Cards Against Humanity
Disclaimer: If you haven't played Cards Against Humanity it's a really raunchy version of Apples to Apples; the tagline is "A party game for horrible people," so it will offend some. Every card the characters pick are real cards in the game, you have been warned!
Author's Note: So here's my first SVU story, hope you guys like it, enjoy.
Chapter 1: The Rules
It was near eleven o' clock at night and after a long and hectic week of work everything was winding down. Captain Cragen was gone for the night, most officers had left and the detectives were just about done with their paperwork. ADA Alex Cabot, ME Melinda Warner and Doctor George Huang had left their offices to wait for their friends. Just as the trio arrived Munch and Fin just finished their share of the work, Elliot was sitting patiently at his desk waiting for Olivia.
"Come on Liv, the rest of us are done." Elliot said "We're just waiting on you."
Olivia looked up from her paperwork and then saw everyone around the room. "Just give me five minutes guys."
"Fine, but I'm holding you to that." Elliot started going through his desk so he could pack up what he needed for the weekend. He stumbled upon a black box and grabbed it.
"What's that?" Alex asked while leaning against a wall, she noticed Elliot pausing for a few moments.
He looked up for a few seconds and then back at the box. "It's called 'Cards Against Humanity' last time I went up to Dickie's school one of his teachers gave it to me. She said she saw him playing it with a bunch of friends, said it was something inappropriate for a school environment."
"Cards Against Humanity?" Munch repeated. "What is that some type of doomsday scenario planning kids do?"
Fin and Melinda just looked at him, but neither decided to say anything.
"On the box it says 'A party game for horrible people.'" Elliot read.
"What an odd name for a game." George said from the corner.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Fin asked. "Let's see what this game is about."
"Ok," Elliot agreed. "Liv, are you done yet?"
After a few seconds of silence Olivia closed the manila folder and smiled at her partner. "I'm done now, but weren't we all going out for drinks?"
"There'll be plenty of time to go out drinking." Melinda said.
Olivia looked back at Elliot "Sure let's play."
They all went upstairs to the lounge so there would be more room; each of them grabbed a chair and sat at a big table in a circle. Elliot opened the box and saw instructions he gave them to George to read. Elliot took out the cards, mostly white cards and a stack of black cards. He picked up a white card randomly to see what was on them.
Elliot raised an eyebrow. "What kind of game is this? This card I picked up says 'throwing a virgin into a volcano'"
"Uh...ok...weird" Olivia said not fully getting what kind of cards these are.
"Let George read the instructions." Alex said.
George started to read aloud. "So each player starts with 10 white cards, they seem to have pretty raunchy things written on them. For each round there is a Card Czar who picks up a black card and has to read the question or fill-in-the-blank phrase. The rest of us have to pick which of their white cards are the best or funniest and place them face down. The Card Czar shuffles the cards and reads them all aloud and picks which one they like the best. Whoever they pick gets the black card, which is a point."
Everyone listened to George carefully and thought this could be interesting. "To make this a little more fair, does anyone have a cap that we can throw the cards into?" He asked. "This way there'll be no cheating."
"I got one in my locker." Fin said he got up to go get it.
In the meantime Elliot shuffled the white cards and then dealt them evenly. Fin returned with a Mets baseball cap and placed it in the center of the table.
"Also every round there is a new Card Czar and everybody picks up 1 new white card." George mentioned. "So who wants to go first?"
"Elliot should go first." Olivia smiled at him. "These are his cards."
Elliot smiled back. "Ok, let the game begin."
"I got a feeling something stupid is going to happen." Alex said while looking at the cards she was dealt.
"I agree with that." Melinda said.
"C'mon, this is all in good fun." Fin said reassuringly.
With that Elliot drew the first black card.
Let the insanity ensue! Love it? Hate it? Review, should I continue?