Topic: Mom... Dad... this is Mannique and We're in Love

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-19 21:55 EST
The world was starting to change for everyone and it happened in the span of a week. Amare could feel it and knew he wasn't alone but that didn't keep him from feeling self absorbed and alienated all at the same time.

He handled things the way he usually did. That special brand of destruction, swallowed down with fury and then a rest in between bursts. That was how he ended up in one of Rhy'Din's alleyways with a garbage bag full of barbie doll heads and an empty box of condoms. Trying to get drunk and stay drunk could be frustrating as fuck and it didn't do much to make him feel any different, anyway. He had done something destructive, something that was meant to be cathartic but it wasn't. Was it because no matter how much he treated his anger that it could not ease, not with Quinn also being on edge and feeling that back into him? Family, man, fuck.

The barbie doll bag of heads was sort of like a pillow he half laid his head on and have hugged to his chest. is expensive dark blue suit and he were curled up on the side, facing the ugly brick wall of the alleyway. That was when he reached for his jacket pocket and made the call to Quinn, skipping a 'hello' and opting next for, "I think we need to hurt something."

When the light lit on his phone across the room he grumbled and reached across the body beside him. "Mmmmm, make it quiet!" He said at the roaring of the vibration against the night table. The way it buzzed was climbing into his brain and rattling, someone had apparently been drinking.

Fingers crept around and knocked empty bottle after empty bottle and he was laying across his bedmate before he finally got his phone to his ear. There was a thick film in his mouth and instead of getting up to brush he reached around on the floor for a bottle with something inside of it. Goddamnit who the the hell was it at this hour, better yet what the fuck hour was this! Amare. Of course. "Listen if it's bleeding there's a kit in the...Wait what? Oh, you haven't made it bleeding yet. Okay, let's hurt things." He said as if that was normal and nudged at his bed buddy. "Get up, we are going to kill things, grab the nylon rope, two bottles of wd-40 and some zipties...Wait." He held up a finger and looked at the phone. "What size somethings?" Maybe they would need tranqs, he was unsure if this was a quick and painless hurt something but he figured it was a long drawn out painful hurting of things.

"I was about to take a nap in the alleyway, I don't have any of that shit on me." Well, not anymore.

He sat up, cross legged and still facing the brick wall of the alleyway. The plastic bag of barbie doll heads left an impression on the side of his face. A few blond locks were sticking up, "Pick me up and we'll get it and... does size really matter? Yes, yes it does." Amare leaned back, the hand not holding the phone splayed out on the paved ground of the alleyway behind him as he twisted to get a look at where he was, "I'm in the back alley by the Red Dragon."

"If someone tells you that size doesn't matter it's akin to telling you that your dick is small." Pausing he nodded to himself. "I'll be there when I'm there." The phone was hung up and tossed onto the nightstand and he grumbled and pulled the blankets up over his head. "Eu nao quero," was whined into the shoulder next to him and he shook his head and snuggled up closer.

Apparently he had not found a bottle and would be needing one for the road, or maybe two, good luck to all those involved. Amare would bounce back right? Yeah, they'd be fine. Famous, last, words.

"Size abso-fuckin'-lutely matters," said the bedmate, a purple haired teenage science experiment with a white wolf draped over her. Hottest electric blanket ever? The RV was getting to be a tad cramped, what with Saila and Quinn and Dave and sometimes-Keirra. Neither Saila nor Keirra had any grand designs on sharing a bed with Dave, and Quinn didn't fit on the couch anyway, so. Visions of that month they lived together at the Red Dragon, right?

Saila sat up, raking her fingers through tangled purple locks. She leaned over the side of the bed, snagging her bag of apparently infinite holding, fumbled around inside it and... came up empty. "Holy shit, Big Bad. You really did drink all my scotch. Good job. What am I getting again?" She had supplies... somewhere. Surely.

"Don't take all goddamn night." He didn't know if Quinn even heard him before the phone was hung up. Not that it mattered.

He pushed off the palm flattened on the ground behind him to steady himself against the brick wall as he climbed to his feet. Great. Something was going to happen, somewhere. And Quinn would have WD40, zipties and... what were they killing with that? It sounded like a person but Quinn and Dirk had always been all anti-eating-people or something. They never said it, but what was the probability of a wolf pack NOT doing that? Amare wondered if they were doing it because of him, and if so, was it with the assumption that it would help him out somehow? He'd be more sympathetic if he only ate a screaming deer and not a screaming hiker? People were fucking weird.

On his feet, his fingers pushed back through his hair, combing it back as he squinted towards the alleyway entrance. It was too soon for Quinn to actually be there but he was impatient and couldn't not-look that direction. Pulling out his phone. Fuck. Well, there was always candy crush until Quinn quit taking a shit or whatever the fuck and actually showed up. Ahhh... five in a row. That's extra points.

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-19 22:13 EST
"Let's start with more scotch, or bourbon, tell me the freaky ghost thing isn't in here is he?" Getting out of the bed it was strange to see he was actually wearing pants. Fingernails grazed the flesh beneath his navel and assaulted it with heavy scratching as he made his way to the bathroom. Door was left open while he spoke. "WD-40, nylon rope, zipties, ducktape, and some of those things..." He was rolling his hand in the air thinking. "Bullets...yeah some of those."

Shaking and tucking away he walked out of the bathroom and peeked in where Dave should be, and wasn't. "This place would have been a lot bigger if you had picked the one without the heated human milkshake machine." Quinn was not a fan of jacuzzis clearly and he was stumbling about trying to find his watch, which, was still on his wrist, and his cuff, which was on his other wrist.

Figuring fuck it, he picked up a shirt and sniffed at it, it wasn't too terrible so he pulled it on over his head. "We gotta get the Rabies Baby, or plural, I don't know, I guess we will find out when we get there, but we are going to make things, not alive." A bottle of vodka swiped from the freezer in passing and he was looking for keys.

Saila shrugged. She was not wearing pants, and after Quinn headed for the bathroom the long legged girl would peel herself out of the bed, trading her pajama shorts for a fresh pair of black jeans. The girl checked her phone, shot a quick text back, and then she was padding over to the little closet, finding herself a shirt.

"The jacuzzi wasn't my idea, dude. You were having a nostalgic moment about the one at Keirra's old apartment?" This was called back over her shoulder as the girl shucked her (actually, probably his) tshirt, put on a new bra and went hunting for a shirt. Her skin was practically fluorescing, so it was for the best that Dave wasn't in the immediate vicinity.

Well. Depending on your definition of 'for the best', anyway.

Redressed, the girl went to one of her cabinets and started pulling out the items Quinn wanted, pretty much all of which were loaded into the bag she slung over her shoulder as soon as she'd finished feeding her little pet. Rather than fucking with a brush, the girl pulled waist length tresses up into a knot at the crown of her head and used a set of chopsticks to secure it.

About that time she veered into the bathroom, pulling the keys out of their most recent hiding place. Why? Because Quinn was in no condition to drive. "Got everything but the booze and also the keys. Ready?"

Ohh a sixer. Didn't get those very often. And... what was that annoying sound?

"What?" He looked up from his phone to the prostitute who tapped her cigarette and repeated her offer of a good time for him. Amare's eyes rolled and he stepped back to the alley, grabbing his trash bag and hauling it over his shoulder. It wasn't heavy, but the heads of a hundred barbie dolls seemed like they should still have use somewhere. Glued to something. Oh! Glued to something of Quinn's. That really would be the best. Maybe all the way around the steering wheel of his car or on the lid of his toilet so there would be a whole audience every time he went to take a piss. At least twenty accommodating smiled from the barbie heads could fit there, angled up at him.

Oh good, Amare wanted to die already.

Quinn was looking back at Saila and fucking with the cap to the vodka, cheap, shitty, vodka, oh Ko, how we love you. Tipping it against his lips he looked down and realized he was barefoot. Shoes. He slid into the back and grey checkered Vans and stumbled down the steps not because of his non sobriety, but because he was used to a step less. The lycan got red in the face and cursed as he looked to where his home had once been. "I am moving this RV there. I don't fucking like it here." As if that was just it. With her shit, best to just pat him on the head and move on though. "Or we could all move to the piece of property on the lake, wait, FUCKING TEXT MESSAGE."

The bottle was thrown and shattered against the ground where his and Levi's camper had been before he cursed some more in portugese and got into the truck. Apparently he wasn't taking this very well. Pitting he and Amare against anything innocent would be a bad idea.

Saila just kinda... stared after him. She did a quick visual sweep of the camp, mostly to locate Mark. She considered, not for the first time since this little binge started, whether it might not be safer to relocate to their very favorite room at the Inn. Granted, Quinn was supposed to be in charge of Dave, but ... Dave wasn't a danger to anybody but Ian, just at present, and Ian didn't seem like he much cared one way or the other. She half expected Mark to come out of the shadows with that look on his face, the disapproving one that made him seem more like a dad than any of her other so called authority figures and mentors. "Easy, Big Bad," Saila murmured. "Let's not piss off the Gypsy King."

Her second sweep was to locate Dave and then Ian, actually. The two could kill each other if they needed to but she'd prefer they did it somewhere else where she could claim she hadn't seen or known about it. Ian appeared to be with Mark, and Dave was... out of range. Distantly it occurred to her that was probably a bad thing, but the teen had much bigger problems at present. Largely six feet six inches of intoxicated, angry alpha wolf.

The final sweep as she moved towards the truck was for Mac. Because the ghost couldn't hurt anybody, but she still liked to know where it was.

Mac was in Mark's RV, because that was where Ian was. He had a lot of anger towards Ian. For shit being fucked up and wrong and it was easy for Mac to take all of that out on Ian because the kid's guilt was so ripe that it let him do that. Mark, for better or worse, was holding onto Grace and keeping her near so she wouldn't float away.

"Heyyyy honey, you sure you don't want a good time?"

Amare rolled his eyes and looked at the prostitute, "Seriously, what the fuck? Is this a slow goddamn night or what?" He pocketed his candy crush, turning to look at her, "How much would it cost me to have you make out with that homeless guy? I mean, really give it to him all the way. Just look beyond the rotting teach and meth addiction and plant your vag on his face and see what happens." His method of conflict resolution might have explained a lot. The prostitute gave him an eat-shit look and flicked her cigarette, looking away as if he'd said nothing.

"Nao me dizes para ser facil." Eyes on Saila, telling her not to tell him to take it easy. Anger wasn't pleasant on Quinn and the quills were raised higher than nornal since he was dealing with an angry wolf and a self loathing one, who was probably rotting in jail somewhere. Quinn wasn't sure what was up with Amare and Dirk, Levi would have been the one to tell him that. And he was NOT speaking to Levi who had just up and taken off on him without so much as inviting him to come along, as far as Quinn was concerned Levi could lick his foot for all he cared. There was grumbling and groaning and when Saila came to the truck he turned on the radio. Because apparently there were two teenagers in this truck, soon to be three, and two of them petulant and pissy.

Saila made a face. "...You do realize that Mark's going to find a way to decide that this is my fault, right?" The girl grumbled under her breath - not like Quinn couldn't hear her whether she said it out loud or not - as she climbed into the driver's side.

Fitting the keys into the ignition, the purple girl slid her hands over the wheel of the truck. She'd been driving muscle cars --and the hearse -- more than any other car here lately, and she wanted a second to adjust her focus before she put it in gear. Centered, the actual teenager put her seat belt on, checked her mirrors and then headed out of the parking area for the road that would lead them to town. "Where is Rabid Baby, anyway?"

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-19 22:26 EST
"Mark will blame this on Levi, for bringing, and ditching an angry wolf, in the middle of his fucking camp... I swear to God, I will..." And then he went on a rant in portuguese that would make a sailor blush and finished it by wondering why he had thrown the vodka, he wasn't sober, but he wasn't drunk anymore and he needed to gnash his teeth into something, or get black out shitfaced again. A deep breath was taken and he looked to her before opening the glove box and pulling the magazine for his forty five free. Rounds counted and recounted before he slid it into its place and tucked the entire piece back into the glovebox. Now whole. "I'm sorry what? Ohhh Amare, he's in the alley...Behind the dragon."

Amare was successful in warding off the skankiest of prostitutes. The ones that really just felt like they couldn't hit their quota. But a new dawn was rising. The one where he was getting another idea, another motivation, and was finding it hard as Hell to just stay where he was. Why was he staying right there, at the mouth of the inn, anyway? Oh, Quinn, right. He was on his way. Could he feel it? Hard to say, it all kinda felt like a jumble at that point in time.

Ohhhh but what was that? Turned on the ball of his foot and moved to investigate. Amare was getting further from the alleyway entrance but not from the main road.

It wasn't far. Saila, of course, understood the Portuguese rant, a dim smile on her face. Hey, it was no secret how she felt about certain things, so the teenager was the wrong place to look for a champion or even a devil's advocate.

The Dragon wasn't far, especially not in a truck that fast, and she was not-so-secretly glad that she was driving. There was a whole lot of blood on that truck, still -- the physical evidence had been washed off but it wasn't the physical that clung to Saila's skin like spiderwebs. It would have been considerably worse in the passenger seat or the truck bed.

Her lip curled as she angled the truck to a stop at the mouth of the alley. "...Where'd he go?"

"No clue." There was no waiting for the truck to be shut off, he just got out and followed his instincts to lead him to Amare, who's energies had changed a bit and Quinn was now noticing. "Marrrrrrrrco" was called into the alley with a little pep in his step. Bouncing back and forth on the balls of his feet and wandering out of sight. Oops, well, if Saila was babysitting she would have to follow them.

"Tall, bleached and almost as handsome as I am....Come out come out wherever you are." Peeking now behind a dumpster and bowing in apology to a homeless man whom he'd awoken with a start.

Saila was relatively certain her obligation to baby sit ended at the boundary of the Camp, actually. At this point she was just along for the ride. Amare was in the vicinity, she could see him now though she couldn't see him, and she headed off in that general direction once she'd closed the doors and locked the truck.

Because it was a nice truck even if it was a little bloodsoaked, and getting it stolen right now would be inconvenient.

He was occupied for the time being with something sort-of-weird. It was a discarded mannequin with a wig stitched to her head that was on the verge of being completely removed. One leg was missing and she was naked, but with no delicious nude details. Anyway, he stuffed her under his arm and turned, feeling... maybe even hearing, the Call of the Quinn, "Polo you fuck." And that was when he started in their direction, knowing it before he saw it or really really heard it. Took only a few seconds to identify that vehicle. Lucky them. Amare is baring the gift of a discarded mannequin, a bag of barbie doll heads and empty condom wrappers box and well, of course, the gift that keeps on giving: him.

"You take fucking forever. You got to get your makeup on right or some shit?"

"I had to make sure my lipstick was perfect for you." He made kissy faces and looked around. "Where's mopey?" Speaking of course of Dirk. He froze when he saw the mannequin and then looked up to Amare slowly. "Fuck you do need to hurt things." Carefully that arm reached out to straighten the hair on their new lady friend. "She'd be prettier with nipples." Pointing now to the general chest area of himself while he turned towards the truck.

"So what are we doing, we have a human hunt kit, and WD-40 because I always wish I had some and I never do." He was speaking casually and waving a hand around. "We can hit a liquor store on the way, or knock of a liquor store, whack off a liquor store might be tricky but I am willing to try!"

It dawned on Saila very suddenly that she was .. very much the responsible party in this little excursion. That revelation made her grin like a Cheshire cat.

Mismatched eyes narrowed suspiciously on the mannequin thing. "...The fuck is that?"

"He's fucking..." Amare was angry, but at Quinn's question he looked around himself. Very much the mean junk yard dog without direction, "He's in jail for three years. Three years. What the fuck."

As quickly as it had been said he redirected, looking at the mannequin under his arm and then to Quinn and then Saila, "It's goddamn fashion you heathens." To that end the mannequin was shoved into the back of the vehicle they had pulled up in. There was a smile as he adjusted the garbage bag over his shoulder, "Do we get to hunt humans now?" That was different. What was letting him get away with that these days? His gaze flickered between Quinn and Saila in the hunt for clues.

"Jail for three ye---the sex doll thing?" Mismatched eyes went wide as her gaze slid from Amare to Quinn, and all at once the girl realized how manic both wolves really were. Well. This should be... disastrous. But probably fun? Hopefully? Worst case scenario she could just... xanax them both, Saila style. This was her one small consolation to her conscience as she got back into the driver's seat.

"... Sometimes Quinn and I like to do some civil service," she said nonchalantly, glancing at Amare in the rear view mirror. "...What's in the bag?"

"Three...Shit...So you're probably ALMOST as pissed as I am with Levi." Nodding once and opening the door for Amare before getting into the front of the truck. "Three years is better than 30 though, you'd be shriveled up and your dick would shoot dust." He made pew pew pew noises as he eyed Saila. "Hey now, let the lady have her secrets."

Nodding to Amare before he looked around for something, scotch usually, but he didn't have any in the truck so he went digging into the narnia purse. Where he found the pot pops and handed one over to Saila and then one to Amare with a nod. "Here you go, mellow some. And yes, we can hunt humans now. Shit bag humans, not just any humans..." Not that he actually cared at the moment but he was trying to be positive, trying, but sitting around with his perverbial dick in his hand was making him antsy and so he popped the lolly in his mouth and looked around again.

"A lot of civil service," And there goes the barbie doll heads with a toss, to the far, far back. The half-woman mannequin, Mannique, would sit like a passenger in the back, "He had priors, I didn't the justice system ass fucks itself again and again." Quinn said the bit about Levi and Amare frowned, "You been feeding me your pissed off vibes and I can't rest. We fuckin' been keeping each other wired." This was the joy of family, right? Though he snorted at the dust and shriveled, "Werewolves don't age as fast, jackass." That wasn't the problem. The problem was that Amare experienced life and growth at the same rate as a human.

So three years was still goddamn long.

"I don't want to mellow," he took the pop, looked at it with irritation and then climbed into the back of the truck, "If I wanted to mellow I wouldn't want to bite something's head off." Amare didn't really care if the humans were shitbags or not, but if that was there thing? Fine. He wrapped one arm around the mannequin and looked at her plastic, half mangled face, "You know, it's always the girls with issues that are good in bed."

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-19 22:47 EST
"No, I don't know that. I haven't ever..." He shrugged and looked around before just shutting his mouth, he was guessing no one needed to know about that. The words were a little silly sounding around the loli and he laughed flipping on the radio. Something silly was on and he smiled happily. Yes, bad pop music, go ahead, try and tell him he had to change it. Dare ya.

Channnggeeee itttt.

Saila gestured at Quinn without taking her eyes off the road. She wanted him to peel the plastic off the sucker while she drove. The muse had a destination in mind already, a place she'd noted on one of her walkabouts as a good spot for another one of their clean up missions. It was in the Dockside district, just behind the gaudy glitz of Kabuki street. Lots of fun to be had over there, and a liquor store besides.

Amare's comment about issues and girls brought a smirk to her face. "...Damn I must have a lot of issues," she murmured to no one in particular.

Well, he would have pressed that button with Quinn, if he'd known it was there. The meaning and usefulness of the lollipop was, for the time being, not well understood.

"What was that, Mannique? You need to suck cock? I know, I know, it's the addiction of the underpaid and underrepresented social class," to which he grabbed the mannequin's head and made it bob up and down over his lap, "Ooooohhhh don't stop. Is that a tongue ring? You have daddy issues? Ohhh I never would have guessed." Then Mannique was shoved to the side and his body pressed to the window, "What's that smell?"

Hand was lifted and he pulled at the wrapper, tugging and peeling it from the sucker before wincing at what she said. "As long as they aren't Daddy issues... I don't want to think about you being one of THOSE... oh god." He pinched the bridge of his nose, another time and place those two would have ended up in the sack, but thankfully for Saila, Quinn had not tried to badly fuck her in his truck all those months ago.

"You are going to have nun issues next time you meet up with Hex, also I may want to skull fuck him with a hot french fry for reasons I do NOT need to mention and..." he smelled it too and looked around perking up. God the mannequin had Daddy issues.

Saila snickered, claiming the sucker once the annoying cellophane was out of the way. She cast Quinn a sidelong grin that became almost immediately skeptical. "... A hot french fry, huh? Let's.. not, okay? I'm feeling... really very positive on him just at present, yeah?" She was, too. She only tried to keep it ratcheted down some for his sake.

But that was the bitch of it, for Saila. Nearly everyone she knew was more miserably devastated than they'd possibly ever been, and Saila... Saila was actually really goddamn happy.

"Some one clue me in on what smells. Am I stopping here?" She asked, her mouth full of blue sucker.

"You smell that, right?" But now the conversation was distracting him. He reached forward, his right hand tightening down on Quinn's shoulder when he leaned in to ask, "Is this hot french fry a thing I don't know about?" It was, at the very least, terminology he didn't know about. His blue puddles jumped to the road ahead, "You two are the human-killing prudes so find a lot already. I think we just passed some bbq." His head turned back to Quinn as he asserted, "I need superglue."

"Oh..." Arm went back into the bag and he went to looking for superglue because well apparently Levi took his common sense with him when he left. "I assure you, I am not a human killing prude, and killing people indiscriminately isn't something I am proud of." Eyes narrowed at the rearview trying to catch those ceruleans before going back to looking for glue. "It's food that we smell, I want food, but I can eat anything really, anyone." Shrugging as his arm disappeared into the bag.

"Sorry..." Murmured at Saila who he was trying to be supportive of, but really, life was pretty fucking low right about now, he didn't do well solo and maybe it was why the man was happy to move into the cramped camper with Dave and Saila and sometimes Keirra, chances of him sleeping alone were slim and he didn't have to worry about waking from the terrors with no one around. "Saila, we thinking drug runners or slavers?" Curious.

I don't think you should give him the super glue -- the thought was radiating out at Quinn like a flashing hazard sign. Saila had this feeling that Mannique was going to end up a permanent backseat driver. Well, it would get him through HOV lanes and stuff, right? Saila had recently learned about HOV lanes. It was a new thing to fixate on, like death and popsicles.

....Popsicles still confused the shit out of her, incidentally.

"No need to apologize, Big Bad." She took a sudden sharp right in the truck. To be fair, there was a change in the shift of energy around them that had made her veer off course, a new scent to follow, basically. The net result might have been throwing Amare across the back seat, but if so it wasn't intentional. Honest.

"...I was going for drug dealers, but I've just changed my mind."

Was Quinn so wrapped up in what he was experiencing that he didn't even realize he was enabling Amare? The question of what the superglue was for or what would happen next wasn't even being raised. This was sort of like Heaven, minus all the sad parts and reality which had caused it to be actualized. The hand that gripped Quinn's shoulder relaxed, his fingers drumming against the curve of Quinn's shoulder as he thought, "If you eat someone who is high, do you get high?" Inquiring minds want to know.

Sharp turn had his body swaying a little in the direction. Enough that he broke his hand from Quinn entirely to brace himself against the ribcage of the car surrounding him. Jostled fairly well. "Ohhh you changed your mind. I didn't know you could do that on account of mostly being a fucking shadow-squirrel. It's a little weird, you know, seeing you drive. Making decisions. It's like you're a person."

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-19 22:52 EST
It was making Quinn angry to be touched, and then when Amare went flying away, he smiled to himself. He knew better of course than to show Amare that it bothered him, oh no, he wasn't that dumb. Then he looked between Amare and Saila. "You need to be nicer to her, or she'll make you ruin another pair of shorts, and we'll be hunting deer for the rest of the week." Was that a Dad voice?! No, clearly this was Alpha talk, he was trying to put Amare in his place as far as Saila was concerned. "She's a person, a person who could rip your mind inside out if she wanted to. A person I couldn't stop from doing so if I wanted to."

Humming along to song REALLY bad pop song while he lit a cigarette and looked out the window. Eyes shifted sidelong at saila, what was going on in that head of hers though he wondered.

Saila was tracking a particularly malevolent cloud of slime ball, at present, her mind largely focused on following the trail to its source. "I found you some mayhem, fellas," her voice was quiet, but there was nothing timid or hesitant about it. Girl just didn't talk very loud.

Glancing from Quinn to the rear view mirror, the teenager arched a brow at Amare, an amused smirk tugging at one corner of her mouth. Yeah. What he said. "Aw, Amare. And here I thought we had such a bonding moment together."

It was about the best way to guarantee his attention would fix on you was to show that what he was doing was bothersome. Quinn was smart not to react and because of it, he had been left alone. Settled in the backseat, he wrapped an arm around Mannique again, seeming to treat it as though she were a person. Amare had the ability to objectify people and personify objects with a respectable fluidity. It helped that this one was human shaped, even if it did need nipples drawn on and another leg. Must have been from the eighties or something cause in the seventies they definitely would have included it. People from the seventies were freaks.

"Ohh nooo... don't make me cum in a pair of shorts. Anything but that," his free hand waved in the air dismissively. Then Saila said the bit that she did and he squinted at her with some small show of annoyance, "Then take it as a lesson that semen doesn't mean you're liked. If everyone I shot a load at thought we bonded I'd have an entourage. Hmm? What mayhem? Where?" He was no in tune, exactly, with what her powers were doing for them.

Those silver eyes shot over his shoulder at Amare and he growled. "Watch your fucking mouth, I'm not your fucking pretty boy and if you wanna be welcome here you'll treat her with some fucking respect, she's not an outsider, she's not a fucking charity case, she's my fucking second and you'll deal with it, or you'll get he fuck out. The way things look, you got shit else going on, and we are here, fucking entertaining you, now let the fuck up or get the fuck out of my truck." Ash flicked onto the floor of the truck as he attempted to lock eyes with Amare, go ahead and challenge him, this wasn't the day for that, this wasn't the week, Hell, probably wouldn't be the month. Saila was his insurance, the person he trusted before anyone else, if he thought she could be made wolf, he'd have already done it, but he was sure she couldn't.

A smile lit the muse's face. Both because of the way Quinn was defending her -- she reached over without looking and took one of his hands for a moment -- and the way Amare was underestimating her. Both things pleased her immensely, one in a soft, gentle way and the other with positively savage delight. Being underestimated was basically Saila's favorite thing.

She rolled the sucker from one side of her mouth to the other with her tongue, the candy clattering over her teeth. The truck was beginning to slow as she looked for a good place to leave it. "We have a whole fucking den of shitbags." Saila lifted her hand out of Quinn's to tap on the glass of the driver's side window. "That building right there." The girl drove around it once, circled the block and then found an out of the way place to park where the truck would be close but not readily apparent.

And now the whole world was narrowing down to one focal point. Quinn. Maybe it was some sort of social disability or something, but the static from Quinn meant he had caught all of Amare's attention and efforts. It was in that thoughtful moment that he tried the candy given to him. Maybe because Saila had it. Quinn had such up his entitled progeny just then, though it was clear that Amare now gave zero fucks about anything that wasn't Quinn. Sorry, Mannique, Quinn's just more responsive.

He was just formulating what he planned to do about being so overwhelmingly distracted. No superglue to be had. Temporarily subdued though everyone knew better than to trust if for more than a breath of time.

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-20 19:14 EST
(( Upon the next outing...Amare goes to the Inn))

These days there was a lack of supervision, coupled with creativity. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Mannique, his newest companion who had limitless toleration but no gift for conversation, was left to fend for herself. His hands paired together to light the cigarette prior to entry and theeeennnn... straight for the bar. He had an objective.

The truck was parked in the alley and he sat in it for a moment. There were people, this was solstice and he was supposed to be wrestling with a bear or barking at his packmates some foolish command, instead he was parked in a piss soaked filthy alley wondering how to do this without anyone inside dying. Slipping out of his truck and leaving the keys in it, he stepped over the refuse by the back stairs he pushed open the door and stepped inside.

A sharp silver colored suit with a black button up. Mostly clean though any scuffing was incidental. Fingertips drew on the lacquered surface of the bar as he circled around it. Once he was behind and fixing a drink, he felt Quinn more than saw him. So he did the rational thing (gasp) and just made two. Dirty martinis, all 1950's style. Shaken to hell with bits of olive. He poured and nudged one over before he took a drink. It wasn't his favorite.

Quicksilver eyes stumbled over the drink and narrowed on it. Amare knew how to keep him from shouting at least and he took the glass and sniffed at its contents. It was hot, and this was a night for the hunt so instead of slacks and a button up, Quinn had gone for a black tanktop and board shorts. Sliding onto a stool the glass was lifted to an amused smirk and sipped from. "You know we are probably going to shift any minute and destroy everyone here making a massive mess that neither of us can afford to cover up right?" Said through his smile and looking at the glass in his hand. And he was the old man right?

So... the time to meet up had come and gone and neither of the wolves had shown up as planned. What the hell? Tracking Quinn to the Inn, Saila's strange eyes widened subtly as she reached the door. Quinn in public on a full moon night? Why would ---oh. Oh ****. Silvery brows furrowed, and the purple haired teen shoved the door open, her long legged stride carrying her directly to the bar. She took a seat beside Quinn, cool and seemingly casual as you please. "And we're here because...."

"Oh no... whatever will I do if I end up in jail?" He lifted the glass to is mouth and took a swallow and then looked at Quinn. Maybe he was wanting to get arrested, or maybe he just always had an itch that needed scratching. "Have you ever thought that this whole... covering up business is kinda a waste of time? It's like apologizing for farting. Who isn't farting? When did biologoical function mean apologizing?"

Oh, squirrel has come. Moose and squirrel. Both are now at the bar. He thought about making that joke but couldn't polish the words up properly. Perhaps Quinn's prior threat held some merit. Saila also got a dirty martini, though he served it to her as if it was preventing Quinn's teeth and not because he wanted her to have it.

Uh oh, Mom found us, those eyes went wide and he hid the smirk behind the glass and he sipped before looking to Amare. "Do you think prison will be a wonderful gay vacation? People like us don't end up in gen pop sir, we end up in solitary to keep us from eating other people." Pausing to look around and he motioned to Amare for Saila as if to say, this is why we are here.

"Also, they don't put you in prison for slaughtering an inn full of people. They wolfsbane you until they can be sure you're no longer a threat, and then they kill you." Another sip taken and he leaned his head onto Saila's shoulder with a smile. "How's life love?"

"Oh, you know. Angry ghosts, and half-crazy wolves and a full moon twenty -eight hours away. Another boring day." Flashing a grin, she peered at her drink. "Incidentally, any thoughts on where the gypsy went?" The one they were supposed to be watching. Saila never thought she'd see the day that she missed either Levi or Dirk, but this whole being the responsible one thing was .... well. It was an experience, anyway.

"It touches my heart that you think I should be in the general population. I do a service to mankind." He wasn't going to elaborate. Somewhere, in some store, were a hundred headless barbies with condoms jammed into their boxes. The young girls growing up to be women needed a more straightforward message about how to be socially pleasing, after all. He gave Quinn a look and then lifted his glass for a swallow. Surprisingly, it was lonesome without Mannique. She had so many stellar features, one being that she was always right where he left her.

The cigarette went to his lips, smoke exhaled at Saila as he asked, "Who?"
"Dave? He wrote me a note on the mirror in toothpaste that he was going to get lit or laid, so I am sure he will come home, not laid, and not sober and throw himself around until the pills kick in and he passes out." There was a pause and he laughed in Amare's direction. "You're going to end up on a list somewhere for your community service attempts." Quinn was glossing over the Dave thing, it felt too close to home and he didn't want to think about it. It was easier to take a light shot at the progeny before him.

Mismatched eyes slipped from Quinn to Amare, narrowing suddenly. "You found the super glue, didn't you."

It wasn't so much a question as a confirmation.

Amare rolled with the punches, generally speaking. He played too rough and it took a little more acid to earn his ire. Dave? Who? He snorted with disapproval because that's what strangers were. A long list of guilty-til-clawing-at-innocence. That didn't make sense, either. He was negotiating just what a stranger was to him when Saila spoke about the super glue there was a frown, "It's not sold at gas stations and the hour is late."

But they won't be homeless. Whoever heard that a hundred cheerleaders could whine silently? No one. Beyond that, he had too big of a heart to let their voices, faces, go to waste. He tapped the ash of his cigarette out in Saila's drink, "Quinn, I know where we should go."

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-20 19:24 EST
Quinn watched the motion of Amare ashing into her martini and rolled his eyes. "Oh do you now?" Switching the martini with Amares and pushing it towards Saila before putting on his best humor me face. "And where, pray tell, should we go tonight, Amare?" Finishing his drink he stopped and held up a finger. "Wait! Why do you need the super glue?"

Saila wrapped both hands around the new martini, a brow arched in an expression that said 'Seriously?' She brought the fresh, or fresh-ish, drink to her lips, swallowing most of it before there was more cigarette ash to be had. On another day in a less crowded space, her reaction would have been different, and the girl was maybe (probably) grumbling to herself about being responsible.

Pity, Quinn was sure to wanna see another pants destroyer. The suit was nice. And he laughed to himself as he watched Amare, head cocked to the side and still in wait of this wonderful idea that was sure to knock his socks off.

"Because Barbie has a voice, even if she doesn't have a body. A woman is more than just a body, wouldn't you agree?" Don't agree. It's never the best policy with him. Not when a hundred plastic heads needed a cause to yell for. Be glued for. Anyway. Untainted martini is sipped while the ash traymartini gets another dose of grey. He tongue flicked to wet his lips before he looked at the door.

Amare looked at Quinn, who laughed and that caused his smile to crack, eyebrows lifting up afterward, "Quinn, seriously, I have an idea. Annddd.... you would be happy. No one gets hurt." There was a roll of his hand to both Quinn and Saila, "And doesn't that appeal to your sensibilities? You should be proud. Now, **** let's go." He turned his back to them only so that he could sit on the bar and give himself a spin to face the patron side again. Watch out, Saila, he reclaimed the unpoisoned martini as soon as her hand was half forgiving. Two swallows. Ample.

Oh, fun. Now she's sharing spit with the rabid baby step brother? The glass was relinquished though, hard not to when there's practically an Amare in her lap, the way he's moving over the bar. "Is this an idea like the trophy case idea? Or more like the Mannique id---hey, where is Mannique, anyway?"

"I've never been the biggest fan of the female form, so anything below the..." He pointed to his own chest, two fingers motioning between his pecs..."Seems like a waste to me, but I mean, I am not the definition of who gets to say what on a woman is useful. But please go on."

Watching and waiting. Oh, now he was climbing on the bar eyes rolled upwards and he shrugged lightly this time he was able to drive. One drink was piss all compared to the bottles it took to bring him down. "I'm driving though. Dirk only bangs shatdrivers." That was saying something about Quinn's driving too, but that was lost on him and he headed for the back door.

"She had a headache, poor thing. I gave her two aspirin and the night off." There was a pause when Quinn mentioned Dirk and there was only a flicker, a moment, that suggested he had slipped just under his skin and infected his good-natured destruction in favor for something with a little more fire. Amare set the martini down and shoved off, landing on his feet, hands clapping together. It seemed likely he had drank prior to arrival, "Am I not allowed to surprise the two of you? You've done so much for me and I'd just been thinking of HOW I might show appreciation. So? Come on, already."

Saila opened her mouth to say something after Quinn and wisely thought better of it, brows furrowing. Really, anything that got the two of them out of here without bloodshed was just fine by her, so... **** it. Let's go find out what Amare's brilliant idea is this time. Peeling herself off the barstool, the girl raked one set of long fingers through deep purple waves and gave the rabid baby a shrug. She tipped her head towards the backdoor Quinn was already pulling open. "After you, Rabies."

"Fine, You drive then." He didn't turn around, instead he tosses his keys over his shoulder in Amares general direction before pulling the door open and slipping out into the night. Cigarette pulled from back pocket, fingers brushing against something he shouldn't still be carrying around and he ignored it. Lighting up with the wolf zippo from Ko he ran his thumb over the canine on its front and sighed looking around. "Let's go!" Called over his shoulder.

Cigarette between lips he countered as he caught the keys, "Seeing the two of you come to your senses is the silver lining to my week." The elaboration of what was next didn't come. Some things were best unveiled via the gaze, and Amare was hungry to agitate and disarm. The calm and quiet had done little to suit him. Quinn called and didn't have to call twice. His smile cut, his steps picked up the pace and he latched onto the offered belly that he and Saila had for him.

Sometimes that belly turned out to be every bit as full of spikes, but then. Amare seemed to be into spikes. Shaking her head, the girl followed him out the back door, keeping herself between Amare and the rest of the bar because it just seemed like the smartest thing to do in this situation.

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-21 21:41 EST
Now that they were all appropriately loaded into Quinn's truck, Amare smiled and looked at them over his shoulder, "We're all buckled in, right? Safety first." Or second. Third? Or... well, just so long as it made it somewhere on the list. He pushed the key at the starter, Quinn's vehicle roaring up for him, though seeming slightly uneasy at the fact that a not-Quinn was at the helm. Amare petted the dash and then twisted in his seat, squinting through the darkness of the back window to put the vehicle in reverse.

"Is it me or does the full moon make you just a little bit edgy?" He laughed afterward, like the joke really was that original?

"No, it's just you." Was said with an eye roll as he took over the control of the radio in the dash with a look to Saila. It was a hardcore disc, sort of hatebreed, five finger, anger mix that he reserves for nights like this. Allowing it to play, but not loudly he peered to Amare. "So this surprise doesn't involve naked does it? Because the strip club was a mess. And we don't need titties...Well, okay maybe we do, but I need other stuff first."

Glove box was opened, a bottle of pills were opened, shaken into palm and then swallowed down without water. The bottle of vodka discarded on the floor was picked up and sipped from as if washing the meds down. Eyes went out the window and he raised a brow to the moon. "I dunno though, I feel like this isn't going to be a good one, I wonder what..." He cut himself off and shook his head. Imagining Dirk throwing himself around a jail cell in agony wasn't something he wanted to do, but it wasn't much like he had a choice, they'd all be feeling it soon enough.

Saila was in the back seat, thankfully sans Mannique. She was directly behind Amare, mostly because it made it virtually impossible for him to reach her but gave her easy access to him if necessary. Her strange eyes met his in the rearview mirror, and the girl shook her head with a smirk.

Her gaze cut to Quinn, then - her bond with him was never stronger than it was in the hours surrounding the fullness of the moon, and his thoughts filtered through her mind almost like they were her own. The girl swallowed, raked her fingers through her hair. "We'll be fine, but I feel like I'm going to be bouncing off the stars for days."

"What's that?" The rattle of pills caught his attention, "No, it's not a strip bar. I learned something yesterday. Something that I had always known but never really applied to the current situation."

There was a glance back to the purple haired weirdo before he looked back at Quinn, "I feel like if you're having a pill, I should have a pill. Like maybe this is a voyage we should be taking together." It was best not to distract him too much. He was, after all, driving.

There was a chuckle and he pulled open the glovebox and shook out several into his hand and offered them over to Amare. They were benzos, calm down pills, and so he had NO ISSUE sharing them with Amare. Since Levi left to be with his mom the man was living on copious amounts of scotch, xanax, and coffee. Weed and cigarettes bridging the gaps between the other vices of course.

Eyes went to meet Saila's in the rearview and a single thick brow was lifted upwards. What was she planning back there behind Amare he wondered. But didn't ask. "Yeah, you'll be alright, I think. I on the other hand will still be wondering how long this long distance thing is going to work, before one of us gets bored or lonesome enough to fuck someone else." A click of tongue and he sipped the vodka again.

Saila wasn't planning anything. She was being prepared, is all. If Amare had one of his sudden 'wouldn't it be great if' urges and it happened to involve wrapping the truck around a tree or seeing how far it could fly, well, Saila would be there to sedate him. If they ended up in a neighborhood they didn't belong in -- one of the rich areas, for instance - she could put her hands on him and ruin the surprise. She was just putting herself in the best position to be prepared for any eventuality, because she might be reckless but she's no dummy.

Mismatched eyes tracked the bottle as it moved, listening to the two of them talk. She didn't have anything to add, so she didn't say anything.

"So I'm just... taking pills from you indiscriminately? Ohh... okay." Amare popped them into his mouth. Of course, he thought they were the good kind of pills. Not the boring, Quinn-shaped pills that were currently happening in his mouth. He was peering at the store fronts they passed until finally, "THERE IT IS!"

He had almost missed the turn, but lucky for them he knew how to cut the wheel over, make two wheels airborne and then settle all four tires back onto the pavement. That was purposeful or incidental. Both were fairly likely outcomes. He grinned, putting the truck in park, "Have you ever been to one of these places? It's amazing." And there was a wave of his hand, like Disneyland had been discovered. Except behind the wave of his hand was not the magic kingdom but a run down shop called Bob's Taxidermy.

Quinn offered the vodka for Amare to wash the meds down with as he got out of the car, happy to still be alive. He didn't say anything though, looked cool as a cucumber. (Who decided they were so cool? Weird americans that's who.) If there was one thing he knew it was to never let Amare know when he did something that scared or worried him.

"Oh you're fucking kidding me?" He looked up at the sign and his eyes went wide. Now, if you thought Quinn was going to be pissy about it, dead wrong. Like a little kid, he rushed to the door and looked through the glass. "Will they do... Exotics... Like big game, people, or just pets? OH MY GOD! Can we bring the fucking raccoon?! I hate that goddamn thing! Saila lets go get her!" Looking back to the truck.

Saila's mouth opened and then closed again, her brows furrowing in confusion. "What... in the fuck... is that?"

Amare's driving didn't scare her. Nothing did, but nothing car related could possibly even give her pause anymore now that she'd survived Sal driving Cane's jeep. Twice. Two wheels, no wheels, whatever. Nobody'd died.

The teenager let herself out of the backseat, following Quinn, trying to catch up on just what the hell it was she was looking at. "I don't understand. You take real animals and... stuff them? Why?"

"See? Asshole! My ideas are fantastic," Amare grinned, holding the bottle of vodka and giving it a chug before he added, "Well, we are in Rhy'Din so by default this asshat has to be into exotic shit or he's like... on the verge of being closed for business. So... open the door already." There was talk of a raccoon, which he didn't say anything about. Maybe this was a sign that he had had too much. Or not enough. Quinn had said raccoon, right? More vodka would fix that problem.

Amare grinned and sauntered to the front of the taxidermy place, knocking his knuckles to the glass and then saying, "Looks like no one's home and we better help ourselves." There was a pause at what Saila said and he swallowed, trying hard not to laugh at her outright, "One day you'll be stuffed and then will understand. Quinn... the doors?" And to that end, he handed the vodka to Saila. Join them or die. Was she Luke enough?

The door was pushed at with both hands and he stepped inside to the most interesting smell he'd ever smelled. Boiled death and styling products maybe, or maybe it was musty books and acrid old fur. A brow raised and he stepped in to carefully pet a raccoon. "See, he totally does raccoons! We should get Rocket." Nodding again and stepping out the doorway so they could come in. Quinn made his way to the counter and went to looking for a pricing sheet or something of the likes.

"I wonder if I drop it off alive, will he do the..." drags his thumb across his throat with a look to Amare. "Wait why did you need a taxidermist? Did you want to send a present to a...friend" finger quotes were used because Quinn was that kinda douchebag.

"I'm surprised you haven't eat Rocket," said Saila to Quinn, trailing after him into the store. She glanced at Amare, shaking her head with a grin. "Promises promises..." intoned in a singsong as she moved past him.

The smell was... definitely weird. Dead things, but not fresh dead things. Dead things and dust and... a whole bunch of medicinal smells that were vaguely stomach turning. Her lip curling, Saila jammed her hands in her pockets, pretty fucking positive that she didn't want to touch anything she could see. "I...still don't get it. Why is this a thing?"

Amare didn't get the finger quotes thing. Maybe if the only friends he had weren't standing right in front of him it would have been more significant. "What is rocket? That's a vibrator, right?" He moved over to the display room, poking at a few things and then eying a door which would lead to the back room, where the magician worked. He grinned and pushed past Quinn and Saila, flinging the brown beaded curtain aside with a "ta-da" as he entered it.

He called backed to them, "I thought we'd switch some things up. Maybe put some appropriately sized balls on his clients." Oh... no... he was feeling suddenly well-meaning. And kinda quiet. Was this what nice or sedated felt like?

"Eat it!? Eat it!? That's like barebacking a desperate aging junkie prostitute because you need to get laid, no. That is a TERRIBLE idea. Do you know what that damn trash rat eats?! Anything, everything that thing is friggin DISGUSTING. I'd sooner fuck the warlock..." Ouch, poor Cane, Quinn had NO reason to hate him the way that he didn't. Quinn ducked into the back and looked at Amare.

"Where are we going to get the balls from? She doesn't have any," thumb jerk to Saila, "and I am super attached to mine."

Saila smirked a little at Quinn's reaction, amusement evident in her ill paired eyes. If Saila were a taxidermied creature, somebody probably would have bitched about the artist using two completely different eyes for her. Good thing she wasn't stuffed, huh? Ahem. "...I hear the warlock's a pretty good lay..." Her voice was soft, trailing off as the White Wolf ducked into the back.

"Fresh out of balls," she agreed, following them as she tried valiantly not to touch the curtain... thing. Or the walls. Or anything else for that matter.

"I mean, there's stuff around the shop. You don't use for-real balls. Ohhh... hello...." he was cuddling now the half preserved body of a mink. Maybe sedating him prior to the full moon was a good idea. He was cuddling that mink in... maybe the way most men cuddled lovers. On top of the desk, one leg thrown over it as he nuzzled his face into its gross face. There was only some tinkering sounds of metal instruments giving way underneath his body.

"He's very soft." fingertips ran down the length of the mink's body, grinning at Quinn and Saila as he stroked it, "Mine."

Saila watched this, her brows arched in ...somewhat horrified fascination. Girl was pretty much transfixed, trying not to show her amusement. "...I feel like this is going to be very difficult to explain to Mannique..."

Amare Kellis

Date: 2016-06-21 21:59 EST
"How could you even know? How can he tell you with all the..." Mumbles and sticks his tongue out trying to copy the accent. "I try to listen, but it?s so heavy with Cajun, douchbag and arrogance, and I just can't understand a thing he says. It would be like fucking a dying see and say." More groany moany drawl noises were made.

It was about then that Quinn figured out the best thing he could do from now on was to throw Xanax at Amare when things got tough. The animal/man snuggle fest on the only half-completed animal would cause many to cringe or be freaked out, but to Quinn, it was like watching a child play with their food in appreciation. It caused a happy smirk and he looked around. Apparently, Xanax was good for everyone involved.

"I bet you could catch this one." He said as he picked up a completed bunny and tossed it into Amares direction. "But, what are we using for balls?"

"Shhh... he's tired... " another pet to the mink. Whoever it was that Quinn was impersonating he was kinda clueless about. Beyond that, he wasn't entirely there. Amare was in a mellow, pre-wolf place, petting the dead mink. Shh... what Mannique doesn't know won't hurt her.

Apparently, though, love is fleeting. Or he has the vision of a t-rex. Amare abandoned limp, unstuffed mink for the completed rabbit, which was considerably less forgiving and cuddly. Sitting on the ground he yawned and then shuddered, holding the taxidermy rabbit to his chest as though it was a stuffed bunny, "Well, there are a lot of things around here that are round, right? Don't they have to use marbles or whatever for the eyes? Ohhh! Eyes." Amare snickered as he emphasized, "Eyeballs."

Quinn's impression of her favorite Cajun made her laugh, and Saila just shook her head. "With some accents, it doesn't matter what the fuck they say, Big Bad," grinned Saila, a girl who would definitely know.

She looked from Amare to Quinn and back. "...So, wait. Lemme just... clarify what we're up to here. You're going to glue... eyeballs... on the ... taxi...taxidermied? Is that the word? ...animals... as testicles?"

Shoulders were lifted and let to sag again in a single quick shrug. "This is the Amares Circus, but I don't think eyes as balls will work, well maybe on the little things, but, what about a scrotum?" He asked while poking a fingernail into the eye of a finished animal. It clicked, clearly they were made of marbles or glass or something of the like. "You know, ball bag, we need to put them inside of something, did you even think this out." Quinn looked around, maybe they could use tissues. WAIT where were the actual testicles, they didn't leave the genitals on the animals did they? Quinn went to looking for them. Opening drawers and cabinets.

"Saila, what?" He looked at her for a moment and then to Quinn, "You don't see it? Seriously?" Amare wet his lips and leaned back, the weight of his body on the palm of one hand as his now free hand motioned in the air. The stuffed rabbit was too terrified to leave his lap as he spoke, "There are sooooo many sayings in the English language. Three sheets to the wind. Cut the mustard. They all originate from ye old jobs and things that happened."

Amare looked up at Quinn and then to Saila, "Gluing the eyes to the balls of animals is a tradition? Hence the saying... 'see them when they're coming?'"

Saila was just kind of staring. "I... what? See them when they're..." Her mismatched eyes slid to Quinn. She found him halfway across the room, ostensibly looking for animal testicles. Well, that's not a sentence you form every day? Huh. "What did you give him? Can he have more because this is amazing."

"Half a dozen Xanax..." said over his shoulder as he pulled out a drawer and found a collection of nudey mags. Opening one up and hearing the pages stick he raised a brow. "This guy mixes business and pleasure..." A smirk and he tossed it over his shoulder to land on the desk in front of Amare. "If I find an animal tail assplug, I am waiting here until he gets back and demanding he join our escapades."

Opening a mini frige he smiles brightly. "Got em!" He pulled out a tray with random animal parts on it. Two fingers poking around in the tray and he looked to Amare. "Got the eyes too...Should we remove the balls and replace the balls with eyes and the eyes with balls?"

"I'm not sure if I call a magazine from 1995 playboy pleasure." His head cocked (haha) to the side as he looked at the magazine. Sorry Bugs, he was being distracted. The rabbit got shoved aside now that it was no longer the shiny new toy and Quinn had provided him with wholesome literature. His voice was a hushed not-whisper, "What am I supposed to do with this?" Did Quinn just give him permission to mix business with pleasure?

"Replaced the what with the what? I thought we were going to give them ridiculously large balls," hence why they would be putting marbles and such in them. He did not disclose that detail of his plan, but Quinn seemed to have melted his brain with the suggestion, "Switch... the balls? Eyes for the balls?" He opened up the magazine and looked from the centerfold image back to Quinn, "What if they're too big? Do we just kinda squeeze 'em in the eye sockets?"

The teenager... was not participating. She lifted herself up onto one of the counters between a display of stuffed mice in little ballet costumes and... what is this? Saila laughed. It was a fucking squirrel in a karate costume.

"Amare. Here. Start with this one." She picked up the squirrel and tossed it to him. "He needs balls, clearly." So maybe she was participating a little.

"Yeah, or we just find little balls from the tray." Picking up what he thinks is balls and holds them up dangling them. For all he knew they were kidneys or lungs, really, he was going to stuff scrotums with eyes and eye sockets with guts, who cares. Eyes to Saila and the squirrel and wonders if the irony is lost on her. Sitting on the floor with the guys he began using a pencil to pry out the glass eyes and pressing organs into their place.

It was caught and then he felt that... prickling sensation. The one that made him set the squirrel down and start to scratch at his arms. He groaned and held his stomach, rocking forward for a minute and then looking back to Quinn, "I don't think I have anymore time." When he wasn't busy being pissy and setting things on fire, he could be surprisingly vulnerable.

Saila had called it, though. The full moon was due that morning and it had already been near three am when they first crossed paths at the bar. Amare didn't have any angry energy and Quinn was weathering the oncoming moment better than he was. Maybe it was that whole goddamn age thing. But he was hating how it made him feel and yet wasn't able to break anything for it. His shoulders rolled back as he tugged out of his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt. His skin was itching like small bugs kept biting and releasing his skin.

He still managed to smile, happy at seeing Quinn with the tray, replacing eyes with balls so diligently. It was reassuring to know that Quinn would play along with him. That was better than the school trophy thing and everything else where it just felt like he was doing things by himself all the time.

Saila's gaze shifted to Amare. I don't think I have any more time. Suddenly her expression was deadly serious. Turns out the babysitter was good for something after all. She hopped off the counter, slid her hands underneath Amare's arm. "C'mon," she said softly, reassuring, her fingers finding his and sliding against them. "I got you. Let's get you some breathing room, okay? Don't worry."

She would guide the rabid baby to his feet, her hands already leaching just a little bit of the excess energy from his skin, preventing the transition for now. She felt like shifting full moon wolf in a room full of cluttered glass cases was an absolutely terrible idea, the kind you didn't wait and see on.

Oh well, that was never good. When Amare had to shift he knew that he, too, would do the same. Looking around he looked at Saila and carefully placed the animals he'd been working on, back on display and pulled the tanktop up and over his head handing it over to her. "Maybe we'll need to carry coat hangers, his suits are nice..." The hair on his arms was prickly and standing up as he watched Amare. No matter how many pills they ate, they still wouldn't be able to ignore the moon's call. For a moment before he was peeling out of shorts and heading to the door, he was proud.

Amare had picked the solstice activity without even knowing he had. Slipping outside he looked for the moon. It was pink and he smiled brightly and nodding once. Looking over his shoulder he looked for the other two. "We should run." This was for Saila., she loved to run and then when he saw her coddling Amare in the LEAST emasculating way possible, he was proud all over again.

It was hard to get drunk as a wolf and Amare wasn't one that took many relaxants. The booze, the moon and the pills made him, for a very short window, slightly more vulnerable than normal. Vulnerable enough that he didn't instantly smack away Saila's hands, call her a weirdo, or a squirrel or an 'almost person." Instead he gripped her and, like a confused child, started to shuffle away from the shirt and jacket he left of the floor.

"But the eyes. And the balls. We didn't finish..." It seemed a point of serious distress for him. He twisted to look back at it but was ushered in part by Saila and also in part by Quinn, out the door. Once outside the irritation, the near allergic-burn started a fire on his skin. He kicked off his shoes and dropped pants just as thicker, coarser hair started to spring out from his skin. Give him a moment, he'll run when he's ready. Or mostly run. Whatever he did when on Xanax.

Saila would go back for the discarded clothes. "We'll come back for them in the morning. Don't even worry. We got this." Her voice was pitched low, almost a subvocalzation. It was, in truth, half wolf. When Quinn was on the verge of shifting was when Saila's power was at its pique, and she channeled the wolf in him nearly like it was her own. In a sense, it was. "Easy." She held on to him, keeping his energy low, siphoning it off him like drinking from a fire hose until the moment he was outside, had all of his clothes off. Then she let him go, taking a step back to give him room. Even Saila couldn't stop a full moon shift without killing him, and she liked the Rabid Baby, dammit.

Her gaze shifted to Quinn, she nodded. Don't worry. I'm ready.