chicago ♔ beside you in time

[romanticidal]

♬ Right Where It Belongs - Nine Inch Nails

WHO || Buffy, Spike, Finnick, Myri, Dawn, Archer, Elena, Kat, Gar, Mark, Isabella, Burt, Des, Rafael, Violet, Francesca, Luthir. [closed]
WHAT || The events directly following the day of Jade's death
WHERE ||Various, Chicago
WHEN || July 5th, 2013 to the funeral
HOW || Actionspam

[ Following a long night after returning from the hospital where Jade finally passed away, there remains a lot to be said and done.

As Burt struggles to deal with the legal side of things, Francesca begins to head that way across the ocean in order to help the Knights do the same, and to help Finnick leave his celebrity life behind somehow. Violet takes the full weight of responsibility for planning the funeral into her hands, and the others continue to try to cope with what's occurred, and slowly put the pieces of information that they have together.

But many of them are still reeling from the revelations of the last few days, or carrying their own emotional burdens. Des continues to keep the truth about Jade's last words to himself as he deals with losing a woman he'd come to love, and faces up to a now uncertain future, thanks to a deal struck with Iscariot. Myri worries deeply about the potential fate of Violet, who's been considering hunting down Keijen Blade on her own, and her concern causes another small rift in her relationship with Finnick. Buffy finally reaches a point of breaking down over her conflicted feelings for Rafael, as Elena assists Archer in completing a giant fireworks bomb for reasons unknown.

This log covers the events leading up to the funeral, which means it will most likely cover a day or two or three. We will use it to make threads for any and all events occurring during this time. ]

Comments

[nothingsodivine]

I was a little occupied telling her to get out of my face, Tex. I haven't asked her for a damn thing and I'm not gonna start now.

[slay]

So, we don't google. We use contacts. Des isn't the only person who's been around that long. [ beat. ] Well. Probably the only human. But, you know what I mean.

[nosdacariad]

Do any of you have a whole lot of 4000 year old contacts hanging around, cuz uhh, I sure don't.

[witchwoman]

Perhaps Wynn might? Or someone else at the castle?

[Look as far as she's concerned, Wynn knows everything and everyone. He and Des were bros, so they clearly ran in some sort of circles to cross paths before...]

[nothingsodivine]

[Des shrugs.] Don't look at me. If I thought there was anyone out there who really knew what I was dealing with, I wouldn't be hunting things like the Talisman. I'd be with them.

[Except he totally would be hunting the Talisman, because that thing needs to die.]

[graveflowers]

So in summation: the three amigos that we know nothing about but are generally considering a-okay are willing to help us, but the risk is bringing down the hammer of the gods from Des' clingy ex that we know nothing about but are generally considering bad fucking news so it's sort of a last resort?

[shootfirst]

Yeahhh personally I vote for doing things the old fashioned way. You know, sans shady back alley deals.

[witchwoman]

Some of us don't really know the fashioned way- old or new. But I'll help in any way that I can.

[slay]

I think we can all agree taking them up on their offer's a bad idea - but, this isn't the first time they've been lurking around. We'd be remiss to slack on figuring out who they are.

[ but wynn is precisely who she was thinking in terms of thousands of years old contacts, and just maybe hellsing can shed some light, too. who knows how old alucard is - certainly older than spike, judging by how much more he could do. ]

[rationalizes]

At least there are enough of us that we can afford for some of our members to devote their time to seeing what we might uncover. Buffy's right: knowledge is, after all, only going to benefit us in our encounters with them -- whomever they are.

[nothingsodivine]

[Yeeeeah, Des is done with this little pow-wow. He heads for the door.]

I'm gonna go make some calls, see what I can dig up.

[aka I'm gonna go tell my bros not to tell Iscariot shit and go underground. And get Liam to bury evidence for Rafael.]

[graveflowers]

So is that it or is there more? [She is hoping there is not more, honestly.] I mean, more news.

[slay]

[ meaningful look towards rafael before saying ... ]

That's it.

[romanticidal]

Si. I think that is more than enough, for now. [ and he avoids looking back at her b/c wow that would be suspicious huh. ]