open ♔ may castle socialization

[wynn]

WHO || Everyone! [ota]
WHAT || Shenanigans.
WHERE || Anywhere in the castle, surrounding environs, London, etc!
WHEN || Any time during May/June [ forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam

[ The castle can be a happening place, even on more mundane days. This log is for random interactions over the course of these few months. Because not everyone is into parties, ok.

You are encouraged to start your own threads and tag around, and feel free to threadjack into any on-going threads that aren't specified as 'closed' in the subject lines since people can enter into rooms even in the middle of what's going on. WE ARE BIG ON THREAD-JACKING HERE. You can also specify 'single thread', meaning you want only one response for all participants, rather than multi-thread, where a number of different scenes/threads can be done as replies to the top prompt.]

On this log:
Vi @ the desk
Klaus @ the desk
Maxwell @ the desk
Aurelius @ Dragon's Fire wing
Gar @ the library
Dovan @ 2nd floor pub
Mark @ castle grounds
Lila @ the firing range
Abigail @ library/grounds/kitchen/training rooms
Spike (Kyp) @ people's rooms
Mars @ the library
Sebastian @ front steps
Alaric @ Dragon's Hoard wing
Myri @ cleric's wing, etc.
Spike @ infirmary/kitchen/outside/etc
Elena @ her room
Buffy & Kyp (and Fred) | Closed
Jack @ the cleric's wing
Kyp @ the dungeon
Spike, Buffy, & Helen | Closed
Rose @ various
Lila & Hook | Closed
Han @ the firing range
Brantley & Andrew | Closed
Vi & Des @ the garden
Failboat @ pancake brunch | Closed
Faye @ the library
Alanna @ the firing range
Jaina's induction party
Alex & Abigail | Closed
The Doctor @ the castle grounds
Elena & Helen | Closed
Dumage & Damon | Closed
Lila, Sylar, & Helen | Closed
Damon @ the bar/various

Comments

[graveflowers]

[ spike in the kitchen, that would be where vi finds him, eventually. she smiles slightly, just because she's gotten used to spike eating weird stuff with his blood and she fond of his weird affectation. ] Hey.

[ you know what's she's doing? you know what she's doing. fresh hot sauce, just for you. the pans are coming out, it's happening. ]

[bigbad]

[Aww, Vi, so sweet. He's got his head buried in the fridge right now, looking for other things he can eat now that he's finished all the blood in there that hadn't gone bad yet. He comes out with a hunk of cheese.]

How've you been?

[Awkward.]

[graveflowers]

[ she just shrugs. mental torture day in, day out for a year is probably still better than whatever spike and myri went through and she winces at the sight of him up close. ]

Okay. ...do you need anything? I know I'm useless in the healing you department, but... anything else?

[bigbad]

Dimitris' head on a platter would be nice. [He shrugs, looking surprisingly cheerful about the vicious request.] But then again, it's not nearly so satisfying unless I rend him limb from limb myself.

[graveflowers]

Then I will let you take care of it personally. [ myri had been upset about vi's grounding so she doesn't bring it up again. ] You can bring drawing and quartering back in style in most dramatic fashion, I've got faith in you.

[bigbad]

That's the sweetest thing you've ever said to me. [He nods at the pans on the stove.] That what I think it is?

[graveflowers]

Will be in a few more minutes. Thought you deserved it, you know. Considering the torture. [ way to not mince words at all, vi, wow. ]

[bigbad]

Right. [He looks away, taking a big bite out of the cheese to let himself think for a moment. It wasn't being tortured that had bothered him. Pain he could handle, even when it felt like it was splitting his head in two. What had really killed him was when they made him watch while they hurt Myri. Knowing he couldn't do anything to help her... or even to help himself, for fear they'd take it out on her. It had killed him a little.]

Wasn't so bad. [Bluff 18.] Mostly just embarrassed I got myself caught.

[graveflowers]

[ perceptivechan calls bullshit. (sense motive 23) ] Myri said it was bad. And she feels like I do, so I can imagine how bad.

[bigbad]

That's great for you and Myri. But I'm not her or you, so you don't know a bloody thing. [It's not that he doesn't like Vi. But he's just barely holding himself together and there aren't many people he'll let himself come undone in front of. He's fine. No matter what Vi or Myri has said.]

[graveflowers]

[ she doesn't say anything else because she's not going to push about this. she gives the saucepan one last stir and shut the heat off. ] The guilt doesn't get any smaller, but it does get easier to live with. [ but then again, everything gets easier to live with when you live with it long enough. ] Don't eat it all at once, that was the last of the peppers. [ annnnnd she's just gonna bounce to wash her hands. ] I'm glad you're home, Spike.

[bigbad]

[He finishes off the cheese, and nods, glancing down at the pan. He'll need to get more blood soon, but he could always eat it with something normal, like chips.]

Thanks, pet. [It's said quietly, as he looks down at the hot sauce.] That makes two of us.