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[nosympathy]

[Well, isn't this just a bit familiar?]

If you're lucky none of you get stuck here. If not...you're not the first.








((open for 4th wall, anything and everything is good))

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[seriousheat]

Did that happen to you?

[nosympathy]

Last time one of these crowded weekends happened.

[seriousheat]

So that's a regular thing. [ Shrugging. ] I know nothing about this place. Willing to give me a tour?

[nosympathy]

Seems to happen every few months or so and better than some of the things that go on.

[She might have some free time and nothing better to do.]

Why not. It'll keep you from getting trampled underfoot I guess. Where are you now?

[seriousheat]

Yeah? Sweet. [ He sounds genuinely pleased. ] I walked past a fountain a while ago, could go back there. Unless there's many 'round here?

[nosympathy]

There's only the one. Be glad you didn't arrive in it like some seem to.

Name's Xhex and I can be there in a minute or two.

[Or less.]

[seriousheat]

Severide. Kelly Severide, hi. And it might take me more than a minute.

[nosympathy]

I'll wait for you. Unless you take too long.

[And, as she said, it doesn't take her too long at all to arrive. She'll be sitting on the edge of the fountain when he gets there.]

[seriousheat]

[ He doesn't take very long, and soon enough he's strolling up to the fountain, leather jacket and a bag thrown over his shoulder. He didn't really arrive with much.

Giving her a smile when he sees her. ] Hey. Not too late, am I?

[nosympathy]

[Typical of the City, you come as you are and try to rebuild between the loops it runs you through.]

Luckily for you, no. But any longer and I'd have been gone. [She's smiling as she says it though, clearly teasing.]

So, Mr. Severide, anything interesting you've already heard about you want to check out first?

[seriousheat]

[ Here's hoping that he's not going to be stuck here; or that the City needs a firefighter. ]

Just Severide's good, really. [ Well. He likes a girl who teases? ] I've only heard about the monsters in the underground.

[nosympathy]

[There is a mischievous god of chaos around that likes fire that nearly set the place ablaze not long ago.

And her teasing isn't always so easy to tell.]

The two-legged or more varieties?

[seriousheat]

[ That does not sound good. Though at least he'd have job prospects, here? ]

Just that there's monsters, not what kind.

[nosympathy]

You'll find plenty of them here depending on your definition. [And she's going to be watching him for the reaction to this part in particular.] Vampires, werewolves, zombies and others. Then there are those creatures that even they consider monsters.

[seriousheat]

You serious?

[ First someone tells him about monsters, then someone tells him about walking corpses, now this. Either everyone here is psychotic or it's one giant prank. ]

You don't know a guy called Otis, do you.

[nosympathy]

As a heart attack.

[Considering he's talking to a vampire hybrid, she's quite serious. Hell, she was surprised by some of the things in this place.]

I know it's hard to believe, but this place is like a giant sci-fi mashup. People are here from different worlds and different times. But come on, we'll head down and you'll see.

[Just going to be heading to the nearest entrance to the Underground now.]

[seriousheat]

[ Well, he's curious now. ]

Colour me intrigued.

[nosympathy]

[Even if he's only going to be here a short time, it's not really fair to not be truthful with him...]

What if I told you I was one?

[seriousheat]

A monster? [ Up go his eyebrows. ] You don't really look very scary.

[nosympathy]

[Laughing at that since there are so many who would disagree with him.] You haven't seen me at work.

Vampire. Not the Hollywood version, though and from what I've been told unusual everywhere else as well.

[seriousheat]

Really? You got fangs?

[nosympathy]

When I need them. Which isn't for human blood.

Still want that tour of the Underground?

[bamfingcats]

Mew?

[BOOB KITTEN.]

[seriousheat]

So what do you need them for? [ Look, you told him this much. That's as good as an invitation to ask for more information, right? ]

Hell, yeah.

[nosympathy]

Oh...hi there.

[Color her confused.]