Club Opening

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

Eavesdropping from outside, Crowley had to admit that Aziraphale had done a pretty good job in speaking to all the club employees about their duties, though she'd known for a long time that the angel could be snarky when he wanted. After a while, the low throb of pulsing bass started and coloured lights were visible in flashes between the curtains.

When Kira finally opened the curtain, she smiled sweetly at him from her position as first in line. "Hello, darling. You'll let me in, of course..."


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[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

With the slightest pout of perfect red lips, Antoinette sighed, though internally she was quite pleased by the reaction. "It's very rude to ask a lady her age, you know..." But she reached silkily into her ample cleavage to retrieve a British identification card that hadn't been there before, but featured a rather sexy picture and a birthday of October 21, 1969. It was faintly warm when she handed it to him. "Everything's quite in order, gorgeous."

[i-have-my-flaws.livejournal.com]

It was entirely predictable that Starbuck be the first person to show up after Antoinette, seeing as this whole shebang was taking place practically in her backyard. That, and there was alcohol involved, she could practically smell it.

"You know, I'd wondered what was going on back here," she told Kira as she approached, looking slightly more put together after grabbing some jeans (with some embroidered cartoon character on them around mid-thigh, not that she knew which one it was) from one of the clothing stores so she didn't show up in her flight suit. "But every time I thought to come back and check things something always... came up." In truth, she had no idea what had stopped her from going back there, but she decided she had just been too busy. Nevermind the chills she gotten when she approached the back area of Space Mountain.

"Are you really in charge of who gets in?" she asked with a smirk. "Did someone give you specific criteria, or are you just allowed to be a jerk?" Not that she minded either way. It was good for entertainment.

[katou-moon.livejournal.com]

Katou was on the stage, wearing the suit that he had sent himself from the future (though, the tie was rather crooked because he hadn't tied one of those since he was nine years old, and apparently it wasn't just like riding a bike), and tuning his guitar. He probably should have done that before the club opened, but he had been too busy getting a few drinks in him. The night may have been young, but if he intended to get so drunk that he couldn't even stand, he needed to get started early. Not that there was any reason why he wanted to get that drunk, other than the fact that he hadn't gotten that drunk in the past half-year.

He shot Antoinette a smile when he came in, and then turned to Reira and Nana. "Oi," he said in Japanese (roughly translating to 'oi'). "What do you guys wanna play first?" he supposed that he should have gotten together with them to decide what order they were gonna play in, but it hadn't occurred to him at the time. After all, with his last band, it wasn't completely unheard of for all of the members to be playing completely different songs at the same time.

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

Smiling back, Antoinette came over. "I know you're busy, so I won't interrupt you too much, dearest, but I haven't seen you in ages. How are you?"

[caycep]

Cayce waved at Kira as she approached. "Hey there. Brought a gift for the management, in case there's a need for music between band sets." And she handed him a freshly-burned CD.

((Which will be updated with actual song links as soon as YouSendIt stops being a little bitch the day goes by. Feel free to link to individual songs in the course of threadage.))

[much-morebetter.livejournal.com]

Now, Jack, feeling he had missed something, was staring at the flashing curtains, slightly confused, but extremely curious.

He was currently on the concept of "flashing lights = lightning. Lightning = Dead Sparrow".

Curiosity always fries the bird. Jack wandered inside.

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

While Kira was paying attention to Jack Sparrow (http://community.livejournal.com/dizzy_land/93082.html?thread=6017178#t6017178), Setsuna walked up next to him, and considered walking right past him, much as Jack had done. In fact, he started to, but deliberately walked slow enough so Kira could pull him back.

[kuchiki.livejournal.com]

Taking advantage of the lack of people manning the door, at least for the time being, Rukia darted inside while Kira was cuddling Setsuna. Looking around the place curiously, she found herself impressed even though she could easily imagine Byakuya's scoffing and Ichigo's contempt for a place like this. Renji might have enjoyed it, though, and Inoue certainly would have loved the light show.

[john-adams-1776.livejournal.com]

After a quiet dinner full of pleasant adult conversation and no little blushing on both parts, John was in an excellent mood as with Susan on his arm, they made their way to the Entertainment in Tomorrowland. He still wasn't entirely confident with his new dancing abilities, though Rukia's tutelage had been most helpful, but he thought Susan might be inclined to forgive his ignorance if he managed not to embarrass himself entirely.

There was no one in front of the door as they approached, so John held open the curtain to allow his partner to step inside. "Indeed," he murmured at nothing in particular as he processed the lights and sounds of his new surroundings. Then, "Susan, may I get you a drink?"

[sensiblesusan.livejournal.com]

"Yes -- thank you." She looked around, an uncharacteristically bewildered expression briefly crossing her face. It wasn't that she was totally unfamiliar with the roundworld ideas of what constituted a night out with music, but finding oneself in the middle of the real thing was ... well. Loud, a bit tacky, and bloody hell those lights were annoying.

The sight of Katou and the two girls reminded her of someone she hadn't thought of in a long time: a boy with curly dark hair, a guitar, and a most peculiar destiny. She wondered how he was getting on and whether he ever did get out of the chip-shop in Quirm, and smiled fondly in remembrance.

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

Antoinette was standing alone off to one side of the room with a martini in hand, just in case anyone wished to speak with her. She was watching Aziraphale, making sure he wasn't in over his head, and entertaining herself with evil plans to spring on each of the individuals present. Not that she could do much in such an enclosed environment, but it passed the time.

[caycep]

After her conversation with John and Daniel, Cayce decided she'd better go introduce herself to Crowley's sister. Because she did consider Crowley her friend*, and it seemed only right to say hello.

She got a fresh vodka tonic and made her way through the room to Antoinette. "Ah -- hi there. You must be Crowley's sister. I'm Cayce Pollard."

*And, in truth, just a friend, standing flirtation aside. In fact, Cayce wouldn't have allowed the flirtation to stand if she had thought it was ever going to go anywhere for real.

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

When Leon had seen the sign about the party (and the bartending, signed by the guy who apparently owned all the alcohol), he had been rather excited to go to the club and maybe get a few beers in him.

He headed, noting that there wasn't a bouncer even though there probably should have been. He brushed it off, telling himself that he wouldn't get all coppy here, and headed to the bar.

"I'll have a beer," he said, glancing at the bartenders, and then looking around the rest of the club.

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

"What, anything, or do you have a preference? Or shall I just pick?"

He grinned, feeling well-disposed towards anyone who was drinking beer after all the wine and cocktail snobbery he'd seen, especially from that one guy in the suit.

[notpotteryet.livejournal.com]

Lily was hesitant to go inside the club. It didn't seem like the kind of place she'd like. But she remembered Crowley as being a gentleman to her when she'd first arrived, and curiosity got the better of her.

Lily's initial gut instinct was right: This really wasn't the sort of hangout she'd normally favor. At the same time, she had to be impressed with how they'd managed all this considering their scant resources.

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

James had been watching for Lily, and when she came in, he smiled to himself. Pretending he hadn't seen her, he wiped a glass. She'd see him eventually, and hopefully she'd come see him.

[under-arrest-d.livejournal.com]

Seeing the woman that he had had his eyes on for the night free, Leon headed towards Antoinette.

Picking up women had never really been his strong suit, but that had never stopped him in the past.

"Hey, I couldn't help noticing you, and I wanted to know... Did it hurt?"

[anthony-crowley.livejournal.com]

Antoinette didn't reply immediately - though there might have been an amused look hidden behind her sunglasses - she instead took a long, deep sip of her drink, her pink tongue just touching the rim of the glass.

"Did what hurt, darling?"

[katou-moon.livejournal.com]

Deciding what the band should play had been one of the harder decisions that Katou had made, especially since Nana and Reira had such different sounds. Especially because he didn't want to give one or another more songs than the other, since he knew that Nana didn't particularly like Reira and was sure she'd get jealous if Reira had more songs, and though Reira seemed a lot more easy going, she had been rather famous and was sure that she'd feel the same if Nana got more songs.

He had intended to throw in some Sex Pistols by surprise for Nana, since he knew that they were her favourite band, but he hadn't learned how to play them very good, so he'd have to save it for their next show.

He had been thinking, while talking to Crowley, about what order they should play the few songs that they were ready to preform. He finally decided on starting and ending songs that he had gotten the girls to sing together.

The song that he decided to open with was an upbeat rock song, one of the few Japanese songs that Katou listened to, called Knife of Romance (http://www.sendspace.com/file/1kr81z).

The next song was one of Nana's bands songs, called Lovin' You (http://www.sendspace.com/file/zjra9u), before moving on to Reira's Celestial Delinquent (http://www.sendspace.com/file/pjper4), then on to Nana's Ah Ah (http://www.sendspace.com/file/maxyod), and then slowing down a little with Reira's Recorded Butterflies (http://www.sendspace.com/file/uwfxnn). Then, because a lot of things Katou had been doing lately revolved around making Crowley happy, he got them to sing Learning to Fly (http://www.sendspace.com/file/egezxq).

This would have been the end of the concert, but Katou had been getting progressively drunker throughout. By the end, whatever inhibitions he had about singing in public, and er... having shame, kind of melted, and as the girls got off the stage, he broke out singing Give Me Head (http://www.sendspace.com/file/m5gjkh).

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

Standing as close to the stage as he could, Setsuna listened and watched the small band, intently, his eyes almost always focused on Katou's fingers and the strings reverberating beneath them. For as long as the music played, Setsuna's world faded away, until only the stage existed. Not alcohol, nor dancing, nor anything short of Sara, honestly, could have pulled him away. Well, Kira could have. Maybe.

The blond brat remained mesmerized up until the last song, where he cracked up, and couldn't stop laughing. As soon as the song was over, whether anyone could hear him or not, he said, "Either Katou's been smoking something, or he's had one too many to drink." But either way, Setsuna was amused.

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

At the bar, after he thought he left Kira (http://community.livejournal.com/dizzy_land/93082.html?thread=6151834#t6151834), Setsuna smiled happily, recognizing Sirius (but unable to recall his name, damn...), and said, "Hey...umm, you mind giving me something random? I like being surprised. I just don't like beer, and prefer sweet drinks, but other than that think I'd like whatever you feel like giving me. That a problem?"

Another dry cough sounded, and Setsuna pulled back to cough away from the bar, then straightened again, still smiling, while a small voice in the back of his mind suggested he lay off the cigarettes. Setsuna argued back he hardly ever had any, and he didn't want to, so there.