Eeper Weeper, chimney sweeper,

[emotioneater]

A) Marquess of Hackney. The title feels strange to the vampire. He's risen high in such a short period of time. It certainly helps to inflate his ego. There's vampires older and who have been in the nest for longer than haven't gone as high. But then they don't have the ambitions that Cooper has. He's going all the way to the top, so long as he doesn't have to be the face of the nest. That would just be horrible.

To celebrate, Cooper is making the rounds of every supernatural bar in the city, regardless of what territory they are in. The Three Cripples, Rhapsody in Red, The Jolly Roger, and Guilty Pleasures will all be visited in turn. Or at least, he'll do his best to visit them all until he passes out. The only one he avoids is the Angelo. He's still pretty pissed off at Cesare. But that's hardly on his mind right now. Tonight is a night for celebrating.

Anyone he sees, unless he's currently mad at them for some reason, will be invited to join in the revelry. "C'mon! Drinks are on me tonight!" He promises. Never grow old and party hard. That's the perks of being a teenage vampire.
 

B) Let sweet death claim him. That is the thought going through Cooper's head. Why did he drink so much? Why did he ever think this was a good idea? He'd spent the first twenty four hours securely in bed with Nancy by his side and Juliet on his feet. When he woke up the next day, he was still hungover. Life was just not fair. He spent the morning drinking what felt like gallons of water until he could stand up without feeling like he was going throw up.

He had new duties as the Marquess. He's not about to give Harris an excuse to knock him back down after he just rose up. So he's got to get up and see to the human allies of the nest. So he stumbles out the door and down the street, sunglasses firmly in place. Today, he'll be less than friendly, but that's only because of the pounding going on in his head.


C) It seems to be the custom these days for someone to be knocking on Cooper's door at random hours of both the day and night. Besides Nancy coming over after the destruction of Midnight, he's become quite popular with the younger crowd of vampires. Despite being hundreds of years old and still having the form of a teenager, or perhaps because of it, they seem him as someone to turn to for advice in an ever-shifting, chaotic nest. He's more than happy to dispense advice and keep them on the right path, but he does wish they'd learn to use the phone and call in advance.

That's who he assumes is knocking on his door in the middle of the night. He heads for it, dressed in his usual getup of a T-shirt and leather jacket, with no shoes on. He opens it and the expression on his face immediately turns cold. Cesare is about the last vampire in the world he wants to see. When Cooper gets mad, he holds grudges just about forever. Before the older vampire can get out a word, Cooper slams the door shut in his face. It feels good and he plans to let Cesare sit out there and rot all night. This is his home, and this time, Cesare doesn't have his ego and territory to fall back on.

Cooper stands there for about a minute before he calms down and realizes that he should probably see why Cesare has sought him out. Cooper opens the door back up, still looking none too happy. "What do you want?"

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[emotioneater]

"You met Nancy? Isn't she just the greatest?" A goofy sort of grin comes over his face. It makes him look actually seventeen instead of the two-hundred years plus some spare change that he actually was. He was really in love with his girlfriend.

"Think she's around here somewhere. She's been trying t'keep pace with everyone else." Cooper tuts. At this rate, he'll be carrying her over his shoulder before the night is half-over. All done in the name of love, of course.

[vampire_barbie_girl]

"She is. She came in to the club a few weeks back and we had a nice chat." It was clear that Cooper was head over heels about Nancy, which was pretty adorable. She'd definitely found herself a good one.

"Yeah, I think I saw her. I'll have to make sure to say hi."

Caroline pauses, wondering if she should ask that one question that gnaws at her. Probably safer too, and in this crowd she doubts anyone will notice. "So, does Nancy know about uh ... that thing we talked about before, when we first met?"

[emotioneater]

"You did? Small town, London is." More like the supernatural world is small, making sure most everyone ran into one another after even only a few months. He's not the least bit surprised the two of them have run into each other.

"Oh yeah. She knows. Kind of how we met, actually. I used t'be one of her clients." Normally, he wouldn't have admitted to that, but alcohol tends to loosen his tongue up.

[vampire_barbie_girl]

"Kind of ... though also not really." Caroline knew small towns, where you didn't just run into one person twice in two weeks, but every person, every day.

Caroline was glad that Nancy knew, which meant she could stop keeping it a secret, and maybe reveal her own supernaturalness while she was at it. However, knowing Nancy's job, she wasn't touching that 'client' bit with a ten foot pole.

"That's good. I've seen relationships go bad when someone doesn't." She'd never been able to make it work. Of course, dating supernatural guys hadn't exactly worked out either.

[emotioneater]

"My relationships tend t'go bad just by bein' seventeen forever." Relationships tend to get awkward when one member of the party can't grow older with the other. And he wasn't much for getting into relationships with other immortals. There were too many complications there as well.

"Take it from someone older 'n wiser, kiddo." Of course, the best time to be giving advice out to a young vampire was when he was drunk as a skunk. "Bein' turned young is a long, lonely road. But if you're lucky, you can find someone who understands 'n be happy for a little bit."

[vampire_barbie_girl]

Caroline couldn't say she hadn't thought about that before. After all, she was also seventeen forever. Of course, she could always date another vampire ... she did know two of them who would be open to the idea right now, though she wasn't ready to deal with either possibility.

"It's so difficult to be young and beautiful forever," she said with a grin.

[emotioneater]

It sounds so much like the type of thing that Cooper usually says that he has to laugh. Granted, he's usually saying it to keep from thinking about how sad it is he'll never get past the age of seventeen and crying, but semantics. Right now, it makes him grin. "You got that right!"

He tilts his glass towards Caroline. "As they said in that one vampire movie, here's to never growin' old." Then he downs almost all of it in a single gulp. He's Irish. Drinking is in his blood at this point in his life.

[vampire_barbie_girl]

One thing about growing up in a small town, there's not really a lot to do. So you end up developing a good alcohol tolerance while you're young. And so, while Caroline can't quite finish hers in a single gulp, it disappears quite fast. Unfortunately, since she's supposed to sing again in a few minutes, that's going to have to be it for now.

"Any requests for when I go back up there?" she asks, gesturing to the stage. "Assuming you even notice the music."

[emotioneater]

Cooper thinks on that for a moment. He's an old-fashioned guy at heart and knows exactly what he wants. "Gimme a Cole Porter song." Then he remembers his manners and adds on, "Please and thank you."

He takes a seat at the table with the crowd of vampires and humans he's got surrounding him. They're a rowdy bunch and will continue to be so, but there won't be anything done so dire as to get them kicked out before they're ready to leave.

[vampire_barbie_girl]

Caroline nods. "Will do." That will at least be an easy one, though she will need to go doublecheck with her accompanist about which one to do. "I should go get ready but I hope you enjoy the rest of your night." Somehow, Caroline didn't expect that was going to be a problem.