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Video above A Rose for Epona by Elueitie A Celtic Metal Band (sounds the most like Marley's Song and Pandemonium's Celtic/Modern sound.  Gif above of Francisco Lachowski. How I picture: Oliver (Ollie) Kallisto 

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The door to the club looked like any other but it was guarded by two ginormous Halfblood giant brothers. They served as both the doormen and the bouncers. Needless to say they rarely had trouble in the club.

Lauren snickered when she was reminded of the Princess Bride quote 'You are the Brute Squad.'

Each brother was two times the size of Andre the Giant.

She had made Zach sit through Princess Bride repeatedly the first year they had met. At twelve she had been a hopeless romantic and had fallen in love with Wesley and Buttercup. Zach would tease her relentlessly when she ohhhh and awed over the, 'As you wish' quote and when the narrator would explain that what he really meant when he said it waaaaas 'I love you'.

She seriously melted.

He teased her every time, but she didn't care, she loved the film, and everything about it.

The giants recognized her and nodded their heads, but not before the bigger of the two said, "hey looks like we have a couple of Newbies here. Welcome to the club."

The other brother just laughed and said, "Literally" and they both chuckled.

When they reached the door Lauren let Quinn do the honors. This experience was after all something he was never going to forget.

He swung the door wide and the rest of the gang followed behind them.

There was a bright flash of red light and then the music was pumping loud enough to burst her ear drums and the dance floor was filled with creatures of every description. The bar was to the right and the stage was to the left of them. The dance floor took up the rest of the room in the center.

Quinn ducked down to yell in her ear, "There aren't any seats or bathrooms. Where are they?"

Lauren pointed up to a second floor suspended in mid air. The tables and chairs, and couches with intimate little sitting areas, were literally sitting on an invisible floor.

Creatures walked around upstairs on the non-existent surface. Seeming spookily suspended in midair. Really, it wasn't like a glass floor that had black strips of metal around them to support them. This was an honest to God invisible floor.

She just shook her head and thought God I love my world as she watched the guys craning their heads this way and that trying to take it all in.

Donnie's eyes nearly fell out of his head when Kelly walked by above in her skintight black mini skirt. Oh yeah Lauren thought you don't wear a skirt to the club unless you're an exhibitionist or you absolutely have nothing to hide. Kelly fell into both categories.

Donnie spoke up in a choked voice and asked "Mio Dio how do I get up there?" and pointed to Kelly's location."

Lauren was beginning to wonder if Donnie wouldn't mind "being part of her world" too.

"Yeah," Zach said right in her ear, leaning in close so she could hear him, "where are the stairs?"

A tight shiver ran down her spine as a breath of air left his mouth and tickled her lobe.

She turned her head to answer him as he proffered his ear to her. It was comical that he was nearly bent in half to accomplish this.

She spoke softly making sure she let out a puff of air as well, "There are none?"

Lauren held back her satisfied smile when she saw him shiver.

Nope! Stop it, stop it, stop it, Okay Nash first and last slip she promised herself.

Deliberately addressing Quinn and everyone else, she said, "Just touch the wall. And do a little dance." She said wickedly.

They all looked at her like she'd suddenly grown four heads instead of two.

It was a struggle to keep a straight face, but she did.

When the guys saw a couple walk up to the wall and just touch the wall and disappear.

Zach turned to her with a stern expression, "Lauren," he reprimanded, "Haven't you ever heard of the boy who cried wolf?"

"What?" she asked innocently," A girl can't have a little fun?"

Lauren grabbing Quinn's hand and taking it in her own, gave him a look, before placing both their hands on the magic wall.

It vibrated deliciously through her entire body before she miraculous appeared in front of an unoccupied part of the wall above.

Quinn never having had the experience of disporting before just looked at her in wonder.

She knew what that look meant: the vibration of the wall had affected him in much the same way it had her.

She had closed the bar more than once to see couples taking advantage of the sensation as they grinded on each other against the wall. They would just keep appearing and disappearing until they were both satisfied.

Lauren, lost in her thoughts, forgot that she was still holding Quinn's hand and their other hand still rested on the vibrating wall. She could tell what he was thinking because from this angle she could see that his eyes were starting to change into their animal form.

That woke her from her reverie and she quickly snatched her hand away.

She blushed furiously from head to toe before taking a long shuddering breath and laughing nervously.

Quinn just leaned in intimately and whispered in her ear, "I can't wait to go back downstairs."

She couldn't help the coy smile she gave him.

Oh yeah this was right. This was far easier. She needed to explore this.

Just then she was poked in the back of the knee with a crutch and her leg went out from under her comically. She turned to reprimand Meg, but was grabbed in a fierce hug before she could.

"You're late. Marley's already gone down to start her set. We're over here," she said and she pointed to a cluster of couches and chairs and the crew that sat around them.

Everyone but Xander and Liv was there in here place sat Ollie in all his hotness. She sucked in a shuddering breath when she locked eyes with him. Everything about the guy spelled sex: his tall lean form looked like it had been sculpted by a master, his chiseled features and his olive complexion, and his luscious lips, but his eyes were the piéces de résistance. They were the deepest brown almost black with golden flecks all around the iris. A girl could get lost in those eyes.

Meg thankfully jabbed her with her crutches again, and yelled, "earth to Lauren come back space cadet."

That was it. The spell was broken, "he did it again didn't he?"

"Yeah I got caught with the whammy when I saw him too. Cameron was none too pleased."

They both laughed.

Now that she was out of his spell she could see that he wasn't dressed spectacularly, Just a pair of jeans and a tight fitting white v-neck t-shirt and a pair of loafers. Lauren guessed when you were that hot you didn't even need to try.

The gang sat in an area that had three couches and two chairs with a table between them and a big square coffee table between them all. On one couch sat Oliie, Ray and Cam who looked like he was holding a spot for Meg. On the other one beside that sat Ryan Travis and Kyle. Thanks to Trav's enormous size there wasn't room for a forth. Kelly took a spot in one of the chairs next to Brenna in the other. Of course Connor was not too far away from her, he never was, he had taken up a spot standing behind her.

That left the last couch for them. She rushed over and promptly took the edge. The last thing she wanted was to be squished between Zach and Quinn. CJ took the spot at the other end that which just left two more spots. Quinn nabbed the one next to her which left Donnie and Zach to duke it out for the remaining seat. The music stopped than and it made Lauren laugh, because she was reminded of a game of musical chairs. There were only just enough seats bar one.

Zach deferred the seat to Donnie and remained standing.

When Kelly yelled over," You can come sit with me Sugah," Lauren didn't know how to feel, but she knew murderously jealous wasn't one of them. Surely, she wasn't jealous of Kelly?

When Zach took her up on the offer and perched himself on the arm of her seat Lauren did her best to ignore it.

Thankfully, she was distracted by the band taking the stage. Marley played in an all demon band. Which Lauren hoped was an antithesis of how she viewed herself. Just then Marley took the stage with her electric guitar in her hand. The other five members of the band followed her carrying much more eccentric instruments. Marely had told her once that each member of her band was ancient and knew how to play dozens of instruments, but a lot of the time they preferred the antique instruments to the modern ones.

So it was not weird for her to see a harpsichord, a lire, a hurdie gurdie on stage. In fact the stage was littered with instruments, new and old. They were in for a real show tonight Lauren thought. Just then Marley looked up and locked eyes with Ollie and struck the strings of her guitar so violently that Lauren thought they might snap. 

Oh yeah there was definitely trouble in paradise.

And she began to sing and the crowd went nuts. This was everyone's favorite song. She grabbed Quinn's hand and said, "She usually waits until the end of the night to play this. We have got to dance to it."

Apparently everyone felt the same way as the tables cleared. After all if the halfbloods ever had an anthem this would be it.

And Marley began to sing the song she wrote, while the music played softly behind her, in a surprisingly deep and dulcet tone. It was soft and sultry to begin with, but then it became frenzied and she began to scream the lyrics into the microphone. While the band played behind her with their signature Celtic Thrash Metal sound.

Marley's Song :
"Out of Order"
Pandemonium

I didn't ask for this
I was born this way
I didn't ask for this
And for this I must pay

A flower grown wild
I am your shame
You planted your seed
And just walked away

I'm not your child
I am your stray
Like a cat that prowls the night
I don't even know your name

I didn't ask for this
I was born this way
I didn't ask for this
Go away they say

Powers that be
You can't abide me
But I won't let you
Define, hide or deny me

Halfblood or fullblood
Who gives a fuck
Being born this way
was just my bad luck

I didn't ask for this
I was born this way
I didn't ask for this
But I'm here to stay

Conscript me, afflict me
Hold that leash tight
Suppress me, molest me
Or else I might bite

I didn't ask for this
I was born this way
I didn't ask for this
I won't go away

Evil demon
Dark or light
I'll tell you what
I'll fight for what's right

Neglect me, reject me
I don't give a damn
I won't put my power
Into your hands

I didn't ask for this
Don't get in my way
I didn't ask for this

...Or I'll make you pay

The crowd went crazy. They punching their fists in the air and surging toward the stage. They jumped up and down together cheered at the end. Everyone felt empowered by the sentiment.

Lauren was breathless and exhilarated by the end. Quinn was holding her in his arms. And she was beaming up at him and then he surprised her when he ducked his head towards her and captured her lips with his. His lips were soft yet firm as he parted them with his own to open her up more fully to him.

She was breathless and shocked, she hadn't seen this coming, and she was even more shocked by the sudden realization that she was kissing him back.

All of a sudden she felt a finger poke her shoulder insistently.

When she broke away from the kiss she saw Zach's displeased expression. He looked like he was about to scold a school girl as he said, pointing at his watch," aren't you forgetting something?"

She looked down at hers and saw that it was five minutes to midnight. She had to meet her contact in a few minutes. Wow she had almost forgotten. 

Get your head in the game Nash, she reprimanded herself.

She had a brother to find and save. How selfish could she be anyway? Dancing and kissing a guy when she was supposed to be concentrating on her lost sibling.

"Hurry up we better get going," Zach insisted irritably.

Lauren blushed with embarrassment, but stopped him from dragging her away and said, "Wait a minute I have to meet him alone."

"Well get over it. That's not going to happen. I'm coming with you."

"Oh no you're not." She yelled.

Quinn stepped between them and said, "She's not going to meet him alone. I'm going with her."

"Listen you two idiots. You can say you're coming with me all you want, but my contact left explicit instructions to come alone. That means NOBODY else but me. And I am NOT risking scaring him off." She said emphatically.

Just then Quinn started taking off his jacket and shirt much to the enjoyment of most of the females on the dance floor. He was seriously sculpted.

She just shook her head and asked, "What does you stripping have to do with me not going alone?"

"Well he didn't say anything about not bringing a pet."

Zach said, "that doesn't even make sense; you don't need to take off your clothes to shift," he looked at the jacket he held with disdain.

Quinn just smirked and said," What? I don't want to get them dirty," and promptly shifted into a big black coyote which look surprisingly like a big black dog.

Zach just whined and said, "He's never going to buy that. Look at him. He looks like a wild animal not a pet."

Just then Quinn started wagging his tail madly and put on a big doggy grin. He even whine and barked for good measure, and then Zach had to admit he looked just like any old household pet.

When Quinn started rubbing himself against her legs she forgot herself and started rubbing his head and flanks in return.

Kelly staggered over to them then with a big metal chain in her hand and fishbowl size drink in the other.

"This belongs to the nice biker gentleman over there he was using it as belt." She slurred and wiggled her fingers at the half demon who gave her a big pointy tooth grin in response.

Just as she said that she interrupted a couple on the dance floor and whispered something in the vampire's ear. He promptly took off the dog collar he was wearing and handed it to her. The naiad he was dancing with was so pissed she stormed off the dance floor.

Wow Lauren thought to wield that much power and not even have a hint of siren or succubus in you must be so f'n cool.

Kelly bent down then and placed the collar around Quinn's neck then fastened the belt to the loop on the collar. When she was done she ruffled Quinn head and said, "Good doggy." Before standing up on her four inch heels and sashaying over to a handsome half-blood Drake that was giving her the eye.

Lauren got a whiff of alcohol off of Kelly as she walked away and had to wonder if she was really that okay with Xander dating someone else. It smelled like she was trying to drown her sorrows.

Quinn watched her walk away to and turned to just give Lauren one of those head titled to the side looks that dogs get when they don't understand, which made her laugh out loud.

Just then Lauren's phone buzzed in her clutch and when she went to answer it she noticed it said:

I'm here.

Meet me outside in the back alley.

How the hell had he gotten her number?

Zach grabbed the phone and quickly reading it, said, "Hell no!"

Lauren was getting frustrated beyond belief.

"Zach, she said in a voice as cold as the arctic wind, "remind me after this is all said and done, to have a little talk to you about boundaries and how you're stepping all over mine. Back off! "She finished with a flourish.

He seemed to get the message then as she grabbed Quinn's leash off the floor and sauntered by him.

Kelly laughed and yelled out, "You tell him sugah," to her departing frame as she stepped out the back door.

Tune in tomorrow to find out what's waiting for her outside the club. Will she get the information she seeks, or will she get far more than she bargained for.

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