15190/The Immortal Feud

The Immortal Feud
Date of Scene:	20 June 2023
Location:	Jubilee and Noriko's Apt - College House
Synopsis:	Noriko has a downright rude surprise for Jubilation in their ongoing feud. It goes about how one would expect when bringing home balls of fluff to an immortal bloodsucking fiance. (no balls of fluff were physically harmed in the making of this scene)
Cast of Characters:	Noriko Ashida, Jubilation Lee

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Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko has made herself busy.  She's spent many more evenings hanging out with Pony but that gets old after awhile and she's determined to not be the one to break the embargo.  She hasn't been providing any little cute bags of blood in the fridge for Jubes with sticky notes adorned with the tales of how the blood was acquired.  It's always some death of some poor stick figured creature or guy...some unfortunate accident like the last one Jubes received, when was it?  Anyways it was a little stick figure drawing of someone guessing the wrong letter in a crowd of stick figures witnessing the hangman try to ride out his fate.  Somehow, there was a pool of blood like there is in all of the drawings, no matter what the fate.

But tonight?  No cutesy little drawing of carnage greeted Jubilee, again.  And now?  Instead, there are little cooing talking noises coming from the bedroom.  Nothing specific is being said, but that has to be...Nori?

Well, nothing specific until...  "So hide when she gets home because, well I already explained in the baby language," she mumbles, knowing full well that whoever she is talking to hasn't a clue what she's saying.  "Stoooop. You guuuys.  This is serious."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    The door opens slowly and Jubilee slips in without much fanfare. She no longer announces herself. She didn't last night, either. She doesn't even bother to check the fridge. Instead, Jubilation Lee immediately walks to the couch, flops down on it, and sprawls with her legs spread over the back. Her head dangles off the edge of the cushion so she can watch television, apparently upside-down and in the stupidest way possible. Jubes reaches for the remote with her fingers outstretched as much as they'll go. Just. A little. More. And...

    Her vampire id stirs. She's not alone.

    Jubilation rolls backwards and onto her feet and stares in the direction of the noise. The cooing. The babytalk. The bedroom. Jubilee's mouth hangs open but no sound comes. Nori's in the bedroom with someone? After a moment, a hateful expression replaces the blank one. The silence gives way to a hiss. Her form blurs as the power of the blood grants her speed and agility beyond what nature would consider reasonable.

    The wood surrounding the metal strike plate of the bedroom door splinters as it's forced to open by Jubilation's unnatural strength. One of the hinge pins lands on the ground with a pathetic clang of precious metal. She didn't even bother turning the knob.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Nori /is/ in the bedroom with...someone?  Something?  Jubilation manages something in her vampiric glory that most creatures on this Earth cannot achieve...she gets the drop on Nori.  Nori and a kitten.  It's just a white-socked little black thing, nope wait.  There's two....and everyone freezes and claws are out as the kittens are on their backs while they were in the middle of attacking Noriko in the coffin.

The speedster suddenly clings the kittens to her and they try to scramble out of her rigid metal grip to explore! and squirm.  Suddenly, in the face of the bestial side of her fiance, she regrets her idea.  Why did she put these sweet innocent kittens in the middle of their battle?  Eff it.  "What?!"  She can understand door accidents but she reacts almost as if Jubes ran in on her in the shower a few years before now.  Embarrassed.

One of the kittens screech-meows needily as it jungle-gyms through Nori's metal fingers.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    The door leans sadly in its frame, now only supported by two of its three hinges. One pin has escaped, now rolling away to a prime spot to be stepped on later. Jubilation stands in the opening with her mouth wide open for maximum effect, ready to pounce upon someone. Ready to end their life. Jubilation hisses loudly and leaps into the air. She lands with both feet on the walls of the coffin, now standing over Noriko and the kittens. This is bad. This is bad. This is bad. One wrong move and the monster inside her will break free and end the lives of these three little pigs. Just let go, let it happen, it screams. Do it. Do it. Just do it.

    Jubilee closes her jaw and sucks in an entire lungful of air between her teeth and hops off the coffin. No one is killed. No one is hurt.

    Jubilation's expression changes abruptly. It goes from horror to horrified. And then... embarrassment. And then normal, non-vampiric anger.

    "What the hell is this?" she demands, gesturing at the cats.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Nori knew Jubilation before she became a vampire, and perhaps that's the delusion-generating kind of memories the speedster needs to not IMMEDIATELY BOLT OR HAVE AN ACCIDENT or accidentally start a fire or drive any number of escalating outcomes.

"No-no-no-no," can finally be made out as Noriko's pulse and being finally start to slow down.  The non-vampiric anger is almost soothing by the time they get there and Noriko keeps the kittens clung to her chest as if one of them might get snapped up.

"What?!  I just wanted something that wasn't going to get upset at me for taking care of it!"  That was supposed to be more barbed but came off way more desperate than Noriko had imagined in her head.  Also she suddenly realizes that she might have picked the wrong species if she's looking for appreciation or something that wasn't going to fight her care.  Ugh!  They were just words to throw in Jubilee's face anyways.

Noriko tucks her chin down to touch the soft back of one of the kittens and immediately gets swatted.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    They are natural enemies. Cats and vampires. Dogs and vampires. Vampires have long suffered through a terrible relationship with nearly every one of mankind's domesticated animals and there's just something deep-rooted there that can't be ignored. Jubilation's anger only increases knowing that the speedster brought these cats specifically to rub in her face. "That's /it/!" Jubilee announces. She begins stalking around the room. A magenta backpack is hastily unzipped and placed in the center of the room. Closets and dresser drawers are opened, clothing gets tossed into the backpack. She's in some kind of angry autopilot.

    The backpack is overstuffed but Jubilee forces it. She yanks the zipper across its track, causing the thick material of the backpack to split. Jubilation hisses again out of an overdose of frustration, but this time it's directed to the men and women at the JanSport factory. Where else can she direct this? Where can she even go?

    Wait. There's someone.

    Jubilee storms out of the bedroom, dragging the poor backpack behind her. She finds a spot near the door to the apartment and leans against the frame. After a few angry taps against her phone screen, Jubilation brings it up to her ear. Her shoulders tense, as though doing so might make herself sound more pathetic to whomever she might be calling.

    "Hey," she says quietly. "It's me. Can you come pick me up?"

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"What?!"  Is she really still pushing innocence?  Even Noriko knows that's a sham, but she wasn't ready.  She swore that her line was much better in her head and-wait-what?  Noriko just sort of sits in the coffin watching, confused, as Jubes packs up a backpack.  Like a child coming out of post-tantrum haze, she just has that I'm about to cry or yell face that all toddlers get.  She's in shock.  That's the only explanation for it taking this long for the speedster to react.

Noriko appears at the door to the bedroom in her socks, some cotton shorts, her hair still a muss from the kittens tangling in it.  They walk out a pace or two, none the wiser, then puke from all the sudden velocity changes Nori has put them through in the last few seconds.  "Oh I'm so sorry," she says to the little wretched creatures...not to Jubes.  It is her fault, but the speedster doesn't think about how that's coming across.

"Where are you going?" Nori asks as she cleans up the throw up.  Spray spray.  Then that's put away.  "Who is that?"  Because that stole /all/ of Nori's attention.  The kittens are now wandering around unsupervised.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilation turns towards the wall and disappears a little further into her suspicious telephone conversation. "Yeah... Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters. Westchester," she almost whispers. "Yeah. Okay. Thanks..." Her 'thanks' sounds a little desperate, as though whoever coming to get her will be doing her a great service. She ends the call and pockets the phone. "Gross!" Jubilation announces as she walks past the temporary pile of cat puke on her way to the fridge. She pulls the door open, finds nothing for her, and closes the door. After a moment's hesitation, Jubes pulls her phone out again.

    "Yeah, me again. Can you bring me someone when you come?" she requests quietly. She makes a point to say 'someone' so Noriko can hear it. Two can play at this game. "Uh huh... Thanks." She hangs up the phone again.

    ...And texts: A BAGGED someone <red droplet emoji>

    Jubilation privately bites her lip before turning around to face Noriko again. "No where!" she answers firmly before reaching down and grabbing the backpack by one of its shoulder straps. "No one!"

    Somewhere. Someone.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Even having anyone else's blood was a thing for Nori, but this.  "What do you mean?  Bring you someone?!"  The speedster's mind has already gone through all of the options.  She knows she's kind of just railing to herself right now.  Jubilation is talking on the phone, not to her, but it's sent her entirely off the rails.

"You just have someone on speed  dial?  Someone at your court or something?  Who just," She stops short, thinking about the immortal beauties, male and female that Jubilation has access to if she ever just lifted a finger.  Her eyes are already globes of tears and she can't see a thing.  UGH!

"So that's what's been going on."  There's a woosh and the speedster is gone.  The kittens are meowing listlessly.  Then another woosh and the kittens are gone.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    It's tough to argue with a speedster sometimes. Jubilation is barely able to get a word in when Nori gets like this. It can be hard. "No, I.." she tries. Ugh. "It's just---" Woosh.

    Jubilation stands there, just her and the cats, and frowns at them. "I went too far, didn't I?" she asks, tucking a lock of her hair behind an ear.

    Woooosh. Now the cats are gone, too.

    Jubilation leans back against the wall, looks around at the apartment, and then lowers her face into the palms of her hands.