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[color=6ecff6]"Ah, who fucking cares,"[/color] Dallas demurred, although his eyebrow seemed to cock upwards in some mild display of trepidation at the new kid's [i]bad touch[/i] vibes. If it fixed whatever dark, monstrous CTE ravaged Viv's head to the point where she could just spit out words like 'dandy' without a hint of shame, then keep on keeping on, whatever. [color=6ecff6]"You came. You saw. You conquered an incisor or two. We'll laugh about this story together in a few years, as long as you don't fall asleep with a concussion and wind up a vegetable. But I guess you have a friend for that now."[/color]

He had been about to press a cold one to Viv's head as a temporary measure, but now that Dr. Phil had stepped in and cleared up everything in Viv's head but the sunshine and rainbows, he cracked it open and prepared to polish off the whole can to ease the throbbing in his own temples--

[color=BF225D]“Hey, JoJo.”[/color]

[color=6ecff6][i]Is that a motherfucking--[/i][/color]

[color=BF225D]“I'm surprised you're not on security detail this time around, sweetie! Does this mean you finally have some time to hang out with me?”[/color]

[color=6ecff6][i]...mediocre...[/i][/color]

Then the implication of the words struck him like a cannonball to the chest, and Dallas paused with the beer can held to his lips. For a cautious second, he waited - held his breath to see if the words were just a hallucination brought on by some of the pot smoke in the air, or maybe bran damage he'd done by watching more than one anime in a year like he had when he'd first started attending Olympus. Maybe it was just a herald that something had gone wrong in the Matrix, like a black cat walking by twice through the same hallway. Were half the people at this lake about to start turning to dust? 

There was no way they could. He felt [i]way too[/i] good.

[color=ed1c24]"Ahem. Better watch where you point that thing. I can't summon my own, but that [i]might[/i] count as a weapon."[/color]

[color=6ecff6][i]He's DOING IT!! FITIZEN! FITIZEN![/i][/color]

Beaming, Dal turned around and took up a position between Marcella and Kelsey; it was a comfortable spot between two friends, neither of whom he'd be opposed to waking up with tomorrow morning, and more importantly it was the best perch at the entire lake to watch Jonas humiliate--

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[color=ed1c24]"Ah. Ariana."[/color]

[color=6ecff6][right][i]...Arthur?[/i][/right][/color]

[color=6ecff6]"You guys should tune in for this,"[/color] he stage whispered to the beer-besotted valkyries on either side of him. [color=6ecff6]"This is about to be a fucking treat. Look at him. Those vacant eyes. That dumb grin. Brainpan thick like a fucking bank vault. It's all a ruse. He knows exactly what he's doing. This guy [i]fucks.[/i] He doesn't sleep with us demigods because he thinks we're all too spoiled as it is, but I've partied with him during summer breaks. Five girls, back to back, when we turned twenty. They still have a sign of him up in the VIP lounge of the club we crashed at. There's a fucking titanium nameplate underneath it with 'Immortan Joey' etched into it. The backs he blew out that day laid the foundation for what this party is now. And blowing weed in his face? [i]Fucking a.[/i] Like giving Shendu all twelve fucking talismans. He's either about to humiliate her or cut a sex tape you'd need the fucking Fram Cam to appreciate. If he humiliates her then Jesus returns by Christmas. If he gets laid then you can use my shirtless body for the beer pong table."[/color]

He finished his can of beer and watched Joey blunder his way through what would have been a very simple [color=6ecff6]"get the fuck out of my face, Arthur"[/color] if Dal were in his shoes. It was hard to stop a grin from unfurling on his face, or keep the twinkle out of his electric blue eyes. If any of what he had said was a lie, it was rattled off convincingly - and without any hesitation.

[color=6ecff6]"Look at him go. It's like watching Scott Summers try and take a fucking eye exam."[/color]

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[color=9e0b0f][i]This cannot be happening to me.[/i][/color]

She was not the sort of woman without honor, the kind of coward, who would slay her own beloved older brother. The fact that he was a faithless American pigdog that teamkilled his own little sister in 2v4 situations in video games was irrelevant. The blood that ran through his veins was half hers, and even if her remaining blood was redder and hotter and more valuable than his, the shared variable was still enough for her to feel protective of Jonas Highwind. Boys were for slaying, not for laying, indeed...but Jonas wasn't for slaying [i]or[/i] laying. He was for...saying.

Saying important things. Like.

[color=9e0b0f][i]Oniiii-chan.[/i][/color] Dana needs money for shopping. Give her yours.

[color=9e0b0f][i]Oniiii-chan.[/i][/color] Dana is going out with Bekah for the evening. She will need a set of keys for the truck. Give her yours.

[color=9e0b0f][i]Oniiii-chan.[/i][/color] Dana's controller batteries are dead. Give her yours.

[color=9e0b0f][i]Oniiii-chan.[/i][/color] Dana wants to practice her fatalities and will be taking a spine spine. Give her yours. 

[color=9e0b0f][i]Oniiii-chan.[/i][/color] Dana should not need to tell you that Ari-chan is not for riding. Give her nothing! 

Had Ariana not wanted to come to the party after all? A simple no would have sufficed. Why would the daughter of Aphrodite force her friend to watch idly as her lunkhead older brother was tortured like this? A dog did not understand why a cruel owner would strike it. A deer could not comprehend the headlights hurtling towards it. Jonas was going to politezone Ari so hard! Dana would be forced to cringe until her fingers dug all the way through her arms and back into her wrists!

[color=9e0b0f][i]Kaz would be loving this.[/i][/color]

But she was not as cruel as Kaz. 

[color=ed1c24]"I appreciate the offer, but if you're worried that you'd be taking the other Ares kid from her post, don't. Dana'd be free to hang out with you so long as she keeps an eye on everyone else, so you don't have to make do with me or anything like that."[/color]

[color=9e0b0f]"Hm? Oh."[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][i]TRAITOROUS NII-CHAN? YOU THINK TO FUCK ME? HUH? HUH? AFTER ALL I DO FOR YOU! BBBBBBBBBḆ̭̞̲͖ͪ͑̈́ͅA̭̩͛͑̄͒̾̑K͕̦̬̙͕̗̐͛̐̈ͤ͋̌̽A̤̻͙̙̗̘ͪ͑͋͂ ̯͓̞̬̜͍̥̈ͬͤ́ͥ̍B̲͚̺̦̳̜̞͉̗̍̃ͨÄ̙̤͍̳̜̘́K͓̞̙ͣͮ̓ͬͩA̞̗͍͓̖̞̞͐ͅ ̥̍̈̿ͫͩ͗̆ͬ̓Ḅ̖̙̯͕̘̹̉̈̂A̩̓ͯ́͌̊ͬ͗̍K̭̞̲͓ͩͤͤ́̌ͨ́̂Ȧ͚̟̲̫̝͆͐̓!͈̘̹̱͔͎̖̹̖̈́ͧ̊[/i][/color]

Bad enough that the kiss Ariana had blown Dana still lingered on Dana's fingertips, where the Japanese girl had playfully caught it and meant to mime returning it - before Dana had deduced where Ari was sauntering, of course. She was supposed to be working security so Dallas could waste his life in sin and iniquity, for fuck's sake! She did not want to have to spend half the night distracted, explaining to her spurned friend why her fucking traitorous idiot pigdog onii-chan thought his dick was supposed to be used like an alarm clock! Why he thought babies came from [i]fucking C-130s![/i] Why else would he still be a virgin at the age of twenty?

[color=9e0b0f][i]BECAUSE HE'S FUCKING STUPID!!![/i][/color]

Why should she be forced to explain that!?

[color=9e0b0f]"Onii-[i]chan...[/i]"[/color]

Rebekah was going to [i]kill something[/i] tonight.

[color=9e0b0f]"Ari-chan is good girl,"[/color] she insisted politely, mustering all of her inner strength and her middling command of English. [color=9e0b0f]"But if you want to hang out with your friends tonight, I can hang out with mine. We can both keep eye on things together."[/color]

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