CHAPTER FINALE ♔ as i went down in the river to pray

[telekinection]

♬ dead bodies everywhere - korn

WHO || Tia Ellison, Rose Hathaway, Sterling Archer, Spike, Klaus Mikaelson, Violet Reedhym, Finnick Odair, Myrilandel de Tanos, Anastacia O'Keefe, Faith O'Keefe, Nick Starkweather, various others
WHAT || The night following Luthir's death and the concert
WHERE || NYC, New York
WHEN || June 7th to 8th, 2014, middle of the night.
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread.

The night has not gone as planned.

With the help of the unicorn Nick Starkweater, Faith O'Keefe used her dreamwalking powers to take Violet and her new husband Luthir into Vi's dreams to face down the shadow remnant of Malaak'a that had consumed her nightmares and prevented her spirit from returning to full strength with the return of spring. Keijen Blade's warning, however, that such an attempt would end in blood, proved true: Luthir gave his life to allow Vi to do what must be done.

Meanwhile, the 'reconnaissance' mission meant to gather intel on what Keijen Blade was doing at his concerts went south when several of the team members fell prey to Blade's compulsion. After almost prompting Archer and Rose to commit suicide onstage in front of an eager crowd, Blade let the team walk out with their lives, which was almost as unsettling as the power he'd displayed in controlling such a large mass of people.

No one is really in the mood or shape to take a flight that night, so it's crashing at a hotel for the Knights tonight.

Some people might need the sleep, while others may be less than able to get any. Feel free to single-thread tag what your character is up to at 4AM or so.

Comments

[witchwoman]

This is ridiculous. [Myri goes to grab her phone from wherever Rose abandoned it for Faiths and dials up Elena.]

[silvermaid]

[ the phone just rings and rings through to voicemail D: ]

I don't know if there's much any of us can do from here.

[bigbad]

Maybe he's with Elena because he's bloody obsessed with her and makes a habit of getting close to her while wearing other people's faces.

[Yeah, Spike's still pissed. He shoots Tia a glare for the implications.]

[asuma]

[Predictable as fuck. Just sayin'. Klaus is taking the bottle of scotch from Archer to pour himself another glass.]

[littledhampir]

[Now Rose's control is slipping again, what feels like a storm brewing in her chest and her heart felt as if it had been coated in thick black tar, weighed down by every word that passed her lips.]

She - apologized to Dimitri for taking up so much of my time and then It told him not to wait...

[She grew very quiet, her words dying off as she blocked one ear, trying to drown out any voices in the room and strained to listen to a conversation happening on the other end of the line. (Listen 24)

Rose doesn't even try to hide it, the anger that overwhelms her at whatever is being said and she finds she can't make herself have this conversation any longer. Rose thrusts her hand away from her, holding out the phone to whoever was willing to take it (No seriously even you Archer).

At first it looks like she might leave, then not, then finally the Dhampir walks straight up to the nearest wall and sends her fist flying into it, letting out a grunt of pain and anger as her fist (Atk 16 Dmg 15) goes straight through it.]

[moonheart]

[ whoa there, slugger. ] ... Better the wall than someone's head, I guess.

[isisagent]

[Archer rubs his head.]

When the hell are we going to start killing these fucking... [Then drunk Archer has a thought, and scoops the phone up, if Rose is offering...] Wynn - can we please start taking this seriously and killing some of these fucking assholes off - because this cops and robbers shit ain't cutting it.

[wynn]

[ wynn is finishing a conversation with edain on the other end, but he comes back to say: ] Sir Archer, put Sir Hathaway back on the phone. Immediately.

[isisagent]

She's busy renovating the room at the moment... Here [Boop] You're on speaker, chief - she can hear ya.

[wynn]

According to Sir Gatewood, Edain came down to switch shifts, and he handed over the keys as scheduled. He was about ten minutes early for rotation.

Clearly, however, it was not Edain. All signs currently point towards it being Sir Gilbert.

They can't be far out. We're sending out as many Knights as we can to canvas the area.

[witchwoman]

[As Myri hangs up on Elena's voicemail, she catches Wynn's words and just shakes her head, muttering to herself about how there has to be another explanation. She just can't believe that Elena would side with Kyp, would betray her family like that.]

[bigbad]

[Bloody hell. Spike sinks down, a blank expression on his face. After all his talks with Elena about not being a monster, she goes ahead and runs off with one? And how in hell do they expect to find two doppelgangers who can look like anyone and read minds?

He leans forward. He doesn't want to think that Elena would do anything to endanger their other friends, but... he glances down at his phone. Still nothing.]

Is Buffy one of the ones out searching?

[littledhampir]

[Rose manages to extricate her hand from the wall (Str... Nat 20) with such force that bits of plaster went flying across the room, one piece landing in Archer's drink.]

They could look like anyone by now... [They. Even saying it made Rose feel sick to her stomach as she tried to wrap her head around the idea that Elena wasn't only with Kyp but that she'd allowed him to use her face, like it wasn't bad enough that she had to share her headspace with somebody else, now she had to share her face as well?]

[wynn]

[ tensely: ] The problem having only been brought to my attention moments ago, Sir Spike, I can hardly say who will be going as of yet. For now, hold your positions.

I have operations to oversee, and time is of the essence.

[bigbad]

[He exhales and slumps back against the couch again. Not all that comforting. Especially when the chances of finding Elena and Rose are the equivalent of finding a needle in a pile of identical needles. They're already out of bloody time.]

Anything else we should know?

[wynn]

For now, that's as much as I know.

We'll be in touch. [ and he's hanging up because HE'S GOT SHIT TO DO ok ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri is gonna head on over towards Spike and place a hand on his arm to offer a little comfort. They're both antsy and with good reason. She doesn't have any questions for Wynn because all she wants to say is that he's wrong about Elena, that he has to be wrong. But she won't say that. She'll just think it.... quietly.]

[65]

[hope no one wanted the rest of that scotch bc finnick is claiming the bottle as his own now. this is a shit cherry on top of their already formidable shit sundae.]

[graveflowers]

[ the shower shut off a little bit ago, but with her listen check fucking 36... she pretty much heard every word before she even left the bathroom. toweling off her hair, she crosses the room to finnick. but only to steal his drink. desperate times, fish. sharing is caring. ] Whatever Elena did or didn't do, she did or didn't do it for a reason.

[silvermaid]

I'm sure there's an explanation. There has to be--

[ anastacia is cut off suddenly by the distant chiming of bells outside announcing the hour. ] ... We can't assume anything yet.

[bigbad]

[Spike stands up, expression going blank, and walks towards the door. Rose follows him.]

[witchwoman]

[She blinks, pulling her hand back as she stands.]

Spike? What are you-? ...Wynn said to wait here.

[bigbad]

[Yeah Spike's ignoring her and opening the door.]

[moonheart]

He said to hold our positions. I think he just meant not to fly back to England until morning as planned.

[witchwoman]

[Myri glances at Faith, but that's not making her feel much better. She's worried about what he'll do out there tbh.]

Spike. [Ignoring her is not okay. She moves for him, grabbing for his arm with... more strength than she normally musters (str 15).] Would you just stop. Both of you. [She doesn't know Rose but splitting up is a bad idea right now. She wants to herd all of them in one place to be able to keep them safe, basically.]