Veroe
Maestro/Truthseeker
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((Closed for myself and Ladythunder))
The Powerplant nightclub had a neon lights lined ceiling red and blue, Laser strobe lights. That glass balls from Middle School science classes with purple streaks of electricity that if one touched made their hair stand on end. Two big tesla coils with ropes of electricity climbing up the gap between them. But most of all it had speakers and loud, loud music. Music-if you call the bass pounding techno nonsense such a merciful label.
Mark Everett sat at the bar and looked down into the half-empty bottle of beer in his hand. This had not been a good year for him. He was a photographer for wildlife magazine. If you hadn't heard of it-you'd be one of the 99% of people worldwide in that category. The problem was in the publisher, not the content. Wildlife was a magazine that had embraced the adventuring lifestyle, a lifestyle Mark usually exemplified, but unfortunately the magazine folded and it seemed he was the greatest casualty, he had no idea why he had been blacklisted but for the past year he had been taking the occasional job shooting weddings or highschool proms.
But that was only the first of the little surprises of the year. His wife Clairice had sued for divorce and won total custody of their newborn daughter last week. It was hard to demonstrate how good of a father he could be when he was currently unemployed and the last job he had entailed taking pictures as he jumped out of a barrell rolling plane or other seemingly insane activiities.
And the worst was he was in a funk-a total depressed for months funk. Mark was not the funkish type. He was the type to go into the most drug-growing jungles of Southeast Asia armed with only a camera and a swiss army knife...that was what he needed...risk...danger...yeah...something that made him feel alive again.
That was who he was, eversince he was six and all his classmates and teacher were huddled under their desks trying not piss in their pants. He had been at the window staring in wonder at the black twisting column of the tornado as it passed through town. He had been fascinated by dangerous things and activities ever since.
Maybe he should hit up his buddy Eric (who'd Mark had been crashing with since Clairice had taken the apartment) for a bungie jumping trip or spelunking or rodeo lessons or something anything risky.
Eric wouldn't of course. He was in the 99% of people that thought Mark was certifiable, but they'd been buddies ever since college. So they were the odd couple. Eric would laugh at his proposed bungie adventure as suicidal nonsense. He'd pat Mark on the back saying: "All you need buddy is to get laid, and laid by a fine hottie." Ofcourse Eric was the type to think that being laid by a fine lady could solve any and all of the ills of men. The male version of duct tape and bailing wire were a willing woman's breasts and ass according to Eric.
So here Mark was waiting for, he looked at his watch, an hour and a half now, waiting for Eric to show up so they could begin the search for said fine hottie to get laid by and fix the funk he was in. But how could he do that without his wingman, his compadre, his buddy, his pal...if he aint in the emergency room I'll kill him, Eric.
He looked over the candidates dancing out on the dance floor. Most of the girls in the Powerplant were college age. Just the thought of hitting on them made him feel like some cradle-robbing bastard even though he was actually only a few years older than most of them.
Then he saw a woman cross his vision walking over to the table area of the danceclub. When she started to sway her hips to the beat that dress (if something so tissue thin and revealing without showing skin could be called an actual dress-fabric based burlesque show might be a more appropriate name.) moved with her curves perfectly. Mark felt a stirring in groin just watching her take a chair and he wasn't the only one either. Every fratboy, playa, and pretty much any creature with a healthy sex drive followed her mesmerized by each movement she took.
Mark didn't think she was the type to be oblivious to the attention she was receiving. she didn't seem to him to be the type to need it to thrive-not brazen, not vulgar-just am. Rather she reminded him of a female tiger he had gotten nose to camera lens with once (the one that had left him with three long scars down his back). She was definately a predator-not a sociopath (atleast he didn't think so) but definately had that air of danger around her-the aura of a tigress.
That tense sense of danger hung in the air thickly around her, no one was immune to it. Those at the tables near her quickly found something urgent elsewhere to be like sheep scattering from a wolf amongst them. He could see one group of fratboys casting wanting eyes over to them before turning back to swallow their beers and looking over to her then back for another shot of liquid courage.
Mark didn't need a liquidized form of courage he was born with an inexhaustible supply. People said he completely lacked a healthy sense of fear. They also said he was a glutton for punishment. He wasn't certain he believed that, but one thing was certain one way or the other tonight with this woman he was going to find out. He'd either receive yet another funk-maker disaster in the worst year of his life, or get lucky with the most dangerously attractive woman he'd ever seen. This was risk, this was living.
He crossed over the fratboys casting looks that said in no uncertain terms: "You Brave Bastard!" He came up to her sitting at her table and nodded to her saying confidently, "Hi, name's Mark Everett, can I get you a drink?"
The Powerplant nightclub had a neon lights lined ceiling red and blue, Laser strobe lights. That glass balls from Middle School science classes with purple streaks of electricity that if one touched made their hair stand on end. Two big tesla coils with ropes of electricity climbing up the gap between them. But most of all it had speakers and loud, loud music. Music-if you call the bass pounding techno nonsense such a merciful label.
Mark Everett sat at the bar and looked down into the half-empty bottle of beer in his hand. This had not been a good year for him. He was a photographer for wildlife magazine. If you hadn't heard of it-you'd be one of the 99% of people worldwide in that category. The problem was in the publisher, not the content. Wildlife was a magazine that had embraced the adventuring lifestyle, a lifestyle Mark usually exemplified, but unfortunately the magazine folded and it seemed he was the greatest casualty, he had no idea why he had been blacklisted but for the past year he had been taking the occasional job shooting weddings or highschool proms.
But that was only the first of the little surprises of the year. His wife Clairice had sued for divorce and won total custody of their newborn daughter last week. It was hard to demonstrate how good of a father he could be when he was currently unemployed and the last job he had entailed taking pictures as he jumped out of a barrell rolling plane or other seemingly insane activiities.
And the worst was he was in a funk-a total depressed for months funk. Mark was not the funkish type. He was the type to go into the most drug-growing jungles of Southeast Asia armed with only a camera and a swiss army knife...that was what he needed...risk...danger...yeah...something that made him feel alive again.
That was who he was, eversince he was six and all his classmates and teacher were huddled under their desks trying not piss in their pants. He had been at the window staring in wonder at the black twisting column of the tornado as it passed through town. He had been fascinated by dangerous things and activities ever since.
Maybe he should hit up his buddy Eric (who'd Mark had been crashing with since Clairice had taken the apartment) for a bungie jumping trip or spelunking or rodeo lessons or something anything risky.
Eric wouldn't of course. He was in the 99% of people that thought Mark was certifiable, but they'd been buddies ever since college. So they were the odd couple. Eric would laugh at his proposed bungie adventure as suicidal nonsense. He'd pat Mark on the back saying: "All you need buddy is to get laid, and laid by a fine hottie." Ofcourse Eric was the type to think that being laid by a fine lady could solve any and all of the ills of men. The male version of duct tape and bailing wire were a willing woman's breasts and ass according to Eric.
So here Mark was waiting for, he looked at his watch, an hour and a half now, waiting for Eric to show up so they could begin the search for said fine hottie to get laid by and fix the funk he was in. But how could he do that without his wingman, his compadre, his buddy, his pal...if he aint in the emergency room I'll kill him, Eric.
He looked over the candidates dancing out on the dance floor. Most of the girls in the Powerplant were college age. Just the thought of hitting on them made him feel like some cradle-robbing bastard even though he was actually only a few years older than most of them.
Then he saw a woman cross his vision walking over to the table area of the danceclub. When she started to sway her hips to the beat that dress (if something so tissue thin and revealing without showing skin could be called an actual dress-fabric based burlesque show might be a more appropriate name.) moved with her curves perfectly. Mark felt a stirring in groin just watching her take a chair and he wasn't the only one either. Every fratboy, playa, and pretty much any creature with a healthy sex drive followed her mesmerized by each movement she took.
Mark didn't think she was the type to be oblivious to the attention she was receiving. she didn't seem to him to be the type to need it to thrive-not brazen, not vulgar-just am. Rather she reminded him of a female tiger he had gotten nose to camera lens with once (the one that had left him with three long scars down his back). She was definately a predator-not a sociopath (atleast he didn't think so) but definately had that air of danger around her-the aura of a tigress.
That tense sense of danger hung in the air thickly around her, no one was immune to it. Those at the tables near her quickly found something urgent elsewhere to be like sheep scattering from a wolf amongst them. He could see one group of fratboys casting wanting eyes over to them before turning back to swallow their beers and looking over to her then back for another shot of liquid courage.
Mark didn't need a liquidized form of courage he was born with an inexhaustible supply. People said he completely lacked a healthy sense of fear. They also said he was a glutton for punishment. He wasn't certain he believed that, but one thing was certain one way or the other tonight with this woman he was going to find out. He'd either receive yet another funk-maker disaster in the worst year of his life, or get lucky with the most dangerously attractive woman he'd ever seen. This was risk, this was living.
He crossed over the fratboys casting looks that said in no uncertain terms: "You Brave Bastard!" He came up to her sitting at her table and nodded to her saying confidently, "Hi, name's Mark Everett, can I get you a drink?"