Title: The Riley Saga Pt 5
Author: Delilah (divadelilah@aol.com), Diurnal (diurnal@magma.com), Angeline
(spikes_angel01@yahoo.au, Fen (fenna9@hotmail.com), Chris (kodachi@nethere.com)
Description: Series started by an invitation to Two and Tracy's party. Pretty
much a round robin.
Disclaimer: In short, Spike's not ours and thanks goddess, neither is Riley.
Joss/Fox/SandDollar/Mutant Enemy/UPN own them. However, we all own our respective
bots and clones.
Distribution: Fanfiction.net, my yahoogroups (spuffy_fics and delirobins), DivaDelilah's
Domain, any sites I've okayed, including award sites and various lists. Hell,
just tell me where it's going.
Feedback: Come on baby, light my fire…
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Loth growls as the front door gets knocked on yet again. "Bloody hell, half the damn list is here," he groused. He threw the door open, looking at the man on the porch in puzzlement. "Uh, come in?"
Chris steps in from the cold, rubbing his hands along his arms to purge the last of the chill. He tilts his head up, and a deep red blush covers his face and descends into the collar of his t-shirt.
"Hi, ladies. I'm sure you all remember me from OGD. I'm gonna be kinda quiet around here for a bit, at least until Fen gets back to me with my Asmara. Wouldn't want to detract from the guys who are already here, right?
"Di? Can I just say that this is the frist time in many months that I've blushed so hard? 'Nigh-to-perfect specimen'? Thank you, sweets. I'll have to find you later for a nice full-body massage, if you think you might be up for it. And I will take your advice regarding Loki. Better to be safe than sorry. But Loki, really, what have I done to upset you? Can't we be friends?"
Chris waves and turns in search of a cup of hot tea to warm his bones.
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Angeline walks in, Raj trailing after her with a big grin on his face.
"Hey Chris - you're just in time to watch..." she turns to everyone, "Uh...what are we watching?"
She pulls Chris in my the hand, and settles him down on the couch.
Fangy stick his head out of the liquor cabinet. "Chris! Good to see you mate. I'll get you that little package we talked about when you get Asmara."
He holds up the Scotch. "What's your poison?"
Everyone starts hollering out orders, as Loth rolls his eyes and starts to gather glasses.
Angeline sits on Seth's lap. "So what are we watching again?"
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Fen started to gush about 'Pitch Black' the thriller she'd picked for them to watch. Charley sitting on the floor by her feet started mouthing the words along with her making Chris laugh.
"Heard all this before huh." Charley nodded.
Chris turned to Loth, who waiting for him to order something from the bar before sitting down. "Got any Kahlua? Or Rumplemintz?"
Loth grins. "Got plenty of either. Deli likes Kahlua in brownies, and you can't make my favorite drink without Rumplemintz," he replies smirking at the still empty stairway.
Trouble snorts, and Fangy raises his eyebrows. "What is your favorite drink then, since Trouble finds it so amusing?"
Loth's smirk stays firmly in place as he deadpans, "A red headed slut."
Fangy almost spits his scotch out, and the girls start giggling on the couch.
Loth comes over and pats him on the back as he begins choking. "You okay there, Pops?" he asks, his eyes sparkling with merriment.
Fangy merely glares at him and takes a seat on the other side of Lin. "When are we starting this bloody movie?"
Loth grumbles, and goes to fix the round of drinks before it starts, muttering about the queen taking her sweet time.
Raj rolls his eyes, and says, "I'll go see if she's close to done yet."
"I'm going to kill who ever gave her that bloody video. Does nothing but drool over someone who isn't me when we watch it." Chris chuckled and Charley glared at him. Fen ruffled his hair gently and smile down at him when he looked up at her.
"Could you get me a drink sweets?" she asked. Charley nodded kissing her wrist before standing up.
"Your usual?" he asked and she nodded turning to Chris who sat next to her on the couch.
"You bot's almost done. Just a little fine tuning left to do." Chris grinned and streched one arm along the back of the couch.
"Can't wait. Good thing it doesn't take 4-6 weeks for delivery or I'd go.." Chris stopped talking when Charley growled at him suddenly.
"If you want to keep that arm you'll move it mate." he said through clenched teeth. Chris quickly removed his arm from the back of the couch and Fen sighed.
"Charley. What did we talk about." her bot ignored her instead he sank down onto the couch above her and kissed her soundly.
"Mine." he said standing up glaring at Chris and a giggling Di who sat next to him on the couch as he went to get Fen a drink. Fen just sat there quietly with a funny little smile on her face.
Chris laughedand turned to Di and Loki. "That girl has got it bad."
Everyone on the couch cracked up except Fen and she opened one eye to glare at them.
"Wait till you get Asmara. Then we'll see whos laughing." she told Chris.
"When will she finished?" Lin asked from across the room. Fen started to answer but was interrupted by a knock on the door.
"Who on earth is that?" Trouble said looking at the roomfull of people. "If that Riley has come back." He went to answer the door. Everybody looked over to see who it was. Except Fen who leaned back and smiled.
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Chris gets up and stretches his legs. "I'll get it. Only polite, what
with you all getting me drinks and such." He heads to the door and checks
the peephole. "That's weird. Do y'all have pranksters around here that
aren't Spikes?"
A growled North London voice answers him, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, there's no one at the door, and no one near the... wait a minute,
I think I see somebody." Chris squints to see better throught the tiny
lens. "S'hard to tell, but I think it's..." He straightens and checks
his appearance. "Um... I'm gonna go... talk to them. Yeah, talk to them."
He opens the door and steps into the night. The gathered group of movie-watchers
hears nothing for a while, then a squeal and the sound of a hedge being flattened
by a body. A few moments later, the front door opens, and Chris returns with
a new friend. Slender and ever-so-slightly feral, especially around the not-quite-there
eyes, her dark hair full of waves, she was a vision of a dark vampiress.
"Ladies and gentlemen, may I have you attention, please? It is my greatest
pleasure and honor to introduce my lady, Asmara. Asmara, make your curtsy."
Asmara giggles and gives a little curtsy, then presses herself closer to Chris,
whispering intently in his ear. His expression shifts from confused, to bemused,
to slightly stunned.
"Sweetest pet," he whispers, only the clones and bots being able to
hear. "It's not polite to just up and leave a party like that, even for
the very good reasons you just mentioned. Later. Besides, Fangy has a little
house-warming package for the two of us to play with; I think you'll like them."
Chris smiles, his voice going back to normal. He walks over to the couch and
steals his seat back before Charley can rst his legs there. "Come, pet,
Sit here on my lap. We're going to watch people die in terror; that's always
fun." Asmara gives a little purr and slinks over, showing just how smoothly
a Dru bot of the finest design can move. She sits and arranges her skirts, then
lies back against Chris's chest. He gives a little sigh and places his arms
around her; she twines her fingers in his as they wait for the movie to start.
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Seth watches the two of them snugling, he stands up. "Lady Asmara...on behalf of all us bots...and the occasional petrie dish...I want to welcome you."
Everyone stares at him, and Fangy broke the silence by bursting out laughing. "Wohoo! Sethy's got a crush!!!"
The others all burst out laughing, as Seth glared at Fangy, "That annoying bundle of genetically altered cells is Fangy. I'm Seth. And there's the others." He waves vaguely in the direction of the other bots and Raj. Trouble shook his head, and tried tugging on Seth's arm, but the bot wouldn't move.
Trouble rolls his eyes, "Chris mate, if I were you, you'd better keep your pretty little goddess away from this one till he gets wiring all fixed."
"Seth." The warning tone in Angeline's voice was enough to make Seth turn away, and sit down next to her.
Fangy smirked, "Like a good little puppy."
Seth glared at Fangy, but before he could protest, Angeline held up her hand, commanding silence from the bickering boys. She smiled at Asmara. "Welcome." She cast a critical eye over her, and whistled. "Nice work Fen - very nice."
Seth grinned, but refrained from saying a word.
Fangy rolled his eyes, and turned to Asmara, "Right pet, nice to have you here."
Lothario moved to grab another glass, "What are you having luv?"
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Di turned to Fangy and grinned. "Thank Goddess Chris and Asmara are distracting them from that little marking speech you were giving."
Angeline grinned at Di, "You don't want to start the tallying of tats and piercings. That might bare too much then some people want to see..." realizes what she said, "Alright, whip 'em out boys."
They all stare at her incredulously, "What? I'd forgotten who has what..." Smiles innocently.
Downstairs a loud thump is heard as Deli picks her ass up off the floor from in front ot the upstairs computer. Raj snickers at her and flips him off.
"She's fine, just minor coordination issue," he calls down the stairs.
Loth and Trouble look at each other, used to such accidents and laugh. Noting the looks the room's inhabitants are giving them, they proceed to explain about Deli's penchant for falling out of her chair, snorting liquid through her nose onto the keyboard, and assorted clumsy events sprouting from her reading her email.
Loth leaned over to Trouble as he told about Deli snorting the OJ through her nose and shorting a keyboard, and whispered, "She's going to bloody beat us to death."
Trouble grinned. "I hope she uses the furry paddle," he retorted.
Lin and Fangy looked at each other and burst out laughing, then the entire room followed. Loth winced. They were definately deadmeat....
TBC............