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The music is loud and Deuce doesn’t care, he wants noise he wants to drown out all the dumb thoughts in his head. Leave it to Draculaura to have a vampire run night club open on a Tuesday night, though he guesses it doesn’t really matter what day it is when you want to party and are going to live forever. He already agreed to be designated driver so it doesn’t bother him his friends are getting a bit carried away. He wants them to have fun, he wants to have fun, and he hasn’t seen Holt in a long time so damn it he’s gonna Fang Out! Deuce lets out a “woo hoo!” and it echoes back to him from every monster he came with. Damien had luckily thawed out on the car ride over to the club and was too excited about the night club to care about the statue business. The shadow had been right about the demon however, as soon as he got a moment Damien had thanked Deuce for proving something to him and Deuce had kind of just brushed it off. He was just pumped shit seemed to be going his way, he felt someone’s back pressing against his and as he looked back there was the exact demon he was thinking about. “Speak of the devil!” Deuce shouts over the music, Damien cackles “No that’s my dad!” Deuce turns so he can dance with the demon face to face, Holt coming around the side to finish the triangle of swaying arms and gyrating hips. All three of them are dancing like idiots just to get each other to laugh it out, Clawde eventually elbows his way in the center of the dance trio they have and as Deuce and Holt begin to boo him the wolf slowly brings his arms up to T-pose in the center. Deuce and Holt begin laughing and taking light jabs at the wolf who then grabs the demon by the horn. Obviously a little drunk he tucks the cackling Damien’s head under his arm and points to the space where Damien’s horn snapped, “Ain’t you supposed to have two of these fuckers?” The question only makes Damien laugh harder, he also had way too much to drink.
Draculaura makes her way over to the three boys carrying glow sticks “Here!” her high pitched voice calling over the music “Polly want you guys to have these! Clawde Put him down!” She wacks his arm with the sticks and they crack on his bicep. “Oh shoot!” she yells and starts handing them out, “Crazy cool!” Holt shouts as Draculaura puts a few glowing bracelets on his wrists, he goes back to jumping and thrusting his arms in the air, “Give ‘em to the dudes!” Deuce bends down so Draculaura can slide the bracelets onto his snakes that hiss happily. “Damien! Your friends invited some others!” Draculaura tells Damien this and he looks back over to see Vera and Valerie making their way over with Scott, Polly and Oz. Damien smiles wide and waves them over. “Ey Vera! You’ll never believe this shit!” The young woman wearing a just above the knee length deep blue party dress with snakes for hair immediately captures Deuce’s attention, as soon as she saw him she was taken back too. “This fucker turned me into stone!” Damien yelled, pointing at Deuce, Valerie smiles.
Vera was told there was going to be another gorgon at this party but she supposed she underestimated how shocking it would be to finally see another of her kind. They tended to be solitary creatures since they tended to not like other gorgons. But as she looked the boy up and down she didn’t think of him as much of a threat. She stuck out her hand, “Vera Oberlin. I know you’ve met my sister.” At that Deuce’s eyebrow twitched up “Oh, uh, yeah.” He grabbed her hand and shook it, she noted that it was firm and was satisfied with the display. She shifted her weight to her left and asked Draculaura “May I have one?” The small vampire nods and puts a pink one on Vera’s wrist and a few on Valerie’s tail. “I’ll buy us a round if someone else pays.” Meows Valerie with a laugh, “I’ll go with you!” Polly says “If I distract the bartender you can steal shit!” she continues, Valerie just smiles slyly “Oor” she coos “I can distract them and you can be invisible behind the bar, where the now free drinks are?” Polly’s face drops, she raises her hands to her head and makes an exploding sound as she opens her fists in an outward motion. “You just blew my mind Val.” The khajiit nods, “I am wise in the ways of the swindle.”
As they walk away Vera takes hold of Scott’s hand and she smiles as he presses himself to her back, they begin to dance together and Deuce goes back to feeling the music. Holt grabs his hands and spins them both around like kids on a playground. He lets go but continues to dance in front of Deuce “This is nice and all but not really your speed!” The fire elemental says “Where’s your girl?” Deuce smiles and dances right back “I got dumped!” Deuce laughs and his snakes hiss as Holt gives a “Yeah boy!”
After dancing awhile Deuce decided he needed some air, the insanity of the day had finally gotten to him and he just needed a breather. He wound up in the back of the club with Holt threatening to puke. He thought it best to get Holt to cool down so they could start wrapping it up, it was pushing midnight and they had already been out for way longer than Deuce had wanted to but bringing home Jackson late would be way easier than trying to get Holt away from the club. “Time to chill a bit dude.” Holt staggered over to a trash can and gagged a bit before giggling and saying “Nooope.” He laughed again and leaned on Deuce, “You’re our best friend duuude” Holt slurred, Deuce thought it was funny how similar Jackson and Holt could be, it was almost like they were brothers at times. He pushed Holt into a standing position and fanned his face to which Holt replied with a gasp “You like him more!” He feigned a sob but Deuce wasn’t buying it, they knew not to play that card with him, and he knew that didn’t mean Holt wouldn’t joke. “I like you plenty” The gorgon said with a smile, Holt smiled back and laughed. “No dude, we like you like you.” the laughing turned into giggling as Deuce continued to fan.
Eventually Jackson came back through. “Oh, oh no.” he started “Where did he take us now?” Deuce smiled softly “I brought us here technically, don’t worry I had my mom talk it out with yours you’re totally covered.” It wasn’t a lie, on the way there he had sent his mom a text saying they would be out late and if she could call Ms. Jekyll to tell her Jackson would be staying the night. Medusa had just been excited to finally do a normal mom thing for once and had taken care of it, or at least that’s what she had sent back with like a million green hearts. It had made Deuce’s day a little brighter to know he could count on her and it made Jackson’s night a little better knowing Holt and him wouldn’t be skinned alive for this. It was a Tuesday night and he felt like he had been hit by a semi truck carrying nothing but Smirnoff. He didn’t feel too nauseous so at least there was that. “Did he do anything embarrassing?” Jackson had to ask, Deuce just laughed “Nah man, he was fine.” Deuce put his hands in his pockets before saying “The ghost girl thinks you're pretty rad now though.” Jackson chuckled and looked at the ground, “She’s not the one I’m worried about him embarrassing me over.” Deuce hissed in amusement, and cupped Jackson’s face in his hands. “Although he did give me some very interesting information.” He lifted the shorter boy up to his face and placed his lips on the other’s. Smiling into the kiss as Jackson’s eyes grew wide in surprise before throwing his arms around Deuce’s shoulders. From the shadows a figure donned in yellow smiles.