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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #30 on Mar 24, 2008, 3:03pm »
Roxy retracted her hand away from him immediately as he slapped her arm, in a rather hard manner. She glanced down at her skin to see that it was already turning red. She frowned slightly.
"What," she said, looking at him, barely more upset than before, "Is your problem?" Roxy had not the emotion nor the strength to stand up to him at that moment. Within the past two nights, she had lost her car, her mother, her award which she had worked so hard for.
Danni had been so worried about her, so concentrated on making here feel better, and yet now he was standing there, ready to kill her. A quarter of her wanted to hit him back and cry, though the majority of her just wanted to cry.
"Why are you acting like this, Danni?" Again, because she cared about him, Roxy put her hand on his shoulder, though lighter than she had before.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #31 on Mar 24, 2008, 4:27pm »
Danni should have backed off, or at least got out of the apartment so that he wouldn’t hurt her, but he wasn’t going to. He wasn’t thinking straight either, which was why he wasn’t even taking into consideration what had happened to her in the last few days. Christ, if he was he wouldn’t have been acting like this at all, he wouldn’t have been here, he would have told Giovanni to tell her what was going on, and he would have kept away, just for a little while.
This was the up end of his mood swing, but instead of being manic as in hyperactive, he was being manic as in paranoid and irritable. As they say, everything that goes up, must come down, which meant that this fit of anger would be soon followed by a fit of depression, one which he would probably feel all the guilt of hurting her now. With a reaction that was as automatic as before, he grabbed both her wrists and pinned her up against the counter, not in the almost sultry teasing way that he usually would, today he was being aggressive.
“What the fuck do you care?”
He snarled, giving a shove before he let go of her wrists and walked off into the living room, his thoughts racing like crazy as he tried to control the urges that told him to trash the apartment, and those that told him to panic.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #32 on Mar 24, 2008, 4:39pm »
Roxy didn't flinch as he grabbed her wrists and pinned her against the counter. She didn't show any infliction of fear, pain or surprise. She simply stood there, watching him snarl at her. When Danni shoved her away and walked out of the kitchen, into the living room, she didn't look down at her wrists, at the throbbing pain. Roxy could feel blood clotting and bruising on both of her wrists, but she didn't dare show that she cared.
Instead, Roxy walked out into the living room after him, now fully intent on getting revenge. Coming up behind her, Roxy shoved him by the shoulders.
"What the FUCK is your problem, Danni?!" She asked, now border lining angry. Just getting that full of emotion was exhausting Roxy, and it was very visible; she was still recovering from the car crash.
"I wake up, and you go fucking PSYCHO on me, for nothing! Why do you always do this, Danni! I know you're mentally sick, but that is NOT an excuse for this behavior. I have been through HELL in the past week, and this is how you try to make me feel better?! What a great boyfriend," she snapped at him, forcing back the hot tears in her eyes. Roxy groaned again and punched him as hard as she could on the arm, hoping that it could now hurt him since she was a vampire too.
"You're such a jerk," she said, stalking off into his bedroom, slamming the door behind her. Sliding down the wall, the hair band came out of Roxy's ponytail, and her curly, long black hair fell around her. She bent her knees and placed her elbows on them, putting her head in her hands.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #33 on Mar 25, 2008, 2:31pm »
In some way, when she didn’t really react, she provoked him more and made him even more manic. It was a hard thing to spot, especially if you were in the middle of an argument or fight with him, mainly because he wasn’t happy and bouncing around everywhere like a pleased puppy. Giovanni had once tried to see whether mood stabilizing pills would work on Danni, the first lot didn’t make even a tiny bit of difference, the second lot turned him into a numb zombie like person, unaware of the world.
Not that he had thought about it, but he hadn’t really thought that she would follow him out into the living room, most people tended to just leave well alone because of how mad and ridiculously silly he could get. He breathed in, about to shove even more crap at her. “You’re the one who’s fucking asking!” He shouted, slightly disturbed and unnerved by some of the things she said. Danni was adamant that he wasn’t crazy, bipolar or anything like that, something that would seem incredulous, considering the amount of lightening fast mood shifts he had, but then again he was partly delusional too. What a fantastic mix eh?
Shoving her back, though only half as hard as she had hit him, the pain only started to seep through to him once she had walked into his bedroom, though it wasn’t really much. Suddenly he noticed that he was trembling almost uncontrollably, as if he were shivering from the cold, but obviously he wasn’t going. Muttering things under his breath, he stormed out of the apartment, slamming the front door so hard that it almost came off of its hinges, but it didn’t close properly, and disappeared down the hallway, just not wanting to be near anybody. Ever.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #34 on Mar 26, 2008, 11:52am »
As Roxy had been walking away from him, Danni had shoved her, though she didn't lose her balance. She had continued into his room, which was where she now sat, leaning up against the wall, her head in her hands.
Flinching slightly as she heard the front door slam shut, Roxy sighed and ran her hands through her hair. Why did she put up with this? Because she was crazy about him, that's why. She put up with him because she couldn't bear to be away from him. Roxy had an icredible amount of tolerance for him, and she was proud of herself for it. But sometimes, she thought about destroying that tolerance and leaving him.
Looking around the room, Roxy sighed again. She let her gaze fall down to her wrists which were already bruising visibly. there she sat, for at least half an hour. Finally, she got up off of the floor and walked over to his head and sat down on it indian style, reaching over to the floor and grabbing her phone out of her bag. She dialed his number, but instead of getting a ring, she got an operator saying that the number was out of service. Remembering that she had seen cell phone bits in the apartment, Roxy groaned. She dialed Giovanni's number and waited for him to pick up. When he finally did, Roxy explained to him what had happened, and that Danni had left.
"I'm worried about him," she said softly, looking down at her ankles, "He's never gotten that upset with me before, and I didn't even do anything."
Roxy was not focusing on the events of the past day, though when she did finally hang up her phone, she was forced to. Her cell phone was the only thing in her car that had survived the crash, besides her.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #35 on Mar 26, 2008, 1:36pm »
[[She did end her call with Giovanni didn’t she? If she didn’t I’ll mod the post lol]]
Finally, as he made it out of the apartment building and halfway down the street, the guilt of what he had just done to Roxy started to trickle through the anger that his body was still trembling with. To be honest, the only thing that the bartender done had been to spark his anger and frustration, if she hadn’t done that, he would have just been quiet and been suffering anxiety attacks for the last couple of hours. Roxy certainly hadn’t done anything wrong, he couldn’t believe how cruel he had been to her, especially after all she had gone through.
As he walked further into the city, still looking for someone to hurt or something to destroy, he mused silently on him and Roxy. Why was she even still with him? God knows that his mood swings were why so many countless other people had left or abandoned him, he fought with her, shouted incredibly nasty things, and yet… He was tempted to wonder whether she cared about him anymore, though if she didn’t he wouldn’t blame her, he had been a complete ass. Gerald, of all the bloody people in the world, appeared next to him on the busy street, darting in and out of the way of people as he teased Danni about what he had just done.
“Just shut up and leave me alone before I wring your fucking neck.”
He snarled loudly at the man, surprising a few of the people around him, mostly because they assumed he was talking to them considering they couldn’t see Gerald, only he could. He shuddered as he breathed out, desperate to find some solitude away from all these stupidly ridiculous humans, some of them actually seeming to care about how distressed he looked. Danni was surprised as he was grabbed by something and pulled into an empty alleyway, probably by a vampire, considering nothing else was strong enough to surprise him like that. After a few moments of struggling out of whoevers grip it was, he turned to see Giovanni, immediately infuriated, though he wasn’t sure why. Before he knew what he was doing, or could even have time to think about it, he slapped Giovanni’s face, though he was stopped before he could actually do any damage.
“Danni! Calm down! Look, what did you argue with Roxy about?”
Verbally, he didn’t even respond, struggling against his makers hold on his wrists as if his life depended on it. Partly he was acting like this because he was panicking, he often did when he was being restrained, and also because he hated the fact that Giovanni could actually hold him still and force him to stop moving. “Let go of me!” He started screaming, wildly trying to get his maker to let go of him, just blindly panicking now, though although it was being restrained that was making him terrified, if he let go of him, Danni would try and hurt him again.
“You know I wont hurt you, so just calm the fuck down and stay still.” Danni continued to ignore him, or just not notice him, and was now starting to try and use his legs to push his maker away so that he would let go of him. Giovanni sighed, obviously not happy with what he was going to have to do, then kicked out his legs so that he could pin Danni to the ground, where he would have a hell of a lot more control over him. Knowing that it was the only way to get through to him, he got one hand free, and slapped his fledgling, watching with concern as he became still. Danni had until this point, been using everything he had to try and get Giovanni off of him, though the older vampire was so much stronger that it was virtually pointless. The pain was the only thing that got through to him, his jaw starting to ache as it started registering properly, and he came to his senses in the slightest. Unfortunately for Giovanni, it didn't mean that he had got over his mood swing and become reasonable.
"What do you care?"
He snarled at him, giving a little struggle under Giovanni's hold, before he gave up and lay still, trying not to think of how much he wanted to kill him.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #36 on Mar 26, 2008, 4:28pm »
[[yeah, it ended ]]
Roxy sat on his bed, staring at her cell phone for some reason. Did she expect Danni to call her? Or Giovanni? Of course Danni couldn't call, his phone had been destroyed. And she doubted Giovanni would call her, unless it was an emergency.
With a small, quiet sigh, Roxy picked up her phone. She dialed a njumber and held it up to her ear.
"Dad?" she said, hearing the person on the other line, "Hi. How have you been?" It felt extremely comforting to hear her father's voice on the other line. Roxy asked him how things were at home. Her father said the horses missed her mother. Roxy told him that she'll come to visit soon, to see him and them. Roxy told her father about what had happened to her after she had talked to him last, and she reassured him that she was okay. Her dad asked about Danni and how he was, and Roxy bit her lip.
"Roxy?" Her father asked, wondering if the call had been dropped.
"He's good," Roxy splurted, "He just ran out to my apartment for me, because I forgot my notebook." Through his voice, Roxy could feel that her father was smiling.
"That's nice of him. Rox, I'm so happy you found someone that can make you happy." Roxy smiled faintly.
"Me too, dad. Me too." A short while later, Roxy hung up her phone and set it on the bestand. Now she was back to where she had been before; sitting alone in Danni's bedroom. Sighing quietly, Roxy looked in the direction of the door, wondering when they'd be back.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #37 on Mar 26, 2008, 5:34pm »
Giovanni questioned him for a little bit longer on why he was acting like he was, and why he had been a complete asshole to Roxy when she hadn’t even done anything wrong. After a few moments, Danni told him, still pinned to the cold ground, about the bartender and how he had wanted to really hurt her, mostly because of how much of a prick she had been to him. The feeling of panic was starting to build up in him again, and though he was generally controlling himself quite well, he didn’t like being held down.
“You know if you let me go I’ll…hurt you.”
Danni told him seriously, his quiet and soft tone revealing to his maker instantly that he didn’t like acting aggressively, he just couldn’t control his actions. Giovanni nodded silently, pushing down easily on Danni’s shoulders when his fledgling tried to get up a little bit, he didn’t really want to leave Danni here, god knows what he might do, but he could find him again, Roxy probably needed him more. “I know… I’ll come find you before sunrise okay?” In his current crazed state, Danni might even try a bit of sunbathing, even without any real suicidal intentions, so he couldn’t leave him during the day.
Feeling the restraint disappear, Danni sprang to his feet, growling as he looked around himself immediately, not seeing his maker anywhere. He swore as he hit the wall, disbelieving that he could have so little control over himself, even towards Giovanni and Roxy. He hated it. He decided to go and find out where the woods were, so he walked off till he found them, going and sitting by a large oak tree somewhere.
Giovanni walked into the apartment quietly, all of his movements careful as he closed the door properly, wincing at the sight of the half torn hinges. He walked into Danni’s bedroom quietly, though obviously loud enough that Roxy could hear him, he didn’t want to surprise her. Coming to stand in the doorway, he smiled politely, kind and soft as always, unerringly patient. “I found Danni.” He said as he looked to the floor, having seen his mood swings countless times, though they still worried him. “He hasn’t calmed down at all, if he doesn’t soon…I’m not sure what to do with him.” Giovanni wasn’t saying it was her problem or anything like that, he was just stating what he had found out.
In the absolute silence of the woods, well there was the traffic in the far distance, the anger that had been driving him all night, was starting to fizzle out like a dying flame. He hated being him, he hated being a vampire when he should have been old or by now long dead, he hated how one minute he wanted to smash up everything in sight, and the next wanted to paint or draw something as badly as he needed to feed. Thinking about how he might make it up to Roxy took his mind off of depressing things slightly. He knew he didn’t deserve her.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #38 on Mar 27, 2008, 6:09am »
Roxy had been sitting on Danni's bed when she heard someone walking towards the room. Looking up, she saw Roxy. She returned his smile slightly, though you could tell that she was not happy.
"You did?" She repeated upon hearing that he had found Danni. Roxy listened intently, sighing as she registered his news. Running both of her hands through her hair, she looked at him, putting her elbow on her knee and putting her head in her hand.
"Do you think I should go and find him? Or should I wait until he comes back here?" She asked, very truly not knowing what to do. If Roxy went and found him he would either hurt her more, or be depressed and have a break down. If she waited for him, he would either come home and ignore her or come home and try to make it up towards her.
"I'll stay here," she said, answering her own question, "I'm sure he'll be fine." Although it seemed ignorant to say, Roxy did believe that Danni's anger would subside. It was an inner gut feeling. She gave Giovanni a small, reassuring smile. Then, she shifted herself, pulled back the covers and slipped underneath them, laying down in the spot where she had been sitting. She closed her eyes, but had no intention of falling asleep. She wasn't tired in the least bit.
"Thank you, Giovanni," she said softly, opening her eyes to look at him.
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #39 on Mar 31, 2008, 5:42am »
For a few moments he thought on things that he might have been able to do to make it up to Roxy, but he just didn't know, he had really...lost it this time. It wasn't that she wasn't worth bothering for or anything like that, he just didn't think that he deserved her, right at that moment he didn't even have the energy to get up, let alone think of what to do. God he hated his mood swings sometimes.
Giovanni opened his mouth at what she said, only half way through thinking on what to reply with, not too sure himself, when she answered her own question. No doubt if she went to find Danni, either a fight would ensue...or he would dump his depression on her, even if he didn't mean to. Playing the part of Danni's minder could be wearing at times, but it was a little like having children, sort of. Giovanni had turned Danni into what he was against his will, had made his mood swings worse by doing so, and so was now pretty responsible for him. Going sort of quiet, he smiled and looked to the floor, hoping to god that Danni was alright, but also feeling incredibly guilty, knowing how hard all the stuff that Roxy had gone through was.
Seeing her get under the covers, assuming that she was going to sleep, he took a step back, about to walk off when she thanked him. “You're welcome, but for what?” He asked her softly, his expression gentle as he stood there opposite her in Danni's bedroom, genuinely wondering what he had done that would deserve thanks from her. She was the one who was putting up with Danni's crazy moods and actions, despite the fact that no one else would have deemed it worthy.
Unlike what Giovanni had assumed, he wasn't going to go and hurt himself or anything, not like walk into the sun or something like that, but... Well if someone had threatened to kill him, he wasn't quite sure whether he would bother to defend himself or not, probably not. Of course stick Roxy into the equasion, and he would have killed whoever was threatening her, but otherwise,...he probably wouldn't care. It was probably selfish of him to think that, considering all that had happened to Roxy lately. I can't believe I hit her. It wasn't that he was worried he had hurt her so much, well not physically, it was that he hadn't stopped himself, that was what he was worried about.
Pushing himself up from the ground, he thought for a split second about getting drunk to try and numb what he was feeling, then quickly thought better of it when he thought on how badly, maybe even worse, he would act towards Roxy and Giovanni. It seemed IMPOSSIBLE to think of a good idea right now, in fact, any idea would have been nice.
[[I'm soooooooo sorry it took me so long to post! ]]
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Re: Distraction [Pan] « Reply #40 on Mar 31, 2008, 11:51am »
((its okay! ive been wicked busy! :] ))
Roxy's gaze drifted to Giovanni when he spoke.
"For going to check on Danni. Actually, for you being there for Danni all the time. I give you a lot of credit; I wouldn't be able to do it by myself," she said, sitting up in Danni's bed. She glanced over at her phone; she knew she couldn't call Danni, seeing as he had destroyed his phone. Ohh yeah, I'm a vampire; duhhh! She thought to herself. Reaching her mind out to Danni, she thought him a message. Danni, please meet me at my apartment. Roxy then sealed her mind off so she couldn't receive anyone's thoughts, including his.
"So, thank you again, Giovanni," Roxy said as she got up out of the bed. She straightened the covers and then gathered her things from the side table.
"I'll catch you later," she said, smiling politely to him before slipping inbetween him and the bedroom door. Running a hand over her hair, Roxy left his apartment, and was soon back at her own. She didn't bother to turn on the lights; she had no need to. Immediately after she closed the door and took off her shoes, Lorelai was circling her legs. She smiled and looked down at her, reaching down and picking her up, cradling her in her arms.
"Well, hello, Miss Lorelai. How are you?" She asked, scratching behind her ears. In return, her silver cat purred happily. As she walked over to her piano bench, Roxy set Lorelai down on top of her piano, where she curled up and fell asleep as Roxy began to play a soft, macabre tune, in minor. Consequently, tunes in minor were Roxy's favorite, even though they were always sad. Oh well; it's a small price to pay for the music that was being created.
Though, humble that he was, he didn't feel as if he needed nor deserved any thanks, he smiled gratefully at Roxy, his eyes kind as always as he watched her leave the bedroom. Sometimes Danni scared the pants off him with the things he did, the ways he acted towards people, the risks he took, but then again, it was what made Danni,...Danni.
A whimper of surprised escaped his throat as someone invaded into his thoughts and placed a thought of their own. It took him a moment to realise who it was, Danni knew that beautiful vanilla scent anywhere. His heart melted with guilt and love for Roxy for a moment, before he managed to catch himself, and notice that she had closed her mind off to him. Well that's her loss. He thought to himself, knowing that it would take him a little while to get over his mood swing.
-Two nights later-
Though he hadn't gone out and got himself ridiculously drunk, like he had thought about doing, he had drunk two glasses of wine, and had taken it pretty well. His skin was hot to the touch, though that was from feeding on two different mortals, and he was completely relaxed, relaxed enough to think over what he might do with the situation going on with Giovanni and Roxy.
Roxy was laying on the couch in her living room, listening to a cd of an old, classical singer. Lorelai lay in the crook of her body, near her hips. Roxy lay with her head on a pillow, and her eyes closed, though she was far from asleep.
Roxy didn't understand what was with Danni. He knew that she lost her award, her mother, her car, and now she felt like she lost him. She wore a plain black, fitted, long sleeved t-shirt and a pair of pink sweatpants, bunched at her knees, with black ankle socks. Her jet black hair was curly-wavy, and her bangs were pulled back in a small poof on the top of her head. Her eyes were lined with black eyeliner and mascara, and her pale skin was warm to the touch from feeding from a few blood bags earlier than evening.
The night that she had asked Danni to come to her apartment had been a mentally scarring one for her. That night was so wrong, on so many levels. And when he didn't show up, she was incredibly disappointed. He didn't show up the following night, and so Roxy didn't expect him to show up that night.
Roxy had literally just picked up the phone to call Giovanni, when it rang. Looking at the caller id, Roxy became confused as to why Tassel's was calling her. Maybe the owner was found!
"Hello? Hey! He was? That's great! Really? Tonight? Awesome! I'll be there as soon as I can! Wait...there's how many people there? Ohmigod. Okay!! Byee!"
Roxy leapt off the couch, sending Lorelai running off into the other room. the owner of Tassel's had been found, and they were having a grand reopening, and there were at least one hundred people there! Grabbing her purse, Roxy locked the door behind her, literally running out of the apartment, and got to Tassel's as fast as she could.
With frivolous joy, Roxy opened the door to her dressing room, that she shared with her friends Jessica and Sarah. Seeing that their stuff was already around, she figured that they were already on stage. Roxy felt quite daring that night, so she went over to the rack of costumes in their room, and picked one out.
--On Stage--
The lights seemed to shine a bit brighter that night, and the crowd sounded amazing as they announced Roxy's name. She walked flirtatiously onto the stage, dressed in a black push up, lace bra and a black G-string with a pair of strappy stilettos, flaunting her flat stomach, perky chest and long legs. Her eyes were made up with smoky colors of gray and blacks, bringing out her vibrant, blue/green eyes. She had straightened her hair, and pulled her bangs back. There were tiny specks of red glitter all over her body. Guys howled and cheered as she twirled around a metal pole, seductively taking a drink from a man's hand and taking a drink, taking his top hat as well and putting it on her head. She walked down the catwalk, swinging her hips. She finished down the purely alcoholic drink and tossed the hat out into the floor. Roxy smiled at all the men in the front row, turning their back to them and dancing to the music that was playing loudly in the club.
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