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Dec 26, 2011 20:36

The tablet turns on spontaneously to reveal a slender young woman with riotous brown curls seated at a table in a certain coffee shop not far from Taxon hotel. Coincidentally, it's the very same coffee shop she'd disappeared from well over a month ago in the middle of a tablet broadcast; the very same table too, in fact ( Read more... )

(day), gwen raiden, drusilla (au), @ central, katherine pierce

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[visual] freaks_myword December 26 2011, 23:50:57 UTC

"Practically overnight," replies a scowling woman Katherine may not be familiar with. The unfamiliarity's mutual, of course, but people appear and disappear in this stupid city so much, she'd rather not waste her time questioning it.

The withering look on Gwen's face is clearly disdain at its finest, but its directed at a shared displeasure with Taxon and all its...holiday festiveness.

"Seriously."

[visual] whoneedsrules December 27 2011, 21:17:14 UTC

The brunette is indeed unfamiliar to Katherine, but then she doesn't bother with every newcomer. She isn't exactly well-suited for the welcome wagon crowd. Gwen's response garners a bemused expression from Katherine, and for a moment she wonders if this chick is crazy or is the vague sense of something being amiss more truthful than Katherine gives it credit for.

"Overnight, hm? I'm obviously missing something, considering I only just walked into this place and that--" she points a finger in the general direction of the outdoors, "Wasn't there a couple of minutes ago."

[visual] freaks_myword December 27 2011, 21:38:48 UTC

"Sounds like you're missing something," answers Gwen with a carefree shrug and a knowing look, leaning back on her chair and taking a sip from her own coffee mug. If the girl's been out of commission for a while, she's the lucky one. She gives the drink a stir, gloved hands twirling the little stick back and forth before taking another sip.

"They turned down the thermostat in this place a while ago. Guess they're going for that whole holiday thing?" She rolls her eyes at the cheesiness.

[visual] whoneedsrules December 27 2011, 22:50:14 UTC

"Great," Katherine grumbles with a contemptuous roll of eyes. "A one-way ticket out of this place would've been too much to ask for. Now I know where my coffee went, at least."

She's annoyed, yes, but not overly surprised. She's seen too many people pulled in and tossed out of this place without rhyme or reason for that. Gwen's follow-up remark garners a sharply raised brow from the younger (at least physically) female.

"Holiday thing? It's Christmas already?"

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a_pretty_fire December 27 2011, 20:01:18 UTC

It felt like it had been a long time - not by the standards of the dead, but by the standards of the city - since Katherine had been snatched away. Drusilla had made her way to the café immediately after it had happened, making sure that her friend hadn’t left any valuables behind. Making sure that she was really done.

If there had been any way of knowing when it would happen, she would have waited patiently - and increasingly impatiently - for Katherine to return.

When she did return, however, it was sharp and sudden and Drusilla was almost too busy with her ghosts to notice.

Almost.

“Welcome home.”

whoneedsrules December 27 2011, 21:22:36 UTC

"I think we're long ways from home, Drusilla," Katherine responded with a slight smirk at her friend's remark, never mind that Katherine didn't really have a home anymore.

It took only a few seconds for the older vampire to rewind and rethink. With a frown, she questioned, "I went somewhere?"

That would certainly explain a few things.

a_pretty_fire December 27 2011, 23:19:47 UTC

Didn't they tell you that home was where the heart was? Since she didn't have one beating in her chest and she couldn't tear them out of other people at the moment, Taxon would have to do. It was pleasant enough.

"They snatched you away and left me alone," she answered, "You vanished like smoke. The prettiest will o' the wisp. We didn't know if you'd come back." She'd been worried, though she'd never say as much. Absence made the heart grow fonder and she'd been terribly fond of Katherine in the first place. "It was a secret."

whoneedsrules December 28 2011, 16:59:14 UTC

Katherine frowned, brown eyes flickering across the mostly empty coffee shop as she pondered this. So, the hamsters had taken her out of the city and plopped her back sometime later without her even realizing it?

"Well, that wasn't very nice of them," she murmured distractedly, a chilly edge to her low tone. Katherine Pierce wasn't anyone's plaything. She did the playing, and she relished her games.

With another brief glance outside, she refocused on Drusilla, a wily smile tugging at her lips. "You shall have to fill me in on everything I've missed, my friend. And then we'll find a way to have some fun."