In Which Drinking Ensues

[losingherhead]

Who: Celty and Kido/Celty and YOU
What: Stress, drinking, stressed drinking
When: February 18, evening and night
Where: A local bar, Virgo HQ, and the ViP Suite
Warnings: Drinking, alcoholism, possible mention of death and car accidents

A | Local Bar

The neverending cycle of despair that was Celty’s life really seemed to be amping up in speed. What a fucking idiot she was. She told herself she wasn’t gonna get attached to people, keep things strictly business to move her way through the ranks and enjoy the splendors of fame and financial stability. And now here she was worrying about her band mates and friends and everyone else caught in this mess.

Today’s worrying of course leads to the bar. Not a place she would want someone as young as Kido being, even if she’s technically drinking legal. But she has to make sure she’s doing okay. Safe and as relatively sane. As sane as they can be in this mess.

B | Virgo HQ

There are no fucks to be given as Celty stumbles into the Virgo building. Some sense of sobriety keeps her from making an ass of herself in public. But once she’s back in Virgo all she can think about is that Blanche can eat a dick.

Which brings her to the exasperated security guard who can’t let her in until she gives him her pass.

“Liiisten, fuckface… You- you listen. You tell Blank. That he’s a loser, okay?”

“Yes ma’am.”

“He doesn’t know shit, okay? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit. And there’s alllll kinds of dicks that he can choke on.”

“Yes ma’am. Could you jus-”

“Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicks.”

C | Vandalism in Progress Suite

With that delightful display finished, she finally manages to collapse onto the couch, thinking about ways she could trash talk Nyla’s cats. Those cats are garbage. Who gives a shit about those fuckers? Probably a bunch of mutated singing cats. Maybe even aliens.

Shit she hopes they aren’t aliens. She couldn’t deal with that shit.

Comments

[losingherhead]

"Like I'm letting you drink in the meantime."

[blindfoldcode]

"Why are you so stuck on this?!"

[losingherhead]

"How dare I not want you spending time and money on something that destroys livers?"

It was easier to get out that whole sentence than she expected.

[blindfoldcode]

"You're gonna tear up your throat yelling at me."

[losingherhead]

"Better that. Than watching you stumble. God knows where."

Past Hypocrisy is fun.

[blindfoldcode]

She jerks a thumb at a nearby guard. "Like he'd let me anywhere except for HQ."

[losingherhead]

"Still."

Her trust in guard's having Kido's best interests in mind isn't exactly high.

[blindfoldcode]

"Want me to do drugs instead?"

Drinking is the way lesser of two evils here, Celty.

[losingherhead]

"KIDO."

For fuck's sake.

[blindfoldcode]

She shrugs, her scowl deepening. "We're rock stars, remember?"

[losingherhead]

"Not gonna let. Make rockstar mistakes."

[blindfoldcode]

Kido pauses. Then laughs. It's kind of a cackle kind of a depressed and hopeless sob.

"I make way worse mistakes than those."

[losingherhead]

Christ alive, Kido. How does she even begin to parse that statement. She was never good at helping Sarah through this shit.

"...Could lead to worse ones."

[blindfoldcode]

"Lesedi's gonna kill me, Celty. It's just a matter of time. Let me at least try and forget."

[losingherhead]

"Not gonna let you kill yourself first."

Celty she's just drinking, not getting behind the wheel.

[blindfoldcode]

"Everybody thinks I want to kill myself." Kido's voice has gone quiet against the soft roar of the bar--the music, the patrons, the TVs in the corners. "It's too complicated, even if it's a way out. I'm too scared for that shit.

"I don't want to die. I want to disappear."

[losingherhead]

There's a long silence as Celty processes that.

Ah fuck it. She takes a giant drink from one of the bottles.

"Can't blame you. Life's shit."

[blindfoldcode]

Kido looks up at her. Blinks. How did she even...?

Motions to the other side of the booth she's been hiding in.

"You don't need to say it twice."

[losingherhead]

Intense straw action.

Scoots over to the spot in question. She tells herself if she drinks Kido's bottles, there won't be any left for Kido. Master plan.

"Might as well. Life's shit life's shit life's shit."

That hurt. Like life.

[blindfoldcode]

Emergency Induction Port.

"You're gonna blow out your throat completely." She will grab her bottle back now that Celty is not between her and her small collection.

[losingherhead]

Fiiiiine, she'll just grab another and stuff a straw in it.

"Doesn't matter. Not the lead."

Not being the lead is sweet.

[blindfoldcode]

"I don't give a shit about your band. It'll hurt you." Well at least she's honest?

[losingherhead]

"Band matters more."

Giant drink of that bottle.

[blindfoldcode]

"Bullshit. Not to me." Kido feels like being selfish.

[losingherhead]

"Haven't you always put your friends first?"

She calls hypocrisy.