If It Serves a Greater Good

LOCATION | The Elysian Casino
DATE | June 5th 2022
TIME | Evening
ATTIRE | Link
TOPIC FOR | @Penelope x


Words did travel fast in the underground, not just in Athena, but around the worlds, even throughout the Southern United States where Blaise otherwise had kept himself rather busy running his own things for the past years. It had come to his attention that a few rather good of his friends, people whom he would count as family had come to some very interesting positions. Therefor after having finished up with a few good of his best people, he had gotten himself a one-way ticket to Athena. Arriving in Aston city in the late afternoon, he now headed towards the main street of the city center. His lovely assistant Lina had taken his suitcases and other things had made sure it would get to the hotel he had booked for the while he stayed here.

Blaise walked through the doors to the casino, recognizing Bast rather fast giving him a small nod, while the smile lifted up on his lips as he walk inside, the toothpick moved to the left side of his mouth as he looked around. Then his eyes moved towards the bar, where he walked over and placed both palms on the top of the counter, waiting to gain some attention. "Oh Kai, lookin' gorgeous as evur. It's been uhwahl*, hawh?" Blaise chuckled a little giving the siren he knew rather well if he should say so himself. Now, it had been Blaise's plan to just head straight to Southside where Linus and Francis had taken over, but he couldn't possibly not say hello to old friends when passing by, now, couldn't he? "Blaise, of course you would show your face , it was about time," she chuckled a little then poured him a drink, before someone else needed her help. Blaise just took his drink and sat up on one of the stools, looking around while admiring the place River had gotten himself this time. "Yawl gotta bay kiddin' me," he mumbled very low as he saw who was getting behind the bar. "Miss Griffiths, arncha uh liddel far awf frum home?" His elbow now rested against the counter while observing her reaction. Now, he was slightly scared actually, but his pokerface had fooled hundreds if not thousands of people in the past. He hadn't really been the kindest nor fairest of them all when it came to what had happened with the whole Penelope, Jade situation.
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a while*

Her mother hadn’t been feeling good lately, and she had tried to make Penelope see that this wouldn’t get any better, which of course, wasn’t something the young human girl wouldn’t face. Her mother would get better; there was no if; she would find someone, somewhere that could be able to make sure that her mother could stay with her forever, which was a very slippery slope when you started getting desperate, what you wouldn’t end up doing just to get the people you loved to stay with you.
She had gotten the next-door neighbour to pop by her mother later this evening while she was working since she hadn’t been able to get out of her shift, and besides, she needed the money so much; this was for the best.
Nodding to the person she took over for, she got behind the bar, just in time to hear a voice she had never thought she would hear. Her head slowly lifted, and she looked at Blaise, she could feel how her stomach flipped, and someone started squeezing her heart. Funny how you talk about a person, and suddenly they are there. Well, it wasn’t like she had just spoken about him, but she had mentioned him at the girl's night out. The man that broke her heart when she had found out she had been the other woman, and when she didn’t have time for him, he had moved on.
“Mr Blackwell didn’t fin’ I’ll clock ya ‘ere, ‘ave a sugar and spice evenin’ huh” she nodded, giving him an exaggerated smile before turning to help some of the other customers.

It wasn't like it was his proudest moment, and for a whole month given or take, he had felt guilty about the outcome of his mundane relationships, but life went on and so did he. Guilt wasn't a feeling he hang onto, besides Alicia had taught him better than that. Human, vampire relationships belonged in these cringe teen novels he had heard about, and it was that, a fantasy. The best thing that had happened to Jade and Penelope was the fact he had left them, it was as well the safest, knowing if Alicia had come around, she would have turned them for the sake of protecting the vampires in the mundane would that became more and more dangerous by the day, at least in some states.

Blaise couldn't help but chuckle of her comment, and just shook his head a bit. He could of course apologize, but what was really worse than a half ass apology? What he indeed was curious about was the fact that she seemed entangled with the supernatural universe now, the very thing he had hoped with the remains of his both heart and soul that both her and Jade wouldn't get involved with. "Whut is yawl doin' in uh place lahk thus luv? It sayms uh liddel too enchantin' fahwar chur taste, but yawl hav always lahkd uh liddel spice now, isn't thet raht?" He mused a little noticing Kailani roll her eyes a little, but he was looking at Penelope nothing less. "Kai doll, give may uh glass uh Fower Roses Single Barrel Bourbon will ya?" He then moved his eyes to the siren who raised a brow at him, "please." He took a sharper breath in then shaking his head a little at Kailani. "Don't make me kick you out -" she warned him about to hand him the drink, but as he reached for it she pulled it back, "I'm serious, don't mess with my girls here, or I will be the one coming for you." She served him the drink, Blaise chuckled a little, "Oh Ah kaynt wait," he mused a little looking back at Penelope. Curious how she had come to this knowledge.

Penelope felt how her jaw set as he mentioned that she liked to spice things up, sure, she wasn’t really the type to sit on her hands, and she had always liked to find things that would make life a little more exciting. To many, it was just the perfect recipe for disaster, and it had also ended up burning her more times than she wanted to admit.
When Kai took over, she felt how her shoulders sank, and for a moment, she didn’t really interact with Blaise, not wanting it to end up costing her job in the end. Even if Kai had just said that Blaise shouldn’t make her kick him out, when it came down to it, it wouldn’t be very good for business if every disgruntled man came in and started talking to the girls because when it came down to it, she had been just as responsible for things going wrong. Like everything else, there were always two sides to the story, and even though Blaise held most of the responsibility, she had known from the start; she just hadn’t said anything.
Moving around in silence, she helped the other patrons and poured and made them drinks. That was when one of her hands touched one of the men’s hands and what it told her was so overwhelming that she stumbled back, ending up pushing some of the glasses on the ground, so they smashed. “Oh, I’m so sorry” her eyes tried to find Kailani, the man who killed the supernatural; she had to warn them before this turned ugly.