undergrounds | This Can Only End Well (Sept. 1st)

What: Dinner party! Hope you like appetizers for dinner. And wine. And disaster.
Where: Nancy's flat in Enfield
Who: Eames, Arthur, Cooper, Kyle- time to meet the boyfriend, everyone!
When: September 1st.

Though the affair is set to be somewhat casual, Nancy has spent hours on that Thursday cleaning her flat, preparing food, and generally getting ready. Thursday night because Friday nights tended to be good nights for business, so she wasn't sacrificing nearly as much if she had everyone over on a Thursday.

The idea she'd had was to introduce everyone to Cooper officially. Get Eames to see that it was a great idea to date him, and maybe Kyle would be completely smitten with the idea of Cooper's existence in her life and allow Nancy to invite the vampire in to their future apartment. Cooper was important to her, she loved him. And she wanted others to see what she saw in him as well.

When the first guests arrive, Nancy's already had a glass of wine in her hand, ready to play dutiful hostess immediately. There's wine, magically chilled, as well as whisky and gin and some beer. For food, it's a lot of little appetizers, finger food, really. She has no idea what she's doing, truthfully, and just hopes that everyone has a good time.

Oh, and she made a cake.

If you're wondering where Juliet is, she's trying to eat the shrimp.

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Cooper's eyes narrow and go hard. He takes one deep breath and then another, willing himself not to lose his temper, though he desperately wants to put Kyle through a wall. His voice, when he finally speaks, has a low note of anger to it. "That's between me 'n her. I don't think you've got the right to ask."

Through his haze of anger, he's reminded of the own stabs of jealousy he used to get whenever he knew Nancy was out visiting a client. It had been borne of both love and worry. He suspects it's no different for Kyle. His tone shifts. "Look, I know you care about her 'n you probably don't think much of me. But I'd walk out into the sunlight before I'd hurt her. Rest assured of that if nothing else."

Kyle has to physically bite his tongue to resist the barrage of remarks those floodgates open. How Cooper doesn't have the right to feed, how feeding on her is hurting her, and so on. It's only because he promised Nancy that he would make an effort that he's holding back, even as his body tenses and cortisol and adrenaline pump through his system in preparation for a fight. His body's been trained, with a memory of its own, on how to react to vampire threats.

"I'll believe it when I see it," he offers, the most neutral response he can manage. Kyle crosses his arms to help assuage his desire to punch the thing. "You know she deserves better than you, right?"

"Ouch. That hurts." The sarcastic words are out of Cooper's mouth before he can even think. Well, he hasn't hit Kyle yet, so he's living up to his promise to Nancy to be nice. The sarcasm just comes second nature and it's a bit harder to control. The fact the young whelp is looking like he wants to fight him is laughable. Cooper would wipe the floor with him.

He laces his fingers behind his neck, sighing as he looks up at the ceiling. "I know she does." Nancy deserves much better than some ex-fae blood addicted old vampire who can't ever give her the family she really wants or grow old with her.

At least he recognizes that. It's the best compromise he can manage, now knowing that not only is Nancy dating a damn vampire, but the bastard's feeding on her as well. It sounds like the people who get kidnapped and become affectionate with their kidnappers and he wonders if Nancy's the type to get into an abusive relationship and would he even know. He makes a mental note to keep an eye on her as best he can.

"Great." It's all Cooper gets before Kyle pivots and marches off towards the kitchen.

This Can Only End Well (Sept. 1st)

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