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Entry tags:
- !main plot,
- alainn o'rourke,
- buffy summers,
- burt becksworth,
- desmond d. descant,
- elena gilbert,
- finnick odair,
- fredrick jr.,
- isabella alessandro,
- jack chessing,
- jeanne gar,
- kat samcelot,
- keijen blade,
- myrilandel odair,
- nadia reichenov,
- rafael giovanni,
- rose hathaway,
- spike,
- sterling archer,
- violet reedhym
CHAPTER FINALE ♔ cause it's always raining in my head

♬ oceano - josh groban
WHO || Keijen Blade, Nadia Reichenov, Rafael Giovanni, Buffy Summers, Alainn O'Rourke, Myrilandel Odair, Finnick Odair, Desmond Descant, Elena Gilbert, Rose Hathaway, Fredrick Jr., Jack Chessing, Kat Samcelot, Jeanne Gar, Spike, Sterling Archer, Violet Reedhym, Burt Becksworth, Isabella Alessandro
WHAT || Failboat does the Grammy's, tries to stop Keijen Blade's performance from reaching the masses, and aspires to save Nadia
WHERE || Staples Center, Los Angeles
WHEN || Feb 8th, 2015
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.
The day has finally arrived: the 2015 Grammy's gather together musical talent at the top of the food chain, which means that NOVA Records will be well represented at this year's ceremony. Unfortunately, this includes performances from Keijen Blade's band, Heatless Passion, and Nadia Reichenov's, Derere, both of whom are working for "Chad Becksworth", aka Draken Crombe, head of the Shadowkind-hating cult, the Church of the Lord's Humanity. Equipped with some sort of ability to hypnotize large crowds with subliminal messages, Wynn fears what lies beneath Keijen's intended performance, and is sending his Knights to shut down the broadcast, to prevent that message from being spread to millions of viewers worldwide.
Meanwhile, the gang finally has a chance to see Rafael Giovanni again - but what he's been up to in the months since they last saw him, and how his reunion with Buffy will go, remains to be seen.
Several of the Knights have decided that this is their last chance as well to try and break Nadia free from Keijen's influence, now that they've learned the truth about him - that Keijen is in fact Kel'in'hrae, sadistic son of the Nightmare God Malaak'a, likely working to free his father from the prison Sehanine had created for him. The prison sealed by the relic that the team has been chasing for years, believing it to be an immortality-granting talisman of great power.
The truth, it seems, was worse than they could have imagined.
One step at a time, however, and stopping the signal is first priority on Failboat's to do list for now. With an actual plan under their belts this time, maybe this is the turning point they've been waiting for...
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taylor opens up the envelope, and looks across the audience. "And the winner is...
Rafael Giovanni!"
the audience erupts in applause, as rafael's voice floods the arena from the speakers.
♬ music of the night - josh groban
raf stands up, followed closely by burt, who keeps one hand on his shoulder steering him towards the stage like he's his personal bodyguard, and even climbing up there with him as taylor hands him the award.
gar applauds wildly over here, clearly pleased as punch. ]
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[ rafael turns around, smiling a little awkwardly as burt tries to usurp his speech over there ]
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Why's he even up there right now?
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As raf turns to try and usurp the mic, burt holds up one finger to him and leans down to add: ] And I'd like to also be the first person to get to publicly congratulate him on his engagement, to his beautiful manager, Isabella Alessandro! [ raf looks straight up stricken for a second, so the camera switches to an audience shot of Isabella smiling away up at them. With that, burt hands over the mic - but Rafael can't seem to make words at first ]
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What the fuck?
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You've got to be fucking kidding me.
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Being with someone desperately in love with someone else. That won't end well for you, pet. Even if you think it's what you want.
[And then he sneaks a look over at Buffy, though he's sure he won't like what he sees.]
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No.
No, she didn't.
And a part of her wants to slam her fist into Burt's smiling jaw, but a bigger part is simply too discouraged and defeated to bring herself to. A mistake. That's what he'd said. And she'd promised, then, that it wouldn't change anything, but how can it not? The comparison is impossible not to make: more than a year spent supporting him, loving him, helping him through a loss at his side after Jade without daring to breach that threshold because he couldn't do it, and her understanding all the while.
It took not even five months for him to get over her, five months for him to become engaged to someone else.
Her expression is as stone, but the clench of her jaw and the darkness in her eyes betrays that it's not so easy for her to force it into that mould. When she promised it wouldn't change anything, she'd imagined something that would have her at it with rebuilding Rafael again. She didn't imagine herself to be worth so little to him, and she cannot help but feel a bit sickened to think she was sending messages like those back and forth with someone who eventually set them aside to move on with someone else.
A million uncertainties cripple her outward response. Are they living together? Sleeping together? For all her carefully trained self control, it's worth nothing now as she can't purge the image of them at Burt's club in New York from her mind. She should have known to give up then.
As if it would have hurt less, somehow. ]
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Gross.
[Because there's no way in hell he went from being obsessed with Jade for literally forever, to wanting to be with Buffy, to being in love enough to be engaged to someone he had the opportunity to be with for like forever in that amount of time and have them all be real. Just get out.
Unless there's some piece of the puzzle she's missing, that's all sorts of fucked up.]
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[ he waffles another moment, glancing up, as if he hopes he can spot any one face amid such a crowd. the hopelessness of the exercise seems reflected in his eyes, and he looks back down at the card, reading the last words with an earnest quality that's almost apologetic. ] And I would also like to thank a very special someone... who has taught me the very definition of support and trust, and without whom, [ he looks up, expression turning a bit solemn as he tries to impress the full meaning of the following words - both sets of meaning, to the few who will understand that ] I would not be standing here today. Miss Buffy Summers.
[ he bows his head again, before looking up at the ceiling ] And I would like to thank Eterna, for her inspiration. I thought I had lost my muse when I lost her, but I have learned now that she will always be with me in spirit.
Thank you. [ with that, he raises a hand and burt moves to head offstage with him ]
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He's come too far to judge what people do behind closed doors, however. Every person who has made a mistake or an allegedly poor choice- himself, included- had a reason for it. Despite his cool, irritated expression, he's willing to hear his reasons out and then make judgment calls and possibly slap Isabella senseless for having such low self-respect that she'd actually say yes.]
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In the face of the announcement, mentioning her at all feels like false hope that twists the knife. That his feelings for her could coexist with this choice only makes it hurt that much more.
It's Buffy's turn to go wooden as she joins the applause that follows his speech. Her heart aches, and the sound of polite clapping sound far away. Keeping her distance from the whole thing is how she manages to keep it together, looking (if anything) coldly unaffected by the speech. ]
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meanwhile ariana grande takes the stage to sing a moving ballad as the ceremonies press on as if nothing earth shattering has happened.
♬ just a little bit of your heart - ariana grande
I don't ever ask you where you've been
And I don't feel the need to
Know who you're with
I can't even think straight but I can tell
That you were just with her
And I'll still be a fool
I'm a fool for you
Just a little bit of your heart
Just a little bit of your heart is all I want
Just a little bit of your heart
Just a little bit is all I'm asking for
I don't ever tell you how I really feel
Cause I can't find the words to say what I mean
And nothing's ever easy
That's what they say
I know I'm not your only
But I'll still be a fool
Cause I'm a fool for you
I know I'm not you're only
But at least I'm one
I hear a little love is better than none
Oh babe ]
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