips. FTLOG, Maria, you and your stripper-dancing.
[21:54] * Maria is annoying an Irish girl somewhere, but she's harmless, really. Right now, anyway. ...mostly. Ahem. "Aren't you glad?" :3?
[21:54] * Laurel is spying on Maria and Wiley JUST A LITTLE. "They're cute," she murmurs privately to Elizabeth, drawing her in close for a beat.
[21:55] * Wiley is annoying an Irish Metis, somewhere, but that's something he does merely be existing. "Yes." Not 'aye', as the typist originally put. Fuck you, Oirish.
[21:55] Elizabeth: "They're young," Elizabeth murmurs back, as though it's often the same thing.
[22:00] * Laurel chuckles, softly. "I think I've been a bad influence, all the same." Back to dancing, and cheerful, energetic monitoring of everyone present.
[22:01] Maria: "Are you suuuure?" Dear Maria: Don't bite him.
[22:02] * Maria isn't actually biting, but she thought about it.
[22:02] * Wiley thinks Laurel is the BEST INFLUENCE EVER, okay. Laurel, Maya, Nessa... Kenyon, even, a little. He loves his pack so. That's just how he is. "Yeees." He may bite back, if she did!
[22:09] * Elizabeth does a little twirl in-and-out.
[22:11] * Laurel may have to spin her now, touching her waist a little more than necessary, perhaps. She doesn't meet enough age appropriate women.
[22:13] * Elizabeth laughs, delighted.
[22:13] * Elizabeth should not look so coy, stop it.
[22:19] * Laurel 's watch has the indecency to beep at this moment, cutting off /perfectly good/ face time with a pretty woman because Laurel has an important meeting to attend, and her typist is devouring flesh in her yawns. "Oh, snap. I have to go, everyone- Wiley, please be home in time to get some rest." Because she WORRIES. About everything.
[22:19] Elizabeth: "Goodnight, Laurel," Elizabeth says, warm friendliness back after having been so rudely derailed. "It was lovely meeting you."
[22:19] * Elizabeth can sound perfectly elegant and sincere while not wearing her skirt. Somehow.
[22:20] Wiley: "...Aw. I will." :3 REALLY. "I'll see you when I get home." HOME, he has one, this is awesome.
[22:21] Maria: "'Bye, Laurel," Maria calls, ceasing her dancing for now, "Take care."
[22:22] * Elizabeth shimmies back into her skirt and zips it up.
[22:24] * Laurel kisses Elizabeth's cheek, close to her mouth. "The pleasure was all mine." And then she heads for the door. "I'll probably still be awake. There might be tea, too." :3 :3 "Goodbye, Maria, and good luck." And hi-ho Silver, away!
[22:24] * Elizabeth blushes very faintly and goes back to her tea. She'll probably let Maria make her eat, now.