15997/Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Date of Scene:	02 October 2023
Location:	Salem Center
Synopsis:	Jubilation and Noriko flee the Salem Center Oktoberfest celebrations and once again fail to figure things out.
Cast of Characters:	Jubilation Lee, Noriko Ashida

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Jubilation Lee has posed:
    The Oktoberfest celebration in the Salem Center ended without bloodshed, but the night is young. Westchester's population of newbie vampires has been on the rise and no one has been willing to claim responsibility. These poor souls rise from the dead without a clue and a gathering of loud, surly mortals looks like a great place to deal with that bloodthirsty hunger of their first night. Though a vampire would have no use for the beer and food, Jubilation Lee showed up to make sure there weren't any problems from any supernatural types that might show up to cause trouble. She can't let Westchester be the reason that people accept the truth that vampires are real and she certainly wouldn't let anything happen to the mortals she claims as her own. All of that was going according to plan until a possible vampire slayer revealed himself. It went further off the rails when the well-intentioned Noriko Ashida announced Jubilation's status as the Great Vampire Nation of Westchester's noble. So much for hidden in plain sight.

    Jubilation runs down the dark, wet streets that extend from the Salem Center's parking lot and connect the shopping center to Westchester's main roads. She's running about as fast as she can without using her vampire abilities. No sense making herself hungrier if she doesn't have to! Every ten feet or so, Jubilee looks over her shoulder to see if she's being chased. So far, nothing. She can be tough to keep up with, though, as the former gymnast takes a particularly troublesome route that involves vaulting over trash cans, sliding across the hoods of parked cars, and even a quick improvised use of a fire escape ladder to get around a late night garbage pickup. It seems like she's making a huge effort for no reason beyond an abundance of caution. Except...

    Three figures emerge from the alley that Jubilee just ran past. These tall, pale figures immediately turn and chase after their target. At first glance, they could be people, but they're just a little taller than they should be, with long, gangly limbs and vaguely off-putting features. Crooked noses, hairless scalps, pointed ears, and jagged fingernails are all common to them all. They're all snarling, revealing another quality they all share: razor sharp fangs.

    "Shit snacks!" is Jubilee's chosen interjection of surprise as she catches a glimpse of the trio over her shoulder. 6/10.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Blood curdled with electrons at the threat of a brother 'just protecting his sister,' Noriko Ashida is slow on the uptake that Jubilation has fled...for her.  The speedster dashes in the direction of the subtle clues, reading the ripples of a displaced crowd, people slightly off balance to allow passage to a ...shhhh vampire.  Noble.

Moving through crowds is annoying, but familiar.  She's learned a trick to slow down just enough to let the crowd flow right at the right times as she slaloms through.  But still, it's like moving through swiss cheese to get back to where Jubilation is within her sights.  This allows her to stay somewhat undetected, though unwittingly.

Noriko isn't as creative as Jubilation in her movement through the streets.  First, she doesn't have to be.  Second, after seeing Jubilation fluidly move through the environment, she has no wish to splat herself against the side of a garbage truck.  She could catch up to Jubilation easy at this point, but she could also watch her zip along in her element for a spell before they get to the-

The speedster spots the three 'shit snacks' step out between them.  Noriko has to slow down to catch Jubilation's pet name for them.  "Jubes!"  Why did she just do that, she thinks.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilation spots Noriko as she slows down and comes into view mid chase. What could she say at a time like this? Nori, why did you do that back there? Nori, this is all your fault. Nori, you've done enough. No. Jubilee says none of those.

    "Nori!" she enthuses, smiling like everything's fine and she's not running for her life right now. "Just going for a run, huh?" Smile smile smile. Fake it. No danger here!

    "Huaakk!" Jubilation suddenly jerks backwards and comes to an abrupt halt with enough force to snap her neck in an instant. She dangles a couple of inches in the air, just below where the hood of her oversized Pretzel Inspector hoodie got caught on a loose rung belonging to another fire escape. While Game of Thrones was right with 'what is dead may never die,' it's important to note that 'what is dead can look like an idiot.'

    Jubilation struggles to free herself from the fire escape's clutches, unable to reach where her hood wraps around the fire escape's loose rung. This looks like it might be the end of things, as Jubilation disappears from view, blocked by the three, snarling Shit Snacks that have converged on her in an instant. The sound is gruesome: ripping cloth, lip-smacking, hissing. This is it!

    ...Wait...

    Jubilee crawls out from the crowd of snarling monsters, emerging from between the legs of one of them, now just wearing the black tank top she had underneath her hoodie.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Even if the smile is fake, it's infectious.  Noriko smirks at Jubilation's antics...at first.  She watches on when Jubilation gets snagged and grimaces.  It's an unspoken policy of Noriko's to let Jubilation be her own person.  Sometimes it is difficult to know when it is right to step in.  However, Noriko misjudges just how fast the vampires can be.  They get the jump in a burst of speed, which Noriko has to catch up to.  By the time she dashes in, she can see Jubilation beginning to crawl out and this gives her a second to appreciate Jubilation's ingenuity.

Until Jubes starts to recede from view.  Noriko sees it in Jubilation's expression.  She darts forward to grab Jubilation's forearm.  As she pulls Jubilation out, she kicks a foot forward into one of the vampire's legs, shattering his shin...for leverage as they rebound away from the group.

This is not easy going.  Noriko is going faster than Jubilation can keep up and the speedster doesn't have enough strength to hold the vampire fully up in the air on handed.  But no matter how much her arm yanks, she doesn't let go.  Thankfully, they don't go too far before Noriko stops and says, "BACK. NOW."  Suddenly she's turned around and crouched.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Unable to resist the chance to make a quippy remark, Jubilation grins up at Noriko as she crawls out from the little crowd of distracted vampires. "Hope they like the taste of cotton!" she says, already at peace with the loss of her sweatshirt. The easy smile disappears as she feels the cold hands wrap around her ankles. She thrashes her legs, trying her best to break free, but it's no use. A single hand is outstretched to find Noriko.

    "Nori! Save yourself! Go! And promise me you'll delete my browser history!" Jubilee calls out as the speedster struggles to free her from her captors. The sound of bone snapping changes Jubilee's tune in an instant. "Ha! She's a /terrible/ dancer, isn't she!" Jubes exclaims with a big smile on her face as she scrambles to her feet and position herself on Noriko's back.

    Jubilee wraps her arms around Noriko's chest and gets herself ready for a sudden acceleration. "So, uh, forget all that stuff about my browser history, kay?" Jubes adds with a continued smile. She leans in and gives the speedster a loud kiss on her cheek.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko is in her super speed.  She knows Jubilation says something about something but whatever it's not important!  Well not right now.  But she's no dummy.  When Jubilation mentions forgetting about her browser history, Noriko squints, smirks, and gives Jubilation the chance to complete her kiss before they shoot off.

Once Noriko feels they are far enough along, she slows down enough to yell, "How far do I have to go before they can't smell me?!  Also, what's in your browser history?!"  She can't resist the chance to needle the vampire a little.  Deduction tells her it's something embarrassing.  No one mentions their browser history in a life or death situation without need.

They are still coasting along fast enough that Noriko won't put any unnecessary curves on their trajectory.  Force of habit when carrying human passengers.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Mush!" Jubilation shouts just before Noriko takes off with her on her back. They've done this more than a few times over the years and Jubes is about as used to it as a normal-speed person could get. Her sunglasses will protect her eyes. Her arms will keep her attached. The true casualty will be her hair and makeup.

    When they slow down a little, enough for Noriko to ask how much further they'll need to go, Jubilation leans in again and sniffs Noriko's neck, just underneath her jawline. "Yechht. At least another mile," she teases. The speedster can't smell that bad, though, as she'd no doubt feel Jubilee's lips briefly press against her neck as she finishes making her joke.

    For a more serious answer, Jubilee extends one arm forward to point to an arbitrary point where two streets meet at a corner up ahead. "We can stop there," she says, waggling her index finger towards the spot. When they come to a halt at the corner, Jubilee reaches up to feel her hair. She looks very much like a Goth kid's Troll doll with hair standing on end and eye makeup smeared down her cheeks from the speed.

    "Nothing, nothing," Jubilee starts, finally answering Noriko's question about her browser history. "I was trying to do some online shopping and...well, let's just say that a Crocodile Mile has another meaning." She grins a little and starts raking her fingers through her hair, trying to do her best to tame the chaos without a brush. While this would normally be a good moment to start with the thank-you-for-saving-me conversation, Jubilee's smile fades as she begins to recognize where they stopped. The unique combination of stickers on the traffic light's pole are burned into her memory.

    Though it's ancient history now, Jubilee ran away during their first date. This corner is the very spot where Noriko caught up to her.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko knows she doesn't smell bad.  The crisp air gives her extra cooling.  But she knows what Jubilation is getting at and does give it an extra mile or so.  What is Jubilation's casualty is Noriko's style.  She'll rock the windswept look, especially given how her hair is riding along on little currents of their own, undulating gently.  There's a reason she doesn't wear heavy makeup.

When they stop and Noriko turns, she smiles and reaches up to try and wipe off some of the makeup off Jubilation's cheeks.  "Ohh."  Her touch is more tender than the playfulness of her tone, but it slips away when Jubilation looks up.

Nori's eyes follow Jubilation's and the recognition spears her.  Her lips part slightly and she forgets to breathe as she grapples with the pain of something precious lost.  The vampires, Oktoberfest, everything suddenly feels hundreds of miles away.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilee looks upward, as though she might have rolled her eyes and got stuck. She gently moves Noriko's hands away from her face. "Nori, Nori, you're messing up my makeup," she declares, unable to see that the trip already did. It's their last moment before nostalgia drags them through the murky waters of their recent past. Jubilee turns slightly so she can look away, keeping her shoulder pointed at Noriko, as though they were strangers both waiting for the Don't Walk sign to switch to Walk. She can't resist the neon sign for the movie theater on the other side of the crosswalk. Something about it makes her laugh a little.

    "That was a fun night," she comments quietly, staring forward, trusting that Noriko would know which night she means. Jubilation doesn't even look over to see Noriko's reaction. She just stares at the movie theater's marquee.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko swallows a knot in her throat when Jubilation looks away.  She looks down instead, trying not to think of how happy they were, of the excitement of that night like any tendril of memory might reach out and zap her in a way she can't handle.

"Yeah.  It was.  I was so nervous I thought I'd electrocute you,"  Noriko barely grins.  It's a fond memory, but there are barbs to everything fond these days.  "I miss those days."  She doesn't look over the Jubilation either.

Now they are just two people proverbially waiting for proverbial bus at a proverbial bus stop of their own making.

"Is there nothing that can be done?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Not me. /I/ was nervous that the soda would stain my sweater. I never told you, but it still had the tag on it," Jubilee admits, revealing just how messed up her priorities were. "Mall pro-tip right there, Nori. If they put the tag somewhere you can hide it, they're basically giving you permission to borrow it." One doesn't live in a shopping mall for as long as Jubilee did without picking up a thing or two.

    Noriko's question secures Jubilee's attention. She looks up at the speedster and nods her head. "Well, Sevvie says that it still might take a couple months for you to go back to normal," she answers. "But we're probably messing it up with all these meet-ups..."

    Jubilee totally misunderstood the question. Severina, a much older vampire, has been stoking the idea that long-term exposure to Jubes could result in Noriko being permanently hypnotized and transformed into a 'Renfield.' While she doesn't have a ton of experience as a vampire, and she continues to have difficulty navigating the complex social structure of vampire society, Jubilation's success with keeping roots in the mortal world makes her a worthy foe. Getting Noriko Ashida out of the picture is just phase one of Severina's secret plan to destroy Jubilation Lee.

    "What did you name the cats, Nori?" Jubilee wonders, glancing over at the speedster again. It's unclear if she's trying to push Noriko's buttons or just making conversation. It's also possible that she just wants to know.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"You had to do what you had to do," Noriko says with a shrug.  They've both lived on the streets.  The wisdom seems to be accepted like the fact that it rains.  "Good tip."

When Jubilation mentions Severina, Noriko openly rolls her eyes.  "Severina is a homicidal maniac who doesn't know me.  How could she possible know if I've been affected or not?  My physiology is completely different from humans.  I heal faster even."  Well she heals on fast forward.  It's a little different, but she's not as durable as Logan.  Okay it's a lot different, but Noriko likes to pretend she can super heal, if only to make younger kids oooh and ahhh and to support her stubborn stoicism when she gets injured.

"I gave them away."  Whether Noriko named them before this happened or not, she doesn't say.  "It didn't feel right to keep them..." after everything, and it's not like Noriko wanted any barrier for Jubilation to return.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Hm. I bet you named them," Jubilee accuses, falling back into a playful sort of tone. "Skittles and Bam-Bam. And by the time someone told you that it's supposed to be Pebbles, it was too late and you rolled with it." She grins at this elaborate turn of events that may or may not be true. It doesn't matter. The grin turns serious as Noriko shares words about Severina.

    "Sevvie is my friend, Nori," Jubilee points out, totally unaware that her friend is cooking up her demise. "And she's, like, hundreds of years old, probably. I think she knows a thing or two about this. She's just looking out for you, you know...."

    "Thanks for saving me..." Jubilee adds, her voice trailing off towards the end. It's that sort of tone that implies that it could be, but isn't necessarily, a way of saying goodbye and ending the conversation.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"...Maybe," Noriko says as if there might be a sliver of a chance that Jubilation totally got everything right when it came to the kittens.  Her reply is just sheepish enough to be obvious.

"Why would Sevvie give a shit about me Jubes.  Ask yourself.  Why would she look out for me.  What in all of the history you have read about vampires tells you that the chick that wanted me to kill her sister, but I didn't, likes me and is looking out for my well being, vampire or not."  Noriko tries to penetrate through the strong friendbombing Severina is obviously deploying.

"What is she suddenly interested in doing her nails and going to the mall?  She's a /mean girl/.  She's not going to change overnight, not deep inside."  Noriko fights the urge to get nasty.  It's an instinct.  She's still got some fourteen year old girl immaturity to get out...a part of her might always will be frozen back then, but today, she bites her tongue. "Well I kind of blew your cover, so I owed you one right?" her visage lightens as she realizes this in retrospect, momentarily distracted by her campaign on Severina.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Because she's my friend," Jubilee repeats, as though this detail is enough of a reason for Severina to be concerned for Noriko's well-being. And now, Jubilee is on the defense, taking a stand against Noriko's mischaracterization of a mysterious, ancient vampire forced into her life. After hesitating briefly, Jubilee opens her mouth again, as though she just thought of another great point, but her enthusiasm disappears as Noriko reveals what she thinks might qualify someone as her friend.

    "Oh yeah?" she starts, immediately taking an accusatory tone. "Doing her nails? Going to the mall? So, like, that's it? Is that what you think of me, too?" That soured very, very fast. Goofing around, wearing obnoxiously bright colors, and, yes, going to the mall are staples of Jubilee's outward presentation, so anyone could be forgiven for that kind of thinking.

    "And, /obviously/ I didn't read through all the history and junk. That book is, like, thicker than all my old school books stacked on top of each other. It has page numbers with /commas/. I gave that thing to someone so they could start turning it into a pamphlet. Three, five pages, tops." She put her hands on her hips, glaring a little at the speedster.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"No, that's not what I think of you.  That's what I think /she/ thinks of you.  She could have been your friend /all/ of this time Jubilation, but she wasn't."  Noriko will not be deterred.  There's a fierceness to the way she plows on, a spark in her eye that has nothing to do with electricity.  She won't let anyone, not even Jubilation, get in the way of telling Jubilee the truth.

"Do you think she's forgotten that I didn't do her little favor?  She wants us apart so we'll be weaker.  She can't take us out both together.-Oh Jubes.  I did."  Noriko's look is grave.  "There's just so much backstabbing in there.  Manipulations."  Nothing of Noriko has hardened toward Jubilation, though things may have soured on the other end for Jubilation.

"Someone was screwing with us remember?  The simulation in the Danger Room?  All these new baby vampires?  These things don't just /end/ Jubes," she almost pleads with Jubilation to read the writing she sees on some wall as if it's right behind Jubes.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "And who cares, anyway? News flash, Nori. That stuff is /fun/!" Jubilee adds, still hung up on the nail polish and mall jab. She folds her arms across her chest again and leans against the metal pole that attaches the traffic light to the pavement. "Just because you don't like her doesn't mean I can't," Jubilee adds. Anyone walking by could easily mistake this as an argument between two middle school kids.

    "Oh, get over yourself, Nori. She hasn't even once mentioned that you haven't done the thing, yet," Jubilation explains. "I mean, she's been alive for hundreds of years, right? You think she's gonna get ticked off because it's been a year or whatever? She's never brought it up."

    What should be great points -- the Danger Room, the baby vampires -- gets a wave of Jubilee's hand. "Oh, come on. Listen to yourself, Nori. Danger Room? How could she have done that without anyone noticing? That place is locked up tighter than Paige Guthrie!"

    Jubilee does give Nori's point about the baby vampires a nod. "Yeah, well, the population increase is something I can't explain, but I'm working on it! Sevvie's helping me," Jubilee admits, apparently not seeing that for the obvious red flag that it is.

    Jubilee's mind, a monument to attention deficit, ping-pongs back to another one of Noriko's arguments. "And, like, have you read a /human/ history book lately? Don't get me wrong, my history teachers had to go through a lot of red pens, but I'm pretty sure those are chock full of backstabbings and wars and all kinds of other junk!"

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Jubes, I didn't say that stuff wasn't fun.  I wasn't making fun of you!  This has nothing to do with whether I like her.  She had the ability to broker a deal with me because you didn't have enough support.  That means she's the prime suspect when it comes to spooky action at a distance, because she has the means, motive, and opportunity.  I just want you to-What?  Keep her at a distance Jubes, please."  Noriko doesn't really care about her relationship with Jubilation at this point.  Something frantic has taken hold of her in the face of Jubilation's obstinance.

"She's been around for hundreds of years.  Why would she mention the thing she's doing behind your back to you or anything that would bring focus to it?"  Nori knows this will be lost on Jubilation.  Just the way it even comes out is squirrelly and requires attention span to absorb.

"They got on campus without our alarms going off remember?"  Noriko points out.  "I'm not sure the school's stuff is tuned for dead things to be honest.  If anyone /could/ do it, it's her."  Sure she doesn't have much evidence for that statement, but Jubilation isn't playing fair either, and Noriko's desperate.

"You are a vampire whose ex isn't a vampire and all the sudden she wants to be your besty.  Gross.  Fuck her.  She should like you for who you are, not who she wants you to be."  Noriko flips off the night as if that must be Severina in this moment.  She begins to pace in what is a tight loop for her, but is about 6 feet of blurring, roughing up the ground as she steams.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Means, motive, opportunity, but... no evidence," Jubilee points out, rising a little on her tippy-toes, as though doing so might make her argument hold more water. "Didn't you ever play those Carmen Sandiego games? Unless you've got evidence, you're just talking trash behind her back. Talking trash about my /friend/. Who's the mean girl, now?"

    This kind of departure was inevitable. Anyone with half a brain would know that, despite how dead her body might be, Jubilee has a fire that keeps getting stoked by Noriko. Passion is bound to get misplaced from time to time, especially when tempers run hot.

    "And, for your /information/...." Jubilee calls out, watching Noriko do her little back-and-forth. She says it like so many bratty girls have over the years. 'For your information' is just the schoolyard way of telling another girl to mind her own business.

    "For your information....!" she repeats. "/I/ called /her/! You wanna know who from school texted me to see how I was? Or even /where/ I was?" Jubilee folds her arms across her chest and waits a dramatically appropriate amount of time for the reveal. ".../No one/. Not a single one. Probably too busy with their precious /sun/ and, like, the /mall/... which, just so you know, I can't even go to, anymore! It's /closed/ at night! So, like.... ex-cuuuuuuse meeeeeee for wanting to talk to someone. You know, someone who /gets it/...." Jubilee turns away from Noriko. She continues to lean on the pole but, at least for now, she doesn't leave.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko reaches up and just grabs her hair, electricity starting to jump over her features.  Suddenly she stops, presumably to listen to Jubilation shout at her or something.  She doesn't know till she slows down and the words start to get repeated.

"They didn't contact you because I didn't tell anyone you were gone," and maybe Monet came to talk to Nori about it but Noriko knows better than to bring up she who must not be named.  "Gets it?  Gets it?!  So now you're going to throw my mortality in my face?  You hold that against me too, like the rest of them."  She shakes her head as the electricity continues to jolt over her skin and clothing, never lasting long enough to cause anything to catch fire.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Tell me, Noriko, do you hang out with a lot of humans?" Jubilee asks. It's rhetorical in both tone and intent. She knows that the majority of her interactions are with mutants. "No. It's mutants across the board, right?" She doesn't bother going further. Noriko could draw her own conclusions from that. There's no sense beating it into the ground.

    "Don't try to make me feel bad about wanting to talk to someone about how great AB Negative is!" Jubilation cries out. "Believe it or not, Nori, but it's not about you. I'm not holding anything against you, but that doesn't mean that I like how you treat me, sometimes."

    Record screech. What?

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"I don't hang out with anyone Jubilation and you know it."  Noriko doesn't.  Jubilation may have forgotten this, but the speedster is a loner.

"I'm not trying to make you feel bad.  And I don't care if you have vampire friends, just not this one-What does that mean?"  Her body remains rigid and her head cocks to the side as she looks to Jubilation for some kind of explanation.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilee frowns. "You know what I'm saying, Nori. There's just some stuff you're not going to understand and, like, that's okay," she explains, tone softening. It's moments like these that the real Jubilee shines through the dark clouds that have taken over her life. Noriko may be poking at her emotions, but there's still room for empathy.

    But, that all seems to fade away in an instant. "But don't try to spin this like I'm holding something against you just because I don't always want to be the weirdest one in the room all the time," Jubilee says, frowning again. She looks away from the speedster, staring at the movie theater on the other side of the road.

    When Noriko looks for clarity, Jubilee shakes her head. "Nothing, I shouldn't have said that. It's not your fault. It's the...hypnotism," Jubes reminds herself before turning to look over her shoulder. "Look, this was, uh, great. You know, catching up like this. But, I'm gonna go?" she says, though it comes off more like a question. She jabs her thumb to the left, presumably the direction of her house. It's closer to Salem Center than the school is and is totally walkable. She doesn't give an excuse for her departure and doesn't even bother making something up. All signs point to this not being as great as she's trying to suggest.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"I know that-"  Noriko sighs, her shoulders heavy.  "I am /always/ the weirdest one in the room.  I thought we were doing that together...is that-is that why you don't want to marry me?"  Sometimes things feel like they are happening too fast for Noriko even when they are happening so slowly.  She blinks as if she was just smacked with some truth.

"Give me proof!" Noriko calls out when Jubilation turns.  "That I'm hypnotized.  You said I need proof of Severina's deceit.  Well it's unfair to say I'm brainwashed if I'm not.  I'm not.  How could I ever ask you to become my equal if I thought I was beneath you?"

Jubilation can leave, but Noriko won't say goodbye.  She just stands there.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Noriko might try to appeal to some sense of logic within Jubilee, but it's all for nothing. She has already shifted her weight to leave. Noriko's parting arguments bounce uneventfully against the back of Jubilee's head as she walks away. She's already a block or so away when one of Noriko's points manages to get through her crunchy candy outside and reach the nougatty inside.

    'Is this why you don't want to marry me?' It lingers long enough to bore its way inside Jubilation. She turns around to face the speedster and folds her arms across her chest. A dark SUV pulls up alongside the vampire.

    "You're a dope, Nori, if that's what you think!" Jubilee shouts before getting leaning in to glance at the driver. They exchange some words ("Are you Sheila?" "Yeah, are you Jubilation?") and then Jubilee gets in the back seat of her ride share.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Fine.  I'm always the dope," Nori scowls.  Somehow Jubilation's words always sting the most, even when they aren't anything at all.  The prideful young speedster presses her lips together in painful fury, more inwardly directed than anything.  She's gone before Jubilation's car can take off, just running, to where she doesn't know.  But at these speeds, no one will touch her, no one will disturb her.  "Fuck you Sheila," she mumbles into the wind as she shoots off into oblivion.  It's the only name she has to latch onto, though she knows there are others in Jubilation's life, rideshare or otherwise.  "Fuck you Severina."  She wonders where the vampire slumbers.