Dance the troubles away

Dedicated to @Victoria & @Kailani
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“Just call me if there is aahht okay, mom?” Penelope looked at her mother lying in her bed with the tv on; some soap opera was going on; not for her life did she understand why her mother found those entertaining. “Hairy Biscuits and cheese twist n twirl I’ve taken care of ya since ya were in your diapers, I can take care of myself for wahn night” Penelope gave her a small smile, not that she was convinced. “Just call me if there aahht, promise me” her mother started laughing, as much as she was allowed before the coughing started. “Calvin Klein, I promise, na Scapa Fla! So I can Kettle and Hob this in peace” she gave her daughter a smile that nodded, walked over, and placed a soft kiss against her mother’s brow. “Remember ter call” – “For christ sake, get aahhht!” she laughed and shoved her daughter as the car honked for the third time.

“Are you sure she is coming?” Selene looked toward Victoria, and then the two sirens sisters were sitting in the back. One of them touched up on her makeup. “Just give her some time, the creatures, now that we have enough of it” Delphine chuckled before putting away her powder and smiled at Victoria before she rolled her eyes. “So Linus showed you the new and improved Serpents bar, did he, so when are the wedding bells, when are the small Victoria and Linus babies coming?” she teased with a giant smile giving her shoulder a slight squeeze. “Oh jeez, give her a rest; she should use this time to find herself – have a little me time” – “Oh darling, take it from me, me-time is overrated when you find a good boy, you lock him down, and you do it fast” Delphine wiggled her brows as she found her lips stick and started touching up on that too. Finally, a strawberry blond-haired woman came out of the house and ran towards the car. “Sorry, I’m late” Penelope laughed and got into the backseat with Delphine and Kai.
“No worries, love, let’s get this show on the road”, Selene chuckled as she drove towards the bar that they were going to.

Outfits: Victoria & Kailani
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"She is coming just give her a second," Victoria pointed out, then looking towards Kailani and Delphine touching up on their make up as if they even needed that. Victoria redirected her eyes back to Delphine when she mentioned Linus, lifting her brow just a little bit then narrowing her eyes, trying to figure out whether she should contain that smile that somewhat tried to force its way up, or just ignore the questions, which were just what she would call a classic sister move to make. "Well," before she actually got to choose what to do, Selene stepped in. "Oh yeah because you don't waste any time,"Kailani looked towards Delphine with a teasing smile, knowing she was seeing someone. It was hard for Delphine to keep anything from Kailani even without saying much. When you had known each other for a few thousand years, things like that were just easier. Not that she was the one to argue the case. "There she is," Victoria tried to turn the subject and pointed towards Penelope running towards them. Kailani opened the door making it easier for the human to get in. Victoria then nodded with a confident smile. "Yes sir yes, lets get going," she smiled heading on the road with the girls.

Delphine shook her shoulders, giving her sister a bright smile. Sure she was seeing someone, or it was complicated like everything else in her life. She liked him; it wasn’t that – actually, that might be the problem. The fact that she liked him a little too much, and she wasn’t truly sure where she had him with everything going on in Southside, she didn’t blame him. Besides, everyone that was a free bird deserved to be one.

Selene threw Victoria her phone “put some good music on; there are cold beers in the back to get us started if you want”, she laughed, winking at the beautiful ladies in the back. “You drive around with beer?” Delphine asked, turning around, and true enough, there was a red cooler, and when she opened it, there were beers to take. “Hey, just because I’m a guard at Athena Akademy doesn’t mean that I have a lot of money, and that way, you get a little tipsy before entering the bar where they charge you overprice”, she pointed out; Penelope nodded quickly “I’m on board wif that! and Gypsy Nell, I never say nah ter a buckshee pigs ear or carpet” Penelope laughed, grabbing a beer Delphine handed to her. Selene blinked and turned her eyes towards Penelope and then towards Victoria. “I’m sorry, am I having a stroke, or is she?” she asked, and Penelope laughed. “I never say nah ter free beer”, she said, winking, and Selene started laughing. “Oh, that is cute; I like her” she shook her head while driving.

Victoria grabbed the phone and found a good playlist to get the mood started, then reached over to get one of the beers from the cooler, and opened it. Kailani chuckled a little bit, not that she ever really had to pay for her drinks - if it was the looks or the luck that got her the free drinks was a fine little mystery. Not that she said no to a free beer. Victoria laughed a little of Penelope's excitement to the free beer, then looking at Selene as she looked rather confused. "Its just her natural state of excitement, you will get used to it," she chuckled a little bit, having to get a hang of the accent. Victoria chuckled a little, looking back at the girls in the backseat. It was rather fun when you looked in the car, it was a group of very different girls, with very different stories yet it just seemed to be working out for them.

Reading down town to one of the better bars in Gaia, Delphine and Kailani had carefully taken charge when it had come to the bar they were headed. So, well as Selene had said Kailani knew the drinks were overpriced, but who cared about that when you had the two siren sisters with you and you could almost guarantee free drinks. "And here we are."

Penelope couldn’t resist laughing as it was clear that Selene had trouble figuring out what she was saying. Of course, Penelope could just talk with a normal accent that people understood from London, but this was her identity, so no matter how hard some people had it and didn’t understand the slang that she was using, well, they just had to learn didn’t they? “Well, its not me ‘avin’ a problem ya just ‘ave ter get used to it”, Penelope spoke, then looking towards the bar as Kailani announced that they were here. She knocked back the rest of her beer, and with the others, she got out of the car and started walking towards the final destination for tonight.

The bar was absolutely buzzing. Delphine was texting someone as Selene and Penelope looked around to see if there was anywhere they could sit. Without even looking up from the phone, Delphine walked towards a table where a couple of guys were seated; she looked up, and with a brilliant smile, she looked at them. “Hello lads, how about finding another place to sit and leave this for the girls?” she asked, funny how a beautiful smile, big doe eyes, and lovely curves could do. Because the guys quickly got up and walked toward the bar. No question asked. Then she sat down and kept texting. Selene just stood there for a moment before she shook her head. “Anything you ladies want from the bar?” she asked, Penelope, being the first to ask for a beer and Delphine talking about a long Island. “Gotcha”, she laughed and shook her head as she headed towards the bar.

Victoria chuckled a little by how it seemed like the sirens were out on a hunt, just how their eyes scanned the area for the good spots in the bar. Delphine being the first one to find a place where she wanted to sit, making Kailani chuckle a little bit, used to one of them always had the first luck of finding a scene, then the next round was up to her. At least in the game of the two sisters. Find a place, get someone to fetch them the drinks. The guys left without saying much, and Kailani gave them a little wave and a flashed smile as thank you for letting them have the table. Victoria sat down, "just a whisky on the rocks," she gave Selene a warmer smile. Kailani ordering the same as her sister, then sitting down. "So, what was taking you so long, you are usually not the late person, if not you are the person who is there before the rest of us?" Kailani wondered, always so observant when it came down to it. Victoria looked towards Kailani then at Penelope, well of course curious and for a second not to have the attention shinning on her, even if she was glad to be back. It had been a bit of a rocky start, but she was on top of it, "not that you need to feel obligated to answer - I was just curious," Kailani also added then leaning a little back in her seat.

Penelope switched her gaze from the tall, dark-skinned woman toward Kailani as she asked why she had been late. It was true; she was never late and was always first on the scene when she was the one opening the bar or at least half an hour before in case she could cash in on a bit of extra. “It’s nuffin serious me mom was just bein’ a lil’ motherly, ya kna ‘a it is”, she said with a bright smile; it wasn’t even because it was a direct lie. She just didn’t tell the whole truth where it had been her being the one that wouldn’t really go because she wanted to be there for her mother. A little afraid of what would happen if she just let loose. The last time that had happened, well, she had ended up in bed with someone and then gotten chlamydia which had cost her an arm and a leg, bloody bullshit that was. At least he hadn’t shown up at the Casino, or well, not when she had been at work, and none of the other bartenders had told her if there had been a blond Swedish guy there asking for her.

Selene came back with the drinks neatly placed on a tray. “There we go, ladies; I took the liberty to get some shots for all of us as well”, she chuckled, sitting down beside Penelope and handing out the different drinks. Delphine sent off a quick message before she put away her phone in her small purse. She took a glass and raised it. “To a hell of a night”, she giggled, and Selene nodded “, To a hell of a night.”

Well if any of the girls really had a mother that wanted to be all motherly, they would for sure have known. But they didn't comment on it, they were just as far happy that Penelope had her mother. So, they just nodded with a warmer smile, then turning their heads almost in sync as Selene came back with the tray of drinks. "Thank you my darling," Kailani took her drink, and raised it letting it cling with her sister's. "To one hell of a night," Kailani chuckled a little as Victoria then repeated it the same time as Selene, then taking a sip of their drinks. Long deserved break from reality. Victoria for one felt like this was a little kick she needed, even if she hadn't been doing much other than processing the last stunt Anthony had done, which was of course understandable, but this, this was a break she needed.
"And cheers for you to getting your bar back, even so you are always welcome back at my bar anytime should you get tired of Linus - and Francis for that matter," she gave Victoria a little wink bore taking a sip of her drink. Victoria chuckled a little bit, "I appreciate that."

Delphine couldn’t help but wiggle her brows at the mention of Linus and getting tired off. “Oh please, the guy not only killed someone for her – but he also bought her a new trailer to live in; if that isn’t all the signs of a man in love that doesn’t know he is in love – I don’t know what is” Selene shook her head and rolled her eyes, even though she agreed with the siren, but that didn’t mean neither him nor Victoria was ready for such a commitment, but she decided not to comment on it either and kicked back a shot before taking her beer and took a sip. “So, it’s been a while since I’ve been out with the girls; what do you guys normally do?” she asked, looking towards the siren sisters, after that, Penelope and Victoria, as if they were holding the answers. “Well”, Delphine shrugged and took a sip from her drink. “We drink, we talk, we laugh - maybe dance on the table, and just have fun”, she laughed, and Penelope raised her glass. “I’ll drink to that!” she cheered with a smile and then kicked back. Even though it had been hard to go, she could feel the tension in her shoulder lessen every minute of being here, especially in this company.

Victoria took a sharper breath in, folding her lips back shortly trying to hide the smile that wanted to blossom a little bit, by the mention of the fact that yes, Linus had killed Anthony for her - and well as she saw for everyone else too, perhaps there had been a trigger pulled to get it done. Then of course there was the fact she had gotten her bar back, a new trailer - he had given her the home back she had thought she had lost. Victoria exhaled about to say something once again, "well that is a fair point I guess," Kailani rolled her eyes. Clearly more minding the fact that Linus had stolen Victoria away from her more or less, not that she in the end minded it - she would just miss Victoria in the bar. "Even so I'm still going to visit you, so don't be too jealous," Victoria teased Kailani a little bit who just pulled a little face then let out a small giggle. "You better," she pointed out with a more serious expression.

Then she turned her head towards Selene who asked what you usually did on a girls night out. Pointing towards Delphine as she explained, "that pretty much covers it. We just yeah have fun, let ourselves loose for once," she chuckled a little bit, because well Kailani was always more or less in charge of how she wanted to work, and how much she wanted to do. So, she couldn't really complain. Then raising her glass as Penelope did, grabbing her own drink before taking some sips. "So yeah, to having fun," Victoria let her glass cling with Selene's then taking a larger mouthful, letting the party begin.

“Well, she just misses ya, that’s aw”, Penelope said with a smirk forming on her lips, knowing that it mainly was why Kailani was even mentioning the fact that Linus had stolen her away from the Elysium, besides you couldn’t really call it to be stolen, when she only got what she had lost back.


Penelope had no idea how it had happened, but somehow the two siren girls had got everyone at the bar to make sure they got the time of their lives. Drinks had been flowing, and laughter and jokes had been exchanged. It was a never-ending parade of stories after another, small games that had been played. Penelope could have sworn that her blood had been replaced with alcohol in the end. If it hadn’t been for the fact that Selene had stayed somewhat sober throughout all of it and made sure that the young human had gotten plenty of water, she might have ended underneath the table already.
Delphine had now pulled her up on the bar, and as if they were in that movie, she couldn’t remember the title too; they danced on it as if they had done it all their lives. Even Selene had jumped up and joined in, making the whole bar dance by the bar howling in joy over the entertainment they had their eyes to feast on.

It was a wild night to be said for sure, and the girls danced perhaps like they never had danced before - or at least for a while or so. Victoria danced with all of them on the bar, singing along to the songs they and downed a few more drinks on the way. Laughing over how everything was just filled with ecstasy. Making Victoria look around for a second to see if it was just the room, or if Dion was actually present. Then danced further knowing if he was - he would show up. But another scent did catch her nose even in the mix of alcohol and a ton of people.

"See, this is what I call party spirit," Angela pointed towards the girls at the bar whilst she walked in with Zoe, they had left the bar across the street having heard about a wilder and better crowd here. Angela wasn't disappointed, but there was something else that made her head tilt a bit to the side, it was two of the girls who carried a very specific scent. "Let's get closer and get something to drink," she requested her friend and walked then further to the bar.

Zoe was cheering on the girls rather loudly as they entered the bar and saw all of them dancing on the top of the bar. “Yeah, my god, to believe we were stuck in that other hole where you were sure someone had just died” she laughed and then turned to see if there were someone she knew, then turned as Angela wanted to get closer, nodding she agreed, this called for drinks and a lot of them.
Even though the night might be lacking towards the morning, this night had only just started. She waved to Selene, who jumped down from the bar and walked closer to hug her friend; then Selene turned and looked at the alpha werewolf, her eyes lifting a little, smiling at her. “Hi, Selene”, she presented herself. “Me and Selene met in New York; she gave me quite a fright when she turned up here; I thought she was dead” Selene laughed “yeah, I get that a lot”, she chuckled, nodding to the newcomer. “Drinks?” she asked, then turned to get the bartender’s attention so she could order all of them a round of drinks. “The girls dancing are Penelope”, she pointed toward the blond human “, the other blond is Delphine”, then the siren “lastly, my sister Victoria” she added, already knowing that there was something familiar by the woman that had come with Zoe, but didn’t want to use another night with figuring out if she was a child of her father or not. This was about having fun.

It seemed like Zoe knew one of the girls on the bar that jumped down towards them to greet Zoe. Angela didn't do much other than just take the scent of the other werewolf in. It didn't take a genius to know that they had to be in family in one or the other way, but Angel didn't say anything yet. "Angela," she presented herself with a smile, then looking over at Zoe who then told how Selene and her had met. Then the I thought she was dead. But couldn't help but chuckle at Selene's response, because well, she understood that one as well. "Oh hell yes," she replied to the question of drinks. Then looking up at the girls dancing while Selene presented them. Angela's eyes moved over the girls, eying more specific the fact that Selene pointed out that the shapeshifter was her sister.

Victoria squatted down looking at both Zoe and the stranger with the familiar scent she got from Selene. "You must be Zoe? Dion has told me so much about you," mostly because once Dion started a story he needed to finish it, and it at times took ages because he got a whole set of other stories started as well. Then giving the stranger her hand, narrowing her eyes just a little bit and then tilted her head slightly. "Victoria," - "Angela-" Angela exhaled a little bit looking over to Zoe to see if she had noticed something as well. However, Angela also knew when to speak and when to simply let something wait and just enjoy the night for what it was. Kailani had been sneaking around the bar, mostly to keep an eye out for her girls while they danced, then also to get a good look at what secret goodies of drinkables this place had hidden and to hear some light gossip. Pushing over some drinks for Zoe and Angela, then downing one herself. Then handing Delphine a drink by reaching up to her with a glass while she otherwise danced.

"I always knew I could count on you ladies to kick up the party, even though I will confess that I'm a little offended you didn't call," Dion chuckled, and Victoria turned her head to the side to see Dion come towards them, then jumping down from the bar and almost into his embrace, both of them laughing while he gave her a small squeeze then let go. Then he looked towards Zoe giving her a warm smile before then giving the others a nod, charming smile and then a little wave. After all he did know the two sirens already. "Look what the cat dragged in, if it isn't Dion," Kailani chuckled a little bit then walking over to greet Dion with a hug as well. "Don't stop dancing on my account, get going," he grabbed a drink from a tray a waiter was walking with then took a sip of it, nod minding it was someone the order was for, the party king was back in town.

Zoe couldn’t help but laugh when a girl looking much like Angela and Selene jumped down from the bar. “The one and only, but well, can’t be at least a good thousand years old and not have a lot of amazing stories under your belt, even those you want to forget” she chuckled and then looked at how the shapeshifter and Angela eyed each other before introducing themselves.

Delphine quickly grabbed a drink that was handed to her, winking at her sister, that clearly had found where she felt the most comfortable, behind the bar. She had always admired her sister; even if she might always have thought there had been people that had kept her where she was, she had somehow managed to find something that she enjoyed. She saw how the blond human jumped behind the bar as well, and before long, it seemed like the two women were cooking up a storm being bartenders without even working at the bar.

Zoe turned as soon as she could sense Dion giving him a big bright smile, “what did you ditch the misses back at home to come to hang out with the girls?” she clicked her tongue and quickly pulled him into a hug; Delphine squealed a little when she saw Dion and winked before she started dancing after pulling Penelope up again. No way she was going to dance alone.

Angela chuckled a little, "and girl that is why you are one of my best friends, shit's never boring with you around," the alpha werewolf joked, but truthfully she did see Zoe as one of her closest friends. And even if something would happen that was less fun, Angela would one hundred percent have Zoe's back. Victoria chuckled a little bit, then looking at Delphine's reaction when she saw Dion.

Dion couldn't contain his smile, "oh please, I always want to hang out with the girls, and it's been a while. I think I might even be a little rusty," he chuckled a little bit. "As one should once in a while, my wife is back home doing her yoga and mindfulness not being disrupted by me looking at her by all times," she teased a little bit back then downing the drink that was handed her. Dion walked closer to the bar and placed the palms of his hands against the counter looking up at the two blondes dancing, followed by Victoria who jumped back up on the counter to dance with her blondes. "See this is the life," he took one of the drinks Kailani handed him and took a larger mouthful. Then eying Zoe, Angela and Selene.

Zoe snorted a little about the fact that Dion might be rusty; her eyes then wandered toward Angela as she explained how she was here and not at home where she would be ogling her wife doing Yoga. Now there was something about it that stabbed Zoe in her heart; not even the presence of Dion could lift the heaviness that weighed on her shoulders. She had never been married more than once, married to the love of her life where she had hoped that she would spend the days with him until the day he died. Funnily enough, she hadn’t thought about the fact that he would start to wonder why she wouldn’t turn grey and old. But back then, that hadn’t been on her mind. She smiled at them all before turning to the bar and waving her hand to get another shot and a glass of something that she could drown her sorrows with. Maybe it had been everything that had been happening of late that made her ponder the way she did.

Selene raised her brow a little but didn’t say much as she took her glass of soda, as she was still the person driving everyone home, which meant she needed to be sober. “So, Angela, you have your own pack?” she asked, looking at her; it wasn’t often that she met alpha females, even less often if she ever had, met an alpha female werewolf. It wasn’t really something that you met every day, and then there was the fact that she reminded her so much of herself; add to the scent, well, it didn’t take a genius.

Angela turned her head towards Selene when she asked her question: "Yeah, The Forgotten Prowlers," she replied. "We just got to Oakheart in the beginning of the year, after the mention of The Pack being an issue - Zoe's brother reached out that an extra set of hands could be useful," she nodded towards Zoe who took a few extra shots. "I didn't count on finding two sisters here at the bar, but I'm not going to make a greater deal about it if you would just rather take it another day, we do that. I don't want it to ruin your night out," she cleared her throat a little bit. She looked shortly up to the human, the siren and then her other sister dancing on the bar. Then turning her eyes back to Selene with a smile. It was nice however, because she had known she had at least one younger sister - but two - to Angela it was great, she hoped it to be great.

Dion down his drink headed to seconds when he noticed how Zoe drowned her sorrows, he had after all seen a very huge range of different people when out drinking. "A penny for your thoughts?" He asked standing next to her, raising his brow a little, giving her a chance to get out with some of her thoughts.

A half toothy grin formed on Selene's lips as Angela decided not to dance around the bush.  “Right”, she hummed, looking toward Victoria, that once again had found her way up to the bar and started dancing with the other girls, “well, I always knew that there would be more than one child of Crispen”, she hummed, taking a sip of her soda, knowing very well that she hadn’t said father, because the man that had made sure she was brought to this world, would never be anything more than that. “but you know, cheers to finding lost sisters” she hummed clinking glass to Angela; it wasn’t even like she didn’t want to talk about it, but if she was being honest she could almost guess the story without Angela telling her, especially since she was a born Alpha, it wouldn’t have gone down well with their shared father.

Zoe turned and looked at Dion as he walked over, asking her what was on her mind; she shrugged, not knowing at first how to put it into words. It wasn’t like she wasn’t happy with Ethan; she loved and cared for him very much, but she was wandering around here in Gaia, not really knowing what to do with her time, she missed her ranch, and it wasn’t like she could really recreate it here.
“You know, the past midnight blues are coming”, she smirked, looking at Dion and then let out a soft sigh “it’s been a few rough months, and I’m trying to cope”, she hummed, letting her tongue run over her lips before she drowned her whiskey and signalled that she needed another refill.

"Yeah, I've heard stories - I even tried to go back once, didn't come far. I think it might have been your mother who told me to run away," she guessed from the scent and the looks. Some eyes you just never forgot. And Angela hadn't thought too much about it afterwards other than hoping that some day perhaps she would get to meet some of her family again, a part of it that wanted to talk with her. But she had built her own family, her own pack. "Cheers," she clinked her glass against Selene's. Angela was curious, if Selene and Victoria had known each other long or if they hadn't, their stories. Who could blame her really?

Dion narrowed his eyes a little, listening to Zoe explain. "You are homesick," he mumbled a little bit and clicked his tongue a bit. He knew the feeling. Sometimes going into something, and no matter how whole and entirely sure you were on the matter, it didn't change the former lives you had lived or what had happened. "And it's okay," things had been rough on him as well. Rough on Evelina as well with everything with her becoming a witch after Mono's death, how she felt towards Ethan - he wasn't blind to that either, he knew there was a whole story between Ethan and Evelina that was untouched and as well unspoken. Victoria sat down on the bar next to them, and looked at Zoe - she knew the sense of being lost in her relationships no matter how much you thought you loved the guy; or did love the guy. Nothing was worse than feeling like things didn't add up, or you didn't belong in the setting. "No one is judging you, least of all me - besides we need to be honest with ourselves once in a while, otherwise we will go insane," she made a sign to Kailani for two whiskies and the siren gladly served it to them.

Selene let her tongue run over her lips as she thought through what she wanted to say; there was so much, and yet she couldn’t find the right ones. It was, however, comforting that her mother had managed to get Angela to run away instead of trying to come back, however nice that would have been. Someone to kick her father’s ass and put him in his place, not that she thought that would ever happen. “He is missing, you know”, she hummed while her eyes stared straight ahead; sometimes, she still thought about him, but she couldn’t help it. Because somehow, she feared that her father would come knocking at their door one day, and that would be when the real war between the packs would start. Even if they had gotten a taste of what it was like when the Russian pack had moved in on the territory, she was afraid that her father could do so much worse.

Zoe chuckled, closing her eyes for a moment, “Homesick might not be the right word”, she hummed, then looked at Victoria as she told her no one would blame her for feeling like this. “True” she lifted the new glass of whiskey and took a small sip from it. “I think the fact that I’ve seen so many of my grandchildren, it just reminds me of Sergei”, she hummed, letting out a small sigh “he died, his just” he looked over at Dion with a smaller smile “, the one that got away you know? And I was so afraid of telling him who I was, so I was just going to fake it until the day he passed away by natural causes, jokes on me that something took him earlier” she shook her head a little, stupid, but still – she couldn’t help it. Maybe the slight influence was starting to speak; she would feel different in the morning. She hoped.

He is missing, it made Angela raise he brow a little bit, not because she really did enjoy the thought of running into her father. After all, she was a rather intuitive woman, she had thought to search information on her own, it was how she had claimed up the ladder in life. No way that she liked the fact that she could be blindsided by a lunatic of an alpha that happened to be her father. Still, she didn't lose sleep over it knowing that if anything, she could seek the alliances of some of the packs around in Athena, hopefully, the fact that she already had helped around a bit, did give her one foot in. "We will deal with him if he ever shows up," she downed her shot, "together." Angela placed the glass down. Even if they had just met, it wasn't a battle she sought as one Selene should handle alone. Just because Angela wasn't raised by the guy.


Dion took a sharper breath in and nodded a little bit, letting the drink in his hand circle a bit around. He wished he could understand that bitter sweet feeling, but it wasn't like he had many moral relationships in his long life to compare them with. His only real mortal relationship had been with Evelina, and he first afterwards had realized it, because he never thought that far really - but now she was a witch, that changed things. Not because he was mad about it, but it still changed things. It still ribbed in his heart to hear how Zoe's former love had been killed and not died of natural cases. Victoria, who clearly was under the influence of both the alcohol and the endorphins from both dancing and Dion's presences, leaned over to steal Zoe into her embrace giving her a warm hug. Then letting her go again, "I love this song," she got back up on her feet in the bar and grabbed Penelope's hand to spin her around. "You will figure it out alright? We all just take a day at the time, and it hasn't helped with everything that comes at us from left and right," Dion pointed out to Zoe while watching Victoria go up on the bar again. Just happy to find her in some sort of spirit again.

A smirk blossomed over Selene's lips as Angela announced that they would deal with him. Together. ”Well, I’ll drink to that” she raised her glass and even though it wasn’t filled with alcohol, she knocked it back as if she tried to symbolise that it was.  
She lifted her fingers, and as she did, Penelope grabbed a bottle of whiskey. Even though Selene tried to tell her that it wasn’t what she wanted, two glasses were poured from above where she was standing, and then she winked at the girls before she ran toward one of the guys and ordered them to lean their heads back so she could pour it directly into his mouth. “That girl, she will end up in serious trouble on the day, if she hasn’t already”, Selene hummed before taking a sip of her drink; one shouldn’t hurt, especially not when it came to her being a werewolf.

Zoe couldn’t help the laugh from escaping her as Victoria leaned over and hugged her; she hugged back before she let the shapeshifter go and dance with Penelope, that had just finished her little stunt with the whiskey bottle, only turning around in her mouth. She clicked her tongue; that girl would have a hell of a hangover the following day.
She nodded, then she looked toward Dion, narrowing her eyes; “something is troubling you, what is going on?” she asked, taking a sip of her drink, not that she didn’t want to talk about her feelings, but she couldn’t help that nagging feeling that something was a little off.

Angela couldn't help but laugh a little bit watching the human come to them with drinks, then pouring whisky directly into some guys mouth. To be young and free - not that Angela wasn't young, but being an alpha and a mother, a wife - there was a lot of responsibilities that didn't really allow her out that much - even though she did go out once in a while anyways, otherwise she would end up insane. And as she looked at the demigod, he looked like someone who was in desperate need of a good night out. However, she looked back towards the human as Selene pointed out she would end up in serious trouble one day, then nodded in agreement before taking mouthful of her new drink.

Dion's eyes met Zoe's and asked a perhaps burning question. What was going on? Well, Dion didn't know for one, and he wasn't planning on really standing here figuring it out. "That my dear, is a loaded question," he downed the drink in his hand and once again stole another person's drink, downed that one as well, "and I'm way to sober for it, so let's not talk about my feelings and gets this party kicking okay?" He took a few steps back and walked closer to the dancefloor, just letting go of himself for a while, when was the last time he had fully done that? Just enjoyed being this, the middle of the attention, feeling people drawing closer towards him, feeding him with some of the energy he felt like he was lacking so much off. Just letting the music take control over his body, shutting off his brain for a moment.

Victoria walked back towards Zoe, looking at Dion as well with her brows pressed together. Perhaps he just needed to stop trying to fit in a glove and figure out how he could do everything he wanted without selling himself short. It was a new thing for him being in such a serious relationship with anyone as he was with Evelina, and Victoria for one knew how easy it was to try to blend into a role, even if you didn't want to really play a part and just be yourself, at some point you could just get lost in that version of yourself. Not because she believed Dion regretted any of the choices he had made, but she believed perhaps he had lost a little bit of himself in the rush of it all. Or maybe it was just her projecting her own life into his. "You think he will be okay?" Victoria wondered and tilted her head a little bit, feeling how she was being pulled towards the dance floor to join him, like he added to his powers trying to mend them from really just sitting still and be moody.

Zoe let her brows meet, she didn’t like the way he answered it, but she also knew that it wasn’t for her to ask, so she let him go as he wandered to the dancefloor and let the music move his body for him, turning his mind off. Zoe turned her head toward Victoria as she asked if he would be okay; Zoe shrugged. “I’m not sure”, she whispered, letting her tongue glide over her lips “it’s funny; it easier for me to say that the reason why I didn’t tell him about our child was because he wouldn’t be fit as a father, the problem was, I knew he would do the right thing, and it would slowly destroy him” she added before turning and giving Victoria a smile “I reckon it’s something about the fact that he is now married to an immortal soul, and the thought of him staying like this, without knowing when it will end, it’s messing a little with his head” she added, not knowing if she was right or wrong. Still, it felt right to say at the moment.

Penelope exclaimed as she looked at her phone. “Kai! ‘ave a butcher’s* at this” she turned her phone around, showing her that the Lotus Casino and Hotel was having a free drink all night. “We ‘ave ter Scapa Fla*, clock wot aw the fuss is abaht!” she added and jumped down from the bar to run and get her things. “Let’s Scapa Fla Ladies! Nah, nickle and dime ter waste”, she shouted as she ran out the door. Selene laughed, shaking her head before she followed, ensuring the poor girl didn’t run around hurting herself. Delphine was quickly after, and if there were free drinks, how could she say no? Besides, now seemed like a good idea to see what this Lotus casino was really all about.  Zoe walked over and grabbed Dion’s arm “let's go; the girls want to check out the competition to Elysium, I’m sure there will be an even bigger dance floor and enough games and drinks to keep those thoughts away” she winked at him before she started dragging him out of the bar.

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