9772/Moonbathing On Death's Doorstep

Moonbathing On Death's Doorstep
Date of Scene:	23 January 2022
Location:	Slalom: DEATH'S DOORSTEP
Synopsis:	Jubilee does some 'moon bathing' at the top of the Death's Doorstep ski run, creating a nice little pile of distracted skiers and snowboarders. Noriko joins her and the two exchange some lovey dovey words. Warning: mush.
Cast of Characters:	Jubilation Lee, Noriko Ashida

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Jubilation Lee has posed:
    The slopes of Killington never really stop. There's a brief lull in the evening while most people are enjoying their dinner, but once that's over and the mountain's light systems kick in, the slopes are once again full of skiers and boarders. Ski resorts tend to be a smorgasbord of unusual and free-spirited activities, but tonight's spectacle is one that would be spoken about by the teenage employees for seasons to come. Word on the mountain is that there's some girl laying at the top of Death's Doorstep in a bikini, just like a day at the beach...

    ...And that girl is Jubilation Lee. A beach chair has been put out in the snow, just at the top of the run, and Jubilee reclines on it wearing a black bikini and a pair of sunglasses. One leg is bent at the knee, and she just... enjoys herself. It's like a sunny day at the beach except it's... not. It's a cold, moonlit night in the snow.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Someone definitely heard about it all the way down at the bottom of the lift, then rode the lift up and stared down at the young vampire while she passed just overhead, and then shambled and fell down the ramp when she got off.  Noriko's wearing some abused, neon, metal-tipped athletic cleats and some shinguards that are too small for her, some break away pants that button down the side, and a tank.  She also has on a backpack, scarf, and some goggles that she pushes up as soon as she gets to her feet.

Then it's a controlled skid to arrive gently next to Jubilation on her rear...with a wedgie that she'll just ignore for the sake of her ever so suave entrance.  "Hey.  I can't feel my ass."  She smirks and then rips off her scarf as if she were burning up.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilation looks up at Noriko and smiles. "I'll feel it for you..." she announces, apparently not at all embarrassed by the boldness required to say it. She even reaches out with one of her hands and makes grabby gestures in the air. "You're getting better," she points out. Last year, Noriko had some trouble on the snow, after all. Last year, Jubilee was alive. She wiggles her toes a little and arches her back, seemingly unable to exist without trying to do as much as possible to be desirable. As soon as she does, a snowboarder about to start his run totally faceplants, completely distracted by the skin and the curves.

    "Are you enjoying this little ski trip of ours?" Jubilee wonders, tilting her head a little so she can watch Noriko from over the top edge of her sunglasses.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Nori grins, a flash of red nipping at her cheeks for just an instant perceived only by the speedster's otherworldly company.  "It's easier like this," Noriko means without anything that can impale another human being (too deeply) and sliding around like a twelve year old.  "Or do you mean when I boarded earlier?"  She has gotten a lot better, like her and the snow made friends, at least while she's in her flow.

The speedster pauses for a moment after the question, but then her pants are ripped off with a snap of her wrists like a butler fluffing out a doily.  Gives the poor snowboarder more blinding white curves to look at before the (also-bikinied) speedster looks back down to Jubes and grins.  "I think you just did that."  A laugh escapes, something born out of delight, rarely so pure for the blue haired girl.

Noriko stretches her arms out, bare legs spread shoulder width.  She's barefoot, her sneakers and socks to the side and her feet just a little pink from the cold of the snow.  She wiggles her toes in a cascading blur as her arms come down to her side.  "I am now.  The ride was awful.  I wish they would just let me run...Are you?" she wonders, her tone softening at the question.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    As soon as Nori reveals her bikini, Jubilee's smile grows past the point where she can conceal her fangs. Jubilation is doing some ridiculous thing, made even more ridiculous by her current status as living dead, and there's Noriko Ashida... coming in and normalizing it. "I love you, Nori," she says, just suddenly and without further context. There's a pause. "I can't feel anything anymore... I don't know if I've told you, but, I can't feel anything except... well, /hate/, honestly, but... also... Love. For you." She lets that smile linger, her head turning towards Noriko so she can see it. One shoulder shrugs.

    "It's okay," she says of the ski trip. "Some drunk guy took fifty bucks for some of his blood after he was drunk. Got me nice and tipsy. It felt warm, even though I know I wasn't." Jubilee grins. Pause. "...I took it from him with a butterfly needle," she adds suddenly. No biting. Another snowboarder falls face-first into the snow.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko is already lounging when her look says it all, dark eyes flitting back to Jubilation with an undeniable warmth.  "I love you too."  Jubilation hadn't told Nori, at least to the speedster's recollection.  Sometimes she wonders if she's fully paying attention.  There are a lot of lost memories.  She doesn't want to lose any of Jubes.  Her smile forms in mirror to Jubes', gentle.

"Oh."  Noriko hasn't been paranoidly following Jubes for quite some time, especially if she mentions she's going out for a hunt or whatever.  The speedster has perceived it as her time to get a cat nap while Jubilation grabs a bite to slurp.  "It feels warm?  Huh-"  She languidly looks over to where the snowboarder smacks into the snow, tracking him perfectly.  "So...it kind of affects you the same way?"  She sprawls out across her discarded clothing, resting her gauntlets over her stomach.  "Does the blood taste any different?"

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Taste..." The word lingers on Jubilee's tongue. She stares at the moon for a few moments, silently taking the word through the ringer while she inspects the different lines and craters. The moon has taken on new importance to Jubilee, as it remains the closest celestial body she can lounge under without experiencing her Final Death. "...Nori... I don't know if I 'taste' anything, anymore. When I 'tasted' you...." Jubilation's eyes linger on Noriko, her attention moving along the speedster's features. "....I tasted my feelings. I didn't 'taste' that with the guy I'm talking about. It kept me going and got me drunk." Jubilee tumbles into silence.

    "It wasn't the same."

    "I used a needle, Nori," Jubilee repeats with a little more firmness. "...I..." The vampiress lowers her eyes for a moment, as though she was supposed to demonstrate some kind of contritition here. "...I've never bitten anyone else." It's am embarrassing detail within a vampire-only crowd, but... in this conversation, in this crowd, it's important. In fact, Jubilee sits up.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko rolls over onto her stomach, leaving her gauntlets above her head, her face naturally tucking into her arm.  There's a quick blur of activity and the wedgie is an afterthought.  Little bolts snap and pop across her skin in brief spurts.  She looks back up at Jubilee when she mentions the needle again, rolling onto her side, then she sits up as well.

"...Thank you."  It wasn't something Noriko ever discussed with Jubilation, how the thought of Jubilation biting someone else made her feel, and something in the speedster innately knows that the unspoken request is certainly an ask.  "I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about it," Noriko starts, drawing a deep breath, "but it...means something to me."  Her words are paltry, but she says them anyways.

"Do you want to?..Maybe it's different when you use your fangs..." Noriko asks tentatively, eyebrow arching, but a seed of fear rooted behind her eyes.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    The silence would go on for a while if it wasn't broken up by the shouts of various skiers and snowboarders face-planting at the sight of two Asian girls wearing bikinis and relaxing in the snow. The silence from Jubilee, however, /does/ go on. Eventually, though, a response comes. Jubilee's eyes lower, though that's likely hidden by the darkness of her sunglasses. Does she want to bite other people?

    "...Sometimes," Jubilation answers, opening her eyes to stare at the moon. "...But, like, not..." She pauses, trying to find the right words to express this. It's a foreign emotion for her, one baked in how others perceive her. Normally, she wouldn't care.

    "...Sometimes, I wonder what others, like, like me, would say about me. The one who won't bite." Jubilation reaches up and runs her fingers through her hair. Instead of turning, looking away so she could retreat into her own little world, Jubes shifts her weight so her body is facing Noriko, totally exposed other than the bikini.

    "I mean, I'm... you know." Vampire. She doesn't say it. "...And that's what we do. Bite. But, like, I don't. So, I guess I don't want to be the only one who doesn't, but ...." The vampiress lifts her attention to Noriko again. Her love. Her one tie to the mortal world.

    "...I can't do it."

    Translation: The instinct is there, but Jubilee's emotions don't like it.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
There's always a melancholy that seeps into Noriko's eyes between the moments, so fast, but something much more apparent now to Jubes with her newer abilities.  It has nothing to do with the here and now, just the haunting of her past.  Something like it, but not it creeps into the speedster rapidly, a minor pang.  Then a sudden flush to the speedster's cheeks.  "Well it's not that you can't bite...not like you have to be shy."  But Noriko knows neither of them want her to be reduced to food like some boring glass of milk.  As if Nori would ever 'taste' so bland though.

"I guess I just asked because, I don't like the idea of you biting anyone else.  Not after what I felt.  I don't care if it is different, more empty with others...It's..our's." Noriko's eyelashes flutter rapidly before the word comes out.  Suddenly her hand is slowly approaching Jubes' from a foot out, coming into view just when Noriko slows down her movement.  She reaches to take it.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilee doesn't know it, but she's among the few vampires whose 'kiss' brings forth intense feelings of euphoria in the quote-unquote victim. That just makes whatever Noriko experiences even more intense. Jubilee turns her head so Noriko can see her smile. She reaches out to find the speedster's hand with her own. "....Yes. Just ours," she affirms. The best laid plans, they say...

    "Yeah, it seems weird," Jubilation agrees. "...So, like, I used a butterfly needle I swiped from the infirmary."

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko stares dreamily at Jubilation, no vampiric interventions needed.  The presence of fangs has never seemed to faze the speedster.  "I don't know if it's like that with all vampires or for all vampires when you guys bite but...I don't intend to let anyone else sip on me."  Nori knows she doesn't need to say it, but she wants to.  "Did you put it in a cup or something or just shotgun him?" Noriko says with a snicker, thinking of Jubilation shaking the drunk before poking him.

"...something happens when you bite me...Exquisite," Noriko finally says, finding the word as if she plucked a single specific flower from a whole field of them.  She grins, cheeks flushing anew.  "Next time you get drunk, I want to be there."  The speedster knows she can't metabolize the liquor slowly enough to pass it on to Jubilation.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Better to be safe than sorry..." Jubilee replies, staring back at the speedster. Other vampires might see Noriko's pledge to be a demonstration of fealty and check a box in some mental list keeping track of their herd, Jubilee doesn't. That's not Noriko.

    And so, the words were exchanged. An agreement was formed, vows exchanged, without ever needing to be expressed. Jubilation would not drink from others. Noriko would not let others drink from her. The covenant between the two would extend into the supernatural.

    "... Yeah, maybe it'll happen again," Jubilation adds. Maybe she'd find another drunk person who'd be willing to donate their blood. Maybe. Another skier crashes into a tree after going by Noriko and Jubilee.

    "...Nori, you're wearing... Why did you pack that?" Jubilee grins again. Why /did/ the speedster pack a bikini?

Noriko Ashida has posed:
The thought of fealty doesn't even enter Noriko's mind.  She can't explain why she clings so freely to the vampire, why she feels nothing but truth in the vows freely revealed.  Ones even their bodies made pledges to before they were ever thought or formed into words.

Noriko draws in a deep breath, this time not even looking when she hears another skier crash.  It's just a part of the backdrop now.  Nothing can spoil her mood as she thinks back on that one time.  "Hmm?  For you."  It's not like Noriko ever really gets in the hot tub or the pool, but she has been known to hang out lamely on the periphery or lay out.  But also, she saw Jubilation packing her own bikini.  "What?"  She grins.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Maybe it's the emotional connection forged between them by John Constantine, maybe it's her supernatural senses, or maybe it's natural intuition, but... something compels Jubilation to blurt out a confession. "Nori, I've never..." No matter how natural glamouring might feel to Jubilee, she still understands what it is. "...I've never, like, made you. You know... Like me. I've never made you like me...Or, like, /do/ anyything..."

    SHe's never glamoured Nori.

    Jubilee smiles a closed-eyed smile at Noriko and her bikini. "...For me?" she questions. "...Well, I am liking it."

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko blinks softly.  "I know."  She doesn't know how she would know, but she doesn't question it.  The sureness is enough for her.  She doesn't need prof.  She never needed to hear Jubilation say it, but it does warm a grin to her lips.  "I'm just stuck this way."  She must be referring to the dopey look she's called herself out internally for before.  "And you totally did that," she says with a little wink and a dip of her eyes.

Noriko's gaze lifts and she grins more broadly.  "Yes.  For you.  You're the only person I like doing absolutely nothing with, so you get the good view...while I do absoluuutely nothing."  Sprawwwl.  Her arm reaches out and stretches over the powder, one arm still reaching toward Jubes.  "But I am slowly starting to get cold."  It's something she can solve easily with some motion, but she doesn't seem to want to move from her spot.