( april 12 | closed ) somebody's watching me

[industria]

"I don't think that the Benedict Cumberbatch wax figure looked like him. Not that I feel passionately about him one way or the other or anything."

Allison's glad that Nancy has suggested these tourist outings for the two of them. As a newcomer and a local, it looks like there's a lot of territory that needs exploring. Madame Tussauds being one of them. The weather seems to be clearing up for the better, feeling spring enough for Allison to leave her winter coat behind in favor of one of her leather jackets. The sun's still out by the time the museum comes to a close, guards nudging visitors out so that they can finally lock up for the night.

"I think the worst was probably the Justin Bieber one," Allison laughs with a toss of her head. "I don't need to see him shirtless like that."

Sliding a hand into the pocket of her buttoned denim skirt, she feels her heart stop for a split second. Her phone. What happened to her phone? Wordlessly, she whips around to face the green dome of the wax figure museum, hand now in her other pocket.

She can see the phone now, sitting somewhere in a restroom, atop a paper towel dispense. Stupid!

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[ghoulaid]

There's a snort of laughter from Ghoul at Allison's comment. Okay, the whole walking wax figure deal is wrong and creepy, but it's also kind of funny when she puts it that way.

With Fakespeare knocked back and sprawled on the ground, Ghoul's feeling a little more confident about approaching it. He slips past Allison and out of the bathroom- and also out of Nancy's shield. It's all part of his plan, though. Which is, apparently, to rush forward and jump on the figure while it's still flailing around on the floor. He lands with both feet squarely over one of Shakespeare's knees, slamming every last ounce of his body weight down on to it, clearly intending to break... whatever is inside there. Whatever, that move usually works really well on people. He'll just have to hope it also works on fakepeople too.

He quickly hops away from its reach once the damage is done, encouraging Allison and Nancy with a call of, "Get that motherfucker! He deserves it for all the Romeo and Juliet bullshit we had to put up with!"

[stauncherhearted]

Holy shit. Things are happening fast, and she's concentrating on keeping her shield up. The very shield which Ghoul just ran right past. She barely has time to react before she's watching him jump on to- "Oh!" she manages to say just as Ghoul lands on Shakespeare's knees.

Nancy knew what a knee-cap breaking sounded like.

That was not what this sounded like. What happened instead was the force of Ghoul's jump causing the wax to react, folding in on itself, leaving one of Shakespeare's wax legs useless.

"I like Romeo and Juliet!" Nancy finds herself saying, reaching out to pull Ghoul back into the barrier. "Allison- try his head!" that would make sense, right? Because right now, Shakespeare was trying to get back up.

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Writing in iambic pentameter is difficult! But Allison doesn't have time for more quips, hurrying forward yet trying to stay within the boundaries of Nancy's shield. At least until she finds her bearings and a way in without harming Ghoul in the process.

Wax figures aren't hollow either. They are thick and have weight after they're poured into their respective molds. Stabbing the head directly seems useless, but you know what, she's going to go for it anyway.

Ruthlessly, Allison dives in and jams both knives into the eery wax eyes. And suddenly everything goes still.

"I have a feeling that isn't the only one."

[ghoulaid]

Ghoul supposes Nancy's questionable taste can be forgiven, considering she's the one with the nifty shield. He follows her pulling without fuss, grimacing as Allison buries her knives in the thing's face. It was never alive in the first place (right?) and there's not even any blood, but that doesn't stop him from saying, "That's gross."

Yeah, because trying to break its kneecap isn't gross.

He really hopes Allison's gut feeling is wrong, but just in case it isn't... "You guys ready to get the fuck outta here?"

[stauncherhearted]

Nancy can only respond by giving Ghoul a very pointed look. It's wax. It's not that gross. There wasn't even blood, gosh. Kneecapping is worse by far.

"Yeah, let's go." But Nancy's looking the other way down the hall, her voice tight. She shifts the shield a little, and it wavers, but only for a second. "Now. Before David Beckham gets any closer."

[industria]

It feels almost sacrilegious to stick your boot in Shakespeare's face as you lean over to pull your knives out of the wax, but that is what's happening right now. "Ugh." No blood – still gross, even to the seasoned young hunter here. Allison spins her knives around her middle fingers, keeping them pointed behind her with her arms straight at her sides.

Hey guys, you feel like meeting Queen Victoria? Because that's happening next, rounding the corner as you make your way towards the exit once more.

[ghoulaid]

See, Nancy, it's totally gross. Majority rules.

Ghoul wastes no time in legging it away from the bathroom and towards the easiest exit (especially since he spies the other creep further down the hall, so that direction's a bust), only to find himself face to face with some menacing looking lady-figure. He doesn't take to surprises very well, much less when those surprises are giant haunted dolls, so he lets his instincts carry him.

His instincts have decided that yelling, "Fuck!" and slamming the Queen backwards is the best course of action. She goes skidding across the floor much more violently than she would if she'd been shoved by a person with normal levels of strength, but Ghoul doesn't seem to notice. He doesn't seem to notice who it is either- he's too busy shaking his hands like he's trying to fling invisible germs off them, and even goes so far as to wipe them off on one of the girls' shoulders. Whoever is closer. He doesn't give a shit. "Ugh, I fuckin' touched it."

[stauncherhearted]

Here's the thing: Everyone else here is American, so attacking the Queen is not a big deal. For Nancy, it's weird. This is god-damned Queen Victoria, and while she's not a cute Queen, she's still pretty big and intimidating.

With everyone moving, her shield becomes mostly useless, and she's got no choice but to power it down, and prepare to fight. Wax, she knows, melts. Which means she's got a ball of fire in one hand. Yes, Allison. You have cool knives, but she's got fire in her hand.

Nancy gives Ghoul a face when he wipes his hands off on her jacket. She'll deal with him later. She wants to make sure that the Queen is down for the count, just like Billy Shakes over there.

"I'm so going to hell," she remarks, before dropping to one knee so she can, y'know, melt the face off of the Queen. "So going to hell." She drips and burns, but she's not moving anymore. "We need to get out of here. There's got to be an emergency exit!"

[industria]

Allison has acknowledged that her fate as a hunter will bring her into contact with the weird and otherworldly, but she has to laugh at the fact it looks like she has walked into two more supernatural friendships. But then again, she supposes, that is just the life of an Argent. And she's a different breed of Argent as it were.

"Cm'on, Ghoul," she groans. "It's wax."

But she's already backing away, not abandoning the other two, but in an attempt to find the best path to the exit, moving away from the main hall. Peering up at the hidden camera wedged into the crown molding, she has to inwardly chuckle – security must be picking up on some weird shit.

"Down this way. We're less likely to be caught by security there since they were moving to the lobby earlier."

[ghoulaid]

If Nancy goes to hell for this, it'll at least be for an amazing reason that the rest of them will never be able to outdo. Ghoul watches her take fire to the Queen's face, very impressed the whole way through. That's pretty ballsy right there.

His attention is pulled away from her when Allison grumbles at him, and he turns to hiss back at her, "Wax is a god damn candle, these are like- possessed dolls but worse, 'cause they're life sized. You ain't allowed to judge me when they made horror movies about this kinda shit all the time." A werewolf who's creeped out by scary dolls. Who'd have thought. That's the movie they should be making, though.

He glances back at Nancy and waves her along as he begins to follow after Allison. "C'mon. You should ice the next one," he tells her. "Just shoot a giant ice spike right in its face." Okay, Ghoul, no. This doesn't need to be turned in to a game.

[stauncherhearted]

Actually, this is the least of all her sins, truth be told. SHe'd been raised by the devil himself, after all. No wonder fire came so naturally to her.

"Who the fuck cares," she hisses, running after Allison. There had to be emergency exits. She curses herself for not paying closer attention to the full map of the place. It was a rookie mistake; she'd been trained to know all the exits since she was three.

"Besides, can't do ice." Her powers were nowhere near as good as all that.

"We'd do best trying to stay away from the exhibits!" She warns, catching up with Allison with surprising ease, despite her short stature.

[industria]

"I guess we should be glad they're not talking. Like Chucky."

Allison, why did you make that reference?

Anyway, don't think about that because she's launching herself at the nearest fire exit that is meant to lead them back to the street except it's not working. Instead, she's set off some alarms. Allison bites back a curse, clenching her jaw in frustration as she gives the door another useless shove with her shoulder before pushing herself back.

"I remember I saw another one," she yells over the piecing sound of the alarm. "We'll have to pass by the pop music section though." Let's hope this magic hasn't touched Bieber.