Kaylee Everose Elijah & Coleman St John
Location: The Blue Dahlia & Avalon
Interaction: Coleman St John
@Pilatus; Kaylee & Elijah
Elijah rushed back in from helping clear out the bar in the front section to see Drake challenging the...thing. He clenched his jaw and pulled out his phone. Rolling his eyes he unlocked the phone.
Yeah it was time to call it a night. Kids were drunk and most of their powers are like my own more support than fighting. He watched Drake, Nik, Nathan and Cleo fighting.
Elijah dialed the phone calling Cole.
Let’s hope they’re not pissed since it looks like we could use some help. Just as the phone picked up Elijah’s attention snaps to Aya who just staggered in.
"Sluagh!" Aya called out before she fully knew what she was doing.
Elijah’s eyes widened.
I know that word...How do I know that word? What the fuck is she doing?! Why get - no. No. NO.She glanced at Drake, like he could somehow help her. She looked back at the monster.
"I -- I know where Uná is!" Elijah prayed she hadn't just made the biggest mistake of their lives because she just said what he thought she was going to.
Elijah recalled he was trying to call in the cavalry.
“Uh...Cole? We have a problem…”The band was midway through another set when Cole watched his phone light up with a call on the table in front of them. His expression fell with some annoyance. Aside from his work at the Institute, only a few people in the remaining casework he kept on the side would be contacting him and he was in no mood to deal with a vice-detective or a lawyer on his night out- all of which were well aware of his disdain for telephones. With a slight sigh he reached with his free hand keeping his other arm around Kaylee’s chair. “Duty calls,” He said sarcastically as he swiped his thumb over the small screen. He didn’t recognize the number, but the voice was unmistakable. He had to press the speaker against his ear to hear Elijah. The younger man’s voice cracked against a raucous on the other side of the line. “What do you mean,
we have a problem? He said pointedly immediately noticing Kaylee’s attention shift next to him.
Kaylee looked over in curiosity and as Cole quoted the question back at the caller on the phone Kaylee rose and motioned to the waitress. When the waitress walked over she let her know that they were leaving and needed to tab out.
Elijah heard the echo of ‘you have to be kidding me’ in Cole's voice.
“That would be what I said. To make a long story short we're at Avalon fighting a monster that may or may not be an illusion from Uná. And it's starting to not be in our favor...”Kaylee signed the slip of paper that the waitress brought around and gently pulled Cole toward the exit while he was on the phone.
Whoever that is owes me big time. Cancel my date to deal with business...Maybe he'd be okay finishing this later. Not tonight but later this week. And maybe a second date?“We’ll be there in ten minutes.” Cole’s expression was like stone as dropped the phone back into his pocket as they were making their way back out to the parking lot. “That was Elijah,” He said offering no surprise in his voice and taking heavy strides with her. Their tread beat quickly against the sandy dirt lot. Cool moonlight glinted off the bike between the tree branches; the front forks leaned and pointed directly towards the road just as he had left it. “A bunch of them are at Club Avalon,” He said throwing his leg over as she quickly settled in behind him sensing the urgency. There was no need to explain what Club Avalon was all about or of whom their primary clientele consisted. “One of Una’s imaginations is on the loose,” He let that part sink in before he put his thumb over the starter button and turned his head back towards Kaylee. “That means she’s not there,
but it is.”
Kaylee gritted her teeth and made mental note to give Elijah more to do to keep him out of trouble.
“Can’t leave them alone for a second.” Kaylee shakes her head.
“Teenagers. Rain check on the date?” Kaylee climbed on the bike and clutched Cole’s back. She could at least enjoy the ride nodding as he looked back at her.
Wait...he didn’t just say that Una wasn’t there to control the illusion did he?
“Wait. What? She’s missing? And the illusion is still there? That can’t be right. Her power doesn’t work like… God damn!! Ashford. Can we make it there in less than ten minutes? I think they’re in more trouble than they realize.”When he told Elijah ten minutes, he knew he was being very generous on the estimate. Club Avalon wasn’t terribly far away from the Blue Dahlia, but with LA traffic,
fifteen minutes would have also been a rather hopeful ETA. He would be “bending” a few traffic rules to make it solo in ten, but with a passenger, things would get very interesting and he didn’t want to put Kaylee in any danger past what he knew he could control. He mashed the starter button bringing the engine to life with a sharp electrical note and gave the throttle a quick twist, letting the clutch out smoothly as the rpms dropped. Once he felt Kaylee’s grip around his waist tighten firmly and the wide rear tire bit into the pavement, he laid into the throttle, blasting them down the highway like a rifle shot.
Flames popped from the exhaust through the night air as he went through the gears in quick succession. The rush of wind grew into a furious concerto with the deafening engine note as he leaned forward into the handlebars.
His bike was never set up for any real road-course action and he was careful how he leaned its stretched frame to account for Kaylee behind him and the unbalanced width of the rear tire through the curving descent from the Dahlia back into town. His mind was solely focused on the road ahead, watching past the edge of the headlight beam into the moonlight looking for the apex of the next turn. The piercing intuition from earlier in the night rode with him and intensified as they broke out into the surface streets blazing under a traffic light and splitting a pair of cars. It wasn’t far off. The call from Elijah only brought about a familiar feeling of confirmation, though he hadn’t expected it to come on so fast. The voice of blood called from the ground as they got closer. Unmistakable and undeniable. His expression became distant and sullen as his hands and legs worked the controls with total purpose, almost machine-like in their movement dodging cars, pedestrians, signal masts and anything else that came between them and their destination. They would make the ten minutes he promised Elijah.
Kaylee clung to Cole as they were off like a bullet from a gun. Kaylee turned her head and opened her eyes watching the trees blur by and her vision overlapped with Cole’s aura. Gold, yellow, neon blue and red intermingled with a bright white seemed to ribbon off him.
She closed her eyes and heard the pop of the exhaust and the roar of the bike echoing back. The wind tore past them as Kaylee trusted Cole and moved with him. As they moved into the surface streets Cole didn’t slow down. His posture became...different.
It was as if something else was driving him. Kaylee opened her eyes and looked at the scenery. Cole was dodging a car but half her vision was taken up with shifting colors that moved like smoke. As if Cole was smoldering.
This was different. He was still Cole but it was as if someone had put more in there. Like if you fill a glass slowly you can fill it over the rim. That was the closest analogy that Kaylee could liken it too.
They made it to Avalon in less than ten minutes. There was chaos in the parking lot people running and screaming about a monster. Kaylee could hear it over the growl of the bike. Which was odd. She glanced at Cole and was taken aback by his sullen, distant expression. She looked around to see what he was looking at that put that look on his face.
