Drinks with a Vampire

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[When she suggested drinks Roxy picked 'Deadshot' mostly because her friend June worked the bar and when you are randomly getting drinks with a stranger its always good to have a friend near by in case things go south. She also suggested it because it was one of the more interesting bars in the area, dark with an almost Escher art vibe to it.
She's seated on the left side in a booth towards the back, a short girl with close cropped hair and indigo eyes. She's wearing a black leather jacket over a tight black mini dress and knee high heeled boots who is feeling just a touch nervous that the guy she'd been texting won't show.]

Well if he doesn't I guess I'll just drink alone...

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[idolpire]

[Maybe he should have come in the front door, but Spike always expected The Spanish Inquisition a trap, so when a pretty bird invites him for drinks, clearly it must be a trap. She didn't even know he was a vampire, so she wasn't one of those goth wannabe baby vamps that found him so alluring.

He slunk in the backdoor, glancing around the place and getting a feel for it before he sorted out which one might be his date. Not the couple drinking mojitos and competing for 'who's more anally retentive in their clothing choices', no. Not the hipster with the manbun working on what he'd likely call his 'memoir', or maybe a poor attempt at a script. No, he finally narrowed it down to the pretty little thing in a leather jacket that looked to be fiddling with her drink. That seemed about right.

Quietly, he made his way over and stood just behind her and to the side in a manner that may be considered lurking, waiting for her to notice him.]

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[He isn't waiting long. She can feel the sensation of being watched creep over the back of her neck and she turns to notice him, her body betraying her by starting but she's quick to recover and mask the look of surprise with a cocked eyebrow and smirk.]

You gonna lurk all night handsome? Or are you going to join me for a drink?

[idolpire]

Wasn't lurking. [Was] I can certainly join a pretty bird for a nip.

[Innuendo? Possibly. Or just him being a British ass.]

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[Her other eyebrow goes up when she hears his accent, she's got a soft spot for accents....]

Oh, you're British! That's cool.

[Once he sits down she slides him the drink menu.] So tall, blonde and British. You got a name?

[idolpire]

Spike.

[He sat himself across from her, legs splaying open in a pose of pure masculine need to assert that he had something between them.]

So, short little niblet, you got something you'd like to be called?

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[Of course his name is something like Spike....She smirks as he lounges in his seat, not minding the slightly arrogant posture or the view.]

Well usually I like to be called by my name, which is Roxy, but I guess niblet is kind of cute. It's definitely better than some of the things I've been called in my life....

[idolpire]

Roxy, eh? Don't hear that all the time anymore. More of a roarin' twenties kind of name.

[He'd know. He'd lived through them. Drumming his fingers on the table, he looked over at the bar.]

So, what's your poison for the night, mm?

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Aw thank you, yeah I guess my mom was a big fan of the musical 'Chicago'....or that George Michael song.

[Which she loathes, she can't even name how many times ex boyfriends put on the song 'Roxanne' for her and thought it was sexy.]

Well since you mentioned the roarin' twenties I'll go with a Gin Rickey. What about you?

[idolpire]

Police did that one first. I like their version better.

[What do you expect from someone that looked like he looked?]

Me? Beer. No need to class it up. A drink's to take the edge off.

[And being a little drunk sometimes numbed the edge of his other thirst. Sometimes.]

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Yeah their version is better for sure, but either way I've heard that song way too often since its got my name. Are you a big 80's rock fan?

[She raises an eyebrow at him as she signals the server that they are ready to order drinks.]

The edge hrmmm? You feeling edgy about something in particular? Surely you're not nervous about little ol me are you?

[idolpire]

Nervous about you? Please.

[She was a little bit of a thing. Hardly enough to be a snack. Unless she was some prophesized super deity type deal, he had nothing to worry about. That and, well, he's a little fatalistic.]

The edge off the hunger, pet.

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[He's lucked out and she isn't any kind of super deity, just your average genetically altered superhero on the run from the government.]

The hunger hrmm? Well that sounds both ominous and sexual. Are you like a sex addict or somethin?

[idolpire]

Or somethin'.

[He gave her a wink, curious how she'd take the revelation of him being a genuine monster.]

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[She grins in response to his little wink, knowing that she probably shouldn't but he sure is a cutie and she's always had a soft spot for flirty bad boys. The server comes by, interrupting any possible lewd response she might have made and drops off their drinks.]

Well cheers, darlin. And thanks for meeting up with me, you've definitely made my evening more interesting.

[idolpire]

I'm all sorts of interesting, but it usually takes more than just an appearance to make a lady's night. Unless you've got a rather active imagination or some kind of ability to see the future.

[Was he insinuating something dirty? Yes, yes he was.]

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Oh I have a great imagination...

[She says, playfully biting at the straw in her drink before taking a sip from it.]

Soooo... since we know nothing about one another I was thinking we skip all the boring stuff like where are you from and blah blah blah. Let's get right to the fun questions.
You game?

[idolpire]

[Forward was better than coy. That was only fun for a short bit before it just grated on his nerves. He picked up his beer, sipping from the top of the bottle and ignoring the glass set beside it.]

Fun questions, eh? Well, let's see what kind of game you want to play, Niblet.

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[She grins and takes another sip, pondering what she wants to ask him first. Finally she decides on an old classic.]

How did you lose your virginity? Like where and who was it with, and follow up question: was it what you had expected?

[idolpire]

Mm, not one to mince about, are you? Well then, it was... oh, after I dug myself out of my grave and with my sire, Dru. I'd say it was better than I expected, but as I was an annoyingly dreary romantic sod while I still breathed, I didn't do it any justice with my flowery prosaic fantasizing.

What about you?

[He sipped his beer, looking completely blase about his revelation.]

Don't tell me you were a 'behind the Dairy Queen' kind of girl.

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[Roxy throws her head back and laughs, which is probably not the reaction he was expecting.]

Not quite 'Dairy Queen' but still pretty white trash. It was in the back of my stoner boyfriends van, which of course had shag carpeting in it and a woman riding a dinosaur painted on the side. And it was so anticlimactic, in more ways than one. I remember afterwards just sort of laying there and thinking 'oh...is that it?"

But back up one second, you said dug yourself out of your grave? Does that mean yer a zombie or a vampire?

[idolpire]

Not sure if woman riding dinosaur is more or less classy than wizard riding dragon- at least when we're talking about what's painted on the side of a van. Shag carpeting is definitely declassee, though. I'm not sure you want to think about the layers of crust you were laying on from previous.... conquests.

[Another sip of his beer, eyes flicking over her before he answered.]

Vampire. And no, I don't sleep or shag in a coffin. Not unless some goth wannabe drags me to her flat and she's got one of her own.

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Considering how much of a loser he was and how bad he was at sex I'm pretty sure I was one of his only conquests, but I'm sure that shag carpeting was still full of crusty bong water spills.

[She smiles at him and makes a little waving off gesture.]

Don't worry, I'm not like that. I gave up the goth stuff when I dumped shitty boyfriend number four, he was so into all the Anne Rice crap that he insisted I wear fake fangs when I gave him a blowjob.

[Her eyes meet his and she raises an eyebrow.]

But I am curious, when you go all vampy do you get all sweaty and green and goblin like? I had an ex-boyfriend who turned like that right before he tried to kill me, although he might have been a demon? Or a demon vampire? Is that a thing?

[idolpire]

[The only way people ever took it at face value was, well, to face it. So after his next sip, his face morphed into something a little less human.]

It is and it isn't. All vamps are demonic. It's that bit of demon that brings a dead body back to life, after all. It's like catching a bit of the evils before you die and then, if you're lucky and your sire's not a complete numpty that leaves you to fend for yourself topside, you make the transition and bam. New vampire in the world.

[And didn't he look so casual in his vampire chic.]

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[When his face morphs into his full vampire look her eyes widen slightly, not out of fear but bright curiosity. She tilts her head slightly, looking at all the details.]

Huhn....well even like this you're way hotter than my ex was.

[She tips him a wink.]

So technically I just asked you two questions so it's your turn.

[idolpire]

That so? Well, good thing he's an ex.

[Meant she was freed up for other things. Fun things. That wink didn't exactly dissuade him.]

Right enough. So what's got you so blase about something that most people get all skittish about, mm? Can't be your first rodeo, but not with vamps. What else?

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Oh total ex, like one of those 'omg why was I with him for so long' kinds of exes.

[She utters a small laugh and starts listing things off on her fingers.]

Far from my first rodeo. Uhhh let's see I've seen Hell, aliens, government testing stuff, other dimensions, creepy cults, aaaand even some giant giant kaiju type creatures.
When you do the whole superhero gig you get to see some pretty bizarre stuff.

[idolpire]

Superhero, huh? That might put us on opposite sides of the game, pet.

[He wasn't going to comment on his ex. He might have broken up with Dru (been dumped by her), but that didn't mean he didn't still sort of maybe kind of love her still. Somewhere inside. Maybe. Even the undead had feelings.]

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[She shrugs and takes another sip of her drink.]

I'm not really in that line of work anymore, also I try hard not to have a 'black and white' view of people. The idea of good guys vs bad guys kind of falls apart when you've known people on both sides of the fence and learn the reasons why the way they are.

[Her eyes light up and she grins.]

My turn again! Since you're a vampire, what was your favorite decade that you lived through?