There was nothing remotely pleasant about the noise that greeted Dimitri at his apartment. It sounded like some cross between cicadas and a Vegas lounge act.

And it seemed to be getting louder.

And declaring it was waiting for him, here inside its heart.

"If you truly loved me more, you would be quiet!" Dimitri snapped, lifting one end of the ( Read more... )

Early in the afternoon, Dimitri decided a good way to keep the bobcat from attacking things in his apartment would be to take her for a run around town ( Read more... )

Sure time had passed on the island, but the void had been pretty...void-like. As quickly as the gym had ( disappeared... )

Dimitri had just convinced his bobcat shadow that no, the towels were not for attacking, but for cleaning the creature guts off of her when ( the post got too long for the flist! )

It was late when Dimitri realized it had grown too dark to read and set his book aside. Still he remained out in the warm evening air, finding something relaxing about sitting out on his darkened balcony long after the sun had set. Dimitri leaned back in his chair, feet propped on the railing so he could look up at the cloudy sky, trying to pick ( Read more... )

The testing of the novices had been going well. Dimitri had participated in a number of surprise assaults and while he had effectively 'killed' a number of novices in his role as 'Strigoi,' the students had been taking their roles seriously and attacked him without mercy ( Read more... )

Dimitri had been trying to read. He'd gone into the living area intending to turn off the television, not have his attention nabbed by that horrible program again. Half an hour later, the book abandoned beside him on the sofa cushion, Dimitri found himself leaning forward, brow furrowed in annoyance at the idiot English teacher prancing about and ( Read more... )

As the day neared its end, Ivan had suggested a walk to get some fresh air into their recovering blood streams. Rose had left them to their own devices a while earlier and so the pair wandered from the apartment building in relative silence ( Read more... )

At Ivan's request, Dimitri had escorted him around town and acquired supplies for the apartment - mostly fresh liquor and better glasses to replace the one was missing and rid them of the need to wash the other. There were no explicit plans to repeat the night before, but Ivan had insisted they stay in and Dimitri thought he understood why: In ( Read more... )

Life in Fandom was never normal for more than a week, yet somehow Dimitri had forgotten just how cruel Fandom could be. And now he was bringing his old friend and former charge back to his apartment for drinks and what he hoped was easy discussion ( Read more... )