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Umbridge High School Building, Saturday Evening

Jul 28, 2012 08:48

There were some clouds hanging around the spires of Umbridge High School, but not enough; there was an overlaying sense that there shouldn't be as much sunlight shining down on it as there was.

It was quiet. Kind of. There was tension in the air, a wound-up strung-up thing that ensnared the school. Somehow it seemed as if even the birds didn't ( Read more... )

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Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 20:15:28 UTC

Cara would have avoided today's battle in detention even if she didn't have another objective today, since that she enough resistance members weren't aware of her true loyalties that she didn't want to be taken out by her own side.

As it was, she was keeping an eye out for both Bo and any stray escapees who needed directing out of the building.

Occasionally she eyed the barely noticeable lump under her leathers where she'd tied the amulet Kenzi had given her the previous around her wrist (since wearing it as a necklace would have both drawn attention and risked it being torn off).

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 20:23:55 UTC

Bo could provide both escapee and Bo-ness for that kept-out eye, as she stalked away from Detention on the track of a full-size posse... of traitorous gremlins.

Not that she had enough control right now to be able to stop reaching for the tiny green glow within the chattering, scrabbling mob that skittered down the hallway before her even if they hadn't demonstrated their loyalties by jumping between her and a band of human detainees, but feeling righteous about it did make the meal taste all the sweeter.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 20:30:35 UTC

That...wasn't quite what Cara had expected.

"Bo," she said, luckily her voice took on a more commanding tone than an incredulous one. "What are you doing?"

She'd run interference for a lot of the island's inhabitants before, but gremlins were a new one.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 20:38:55 UTC

It took all the sanity Bo had left, which was not a lot, to avoid just spreading her arms wider and replying by demonstrating what she was doing on Cara firsthand.

"My job. They're getting away, and these things are helping them!"

Sorry, gremlin dressed in a pirate hat and eyepatch. She did use you to demonstrate.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 20:49:05 UTC

"So are you," Cara snapped in a tone remarkably similar to the one used with trainee Mord'Sith who were being unbelievably stupid. "By chasing gremlins instead organising the capture of the escaped prisoners."

Which Cara didn't want, but any excuse to get Bo far away from other people was a good one right now.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 20:58:07 UTC

Cara had a point -- not that Bo was in any state to acknowledge that.

Also, very tight clothes, very nice hips, and a hell of a lot more chi than a band of two-foot tall ...whatever the gremlins were -- not that Bo was supposed to acknowledge that in her co-workers.

The combination was enough to get her to pause, at least; the stronger among the gremlins tumbled away from her hold and scrambled for the air vents.

"I should--" Something. "Too many. Too hard to track the right ones." That. One of the few disadvantages of using her own power instead of the security cameras.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 21:03:22 UTC

"Which is why we need to get to your office," Cara said, her tone softer, more inviting. "So we can find out where they went."

And where there was privacy and a lockable door.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 21:17:23 UTC

Bo closed her eyes for a moment to sort out the conflicting instincts from the hum and crackle of power -- cutting off said hum and crackle. Though it still played across her own body in waves of heat and gold, the last bound gremlins fell away, lying where they hit or running off depending on how much she'd already taken.

"Okay, my office. Yes." Eyes still so blue they were almost white when they opened again.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 21:22:42 UTC

"I'll lead the way," Cara told her, partly so that if they came across another person she'd be between them and Bo and partly because the view might keep her distracted.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 21:27:25 UTC

JUST A LITTLE BIT, YES.

Not fair, she thought as she silently followed.

Bo wasn't supposed to have thoughts like that, of course. She wasn't supposed to think anything about the boss' rules was unfair, but especially not those things that kept her from being the wrong kind of monster. The bad kind.

The more she drank, though, the more her own power ruled her, and the less the Imperio did. Today in Detention had almost tipped the balance.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 21:31:59 UTC

Moving as fast as she could, without actually looking like she was hurrying, Cara put an extra sway in her step.

Luckily, they made it to the office without stumbling across any poor unfortunates.

Cara held the door open for Bo. "After you."

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 21:35:05 UTC

"No, after--" What pit of forgotten hell had the ability to flirt risen up from? Bo frowned and shook her head, slipping past Cara and into the security office. "Never mind. Cameras. I need to check..."

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 21:40:17 UTC

Shutting the door behind them, Cara surreptitiously locked it, before very deliberately stepping into Bo's personal space and reaching up to stroke her cheek. "No, you don't."

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 21:55:01 UTC

"I do--" That was nice.

Wait. No, it wasn't. That was wrong.

"What're you doing?" Cara's initial greeting echoed unconsciously from Bo's lips.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office truekindofsith July 28 2012, 21:58:51 UTC

In a way Bo was right, just not for the reasons she thought she was.

"Giving you what you want," Cara murmured, leaning into to kiss her.

Re: Across the School - Somewhere Between Detention and the Security Office nonookie4you July 28 2012, 22:09:53 UTC

"Th--" --at's not what I want, Bo started to say, but lying was wrong too, and besides, there was no room to say it, against warm lips and the need of her own hands to find someplace to rest, to squeeze, behind all that leather.

Was she supposed to be stopping this? That was her job.

But that meant doing... what she was already doing. Just... it wasn't usually -- wasn't ever -- brought to her willingly. Wasn't given, certainly wasn't murmured.

She was supposed to take. So why didn't she want to? Wrong, wrong, wrong (right) wrong.

"No!" Bo pulled back, just far enough to stare dazedly, just long enough to remember. Take. Take, with her hand darting to Cara's chin, eyes trying to lock. Lips trying to lock, again, but the right way.

Whatever that was.

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