Arc 11 Interlude 4: What the Nose Knows
What the Nose Knows
9th of January 2007 A.D.
Upon entering the quaint, not to say cramped living room of the Brodens' apartment to the sight of half empty pizza boxes and colourful notebooks and pencils cohabiting uneasily the casual observer might be tricked into believing that they had interrupted game night, but of course they had not, that was on Friday, this was Monday serious Alpha business, Kirby wanted to call it 'pack business' but he had relented at the boos from his 'we're not dating, honest' girlfriend.
"OK, so we know this Tiffany isn't a vampire at least, that's good," Georgia said, flipping a lock of dark blonde hair out of her face. Her tone was quite definitive.
"In spite of the fact that she got her papers from a vampire..." Her husband Billy finished, not-really-agreeing.
"It's Thomas, Thomas is cool," the mousy looking girl in the corner, helping herself to some of the pizza, cheese of course. Marci was nothing if not in on the joke at this point, rocky first impressions long buried under years of being superheroes together, a way of looking at their powers they had not shared with Harry, much like the contents of their current conversation.
"Yeah everyone gets their panties in a twist over whites, that doesn't mean you forget what they are," Andi piped up. At the outraged looks from the boys she added. "Even if you don't wear panties."
"Moving right along." There was a reason Billy was the leader and it wasn't that he was the biggest wolf. "We know Thomas has been working with or for Molly Carpenter and we know he was the one who made up Tiffany MacNeil, Harry's new girlfriend, no matter what he calls it. We know he's very protective of her and we know she smells like brimstone, which isn't quite like Carpenter's scent of..."
"Poison flame that does not warm but freezes, like a chemical fire that twists nature on its head," Andi put in, she had the most sensitive nose out of all of them. "So we have one girl that smells like bad news entangled with Dresden using the services of a vampire to get another Bad News Girl (TM) into Harry's bed and he claims they are both fine, Is anyone else getting a a Jenny kind of whiff out of this whole thing."
"Jenny's dead," Marci pointed out, motioning to Billy and Georgia with her non-pizza bearing hand.
Andi rolled her eyes and popped a peanut in her mouth. "You know what I mean, creepy hook up plots."
"Except for the part where Molly Carpenter is an actual kid, like younger than any of us," Georgia rolled her light amber eyes all the way back. "Or do you think Harry's been bamboozled into thinking her dad's a paladin as well."
"Kid younger than any of us whose having political dealings with Queen bloody Mab according to that bone-flute-satyr guy Me Georgia and Andi beat up on Tuesday," Billy said as he pulled out a old-fashioned tape recorder the others were pretty sure he was only hanging onto because he looked detective-y and rolled the literal tape.
"Oh, you want to know the story of the Slayer Queen, don't we all kinder, don't we all. But that's too rich for my blood, sure to be too rich for yours, lest it be spilled on the stone and ice. Slayer of the Wayward Sister, devourer of great akuma. What favours did she do? What lives did she cut short that we all be commanded to forget the trespass of her becoming? I know not only that it comes from above the Lady Maeve who now seeks her company. It is the Queen wo stilled the wrath of Winter and her mind you should pray never to know little wolfswelpen."
"And that was all he said, all we earned by tracking him down and making him give back the buff-juice to the football team," Blly finished.
"I still can't believe those idiots thought it was a good idea to trade their physical strength for hotness," Andi muttered under her breath, she deepened her voice into a parody of Luke the quarterback's voice. "Thought I'd just work out more to make up for it man!" She snorted. "Thought he could take more funny pills in unlabeled bottles more like. Good luck doing that when you can't even get out of bed, idiot."
The winter satyr had been as good as his word though, pretty much every girl on campus had been fawning over Luke in his brief stint as bedridden invalid, it had been a weird week on campus. The Alphas had not been overly fussed at the fact thy fey made Luke and the others less attractive than they had been when he annulled the exchange. It would go away in a turn of the moon and maybe a bit of enforced celibacy would teach them not to make deals with suspicious guys in a trenchcoat and horns.
"An Akuma for those not up on Japanese culture is a kind of demon," Billy put in. "Molly Carpenter, whatever she is now ate a demon. That is a lot more to go on than 'smells scary'."
"OK so how do you want to deal with this?" Marci asked. "Just talk to her and ask her, 'hey are you bad news or just really creepy good news'?"
"We can talk to some people at her school," Billy offered reasonably. "She's a senior, it wouldn't be that weird for some of us to chat them up."
"I'm not flirting with high school girls," Kirby said instantly, looking at Andi out of the corner of his eye.
"Who said anything about flirting?" Georgia asked with deceptive mildness that could not disguise the teasing smile on her face.
Things took a turn for the less serous from there, potentially demon eating girls left to tomorrow to handle.
OOC: So yeah, Harry being Harry didn't tell the Alphas everything, they are pretty used to that so they did not start to panic until Lash happened a few weeks ago. Harry himself was the one who told them Lash was 'new' and Thomas made her papers, thinking it would make them calm down. It did not.
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