Adara Mires
The day had been interesting, last evening even more so. She’d be out and about, checking for gigs and found one for the weekend. Last evening…she had dinner with a lovely kin and it made her think about a few things. About her and Rory and the danger of having a zealous philodox finding out…or being with a kin without a tribe and be public easily but maybe hurting a friend and pack mate deeply.
She sigh, sitting in the three bedroom apartment she shares with her pack. Mila was out for a few days and Rory was hanging with her new friend: Sid. The loft was spacious with a nice kitchen, large living room.She and Rory had the biggest room, Mila the second and third one was for guests if they have any eventually.
She start to play the guitar that’s on her lap, singing with a slight grin the song “I have a girl” by Tripping Daisies. The patio door was open letting in a breeze while letting out her voice from the third story.
Carter Roth
Carter had been given the address to the loft the day it had been purchased, it was part of Adara’s ongoing plan to incorporate Carter into her pack, or at least thats what Carter imagined it as being, the truth of the matter was that they were…in all unlikelihood friends, and you told friends where you were living.
So its as Adara is playing, her voice floating down to the street below that a heavy knock is heard at the door and the rough basso of Carters voice calls through it. “Stop killing that cat!”
Adara Mires
She stops playing and he can hear laugh, the sound coming closer, her bare feet making almost no sounds on the floor. She opens the door dressed in sweats, tank top, the necklace Marni had given her around the neck with her hair pulled up in a high ponytail.
She offers a smile to Carter and move aside to let him in “Pffft you have no musical taste at all. I got a gig for tomorrow and Saturday if you must you Grumpy Bear” She says teasing him, then closing the door behind him, hugging him loosely with her arms around his neck and two kisses on the cheeks. She starts to sniff him a little then pulls back with a grin
“Just checking if you’ve been molested by one of us. I know you don’t want my protection but you have it anyway” She smiles “How have you been?”
Carter Roth
Aside from the smell of gunpowder and soap that cover’s the man in a normal day Adara would smell a faint hint of something else….or more precisely someone else.
Carter shrugs his shoulders as he stepped inside and looked about, hands shoved into his pockets as he took a moment to look around the loft, slowly kicking off his shoes as he did so. He of course tolerated the kisses, and even the hug…he was used to it by now.
“I’ve been alright…its been an interesting few days. By the way….how was your party?” He inquires looking back to her.
Adara Mires
She grins “Seems like it. Did you give a true a hand job or something..you smell of one but not all over just around your arm” She says clearly teasing “Seriously, who is she? And Is everything all right?” She ask with some concern as she leaves for the kitchen
“Feel free to visit” She calls out and comes back a moment later with two beers “And my birthday party was fun. I got drunk as hell, danced, had hmmm fun and woke up with a hangover. It was great” She grins, handing him a beer
Carter Roth
“Uh huh…fun i bet you had that little red head pleading for mercy.” He said as he took the beer and cracked off the cap. He nodded to her offer of visitation and moved towards whatever was available to sit on…even if it was just an open space on the floor.
“And I haven’t given anyone a hand job…more like a hand shake.” He said with a smirk and the shake of his head. “And everything is fine….her name is Myoko and were working out an arrangement.”
Adara Mires
She walks with him and shows him the rooms and then settle on the living room. There’s a couch and two plush chairs in it. “Yeah, Things are pretty wild with my redhead. Though i did meet this sweet, lovely kin in Chicago and she’s here and we had dinner last night.”
She shrugs “Anyway, I assume Myoko is from your tribe, easy on the eye and not too aggressive around you?” She says with a smile, looking at him as she picks her guitar and sits where it was, placing it on the ground, raised against the couch.
Carter Roth
To that Carter nods, he knew this would be a tricky situation, Adara had offered him protection first…and he had turned it down, from the woman he had known well, and instead might be seeking it from a stranger..but one of his tribe….it certainly would hurt some peoples feelings.
He sat with her, taking up one of the chairs that was closest to the couch itself. “Easy on the eye..sure if you like asians.” He says with a casual shrug. “I want you to know..I have allowed her to be my warder.” He says looking at her, watching her face.
“Its nothing against you, what it is…is tactically sound.”
Adara Mires
She tuck her legs under her, uncapping her bottle and drinking from it as Carter speaks. “I’m terribly pissed and when this bottle is done, I’m going to throw it at your face” She says looking serious “Don’t want to spill good beer”
She then break into one of her warm smile “It’s fine babe. Really. She’s tribe and she should be your Warder. I offered you because we’re friends and I care. Mila would have been your Warder really not me anyway. If you’re ok with that girl then it’s fine. She hurt you, I kill her though”
She says with a nod.
Carter Roth
Carter raised a brow at the expectation of violence….but then he comes to the realization that it…like so many other things Adara said…was simple teasing.In that moment the man smirked and shook his head.
“Pretty much, if you were my Warder…the Lords could question it, with Myoko as my warder…it will be a hell of alot harder to manage.” He shrugged as he looked down at his beer. “I’ve already made sure of certain things…in particular that if it goes a way I don’t like…i can get the fuck out immediately. It will work I think….she seems like the sort that will at least listen.”
He wasn’t pleased about having a warder at all, that was apparent by the look on his face, but it seemed that the man had come to the realization that if he didn’t….anyone could claim him…or do whatever the fuck they wanted…and perhaps at last..he didnt want to be leaving a trail of garou corpses.
Adara Mires
She drinks from her bottle and nods to him “All right. It’s your life. Let me know if she gives you any shit. I’ll claim you or something then let you go…or I don’t know, we’ll come up with something.” She smiles slightly
“And you’re right, A Fury can’t be your warder if there’s tribe around. The Elder would be it or if someone else offers their protection first. If you trust this Myoko then it’s a good start at least”
Then she grins “And if I had been your warder, you’d have been miserable. I would have made you listen to me sing” She says it like it would be the worst of things, teasing him.
Carter Roth
Carter shivered in that moment enhancing it as he shuddered at the thought of her making him listen to her sing. “Fuck I might have jumped out the window.” He says teasing back. “I think I’m allergic to country…just so you know. It makes me break out in bleeding eye syndrome.”
He chuckles as the shivering subsides and he sipped his beer nodding slowly.
“And like I said…thats why she is tactically sound.”
Rory
The door opens, softly, and enter one red-headed rage machine. The moon is darkening, so it’s not quite as heavy as it was just a week ago, but still, the heat clings to her like a second skin, for all her shyness, for all her quiet ways. She slips into the apartment, and looks around.
Hearing voices, she smiles, that same little shy smile, and kicks off her shoes, before moving into the room, slipping free from her pack, heading straight to her work table to set the backpack on top where it lands with a rattling clank that suggests she was scavenging. Again.
She smiles softly at Adara, then peeks at Carter, offering a soft “Hi.”
Adara Mires
She chuckles “Then don’t stay around Mila too long, she made a career out of it. I do prefer classic rock, rock, blues, some jazz and sometimes pop. Give me an electric guitar and I can play some hard rock like no one else. I think Slash would be jealous of me you know”
She teases but to be honest, she could play with the best of them and not look like an idiot at all.
“So beside Myoko, how are things? Enjoying the city so far? And will you take me to the beach soon?” He can easily judge by the colour of her tanned skin that she must have gone there a few times already.
She look up at Rory and offers her a beautiful smile “Hello baby”
Carter Roth
They had company…or more appropriately, one of the co-owners had returned. Carter looked up from Adara and his beer to the brightly headed garou and nodded slowly. “Hey.” He says in return as he feels her rage slip along his skin and give him momentary goosebumps.
Rory
She ducks her head, slightly, a blush creeping along her skin at Adara’s beautiful smile, followed by Carter’s careful hello. She chews on her lower lip, absently, and rubs at the side of her nose, before she moves to settle on the floor near Adara’s seat.
She’s quiet, and despite her rage, it’s easy to forget she’s there. She doesn’t say much, and doesn’t want to distrub them… It’s clear if they want to talk privately, she’ll vacate at just a nod…
Adara Mires
She smiles at her pack mate and lover and leans down to kiss the top of her head, one hand reaching to gently caress Rory’s cheek and neck. She hands her the half drank bottle of beer “Here have some, I’ll go get another one” She gently tilt back Rory’s head to kiss her lips very briefly and then gets up, looking at Carter
“And you get a new one too.”
She comes back a moment later with three beers, one for each and then sits across Carter’s lap just because she loves to annoy him, crossing her legs at the ankle and actually snuggling against him, head on his shoulder. Rory can see the impish smile on her Alpha’s lips
“So grumpy, you haven’t answered my questions.How do you like the city and will you take my ass to the beach or not?”
Adara Mires
Through the link she asks Rory “How was your day darling?”
Rory
“jo nob yet… but Sid said there might be one at a shusic mop he knows…”
Carter Roth
Carter hadnt even gotten halfway through his beer when he lucked out and was delivered another one. He smiled ever so briefly when the beer was delivered, however his smile faded when Adara decided to sit across his lap, and snuggled in against him. Months ago he would have shoved her off like she was covered in shit, now though…he rolls his eyes and tolerates it for now.
“The cities good, its been fun.” He says with a casual nod as he looked at the fury, obviously unimpressed by her using him as a lounger. “But if you stay where you are the only beach im gonna be showing you is the one in the rolled up newspaper i go and grab.”
Rory
She blushes brightly as Adara kisses her, still getting used to public displays of affection – even in their own living room. She takes the half a beer, and with a true fianna sigh of appreciation, she takes a few swallows, and downs it easily, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand afterwards. She takes the one offered, and sets it between her thighs as she watches Adara tease Carter.
Impish, indeed.
She doesn’t seem bothered by it though. It’s quite likely Rory doesn’t have a jealous bone in her body, and quite possibly doesn’t even understand the concept. There are so many things, after all, that are beyond the redhead.
Adara Mires
She chuckles at Carter’s word “If you promise to take me to the beach, I’m going to take my sexy butt off your lap.” She grins at him, something being such a child round him, because she was comfortable around him. It was fun, always interesting and she could do and act just about any way she wants around Carter and not be judged.
She hopes he knew she was more mature than that usually, she is around him from time to time after all. She never had judged him and she feels that he returns the favour.
She look at Rory as she uncapped her new beer while sitting on Carter’s lap. “Well I hope Sid will find something for you soon”
Carter Roth
Carter sighed, exasperated at the fury on his lap and slowly nodded. “Alright, I’ll take you to the beach I’m sure your just going to ogle the beach bunnies anyways, we can at least share in that.” He says as he holds his hands up and away from her body, as if expecting her to rise off him.
He has been paying attention however, and he raises a brow before looking between the fury and the fianna. “Who’s Sid, and what does he do?”
Rory
She watches them banter, endlessly fascinated by this, and the way Adara is around Carter. She is so shy herself, she could never manage to be so free and open – even with the Fury, sometimes even when they’re alone.
Who’s Sid, he asks, and Rory wrinkles her nose, unsure how to answer the question. “Someone I het mere.” She doesn’t seem to hear the mistake in her words, as if she hears only waht she intended to say, not what she did.
And to the last, an honest “I knon’t dow. He knows I thix fings though.”
Adara Mires
She grins at Carter “I know you like having me on your lap, but you have this reputation to keep and all that” Moving smoothly off him and then back to the couch, sitting with legs on each side of Rory, leaning forward, top of her breasts pressing on the back of the Fianna’s head, arms surrounding Rory’s shoulders. She lowers her head to kiss Rory’s forehead upside down
She then leans back up and into the couch, one hand playing in her lover’s curls as she drinks, letting Carter and her talk.
Carter Roth
Carter for his part, couldn’t hide the confusion that crossed his face when Rory mixed up her words, it wasn’t just once, that he could over look, but the woman messed up her words repeatedly and it made his brow furrow further. “Sorry?” He asks, but manages to translate at last and shook his head.
“Your a fixer upper huh?” He asked with a slight smirk. “You don’t look the type.” He said casually before reaching for his drink and downing a hearty helping of the brew.
“Whats your speciality?”
Rory
He is confused, and asks, and she? Blushes. Brightly. The heat and color sliding under her skin, along her neck, dipping under her tshirt. Adara can feel it under her fingers as she plays with her curls, as well as the way Rory cringes a little, trying so hard to make things come out right…
and messing up even more.
She doesn’t look the type, and she ducks her head, resting her forehead against Adara’s thigh. So is so. very. shy. She shrugs a little though. “Small appliances. Busic moxes. Little things. Once fixed a mash washine.”
Adara Mires
She smiles at Rory’s blushing and then look at Carter “Rory is a mechanical genius. She can fix just about anything. ” She says with some pride. She drinks some more form her bottle then look at Carter
“What will you do fro a living here? Same as in Chicago” Which was what exactly? She had no clue at all
Her hands caress the back of Rory’s neck. She did look perfectly comfortable with the Metis resting against her thigh.
Carter Roth
The redheads words continue to confuse Carter, his brow screwed up in an attempt to decipher the woman’s words, he seems to mouth the words as if to try and reassemble them. In the end he simply shook his head.
“So small stuff, so what your a scrapper or something? Find old stuff and fix it up?” He asks as he looks between Adara and Rory, perhaps he was looking for a translator, just to make sure he knew what was what….
Carter Roth
Carter shrugged to Adara’s question. “No clue actually…just gonna let the chips fall where they will. I got plenty of cash to keep me going for now…so I’m not to worried about that sorta thing.”
Rory
She nods, sighing in relief. He gets it. She scavenges, she fixes old things and makes them new again. She squirms away from Adara briefly, to grab her backpack, and then returns to her seat and digs through the battered bag. It clanks and clatters and it’s clear it likely weighs a whole bunch more than Rory makes it look like it does.
She finally pulls out what shed been working on – before she paused to make Adara’s Birthday Gift – and offers it to Carter. It’s a music box, an old metal tintype, and it looks like there”s no possible way it can work…
but when he turns the key – it does. beautifully. perfectly. She’s *really* good.
Adara Mires
She nods at Carter’s words “All right, just checking. Have you found a place to stay yet? We have the guest room here” When Rory moves to get her bag, she shifts position and lay on her side on the couch. Her hand moves back to caress the back of Rory’s neck again
She smiles as Rory offers the music box for Carter’s inspection.
Carter Roth
He seemed to have gotten it, somehow piecing things together from the confusing words of the redheaded garou. He seemed quite content sitting there, but when the woman offered him a music box, he looked to Adara briefly before rising and moving over to take it up. He does indeed try it, and the man is suitably impressed by its perfect functionality.
“Alright…I give you that, you do good work with machines.” He offered it back then, a look of surprise upon his face…talent with machines was the last thing he had expected from a garou. “If I ever got a busted toaster…ill know who to bring it too.” His lips curl upward into a smirk at that.
He then looked at Adara as he went to sit down once more, picking up his beer and shrugged. “Still at the motel, but I got an offer from Myoko…she apparently has a spare room, told her i wouldnt be using it all the time, and if you don’t mind…I’ll say the same thing to you. I like to stay mobile…and without the camper…thats probably the best way to manage it.
Rory
She blushes and smiles shyly, pleased at the compliment. She takes the box back and holds it close to her chest, before she digs through her bag to find the polishing cloth she’s been using, and goes about the tedious work of restoring the outside to look as good as the inside sounds.
He gets it, and will bring her a busted toaster. “I tix foasters real good.”
Adara Mires
She nods and drink form her bottle “Hey you’re your own man darling. You know the address, you know my number, so you call or drop in when you need. If the room is taken the couch is quite comfy” She says, slightly stretching on it to prove her point
She smiles softly “Rory made me a birthday gift. It catches rain and I can use it to make sounds, soft music like glasses filled with water. It’s awesome. I mean Already had a blast with rain and thunderstorm….now I will have an even bigger one”
Oh yes, she did love thunderstorms.
Carter Roth
Carter raised a brow one more time to Rory’s curious speech pattern, but at this point it seems normal, she obviously wasn’t doing it intentional…maybe it was because she was so shy, at the very least he could understand her…for now. He nodded to the womans comments about toasters and then turned to Adara with a curious look.
“The hell sorta thing is that?” He asks as he looks about, wondering what it might be. “Never heard of a instrument like that.”
Rory
She is clearly pleased that Adara is so proud of her gift. She’d worked really hard on it, making sure the tones were just right, the thicknesses were perfect, everything worked just the way she imagined it would.
And oh, did Adara love thunderstorms. In fact, rory has learned to love them too.
She takes a drink from her bottle, and continues to work on the music box while she listens.
Adara Mires
She laughs at Carter’s works “Rory made it. It’s not an actually instrument..I mean not that you’d see it in a classical orchestra but it can be played, with various pitches and noises. I’m pretty sure I’ll get very good at it.”
She tilts her head “We placed it on the rooftop. For the next time there’s rain. Which should be soon if the clouds aren’t lying”
She looks outside at the dark sky.
Carter Roth
Carter raises a brow as he tries to imagine what it would be like, what it could possibly look like, all he can imagine is a rain collector that was also a bunch of water glasses used for instruments. He shook his head then and looked between both of them…suddenly changing direction fo topic.
“So, has the pack picked out a territory?” He asks casually. “Or whatever it is you guys do when your in a big group?”
Rory
She glances up at Carter and takes in his confusion, and offers him a little grin. Fianna are known for music and drinking, and ingenuity – for being inventive, as it is so often necessary. She had made something similar as a gift for Lukas, only it was only to catch and trap rain, it didn’t have the special musical quality that Adara’s has.
Adara is special, after all.
As for territory, she shrugs a shoulder, and lets Adara answer.
Adara Mires
She finish her beer and place it on the nearby table
“We’ll claim the neighbourhood as soon as Mila is back form her concerts. We’re too small not to be all of us to do so. Then we’ll see what happens. I’m claiming eldership on my tribe until I see another sister. Kin..we’ll see. Right now, you’re with Myoko, Marina is with Simon, pretty sure the Doctor has her guardian…so we have only a Shadow Lord kin that Mila is protecting with us. But I think with time, we’ll expend.
Carter Roth
“Well if what they say is true, your practically the only force in the area.” He says with a nod. “Besides Myoko and a few others I’ve seen, you guys are it.” He imparts a bit of information there, letting them know that there were indeed other Garou, other warriors in the city…it was simply finding them.
He finishs his beer as well, keeping up with Adara and placing his bottle on the table to make that readily apparent. The man would not be out drank by another person…not if he could help it.
“Well lemme know when you do…maybe I can keep an eye on your pad or something….or shoot something, all good choices.”
Rory
Rory may not have started drinking the same time they did, but she certainly makes up for lost time. Carter may think he won’t be out drunk by another person, but well – they follow bacchus, and Rory’s Fianna, and she grins at him, then stands and goes to retrieve another round for them.
She hands them off, and settles down with her project gain, as she looks up. He offers to shoot something, or keep an eye on their stuff, and she gives him a little grin of appreciation.
He’s a good sort. Really.
Adara Mires
She smiles at him “Awww Carter if you keep it up, I’ll start to think you actually care about me” She stick her tongue at him, playfully then take her beer from Rory “Thanks love”
She smiles back at Carter “Seriously, I’ll keep you informed and if I can find something for you to do, you know I will. I trust you with my life. So you know I will ask if I need you”
Carter Roth
Carter snorted and shook his head, Adara was still teasing him, so he would push back. “Or you know…maybe I’ll just steal all your shit while your gone, you keep talking like that.” His smirk holds though, and even as he threatens, its obvious that the threat is mute, its all just for fun.
“So wait…that Simon guy is here as well?” He asks with a frown. “I remember him being….well….not my type of garou.”
Rory
Wait, what? Simon is here? It takes a moment to filter through, and she looks up at Adara, questions clear in her gaze. Why was he here, did he follow her, and how on earth are they going to stay together if all of chicago is following them? She is not fond of simon – at all.
Her brows furrow slightly, and then she pointedly goes back to polishing. Only thing worse would be if Lukas showed up. Gaia wouldn’t let that happen… right?
Adara Mires
She grins at Carter “Oh if you do that, I”m going to track your ass all over the city..and spank you”
She then nods “And yes, Simon is here. I bumped into him the other day. And if any of you have problems with him, you let me know” She was well aware of both her friend’s problems with the old Wymfoe
“I get along with him, I can talk to him and get him to stay away from you. All right? You two are dear to me and no one is going to mess with you without me tearing them apart figuratively or literally”
Yes there was possessiveness there but they were hers…well kinda for Carter but still.
Carter Roth
“Spank me right…like you wanna touch anything like that on a guy.” He says with a casual snort.
Carter nodded slowly at Adara’s words, and reached out to pluck a new beer from the table, cracking it open and simply sitting there quietly. He didn’t seem to have anything to add to that.
Rory
She flashes Adara a smile, relieved, and happy that at least Adara can talk to Simon. Rory can’t. Of course, Rory can’t talk to most people, at least not clearly enough to be understood.
Carter goes quiet, and Rory senses that it would be easier for them to chat without her here. She sets her stuff back on her work table, and then moves back to adara and kisses her briefly, shyly, before she heads toward the bathroom and the shower inside.
She’s been out all day, and is grimy – and the sky promises thunderstorms tonight. She wants to freshen up. Simple as that – and it allows old friends to talk without her scaring the kin.
[aka – bed time for Lessa soon – and seemed like a good palce. thanks for the play! :) ]