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Lance blinked at Tassek for a bit before looking away and laughing. Once he finished, he looked back at Tassek. "I'm sorry, but I just find it funny that the first person you went to for advice is the vampire girl who has never been on a proper date in her human or vampire life. Anyway, what is /exactly/ the problem?"

Terezi gave a look to Lance. It wasn't like she was ever interested in anyone or something. Then again, the idea of someone not dating was probably foreign to Mr. Good Guy Lance.

2015-04-18 02:45:55

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What? Why wouldn't he go to her? She was the only person he had to go to. And why had she never been on a date? There were obviously people interested in her. For a moment his expression betrayed genuine confusion. He fished around in his jacket pocket and pulled out the crumpled envelope. Handing something apparently this personal to a stranger seemed off, but that was what he had come here to do, so oh well. He held it out. "I tutor students at my college for what passes as a living, and one of them gave me this today. I...have no idea what to do."

2015-04-18 02:51:29

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Lance took the note and began reading over it. About halfway through it, he stopped and looked towards the dressing rooms. "That's not something to laugh about, Ivory." He said loud enough for her to hear. "...I don't care if you think it's funny." He turned back to the letter and kept reading on. Once he finished, he slid the letter back. "Okay, is this your first time being asked out?" Lance began.

2015-04-18 02:58:19

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Why was he talking to her? She hadn't said anything. Um, well, whatever. He nodded, a little embarrassed. "I didn't think it would be so, um, threatening." He was kind of scared of what might happen if he said no.

2015-04-18 03:04:55

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"Threatening?" He repeated. "Then you should definitely say no, and if she attacks you for it? Well" he gestured to Terezi. "I'm sure she could just scare the shit out that admirer of yours."

He looked at the dressing room once more. "Well if you don't like the way he smells, you can leave." He looked back at Tessek and Terezi. "I'm sorry. This whole... bond thing is kinda new to her and I. We didn't expect it to be very strong."

2015-04-18 03:12:27

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Now he was confused /and/ offended. "Well, she's nice enough generally, and..." He blinked in surprise. "...you're a vampire too?" Holy shit, how many were there in this city? This was when he considered just never leaving his apartment again until he starved.

2015-04-18 03:16:15

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"Yeah." He placed his elbow on the glass counter and rested his chin on his hand. "There are tons of them in New York. Not as many rules to follow like in France or Russia. Though you should consider yourself lucky, you befriended the oldest and strongest one in the area currently."

2015-04-18 03:19:48

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Those were very specifically named countries. The monologuing voice grows suspicious. But hey, he really did have some kind of magical luck, didn't he? Though he didn't know about the strongest. The blue-haired guy had managed to pretty much tear her apart. Unfortunately, now he was going to be paranoid. He'd have to find out if crucifixes had any effect, because if so, he was going to start wearing one. Just on the street, though. Not around Terezi. "So does that mean everyone reports to her, or...?" No one had ever explained the whole 'master and turned' concept to him. He didn't even know it was a thing.

2015-04-18 03:25:06

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Lance shook his head. "No. If that happened we'd all be dead." He kept his gaze on Terezi. "Here mostly everyone is on their own, just mostly following the one that turned them." He informed the human. "It's different everywhere. In France a stronger bond meant more respect for the leader and the turned one, for example. If the leader is disobeyed there, more severe punishment than here is acceptable there as well. Here it's just...anarchy, in a sense."

Terezi remained silent. Why was Tassek was so interested in this?

2015-04-18 03:33:26

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Oh, so /that/ was how it worked. Did that mean...the blue haired guy was her 'master'? If so, that was horrible, even if France did allow for more punishment. She was from France, right? Was that why he was specifying it? He frowned as he processed the information. "....huh."

2015-04-18 03:42:30

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Terezi leaned against the glass counter and looked down at the floor. Ever since Spyder and her's bond was weakened, the subject always made her uncomfortable. Yeah, that's right. She used to enjoy his company.

Lance noticed Terezi's unease and went quiet for a moment."Is there anything else you need help with, Tassek?"

2015-04-18 03:52:28

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He looked at her. She didn't seem to want anything to do with this topic. "I think...that's probably all. Thank you." He still had little to no idea what to do about the letter, but would rather not impose on Lance any more.

2015-04-18 03:59:35

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"Very well, enjoy your night then. Goodbye Tassek and Terezi." Lance waved them goodbye for retreated into the store.

Terezi quietly turned and headed for the door, but Ivory stepped out of the dressing rooms. "Wait, Terezi!" she called out to her.

"Yes?" Terezi faced her.

"About an hour or so before you came in, a man came in asking about you. He had blue hair, and some kind of weird bandanna type thing around his neck. I don't know why, but he seemed pissed about something. He kept blabbering on that you ruined everything or something."

2015-04-18 04:07:57

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His eyes widened. Blue hair guy! "M-maybe you should hide, Terezi. Your apartments not safe if he's still looking for you." Hadn't he jumped out a window? On, like, the third story? Shit. And now it sounded like he may be mentally unstable. As if he wasn't bad enough before.

2015-04-18 04:11:46

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Terezi just shook her head. "I'll deal with him when I see him." She continued on and stepped outside. Clearly the previous conversation still slightly bothered her. "Coming?" She asked Tassek, still holding the door open.

2015-04-18 04:14:06

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"But..." The amount of bothers was tremendous. He followed her out, looking worried. "If he's mad, you could really be in trouble. You could stay with me, he probably wouldn't expect that..."

2015-04-18 04:20:29

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Terezi turned to face him with a serious look. "And do what, Tassek? Just wait for him to come and kill you? Or a least try to? He's been pissed off since the day I left for America. I can handle him." She realized she had completely snapped at him for no reason, and inhaled deeply to calm down. "I'm sorry, I just...I just don't want you to get hurt by him anymore than you already have."

2015-04-18 04:25:34

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"Can't you care about your ovn safety for once?! You've done nothing but save my skin since ve met, let me protect you this time!" His voice lost the hesitant tone entirely, and he looked vaguely frustrated. "If not my apartment, then the dorms. No one gives a shit about a random person hanging out in an empty room as long as they keep it and their nose clean." He sighed. "I knov --" Dammit. This again. "...I /know/ you worry about me, and have every right to, but you're the one being stalked by a psychotic punk vampire, not me, and I want to be able to help."

2015-04-18 05:05:03

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"I know." She repeated. "I know you want to help, and maybe a part of me wishes you could? I don't know." She ran a hand through her hair. "But you're the human here. He could easily fatally hurt you and I...I wouldn't be able to do anything about it. "

2015-04-18 05:21:35

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He glared at the ground. "You act like I'm destined to wind up in a lethal situation or something. I've been looking at judo lessons, at some point in the foreseeable future I'll actually be able to defend myself." And her. Even at his size, judo holds and throws could be plenty effective against any humanoid creature, be they vampire or no.

2015-04-18 05:31:57

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"It's because I'm the very thing you should be afraid of. He /isn't/ me. He /won't/ show mercy. He's a vampire, for fucks sake. Him and I fighting? That's normal. " She kept her eyes on him the entire time. There was no way she was letting him in harms way again.

2015-04-18 05:36:38

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"He knows we're close, he even used that against you, so why wouldn't he do it again? Even if you tried to keep me out of it, he'd just get me involved to get you to do what he wants. If you're so set on keeping me from getting stuck in the middle of this at all, the only way to do that is to either lock me in a cage somewhere or stop talking to me entirely." He didn't look like he wanted either. Being kidnapped again would be preferable.

2015-04-18 05:48:17

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"I /know/ he knows, and I'm pretty sure he expects that we'll stop talking too." She shoved her hands in her pockets. "No matter what, we're in a lose/lose situation. One of us is going to get hurt no matter what we do."

We're? Us? Those words again.

2015-04-18 05:57:44

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He considered suggesting fleeing the country. No, that was a dumb idea in any situation barring war or an unsuccessful con scheme. "So we face him. Since all it'll do is get it over with faster." Like pulling off a band-aid. A blue, douchey band-aid.

2015-04-18 06:02:55

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She thought for a moment. That did seem like a reasonable idea. "Well how do you propose we do that?" She had no idea where he lived or what he did in the daytime, nor did she want to know.

2015-04-18 06:05:09