♦ Open-ish Log - Ongoing

[the_dawnster]

When; Sunday Night
Rating; PG-13 probably
Characters; whattingawhat, commarogue, the_dawnster & anyone who wants to run into three hot & drunk chicks, two who kick ass and one who gets into trouble a lot.
Summary; Faith takes Dawn out on the town (bar hopping) and Buffy comes along to make sure there are no Faith type shenanigans. Feel free to run into them at any of the bars in the Overground. They're probably going to hit them all.
Log;

The music is loud, as it is in most bars. The three girls have already been to a few of them, bars that is. But right now they're in the Victrola. Having just taken their seats, Dawn orders something fruity and pink. The bar girl says she knows just the right drink and promises to get her something fruity and pink. Dawn doesn't quite hear as her sister and Faith order drinks because she's looking up to the stage where a girl is doing something interesting with a tassel that has Dawn's features scrunching up in curiosity.

“How is that possible? I mean I get the why but not the how. And I'm pretty sure even in pretend land I can't get my body to do that.” And this is her cue to turn to Buffy and Faith and ask flat out: “Can either of you? With Slayer agility and all that, you both can probably do that with a tassel.” She grins. “Also, I just realized how funny tassels are – both in and out of context.”


ooc: Like I said, feel free to run into the girls while they're out and about. Just expect replies from all three unless specified that it's just to one or the other! ♥!

Comments

[commarogue]

Faith-type-shenanigans don't always result in evil cops and near-death, of course. Probability was not on her side for this argument, of course, but it bears mentioning because of the very happy rambling that's happening in Dawn's own little world. Brat's not all that bad, once you can dismiss the endless talking.

So Faith just shrugs as noncommittal as possible. She's never tried, but she's the Do-That Girl, and therein cannot just blow her cover like that.

"Takes practice. Bet big sister can show us, though." But Faith is eyeing the talented tassel twister with her own curiosity.

[the_dawnster]

"Yeah, Angel was old even in burlesque times. Like in the twenties or so... He probably likes tassel twirledge." Sorry Buffy, she lives to make you all spazzy and stammery. Of course this effort to make her sister all spazzy was only half-assed cause she really can't understand how the tassel thing is possible.

She's having fun tonight though. When Faith had mentioned going out, she was excited. Someone paying attention to her was always a good thing in her book.

"Maybe we all need bigger boobs." And she's looking down to gauger ger own boob size in comparison with her sister and Faith and the dancer on stage. In truth, she's bigger that Faith and Buffy in that respect. But the dancer got all the good parts she's decided. "Nope, I think I'm fine in the boob department. Go me!"

[whattingawhat]

"Sorry but I've been trying to live a tassel free life and if you want to talk about experimentation, we're going to have to discuss my sex life with Spike."

Hey, Buffy can take option C: try to horrify little sister in return. She watches the girl on stage with a bit of a tilt to her head.

"I think it's a shoulder movement, then once it gets going it's easy to maintain."

[the_dawnster]

Cue Dawn looking down at her own chest while she tries out different shoulder movements. Of course she doesn't have a tassel to see if these movements might actually work. But she's imagining it working at that seems to be enough for her since she looks up at the others with a bright smile on her lips.

"Ha! I think you're right -- in theory. Leave it to you to know all about tassel twirl-edge. Was Spike into tassel twirl-edge experimentation?" Cause now she's getting mental pictures that play into that crush she used to have on Spike when she was younger. Okay, maybe she still occasionally had a crush on Spike. But giving in to that would be weird since her sister had totally had him and that would be taking sloppy seconds from her sister. Yes, her mind just went there. And no, she is not easily horrified... even less so when a little tipsy.

[whattingawhat]

"There was no tassel twirl-edge. It was a guess!"

Buffy would be horrified for her if she knew the thought process going on in Dawn's head.

"you can try it out when we get home. As in not on stage. And what is in the fruity thing?"

she's got her own fruity thing but it's got less impact because of the slayer thing.

[the_dawnster]

"You want me to try it out when we get home? There is nothing creepy about that and please not my sarcasm." She's still teasing Buffy cause she knows she wasn't serious. And the smile and the glint in her eye shows that she's just joking too.

Dawn looks down into her glass and takes a sniff of the drink and another sip. "I don't know but it's super yum. Maybe a little bit of grapefruit? Some peach? I just asked for something pink and fruity and she delivered. There's just a tiny kick which is awesome cause I like the more fruit than kick thing."

[whattingawhat]

"No!" And here's an eww are you serious face, Dawn. "I just meant not here, in public, on stage, where people can see you."

Buffy takes a big swig of her own girly drink. "I'm not sure how much kick you need. I, on the other hand, need some much more kick."

She might reach over and steal Dawn's drink, take a big sip of it and pass it back.

[commarogue]

Faith doesn't do the fruity, so she'll turn her nose up at the drinks and enjoy her beer just fine.

"Definitely gotta do it in public. Bet the girl'll show you, too." Because she will just be over here egging on the sibling arguments.

[the_dawnster]

"I am so no doing it in public, and by it I mean anything that could diminish my total and complete awesomeness. So rest easy Buffy and no amount of goading will make me get all public with tassels."

And while she's finishing off her pink fruity drink, she simultaneously signals the bar girl that she'd like another. "I will get up and dance though." Cause who can't get up and dance to the occasional upbeat twenties music?

Dawn sets her drink down and stands up to dance. Club dancing to Sinatra, Martin, and Crosby? Yep. She can pull it off.

[commarogue]

Faith'll follow, happily goading Dawn along. "C'mon, Brat. Get loose, put that rack to use." The dancing feels good; Faith hasn't really done it since returning home, having to deal with all the crap their lives had turned into. Wonder constantly if everyone hated her again for being the one to rehabilitate Twilight.

But that's not what's on her mind now. Dawn knows how to work it, and if Faith has to pay someone off, she's getting Brat up on that stage. Maybe follow her, too.

[the_dawnster]

"I think you're way better at putting your rack to use than I am. I mean I've seen you dance and the way boys and girls look at you when you dance. You're a people magnet, people magnet Faith. Or Faith, the people magnet."

Dawn is dancing, looking around at people watching them dance. She notices people watching Faith dance. And she points them out. "See? See? I'm right." Then she looks at her sister and points. "Oh! Look! Even Buffy is watching you. Hey, remember that thing with Satsu you had, Buffy?"

[commarogue]

Faith's going to ignore the observation about Buffy in favor of helping Dawn see the parts she's missing.

"It's not all about the rack if that's what you're going for."

She slides up behind Dawn and puts her hands to her waist, forcing her to move a little looser, try to get her to swing her hips more. "Dancing is sex, Brat, and that's all down here. Unless you don't know about that stuff yet."

Yes, teasing is necessary. Absolutely.

[the_dawnster]

"Ohmigod I'm not ten years old." She performs an over the top eyeroll and then laughs. "In fact I was never ten years old which is kind of funny when you think about it." Her features fall a bit. "Or sad."

But there are things to do! Like learning to have vertical sex with Faith! Or the equivalent of it. Dancing. They're dancing, okay? Dawn looks back and down a bit to try to mimic Faith's movements. Yep, she can dance. She's actually a good dancer. And she's right there with Faith doing the vertical tango. "See? I know what I'm doing."

[commarogue]

"You're a sheltered little sister, deal with it." A little push, a little prod -- Faith's mildly sauced and they're having fun, right? Dawn's clearly enjoying herself, anyway. And for once Faith isn't feeling completely out of her element and judged and pitied.

Yeah, she could get used to this.

"Never got the experimental college years, and who knows how long we're here, so--" Faith maneuvers Dawn so that they're facing each other now. "Be young and stupid."

Snap! The flash of Faith's phone goes off as she takes a photo of Dawn. "What's your boy toy's number again?"

[the_dawnster]

Dawn is a bit tipsy too and is also a camera ham, so when she realizes what Faith is doing, she leans in close to her and makes a kissy face for the photo.

"His name is Aya, not boy toy. And send him that so he knows I look sexy tonight and am dancing with sexy girls." And she's back to dancing.

[commarogue]

Faith grins and shows Dawn her text. A couple of party animals, they are. Which, oddly, not too weird for Faith right now. She might be genuinely smiling.

"How's that fruity drink, by the way? Wondering how strong they made it."

And yes she's implying that you're very drunk, Dawn. And looking on with amusement as she pockets the phone and continues dancing.

[the_dawnster]

Dawn laughs and smiles at the text. "At least I look good! He did say I look good, right? Cause it's really not a crappy photo and I am a good dancer."

She glances down to the table where their drinks sit. "I don't know, I can't really taste the alcohol in it." Which could be because there isn't much or because she's had a lot and is immune to it by now. "He said I look cute, right??"

[commarogue]

"He's all kinds of jealous, don't worry."

Faith scoops up the drink and haves herself a sip. Oh yeah, Dawn's going to be regretting this in the morning. Good experience to have once in awhile, anyway.

"Maybe we should start thinking about calling it a night. You're gonna feel like you were hit by a mack truck in the morning, Brat."

[dulcisnuntius]

[Dulcie is perched at the bar, sipping on something pink and girly-looking. She's straining to see the show, and keeps getting comments from people to keep her wings down. Totally just jealous.]

[the_dawnster]

[Dulcie gets a tipsy Dawn rushing over to her the moment she spots her. She even gracefully recovers as she trips over a chair leg to get to her. But once she gets to Dulcie, she gives her a tight embrace.]

Dulcie! What are you doing? Out bar hopping too? Cause that would be totally cool cause it'd be like we're sharing a brain or something. Which would probably be scary for you -- the brain sharing -- with me. That was a better sentence in my head before it came out of my mouth.

[dulcisnuntius]

[Dulcie gets an armful of excited Dawn and hugs back, giggling.]

Just came out to see the show. You having fun tonight?

[the_dawnster]

Tons of fun! Faith mentioned going out so then I insisted we actually do it instead of just talking about it. And since last time Faith took me out there were cops and bar fights, Buffy came too to make sure that doesn't happen.

[She looks back over at their table for a moment before shrugging and nodding.] She seems to be having fun too though. Less fun police and more fun enabler. I like it!

[dulcisnuntius]

Hey, everyone needs to get into a bar fight once in their life. It's a valuable learning experience.

[the_dawnster]

[So it amuses her to no end when Dulcie says things like that. Cause she's an angel talking about how cool bar fights are. This gets an amused laugh out of Dawn as she looks back to Dulcie.]

Have you ever been in a bar fight? [She lightly grabs her arm with both hands.] And please say yes because that would just totally add to my whole cool angel image of you I have going on in my brain.

[dulcisnuntius]

Maybe once or twice.

[She laughs and nudges Dawn gently with her elbow.]

Not saying I was any good!

[the_dawnster]

[Dawn doesn't for one minute believe that Dulcie wasn't any good. And the indignant look on her face shows just how much she doesn't believe her. A corner of her lips twists upward even as she arches a 'yeah right' brow.]

Are you kidding? I bet an angel bar fight is way better than a slayer bar fight. You have all that Heavenly power or something? Right? Or am I making up things in my head how I want to see them? Cause sometimes Dawn-Land is like a movie with lots of special effects.

[dulcisnuntius]

Not so much with the heavenly powers. I'm just a messenger.

[the_dawnster]

[She tucks her hair back behind her ear and leans in sideways toward Dulcie. Yep, she's way too amused by pretty much everything right now and is already giggling a bit at whatever Dulcie might say with her next request.]

Okay, so messenger me. Tell me something super awesome as in way more awesome than you've ever told anyone else ever.

[dulcisnuntius]

Way to put me on the spot!

[She arranges her face into something ponderous and gives it a minute.]

The closest star to Earth outside our own solar system is in the Alpha Centuri system and is 4.37 lightyears from the sun.

[She goes back to drinking her drink non-chalantly.]

[the_dawnster]

[Give tipsy!Dawn a moment to absorb that. Then she nods and pulls back, still pondering it, probably over-thinking it, what sort of message it might be, what it might be.]

Stop me before I think too much about that message! My brain is going all haywire and hedgemaze-y.

[dulcisnuntius]

[Dulcie laughs and gives her a nudge.]

It's nothing, really. I'm a bit of an astronomy geek.

[the_dawnster]

Funny side-note: I totally didn't expect you to be an astronomy geek. That's totally cool. I mean just when I think you can't get any cooler, you do. Stop it okay?

[She grabs Dulcie's hand in hers and tugs.] Stop it and come dance with me.

[dulcisnuntius]

I thought you'd never ask!

[Dulcie downs the rest of her drink with her free hand and lets herself get tugged onto the dancefloor.]

[the_dawnster]

[Dawn loves to dance, although she doesn't get out all that often to do it. She really should because she loves it. She sticks close to Dulcie, moving to the beat of the music.]