001 ☥ you cannot kill what you did not create

[socoolbrewster]

[Video -- Public]

[There's a worryingly pale and exceptionally filthy boy with black eyes and fangs staring at you through the screen, folks. He looks pretty annoyed. Or at the very least lost and miserable.]

Listen, I know I'm not supposed to be out yet, but...I need something. Just a little...It doesn't have to be much. I tried to find the girls but everything's all fucked up. I think...I think something's wrong. My head's splitting and it's not like usually. At least...not all of it; it's everywhere, not just in my head.

...God, I can't even think right now.

We're not in Kansas anymore, I'll tell you that much.

[He hisses, words more clearly irritated now but with an undertone of pleading.]

It hurts, Jerry; you said it wouldn't anymore. You fucking promised.

Comments

action | Meanwhile, down in the Raven...

[socoolbrewster]

What, is it a morality thing?

[Sip sip.]

action | Meanwhile, down in the Raven...

[never_very_good]

That a problem?

[The unspoken tail of that sentence is, if so you can get out of my bar. But he's not really the type to make threats. And-- well-- could be that's just posturing. He remembers what a rush it was, dying. Could make anyone say stupid shit.]

Those're the house rules.

action | Meanwhile, down in the Raven...

[socoolbrewster]

[A shrug]

Doesn't have to be one. Just wondering.

...Why? Are they the rules, I mean.

action | Meanwhile, down in the Raven...

[never_very_good]

[There are any number of answers he could give to that, and the truest one-- that he's killed too many people for that cause already-- is not one he'll share with a stranger.]

Cause not hurting people's more important to me than making money. Was to the people who owned it before me, too. Means the law's on our side. Means no one has a reason to come after us. Better for business. Better blood.

Pick a reason.

action | Meanwhile, down in the Raven...

[socoolbrewster]

Hey, as long as they consent it's not a problem for anybody. But I guess that makes sense too, once you say it's fine with permission you open yourself up to all kinds of potential shit.

[Not that he really sees the problem either way, but. He can pretend.]

action | Meanwhile, down in the Raven...

[never_very_good]

[It's the make a killing crack that got his hackles up, really; that, and Frankie has to remind himself that feeding doesn't always mean death, not here. Either way even if they're not on common ground now at least the rules are out there.]

Anyway. Got a room here you can have a while, if you need a place. Most people find roommates, 'cause of the ticking.