Blowing off some steam... (PRIVATE: Anime)

"Of course I am awesome that why your marrying me." She said taking another slice of the Italian pizza. She took off her coat reviling a dark blue button down shirt and a sliver locket. She hung it on a hook next to the door.
"No it's tomorrow night, we still have to go shopping to get you a tux. I already have a dress but I could use some new toys and a new hat... I left my favorite fedora at camp." She walked over to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of...
"Champagne? Not tonight." She put it on the counter and muttered to herself about the hotel being over zealous. She pulled out her black box again and walked from room to room. She found two bugs one on the front room, the other in the master bedroom. She crushed them in her hand.
Then she dragged over her duffle bag and pulled out her sword and Riley's sword. The one he had left at camp.

"What's the drinking age here, again?"
Danni looked up at him, "Seventeen, but I wouldn't recommend it. This stuff is really addicting."
Danni was busy pulling pins out of her bun, all at once her hair tumbled down her shoulders and stopped at the small of her back. The long hair was like a comforting hug. "Well, you could use the sleep." She answered to his complaint. "Now hurry up and change I wanna go shopping... dear..." She added the dear as an after thought. She stood snagging a last piece of pizza before putting the boxes in the fridge. She braided her hair before pulling her coat back on.

"I would change, dear, if I had clothes to change into," Riley spoke, finishing off his second slice of pizza. "Unless you somehow knew we were going on an adventure and conjured up my wardrobe, or there's magically clothes my size here, because I have nothing. No one really gave me time to pack, between leaving my house and getting on the plane." Riley shrugged, raising an eyebrow.

((if he does end up having clothes, don't bother waiting for me to post to have him shower and change and whatever, feel free to power play him out of there. Too much filler posting here, no substance LOL))

Danni gave him a dead eyed glare and chucked his coat at his head. She stumped out the door, waited for him to exist before locking the door behind them. She walked down to the foyer and then out to the car. She unlocked it and got into the drivers side. After Riley had gotten she she pulled away and soon both Danni and Riley were shopping at very high end places. There was name brand Italian clothing every were. She helped Riley find a tux, "Tie or bow tie?"
She asked standing on her toes to look at him over the cart. They had found several different pairs of jeans for both of them,nice shirts for rich people, PJ bottoms for Riley, several sparkly objects for Danni, and now they were on tuxes. Next they would go hunt down a fancy fedora for her. They had managed to gather a small mountain of boxes and everything.
"Oooh! What about a bedazzled bow tie?" She joked. Speaking of bedazzled, Danni spotted a fedora, black, with a sparkly silver band. She bade a b-line for it and jammed it on her head.
"What do you think?"

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At Riley's bedazzling comment Riley batted her eye lashes at him, "Is a girl not allowed to like sparkly objects?"
Then Riley snatched the silver banded fedora off of her head, "Oi! My hat!" Her accent came out extremely thick. As Riley held it above his head, Danni jumped her fingers a few millimeters from the hat rim. Deciding she looked quite ridiculous she crossed her arms.
"You know," She took a step closer, an evil glint in her eye. "Considering I have a gun on me you are quiet brave. Or I could kiss you, considering there is a man with a camera watching us behind the bush at a forty five degree angle and about fifteen steps away from us. After we rescue Salone, she will see the picture eventually. Then there is also the possibility you are ticklish." She said all this in a low tone. Danni's hands ran up over his chest and her fingers linked behind his neck. "Or you could give me back my fedora like a good boy."
She shot him a dazzling smile, she wasn't joking about kissing him. She had kissed several guys just to get her way... what could she say? She was manipulative and a stink... a con-woman, police officer, and a woman. A very dangerous combination.
"But if you ask nicely I may let you wear it to the party tomorrow."

"Good boy," She praised him, she winked before letting go. "I was thinking bright pink in the color of the tux. " She smiled wondering away down the racks. She pulled out three different ones, charcoal grey, black, and a white one. She looked at Riley briefly checking the color of his eyes, skin, hair, and how white his teeth were. She could make them whiter before tomorrow. "Not too obnoxious I hope." She smacked him playfully on the hip.
"This one," she said, handing the charcoal grey one to him. "The color suits you."
Then she spotted another fedora, this one matched the suite. Charcoal grey with a black band, she grabbed it off the rack and put it on his head.

A tiny woman inquired in English on if they were ready to check out.

((Feel free to fast forward and power play if need be))

((She started picking out colors and I immediately went CHARCOAL and then I read on and I was like WHOOO WE THINK ALIKE. Also, I would fast forward but I don't know what's going on, really. did you have any ideas? we could have something happen before nightfall, have them go to dinner or something, meet some officials? unless you just want to skip till the morning. I'll let you control the powerplaying/fast fowarding for now ))

"Bright pink, right, that'll work," Riley murmured, laughing at her. He browsed the different tux styles, but once he saw that she already had about five picked out he didn't really try. She shoved a charcoal tux into his arms, and he examined it, glancing up as she put a matching fedora onto his head. "Charcoal? I hope whatever you're wearing matches, but I can deal with that," he tried to keep his voice down as he spoke, wary of the salespeople who may or may not speak English. He immediately stiffened as a saleslady approached them, straightening his jacket. "I think we're ready, thank you," he spoke, handing her the tux and the hat. "You know, Dannica, I'm not really a hat person, but this one suits me. I don't think I'll be wearing it with the tux, though. They match too well."

This whole speaking formally thing was going to get very old by the time they got out of this whole situation. It was funny, though. Maybe if Riley kept speaking like this he'd get Danielle to crack.

Danielle gave him the stink eye.
"Match too well?" She mouthed at him while the tiny woman rang up their items. She arched a red eyebrow. She pulled out Riley's wallet with her first two fingers out of his jacket pocket. She handed the sale's clerk the debit card and she rang up the items. Danni attempted not to watch the price skyrocket higher and higher... it made her sick... she was a tight wad after all. She and Riley both took the bags and they walked out of the store. All of the bags fit into the back of the car and Danni had her hat perched jauntily on her head. Back up to their suite both of them took the opportunity to use the bell hop. Back in the front room of the suit Danni sorted their stuff into piles and picked up hers, vanishing into her room.
Even though it was only 7:30 she was exhausted.
"I am going to bed, pizza is in the fridge," She reminded him gently. Then she closed the door to her room and placed the gun in the bedside table and put her hat on the lamp shade. Then she kneaded her forehead.
"Goodnight." She whispered to the ghosts around her as she put on her pajamas. Then she crawled into bed and was asleep with minutes.

The room was made of solid concrete and the shape of a rectangle. A bed sat at the end of the room and a sleeping form covered in a battered quilt lay there. A leather jacked hung off the corner of the head board. A signal light bulb hung from the ceiling swinging back and forth. The young woman rolled over in her bed, showing a bandaged face. She opened her eyes briefly looking directly at Riley with amber colored eyes before the iris messaged faded to black.

Danni woke in a cold sweat, her bright blue eyes fixed on the ceiling. She blinked several times her nightmare fading into the mist of her mind. She rolled over and looked at the alarm clock, 10:30... She slowly stood and stretched all of her limbs. She opened the door in her gym shorts and t-shirt. She crept across the hall to Riley's room, pushing it open. His bed was empty. So she poked her nose into the front room, he was asleep on the couch in a rather uncomfortable position. She decided not disturb him and went and investigated the fridge. It had been stocked for their arrival. Pulling out the orange juice and the package of bacon she began to cook.

Riley awoke suddenly, sitting straight up. The conscious world greeted him with the pungent smell of bacon sizzling on the stove, and Riley's stomach felt like it was about to fold into itself. The food smelt delicious, but he wasn't hungry. Not after everything that had happened; not after his dream. He rolled over, clutching the knit blanket he must have grabbed from somewhere during the night to his chest and pressing his forehead into the couch cushions. This definitely wasn't as comfortable as a bed. HE gathered his emotions, sorting through his thoughts and filing a few away for later before looking up at Danielle and running a hand through his surely disheveled hair.

"Hey," he croaked, sounding groggy, his voice laden with exhaustion. Even though he'd slept, it hadn't been enough. He'd just about managed to scrape in enough hours to function, and he was going to need a lot of caffeine to make it through the day. Normally, he might have gotten up, maybe thanked her for cooking, but, feeling crappy, Riley just rolled onto his back and flicked off the television. "I saw her, last night," he spoke, just loud enough that she would her him. "You went to bed, and I thought I would Iris Message her, and there she was... for all of thirty seconds." Riley sighed in exasperation, feeling weighed down. He definitely needed a cup of something. Coffee? Tea? He moved to get up, but only got so far as sitting up straight with his feet on the floor in front of him, glancing around absently.

((Riley is so totally lost right now LOL Little sleep+nightmares+guilt=zombie riley))

Danni handed him a glass of orange juice.
"Cheer up, that means we may be able to get her out tonight. Now we know for sure she was at the hospital." She looked up at him. She squeezed his arm gently. "Also you have a sprained ankle so you cannot dance tonight. I don't have the time to teach you some of my home land's dances."
She offered him a five hour energy drink and gave him a 'for tonight' look. Danni yawned widely and checked her watch and then grumbled to herself about burning bacon. She laid a few strips out on a plate and picked up a slice to eat.

Danni got about no say in cereal but grabbed two spoons and plopped the bacon on the table. Then she sat down at the table eyeing the Continents of her bowl.
"Dang boy! The army feeds me better than you do." She filled her bowl to the brim with cheerios and proceeded to inhale the cheerios and the bacon. "I'd imagine we would have to figure out what weapons we should bring and stuff like that."

((Okay, I had an epic post then my computer ERASED more than half of it twice... I gave up in the end...))

((Aww! That stinks! :s))

Riley rolled his eyes. "What?! I didn't know what you wanted!" He shoveled another spoonful of cheerios into his mouth, swallowing. "I guess we'd have to figure that out, but it should be too complicated. I have my new sword, which shrinks down to this," Riley pulled a small, 2x2 sized metal square out of his pocket, flattening against the table. "So it shouldn't be too much of a problem to sneak it in. Do we have masquerade masks yet? Because that could be an issue." Riley finished off his bowl of cheerios.

"I already have those." Danni stood up and took her bowl to the sink and then vanished into her room. Coming back with a box. She pulled Riley's out first. It was black and was shaped like the one the phantom wore in the phantom of the opera. At the corner of the eye were silver spirals. Then she pulled out her's, it was silver and would only cover the top half of her face. It was styled after swan feathers but twisted in it's own style.
"I guess your covered then." She stated.

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Spoiler:

I saw this and my reaction was *GASP!* Mine!" ))

((That masquerade mask is so pretty! I love it! Question: are they doing anything else important before the ball, or are they just hanging out? Because otherwise we're just kind of filler posting right now.))

Riley lifted his mask out of its box. "Phantom of the Opera, seriously?" he asked, though he had to admit it was kind of amusing. He held it up over his face, grinning. "I guess it serves its purpose, though. Yours looks perfect." Riley ran his fingers along the curve of the metal, impressed.

Danni arched an eye brow at his comment," That was the only one I could find that didn't look like it belonged to a girl or a psycho clown."
The rest of the hours passed relatively quickly, probably due to her nerves. Danni stood in her room with her duffle bag open. She pulled out three daggers and her gun into sheathes running up and down her legs. Underneath the sheaths a knee length, low cut with spaghetti straps, body suit, black. It was the kind that you couldn't tell one was wearing it underneath their clothes. Danni's dress hung on the back of the door knob. A shiny dark blue color, that fell all the way to the floor, short sleeves, and a scoop neck. She had curled her hair and it cascaded down her shoulders. She took the dress off of the hanger and stepped into it, zipping it up. Then she picked up her strappy flats, putting them on her feet. She crossed to the hall before knocking, "Hey you ready?"

She was holding her mask in her hands.

((I fast forwarded...))