CHAPTER FOUR ♔ does it run in your blood to betray the ones you love

[coldheritage]

♬ The Truth - Nonpoint

WHO || Failboat, Rafael, Isabella, Nadia  [Closed]
WHAT || After an exciting Grammy night, the Knights meet up with Nadia to hear what she has to say
WHERE || Staples Center, LA -->  Warehouse
WHEN || Feb 8th, 2015  [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam

[  The Knights' mission to stop the signal and prevent Draken's cult from spreading whatever subliminal message  was lurking beneath Keijen Blade's performance was a success.  It didn't come without its bumps in the road, however:  Alexander Anderson showed up, and the Knights ran afoul of the Mind Master.    Buffy nearly died fighting Anderson, but in the end, he was defeated, beheaded, and hopefully put to death forever.   Finnick, though, found himself thrust into a mental illusion that convinced him he might still be in the Hunger Games, and left him uncertain about whether any of his life here was real.  

Another surprise came in the form of an announcement by Nadia Reichenov, an artist working with Crombe and company, that she was changing her band name and taking things in a 'new direction'.   This direction was perhaps revealed when after her performance, she approached the Knights in Rafael's dressing room - and handed them the necklace that connects her to the Nightmare God Malaak'a, saying she was willing to tell them everything.  ]

Comments

[nepotism]

[ one of the doors opens up and fred walks out slowly, surveying the situation with a canny gaze that makes it clear he knows what's up. his tone is carefully neutral, all concern cautiously tailored out of it as he says: ] Everything alright out here? [ kat's back to him, he lifts his eyes to des', silently communicating that he's here to potentially defuse any blonde bombs about to go off, if he can. ]

[nothingsodivine]

[fred's arrival makes des look up, pained and mildly panicked.]

I was just... leaving.

[said like that is literally the whole problem here. which it is.]

[shootfirst]

[ kat looks back over her shoulder, and fred's sudden entrance seems to make her realize that she might have been

waking the whole hotel, for one. ] ... I just don't get why you can talk circles around everyone else, but you can't talk your stupid husband into moving to London while the fate of the world's at stake.

[nothingsodivine]

Because I don't want to talk him into it. [Hold please while he... runs his hands through his hair and tries to regain his composure so he's not just SAD PUPPY] I can't just make him uproot his entire life for me.

[nepotism]

The real world's a bitch like that. [ fred remarks offhandedly as he moves up beside kat ] Luckily we've got hundreds of Knights back at the castle in case of an emergency then, huh?

[nothingsodivine]

That's what I said. [pathetically.]

[shootfirst]

[ fred being all level headed about it seems to take some of the wind out of her sails, and she looks between them, tilting her jaw out sideways for a moment. protesting anymore just seems to make her look like overly attached teammate at this point in time, so... ] You better visit.

[nothingsodivine]

I plan on it. [he leans down to carefully pick up his bag again.] That was never in question.

[shootfirst]

Uh huh. [ SO SKEPTICAL ]

[nothingsodivine]

I'll see you soon, all right? [NOW CAN HE LEAVE, SO YOU CAN START MISSING HIM???]

[shootfirst]

[ this time she lets him leave with a little irritated wave of dismissal. you owe fred a beer, des. ]