-1Ooooh! Foxy on SNL tonight for those of you that have NBC, I'm jealous!! It looks funny as!
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Now, that was certainly some darkness! It was so sudden, to such and extreme that it was kind of spooky to see everything, in such a different light...or none at all as the case happened to be. It seemed even the sky was against them. Looking out the window, they were faced with the same thing, dark as far as the eyes could see, and even the stars were veiled.
Despite the fact they had just been plunged into the natural night, they stood for at least a minute, silent, at first waiting for the return, as every time there was black out, back up generators would kick in, but this time nothing happened.
"Jack." Kate just said his name, as simple as that.
"This must be a huge black out, if the backup generators are down too." He said, feeling blindly for the piano, so he could gauge where he was standing, as up to that point sight was a thing that was hesitant to return.
There was a bang and then an gasp of pain.
"Hey, you alright?" His sight coming back a little, still he could only make out a hunched over silhouette...or was that a piece of furniture? She moved then, though, and he saw it was her; she stood back up tall again.
"Yeah...I just kneed the table." She said, shuffling on again, regaining some of her sight also, but the pitch black was piercingly blinding.
"Where are you going?" He asked her, it was easy for accidents to happen, with the situation they were.
"I've got some candles at mine...thought it might be the time to use them." She said with a laugh, hearing Jack begin to follow after her.
"Have you not got a torch?" He asked. "It might just be a bit easier to use." Banging into the table himself as he followed her, which she mocked him for, even though she had just done it herself a minute or so earlier.
"Did. But it got broken...lets just say there was a minor accident, which included a hole in the ceiling, and Sawyer in it...extremely long story." She said laughing to herself at the memory of Sawyer managing to get stuck. She finally reached the door, which was still open from when, Claire, Sawyer, and herself had first came round, and stepped into the hall, which suddenly, for the first time ever since she had moved there, gave off a sense of foreboding, and of confines creeping up and strangling in the dark.
A hand came to her shoulder and she jumped, out of fear, and out of the short moments of thought, that had came over her.
"Kate?" Jack asked, and then jumped himself slightly at the jump of a response his touch had brought about.
"I'm fine...just..." She replied, beginning to move her hands out to the side so she could use the wall as a guide, to find her dark door, and upon finding it, opening, and walking in.
Once she was inside her own apartment, she was off. She didn't need eyes, or light to guide her in her own home, she knew her way well enough, having grown so accustomed to it.
Jack stumbled in after her, and decided it was best for him to stay holding on to the door, rather than venture to follow and risk, destroying something in the process. He felt something hit him hard in the back and fell foreword a little. It was a person. In fact it was Claire, who revealed herself to him, with the click of a button, switching on a torch and pointing it upwards at her face, giving a childish spooky appearance.
"Hi." She said with a small grin on her face, realising how she would appear.
"Hey...that was kinda scary." He said half laughing back. "Kate's in there somewhere." He said pointing to the room engulfed in silence and darkness.
"Well actually, I was looking for both of you." At this Jack, gave off a look of surprise, which she managed to see, and laughed at it. "It seems you and Kate are becoming good friends, so I don't see why I shouldn't get to know my neighbour also. Hell you may even get along with Sawyer." She said, with a sort of half feigned, half completely truthful, surprised and shocked look.
He laughed at this, and heard the re-emerging footsteps of Kate coming back through. Claire shined the torch at her which made her wince at the brightness of the light.
"Hey Claire!" Kate said quite cheerfully, she liked the dark, the natural feel of the world when nothing else was in the way, and all was silent which added to the feeling. "You guys ok?" She asked wondering if Sawyer had managed to electrocute himself yet with a fuse box.
"Yeah, everything's fine. We got some candles out and torches. Anyways I came round to invite you guys round for to watch a movie." She said, as if nothing was any different.
"Er...Claire, unless you failed to notice, there is no electricity...anywhere." Kate said with a laugh, where as Claire rolled her eyes at her in return.
"Ah but you see that's the power of portable DVD players!" She said, raising her hands in the air as if praising. "So, You up for it?"
Jack nodded, he didn't see what else he was going to do, other than probably sit in the dark, waiting for lights to return.
Jack and Claire look across at Kate who had moved into her kitchen and was riffling around. She came back with a bag of Doritos.
"Ready?" She said holding up the bag with a grin on her face as she watched Claire lick her lips, her eyes never came off the bag, while she nodded ever so slightly. "You remind me of the dog at feeding time." She said with a laugh which gained her a not so amused look from Claire who didn't seem to approve of being compared to the dog.
"How he doing?" Claire asked her after she had shut the door.
"He's currently asleep in the bath...I think he's great." She said in an amused tone.
"In the bath?" Jack asked, raising his eye brows with a grin, which was responded to by having the bag of Doritos thrown at him lightly, which he caught, as they walked into Claire's apartment.
Sawyer was still fiddling with batteries, and looked up to see the three walk in.
"Evenin' Doc!" He said with a nod then went back to shoving batteries in the bottom of the DVD player.
"Hi Sawyer." He said to the man with a nod back at him. He looked around the apartment, they all must look the same, with the exception of the owners taste in colours, they were all the same shape and size. The room was currently lit by numerous candles, giving off and eerie dim effect, which Claire was now going round extinguishing.
Claire looked up to see him watching. "It's more fun in the dark." She said to him with a smirk, then noticed he was still just standing there and hadn't followed Kate to the couch. "You can go an sit down, you know." She nodded to Kate and Sawyer who were now bickering over the buttons on the player, while kneeling on the floor hunched over the item on the coffee table.
Jack made a move over to them, sitting down on the settee, at which point they stopped, it seemed for guests sake. Jack found it amusing though, and couldn't help but laugh a little.
"Wana beer?" Sawyer asked him, ignoring Kate now doing things her own way with the machine.
"Er, sure, why not?" He answered cheerfully.
Kate looked up at him at that point and smiled, which he returned, knowing that things were going good. The was slowly getting darker, as Claire put out the last candle, and Kate simultaneously switched on the player to create light from its screen as the menu came up.
Sawyer came over and sat down on the other end of the settee to Jack, handing him the open beer, and waited for Claire to sit down. Once she was back over Kate pressed the button, stayed on the floor and leaned back to rest against the settee, all going silent, as the movie title appeared on the small screen.
"Wooooooo spooky!" Sawyer howled, much to the dislike of Claire and Kate who were starting to get nervous already with the anticipation of a scary movie.
"Tell me again...why do we always pick a horror?" Kate protested.
"We don't. Sawyer does." Claire said, that made them all laugh, which then turned to screams on all of their parts, when something jumped out at them on the screen.
"Eeeeeeeuuuuur!" Jack cringed at a particularly gory bit, holding his head between his hands, and sliding them down his face.
The movie went on for a down right scary 108 minutes, of which was filled with numerous screams, and shrieks from the guys as well as the girls. Kate had managed to steal a leg of Jack's and of Claire's and were using them to cover her eyes. This they found very funny. Sawyer had managed to spill the remainder of his beer, when Kate had jumped, which made Jack and Claire in turn jump too, which had given him a shock and for some reason a reflex in his arm went off and his beer went flying. Immediately after it had finished, Claire had gotten Sawyer to go round lighting up all the candles again, while her and Kate had very noticeably scooted towards Jack, who couldn't help but laugh.
"It was only a film!" He protested to them.
"Aaaaaaaand?!" Kate turned around and looked directly at him with a mock threatening look, which continued to make him laugh. "You jumped too, you cannot deny that!"
"Exactly!" Claire joined in.
"Actually for your information, I jumped 'cause you had hold of one of my legs." He had just stopped laughing to get that out, and the last bit set him of again, at how weird and ridiculous it sounded.
"BOO!" Sawyer came up behind Claire and yelled it right beside her ear. She screamed, ear splitting, to the point where Jack and Kate covered their ears for protection.
Once Claire had gotten over it, and Kate and Jack had finished laughing at Sawyer trying to make it up to her, Jack remembered he had work the next day.
"Whoah! It's getting late, I better go." Jack said, looking at his watch. He stood up, and looked at Claire and Sawyer, "Thanks for inviting me over, its been a nice time." He said sincerely to them.
Claire smiled back, "You welcome, anytime." She said to him then looked at Kate who had just stood up too.
"Yeah, I should probably get going too." She said with a yawn. "I'll see you tomorrow, Claire." She said looking over to Jack, who was now waiting for her. "Have fun in the dark." Kate said to them with a wink, and laughed, before heading for the door, Saying one last goodbye, and shutting it.
"You friends are nice." Jack said to her walking the five or six steps it took them to get to Kate's door.
"Yep." She said with a laugh. "I hope the powers back by tomorrow, I've got to get writing." She said opening her door, but turning back round to face him.
"What's it about?" Asking her the topic of her article. Kate had already told him she wrote for a small local paper.
"That weird Hanso Corp." She shrugged.
He nodded, and then looked at his watch again. "Yeah, I should definitely get some sleep. I'm in early tomorrow, but I finish at two, which is great." He said doing a small victory dance, which had Kate in stitches.
"Anyways, see you later." He said to her smiling, and then left, to his own door.
"Bye!" She cheerily chanted back at him before shutting her own door, and heading straight for bed.
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