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Small Town Celebrities party log for Sept17-Oct6

The Redbright students clearly aren't getting enough homework if they have the time to start following their favorite members of supernatural society around for the chance at getting The Perfect Shot of them looking hot. It starts slow and small, for the first week, anyway. Just a random person pulling out their phone and taking a quick shot. Can't even be sure it was you they were photographing. By the five days in, though, they've started making a game of it. Groups of two and three going out together. Following people for a while. Having the audacity to wave when they're looked at. Some even invite their target to take a picture with them and their friends. (If you say yes to that, please do flex a little.)

Ratings on the website change on a day to day basis and currently both Redbright Professors and the Hillingdon Clan lists are the current most popular due to the territory change over and general familiarity with the groups.

Hans Estergaard had been reigning supreme as #1 in Hillingdon since he had the audacity to challenge Sylvia for her seat on the council. An unprecedented length of time! (It's like the students enjoy the idea of someone standing up to Sylvia, the person ultimately in charge of telling them what to do. Go figure.)

Most factions are getting more attention from these folks, though. They really have a lot of time on their hands.

[[ooc: post around like it's a party log. If you want an npc bothering you and want me to play them, put NPC request in the subject line.]]

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Faolan's heart leaps into his throat. He had thought that that was what Lancelot had wanted, he had thought that maybe the other man had had too much excitement, what with the stalker and the argument in the restaurant and the fiasco the whole idea had been anyway. But the thought that it's instead his words that might drive Lancelot away is nearly too much.

"If I don't want you to? Lancelot..." He reaches out without thinking and closes his hand around the other man's once more. Gently guiding the phone (and subsequently, the train schedule) down and out of his view. "Of course I want -- it isn't like that, I'd only meant that you have the option, if..." He stops himself, biting his lip slightly before continuing. "I would prefer it if you stayed. Please."

Lancelot lets out a soft sigh as Faolan pushes his phone away, leans more heavily into the seat of taxi and lets his head roll against it to study him sideways.

"Then please stop suggesting I can leave? I was starting to warm to the idea of some curry. I can only cope with so many changes of plan in one day before my head starts to spin."

Faolan worries at his lip slightly, nodding in response to the other man's gentle chastisement. "I will," he reassures softly. "I... I'm sorry. Curry it is. Let's... Let's just go back to mine and get it delivered, yeah?" He squeezes Lancelot's hand once more before gently releasing him.

"I don't know about you, but I could use a drink or two as well," he adds, after a moment. Maybe he'll finally relax a little if he does. He certainly hopes so.

"That sounds perfect, although you'll have to make sure it isn't anything too strong -- otherwise you might be peeling me off your sofa and dragging me into a taxi later."

He winces a touch self-deprecatingly at that, rubs his thumb idly against Faolan's hand where it grips his to try and soothe him.

Faolan glances back up at the other man and flicks him a soft smile as he does. He appreciates Lancelot's touch, appreciates his company. He tightens his fingers around the other man's again before letting his grip slacken once more. Lancelot can pull free if he wants, he just. He likes this, honestly.

"I'll do my best," he replies, "but don't let that stop you from enjoying yourself. I'll see that you get safely home regardless, don't worry." He thinks about making some sort of terrible joke or another about role reversals, how he wouldn't mind it if Lancelot crashed on his couch for a change although if he made a habit of it he'd have to invest in a futon of his own, but he knows Lancelot would never stay. Not when Lily was at home waiting for him. And so he doesn't.

"I know you will," Lancelot replies, then his eyes flick away to watch the traffic go by again.

He's quiet until they get into Shepherd's Bush, then he sits up a little more and frees his hand from Faolan, watches the streets go past half curiously and half wary.

If a vampire can know where Lancelot lives, why can't an obsessive student know where Faolan lives after all? The taxi pulls up and Lancelot digs for his wallet, scrunches his face at Faolan when he waves him off then awkwardly waits on the pavement until the man has paid and goes to lead him up. The air is cooling off, and Faolan's flat is heated the way someone heats a place they aren't in very often -- low, and infrequent so as not to escalate the bills. Lancelot flips his coat over the back of the sofa and is glad of his v-neck, even if it isn't the warmest he owns.

"You wanted to order in, then?" he prompts, flopping onto the sofa and rubbing absently at his arms.

"Mmm, I don't know whether I could brave the shop proper just now," Faolan says, watching the other man all but shivering in front of him. It's good to have him there, and for a longer period of time than just stopping by, but he doesn't want to freeze him either.

"I have a menu if you want to look it over," he offers, as he pads over to the thermostat and gently bumps it up. He turns to look over his shoulder at the other man, offering him a half smile in apology at the temperature as he continues, "If you're still set on katsu curry though, I suppose there's no need?"

"Unless there's something better you'd recommend? I'm easy to please."

Despite what Faolan apparently thinks. He lounges further into the sofa and drops his head onto the back of it, blinks tiredly at the ceiling.

Faolan shakes his head. "If you want katsu and curry, that's your bet. The pork belly is pretty good too," he says with a shrug, pulling out his phone and tabbing through to place the order. "You can try some of mine if you like?" Easy to please, huh? He adds a few of his favorite appetizers onto the order as well then. It will be the test of that statement he supposes.

Finishing the order, he glances back up at the other man, at the way he's nearly draped over the back of the sofa and frowns slightly. "Can I get you something to drink?" he asks, putting his phone away and padding over to the kitchen. He doesn't have much but what he does have is alcohol, mixers, and water. Probably the only thing he makes for himself anymore is drinks, sadly.

"Please," Lancelot answers, and squirms enough to peer over the back of the sofa at Faolan. "Something not too strong? What do you have?"

Since Lancelot isn't the kind of person to drink anything straight, most of the time. Largely due to the fact that it sends him to sleep, but also because he spends a lot of time as a community officer around drunk people who smell strongly of alcohol and it makes the whole thing faintly off-putting.

Faolan quirks something of a smile at the image that Lancelot makes, peering at him as he is. And somewhat in response to the question as well. "I think it's easier to answer what I don't have, instead," he replies, as he cracks open his rather well-stocked liquor cabinet. Which is, in fact, actually just one of his kitchen cabinets he has re-purposed for his supplies.

"Nothing too strong," he comments, over the clink of glass bottles as he shifts things around. "Something that might go with curry..." He pauses then flicks a glance back over his shoulder. "Well, there are lagers in the fridge?" Does Lancelot even like beer? Has he ever seen him drinking any before? He can't honestly remember.

"Lager is fine," he answers, settling back so he isn't twisted around any more. "If you're having one."

Since he doesn't particularly want to drink alone, if he can help it, even if Faolan doesn't mind. He'd said he needed a drink too, though, so presumably he will be? Or at least something else of his own, even if it isn't lager?

Faolan nods, stepping back and opening the fridge to fish out two bottles and setting them out on the counter. He opens them with a bottle opener from a drawer -- not about to attempt any fancy tricks and wind up making a mess to then have to clean up -- before padding over to the sofa, both of them in hand.

"I can get you a glass if you'd like one," he says, holding one bottle out to theo ther man. He never really bothers with them himself. Of course, he usually spends at least one day in any given week crashing on Lancelot's futon, so he really has no room to talk.

"No, no don't worry -- please, just sit down."

He takes the bottle and shuffles up a little on the sofa so Faolan has room, cradling the lager toward himself as he watches Faolan.

"Are we all ordered, then?"

Or is Faolan going to have to still get up and do that?

Faolan nods slightly, slipping his phone and his wallet out of his pockets and dumping them on the coffee table in front of them, shrugging his jacket off and tossing it over the arm of the sofa before taking his seat. Settling down next to the other man and leaning back into his seat with a soft sigh.

"All taken care of," he says, playing with the bottle in his hands for a moment before taking a healthy sip. Leaning forward after a moment to pull two coasters close to them, one for each of them before thinking better about putting his drink down and resting it on his knee instead. He's fidgeting slightly, but he's trying to keep himself from thinking too hard about anything. Certainly not about how close they are now, in his flat now, nor about what Landelot had meant before, in the taxi, about not needing to try to impress him.

He glances aside at the other man. Okay, so maybe he is thinking about it all. Just a little...

Then they're good for at least half an hour or so. Lancelot settles himself down a little more into the sofa and takes a long sip of his lager, resting the bottle on his knee as he regroup his thoughts.

"Elaine is a student at Redbright. Did I say that before? I think I did." He winces, fidgets with the bottle. "I've run into her a few times now. Outside the Night Council offices, in Richmond. I suppose I should have anticipated she might follow me further."

Faolan frowns slightly as he glances aside at the other man, listening to his explanation. "Run into her a few times," he repeats, echoing the other man's words, and the thought that she might have been in and around the other man's home neighborhood troubles him further.

"How did you first meet her?" he asks. "How does she know you?" There has to be some reason that she's taken to him. Did he help her in some way? Did he give her the wrong idea, as he'd managed to do with several young women already during their acquaintance? Or maybe just being handsome, polite, and helpful as he is, she developed some sort of infatuation on her own. Faolan tries to keep himself from frowning further.

How does he know her? Lancelot thinks about it a moment, wrinkles his nose.

"I think I just gave her directions, perhaps? I'm not sure I remember exactly, but something like that. I didn't know she was a Redbright student."

He didn't find out that until much later, when he saw her around the campus.

Faolan's frown deepens as Lancelot explains his situation to him. Given her directions but not known she was a Redbright student at the time. So he's run into her since? How many times, if it's enough for even Lancelot himself to have started growing wary of her?

"When did you find that out, then?" he asks. Had she been following him around ever since? When had that started? Because she definitely was doing so now, there's no question about that at all. "How often has she just happened to 'run into you' since?"

Lancelot blinks at that, brow furrowing as he rubs at his jaw.

"When I saw her on campus? And -- I'm not so sure. Four or five times? I thought I sense'd her by the Night Council building the other day but -- well, someone else ran into me and I think it scared her off."

Guinevere, actually, but he doesn't think Faolan knows her so it isn't worth mentioning.

Faolan doesn't like the sound of this at all. Four or five times meeting this girl and she's already happening upon them in a restaurant, somewhere outside the normal realm of Lancelot's travels? He supposes that she could have followed him there, but from where? He had said he had taken off of work and done work around his house today, and Faolan had kept the restaurant itself a surprise from. The other man until they had been there.

"Lancelot..." Faolan starts, not wanting to scare the man but also wanting to be direct with him. "I think you should really let someone know about her. Someone who might make her stop. What she's doing, it's technically illegal. She might not mean anything by it now but. She's already gone too far." He had seen how uncomfortable the other man had been at her sudden appearance after all. And how relieved he was to get rid of her too for that matter.

'Make her stop'. Lancelot takes a slow breath and lets it out with a sigh, dropping his eyes to his drink and then lifting it to take a sip. It buys him time to think, to process how he wants to answer.

"You're thinking of a restraining order?" he says finally. "I've thought about it. I'd rather talk to her first, though. These things stay on people's records, and she's still... young."

Young and foolish.

Faolan's frown does nothing to dissipate. He should have known that Lancelot might have a request like that. The man is so thoughtful and caring about other people's wellbeing. But what if it isn't simply innocent. What if there is more to this girl than Lancelot knows.

"I don't think you should ever be alone with her again, Lancelot," Faolan replies. "If you need to talk to her like that then. Bring someone? It doesn't have to be me, a. Another Guardian perhaps, or one of your friends from the police. She needs to know that this is serious, and not just another moment to celebrate having caught you alone. Promise me."

Faolan knows he is sounding overprotective. But he had been forced into such a role before himself, with the tea. He knows how such a mind might work. It doesn't matter how young she is, if she is obsessed and stalking him then that's dangerous indeed, both for Lancelot himself and the people he calls his friends. And after the rescue from the vampires? He doesn't think he can handle another scare so soon. He's not sure Lancelot could either, for that matter.

He smiles a little at that, at how protective Faolan is.

"I promise," he assures him. "You can loom behind me and growl at her if you like."

Faolan flicks something of a smile back at the other man despite himself, before flicking his eyes away, slightly self-conscious of the fact that the other man is calling him out on his behavior. Both now, and in general. He can't deny the truth in it though. And the truth that he would like to do exactly that, loom and growl and be there to observe and know when to say enough is enough, if Lancelot can't make that call himself.

"Deal," he says, flicking his eyes back to Lancelot and raising his drink to him in something of a toast on the matter. Lancelot had made a promise, after all. And he appreciates it, for what it's worth.

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