5295/Maximum Awkwardrive

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Maximum Awkwardrive
Date of Scene: 03 September 2018
Location: Bludhaven
Synopsis: Summary needed
Cast of Characters: Harry Dresden, Susan Rodriguez, Molly Carpenter




Harry Dresden has posed:
It's 6 in the evening on Laborday Monday, several lights are on in the boarding house that Harry Dresden calls the basement of home, including the small narrow windows at the top of his living room, though unlike the others, these flicker and change a bit and aren't nearly as bright as what a lightbulb would do as small candles all over the living room flicker and merrily burn letting anyone outside know that the tenant is in as well. From Susan's poing of view, not a lot has changed, except the door she knocks on isn't one of those standard wood exterior doors, but is a thick, solid steel door, something he had installed after a certain frog demon ripped the last one out...

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
    It's been a long time, and they say you can't go home, but Susan's back in Bludhaven after...well, dealing with things. The former reporter approaches Dresden's home, frowning some as she sees the door. "Looks like a damn warehouse." But then, she moves up and raps on the door, loudly.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter had her head in the fridge when the knock on the door came. She was barefoot, wearing a pair of comfy shorts and a borrowed too-large t-shirt from Dresden himself. Fishing out a can of Coke, and one of her Pepsi's she'd hidden in the back, she turns to hip-check the door shut behind her. Her mouth opens to call out that the pizza was hear... But she could still hear the water running in the bathroom. Likely he was still in the shower. Shrugging to herself, the damp haired blonde heads for the hefty door to haul it open.

"Hey, great timing," she starts out before her eyes focus on the woman behind the door. Uh. That wasn't a pizza guy.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden shuts off the water of the shower, the sounds something recognizeable as he calls out, the door to his bedroom half open. "Crap crap crap, I figured they'ed take like another twenty minutes.. hold up, I've got my wallet in here." comes Harry's voice as he comes darting out of the back room his hair still wet but free of shampoo wearing a pair of blue jeans and shirtless he's got his billfold in his hand as he starts opening it to look at his cash, stopping halfway to the door though when he sees who's on the porch.. "Susan?" he says a bit disbelivingly...

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan looks back at the girl on the other side of the door. Young (too young), blonde, and borrowed clothes. Needless to say, it's not exactly the best of initial impressions. And then out comes Dresden, and Susan seems no more impressed with the situation. She frowns, her expression showing despite herself. "Harry. I see you're keeping busy."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter glances over hre shoulder when Harry rushes out looking rumpled and wet and not making the best first impression. It's the name that causes her eyebrows to shoot up. "Susan? As in your ex, Susan?" There's no immediate response though: Harry was having a deer in the headlights moment which causes her to roll her eyes with exasperation at him.

Lightly clearing her throat she looks back toward Susan offering her a smile, with hand extended. "Hi, I'm Molly Carpenter, his apprentice. Sorry for our appearance. There was a little potions snafu earlier."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden grumbles a bit at that. ."The potions brewed as intended, they just smell obnoxious.." he says simply before a softly whispered 'ventas' has a T-shirt flying into his hand for him to slip over his head. "Havn't seen you for a while, what brings you back to Bludhaven?" he asks moving up to stand behind Molly, one hand resting on the steel door as he studies Susan's face. "It's been what? Two, Three years?"

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Ex. Well, isn't that the way to learn about something. Still, Susan's had to smile and make nice when she hasn't felt like it before. She extends her hand to shake Molly's, though that will produce the familiar supernatural-on-supernatural little spark. "Nice to meet you." Not really. Not at all.

As for Dresden, he gets a pretty icy look back. "Been a bit. Been dealing with things. So've you, huh?" Okay, yeah. A little bitchier than she meant.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter winces sharply as she'd meant to try and ease the situation. Apparentlys he'd only made it ten times worse. The grip of Susan's hand along with that little shiver that runs up her spine telling her of the woman's nature causes her own features to falter. A deep breath is taken as she scoots back to duck under Harry's arm leaving him there without her in between. Instead she heads back to the kitchen. "NOTHING should smell that bad on purpose, Dresden." Ah, back to the oh-so-formal remarks. For now. He had to talk this out himself after all. Having her her was NOT helping. "Want a soda, Susan? Beer?"

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden helps guide Molly back and behind him, still not having invited Susan in as he shifts to take up his side of the doorframe. "You left, time moves on." he responds his jaw tightening a bit. "Molly is Michael's Eldest daughter. You remember Michael right?" he asks "Short guy, bit of a belly.. .Accountant.." he fibs..

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan looks back. "Well, that depends. Am I welcome in there? And sure, I remember Michael. Ought to make Molly there...sixteen? Seventeen?" That gets a narrowed-eyed look of annoyance at Harry.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
"It's her, Harry," Molly informs matter-of-fact as she steps back into sight sipping at a Pepsi herself. Blue eyes skim over the pair with a look of concern as she takes in the moment considering. "I can 'read' people," she explains for Susan's benefit. "That handshake," she explains with a shrug. "Sorry. It doesn't always happen intentionally and I wasn't trying to pry. But Harry," she adds again, "It *is* her." So there. She glances to the side, hand raised to rub at her neck awkwardly. "Let me get my stuff and I'll head out. You two should talk."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden quirks a brow at Susan.. "Twenty-One actually," he says moving to let Susan slip on into the apartment. "Come on in." he says showing his trust in Molly's call that Susan is who she appears to be. "we had ordered some pizza's and were about to play a board game." he explains to Susan before he's turning back to Molly "You don't have to go if you don't want to." he says

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
    The latina walks in, and looks amused. "A board game. Sure." But despite her annoyance, she looks over to Molly. "No, you don't. Any awkwardness on this is on him, not you." Cause she's still not thrilled about that.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter takes a deep breath at the pair assuring her she doesn't have to leave. Her lips purse together in thought as she considers it. "Okay," comes drawled out as if she wasn't quite believing them. "That doesn't change that you two obviously need to catch up." Lightly clearing her throat she nods. "But my clothes are still drying out so fair enough."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden just sighs and internally thinks to himself.. "Why do these things happen." To which he actually gets a responce <<Because, fate, or some higher power must like to watch your impersonation of the three stooges rolled in to one my host>> This of course causes a dark frown to cross his features for a moment before he's taking a bit of a breath of relief, not wanting to have Molly leave cause she felt she /had/ to. "So, Coke? Ale?" he pauses to look at Molly as he says the next bit with a slight look of revulsion.. "Pepsi?"

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
    Susan looks over. "Beer's good. One of Mac's if you have it. If not, I'll take whatever you've got. I think I could stand to be a little drunk right now." Not that she gets anything out of normal food these days. "So! Apprentice. New door. Things must be going at least /reasonably/ well."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
"Wait till you see the new puppy," Molly teases with amusement as she turns to head into the kitchen. "One of Mac's specials coming right up." It gives them a moment of time alone at least as she fishes out the requested drinks. Including one for Harry. It did seem like a drinking sort of evening all of a sudden.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden shrugs moving to sit in one of the recliners in his living room, the apartment is cleaner, and better organized than it was back when Susan was a regluar visitor, each candle having it's own little brass holder instead of just a tupperware lid, and the piles of wax gone. "It goes, BCPD still hires me from time to time, others come by with jobs, Molly is actually my partner in the investigation buisness, too much of one job was bleeding over to the other, and we get enough buisness to pay the bills, pay her salary.. hopefully she'll be /getting her own place/ soon." he says raising his voice a little on those 4 words with a bit of a smirk on his face. "She's still living at home, and I like to give her hell about it." he says conspiritorally. "So, how're you? You in town visiting? Havn't seen anything of yours in the arcane in a few years."

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
"Back in town." Susan says. "I've been traveling. Learning more about things, and getting more information specifically on the Red Court. Know thy enemy. But, I've done enough research. Now it's time to get a little more "boots on the ground".

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter comes back out with two of Mac's dark ales open in hand. One is offered out to Susan, then the other to Harry, before she opts to flop in a corner on the sofa that was here. Her legs tuck up beneath her and she leans her elbow on the armrest while listening, and sipping at her own Pepsi. Sure she was old enough now to drink but she was opting not to.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden gives Molly a grateful look. "Thanks." he says before he's holding up his bottle in a cheers motion and taking a swig of the blasphemously cold beer. "I thought the group you were with did the whole boots on the ground thing." he says not knowing a whole lot about the Fellowship. "Someone making a move on Bludhaven or something?" he asks

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan takes the offered beer and she takes a long swig. "We do." /We/, not they. "And you know full well things have been ramping up with the Red Court." He's been in the middle of it, more or less. "I can be more use here than doing research in Central America."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter watches the two, eyes sweeping from one to the other as the questions are answered. Another long sip is taken, and she hazards, "Probably be more help in an environment you're familiar with to begin with. I mean this is kind of your home turf after all. I don't know what I'd do in the middle of a completely different country."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden nods "I can see that too." he says glancing between Molly and Susan. "Actually, Susan, we might be needing your help on something that's going on over in Gotham that could spill over onto Bludhaven if we don't put a stop to it." he explains leaning back in h is chair and taking another swig. "You ever read any Lovecraft?" he asks curiously.

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
"Can't say I have. Familiar with some of it, from the job, but never actually sat down and read the books." Susan moves to finally sit as well. "How about you, Molly? I know what Harry's capable of...how about you?"

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter considers this a moment with her head tipping upward staring at the ceiling. "You know how Harry's all strong, and smashy, and blowing things up?" Of course Susan did. How could she not? A faint nod is given as if she knew the answer to this so she just keeps on. "I'm good at all the subtle stuff he usually smashes through. Need to go invisible? I'm your gal. Need to work through intricate spellwork? Yep."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden sticks his tongue out at Molly. "She's also a better enchanter than I ever would be, able to get her spells bound nice and tight into the objects." he says with a grin. "Well, Cthulu, Narlythotep, and others, they're real.. They're what we call outsiders, and all they want is the end of all reality, for the cosmos to return to the primordial chaos it's law and order rose from." he explains to Susan. "Seems Lovecraft was either a cultist, or just a very very stupid muggle who wrote his books about them, but a cult is currently working on an awakening ritual to bring some great old one back.. Batman actually brought us in on the job, but he's a little...Muleish? Thick headed? Controlling and hard to work with?... I can't really think of one word to describe him.."

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
    Susan smiles a little at Molly's description, and listens. "So we need to deal with the cult." She goes right into "get the info" mode. "What do we have on them so far?"

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter takes a deep breath as she looks toward Harry sharply. "Try not to say the names. They gain power the more that remember them, right? We should give them other names. Like Slippery-Lip or Guy from The Village." Susan's question causes her to frown faintly. "They're setting up kind of a... summoning network. It starts with a book that calls the creature out, and I think they're trying to make a giant summoning circle by using the fixed points they've established. They're linking together."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden nods.. "And some of the buildings have a strange composition to the metal framework they're built around, they're using the buildings to help build on the resonance.. Batman caught a group that must have been doing a practice run, cause from what I've read from the book, and what I've been able to get from certain.. reasources the stars aren't in the right alignement for them to do the actual summoning.. that'll happen in several weeks, so right now I'm trying to see if I can catch wind on the streets of anyone doing prep things.. " he explains..

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan nods. "I still know people. I'll start asking around, see if we can figure out where they are. If we can find them, we should be able to deal with them."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter sips her Pepsi a long moment. "They feed off of fear and pain, too. I..." She shudders visibly recalling with her face going noticably pale. It only lasts a moment as she focuses on digging her fingernails into the arm of the couch. "I'm an empath so I got hit with it pretty hard. Something to watch out for, though. If any of our emotions start to go wonky they could be influencing us."

Harry Dresden has posed:
There's a knock at the door, and Harry glances up.. "That's probably the pizza.. " he says moving to stand up and grab his wallet from a back pocket.. "I'll be right back." he says setting his beer down and going to the door to open it a somewhat pimpily young man at the door. "Molly Carpenter?!" he says in surprise.. "It's me Ed Lancaster, we went to highschool together!" he says before he's now paying attention to the tall wizard infront of him.. "In the middle of something here buddy, came out to twenty-four oh five right?" he says pulling out thirty bucks.. "Keep the change"

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter puts on a rather broad grin that was entirely too forced. Those who knew her could tell, but she was rather practiced at it. "Oh, hey Ed! Yeah I remember. Nice seeing you again!" And there's a wave as she turns her gaze back to Susan to ask, loudly, "So tell me about your trip, Susan! It must have been so exciting!" Ah yes, just catching up with a friend. Yep.

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan frowns a little. "Emotional control. There anything you can do--" And then there's the knock at the door. Susan looks to the delivery guy, and then back. Clearly missing something. "Oh, yeah. All through Central America and the northern part of South America. See all the old ruins, it was really quite a sight."

Harry Dresden has posed:
With a gulp of fear, Ed makes his way out, two pizza's and a container of wings, not a green vegitable in sight as he makes his way to the kitchenette setting the boxes on the bar. "WE might as well eat while it's still hot and tasty, just li.." he starts to make some lascivious comment like he normally does, the two women knowing him for him to bring /that/ sentence to a screeching halt..

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan looks over, as Ed leaves. "So...WHY did we just put on a show for the pizza boy? And now you're making lewd comments, Harry? Did this turn into a porn movie when I wasn't looking?"

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter drops her head down with a sigh of relief when Ed flees. "Oh that was not expected. Ed had a huge crush on me during highschool and kept following me around like a puppy. No matter how much I tried to nicely tell him I wasn't interested. I'd get poems slipped into my locker every few weeks and he'd avoid me for ages after so I wouldn't think it was him." Of course, she knew. Her head snaps up at Harry's remark shooting him A Look.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden coughs, and shuffles, "I need a drink." he says vanishing back behind the ice box for a moment before getting a can of coke and quickly downing the whole thing... coughing a bit more when some goes down the wrong way. "A: didn't want him sticking around, or trying to be chatty, and B: I just let my mouth run away with itself, but got it under control." he says not meeting Susan's eyes even though there's no risk of a soul gaze, and quite pointedly /not/ looking in Molly's direction either...

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan looks from Molly, to Harry, back...oh, screw it. "So, are you sleeping with him?" Yep. Just right out there. The Latina's apparently gotten fed up with Harry's foibles.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter had just started to take a drink of her Pepsi while Harry was hiding in the kitchen. It was just starting to do down when Susan asks that question. Coughing loudly she pounds a hand on her chest having almost inhaled rather than swallowed. Her face goes red from the coughing, and she grabs for a stack of napkins on the end table--Since when did Harry keep napkins around? And covers her mouth with it. Once she gets herself enough under control she calls out accusingly, "I TOLD you that you two should talk!" Huff.

Molly looks back to Susan meeting her eyes just for a moment before dipping away again to avoid a Soul Gaze. "... That entirely depends on your definition of 'sleeping.'"

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden grimaces a bit. "We are talking!" he says aggrivatedly before looking over at Susan.. "we've shared a hotel room or two for cases.. Molly's masquerades as my wife before when we were doing investigative work, so we had to share a single bed, and if it gets too late at night, well my couch is a pull out." he explains the couch something new he didn't have back when they were together.. "So from certain perspectives, yeah.. we've slept together.." he says rubbing the back of his neck.. "Maybe gone on a couple of.." he coughs and mumbles something that's barely audible.. 'dates'

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan looks at Mollym and then to Harry. "What, is this kindergarden? You both know exactly what I'm talking about. Has his "wizard's staff" been in your vajayjay? God, you two!"

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter points to Susan when she elucidates giving a solemn nod. "No." Well, that answers that question at least. A look is shot toward Harry who seems to have forgotten how to speak again, and she sighs. "What Harry is trying to eloquently to say is that we've started dating recently to see if there's something more between us, but we haven't done *that.*"

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden nods.. "yeah... exactly! ohh!, hey, You've not met mouse yet have you?" he says with a grin that doesn't match the adrenaline filled eyes he's got.. "Mouse.. come out and say hi to our guest." he says trying for all he's worth to /CHANGE THE SUBJECT!/ cause the last thing he wants is to talk his sex life with his current 'girlfriend' with his EX...

    Mouse of course has been listening and comes padding out with a doggy grin looking at Harry and then the wing bucket as if to say "You owe me big time." as the giant woolly doggosaurus comes moving over for Susan to see him..

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan nods. "Good! Then stop tiptoeing around like I'm going to explode on you, for crying out loud!" She drains what's left of her beer, and looks over to Mouse. "Now that is a proper dog."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter lets out a little breath of relief. Well this was awkward but mostly due to Harry more than anything it seemed. Of course, now she wanted a beer. "How about we just have that pizza before it gets cold and rubbery?" She suggests. "There's paper plates and napkins in the cupboard."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Mouse waddles on over to Susan and sits holding up one hand for a 'shake' as he pants and smiles giving a soft welcoming woof to the new person. All while Harry just grumbles.. "Hey, I've never had something like this come up before.. I don't know the protocols, or even if there /is/ one.. " he says simply vanishing back in "good china coming right up." he says as he grabs four paper plates, one of which gets several of the boneless chicken wings on it for mouse..

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
Susan gives a shake. "There's a good boy. And the protocol gets fuzzy with us, Harry. We didn't so much "break up" as I had to go off for "rehab". Would I have been happy if you waited for me? Sure. But I'm a big girl. I get it." She looks to Molly. "She seems nice." She says it loud enough to make sure Molly hears.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
"You know he's not supposed to have chicken bones," Molly remarks quietly seeing the plate get filled. Rather than protest further, she looks to Mouse and informs him, "You don't get to eat the bones, Mouse, you know that. It's bad for you." She does reach for a plate though for a slice of the pizza, and then looks to Susan blinking. "Thanks?"

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden rolls his eyes. "Got boneless." he says hip checking Molly a little as he relaxes.. "yeah, had you shown up like six months ago..I dunno.." he says looking at Molly and leaning forward to whisper something /quietly/ in her ear low enough that even Susan can't hear before he straigtens back up. "ok.. so I've got super double meat eaters delux, and hawaiian, you want a slice or two?" he asks looking back over to Susan holding up an empty paper plate.

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
    THAT gets an angry face. "Really? Secrets? At this point?" Susan doesn't seem to take the whisper well. "If that's where we still are, I can leave you two to it."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter sticks her tongue out in response to Harry and the chicken wings. "Just making sure." When he leans down to whisper though she gives a fond smile. She reaches for a slice of the meat eater, and one of the Hawaiian. It wasn't her favorite but it was less heart-clogging than the meat-a-ganza. Susan's remark earns her lips pursing together tightly. "It wasn't anything..." She begins before sighing. "Not a secret, Susan, he was just reassuring me that he wasn't going to kick me out now that you're back."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden frowns at Susan at the remark, taking a breath and letting it out "Would you like to know what I told Molly?" he asks "it's something that her father talked to me about, and something I should have done with you, but never got around to doing." he explains giving her the option to open that can of worms or to leave it be..

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
"If he'd even think about that, he's not the guy I knew." Susan sighs. "Sorry. The whole "whispering secrets in front of you" was old even in high school. Much less with two people I'm having a tense setup with."

Molly Carpenter has posed:
"I understand," Molly says reasonably. She stands there with her plate of pizza looking between the two for a prolonged period. Finally she moves over to Harry to lean in and give his cheek a quick kiss. "Harry, she's right you know. Things may have changed but this is a woman you cared about, deeply. She deserves the same respect and consideration she always did. So, please... I know it's hard, but let's be adult about this. It'll be good practice for my parents anyway." Her mom at least. Eeeugh.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden shrugs.. "It's been over four years Susan, folks change, after what happened ..things that I should have done differently.." he shrugs taking another deep breath before turning to look at Susan "I'm /not/ the guy you knew, sure there's some about me that's the same, I still have the mickey mouse alarm clock in my bedroom, I'd rather have a good book and stay at home than go to a club." This said as he gives Molly a bit of a /look/, and I still think Star Wars, is ten times better than Star Trek, even the prequels. But I also don't keep things as bottled up, or close to the chest." he adds "So, pizza, or no?" he asks

Susan Rodriguez has posed:
"Yeah. Pizza. Meat." Susan answers. She watches, still tense about things. The words aren't helping. But she watches, and manages to mostly keep her emotions off her face. "Should I not be here, then?" she asks, after Harry's words.

Molly Carpenter has posed:
Molly Carpenter just goes quiet for now. It was time to let those two talk without interrupting. So she just stuffs her face, and throws Harry a Vulcan hand sign.