5715/Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Date of Scene:	05 November 2018
Location:	Unknown
Synopsis:	Summary needed
Cast of Characters:	Harry Dresden, Thomas Raith

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Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden lets Thomas go ahead in his car to head to his office, riding 'bitch' behind Molly. Getting dropped off a block or so away from his office, the tall wizard in full regalia walks up along the sidewalk towards his office, and the vampire that wanted his attention. "LEts head inside." he says as he pulls out a key to open the door into the complex. "fifth floor, we'll take the stairs." he adds opening a side door to head on up. "So, who's the lady, and what's the trouble she's in." he says holding up the file he was handed but hasn't looked into yet..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith takes a seat, even though Harry didn't actually offer him one and lounges. He's actully a very good lounger, making it look like a fashion statement. "Let me as you something Mr. Dresden, what exactlly do you know about the White Court, specifically, do you know how one /becomes/ a member of my Court?"

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden shrugs flicking his wrist and lighting several candles around the office to give better light, a can of sterno ignighting under a coffee press that he starts to fill. "You don't turn like the other courts, so I figure it has something to do with birthright, you're born or spawned, or created in what ever manner a white court vampire is created." he says closing up the coffee pot to sit down at his desk walking past the much neater desk of Molly..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith nods a bit. "Yes, were born human. Then sometime in late puberty our Hunger awakens and we feed for the first time. The effect is two fold. We come into the full development of our powers and the other person dies. Basically we suck all the life force out of them. Of course we don't tell our young what to expect. Kinda a interesting surprise, one second you're losing your cherry the next you feel like a ghod and there is a dead body under you.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden frowns, his forhead furrowing jaw clenching to make the muscles on his cheeks stand out for a moment. "And how is this pertinant to the woman in question?" he asks pulling the file over to him to flip open to start looking through it..

Thomas Raith has posed:
The girl that is on the front page is lovely, though not enchanting. Beautiful, but perhaps not the home coming queen. It's a candid shot labled Inari Raith." Thomas continues after a pause. "We aren't allowed to tell them. Aren't llowed to warn them. I could no more break that edict then you could cut off your right hand. Nor can I allow someone else to warn her. But my baby sister is about the right age."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden pauses still looking at the picture in the file.. "ok..." he says drawing out the word a bit as he drops the picture back down on the desk. "So you can't, and you can't allow someone else to do it.. Sounds like you're trying to set things up for an unfortunate accident with me being the accidentee." he says leaning back in his chair just to stare at the man his fingers steepled infront of him. "You helped me back at Biancas.. so I'm not turning you into a used match stick immediately.. So explain to me why this /isn't/ a setup.."

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith looks, as always, amused at the analogy. "Who'se saying it's /not/ a setup? I'm being completely forthcoming though. All I care about is saving my sister." He pauses then says, "Let me tell you about how my awakening went. My father, the White King, takes me to this seedy strip club. Pays a stripper named Kandy Kane, Two K's, to be "extra nice"," and here Thomas uses actual air quotes, "to me. I killed that woman because my father wanted to awaken the beast inside of me." then he changes the subject slightly, though staying on the tangent, "Do you know how to hurt one of my kind Harry?"

Harry Dresden has posed:
     "You're not much tougher than a normal human when you're channeling your power, Faster, stronger sure.. but you're not bullet proof, fire proof, or electricity proof.." he says idly. "So I'd figure any mundane way if you can be gotten ahold of." he says as the coffee pot whistles. "Cup of coffee? It's some Italian roast Molly likes, she even keeps little packets of creamer and sugar if you want something fancier than half and half." he offers standing back up to press the coffee down through the water. "So you want to safe Inari.. Can she be saved? WE gonna send her to come convent somewhere? Our lady of the ever chaste libedo?"

Thomas Raith has posed:
"Love." He stands a bit to move nearer the coffee pot, but let's Dresden pour. "Not the timid watered down stuff that most people share, but the real stuff. The Westley and Buttercup version. Yeah that is toxic to us. Or more specifically to our Hunger." he would add cream and suger once handed the cup, stiring it slowly and adding "Now if a White Court Virgin were in that soul deep love when that first feeding happened, the demon would be burned out like a boil."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden grimaces.. "Hard to do when you're a hormonal teenager coming into puberty.. " he comments "I assume the love has to be recriprocal.. She loves him, he loves her.. " he adds thoughtfully adding in what seems to be more sugar and cream than coffee for him to drink. "What, do you want to do? You can't whip up, True loves first boink, on the end of a magic staff." he says taking a drink of what could be simply identified as coffee flavored simple syrup..

Thomas Raith has posed:
And like that, for the first time, Thomas seems something other then confident and cock-sure of himself. "I honestly don't know." He answers after a pause, looking into his cup as if it held the secret that was eluding him. "All I know is that my baby sister is a good person. She is a soul worth saving. She doesn't deserve...this. I can pay you for your time Mr. Dresden. Not just money, I have access to other resources that would be of great interest to you. I just... I just don't want Inari to become someone who is forced to become a preditor."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden ponders the question for a bit, studying Thomas, Thinking to himself as he does.. He should walk away.. This could start a war between the White Court, and the White Council.. It's not really any of his buisness.. But then he looks down at that desk and the picture of the bright smileing young woman, a woman that doesn't know what she could become, much less who she is.. <Hells Bells Harry, you know you're gonna help her, so don't even toy with the idea of toying with the thought that you wont> he says to himself. "Keep the money, I won't accept it." he says glancing back up at Thomas. "But you're going to need to do something right here, right now before I'll even start concidering how to help you." says with a pause before finishing. "Look me in the eye.."

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith closes his eyes slightly, and takes a very slow very deep breath. "Empty Night, you really have no idea what you are asking.." He says it softly, resignedly. "You really don't want to know what's in here, Harry. " Mind you he's not saying no... but he's definately holding back. "It could comprimise us both."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden shrugs. "OR it could just compromise what ever rube goldberg plot you have for either me or my app..partner." he says simply. "Our goals aligned at Bianca's getting everyone out of there alive.. This is an entirely different matter." he says unyeilding in his request.."

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith says, "Alright Dresden, just... put your coffee down. This is going to be awkward." He says with a sigh and looks up into Dresden's eyes. Locking eyes with him and letting something that he's only ever read about begin..."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden nods taking a swig of his coffee before setting the cup down. "Sit down too, after the soul gaze some folks tend to have a bad reaction." he says moving to sit down in his own chair and waiting for the vampire to do the same. Once both are set and comfortable he looks up to meet Thomas's gaze, the room falling away into darkness as both are pulled into the soul of the other..

Thomas Raith has posed:
There is the images of Thomas standing in front of the mirror, held in a struggle with the demon. It's hand on his heart, his hand on it's own. From the look of it, the demon is winning, but barely so... And there are other portraits in the hall. Most notably one of HArry himself, and another of Inari put in a place of honor... In the reflection, on the demon's side, a portrait of a stripper, a man who could give Thomas a run for his money in the looks department.. And the woman suddenly is standing next to Harry smiles sadly. "He's always struggling with it... Always will.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Thomas is plunged into sudden darkness, a darkness that slowly fades away as he finds himself standing at one end of a crumbling stone bridge, titanic in size, spanning a vast crevasse the only light to be seen being that from a clear, unobstructed night sky, the Milkyway Galaxy in all her majestic glory on display. Across the bridge all that can be seen up into the sky above blotting out the stars is a vast dark nothingness, one with Tendrils reaching out across the breaking and crumbling stone knocking pieces of masonry off with thunderous cracks the tendrils being stopped by something.. no, someone standing in the center of that bridge.

     Harry Dresden all 6'9" of him stands, a shielding arm stretched out against the darkness his back to Thomas his duster tattered and bloodstained, his jeans ripped and ragged as baleful red light courses through his veins weakening him even as he stands alone against the darkness.

    "He's grown to be strong, but in his solitude he's becoming inflexible, brittle while other things are working against his foundation." comes a womans voice, one Thomas hasn't heard in close to thirty years.. as Margaret Angelica LeFay steps up beside her oldest son, wearing a light yellow sundress and sandles..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith looks over at his mother and then back to where his brother stands vigil against the world. "I know." He says softly, then he looks back to her and says, "I hated you. For a long time I wanted to hate you. Hate him. You left me there with him." He says it with the pain of a long lost child abandoned by his parent.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Margaret just looks sad glancing between her two boys.. "He's hard to hate if you're good people." she says reaching up to touch Thomas' cheek. "I wanted to take you with me, but I couldn't.. A Raith heir out of his house, out from under his thumb. He would have hunted us both down and Harry... Harry needed to be born.. Only doing it the way I did could I manage to keep you both alive." she says sadly..

Thomas Raith has posed:
He nods slightly, obviously having come to a similar conclusion over the years, but still having pain from wound still fresh. "And now Harry is pretty much my only hope to save Inari." he says softly, "I can't let it happen to her too." He glances back at the image of Harry, "I just want to help him too, you know. Hell he's about the only decent family I have anymore."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     "Harry will help, you'll do fine Tommy." she says smileing. "He's made good friends, and family is everything to him, you'll see." She adds "Just remember that. Family is everything, and not all family are blood." she finishes. Reaching out to give her oldest son a hug. "I love you." she tells him her voice full of joy. "And I'm so proud of you.."

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith is crying a bit, his eyes flowing freely as he embraces his mother. For just a moment letting himself be lost in the embrace of his long dead mother. "I love you mama." He whispers softly into her hair as he embraces her, "I miss you so much." He says softly, then pulls away. "Just tell me honestly... I'm your favorite, right?" He asks with a playful smile.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     She just laughs.. "It doesn't work that way, not when both my boys are so amazing.. He's going to need you Tommy, just like you need him.. Be good." she says as the soul gaze starts to end with darkness starting to fade in not the malevolence that Harry fights, but something more natural as the vista before Thomas vanishes, the last thing he sees being two pairs of malevolent purple eyes glowing in the back of Harry's head watching Thomas before it all fades away to leave Thomas to see his brother sitting across from him tears streaking down his face..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith exhales slowly... and he reaches over with a trembling hand and picks up his own coffee, taking a long slow sip. "Well, I warned you.." He says in a softly quavering voice as he tries to recompose himself.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden stares at that painting in the reflection, and then when she speaks, it's a voice he has never heard, but that face is one he's familiar with, he even has a picture of her, well a copy in his wallet. "Mom?" he says in confusion.. "What kind of trick is this!" he says forehead furrowing in impotent anger as he looks around the room unable to willingly end the soulgaze early and powerless to stop what ever trick the vampire is pulling..

Thomas Raith has posed:
"No trick Harry, Thomas is your brother. It's really as simple as that." She holds her hands in front herself, smiling amused. The same smile that both of her boy's occasionally wear. She looks at where Thomas is still engaged in his tug of war. "He fights for his soul, every day. You'll have to help him with that. He may be older, but you are by far the stronger one."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     "When? How?" he asks looking back at the demon in the mirror, the claws dug into a much younger, and plainer looking Thomas Raith. "Did dad know?" he asks curiously

Thomas Raith has posed:
The woman eyes her son with a bit of a smile, "Well he saw the strech marks if that's what you are asking..." She comments dryly, a bit of a smirk on her lips. "He knew that I'd had a child before, but not his name or anything. I intended to tell you when you when you were older, but of course..." she shrugs slightly, as if the whole "I died," part were not worth saying.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden nods, "how did you manage this.. I didn't even think this kind of magic was possible! Hell is it even legal?" he says with a bit of a laugh, amazed by the sheer ability of his mother,and flabbergasted by the whole experience. He should be more suspicious, but something in his gut.. no his heart is telling him to take this at face value. "Mom.. He's got a little sister.. She's in trouble, and I don't really know how to help.."

Thomas Raith has posed:
Margret chuckles a little bit, "Probibly not. To be honest I was never one who was big on the whole 'following the rules' thing," She says with that amused smile. She nods when he mentions Inari, sadness creeping into her eyes, and yet a smirk on her lips. "He's scared of his father. And he should be, but.." and there is a bit of satisfaction in her voice, "Lord Raith perhaps isn't quite as powerful as he let's people believe..

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden tilts his head "What do you mean?" he asks curiously "ARe you telling me it's mostly a bluff?" he says as things click together, his investigative skills going to work for him. "So.." he starts to say something but shakes his head.. "He's still the White King.. so that's nothing to sneeze at.."

Thomas Raith has posed:
"No, no it's not." she agrees softly, eyes turning to look at Thomas and sighing, "And he's going kill your brother if he can. He's tried a few times. That incident with Bianca comes to mind." she looks back at Harry, "He needs your help, but you are going to need his too. Don't be afraid to lean on each other. I love you Harry.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden does something, he never thought he'ed be able to do ever in this life. He hugs his mother. "I love you too" he says tears pouring down his cheeks his voice cracking as he holds onto her the vision starting to fade as he returns to the present, sitting across from his brother in his Bludhaven office..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith exhales slowly... and he reaches over with a trembling hand and picks up his own coffee, taking a long slow sip. "Well, I warned you.." He says in a softly quavering voice as he tries to recompose himself.

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden takes his cup.. finishing it off.. "You're not, not right.." he says shakily setting his own coffee down before getting up to grab the box of kleenexes off his partners desk, drying his eyes and blowing his nose before tossing the box over to Thomas..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith catches the box without looking and wipes his own eyes with a tissue. "Well, did you get the proof you needed?" he asks softly, trying to recover his own composure after that unexpected visit. Almost subconsciously, he gives Harry a bit of concrete proof... taking a silver penticle out from under his shirt and stroking it's surface softly..

Harry Dresden has posed:
     "Yeah.. yeah I did." he says his voice gruff and a bit croaky as he clears his throat. "She said he's not near as invincible as he likes to put out there. So we've got a chance.. How long do we have before your...family tries something?" he asks..

Thomas Raith has posed:
Thomas Raith shrugs a bit, drinking a long sip of his coffee.. "Father took me to that strip club for my 17th birthday. My sister Elisa was allowed to have her boyfriend "sleep over" when she was 14... It varies is what I'm saying. But Inari is 17 now..."

Harry Dresden has posed:
     Harry Dresden nods.. "WE'll come up with something.. go home, get some sleep, keep an eye on her and your family." he orders planning on doing the same himself.. "We'll make sure she's safe, but she's going to need to be informed." he adds..