* RUBY // AWESOME DEMON

Adam furrowed his brow. “Are you saying you were immortal?” He asked, but he knew it was completely possible. After all the woman who turned him into a beast had been immortal. “Were you an enchantress?” He asked, thinking that could be the only explanation.

A free meal…damn. He didn’t like accepting help but…he didn’t make much money doing odd jobs, food had always just been ready for him, he never had to think about how much things costed. Here he was fending for himself, a rather rude awakening. “Thanks…” He said bashfully, too desperate not to accept the help. “I’m Adam…if those guys give you trouble let me know.” He said, not wanting to get involved, but also wanting to help this woman, as a sort of repayment for her kindness.

“I was, yeah.” She admitted with a slight smile. Maybe it was the one·thing she missed from being a demon.·“Uh, in my previous life I was a witch, yeah. Powers given by a powerful demon. But I screwed her over and I died. And I came back as a demon. Hell powers, black eyes and all that gig. I’m-.. Not, anymore, though.” She finally mumbled. She wanted to be human, it was the best thing in her opinion.·“Thanks, Adam. You’re nicer than most of the guys I’ve met until now.”

“ if you love music, then you’re in the right place. “ calloused fingers rest over the bow to his instrument, and a casual smile lifts at his lips. carefully, he sets it down to the side, azul hues filled with softness. “ could play you a quick tune if you wanted me to. “

“I don’t really love music.” She admitted. “Not from this time at least. Nothing you could play I’m sure.” She shrugged slightly. “Unless you can play the Ductia but good luck with that.”

“I remember certain parts. I don’t know why some parts are missing though.” It was frustrating not knowing those few missing parts. “Pleasure to meet you, Ruby. The name’s Rhysand, but my friends call me Rhys.” He told her with a smile. “Can you tell me where exactly this place is and who the High Lord is here?”

“Magic, you can’t remember it all because of that.” She said with a slightly sad smile on her lips. She always remembered everything, but she knew people that didn’t, or not completely. “Nice to meet you, Rhys.” She answered, actually hoping she could use the nickname as well. “You’re in Washington, and this is my dinner.” She said with a tilt of her head. “Do you mean the High Lord of the lands or the High Lord of this dinner?” She was not going to correct him, since she understood what he wanted to know - kind of, the perks of being from the Middle Ages. “If it is the lands, then it would be the president, Leia Organa, but I doubt you can just walk in and go talk to her. If it’s the dinner, then it would be me, I’m the owner.”

“it’s weird, one minute i’m at the dinner table with my friends and family then the next minute i’m here.” rhys frowned slightly as he spoke to the stranger. he wasn’t sure what kind of magic brought him here but it had to be magic that he was sure of. “but what’s weirder is certain things i remember but then there’s this big fuzzy part that i can’t remember even though it feels important almost like someone cut out certain memories.”

“That’s the magic of the city, darling.” The former demon stated, tilting her head slightly as she listened to him. “Try to remember, that’ll come back to you pretty soon I’m sure.” She answered with a smile. “If you ever need help.. Name’s Ruby. I’ve been here for longer than I can count so I pretty much know.. Everything there’s to know about this place.”

Jane ||Open

“Oh look at that!!! A cute little erinaceus europaeus! Oh a whole family of them!!” Jane exclaimed, quickly getting out her sketch book to capture the wildlife in front of her. “Don’t you just love nature? Goodness what beautiful creatures.”

“Hedgehog.” Ruby only answered, before she looked up at the other. “You can just say hedgehog and stop showing off. No one will actually care if you know their scientific name.” She pointed out before she looked away.

Adam thought for a moment, frankly he’d be pissed too if someone did that to him. He put down his ax and walked closer to her before pointed down a road nearby. “I saw a couple of guys walk that way, one in a red shirt with ct off jeans, and one with a jean jacket and a grey shirt, but you didn’t hear it from me. I don’t want any trouble, I’m not going to be involved with this.” He said sternly, just wanting to do his job. Still…he wondered if the girl would be okay going up against two guys going down a shady road…

As she listened to the young man after he approached, Ruby tilted her head toward the road, looking down before she took a deep breath. “Thank you.” She finally said, looking back at him. “I’m.. Probably not gonna follow them, I’m not immortal anymore so just in case. But thanks, not everyone would’ve bothered with it.” Actually, she knew almost no one did. “I’m Ruby, by the way. If you ever come by my dinner.. Maybe you deserve a free meal. Just sayin’.” She said with a smile.

the killer had made no effort to disguise or destroy the evidence; they didn’t care who knew what they’d done, or that they’d been the ones to do it. bruce was still caught up in the spectacle of it all, irritated beyond belief at the morbid showmanship of the bastard. bruce’s memories of the crime scene seemed burnt on the backs of his eyelids now; there was no separating them from reality until the case was solved, perhaps being that. that was fine. it was necessary to look them dead in the eyes until justice was done. he didn’t have the crime scene photos in front of him. instead, he had several pages of notes. he’s been reading and amending them for some hours now, a block away from the precinct –– it was too bright in there, too clinical, and while he could usually handle it, today wasn’t the usual. a coffee cup was set on the edge of the table, and the movement brought his eyes to the newcomer. he’d been expecting a stranger. “fancy meeting you here.”

It was a bad day at work. The waitress was sick, the cashier had bailed on her at the last minute and the second cook was about to go home, Ruby had decided to close the dinner earlier for lack of staff. It was why she was going around to see the last people in the dinner, to tell them they were closing for the day due to reasons they couldn’t have prevented. It was also why she came closer to this man, tilting her head at his words. “Good morning, sir.” She started with a slight smile. “My name’s Ruby, I am the owner of the dinner. I just wanted to warn you we are.. About to close, however I can see you are quite busy, I-.. You can stay if you prefer to, but-um..” She took a second to think about it. “At least until I leave, if you want to take your time, you can.”

Adam’s expression remained sharp and focused, not letting his guard down. He was under the impression that this woman was ready to kick ass, and wasn’t about to be found in the middle of it. “I don’t know who you’re talking about. I don’t pay attention, I just cut wood lady.”

He only hoped he was a good enough liar.

“You just cut wood..” She repeated as she let out a sigh. Nodding slightly, she looked around before she turned back to the guy. “Sorry, I might have come in.. Quite strong. I’m just annoyed with that guy, he’s just-.. Always doing that, changing the meeting place and then he doesn’t show up. Or he doesn’t give me the right address. Quite a fucker.”

Adam|| Open

It was hard labor, labor he wasn’t used to. At home he was a prince, a beastly prince, but still a prince. A prince who hired people to do work for him. He was glad his time as a beast helped him beef up, or he would have never been able to keep himself standing long enough to cut so many logs.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone staring at him. “Can I help you?” He asked, rather annoyed as he set down his ax to listen to the stranger.

“Depends.” Ruby immediately started. Today, she was working but looking for the guy who was selling her her products. Thing was, he had decided to change the address, and she had ended up here, not quite knowing if that guy was the one or not. And truth be told, she would kill her seller if he wasn’t showing up. “A contact sent me here telling me he’ll bring me my potatoes here. Any idea where that asshole is? I need them to make my homemade fries. At my dinner. Short story, but I’m lazy to even say it all.”

amanda didn’t like to ask for help. she wanted to continue to operate under the assumption that she could handle e v e r y t h i n g on HER OWN, even long after recognizing the d a n g e r s associated with this mentality. and it wasn’t something that amanda did LIGHTLY or without ample thought when she turned up outside of the entrance to the E.R. she hated hospitals. but the woman also k n e w that she’d suffered serious BURNS, following her altercation with sirius, and that if she didn’t get help NOW, then she’d have to be here a hell of a lot more l a t e r. her jeans were soaked with her own blood and her legs SHOOK as she waited outside, having to force herself to ask for help when the nearest person to her drew closer. “i’m… i’m sorry to bother you,” she managed to get out between the CHATTERS that rattled her own teeth. “but do you think that you could…. h e l p me get inside?” 

Walking home as she had decided to leave work early, Ruby hadn’t quite been expecting to be stopped by a bloody, literally, woman. She stopped to listen, looking at her before she made a face. “Wow, that’s something I didn’t see even in Hell. What happened to you?” She asked, not quite disturbed by all the blood. “It looks like either you’re a stupid idiot who did that to yourself or you pissed off the wrong person. Which one is it?”

Dahlia scoffed, not looking up from her phone. “And why should I do anything for you? If I wanted to run around doing free favors for fools, I’d go pay my dear sister a visit.”

Ruby crossed her arms as she looked at the other. “Well, you just happen to be in my bloody dinner and as the owner of this place I think asking you to move your fucking feet from my seats isn’t too much to ask.” The former demon stated before, without asking for permission, she took the phone away from the young woman’s hands. “Feet off. Now. Or I’m making you clean it with your own bloody toothbrush.”

“sure!” ENTHUSIASTIC enough, raven was h a p p y enough to do so, not minding, going straight ahead with taking them. placing them down upon the table. leaning against it for a moment or two, she considered the surroundings for a moment, a spark of bliss settling around her. it was things like this she had FOUGHT for, the world not such a f e a r s o m e place as falco had insisted on it being, in overprotective extremes, his DISTASTE for the lost one of the factors that had appeared to lead him to that conclusion, though half the reason they did what they did was down to his inhumanity. “quick but delicious- i like the choice” nodding a little as she called through, the girl waited.

“Thanks.” Ruby finally said as she walked back to the kitchen to finish cleaning up. Somehow, all of this kept making her happy. When she still was a demon, it was her way to feel more human, and now that she was human? Well, she had succeeded in her own career, owned a place, and no one really could take that from her anymore. She didn’t took quite long to start cooking the burgers, thankfully it was quite quick to make, and so she came back to the main room after about ten minutes, putting down the plate of burgers on the table. “There you go.” She said with a smile. “I’m Ruby, by the way. Forgot to introduce myself.”

odette was confused. she wasn’t sure where she was or even where her friends were. this wasn’t anywhere like swan lake. she couldn’t even see a lake. she just kept turning around, seeing people dressed very strangely to her. “where am i?” 

“You mean the city you’re in right now or the door you’re blocking that I can’t get to right now?” Ruby asked with a slightly annoyed tone. “Washington DC. And that’s my dinner, can you just.. Move? I have to open.”

it sounded LONELY. eating a f t e r closing, with not another soul in sight around. raven was not one to talk on this matter, due to the fact she lived relatively ALONE at times, though she’d tried to branch out into wider social circles since arriving, but it still sounded so. whether or not her company would be an INTRUSION or not, she was unsure, but she hoped it would be a l r i g h t, relaxing on an easy expression, nodding at the first comment. “go right ahead- if i can help in any way, let me know”TENTATIVE at first to offer, she eventually moved to do so. “no harm in staying, i guess- thanks for this, truly” the girl added on, grateful for the offer, not ready to stomach another kebab of DESPERATION. “i’ll take whatever’s easiest, really”.

Newly human, Ruby had to get used to it over again before she was going back to people. She was trying her hardest to be someone good, so people around would like her over again, and not just pretend because she was scary. “Sure, come over here.” She only answered with a smile. She liked to have contacts with others, without having this voice in the back of her head telling her to kill them. Getting out two plates and some cutlery, she looked at the other. “Can you go put that down for us? I’m just gonna make some burgers, it’s quick to make.”

raven had, before arriving in washington, never had to really cook for herself. one of the perks of being a falco, she supposed, the whole tower filled with people working for her father, and by extension, her and her mum. so, she’d taken to occasionally eating out, in between attempting to cook for herself, which was a mixed bag of efforts. entering in, thinking for a moment it seemed remarkably slow, she then heard the words, realising the mistake. “eating is more than definitely the reason i came- so that’d be a fantastic help” she nodded, a chuckle from the girl, though she rued her stomach for actually working up an appetite in comparison to others. 

Ruby gave the young woman a smile. It was her fault if she had entered in the first place, so it was on her and not on the other, so indeed she was going to let her settle down here for a bit to eat. “Alright, no problem. I’m just going to finish with the dishwasher if that’s alright, usually I eat here after I close so, you’re welcome to join me.” Ruby proposed with a smile. “Any idea what you want to eat, maybe?”