chicago ♔ everybody's looking for something

[romanticidal]

♬ Let There Be Drums - Carl LaFong Trio

WHO || Buffy, Rafael, Spike, Jade. [closed]
WHAT || Buffy, Raf, and Spike return to Chicago to attempt to convince Jade to come perform with Finnick & Raf
WHERE || Airplane & Nightscape
WHEN || Tues, Nov 27th
HOW || Actionspam

[ Talk about your desperate gamble. Burt Becksworth is in great danger of losing his control over NOVA Records, which would leave all of its assets squarely in the hands of his evil cultist brother, Chad and whatever diabolical plans he has involving the Talisman and his hideous experiments. Obviously, the Knights aren't ready to stand for that, but the only way of helping Burt maintain control is to help Rafael and Finnick skyrocket their careers to incredibly heights of fame. Burt believes the much sought after Jade to be the key to that, but she's seemed very adamant about staying put in the past.

Time to find out if anything's changed...]

Comments

[slay]

[ SPIKE STOP TRYING TO SET BUFFY'S TRUE LOVE UP WITH HIS TRUE LOVE. ]

We're dedicated that way, I guess. Any chance our selfless sacrifice'll make you reconsider the tour? [ she gets antiseptic and bandages and gauze and crouches to set to work patching rafael up (treat injury 17). ]

1/2

[romanticidal]

[ she actually does an expert job of cleaning the blood off, pulling out the bullets and applying bandages, and she'd find rafael watching her openly a few times, with wordless gratitude in his eyes ]

[borrowedheaven]

Well, you guys are right about one thing. I don't think I can go back to the club this time. Not for awhile at least. [ she frowns, folding her arms against her chest as she slides into a chair ] But I don't think you can blame me for not leaping at the chance to go visit NOVA.

[slay]

Believe me, we're not excited about it either. [ she looks up at rafael with an uncomfortable expression, contextually explained by their knowledge of jade's heritage and what nova's big shots want with that. ] And we don't. Blame you. We know how much we're asking of you. But we also know that we can protect you if you agree, and I think you know that by now too. [ diplomacy 27 ]

[borrowedheaven]

I don't know that you really do know. [ her lips press together tightly ] But fine. I'll play along - under 2 conditions.

One: I want to lie low until the show. I'm not going to the NOVA building. If they want me for a concert, I'll deliver a concert. And in the meantime, none of them see me.

Two: I want someone I can trust to stay with.

[ her eyes dart to raf and then back to buffy ] Descant.

[bigbad]

[Spike glances at the other two and shrugs.]

Sounds far better than we could've hoped. We'll ask Des. to be certain, but I think that'd work.

[romanticidal]

[ well, that sure distracts rafael from buffy's ministrations as a look of supreme dissatisfaction knits his forehead ] ... I am certain he will be... amenable. [ man, no one ever filled the word 'amenable' with so much poison ever. ]

[borrowedheaven]

He better be, considering I just wound up technically homeless.