Anger and Control
Girls clung in groups along the corridor giggling and chattering among themselves, many heading together to someplace special. Boys too flocked in small gangs, all heading to clubs and rooms in different directions. She stormed down the corridor with her somewhat wrecked trainers stomping heavily down on the expensive carpeted flooring. Girls squeaked and jumped out of her way, and boys barley managed to scatter before she bulldozed clean through them. Her bootlegged jeans danced madly and her loose, grey T-shirt bounced a little with her step. She came to a tall white pare of doors with a sign above them marked "Music room" in Japanese, though she couldn't read it. With a violent push, that wasn't strong enough to hurt anyone or break anything, she shoved both doors open. Everyone inside froze in surprise.
"STEPHANIE WHIPS!" She roared, storming over to a blond haired, brown eyed girl, perching elegantly on a rose coloured settee.
"Hello, Guns." Stephanie replied, somewhat unbothered by the sudden invasion.
"What are you doing here? You said we came here for research! You said we came here for the Jobs! Not some…Some school!" Guns ranted, stomping to stand in front of her.
"Yes, I did. And I am researching. Researching the social life of more fortunate teenagers." She was totally calm before the raging stranger, who she seemed to know well. The girl called Guns growled loudly and ran her fingers through her messy, blond-brown hair and shut her faded blue eyes for a moment.
"You had me worried sick! Not everyone knows exactly where everyone and everything is! And also-" She paused for a moment, noticing something in the back corner. "Is that a karaoke machine?" Steph nodded. "And does it just so happen to have the Disney classic mix in there?" She nodded again. Guns let out a squeal of delight and darted over as quick as she could. Soon enough, she was happily singing away to 'A Whole New World' having completely forgotten her rage. Steph returned her attention to her tea.
"Who's that?" Asked a short, adorable blond boy, hugging his rabbit toy and tapping Stephanie's shoulder.
"That's my friend and colleague. Her name's Danielle Gerry Scar. She's a little insane but generally harmless. Not intentionally, at least." Steph explained, putting down her elegant teacup. "I've known her since I was six. And I've been living under the same roof as her for the last five years." The blond boy nodded, and then walked off to a waiting slice of chocolate cake. All of a sudden, Dani noticed the hansom boys running the club. She dropped her microphone and watched for a moment as the leader of the club flirted pointlessly with a few screaming fangirls.
"You have been going to a club…Run by flirts? No! No, no, no, no, no! I'll let you go to this school, but you are NOT going to muck around in this Junior Harem!"
"Gu-uns, you're over-reacting." Steph sung, turning to face her. "You might offend someone and these are some very powerful people. Don't want to get tangled up in this kind of legal power." Dani roared again, even louder that earlier, with a more exaggerated version of the action.
"Would you like some cake, Scar-san?" Asked the sweet blond boy. Dani held out a hand, the rest of her still frozen in position. A small hand slipped into hers and the short teen began to drag her to one of the small round tables. Guns let out a cry of shock as she stumbled behind him inelegantly at his unexpected strength. With a laugh, he encouraged her to take a seat and slipped onto his own seat. As he was serving the cake, Danielle took the opportunity to get a proper look at him. She let out a sudden cry of delight, and hugged him over the table. The white sleeves of her long sleeved undershirt wrapped around his shoulders gently and her head rested on to of his.
"You are so cute! Like a kitten and a puppy and a teddy all squished into one!"
"I think we've found her host." Steph informed them without any real use.
Long after all the guests had left and the host club in technically closed, Dani and Steph still sat in the room. Steph was huddled over a laptop, clearly researching something and Danielle was practically lying, half asleep on the table beside her. Her arms were crossed under her chin and she was singing quietly to herself as she daydreamed. Out of sheer curiosity, the king of the host club, Tamaki wondered over. At first, he tried to see what Steph was doing, but couldn't make sense of the long, combinations of English and Latin words. He then noticed a glint of sliver buried beneath Dani's thick hair. Her brushed the waved of blond-brown aside to reveal a metal cuboid, roughly an inch tall, two inches wide and a centimetre thick. It was fused with the flesh of her neck and covered in a few colourful buttons and dials as well a thumb sized LED screen, with a pretend thermometer in it. Beside it, it said '50 Sensitivity' in English. Curiously, he tapped the bottom of the thermometer. It suddenly dropped down to where he touched. The words charged to red '0 sensitivity'. Dani let out a squeal and froze totally, not even daring to breath. Without looking, Steph tapped it back to where it was.
"It's suggestible that you resist playing with that, Tamaki: That's the only thing that gives her a sense of feeling and if she hasn't got any feeling that she hasn't got any control." She explained, using a slightly posher voice. Tamaki didn't fully understand what she meant.
"She means that if this is low then I can end up destroying everything by mistake because I'm-" Steph slapped her hand over Dani's mouth. "What? They don't even know of us over here. So we may as well tell them. 'Sides, it's not even possible that they're working for him, for one he hated the Japanese, and for another he's freaking dead!" She threw her arms up in exaggeration. Memories suddenly flooded over her, and she fell calm and quiet. "I'm going to go for a walk…" she muttered eventually, getting to her feet. With her head down, she wondered off without another word. Still watching the disappearing and sad girl called Guns, the newest member of the Host Club walked up to Steph and sat where Dani was sitting.
"What's wrong with her? She seemed so sad about whoever died." Said the brown hair and eyed teen.
"Yes, well it is a long and complicated story. One of pain and loss and death. Of adventure and of romance. Story book stuff really," She explained with a little more energy. "Miss. Haruhi" She gave a smirk of knowledge at the end. All the hosts looked shocked, so Stephanie Whips let out a laugh. "Yes, of course I know. I know and I know to keep it between us (though I will tell Dani). I know everything."
"How can one person possibly know everything?" Asked the Demon King Kyoya, annoyed at Stephanie's snootiness.
"Simple; like this." She turned the laptop towards them. On it was translated clippings English newspapers. Some of the titles were things like "New Heroes Arise." And "Cats Save the World Again" and other things like that. Kyoya scrolled down the page till he came to the last one. It was a full page entitled. "Lone Wolf defeated, Cats reveal their faces. Three out of five of the Teens had removed their mask. The hosts didn't recognise the boy who had, but clearly their was Dani and Steph. "I am Pink Panther. And together, we've saved the world (or at least Britton) an awful lot." She suddenly looked back at the doors. "You know, it would have been easy for Silv' to clean destroy those doors this morning, but she has got great self control. Great power control."
"I have an idea!" Cried Dani, barging back into the host club some time later, looking like herself again. "I know how I can keep an eye on Steph! I will sing and work for the host club!"
"That's quite bold of you, Dani." Steph said simply, her attention back on her research. "And I guess you're going to force me to help you? With the mikes and music etcetera." She circled her hand in the air a little poshly. "Fine yes, I'll help you a bit. But you've got to let be a normal student here otherwise. Ok?" Dani nodded energetically and agreed. "If, that is, it is ok with all the hosts." Dani looked over to them hopefully. Tamaki as always was pleased about it, and began to go on with plans of how they could bring amazing cosplayed shows to the guests. No really listened though. Kyoya after being told that Dani would pay for any necessary fundings and that it would be free for the host club decided that it could bring in more customers, and strengthen the connection between customer and host. It seemed fun to the twins, and also meant another person to torment and trick. Hunny, in all his cuteness danced Dani in a little circle for a moment, and Mori simply gave his usual inexpressive reply. Haruhi knew she was already outvoted if she said 'No', but having someone with the Hosts like Dani could tone things down a bit…Or not… But there is that chance that Steph could calm things down every now and then. And so it was that the two female Cats joined the Ouran high school host Club
A/N: No, Dani is NOT going to be like this all the time, but she will be a little Angsty.