Hotel Hell?

Air Date: 13/11/2001

8 Sep 2000, Friday 4:51pm, Hotel

Casey and Faith catch a limo to the hotel, book into the penthouse suite and settle in. They order champane and caviar and burgers from room service and pig out in the spa.

At around 10pm, Casey's worn out in bed and Faith gets up to go out patroling with Jayde. Casey sleeps till about 4am when Faith's return wakes him up.

"murphmmmlabm."

Muffled converation "Hey, thats Casey. He's with me, ok?" Silence. "Through there to the living room and Ill be in in a bit." The bedroom door opens and Faith comes in and grabs the 1/2 empty bottle of warm bubbly. "Mornin' Case. Ill be in in a bit, 'K? Just got some business to work out."

Case sort of half wakes up, does the preflight check (legs, arms, head, done) and stretches. Listening to the murmuring vaguely from the other room, he gives some thought to interrupting, but decides that its probably better to give it a miss. t In that case, to the shower!

Casey steps out of the shower just and Fatih comes into the shower. She's shaking off dirt out of her clothes. "Vamp dust... man I hate it!" "We scored good again tongiht, another hunting party. Its pretty cool. Jayde's getting into it. I think we've just about cleaned the streets except for Orme's gang."

Casey waves dust out of his face. "Ah, just what I needed, vampire cologne." He coughs. "Is it hard for them to grab people and make them into vampires? Or is there more to it than bites-suck-shove?"

"Easy. Just drain em' 'n dump 'em. I think they have to drain ya right down for you fang out and they dont always do that so most of the guys they suck on just end up stiffs, but some of them they suck dry and them we dust in the graveyard the next night. They breed like flys, so really there aint much point to patrolin' other than saving the odd life and getting some pummeling in. I mean its not like we're gunna ever wipe 'em out. I guess they sort of contain themselves otherwise we'd all be vamps, right?"

"I wonder if we could vaccinate people or something - something in the blood that makes vamps drop dead... er. Its no help to the poor sap who has been bit, but it might wipe them out." Casey has that far look...

"Yeah, I guess. Wont help with the other demons though, will it." Faith shrugs. "Anyway, I sorta like vamps. They're mostly dumb, and fun to wack. Demons suck 'cause you need to know about 'em before you get started otherwise you find that they cant be hurt with knifes and you need cold iron or some such crap and then you're screwed. Vamps are easy."

"Somethin' to think about I guess." Casey's in no rush to leave if Faith is jumping in the shower :). "So, who was your friend?"

"Yeah, sure. Knock yourself out, C." She starts lathering :). "Oh, her? You want the Disney version or Hardcore?"

Casey raises an eyebrow. "ooo, hot bi babes. Um, the short answer is fine. You said business?"

"Business. She, errr, worked for a friend of the Mayor." She gives a small laugh. "Hey, Im game. If you wanna pull a 3some with a demon chick thats fine with me. Maybe she's got a tail or somethin'."

Casey shudders. "I'll stick to my species I think." (mentally: assuming Faith still /is/ human). "This about the body swap thing?"

"Your loss. Vamps can be pretty hot. Maybe its the undead stamina or somethin'." She looks a little thoughtful, "What? Oh yeah, she just delivered it. Ready to go, C, anytime."

"I'm going to choose to not understand that comment." Casey hmms. "I was thinking maybe around sunset tomorrow? I'm curious to see what a pretty sunset looks like out your pretty eyes" He grins.

Faith blinks a few times and then sort of snaps back into the real world. "Huh? Sunset? What'd ya mean?"

"You know. Sunset. Sun goes off the edge of the world, pink and orange and colours, then it goes dark?" Casey looks a bit puzzled. "I just thought it would be a good time to try the switcheroo. Maybe we can get up on top of this place... if you're a bit worried about the powers thing, we can probably do it in here..."

"Oh, that. Yeah, its pretty I guess." She laughs again. "You're so much like the Mayor, C. I remember this one time, just after I started workin' for him. We'd just dropped in to a local vamp nest to put the fear of the Mayor into them and get the Boss some dumb muscle. Tame slayer really gets to undead cred, by the way. Anyway, the Boss takes me up to this hill over SunnyHell and sets up this blanket and digs out some cake and soda and he just makes me watch the sunset and the lights of the city come on. I didnt really get what he wanted, but I was goin' on like you about the colors and stuff. Like I told him, Im not really into that stuff. Sunset's natures way of flaggin' that monsters are comin' and its play time. There's this hill out east that looks over Berkeley the same way. We could go up there. Its quiet an' all." She pauses for a bit and then shrugs. "If that sort of thing floats your boat."

Casey looks a bit bemused again by the Major story. "It might be cool another night... I know you're a bit worried that the swap thing could go wrong, so lets play it cool this time, eh?" He nods. "A picnic away from here might be nice on Sunday, though... have to see what the weather is lookin' like"

"Faith shrugs. Dont make much difference where we do it, Case. Are we better out in the Big Room where we can see people comeing or are we better locked away here where Watcher wetworks teams can burst in the door anytime? Hmmm. No you're probably right. Here is probably better incase somethin' weird happens. Ignoreing watchers, I guess atleast we can stay locked away here and live off room service. Hey, look, im just a little edgeie."

Casey cocks his head to one side. "We don't have to do it, y'know, if you're worried about the powers thing. Or we can test it another way. I mean, think of the fun with switching Gemma and Jayde around while they sleep."

"I.... No. Im up for it. I gotta know what my options are." Hmmmmm. Weird change of emotion there.

Casey leans forward and pokes her in the arm. "What's up"

"Nothin'. Im 5 by 5. I.. Im just having a 'moment of weakness' as Angel 'd call it." She takes a big breath "Thinkin' about swappin' with Jayde and then skippin' out of town. Watcher wet works teams dont seem to care who's inside. Was thinkin' that they'd ice Jayde in my body and I'd be free. Yeah, yeah, I know. Bad bad me. I wasnt really thinkin' about it. I mean it wouldn't work. I couldnt be Jayde, so it wouldnt work. There. I told you. So I cant do it now. Can I?"

Casey rocks his head side to side. "I can see where the urge would come from... lets see if your Super Powers(tm) are tacked onto the soul first, or whether its a body thing, then worry about the Watcher crew". He stretches. "But in the meantime, as its 4.30am, its breakfast time - whatcha want?"

"Aint ya scared Case? I mean what if they do? Arent you afraid that Ill just take off and leave you to deal with the Watchers and all that?"

Casey smiles. "You were in here 15 mins ago with a demon, you could snap my neck like a twig and I think even if I got a shot off with the gun " he waves somewhere near the bed " you'd probably heal up. Ok, you don't have a motive to do all that, and ditching me with the Watchers would help you, but still... I dunno, I just trust you, ok?"

"Yeah, I guess." Her confused look goes away and is replaced by a sneaky look. "Sucker." She smiles and laughs. "You're a better man than I, Case. But I guess I must trust you too, 'cause maybe you'll get my little bod and super powers, but I dont think you'll split if you do. Lets change the subject. Breakfast. Yeah, thats good. Toast and everything."

Casey laughs. "Maybe I'll just spend the time rubbing your nipples. mmmm. Woops, thinking out loud again. Toast, you say..."

"Why wait 'till then?"

Casey's main aim is to distract Faith and give her a holiday... Somehow I get the feeling that breakfast will have to wait. :)

Around 5pm on the Saturday, Faith's phone rings and she talks about patroling, so its probably Jayde.

"Hey Case, Jayde's coming over and we're gunna party. Im gunna grab a shower, then Jayde and me 'ill probably go out and do some Slayer stuff on the town. Ill see ya in the mornin', yeah?"

Casey does his best Keanu impression. "Huh? Change of plan?"

"Huh? Yeah, sorry. It'll wait, right? You're cool with that? Jayde's more into the slayin' recently and thats cool. We dont trust each other, but its cool poundin' on vamps and stuff. I told her I was party girl and she said she was in, so we're gunna go paint the town red."

"Er, yeah, ok - its your holiday. " Casey shakes his head. "Just changing gears. Hmmmm. I might amuse myself for a couple of hours, wander about town then. Catchya back here later?"

"Thanks Case. Yeah, Ill give you a call when Im done, right? I'll give you a call if we find a good club or somethin', OK?"

"No probs. Just gimme a yell"

Faith goes and hits the shower. The room really is a mess with chothes and stuff spread everywhere. "Showers free." She comes out and starts to search for her patrol gear amongst the mess. She finds her leather pants easily, but ends up pulling on one of Casey's manga teeshirts. "Ill give you a call if we skip the slayer stuff and go and hit the town, 'K?"

Casey laughs. "Remind me to mark it to be left alone for the staff - can you imagine what they'd think if they saw some of your slayer stuff"

"Probably think that you're a weirdo, Case. Im too sweet to be into that sort of thing. Probably best they dont find the weapons though. Might worry that we'd get blood on the carpet."

"Sure - I'll go and catch a film or something I think, so leave me a message."

"Sure. Take care."

(Im assuming casey takes a shower. When he gets out, Faith and Jayde are chatting in the front room. Jayde is asking some questions about Faith's choice of tshirt. Faith seems to change it and then they talk about taking the limo out to hit some clubs and stuff.)

(seems fair. I think he's a bit hurt that she's changed plans and gone back to 'work', but it would ruin the mood to make an issue of it. Its been ages since he's had some time to himself, so I think a bit of doing-casey-stuff is in order)

On the way out to have some quiet casey time, as Casey walks down the hall, the door to the suite across from yours opens and a lady stands in the door way and just watches you with a weirdly intense stare.

Casey's probably a bit touchy, and tired of having to chase information from people, so... "What?"

She isnt blinking, thats whats feaking you out. She doesnt say anything.

Casey sighs, sticks his tongue out at the woman and waggles his fingers in his ears, then heads for the lift.

The woman looks confused and puts her finger in her ear and then pulls it out and looks at it oddly.

Freaky. I wonder if its a 'friend' of Faiths. Nonetheless, I'm making myself scarce...

Dunno what the sat night situation is like in SF, but figuring that Casey can find somethign to amuse himself... he was sort of enjoying the break from the others though, so he won't search out Mary, et al

Casey's story continues

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