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Date: Sept 20, early evening, just after the power went out
Status: Public (this means YOU)
Setting: The bar
Summary: Horus explores the bar (Bohemian Rhapsody Plot)
Rating: G



Horus swooped around the manor, not really looking for anything in particular when a sudden movement near the manor caught his eye. He circled lower and dropped to the ground when he realised what it was, a silvery feather far too long to be from any bird. He carefully caught it and gently brushed his fingers over the blood red tip. Belial.

He nervously eyed the door the feather had blown out of, but eventually curiosity won out over caution and he hesitantly poked his head though the door. When he saw that the dim room was empty he took a few timid steps further in. There was music playing softly from some source he could not see, calling to mind a song he had once heard playing from an black car that was decades out of date*. He hummed a few bars of it, the lyrics floating through his head. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy...? He trailed off, not knowing why those words had caught in his head. He looked around again, eyeing the doors that lead farther into the building, and wondered if he should just go back outside.

*Two guesses as to whose car, and one doesn't count.

Date: 2005-10-04 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dearwensleydale.livejournal.com
Wensley straighted slowly, having adjusted the volume of the bar stereo to a decent volume. No need to annoy anyone with overly loud music, after all. He hummed the first few lines softly, pausing as the CD came to a set of lines he had never paid much attention to.

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality... That was exactly how he'd felt these past months. Everything that had happened- was happening , still - was just so surreal. He should be used to it, he mused, sitting down on a stool. Weird things happened every day; he'd just never had to face them. Now that reality was slapping him in the face* he felt the order he'd tried to construct crumble beneath his feet. Groaning slightly, he lay his head down on the bar, cushioning it with his forearms.

At least the rooms were nice...

*It felt a lot like those circus acts the Them were so fond of as children, where the clown would slap someone with a huge slippery halibut. Somehow, it wasn't as funny out of the ring.

Date: 2005-10-08 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dontcallmegabby.livejournal.com
Gabriel did not sleep.

In all his time at the Manor, he’d ventured into his reserved room only twice, each time looking for a drink and a little quiet, and nothing more. The silk sheets of his bed, the embers in the marble fireplace, nothing has been disturbed, and the room remained wholly unlived in.

He was seated now before the great window over looking the garden, his forehead pressed to the cool glass and a delicate-looking goblet of chardonnay in one hand. Outside, the sun was setting, painting the Manor grounds in shades of orange and gold, but even as he watched the creeping shadows, Gabriel saw something entirely different, a scene playing out in his head, which, had he not seen it through his own eyes, he would have believed to have happened to some other being.

"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see..."

The soft strains of music reached him from nowhere in particular, and he remembered.

Belial, his hands on him, his lips so close to Gabriel’s own that there was hardly more than a breath between them. Gabriel had shuddered at the awareness of the demon’s arousal, their bodies pressed so close, and yet he had done nothing.

Had been able to do nothing.

For in that instant he had seen not the demon, but the angel that had once been his companion, his friend. In the coal black eyes of a Prince of Hell, he'd seen the gaze, pale and bright, in which he had once found a light so lucid and warm that one look had inspired him to weave the first flickering tongues of fire.

Belial did not know, but Gabriel had not forgotten.

It wasn’t until later, when he’d heard Raphael talking about his fainting spell in the garden, that Gabriel has realized that in that moment, that breath, he had meant nothing more to the demon than Belial’s newfound Egyptian plaything was to him now. His resolve, tested by their last encounter, had been suddenly reaffirmed.

Gabriel would not be made a fool of.

He couldn’t help but think that it had been the days before days had been named that they’d spent together, laboring, creating, doing the Lord’s work, which made him so susceptible to the demon. He should, by all rights, not miss any of his Fallen brethren more than another. And indeed, he felt a shudder of regret each time he looked into any demon’s eyes and remembered his angelic name.

But Belial, in that moment, had made Gabriel ache for him.

But it did not matter, he thought, sipping his drink. Belial was no longer his fellow archangel, and Gabriel did not intend to show the same weakness again.

Date: 2005-10-09 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lordofthesouth.livejournal.com
"I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy." He turned the music up a bit and turned to face himself.

In the dusk light, Belial crafted a perfect lie in the mirror's cold reflection. His face was smooth, flawlessly beautiful, the perfect mask. Only his eyes betrayed the truth, dark and pained.

"'Cause I'm easy come, easy go. A little high, little low."

It pained him look at himself any longer; not the way the shadows crept across his face with growing intensity, burying him in their depths.

Sorrow wreaked havoc between his stomach and neck, building and burning and twisting.

Killing him, he knew.

If ever were a demon to die of sorrow and depravity, it would be him. There was no slow wasting away, starving, or sickness that accompanied a human's death, but a gentle fading, a fuzzing about the edges of his existence. His will wavered, ephemeral, and he pushed the mirror away, unable to bear the sight. He was tired.

Tired of being in love, of disappearing, of being something that he was not.

His heart--and how it ached--was heavy and he felt like weeping. No tears rolled across his lying face, but behind his eyes they fell hot and fast.

"Any way the wind blows... doesn't really matter... to... me," he whispered.

Date: 2005-11-14 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, ooo

Date: 2005-11-15 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anthony-crowley.livejournal.com
Crowley was lying on his back across his bed in the early evening gloom. His arms were apart, legs together, and his head hung off the side so that he could look at the world upside-down. It made as much sense that way as any other. He wasn't looking farther than his own thoughts, anyway.

He'd been musing a lot lately. Not much else to do when you were trapped in a room trying to avoid a parcel of archangels while you healed and your only conversational partner spent most of his time asleep or reading. They hadn't talked much since the ill-fated breakfast. Things had been a bit strained with Constantine's spell constantly hanging in the air between them. Two little pieces of paper, but they raised a lot of questions about choices and loyalty.

What was the magic combination? What would allow them to live on the Earth, together, without repercussions from either side? Could they keep the status quo? Did he still want the status quo? He could think of one preferable alternative but about a hundred worse ones.

And what about the angel? The spell offered Crowley nothing but positives as far as he could see, but Aziraphale nothing but negatives. Cut off from the Presence? He didn't think Aziraphale could handle it. Hell, he barely had. But it was better than Falling wasn't it? If it came to that? What if they did find out that he was about to Fall and quickly performed the spell? Either way he'd lose the Presence, but it'd be better to stay an angel, right? Either way he'd change, whispered a voice in the back of his mind. Would he still want to know that Aziraphale? Bitter, twisted, possibly evil, what would it matter if his body was angel or demon if his spirit was broken?

He suddenly had a very clear image of Aziraphale looking at him accusingly, one wing white, the other black and a tear rolling down his face. From somewhere came a snippet of a song he'd heard thousands of times in the last quarter century, but not in the two months he'd been at the Manor. Didn't mean to make you cry...

And he really didn't. If there was anything he could do to prevent Aziraphale's Fall, give up his material possessions, his Bentley, his body, his wings, or his very existence, even grovel before God Himself, he would do it.

Except leave him.

Date: 2005-11-28 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Date: 2005-12-17 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] -moonylupin-.livejournal.com
Too late, my time has come...

Once again back in the shed, Remus Lupin paced, feeling desperate. He felt ridiculous - by now he should be resigned to the change. It was the potion, dependancy on the Wolfsbane had made him so comfortable up to the Change, and the withdrawal effects were... bad, last time.

He felt, not for the first time, that he was heading to his destruction. At his own hand. Claw, maybe. At his own claws, and teeth, and anything the wolf could come up with.

Send shivers down my spine,
Body's achin' all the time...


Fear made him sweat, made him cold in the late fall air. He shivered as a breeze snuck under the door, and he remembered, as always, the after-effects of bad full moons. Severus and Sirius. He'd let... almost.. and Sirius, and Peter...

He shivered again, this time from fear. What if he got out? What if the door didn't hold? What if his ropes (his own idea) didn't hold?

Remus leaned against the wall, panting, and slid down to sit against it. He'd get through this...

Date: 2005-12-19 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stds-r-4-lovers.livejournal.com
It was the coward’s way to go, he supposed, but at this point he didn't really care. Suddenly the rug had been pulled out from under him. His entire *raison d'etre* was in question, leaving him reeling with uncertainty. The unrestrained power of his weapons was being challenged. No longer would humans cower in fear of his name as they had through the millenia. A mighty empire of death falling down around his ears.
All because of a damned moldy sandwich.

Pestilence sat in his lab and thought about his compatriots. Blood thirsty-Scarlett, beautiful and terrible. With a smile like a stab in the heart. She would never go out of style; her prime objective was as attractive to mankind as she herself was.
He looked at the photo propped up on his desk. A picture of himself and Famine with those beautiful, empty-well eyes. He had drown in those eyes a million times. Black and White merged to create grey. Famine, his closest companion and the co-author of some of his greatest successes. He would miss him.
And DEATH, the being that caused such inexplicable feelings in his gut. Admiration- and something else. His master, whom he had been glad to serve. Yet somehow detached from his work in a way that he and the others could never be. Philosophical and resigned. As compelling as a black hole.
How could he explain it to them? What words would tell them why he had come to this decision? They were fearless, invincible. The scourges of humanity. And he had been a prince among them. Efficient and skilled, he took a personal interest in each strain of bacteria, patiently forming each virus to be deadly and effective.
He took up a pen and scrawled a hastily written note.

Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Pestilence.

He feared the kid would find it first; his new protégé. The idea gave him an unfamiliar twinge. Better if it were Famine or DEATH, even though he had pain at that thought, too. He hoped, finally, that it was War. She would deal with it in her straightforward manner without a tear or a sigh.
With a final glance around his lab he tightened a scarf around his neck. He had to leave. They would have to understand. He was on a journey.
He only hoped that after the journey’s end he would not be greeted by DEATH in his official capacity.

Date: 2005-12-20 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
Mama, ooo - (anyway the wind blows)

Date: 2005-12-20 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] average-adam.livejournal.com
Adam was taking a walk on the grounds of the Manor. Tonight was going to be a full moon and he wanted everything to be safe. As he wandered, his mind spun inevitably to the questions that plagued him.

He was tired of continually second-guessing himself, but he refused to turn on the omnipotence for fear that it could never be turned off. Which, unfortunately, left him guessing at right and wrong like any other human being. It was ridiculous to have all these beings here in the hopes that someday they could... Adam tried not to think about it. Either it would happen or it wouldn't and there wasn't much else he could do to influence it either way.

Using his powers much more frequently now also made him quite nervous. He hoped there wasn't some kind of threshold somewhere that once crossed he'd change from Adam Young, pseudo-antichrist into the ultimate Destroyer of Worlds. Or even just the one world.

A snatch of song drifted to him on the wind from somewhere,

I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all


and made him think some more. He had wished on more than one occasion to not have to be the one to bear this burden. To have someone else take on the responsibility. But it was too cruel to wish on anybody. The minister at Adam's parent's church had said that God does not give more difficulties than a person can handle, but he didn't know if that applied to him or not.

He sighed and tramped back towards the house. Sometimes it was very lonely being the son of Satan.

Date: 2005-12-20 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
I see a little silhouetto of a man

Date: 2005-12-21 08:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ineffable-angel.livejournal.com
"Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"

Aziraphale was spun around on the dance floor, by the smirking demon. He hoped no one had noticed his, ah, stumble.

He hoped, as well, that no one had noticed his quiet looks, the ones that took in Crowley's rather handsome form, and sibilant gaze. So handsome. So beautiful, even - not all that different from so very long ago, and yet still different.

The angel wondered what interest Crowley had in him, sometimes. He was, after all, appearing to be middle age, wearing glasses and tweed and holding a cane, and with tastes that tended towards tartan and old books. He had curly hair that never really wanted to behave, and was probably sentient, and was soggy around the middle.

And yet, Crowley still loved him, still stood with him through everything. Aziraphale knew they couldn't erase six thousand years of everything from amicability, to jealousy, to hatred, to sex, to love. Not necessarily in that order.

The angel closed his eyes and rested his head against Crowley, suddenly, and felt more than saw the scars that still painted the demon's hands. He glanced away, feeling worry fill him, and knew that, recent Apocalypse prevention aside, they still were only here for a limited time.

He sighed, heavily, and then pulled back, images of wings and Up Above and John's letter filling his mind. Whatever would come, he thought, smiling at Crowley, would come, and they would handle it. As they always had done.

His hand stretched a little bit lower, underneath the CST, and cupped Crowley's arse.

Whatever would come, he thought, laughing at Crowley's scandalized expression. Whatever did come, would have to wait. The present was far too enjoyable.

Date: 2005-12-29 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allfather-odin.livejournal.com
Make no mistake, it was only the smoke irritating his eyes.
It had taken him a week to get everything together, and even then it hadn’t gone smoothly. Longboats were hard to find, as were the assorted mementos that should accompany the body on its final journey.
And he had made a new enemy in the form of the entire United States Coast Guard.
Thankfully, though, he had… resources… available to him. He watched as the boat was finally allowed to burn to the level of the horizon.
“Kveðja , sonur.”
He turned his back to the ocean and the howl of a wolf echoed through the air.
*
Wednesday sat in the back of the bar, a large tumbler of Jack sitting in front of him, the bottle at his elbow. It was a crappy little bar, somewhere between country and dive. In the corner was a mechanical bull. By the dance floor was a jukebox spewing music into the air.
…Mama, life had just begun, but now I’ve gone and thrown it all away…
“I thought you had better taste than to end up in a place like this.” The man standing at his table had short-cropped red hair and strange scars around his lips. His ice-blue eyes were scornful.
Wednesday looked up at the man and sighed “Yeah, it is more your type of place, isn’t it?”
“That it is.” Low Key sat down across from him, placing his bottle of beer on the table. “But its almost impossible to go home alone from a place like this, too. Which, of course, makes it perfect in my book.” He watching as a girl in a short skirt straddled the bull in the corner, a surprised look on her face. He stretched jagged lips over sharp teeth.
“She wanted to anyways.” Wednesday muttered. Loki shrugged. “That’s how it always was with you. Its easy to corrupt the willing.”
“Doesn’t make it any less enjoyable.” He looked at the old man across from him. “Lures them into a false sense of security. Like Sif.” He made a snipping motion with his fingers and the level of his shoulders.
Wednesday shot him a sharp look. “Perhaps this isn’t the best time to mention her.”
“I think it’s the perfect time to mention her. It is just one of the many examples of his stupidity. He was a fool.”
“He was that.”
“Good riddance, then.”
The only reply was the emptying of a glass.
“I’m leaving.”
Low Key rolled his eyes. “We’re all leaving. Don’t be so fucking dramatic.”
Wednesday poured another glass. “No, I mean, I’m leaving here. There’s nothing left to keep me in this forsaken hell-hole of a country.”
“The place is still ripe for us. This country embodies us more than it does that Middle-Eastern peace-freak.”
“You’ve been in prison too long. Most people on the outside don‘t cast runes.”
“And you’re deluding yourself. We’re making a comeback. And you can’t leave this anymore than I can. Its what you are.”
Wednesday changed the subject. “I can’t imagine why you care. As soon as some idiot calls my name there will be a new one to take my place.”
Loki looked away abruptly. “I hate breaking in newbies.” He finished off his beer.
“That as may be…” Wednesday motioned the waitress over who just happened to be holding a tray with two wineglasses. She placed them in front of each god. Wednesday shooed her away. Loki looked at him meaningfully.
“You hate this shit.”
“Yes, I do.”
“Couldn’t it just be a beer?”
Wednesday smiled and took his glass in hand. “Goodbye, brother.” He emptied the glass in one go and was gone.
Loki stared at the place where Odin had just been. Like father like son, he supposed. Damned fools, both of them. He looked at his wrist, a jagged line from time immemorial scared his skin. *Son-of-bitch. * he though.
A television in the background proclaimed that the forecast tomorrow had a 50% change of rain.
Thunerbolts and lightning, very very frightening me…
“Couldn’t even wait for my son, could you? Fucking coward.” He drank the mead down in one gulp, grimacing. “Kveðja - thorax , þú ódámur.”

Date: 2005-12-29 08:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo, Gallileo,
Gallileo Figaro - magnifico

Date: 2005-12-30 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] electrictadpole.livejournal.com
Newt teetered on the top of a particularly dodgy stepladder and sighed. Anathema had been away from two weeks in a row now, and he was lonely (and incidentally deprived of sex) - and still, there was work to be done. These stupid Christmas lights to hang along the front of the building, for one thing.

"Ow!" He cried as he hammered his finger, and then swore and gripped the periously swearing ladder. As it stabilised he took a deep breath, let out a lone sigh and wondered if taking pictures of himself in the mirror and posting them on livejournal along with a description of his miserable state of mind would make him feel better. Yes, he thought, on consideration it probably would.

He smiled a little and continued his work, humming softly.

I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me...

Date: 2005-12-31 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let me go
Will not let you go - let me go (never)
Never let you go - let me go
Never let me go - ooo
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Date: 2006-01-08 05:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carrietta.livejournal.com
Carrie hovered in a fetal position in a dark corner of the lobby, moaning softly. The flashbacks were troubling her again. In her mind's eye, the red liquid curtain fell on her, the town went up in flames, her mother came at her with the kitchen knife, over and over again. She'd never really get used to them, however often they happened. There was really nothing she could do when they happened except wait for them to stop.

Finally, finally, she snapped out of the horrific images. She remained curled and trembling for several seconds, whimpering. Twenty years of the memories, twenty years of flashbacks.

Oh mamma mia, mamma mia, mamma mia let me go . . .

Date: 2006-01-10 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theineffables.livejournal.com
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
for me
for me

Date: 2006-01-15 08:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whatamigoodfor.livejournal.com
She didn't like it when the breaking news bulletins ended and the radio stations played regular music played again.

Come to it, War thought as a familiar song came on and she polished the barrel of a neglected rifle, there were a lot of things that she didn't like. Hippies, for a start; and the stabler countries' arms laws could be a bitch to work around. General human goodwill and peace, too-- there were places in the world where they were swathed around entire countries, and sometimes it was thick in the air, uncomfortable and humid. She came over to thin the air a bit, or to fill it with something completely different: the smells of blood and sweat, screams of the injured and dying, the smell of gunpowder, shrapnel. Better than a kumbaya.

And the rest of the world agreed, it always had. It didn't really matter to her whether they fought with sticks and rocks (as they had in the beginning) or the H-bombs and nukes she and Pollution had had such a good time coming up with sixty years ago (the only drawback in design, she thought as she looked around her suite to see what else needed cleaning, was that they were sort of difficult to lug around). Generations upon generations would kill each other over fertile farmland or a strip of sand or a coordinate in the ocean; the murder of a fabled ancestor; the really frilly causes over money, slaves-- those were the fun ones. They were eager. Mankind had been eating a steady diet of violence out of War's lovely hand since Cain killed Abel.

And, in the vernacular, weren't no one gonna do anything about it. They'd been trying for millennia. She hummed along with the song playing on her stereo as the tempo picked up.

A temporary misstep didn't mean much, really, she thought as she opened the closet door and glanced at the motorbike helmet sitting, clean and well-placed, in the middle of the top shelf. Occasionally (and despite humanity's best efforts), peace broke out, but War would always be there to patch things up or tear them apart.

She licked her lips and picked up the helmet and wiped an invisible speck of dust from the visor. She grinned suddenly, and almost without thinking found herself belting out the song along with the radio. "So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?"

Fuck! The idea was so damned implausible that she laughed.

Date: 2006-04-17 11:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leucemic-god.livejournal.com
He took the bus back from the hospital. As tired as he usually was these days it was probably a better idea than driving anyway. Yes, it had been an altogether good choice to sell the car even if the treatment didn’t seem to have actually helped much.

It would have been a lot nicer if there had been somebody there to collect him and take him home as seemed to be the case with all of the human patients. Usually Somebody also went in to see the doctor with them.

He remembered them suggesting he include his family in the treatment. Something about it being easier, if he had someone to give emotional support and remember medicine doses and doctor’s appointments for him.

As if he needed emotional support, ha! And he wasn’t stupid, thank you very much. He could easily remember when to take the damn pills and he wished he could forget the stupid useless appointments for a while sometimes.

What family did he have left to include anyway? His wife was dead and Odin was keeping the children out of his reach.

Odin was family, too, in a way, though. Not that they were related by blood.

Or was a blood brother a blood relation? Odin always had been closer to him than anyone else at least. Close enough that he’d even forgiven him for taking the kids, even given him his favourite son of his own free will. But then he’d been sure Odin would take good care of Sleipnir.

But where was Odin now that he was dying? Yes, dying. That was what the doctor had meant to say after all, wasn’t it? ‘The medicines are not working as well as I’d hoped. Maybe we should consider chemotherapy.’

But chemotherapy only weakened you more, didn’t it? What if he got too weak to support himself? The damn doctor’s bills were eating up money too fast as it was and without Odin as his partner he had nobody else to rely on.

There was an old song playing on he bus’ radio he passed the driver when he got off: ‘So you think you can love me and leave me to die?’

Well, he wouldn’t let Odin get out so easily. He did have his current address after all and they had doctors in England ass well. Maybe even better doctors, probably at least cheaper ones.

Date: 2006-07-29 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] first-catwoman.livejournal.com
“Look up to the skies and see…”

Strains of the music drifted down to the lobby. Bright amber eyes snapped open and Bast awoke.

She gave a wide cat’s yawn, all rough pink tongue and white needle-point teeth, rolled outwards from the ball in which she had slept (again, almost dropping off the edge of the desk in the process) and gave a small sigh. She had been dreaming about the family again.

When the Egyptian pantheon had first come to the States, there had been bordering on a least a dozen of them. Now there was barely four – both Horus and herself being mostly confined to animal form, except in the most powerful of places, and the hawk’s mind had burned out with the last shreds of his father’s presence. Isis, the beauty-goddess, had always wanted to go out in style, and so had pulled a Marilyn Monroe with two thirds of a box of extra-strength aspirin and a bottle of white rum on the floor of one of the few five-star hotels in the state. Ra had just kind of withered away, and Osiris had literally leapt off a cliff when he felt Isis go.

“I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy..”

Seth, the red-headed troublemaker of their pantheon, had been taken the death of his siblings hard (despite the fact that it was his fault/thanks to him that Osiris had been lord of the dead in the first place) but managed to carry on for another decade or so without them. Then one day, without warning, there had been a message left from him and Sekhmet, Bast’s warmongering, fierce, leonine elder sister, saying that they had got the wanderlust, and wanted to see the world before it got too late.

A year after that, none of them had had to read the paper to know that a power station in Chernobyl had gone nuclear, with Anubis’ parents standing together right at the heart of
the flame – thick as thieves and closer than lobsters, right ‘til the end.

Bast was vaguely aware of salt-water streaming from her eyes and soaking her facial-fur, then she was suddenly furious with herself, head snapping up. Why the hell was she lying here thinking about death? She’d see her nephew when she got home – him and the bird still had another few hundred miles left in them.

She slid neatly from the polished wood to the floor, and cautiously gathered her wits. It felt like there was enough residual energy in this place- not just here, but in the whole mansion. Bast suspected that even she got as far away from the centre as she could while still staying indoors, there’d still be enough to do what it was that she wanted to do.

The small brown cat took a deep breath, then a made full-bodied, tip to tail stretch. And kept stretching. Her face flattened. The fur disappeared. The tail melted away. And soon there was a young, thirty-somethings woman with dark hair and amber eyes standing in the middle of the carpet, stark naked.

She took a step forward and fell flat on her face. Crap. Too long walking on four paws and having a tail had screwed up her balance for walking on two. It had been the best part of a thousand years since she had had a human-looking physical form (the whole thing with Shadow didn’t count – dreams and other planes were always much easier to work on). Well, she wasn’t gonna give up having opposable thumbs anytime soon, but the tail she could do something about.

Ten minute of slightly uncomfortable prickling sensations later, Bast crossed the room and studied herself in the full mirror. A creature of about human height, most definitely female, with short brown fur, flecked with black, covering most of its body, an angular tabby cat’s head and a long striped tail, stared back at her. She studied it. It was a little too close to the way she had looked a very very long time ago, but she had the best of both forms this way and… hmm.

She briefly wondered if anyone would attack her if they saw her like this, but then decided she didn’t care. She hadn’t felt this good in a very long while, and wandered off to see who she could freak out.

“A little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me,
To me…”

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