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November 16, 1998 |
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World's End bar...
Yosannah mumbles as she glances around at the patrons in the World's End, "..pack'n em tonight I see.."
Sithriel orders a glass of sherry. The bartender pushes it across the bar and it slides to a stop in front of her. Yosannah makes her way to the bar and hops onto a still.
Merlin appears in a silvery shimmer.
Yosannah glances at Merlin and smiles, "You're late, I've been here for 20 minutes already.."
Merlin says "You have? But I just saw you sit down."
Yosannah laughs, "Damnit... foiled again."
Merlin shakes his head and walks over to the bar. Merlin nods to Sithriel, absently. "Feeling okay today, Yo?"
Yosannah stretches and yawns, "It's late you know... for a Monday night.... other then that, I feel okay."
Merlin says "Late? It's still early."
Yosannah says "In Merlin world maybe. Whattah ya have'n."
Merlin says "Beer."
Yo considers for a moment, "Ah. not me."
She waves to the bartender who pads over to her, "Yeah?"
"Get him whatever and I'll have some tea...no. Wait. You got hot chocolate?" The bartender nods and goes to get a mug.
Merlin says "So, how about the bad dreams and nausea? Has the amulet gone cool yet?"
Damen appears suddenly, he brushes off his suit and glances around the room.
Yosannah bites her lip. "Ah. I don't know..." She mumbles "...oh boy.."
Merlin blinks at Yosannah. "What?"
Damen mutely takes note of Yosannah and Merlin at the bar. His facial expressions betray no hint of surprise, before he turns, looking for a table. Yosannah shakes her head at something said at the bar, but otherwise does not seem to have noticed Damen's arrival. Damen sits down at the table under the balcony.
Yo says "Nothing... I ah. Merle, it's gone."
Merlin says "Gone? Yo! How could you?"
Merlin takes no obvious notice of Damen, seeming a little bit excited about something. Dara appears suddenly from shadow and considers the room before her as she arrives.
Yo flinches, "I don't know... I mean I had it when we were at that place.. that little diner... Merlin. I'm sorry."
Azuree nods to Yosannah, evidently recovering from trump contact. Sithriel glances at Merlin and Yosannah with the curious expression of one who comprehends nothing. Yosannah motions dramatically while trying to explain. Robert sips his tea and looks over at Merlin and Yosannah with slight interest. At least, he is trying to make it look slight.
Merlin says "You weren't supposed to take that off!"
Dara's eyes fall upon the bar and settle there. She does not stir from the spot where she arrived. Damen lifts a hand to signal to a passing server. Damen nods a polite greeting to Dara, before making his order. The server nods and moves away.
Yosannah raises her hand to her forehead and sighs, "I don't know..."
Dara nods fractionally to Damen in return and makes her way toward the bar, he smirks faintly. Merlin looks at Dara, then looks away without comment. The server soon returns to Damen's table carrying a cup of coffee. Dara nods again and then assumes a seat, some distance from Merlin.Merlin frowns.
"You...don't know. What, do you sleep walk?"
Yosannah exhales and rests both hand flatly on the bar. Dara shares a hushed conversation with the bar.
Yosannah says "What do you want me to say?? I feel rotten enough as it is!" She tilts her head closer to Melrin, "I'll find it... "
Merlin rubs his temples. "I'm starting to wonder if you're a werewolf or something."
Dara takes up her glass, glancing down the length of the bar once.
Yosannah whaps Merlin in the arm abruptly, "Merle! I'll find it." She tries to recall, "That places where we had breakfast... I know I had it there."
Dara arches a brow, "Merlin..."
"Hello, mother."
Damen sips from his coffee briefly before setting it down upon the table. He stares at a card in his hand and moves forward and vanishes, leaving behind a rapidly fading afterimage.
Yosannah casually observes the exchanges between Merlin and Dara before continuing her conversationwith Merlin, "As O was sauomg... You remember me wearing it when we had breakfast, right?"
Merlin nods in affirmation and asks Yosannah "Right. And after that?"
Dara considers Yosannah once more. "You would begrudge a mother a moments converse with her son?"
Merlin sighs. "I'm busy, mother."
Yosannah seems about to say something to Merlin but pauses.
Dara says "And your - friend is out of line."
Merlin says "You've no right. You're the one out of line."
Dara says "I merely made a comment."
Yosannah drums her fingers on the bartop.
Dara says "It was yours to respond."
Merlin says "Fine. Your comment is made, the conversation is done. Leave us in peace."
Dara says "I had." She watches Yosannah a moment, "And should she not learn manners the matter will not be over."
Merlin says "Let's go somewhere else and finish this, Yo."
Dara's eyes grow cold, but she nods, looking back towards her drink.
Yosannah clenches her fist, "...manners...? Yeah, maybe we should..."
Robert looks between Merlin and Dara again. He seems slightly uncomfortable.
Yosannah snatches her jacket from the bartop and climbs off her stool.
Merlin gets off his stool and wraps an arm around Yosannah's waist.
Dara does not turn, her attention full focused before her.
Webber's Wayside Inn -- Banished Sun...
Merlin's hand comes away from her shoulder. He walks behind the bar, pulls down a bottle of whiskey and a shot glass.
She raises an eyebrow, "Who the hell was that bitch. Was that really your mom?"
He nods. "Oh yes, it was. Last I'd heard she'd disappeared, too. Guess she's back." He pours a drink, tosses it back. "And she's getting close to my son, too. I think he's got a mind of his own, though."
She tosses her jacket onto a nearby chair and mumbles again, "... manners..."
Merlin tosses back two more shots in a row. Considers the bottle, then does one more. He re-caps the bottle and puts it away. "Now then, back to the missing amulet. Did you have it when you came back here?"
She shakes her head and forces her attention back to the room, "Huh? Oh. Ah I think so. I mean I came right here after we went for that walk... I spent most of the day here and went to bed later that night... Damnit."
Merlin says "I'm going to cast a spell and find it."
"A spell," She seems doubtful, "Okay."
Merlin waves his right hand. A magical window appears in front of him. The picture in it seems to be moving like a VCR in super rewind.
Yosannah plops down in a chair, "Is this going to be painful?" Her voice fades as she stares into the fireplace. The scene in the window narrows in on when Yosannah arrived at the Inn.
The image of Yosannah sits quietly in front of the fireplace as the images unfold... first greeting a few of the residents and then going about her daily routine.
Merlin moves to sit besideYosannah. The images move in fast forward until something relevant shows up.
Yosannah mumbles as if a dreamlike state, "...It's too late.... I have her now.."
The scene slows at a point later in the evening as she prepares for bed. Yosannah falters while in her room and is forced to sit at the end of her bed. Her eyes glass over and darken as she rips the necklace from her neck.
Merlin blinks. He looks over at Yosannah. "Maybe I wasn't too far off."
Yosannah's eyes begin to storm - like a cumulanimbas they darken until Yosannah's psyche is replaced by that of Pestilence.
Pestilence tilts her head slightly in Merlin's direction and a smirk excapes the corner of her mouth - but otherwise does not move.
Merlin looks at her, "Talk to me. What am I seeing?"
Pestilence turns away from him and watches as the image unfolds.
In the image, Yosannah, or perhaps Pestilence, vanishes from the Inn and reappears amidst a vast plain where the sky burns red.
Merlin says "Nice trick."
The scene continues. She appears suddenly in a dark room where the amulet is deposited.
Pestilence's lips move, "She and I are joined now. Without me she can no longer survive."
Merlin says "Without you? Let's go back a bit."
"I don't owe you explanations Amberite."
Merlin says "Tough shit, you're going to give me one."
"You fancy her, don't you?"
Merlin says "Either you tell me who the hell you are, or I'll throw the most powerful exorcism spell I know at you and see what happens, okay?"
"And kill her in the process? Even if your ritual did work, is that what you want for her?"
Merlin says "I have no reason to believe you." He holds his right hand up. Little jets of light start to lance out from the ring around his finger.
Pestilence says "I am the First of The Four. I have always been. She lives only because I will it so."
Merlin says "And what gives you the right to will such a thing, hmm?"
"It has always been this way; however, in this time - it is the will of your own flesh and blood; Baron Dalt, Merlin. He has brought us Four together. I am known as Pestilence to the people of Earth. You should be familiar with the story of the Horsemen, Merlin."
Merlin says "What the hell are you doing in Yo? Don't you have a body of your own? No, instead you have to go and borrow the body of some innocent, and completely fuck her up. Yea, that works. Get out, or I'll get you out."
She smirks, "We grow stronger together, it won't always be this way. In time she will be thankful for the power I have given her."
Merlin says "I really doubt that. Truly."
"You find me a repulsive being Merlin. This isn't true."
Merlin says "Uh huh. Horsemen? Apocalypse? End of the world type shit? Yea, that's sweetness and light, babe, you got me."
Pestilence smiles, "You lack a certain understanding. It is of no coincidence that I chose her - she has great inner strenght."
\Merlin says "You're starting to really try my patience."
She nods, "The choice is not yours to make." Her eyes lighten as the darkness seems to drain from them.
Merlin shakes his head. "The choice isn't yours to make either, bitch."
Yosannah falls to her knees. She reaches out a hand and grabs ahold of an adjacent chair.
Merlin says "That's one hell of a guest you've got, Yo."
Yosannah 's head hangs down so that her hair falls about her face, blood trickles from under her hair to the floor. She raises her hand to her face and looks up- tears fill her eyes, "...my god.." She tries to stand, "I need a tissue.."
Merlin walks over toward her, putting an arm about her shoulder.He provides a small wad of tissues, while checking out the source of the blood. She takes the tissues, "It's just my nose...please." She pushes your arm away and dabs at her nose.
He takes a deep breath and walks over to the bar.
She wanders across the room and climbs onto the stage. She lays down on her back and closes her eyes, "...I didn't know..." Silent tears stream down the side of her face and into her hair, "All those dreams... just the horrible things that it's done. That I have done."
Merlin pulls the bottle down again, deciding he needs more of the stuff. "Well, Yo, what's going on, here? It says it'll kill you if I displace it. I can't be sure if it's lying or not, just now."
She shakes her head, "I don't know what it means." She hugs herself.