Bacon, Ibuprofen, and Coffee [Luke]

[Lucas Blacke]

''That I wanna stay here a bit longer.'' He sarcastically replied, or tried to as this side effect business together with the gnarly taste of the tablets and the inability to drink was quickly turning into something he found irritating to no end. And now Live was looking at him like he was some sort of retard? He obviously was one, but not that bad.

''It means that me power is feelin' like a dick an' usin' one of its side effects on me.'' He finally answered truthfully as he looked at the glass of water with a sigh before glancing back at Live. ''Any fuckin' idea 'ow thirsty I am?'' He asked. Luckily he never forgot how to breathe, that would be harsh. No, instead he would forget how to walk, talk, drink and eat at times. Most of the times he would just forget one at a time, but there were rare moments that he forgot multiple things at once.

That was another effect of alcohol on him, he supposed. It used a bit too much of his ability which would quickly get him to forget one of the skills he had learned himself instead of through his ability. ''Listen, I don't like this any more than ye do, but it is what it is.'' Truth be told, he probably even liked it less than her, seeing as she could still drink and he was stuck there with an awfully dry throat and no way to drink. Sure he knew of ways to still ingest water, but he didn't know if Live would find those ways acceptable..

His eyes darted over to her new stance and he felt that he was angering her slightly, but she had to know by now this wasn't his fault, right? Surely she had side effects from her power too. It would suck if she blamed this all on him, because he didn't choose for those side effects.

[Lilly Love]

As soon as he said that it was a side effect of his powers she started dying laughing. She wasn't exactly sure why for a moment but it was just so funny! I mean, his power made him forget how to drink. Now that really sucked.

"Oh that's a good one!" She said getting her laughter under control as the pain of the hangover overpowered the humor. "I forgot how funny some people's powers could be." She use to get a kick out of power training courses at school. Some of those kids really got the shit end of the stick.

She turned back to the stove, shaking off the last of the laughter as she put the bacon on. The sizzle and smell immediately made her feel better. And starving! She hadn't realized how hungry she was until just now. It had probably been a solid 12 plus hours since she had last had something to eat. And Live loved food. She was actually a very good cook. A survival skill really.

Thankfully the coffee was done. She grabbed herself a mug and then turned to Luke. "So... No coffee then?" A bit of teasing and lightheartedness slipping into her voice.

[Lucas Blacke]

He really shouldn't have laughed at his own misfortune, he was really thirsty right now and ticked off about not being able to drink. But for some reason Live laughing made him forget his worries for a moment and laugh with her despite not wanting to. Hardest part of keeping a straight face was when people started laughing. Only Lucas didn't know if it was with him or at him, but he supposed that whichever one it was it was just good to get her laughing. Though he wondered if it really was such a good thing to have her know the side effect to his power. That and she didn't even help him in whichever way, not that there would be an acceptable way for strangers to help in this situation, but still some help would be appreciated. Even if just an attempt.

''Oh, Live..'' He finally said as his power overtook his laughter, his headache returning as he crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Live. ''Ya really,'' He stepped a bit closer and leaned forward. ''Really know how ta make a guy feel good.'' He joked as he added a soft little moan in a joking manner.

''But seriously, not funny. I'm thirsty.'' He added with a stern look as he shuffled back a bit, his gaze falling on the bacon as the smell hit his nose. If only he remembered how to eat. If he didn't though he would at least be able to make the girl laugh twice, and he figured that counted for something. Still the bacon did not make him lose the thought of how thirsty he was, the glass of water still taunting him from the corner of his eye.

And now the coffee was ready, luckily for him though Live had not yet poured him a mug and seemed to assume he wouldn't drink coffee. Well, no he wouldn't, but when someone just assumed he wasn't taking something they were mistaken. ''Screw that shit.'' He answered as he almost took a bit of a competitive stance. ''Ya made it fer me so I'm damn well gonna drink it even if it kills me.''

Now the coffee wouldn't kill him, assuming he could remember how to drink in time. But Live would likely kill him once he had some in his system.

[Lilly Love]

Oh Live loved to laugh at other peoples misfortune! It was really one of her favorite things to do. Not because she was sadistic (okay, maybe a little bit) but more because it made her feel a bit better about all of her own tragedies. She didn't consciously think that but that was really the reason. On the surface she would just say that watching other people struggle was funny. She use to think even more so back in high school. She really use to enjoy to ease drop and stick her nose into other people's business and just laugh or make fun of them. It had gotten her into a lot of fights. Most of which she won. Live hadn't exactly been the nicest person.

When Luke moved closer and then moaned a bit, Live at first felt angry but then something else weird happened. She felt the pit of her stomach drop a bit. She hadn't had this feeling...well she didn't want to think about the last time that it had happen. She found her words got caught in her throat. Damn, why was he so attractive?

She was glad when he moved back a bit, it gave her a chance to get her mind back together. "Well..." She said moving away to the coffee. She was about to say it was his problem to figure out his drinking issues when he was exclaimed that he was just gonna screw it.

"Oh.. Uh okay?" She wasn't really sure how he expected to drink if his power made him forget how to drink. "How would coffee kill you?" She said as she grabbed another mug and then began to fill them, first her's and then Luke's.

[Lucas Blacke]

As she filled up two cups of coffee he knew he was supposed to at least tell her how his body would respond to caffeine on the off chance he did drink it. Still, with Live being the girl she was he was still deeming her the most dangerous thing in the room. Not that Luke wouldn't be able to you know, beat her to a pulp or something. Not that he would need to, and not that his body would even think of that. His body on caffeine responded the way his mind worked on a deeper level, so his body would act out what was on his mind and perhaps repressed. He knew that what would happen if he ingested the stuff was him trying to kiss Live, or worse.

So he had to tell her about what caffeine did to him and would undoubtedly do to her. His memory on drinking started to return with hard thought, though tiny slivers at first but it did seem that the side effect could be shortened quite a bit if he wanted it bad enough. Or maybe this was one of those times where it only lasted for about five minutes.

Now that he thought about it, he only had it last for about twelve hours max, which had been drastically cut over the years, he assumed.

''Coffee won't kill m-'' He started but then sighed as he stopped talking and shook his head. ''I'm not bein' serious 'ere. Coffee won't kill me.'' Lucas then took the cup and brought it to his lips, blowing it down a bit and looking at Live with a furrowed brow as his mouth was blocked from her view by the mug.

''Yer gonna though..'' He offered suddenly as he took a sip of the stuff, feeling some liquid finally going down his throat. The Texan realized he had some time before it would take hold and in his last moments of being able to speak he told her, ''Caffeine makes me do odd stuff, if I come ta close feel free ta knock me out, 'kay?''

And just like that his sense of free will faded as his body put the cup of coffee down and he moved closer to Live. He tried to keep himself back a bit but he would eventually place his hands on her shoulders and slowly lean in with his eyes closed and his lips ready to kiss..

[Lilly Love]

Live was a bit surprised when Luke just took the coffee and started drinking, stammering about something. She still wanted to put some milk into her coffee before she drank it. She was kind of surprised that he didn't want any sugar. However, that would turn out to be the least of the surprises.

"Do stuff? What the hell--" Live wasn't facing Luke as she said this. She was moving the bacon about in the pan when she felt Luke grab her shoulders. She turned around just in time for him to lean down towards her, and she moved right into his lips.

She didn't mean to. Honestly. If she had known that was about to happen she would have turned around swinging. But now she found herself kissing Luke, his hands holding her shoulders. It made Live feel small. Almost kind of powerless for a moment as her stomach did a flip. At first she felt so shocked she didn't do anything. Then, for only a second, her hormones took over and she actually kissed the boy back. She couldn't remember the last time someone had kissed her like this.

But, that moment didn't last long. Suddenly the realization that Luke had just grabbed her and kissed her right after telling her that coffee makes him "do odd stuff" and that she should knock him out if needed. With that thought, Live's fiery side kicked in. She brought up her hands and shoved the boy off as she moved back. She wasn't too particularly strong but she was able to move herself away from him. Unfortunately, she was kind of corned in the kitchen between the counter, table, wall, and then Luke blocking the way out. It made Live's survival instincts kick in and her eyes narrowed the anger in her rising.

"So coffee 'makes' you just randomly fucking kiss people!?" She was pissed. If he knew that was a thing why did he drink the coffee? Was he just looking for some excuse? Really, Live shouldn't have been that angry. After all, she had kissed him last night (though at the moment she didn't particularly remember that) and he had slept in her room. But they hadn't done anything. He shouldn't just get to randomly kiss her. Especially if it was brought on by some magic 'coffee' problem. Probably another 'power side effect'. And couldn't he, not drink just a couple minutes ago? What the hell?!

[Lucas Blacke]

Eeeeh he wasn't all too happy with what he did, he did just spend the night there with nothing happening between them, and now he had taken a sip of coffee just because. And because what? Because Live gave him the feeling that he was inadequate and his boyish pride urged him to do something to rectify it, and his manly pride urged him not to strike a stupid image in front of a woman, and certainly not one as hot as Live.

So when he did kiss her he didn't feel all too bad at first when she kissed back, until he remembered he didn't want to. Maybe with some luck the caffeine would quickly die down and he would be able to stop himself from doing whatever it was he did, like that one time back at Hammel where he ended up kissing a guy because of caffeine. Silly times. The girl back then slapped him, so that was a thing. Oh, also, he kissed someone who could shift between genders.

So, this was about the time where he fucked up every little bit of credibility he had in her eyes, right?

She shoved him off and his body, reluctant to move, only moved a few feet away from her and just stood there for a moment as her lips moved in anger right then. Something about kissing people. Luckily Lucas could still read lips as his hearing was pretty much shot at the moment, and he then realized he really should have told her he wasn't able to talk while caffeine was coursing through his body.

..and maybe he should have mentioned the effects of pepper on his body too, but sadly it was too late for that now.

His body moved in again, Luke trying his hardest to stop his legs but he quickly found himself in front of Live again with a hand closing in on her chest.

[Lilly Love]

Live stood waiting for Luke to respond but none came. She knew he was kind of a horn dog but she didn't expect him to do that. She thought he would have tried to pull some moves before just kissing her. But apparently this coffee thing was a factor too.

"Well?!" She demanded as he didn't say a thing. He began to move forward again and Live's eyes narrowed. She took a step back and her her back hit the wall. This immediately made her body tense and her hairs stood on end. She was always pretty good at telling when a situation was about to get much worse. Unfortunately for Luke, it was about to start getting worse for him as well.

As his hand came up to her chest, Live lost it. It was one thing to try to kiss someone. That could be seen as romantic or some shit. But trying to grope her boobs, now that was not so romantic. That was just plain harassment in Live's book.

In a flash, Live's eyes turned black and her form shifted. Not completely to shadows but to something in-between, like it had the night before. Blackness spilled around her and the whole room got darker as the shadows throughout the room responded to Live's stress and anger. With force to take down a quarterback, Live's form thrusted forward and into Luke. Live drew power from the darkness, adding to her strength and using the strength of the shadows to knock Luke to the floor. She stood above him, her legs straddling his, glaring down at him. She hoped that would be enough to put a stop to whatever the hell had gotten into him.

"What the fuck is wrong with you!" Her voice almost sounded different too as her voice box had almost changed to slightly more shadows making her voice sound cracked and echoed, like some demon.

[Lucas Blacke]

Oh damn, this wasn't going according to plan. This wasn't going according to anything! This was Hammel all over again.. the kiss being returned at first but then being slapped and shoved out of the way. It was harrowing to experience both that and being caged inside his own body once more. Let alone see his own outstretched hand reach out for her chest, that would surely make her hate him.

He realized that that was what he was doing though, or rather what his body was doing. Lucas would never deny he felt nothing for Live but to act upon those thoughts.. perhaps his body somehow applied the logic that he slept at her place and nothing happened, so she kind of owed him, right?

Well, nothing would be more wrong, or right in the sense that whatever she owed him she was handing out in the form of helping him cope with a hangover, which was now very easy as he was no longer in control of what he did. Finding the positive amongst the negative. But sadly this also meant his body could be harmed in some way and he wouldn't even know until he saw it for himself, like that shove from before. He was sure he would feel that one later on..

Then she shifted forms, and Luke had to admit it looked pretty cool. But what she did next was totally not cool, even though he had asked she do something like it himself, and in a way he was grateful she tackled him, because while it would hurt when he regained control it seemed to be enough to stop his body from advancing as he dropped to the floor with a loud thud as he hit his head on the ground hard.

That jolt was enough to snap him back in control of his own movements and gave him the power of speech back, along with the indent of a girl in his chest and a sharp pain in the back of his head. He groaned as one of his hands shot up to his head.

''Nothin' anymore..'' He uttered as he remained on the floor as he looked up at Live. ''Thanks, by th' way. An' sorry.''

[Lilly Love]

And sorry? And sorry?! For some reason those words threw Live's anger up another four notches. She clenched her fists as the darkness around her increased. Live wasn't just defensive and upset anymore, she was pissed off beyond belief.

She reached down and grabbed Luke the collar of his shirt. Now normal Live would not have been able to pick the boy up. However, fueled by the darkness and her emotions, there was more than enough strength in her right arm to hoist the boy to a seat position and then shove him back against a counter (given he didn't try to fight back much). She squared down so was eye level to him, something a bit terrifying given the entirety of Live's eyes was black.

"Sorry what?! Sorry coffee makes you harass women! That's not something you apologize for, ESPECIALLY if you know that is what coffee does to you and you FUCKING DRINK IT ANYWAYS!" Live was literally seething at this point, the darkness now creeping over Luke's body too.

[Lucas Blacke]

Lucas couldn't do much more but smile, he was the king of those anyways as due to his ability no one would ever see the difference between a real one and a fake one. Which he realized a bit later could possibly upset her more seeing as a smile during such a situation could give the impression he liked it. But he didn't. Inside his mind it was nothing but him blaming himself and yelling at himself for letting it happen again. Maybe he should surgically sew his mouth shut or something, it only seemed to hurt the people around him anyway.

But Live looked cool, so that was a thing. All black and cool-like, black and stuff. She could be anti-racist, being both in one go, upset a whole new slew of people, assuming that was what she liked.

When she grabbed his collar (effectively ruining the sweater she had given him) he felt himself slide backwards and against the counter. He bobbed forward a bit and then found his face closer to that of Live, realizing that there may have been something a bit spooky about her right now. She'd be awesome at the whole Halloween thing.

His smile faltered a bit though when she began yelling at him again, asking him why he did what he did, why he drank coffee if he knew what it made him do. That was a bit odd to him though, now he didn't tell her exactly what would happen, but telling her his body did what his mind was thinking would tell her he liked her and he wasn't about to drop that bomb yet.

''So what ya gonna do now?'' He asked calmly as he tried looking into her eyes, the shadows around her growing and slowly enveloping Luke. ''Beat me up an' throw me out?'' He wouldn't blame her if she did, he had been a dick, plain and simple. Or maybe he didn't want to hurt her by staying in her life and having it all blow up later.

''I just- ya made coffee an' it felt rude not ta drink it.'' That was really all he could say in his defense, ''Sorry.'' and while he knew it wasn't enough and would gladly take a beating for it instead, he still offered it.

[Lilly Love]

Live stayed like that for a moment after Luke finished talking, her body warping between human and shadow. She noticed the shadows starting to creep over Luke though and knew she had to calm herself down. Much more anger and she might seriously hurt the boy.

She gave one last shove of anger and shadows into her right arm, that still held his collar, and pushed herself back against the wall opposite of him. Even though there was a lot of force moving her back, she didn't make a sound. Her body was still mostly shadows so the landing was easy. She closed her eyes and focused on her breathing. In and out. Counting down from ten. It was a trick she had learned at Hammel. It hadn't worked at first but in recent years this little breathe and count method had saved her from a few shadow demon moments.

As she breathed, the shadows in the room started to die back down to their normal level. Live's form began to return to fully human and the shadows that swirled around her began to dissipate. When she opened her eyes again, they were still all black but that would take a couple minutes to fade down. Even though the breathing helped her calm down, her body was still rushing with adrenaline and whatever the hell else made her power go bonkers so it would take a bit until she was all the way back to normal.

She looked at Luke. "How old are you?" She knew he was younger than her, she could tell but how much she wasn't quite sure. The anger was still in her voice but it sounded normal now and more monotone like before. More controlled.

[Lucas Blacke]

''Any closer an'.. does this shadow stuff actually hurt people? Don't think it does. There is that Tousen guy from Bleach who uses darkness ta seal off th' senses, maybe Live does th' same or somethin'?'' He would watch as he was slowly but surely overtaken by the shadows emanating from the girl, it both looked cool and creepy, so this definitely would get her a higher position in his eyes. And if he was to be correct and it did deprive him of his senses he wouldn't mind all that much, just meant that no matter what she did he wouldn't feel it anyway. And right now, with how angry she seemed to be he wasn't so sure she'd give him a kiss anyway, it was likely she'd wail on him with that whole shadow thing going on.

The look in his eyes as he followed the movements of Live, staring in her dead, black eyes while sitting still against the wall meant he couldn't really be scared of anything, something he wouldn't show if he was anyway, but this whole ordeal was a bit too cool to miss because of being scared. Not that he deliberately did any of the things he had done to get this kind of reaction, but what happened happened, and boy was it cool.

Seeing a power like hers made him feel bad about his own, all it did was regulate movement and it didn't even change how he looked. Being able to look like darkness incarnate like Live, now that would be a worthy power.

But it didn't only make her look different, she also sounded different and, on top of that she seemed to have more strength because of it. That last part was a bold assumption though, as he had met no girl ever who was able to do that to him. Well, maybe one but she had super strength, so that didn't count.

''Me age..?'' He wondered out loud as she asked for it, his left arm caressing his right shoulder as it had been pushed against the counter quite hard as the shadow girl moved herself away from him. ''Eighteen, why?''

[Lilly Love]

Oh Live's shadows could definitely hurt people. It had happened before. Even Live still didn't know the full potential of her ability. Her main ability had always been her shadow form but as time had progress, her power had come into more a maturity; realizing its true connection with the darkness. Even existing shadows seemed to fall under Live's control now. Well, most of the time. There was still a point where Live lost control and where she didn't venture past. That was what had just happened. Live had seen herself reaching the edge of what she knew she would be able to control. Because after a point the shadows started taking on a mind of their own and that was not something Live wanted to deal with. Not at all.

She sat there, her eyes still all black, staring at Luke while he spoke. She let out a sigh and chuckled a bit, pulling her legs into a cross-legged position. She leaned her head back against the wall.

"Well good to know your at least a legal adult." It just now hitting her that if he had been 16 or something and she had slept with him last night it would have been statuary rape. Although, she doubted that would have been a course of action the boy would have pursued.

She let out a heavy sigh, "An adult, especially a meta, can't be that ridiculously irresponsible." Her face got extremely serious and her black eyes locked onto his. "Do you realize what could have happened? Let's say my power was a I talk to dogs. Or even better, I'm not even a meta. I'm just a human. What would have happened? Huh? I don't know exactly how this whole coffee-turns-me-into-a-molestor-thing works but you fucking should! It's your goddamn ability! You're lucking I'm a tough girl who can defend herself and who isn't gonna be traumatized by some asshole trying to touch my tits." At this point Live was almost yelling.

Suddenly she noticed the bacon was starting to burn. "God fucking dammit. And on top of all this, you fucking made me ruin my breakfast." She groaned as she jumped to her feet to see what the damage was. It wasn't really that bad, she was just in a pissy mood and was going to complain about everything now.

[Lucas Blacke]

He raised his hand slowly, doing his best to make the whole situation easier for himself to handle despite the words Live spoke packing quite a punch, and in a way was what he was actually attempting to get done with the party from last night being a bit of a last goodbye. Some goodbye it turned out to be when it had greeted Lucas once more in a stupid fit of 'hey let me drink that obviously bad shit I know about.'

She was right though, he was an adult now, going to college soon and he still had no way of taking care of himself.. he hadn't even signed up for a room on the campus of his next school yet! There was no way he could get his shit together before attending college, not unless miracles did exist and happened at that point.

''Hi my name is Lucas Blacke, I'm yer irresponsible douche fer th' day.'' He joked, almost knowing for sure he was just adding insult to injury. Hell, Live looked serious as all balls and her gaze looked no less scary because of it, and actually kind of scared the Texan. But still he joked to make it easier for himself. ''At least they are awesome tits.'' He added as she mentioned them. Okay, good, so he could mention them too.

But then his face changed to look more serious, something people had quit hoping for but he was no less capable of. ''Live..'' He started the moment she jumped to her feet and turned around to watch the breakfast. It was okay, Lucas would just sit down on the ground where he belonged, below her. For now anyway. ''I can say I'm sorry again an' again, that what ya want me ta do?'' His head slammed back against the counter he sat against and took a breather.

He sighed and a moment of silence followed, almost like he was mulling over his next few words. Which in a way he was.

Then Luke got to his feet, still standing behind Live, though his face had not lost any of the intensity of before. He was still as serious as ever simply because he knew Live both deserved it and was right; he wasn't responsible and that needed to change soon.

He took a breath. ''Truth is..'' His accent dropped to indicate he was being real now, as that was the only way he could think of to grab the attention of anyone near him. ''Truth is I knew exactly what would happen, yet I still did it. And you are right, what if you weren't meta? How would you stop me?'' He sighed deeply and continued. ''I can promise this will be the last time I will behave this inappropriate, but that's just hindsight. I know for certain I will do it again. You are right in saying I am irresponsible, and no amount of words can right that wrong, but I want to change that.''

''I'm sorry, Live.. if you want me to go, I'll leave.'' Obviously he hoped she wouldn't let him go, but right now he knew that chance was slim at best; he had fucked up royally.