Cowboy Night

Apr 23, 2008 15:41

WHO: Schuldig (colpevole) ; Axel (fireveins) ; those who show up (full list to come!)
WHAT: Cowboy Night!
WHERE: The Warrior Princess
WHEN: Friday night

WELCOME TO THE WARRIOR PRINCESS.

[ooc: Hey guys! This is an open thread, and the reason I'm putting it up now is so that everyone who wants to participate will have a chance to do so at their leisure, and work ( Read more... )

shagojyo, kristoph gavin, brad crawford, peter petrelli, guy cecil, adam monroe, elle bishop, dean winchester, tifa lockhart, cagalia, kurama/shuuichi, lenalee lee, aeris gainsborough, schuldig, claire bennet

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole April 23 2008, 22:29:25 UTC
Well, shit. This was a little awkward.

Not that he wasn't glad to see Gojyo. Because of course he was glad to see Gojyo. This was fucking Cowboy Night, okay, and one of the main reasons there even was a cowboy night was because of Gojyo in the first place!

But then there was also some stuff that made this difficult.

Number one: he was hanging there with Badou and he was flirting.

Number two: that whole nurse thing.

Number three: that whole nurse thing.

Number four: the aftermath of that whole nurse thing.

Number five: that whole. fucking. nurse. thing.

And shit, did he really need to enumerate further? Because right now just thinking about it was making him uncomfortable, and for the first time in his life, Schuldig didn't know whether to lift one hand up and shout yeehaw or, whatever, maybe play it cool. He didn't play it cool with Gojyo. There were few people in his life he could be like that with, and what did it mean to fuck it all up? He was fucking it all up already just by doing nothing ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold April 26 2008, 06:06:09 UTC
Gojyo wasn't even paying attention to Badou or Curaforodi - no, Gojyo's eyes were on Schuldig as he made his way around to the other side of the bar. First dance, last dance, it didn't matter anymore. He'd been looking forward to this for awhile now, 'cuz it'd been a fucking long time since they'd danced and it certainly wasn't the day of something perilously close to a fight ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole April 26 2008, 18:24:05 UTC
Schuldig cast a glance back at Badou and Crawford-it was only polite, right, and there was a certain element of performance to everything he did. Something about his expression said You'd better watch, bitches, and then he was laughing a little, at himself most of all. Just at the way he was. But fuck, that was just how he played things. He was demanding, and especially in a place like this, if you were going to dance, you had to make sure you set the standards for everybody else without, of course, being too intimidating ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold April 27 2008, 04:43:57 UTC
The funny thing about dancing with someone else was that you had to tone it down in some ways and let loose in others.

For example, the instant that Schu turned around, Gojyo backed off a little. The reason? Because they had to be allowed to let loose some energy for a bit before they could move back towards one another, grinding for a bit, but then moving away again to repeat the motion. No matter how much you wanted to be near that other person, there was only so much dancing you could do pressed up against another body. That was the toning down part. Thus, when you moved away, you had to get all that energy out of your system so that being close was your resting period ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole April 27 2008, 21:16:54 UTC
Fuck. Gojyo was an incredible dancer. But that was just one of the things you learned pretty much early on, just by being his friend. No matter how long it'd been, he'd always be fucking aces at this-and sometimes, absence made the heart grow fonder, right? Same thing with dancing. All that energy, all that pent up emotion, all that missing the dance floor, was bound to come out the second they stepped onto it, and Schuldig was just lucky to be there, coming close and moving away and coming close again, drawn by the rhythm of the song and the gravity of the dance. Two stars, drawn into each others orbits, circling and circling. Yeah, that sounded about right. Just as hot, just as fierce.

Once, Schuldig had teased him-"Shit, man, you like dancing better than sex sometimes, don't you?"-and after that it was never clear to Schuldig whether or not that sometimes was totally off the money or what.

He did, though. He fucking loved it. And it was one of the greatest highs of all, dancing with Sha Gojyo, just getting to be close to all ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold April 27 2008, 23:06:07 UTC
One song? Who danced to one song anymore? No one, that's who, which was why the polite number of songs to hog the dance floor for was not "one" but "three". So the fact that the song was ending - you could tell by the new harmony getting mixed in with the current melody - didn't bother Neroli at all. In fact, it made him take a look around for a bit.

Go figure, they had an audience, and some of them were Gojyo's own kids - actually, all twelve of them were around, watching Neroli and Surefire. That made him shiver in excitement - or maybe that was Surefire touching his chest - hell, now this was a show, something else for his kids to watch and take notes on. They had to recognize "Schuldig" and "Shagojyo", not to mention the energy between them.

Neroli leaned in close when they were grinding again, not kissing Surefire but so, so very close. Then, he leaned back, encouraging Surefire to lean forward as well, before ducking to the ground as if he'd fallen, propped up on both arms and legs. Crouching low on his legs now, Neroli ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole April 28 2008, 00:25:06 UTC
One thing about knowing each other as long as they had was that Gojyo knew all the weird little particulars. Like, it was obvious to anyone who'd spoken to Schuldig for more than five seconds that the guy liked attention. And he fucking loved it. All eyes on him, putting on a show, making sure people were noticing and taking note and remembering him. Thinking about him. He fed off that shit like nothing else and it made him feel good-he'd never pretended to be anything other than just a little bit narcissistic. So if Gojyo manipulated things so that Schuldig was the center of attention, especially the center of attention in a group of Gojyo's kids ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold April 28 2008, 17:50:29 UTC
"Maybe I have been practicing without you," Neroli murmured against Surefire's neck as he straightened his back. "Jealous? Or am I th' only one y'dance with like this?" All the while, his left hand had been moving down the side of Surefire's body until it reached the waistline of his pants, then it started angling in until Neroli was cupping Surefire through his pants. There was a special emphasis on "this" as he pressed his fingers inward against Surefire's crotch. For added effect, he pressed his lips to the left side of the other man's neck - kissing, nibbling, sucking - before moving up to repeat the motion at Surefire's ear.

If he wanted to be 'difficult', Neroli could play that game too.

And part of that game, now, was moving away to dance by himself for a bit, going a little crazy with the hips this time, before returning to face Surefire. Neroli made sure that their eyes met the whole while they were grinding, an extremely pleased smirk spreading across his face. His hands even went back to gripping Surefire's hips to make ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole April 29 2008, 15:53:22 UTC
Schuldig's smile sharpened, just slightly, probably at the thought of Gojyo dancing without him. It wasn't like Schuldig didn't pull that shit all the time, but if he was dancing then it was for business, and business and pleasure were two completely different realms. So if Gojyo was dancing with someone... Well. Pleasure was involved. Schuldig's eyes, mostly green, flashed with some hidden blue as he looked up at the question. "Jealous," he said, and laughed, but he didn't actually answer the question, now did he? Maybe because saying yeah wasn't attractive in the same way just shutting up and enjoying the moment was.

Because, okay. Sure. He would be fucking jealous. But that was because Gojyo could dance like this, right, and any time he thought about Gojyo giving someone else this much fucking fun, he could also say, Who wouldn't be jealous?

Morons who didn't know what they wanted, that was who.

And then-Gojyo's hand. The bad hand. The one you could never escape and could never stop thinking about. "Baby," he warned, eyes ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold April 29 2008, 22:31:58 UTC
When Schuldig pulled away, Gojyo made a big show of 'chasing after' him like he was all upset - he wasn't really, he was absolutely pleased with himself, naturally, that his ability to fluster someone was still such that it even worked on Schuldig. Or maybe that was a little extra specifically for Surefire - because he was always worth the extra effort.

As they came together again, a sincere smile crossed Neroli's face. "Well, wouldn't wanna get ya fired, now would I?" It might have been happy coincidence, then, that the third song turned out to be a slow one - a real slam on the breaks from what they'd just been doing, but maybe that was why the DJ took so long to bleed the tracks together ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole May 1 2008, 04:37:54 UTC
Well, if Schuldig wasn't getting flustered by Gojyo, then who the hell was he gonna be flustered by? Not many people he could think of. At least the teasing had a point-it went somewhere-and Schuldig didn't mind it. Maybe he had a few choice words about it, but when it escalated, it was a game; and the challenge was more than familiar, it was second nature. They could one-up each other all night long and come away fucking happy about it, not feeling nasty or dirty or weird ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold May 1 2008, 12:36:15 UTC
Gojyo grinned at the fingers running in his ponytail. "Sorry," he said again, "Guess'm more mad at m'self - y'know, for thinkin'... I mean, four years I've got this one constant in my life but just when I found my bro again..."

He was still close to Schuldig and glad he was, because he shut his eyes just then and continued the thought silently as his hands subconsciously gripped just a little tighter. I thought I'd lost ... your friendship, your presence, your energy, you.

It had been... scary, really. For eleven years Gojyo had known nothing of discomfort. Then, from the time he waseleven until age eighteen, the whole world flipped on its head and was forever changing around him - first was how to stay alive, then where to live and which job to hold. No more friendships, no more family, no more church, no partner to work alongside for more than a one shot deal.

Now, four years later, something, someone was still around ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] colpevole May 2 2008, 01:42:02 UTC
"Baby," he said, and he meant it, "baby, hello. Hello. Are you crazy or something? Like one little stupid fight over something I don't even fucking remember right now is going to actually throw four fucking years out the window. Is it that time of month again or what's the deal here?" It was said with a soft laugh, an affectionate nuzzle, his arms tightening for a moment and his face turning to press his cheek, very lightly, against Gojyo's hair. Soft. Smelled good. Smelled like the nurse's visit, actually, but that wasn't something he should think about while they were slow dancing, huh ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] inthecenterfold May 2 2008, 07:45:35 UTC
Gojyo chuckled happily, still with Schu pressed against his cheek. They were back to jokes, that was good. It meant things would be okay between them. "You know you'll be worn out - you'll need more've an escort than a doctor, just t' make sure ya get back t' yer place without trippin' in those heels."

Especially at a club, there was no way for slow songs to last forever. Although, thankfully, the DJ managed to bleed it all the way out and give everybody a brief accouncement over the intercom rather than jamming it all the way back up again so soon.

"C'mon, yer friends'r waitin' - all fifty-three'a 'em." Of course Gojyo meant Badou and Curaforodi, but he could allude to the other patrons as well, who he was sure would be grateful to have their second bartender back ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] smokeeasy April 28 2008, 10:02:57 UTC
For the barest moment, Badou cast a glance back at Schuldig as he left, catching his friend's eyes. And yeah, he got it, the meaning behind that look-a look that said watch me but that also said don't you forget that I'm here and I'm not forgetting about you all at once. But that was just Schuldig, able to play all those sides at once and pull it off. He was that guy who was the center of attention but who always made everyone around him feel like they were.

Really, though, Badou was glad that he had an excuse to do something besides watch Schuldig and Gojyo dance. Not because it wouldn't be hot. But just, well, because ( ... )

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Re: 9:30 PM [THE GREATEST HITS OF PATSY CLINE. ALSO, PATSY MONTANA FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE.] oracolo April 28 2008, 22:09:50 UTC
Crawford chuckled faintly, amused despite his better judgment. It was genuine amusement too, which was a new one on him.

"I must have missed the day they had that in," he said, playing along with the joke, and taking a sip of his drink.

He'd grown so used to faking interest in conversations in order to gain a business advantage, it had been a long time since he'd initiated one just for the hell of it. Well, they said Italy was supposed to be relaxing.

He was fairly certain that "they" weren't talking about Reggio Calabria when they said that, but to each his own. It wasn't exactly the sort of place most people would find relaxation, but Crawford had made a tidy sum from selling weapons and the like to the city's men-about-town. He found money relaxing. He wouldn't call himself comfortable, exactly, since his ambitions rarely allowed him to rest at whatever position he'd carved out for himself, but it was a nice place to be in ( ... )

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