Mauvaise Chance Apartments - Early, Early, God Awful Early Saturday Morning

[hatesparadise]

It had been a normal, peaceful morning that was so early it was practically the night before still. If one wanted to be specific. Or if they were still constrained by the tyrant of time.

Then a piercing noise sounded throughout the building as a fire alarm went off.

Because why get a good night's sleep when you could be dragged out of bed to wait on the tiny, under-worked Fandom Fire Department to come make sure everything was fine?

[Open! Make those threads messy!]

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[hatesparadise]

Danny's hair was an absolute mess and he was wearing a stolen Navy sleep shirt as he squinted around the grounds like this was all on purpose to upset him personally.

Which was fair.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve was super casually stuffing his gun into his sleep pants and squinting at Danny's shirt. "Huh. So that's where that went."

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Why is the building shouting at us?" Jaskier asked loudly. To be heard over the alarm and because he was very put out that his beauty sleep was being interrupted.

[thatwaslucky]

"It was probably an accident and we have to listen to it anyway," Rey said, just a little annoyed.

(She was a lot annoyed by this.)

[thatwaslucky]

That noise was the worst.

Rey was out here with her hair down for once, dressed in a tank top and pants, which probably didn't look out of the ordinary aside from the boots she'd shoved on before leaving. She'd also grabbed her satchel on the way out, because it had felt weird to leave the lightsaber behind when an alarm was going off and also because she didn't want to get locked out of her apartment.

"Can they just turn the alarm off?"

[firstofitskind]

"Not until someone from the Fire Department comes by and checks to make sure nothing's actually wrong," Liam informed her, looking far too awake and cheerful than anyone had any right to be at this hour, alarm or no alarm.

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui, as it so happened, was actually on his way back from...whatever it was he did with himself when he seemed to just disappear for a bit, and he had been looking forward to slouching into bed and sleeping away most of Saturday, only to discover it was not an unusual brash siren song of sleep calling to him as he neared but the building itself and far more activity than one ever wanted to see when all one wanted was their bed.

And while, yes, he could sleep through a lot of things and rarely required an actual bed, this seemed like it would be a challenge to sleep through, even for him.

[weirderthanthou]

"Late night?" Jesse greeted him wryly, with a little wave. Did you just wave at him? Jesse, you awkward nerd.

[weirderthanthou]

When the alarm went off, Jesse had grabbed for the Service Weapon, bolting across the apartment in search of a trace of anything off.

Five minutes later, she was standing outside in a shirt and her duckie pyjama pants, Service Weapon tucked into her pocket. So much for hiding that.

[hatesparadise]

"I don't think it's a situation where you need that," Danny said dryly. He was, undoubtedly, going to have to say this same thing to Steve.

[thatwaslucky]

As someone who'd grabbed her own weapon but had it hidden, the weapon didn't surprise Rey that much.

But Jesse was a new person that she hadn't met, and now they got to stand outside at night, so now she was getting that awkward little smile that said 'hi this is stupid.'

[grenadesandohana]

"Stand down," Steve teased, smiling in his sleep shorts and definitely-too-tight Newark PD t-shirt.

With his own weapon tucked away not dirty.

[notallbluemonks]

Please, Beau wasn't going to judge anyone about being armed in these situations.

It was an interesting weapon, though, and she was an interminably inquisitive person, so she did raise an eyebrow at it as she passed by.

[long_memory]

Silver had no idea what was going on but he was extremely put out by the fact his sleep had gotten interrupted. He barely got a full night's rest in the first place thanks to his leg. He had at least managed to put on pants before exiting the building.

He was now sitting up against a tree, his crutch placed over his lap, and looked like he was attempting to fall asleep again as if that were actually possible right now.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Terrible morning," Jaskier said, raising his voice to be heard over the sound of the alarm.

[thatwaslucky]

"Ugh," Rey greeted him, coming to sit on the other side of the tree because she was annoyed and needed to do something besides standing there.

Now she'd sit there in stead, take that.

[grenadesandohana]

"Hey," Steve said, settling down nearby. "Danny'll have this figured out soon."

Or Steve would go back in and shoot the alarm. He was a problem solver that way.

[firstofitskind]

Congratulations, Silver, your wish for a coffee had been granted!

It was convenience-store coffee from the Kwik Stop, so nothing near as good as the Perk could make, but. It was coffee!

"Rey sent me," Liam offered as explanation, holding out the cup.

[shapethecentury]

Bucky was fully dressed. Like, hoodie and gloves kind of fully dressed, and he had a backpack slung over one shoulder. He had a lot of experience exiting places at a moment's notice with only the essentials.

Now that it looked like there was no actual fire, he'd spent a few seconds considering just sneaking back in. But he kind of figured that risked drawing too much unnecessary attention.

So he was just going to keep to the sidelines and wait this thing out.

[hatesparadise]

"You okay, pal?" Because yes, that was some full on 'bug out bag' shit there. And Danny knew it when he saw it thanks to the idiot he lived with.

[firstofitskind]

Liam lived at the other, far more sparsely populated apartment building, so he had been spared the indignity of being woken up by the alarm.

Liam had also gone two months without someone around to coax him into attempting to sleep like a normal person, so he'd fallen back into old habits and was in fact not even asleep in his own apartment but out for a walk when he noticed the group of people milling about the building, alarm still shrieking.

"Well," he observed drily. "At least you know the alarm works." You know, in case there was ever a reason for that alarm to go off that wasn't just 'wake everyone up at a terribly inconvenient hour'.

[thatwaslucky]

Rey loved you, Liam. But she was still cranky and narrowing her eyes at you for that.

[solarhippie]

Karolina looked like she was about to fall back to sleep standing up. It would probably be extra inadvisable for a tall chick like her but look, keeping her eyes open was hard, okay?

Also, was anyone surprised she was wearing rainbow-themed pajamas? Because they really shouldn't be.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"Perhaps if you move over toward the tree?" Jaskier suggested loudly. He gestured over to where Silver was sullenly leaning.

Make it a sleeping tree. Which was now a thing.

[notallbluemonks]

Beau, barefoot, with her hair half out of its topknot and one side of her blue tanktop partly tucked into the waistband of her grey shorts, was cranky -- big surprise -- and glaring at everyone (well, almost everyone).

"This is bullshit," she grumbled. "Like, we aren't even being attacked by bandits or anything and you wake us up for this?"

She had her staff in hand, to no one's surprise, because SERIOUSLY MIDNIGHT ATTACKS ON YOUR SLEEPING PARTY WERE THE ONLY VALID REASON TO BE ABRUPTLY WOKEN LIKE THIS.

[hatesparadise]

Danny was giving the staff such an annoyed look. Because he'd already had to talk to Steve and the mayor about bringing weapons on a fire drill.

"None of us are happy about this."

[texted3times]

Eric tended not to sleep in the same place for many nights (well, days) in a row because it's not paranoia when people really are out to kill you. He'd come back to his apartment after his night at Fangtasia and had been lounging around in a bubble bath texting with Pam when the alarm went off.

Which was why he was gracing you all with his presence in nothing but a hot pink thong. You're welcome, you're welcome.

He was keep an eye on the horizon, though. If got too late, he'd head over to the bar to not burst into flame.

[ohvalleyofpenis]

"...well, hello there." Jaskier may be tired, but he still had the energy to flirt.

[notarockharpist]

Yasha didn't live here.

Yasha had been asleep, too, but last night had been one of the nights where sleeping inside was too difficult for her and she'd ended up wandering over to the park and dozing off under a tree there instead, so all the commotion had startled her awake.

Which was why, when she approached, her eyes were solid black and a massive pair of skeletal, bat-like wings was spread out behind her. (Though that sort of thing tended to blend into the darkness if you weren't looking straight on, or not awake enough to notice, or something like that.)

"What is going on?"

[hatesparadise]

"Fire alar---what the actual hell?!" Well, Danny was nice and awake now. So, thanks for that, Yasha.