Dèjá vu
Disclaimer: I don't have a job, I don't have money, and I am currently living in a refrigerator box outside of Sam's Club living off of free samples and a water fountain, you do the math.
A/N: Thank you all for reviewing. And a special note to my new, co-conspertor/writer/background information for this story, Pitbull lady, thanks a million!
Chapter two, Working things out.
"Ack!" Aahz yelled jumping back, "What are you doing up?!"
"Oh, I'm just lazing around." He said ideally sizing her up, looking around he saw the back door and decided to run for it. "Now if you'll excuse me I really must be going."
Aahz blinked, where the thing was only a second before, there was nothing now well there was that wrap she had put around his head, but other than that he had just disappeared, then the back door creaked open and she heard steps going down the porch.
"No! Don't go out there!!" Aahz's voice carried outside.
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Randall paid the voice no heed, he just kept on walking threw the yard, glancing back he couldn't tell that there was anything to worry about so he dropped his camouflage, and he thought he was out that is until he herd the growl. He turned around slowly and came face to face with one of Louisiana's hell hounds. The dog was merle spotted with tan and black patches all across its hide, its glassy blue eyes where fixed on Randall's, and its teeth where bared and ready to bite.
"Ah ha." His voice cracked a little, "Nice puppy, good little dog." Randall said as he began his slow retreat backwards towards the house and presumed safety then suddenly the dog took action barking and snapping, Randall turned to run back into the house, but the dog jumped in front of him, sliding a little on the dew slick grass. He turned again and the dog was in front of him, every where he turned the dog seemed to be in front of him, Randall lowered his body so that his underbelly was not open to attack. Then it began its advance, stalking up to him, it never once stopped barking. Suddenly with out realizing he had done it, Randall found himself pressed against the wall of the house, the dog had cornered him and now Randall had no way out.
"Louis!" The woman's voice rang out as she jumped the porch rail and hit the ground at a run, "That's enough! Down boy! Desisto! Desisto! (A/N: desisto is Latin for stop it is pronounced Deesistoo, the ee's like green and the oo's like goo.)
She jumped between the two and loomed over the dog and then said in a commanding voice, "Louis, desisto." The dog looked at his owner then at Randall then at his owner and stalked off into the shadows. Randall could see the red light reflected in the dog's eyes and knew that if he took off now the dog would hunt him down, and there would be nothing the woman could do about it. He cleared the fear out of his throat, and said, "Maybe we should take this inside."
***An hour later***
"So let me get this straight Randall," Aahz said handing him a cold, fizzing glass of coke, "You got banished?"
"Haven't I said that three times already?" He took a sip of the drink, found he liked it and took a longer swig.
"Yeah, this is just new to me, I mean I always thought monsters where fake. I remember when I was a kid, the one that scared, well tried to, was a big green thing with claws." Aahz sat down in the chair across from the couch.
"What do you mean tried to?"
"Well I don't scream, never have, never plan to, it's a weird mental state of mind, psychological mumbo jumbo, major mo jo, metal block....thing." She shook her head, "don't worry I don't understand either, I can yell my head off but not scream. Caily on the other hand did, I remember when she used to crawl into my bed when she got scared of her monster in the closet, she said he was big and blue, with purple spots, I thought he sounded cute." Then she noticed the expression on Randall's face, his head was lowered and his teeth were bared, a look of pure and uncontrolled fury was mirrored across his face, his scales had even turned a darker shade of purple and were puffed out so he looked twice his normal breadth. "Um, Randall?"
"Sullivan!" He growled, cracking his knuckles, he snapped his teeth once in agitation and then calmed down, his scales and color returning to their normal color.
"Who, oh! That monster who banished you, yeah, post traumatic stress disorder gets us all the time, just take deep breaths." She leaned forward and patted him on the back lightly.
"Listen I've done a lot of things I am not proud of, kidnapping, attempted murder, conspiring against a world, but hey, it was all done with the best intentions." He shrugged. "But that's was the road to hell is paved with."
"Yeah so, just because its paved like that, doesn't mean you have to walk down it. Now what time is it," Aahz looked up to her cat clock, and saw that it was eight o'clock in the a.m. "the bar opens at nine, I think I will go to work today, the Monk should be in today anyway."
"The Monk?" Randall asked quizzically looking up.
"Yeah he is a regular, he doesn't work for me but he does our finances for free drinks and makes my life a whole lot easier." She walked into the kitchen to get Louis's food, Randall heard the clinking of metal and dog food.
"Wait work for you, the bar what do you mean?"
"I am the proud owner of the Dèjá vu, and I along with Lucinda aka Lucy, am the bar tender and waitress, and Julius aka Jewels is the cook and bouncer. Once again the Monk does our finances and does a damn good job to, I hate all that paper work." She stuck out her tongue and wrinkled her nose in distaste. "Anyway do you want to come into work, I can see it all now, get a free drink with each monster you bring in."
"Hey I'm not a sideshow!" Randall crossed his arms in indignation.
"Don't worry about it, you won't be the strangest sight on old Bourbon street, on a Saturday at that! The regulars won't say a thing to you, and the tourists will think your in costume, so try not to look conspicuous" She opened the back door and laid down the food and fresh water, she scratched Louis on his head and smiled at the simple pleasure.
"I won't be-I mean how exactly am I not supposed to look conspicuous?" Randall said, a frighting image flashed across his brain of a human who looked odder than himself he shivered slightly at the thought. No humans all look the same, he decided finally.
"Just walk around and don't look like you've just eaten a bag of pot. Now hold on, I've gotta go get dressed." She walked into her room shutting the door.
"Pot?" Randall asked himself, he looked at the back door, and it was glass so he could see through it and sure enough there was Louis. Randall recognized the breed as a Catahoula. He had been warned when he was trained to be a scarer, there was even a special session where they had to be able to recognize some of the more dangerous breeds of pets that humans owned and the Catahoula had been one of the top ten. "Stupid mutt." He muttered and walked up to the door, he stuck out his forked tongue at the beast, and rolled his eyes, "probably doesn't even know that there is glass between us. Do you, you stupid-" suddenly the dog started to bark like mad, surprising Randall so much that he jumped back, slipped on the carpet and slid into Aahz's bedroom door.
Aahz hearing the bang and barking opened the door, seeing Randall on the floor, she bent down. "Please don't antagonize Louis if he sees you as a threat there is really nothing I can do." Aahz had put on her feel-good- about-myself pants, tight black leather with slightly flared bottoms, she had her red bar shirt on, the shirt said Dèjá vu, have you been here before? The shirts came in a variety of colors, red, green, black, white, orange, purple, and blue, but today felt like a red day. Likewise instead of bothering with her curly ringlet hair, she just pulled it back with a matching red scrunchie. She had quickly applied some make up, light mascara, concealer and shiny red lip-gloss just the basics, so that she'd look mysterious and beautiful in the dim lights of her bar. "Now are we ready to go?"
"Sure." Randall got up and the duo proceeded out the front door.
A/N: Sorry that it took a little while, my computer wouldn't load anything up! Darn it......stupid cow comm
Disclaimer: I don't have a job, I don't have money, and I am currently living in a refrigerator box outside of Sam's Club living off of free samples and a water fountain, you do the math.
A/N: Thank you all for reviewing. And a special note to my new, co-conspertor/writer/background information for this story, Pitbull lady, thanks a million!
Chapter two, Working things out.
"Ack!" Aahz yelled jumping back, "What are you doing up?!"
"Oh, I'm just lazing around." He said ideally sizing her up, looking around he saw the back door and decided to run for it. "Now if you'll excuse me I really must be going."
Aahz blinked, where the thing was only a second before, there was nothing now well there was that wrap she had put around his head, but other than that he had just disappeared, then the back door creaked open and she heard steps going down the porch.
"No! Don't go out there!!" Aahz's voice carried outside.
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Randall paid the voice no heed, he just kept on walking threw the yard, glancing back he couldn't tell that there was anything to worry about so he dropped his camouflage, and he thought he was out that is until he herd the growl. He turned around slowly and came face to face with one of Louisiana's hell hounds. The dog was merle spotted with tan and black patches all across its hide, its glassy blue eyes where fixed on Randall's, and its teeth where bared and ready to bite.
"Ah ha." His voice cracked a little, "Nice puppy, good little dog." Randall said as he began his slow retreat backwards towards the house and presumed safety then suddenly the dog took action barking and snapping, Randall turned to run back into the house, but the dog jumped in front of him, sliding a little on the dew slick grass. He turned again and the dog was in front of him, every where he turned the dog seemed to be in front of him, Randall lowered his body so that his underbelly was not open to attack. Then it began its advance, stalking up to him, it never once stopped barking. Suddenly with out realizing he had done it, Randall found himself pressed against the wall of the house, the dog had cornered him and now Randall had no way out.
"Louis!" The woman's voice rang out as she jumped the porch rail and hit the ground at a run, "That's enough! Down boy! Desisto! Desisto! (A/N: desisto is Latin for stop it is pronounced Deesistoo, the ee's like green and the oo's like goo.)
She jumped between the two and loomed over the dog and then said in a commanding voice, "Louis, desisto." The dog looked at his owner then at Randall then at his owner and stalked off into the shadows. Randall could see the red light reflected in the dog's eyes and knew that if he took off now the dog would hunt him down, and there would be nothing the woman could do about it. He cleared the fear out of his throat, and said, "Maybe we should take this inside."
***An hour later***
"So let me get this straight Randall," Aahz said handing him a cold, fizzing glass of coke, "You got banished?"
"Haven't I said that three times already?" He took a sip of the drink, found he liked it and took a longer swig.
"Yeah, this is just new to me, I mean I always thought monsters where fake. I remember when I was a kid, the one that scared, well tried to, was a big green thing with claws." Aahz sat down in the chair across from the couch.
"What do you mean tried to?"
"Well I don't scream, never have, never plan to, it's a weird mental state of mind, psychological mumbo jumbo, major mo jo, metal block....thing." She shook her head, "don't worry I don't understand either, I can yell my head off but not scream. Caily on the other hand did, I remember when she used to crawl into my bed when she got scared of her monster in the closet, she said he was big and blue, with purple spots, I thought he sounded cute." Then she noticed the expression on Randall's face, his head was lowered and his teeth were bared, a look of pure and uncontrolled fury was mirrored across his face, his scales had even turned a darker shade of purple and were puffed out so he looked twice his normal breadth. "Um, Randall?"
"Sullivan!" He growled, cracking his knuckles, he snapped his teeth once in agitation and then calmed down, his scales and color returning to their normal color.
"Who, oh! That monster who banished you, yeah, post traumatic stress disorder gets us all the time, just take deep breaths." She leaned forward and patted him on the back lightly.
"Listen I've done a lot of things I am not proud of, kidnapping, attempted murder, conspiring against a world, but hey, it was all done with the best intentions." He shrugged. "But that's was the road to hell is paved with."
"Yeah so, just because its paved like that, doesn't mean you have to walk down it. Now what time is it," Aahz looked up to her cat clock, and saw that it was eight o'clock in the a.m. "the bar opens at nine, I think I will go to work today, the Monk should be in today anyway."
"The Monk?" Randall asked quizzically looking up.
"Yeah he is a regular, he doesn't work for me but he does our finances for free drinks and makes my life a whole lot easier." She walked into the kitchen to get Louis's food, Randall heard the clinking of metal and dog food.
"Wait work for you, the bar what do you mean?"
"I am the proud owner of the Dèjá vu, and I along with Lucinda aka Lucy, am the bar tender and waitress, and Julius aka Jewels is the cook and bouncer. Once again the Monk does our finances and does a damn good job to, I hate all that paper work." She stuck out her tongue and wrinkled her nose in distaste. "Anyway do you want to come into work, I can see it all now, get a free drink with each monster you bring in."
"Hey I'm not a sideshow!" Randall crossed his arms in indignation.
"Don't worry about it, you won't be the strangest sight on old Bourbon street, on a Saturday at that! The regulars won't say a thing to you, and the tourists will think your in costume, so try not to look conspicuous" She opened the back door and laid down the food and fresh water, she scratched Louis on his head and smiled at the simple pleasure.
"I won't be-I mean how exactly am I not supposed to look conspicuous?" Randall said, a frighting image flashed across his brain of a human who looked odder than himself he shivered slightly at the thought. No humans all look the same, he decided finally.
"Just walk around and don't look like you've just eaten a bag of pot. Now hold on, I've gotta go get dressed." She walked into her room shutting the door.
"Pot?" Randall asked himself, he looked at the back door, and it was glass so he could see through it and sure enough there was Louis. Randall recognized the breed as a Catahoula. He had been warned when he was trained to be a scarer, there was even a special session where they had to be able to recognize some of the more dangerous breeds of pets that humans owned and the Catahoula had been one of the top ten. "Stupid mutt." He muttered and walked up to the door, he stuck out his forked tongue at the beast, and rolled his eyes, "probably doesn't even know that there is glass between us. Do you, you stupid-" suddenly the dog started to bark like mad, surprising Randall so much that he jumped back, slipped on the carpet and slid into Aahz's bedroom door.
Aahz hearing the bang and barking opened the door, seeing Randall on the floor, she bent down. "Please don't antagonize Louis if he sees you as a threat there is really nothing I can do." Aahz had put on her feel-good- about-myself pants, tight black leather with slightly flared bottoms, she had her red bar shirt on, the shirt said Dèjá vu, have you been here before? The shirts came in a variety of colors, red, green, black, white, orange, purple, and blue, but today felt like a red day. Likewise instead of bothering with her curly ringlet hair, she just pulled it back with a matching red scrunchie. She had quickly applied some make up, light mascara, concealer and shiny red lip-gloss just the basics, so that she'd look mysterious and beautiful in the dim lights of her bar. "Now are we ready to go?"
"Sure." Randall got up and the duo proceeded out the front door.
A/N: Sorry that it took a little while, my computer wouldn't load anything up! Darn it......stupid cow comm