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Happy Birthday, Harry Osborn.

Mar 24, 2007 12:45

What is it that they say about the quiet and the storm? It had certainly been quiet over the past week - so quiet that Vicky Vale had found herself standing in the middle of Main Street smiling at the camera and saying ( Read more... )

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abetterlie March 25 2007, 05:25:38 UTC

When all all hell breaks loose, Connor sees Bruce pushing Harry behind him. There are children screaming, and he has a sudden vision (not yet drug induced) of them getting trampled by the crowd, so he grabs as many as he can and gets them out of the way. Out of the way meaning the next shed (originally the control room for the carousel) he can lock them up in, which is the fastest solution to keeping them from harm he can come up with. There is something in the air, a sickly sweet scent, but he doesn't have time to think about this ( ... )

queen_c_tm March 25 2007, 05:56:19 UTC

Cordelia stumbles across Connor at that moment - literally - as she's running from one of the clowns.

Sadly, that's not a hallucination. She just really doesn't like clowns.

She's been trying to use her glowing power to keep the darkness at bay, but it's wearing her out too much, and she can't keep up the concentration for it for more than a few minutes at a time. So for now she's just running on instinct, trying to find someone familiar that can help her figure out what the hell is going on.

She grabs blindly at Connor to keep from falling, and just barely avoids stabbing him with the pocketknife she's clutching in one hand.

"Oh god, sorry. I didn't see you." Obviously. "What - ?"

Something catches her eye then, and she turns, stopping in mid-question, still holding on to Connor's arm. Her grip tightens as she gasps in horror.

"On no. No, not him."

abetterlie March 25 2007, 06:26:04 UTC

Of course Cordy is here. For a second, he thinks they're back in the basement, but Angelus isn't behind bars now, oh no.

"Cordy, Cordy, Cordy," he says. "Don't be so impatient. I haven't forgotten our date. You just have to get in line, because really? If they call you Daddy or Mommy, they just taste sweeter. Well, you'd know that. Wouldn't she, son?"

In the real world, Connor and Cordelia have just come across two Arkham inmates who can't believe their luck. They have issues with each other since their fallout last December, but both of them have more issues with Connor whom they blame for that little fiasco. Besides, when Falcone offered the gig, it sounded like lucrative and well deserved payback fun on Gotham. And thus, Poison Ivy and Clayface exchange a look, smiling. They have no idea who Cordelia is, but figure, given her first terrorized expression, she'll be easy picking.Kara smiles at Angelus, and Connor realizes her mouth is smeared with blood as well. So it is too late. He didn't just drink from her, he made her drink ( ... )

queen_c_tm March 25 2007, 06:46:50 UTC

Cordelia flinches at Angelus's words. She's about to respond when she sees Kara next and realizes what's going on. The fury that rises at the sight of that blood almost washes out the fear, and for a very brief moment, her mind clears ( ... )

abetterlie March 25 2007, 07:34:38 UTC

There is nothing to clear the head a little like an enemy not playing by the rules. Angelus isn't supposed to be made of clay, nor is he supposed to try and choke Connor with it. That was someone else.

(Connor is responding to the fear gas, but not completely, due to his crazy genetics; at this point, he's still under, though the fight for survival instinct superceeds everything else, and he responds by instinct, which tells him this is someone he fought before, and not Angelus. The two conflicting informations his brain sends him slow him down a little, though.)

There is a stand which used to sell diet coke (Cola, not Cepsi, in honour of Kara, of course!) next to them, so Connor, chocking, tries his best to crush the newly shapeshifting Angelus into it.

Meanwhile, Ivy eyes the knife wilding brunette. She'd simply touch her and be done with it, but Scarecrow's gas interferes with her own method. She's done some martial arts, but is the brunette worth bothering? After all, she still has a date here. With Lex Luthor, that naughty ( ... )

kara_marie March 25 2007, 07:53:34 UTC

Kara expects many things from Connor. She expects him to steal her boyfriend and her family. She expects him to always out smart, out fight and out rank her. She expects him to make condecending comments about her life. She expects him to be better at everything (except being cute and adorabe because he really isn't, which is awfully disappointing for a MIRACLE BABY). But she does not expect him to attack her on sight. Especially considering everything had been so civilised before, so evolved and mature! Kara was SO evolved and mature! She smiled, she kissed the cheek, she said she wanted to see his stupid house! SHE FREAKING ACTED LIKE A FREAKING SAINT!!! She isn't really expecting to be lunged at on sight. This is NOT Jerry Springer ( ... )

queen_c_tm March 25 2007, 08:12:55 UTC

There's confusion at first when one Kara walks away and another shows up. And the new one looks different. More... well, Kara-like.

She sees Connor going for her, and it takes a moment for all the haziness to clear enough for her to realize what's going on. It's really Kara this time, and not a vampire.

"Oh god, Con-!" She's cut off before she can try to grab for him and stop him when someone grabs HER from behind and yanks her backwards. She turns to find Angelus grinning down at her, and her blood runs cold. The demon half of her that's been fighting against the fear toxin goes under again as a new dose of terror washes over her.

"Looks like the kiddies are playing," Angelus says, his face far too close to hers for comfort. "Now it's time for the grown-ups to have some fun."

He vamps out and she screams, stabbing the knife into his chest out of pure reflex. Of course, not being a stake, it doesn't do anything but make him laugh. And feels kind of weird, like she's stabbing play-doh. Gross!

abetterlie March 25 2007, 08:27:40 UTC

"It's me" isn't really helping when Connor is convinced it's Kara anyway. As she has trapped one of his hands, he head-butts her, causing her to release his wrist and tries again. There is something odd about this whole scenario, something wrong - more wrong than Kara being a vampire - but he knows that if he gives himself time to think about it, he'll never be able to go through with it ( ... )

kara_marie March 25 2007, 08:49:03 UTC

The strange thing is that when he says it Kara looks into his eyes and she realises that he means it. For the first time, perhaps, she feels genuinely sorry for Connor. The pity is short lived, however, because even if it isn't her heart, the stake through the arm still hurts. It really hurts.

As does the fact he wanted to kill her. She's surprised how much that hurts ( ... )

abetterlie March 25 2007, 09:00:45 UTC

He let go of the stake as soon as the beating heart sank in, but otherwise remained in place, realities of gas, hallucination dreams and the past crashing down on him, until she says "baby", which would be enough to shock him into action at once - if Kara wasn't rescuing herself right then, with the double combination of push and bringing up her knees.

As there is no resistance from him at this point, and definitely not a hold on anything, this move throws him right into Cordelia and Clayface. Who has no idea who the blonde is, but figures if she can fight the annoying superpowered kid off, she must have superpowers herself.

Which changes the odds. Besides, are those cops he hears? Not again. This was supposed to be fun and some lucrative hustling from terrified billionaires. Clayface decides that discretion is the better part of not going back to Arkham and changes his coke-drenched frame... to look like exactly Cordelia.

Just in case either the blonde or the boy intend something like a farewell lung before he makes his exit.

queen_c_tm March 25 2007, 09:19:49 UTC

Why do people keep getting THROWN at her tonight?

Cordelia once again finds herself being knocked to the ground, and that added to Kara's injury seems to be enough to cut through whatever's left of the toxin in her system. Angelus is gone, and her mind feels clear again.

What's important right now is that Kara is hurt. Cordelia gathers herself up and runs over to her, eyes wide with concern and a different kind of fear. A normal, un-toxiny one.

"Kara!" She cringes at the sight of her arm. It looks even worse close-up. "You need a doctor. I - I hear sirens coming. I can go get someone..."

Except that would mean leaving Kara alone with Connor, and she's not sure he isn't still under the influence of whatever drug was screwing them all up tonight.

She turns back to him and narrows her eyes.

"Are you still seeing things? Cause I need to get her help, but I'm not leaving her here with you if you're going to try to kill her again!"

Maybe not the best words to use, but she's kind of panicking here.

abetterlie March 25 2007, 09:40:42 UTC

He nearly killed Kara. And it's not a dream, it's real. He nearly killed her, and a baby, did she just say she is pregnant, and he nearly killed her and ( ... )

kara_marie March 25 2007, 09:51:40 UTC

"Well, Connor."

She replies, a little paler than usual, but no less uppity.

"If that's an apology for trying to kill me and for STAKING me in the ARM, it's a somewhat lame one. I'm going to tell Angel about this and he's going to be SO mad. And after I tell Angel I'm telling Harry! And he'll be mad too because I was SO nice to you both. And I would tell Darla but she has a heart condition and I don't think she could take the STRESS. YOU FREAKING STAKED ME ( ... )

abetterlie March 25 2007, 10:07:43 UTC

"I thought you were a vampire," he repeats, forgetting that people not raised by Daniel Holtz might not see this as a self evident explanation. He's also trying very hard not to think about some of the things Angelus and Kara said in what was clearly a hallucination ( ... )

kara_marie March 25 2007, 10:23:22 UTC

"Do I look like a vampire? God. I've even tanned a bit in LA, I cannot believe you're trying the old: Sorry for staking you, I thought you were a vampire routine... And, as if that is an excuse, if YOU were a vampire I wouldn't KILL you. I'd lock you in a cage with cable TV and internet and... probably with Lesley and Lex... and I'd find you a TOTALLY hot vampire girlfriend to sex up all day long in the cage! I wouldn't STAKE you. Gah! I can't believe the minute you thought I was a vampire you tried to stake me... you're just LOOKING for an excuse, aren't you ( ... )

abetterlie March 25 2007, 10:39:41 UTC

In the middle of everything, he's oddly touched she says she wouldn't stake him if he was a vampire, though Stephen Holtz thinks that's stupid and will get her killed. (Connor Riley could do without Lex and Lindsey for company but is downright misty-eyed about not getting staked ( ... )

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