Cherubplay

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Cale was out for one of his walks as the sun disappeared below the horizon. God, he needed the quiet. Zane'd been acting weird, well, weirder than usual, since the whole Ivory ordeal, and then there was the kid showing up at his door, and the other girl was Terezi's angel??? Shiiit, he just needed time to think. Unfortunately, his solace was interrupted by the sight of two extremely colorful figures gallivanting their way down the street. He saw a red hoodie and wings, though dark-colored. No way. Terezi and angel guy??? Sure, she had bright pink hair and he looked like an Icee on steroids, but Cale would recognize that petite frame and short haircut anywhere. He moved to chase after them, maybe he could at least hold them until he got the kid here. Gently. They were sick, after all, and boy, were they /sick/.

2015-07-05 08:40:41

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Seculus and Terezi practically bounced down the sidewalk, hand in hand. Occasionally, they would get a few odd stares, but other than that, were left alone. "New York is so bigggg!" Terezi declared. "It's like its own state, but also its own city, but everyone thinks this is all of what New York is." She then sensed something, a vampire? She turned her head. Oh! Cale! "SECULUS!" she happily squealed. "LOOK! LOOK! IT'S CALE! LOOK!"

2015-07-05 08:45:53

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"It should just be its own country, then we could run the government!" Seculus looked over at the general direction her squeals were aimed and waved enthusiastically. "HIIII, MR. FOX!!! ISN'T THIS WONDERFUL???"

Oh shit. They'd seen him. He froze. Why the fuck were they holding hands? TASSEK DID YOU BREAK HER HEART HE SWEARS TO SARANDIEL IF YOU DID YOU WILL PAY. He began stalking towards them. At the very least he could stall, keep them here or even get them to tell him where they were hiding. "Terezi, stay there. I need to talk to you."

2015-07-05 08:55:14

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Terezi blinked before smiling. "About what? Is it about how beautiful Seculus is because IIIIIIIII" She pointed to herself. "Already know that."

2015-07-05 08:58:01

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What the /fuck/. "No. Not even a little bit. Look, 'rezi, you need to get back to Tassek, he's worried sick about you, and not your kind of sick, the kind that gives people stomach ulcers."

2015-07-05 09:03:02

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"Well he can FUCK OFF!" She giggled at her own swear. "Tassek kicked me out and /I'm/ happy for once. Seculus is all I need."

2015-07-05 09:07:48

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"From what I heard, it was your angel, not Tassek, and it was a mistake. What's wrong with you? You never move on this quickly." Seculus glared a bit. "What's wrong with /you/, trying to break us up and send us back to those twats?!" "You're both crazy! When did this even happen??"

2015-07-05 09:10:03

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"Why can't you just let me be happy?!" She frowned. "Why do you always hurt me?!"

2015-07-05 09:11:09

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"I don't -- I don't mean to hurt you, I'm trying to keep you safe, and happy too, everything I did was for your...you know what, this conversation's pointless, come on, I'm taking you home." He approached and grabbed Seculus's wrist in a vampire death lock, starting to drag him away. The neon angel tried to resist, to little effect. "Let gooo, that isn't home, this is! You're so bossy!" "Just shut up." Neither of them were in their right minds, surely. He took Terezi's hand as well. So help him, he was getting them home.

2015-07-05 09:16:05

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Instead of whining, Terezi grasped his hand and pulled him back. "I'm sorry, but I can't let you do that." Her frown still remained.

2015-07-05 09:17:59

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"I don't really care if you'll let me or not, it's happening." He kept pulling. This was for her own good.

2015-07-06 07:41:21

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"Then I'm sorry." She took a step forward, as if she wasn't fighting anymore.

"But I have to do this." She looked him in the eyes with some sincerity, as if she was sorry before pulling him into a tight hug.

Then rested her head on his shoulder.

And bit down on him.

2015-07-06 07:46:27

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He froze at the hug. She wasn't acting as she normally would, so it was rare, and actually felt nice. ...until she bit him on the neck. He let out a hoarse yelp of pain and shoved her away, stumbling backwards with a hand to his bleeding neck. Oh God. Oh God. He stared at her, expression shocked and betrayed, turned, and ran. He could find them again later, he needed blood, and he needed it fast.

Seculus cheered a bit as he was released and went over to Terezi, ducking his head and pulling down his collar. "Quick, take a bit before you die faster."

2015-07-06 07:52:41

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"As if I need any convincing." She quickly bit down on his neck. While doing so, she wrapped her arms around him. Ah yes. This was much better than feeding off Tassek. It was /so nice/. So very nice. Everything about him invited her in.

2015-07-06 07:56:17

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His mind went fuzzy as she drank, and for a split second some unimportant voice near the rear corner of his thoughts pointed out how very wrong this all was, and how he should've gone with Cale. Naturally, he ignored it. What a stupid voice, saying ridiculous things like that.

Cale sprinted home as fast as he could and Zane looked up from his guitar as the door slammed open against the wall. "Cale? Are you...you are bleeding, what happened?" "Tell you in a sec, please, let me get some blood." Zane frowned in concern, but nodded, and Cale moved across to him in one, two strides, leaning forward and tugging away the bandages to bite down. He tried to take as little as he could, he'd already fed this week and Zane didn't need a whole other problem, and when he pulled back the taller man was wiping the blood away from both of their necks. "It has been a 'sec', now share." "Terezi bit me." "You found her? Wait, she /what/?" "I tried to get them home and she just up and bit me. They're /that desperate/ to stay hidden." "You should call Tassek and tell him. Are you sure you are okay now?" "Yeah, I'm fine, and she had angel guy to feed off of. It was just to get me away from her." He picked up the communal cell phone from the couch next to Zane and dialed Tassek's number.

2015-07-06 08:09:18

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Something told this was wrong. Oh, this was so wrong. She should be ashamed of herself for liking this so much. Well, if this was wrong, then she didn't want to be write. She pulled away. "Mmmmm" She licked her lips. "You taste so amazing." She whispered into his ear before taking a step back.

2015-07-06 08:13:04

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"Mm, I try." He straightened up, brushing her hair out of her face, and glanced down the street. Cale was gone, but a brightly colored sign caught his eye and he pointed, grinning. "Wanna go in there?"

2015-07-06 08:17:56

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Her smiled returned. "Hell yeah I do!" She took his hand before practically skipping with him into the store.

2015-07-06 08:19:21

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His gaze ran along the lines of boxes cans on the shelves. Wow! This place had everything! "Let's find you a dress!"

Tassek's phone rang and he snatched it up with as much clumsy grace as he could manage. "Hello?" "Shit, kid, it rang for about half a second. I saw Terezi and Seculus." "What? Do you have them with you?" "No, they...got away. But they were over by one of the subway entrances." "Which one?" "Uh...no clue. They all look the same." Did Tassek actually expect him to know which one? Fuck maps, he didn't need them. "Goddammit, fine, I'll just check /every/ entrance, that won't take a month or anything." "Screw you, I was kind of in a panic at the time." "Why?" "...none of your business. Doesn't one of them have a phone or something?" "...I'll get right on that." He hung up and looked through his contacts. ...yep, there was Seculus's number. He never really used it since he tended to erase its memory every time he tried to, so it hadn't occurred to Tassek that he might have it on him. But it was worth a shot. He pressed call and held it to his ear, waiting with bated breath for the click of a pick-up.

2015-07-06 08:33:05

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"A dress? I haven't worn a dress in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time. Think we'll find one that's pretty enough?" Then Seculus's pocket started ringing and vibrating. He had a phone? Who knew. "Dude, I think someone wants to talk to youuuuu. You must be pretty popular today." She giggled.

2015-07-06 08:36:11

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"You'd look good in anything." He spun around at the ringing, then reached back and pulled the phone out of his pocket, looking at it. "Whaaat?? How do I answer, how do I answer??"

2015-07-06 08:38:34

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"Okay take a deep breath." She reassured him. Slowly, she opened the phone and pressed the answer button for him. "Now put it up to your ear and talk, but you gotta be polite and say hello first."

2015-07-06 08:39:58

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He kissed her on the forehead and took the phone back. "Thank you dear, I don't know what I'd do without you." He put it to his ear. Upside down. "Helloooo?"

It was answered, thank Sarandiel, but no one responded for a few seconds. He heard muffled talking, and from the words he could make out it sounded like Terezi calming Seculus down from a panic attack, but when his voice came over the phone, he sounded fine. Well, except for the fact that he could barely hear whatever he was trying to say. "Seculus, where the Hell are you?!"

2015-07-06 08:43:47

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Terezi stared at him for a moment before realizing the mistake. "No no, sweetie." She turned the phone the correct way and put the end Tassek was screaming out of to Seculus's ear. "This way."

2015-07-06 08:45:57

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Suddenly he could hear Tassek's angry yelling clear as day, and it wasn't very pleasant. All he caught was "--are you?!" and he responded with "Am I? Am I whaaaat?"

That fucking British accent was somehow sounding even more annoying than usual. He was talking almost like Ren, and it was unnatural enough to send a small shiver down Tassek's spine. "Are you ready for me to beat you to a pulp, because that's what I'll be doing to your corpse if you don't get back here /right this second/."

2015-07-06 08:53:34