Fire?!?

[smallspot]

Who: Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (smallspot ), Cu Chulainn (beforetights ), and anyone who wants to respond to the fire alarm/sprinklers.
Where: Room 2-17, Building One
When: Afternoon on 10-18
Format: Starting in prose, but please use whatever you want to reply!
Summary: Two little boys, two puppies, and a stove. What could go wrong here? (Please note that the fire will be small and quickly put out by the sprinklers, but there will still be smoke and the alarms to deal with. Oops indeed...)
Warnings: Cuteness, puppies, fire?

Edit: Lotus (beforetights ) is having some net issues currently thanks Murphy so she has asked that we have the boys responding separately instead of in a rotation like we originally planned. That way threads aren't held up. Sorry for any confusion!


It's a perfectly innocent scene. Two little boys who just recently adopted each other as brothers--one black-haired and one blue-haired. Two puppies--one grey and one white. They are playing in the living room of the apartment as little boys and puppies do. They were doing something earlier, but whatever it was has been forgotten in favor of playing with the puppies who are more fun than anything else could be.

What is this thing that has been so thoroughly forgotten? That would be lunch. To be specific, it would be the soup sitting to cook on the stove. Diarmuid has been shown how to make it in both the microwave and the stove, but he had opted for the stove even if the microwave would have been safer for two little boys. The microwave has no fire, after all. What is fun about watching food cook in a metal box? Not that even having the fire to cook food over had stood a chance against the appeal of a pair of puppies.

Unfortunately, having been forgotten means that the soup is boiling on a burner that is turned up too high without anyone to realize something is wrong. That is, until the smoke alarm goes off and, immediately after, the sprinklers in the apartment follow suit causing Cu Chulainn to yelp in surprise and Diarmuid to look up from his playing with wide, startled eyes.

Oops...


(OOC: Please post who you would like to respond to your reply--either Diarmuid, Cu Chulainn or both. If you don't put anything both boys will respond by default. Feel free to include event shenanigans if you would like!)

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closed prompt for the bitties!

[beforetights]

[Cu Chulainn had been trying to teach White to roll over. This basically included rolling around all over the place himself to give his puppy an example. He hadn't expected the sudden spray of water at all. As a result, he yelps and jumps to his feet, trying to see what vile sorcery was making the rain come down indoors.]

[Out of the corner of his eye, he sees something moving.]

Over there! The bad guy is over there! He's making the rain come down!

[Even as he screams, he picks up a chair and throws it in the direction where he thinks the shadow is. It impacts against the wall and splinters into pieces.]

[smallspot]

[Diarmuid isn't sure what is more startling. The water had been unexpected, as had the loud alarm especially since he had been so focused on watching his brother try and teach his puppy to roll over. However, his brother's reaction had been shocking as well, because as much as he looks, Diarmuid can't see anything in the direction that his brother is indicating.

Grey whimpers at the noise and wet, pressing against Diarmuid and breaking him out of his surprise. The boy puts his arms around the puppy and then shakes his head.]

I don't see anything! What is going on?

[beforetights]

[Meanwhile White, reflecting her owner, is barking loudly at the direction of the chair.]

But I saw it! He was running!

[smallspot]

Running? To hide?

[Diarmuid looks around some more and as he does, he thinks he sees something out of the corner of his eye. He turns toward it, but nothing is there.]

I thought... Is it causing the smoke too?

[beforetights]

[He claps a hand over his nose and mouth. The smoke makes him feel sick.]

I don't know. I think so. Who else would've made the smoke?

[smallspot]

I don't know...

[Diarmuid covers his mouth and nose too, looking around yet again. Grey whines to get his attention and then dashes toward the kitchen, pulling Diarmuid's gaze in that direction. It is only then he notices that there is smoke coming from the pot that had held their lunch. The pot looks to have melted and spilled the soup onto the burner. His eyes grow wide.]

Oh, no! Look at that!

[beforetights]

They burned our lunch!

[He growls, his hair starting to stand on end.]

When I find them I'll beat them up!

[ichoosefight]

Steph lives right down the hall, but it's only luck that she was home when the alarm went off. They're not a college dorm, so it seems unlikely that it was a prank. Rather than behave like a normal person and wait to see if the alarm went off for the whole building, Steph went out in search of the source of the alarm.

She was more than a little alarmed when she found it to be coming from the suite where Cucuc and Dia were living. She knocked urgently on the door.

"Hey, you guys okay in there?"

[smallspot]

Diarmuid is shaken out of his shock by the knock on the door. He jumps up and runs to the door to answer it. Already, the sprinklers have wet down his hair and it hangs limply in his face. For a moment, Diarmuid just looks up at Steph with scared eyes. At the same time, Grey presses against his owner, whining in fear at the noise.

"I don't know! Why is it raining inside? We didn't do anything!"

[ichoosefight]

So the sprinklers were working, that was somewhat comforting.

"It's okay, you're okay. Come stand out here, alright? It's dry. I'll check out the house." She assumed they would obey, and stepped past them into the house. The smoke was coming from the kitchen. A sleeve over her mouth and nose helped protect her from the smoke as she made her way towards its source.

[smallspot]

Diarmuid nods and moves out into the hallway making sure both puppies and his brother follow him. He's a knight and he should be able to take care of things like this, but right now he's just scared. After a few moments, though, he can't help but edge a little closer to the open door to make sure she is okay.

"Please be careful! I don't want you to get hurt!"

[ichoosefight]

She was certainly relieved when they obeyed, and she waved back at them to let them know she was okay. She was seeing shadows again, but it seemed to her that they must have entered the room with her, rather than been here to begin with. If they had been here, she would have seem them someplace other than the corner of her eye.

Finally she made her way into the kitchen, where the smoke was thickest. She squinted her eyes against the sting and waved her free arm through the air in a sad attempt to dispell some of the smoke. There it was, the pot on the stove giving off noxious gas and fumes. She checked first to see if there were any visible flames, then reached past the pot to turn the stove off. It didn't seem like there was any actual danger here. She moved back out into the living room where she could risk leaving her mouth uncovered for a moment.

"Everything's okay! I'm just gonna try to get the smoke out, okay?"

[smallspot]

Her assurance that things are okay should put Diarmuid more at ease than it actually does. Instead, he just frowns.

"Thank you! My brother said he thought he saw something in there. Please don't let it get you! It has to be what caused the smoke and the water, right? Bad fairies and spirits do stuff like that all the time!" Despite how many times people have told him there are no fairies here, Diarmuid can't help but disbelieve them. They are everywhere at home. How can there not be any here?

Besides, it hadn't just been his brother who thought he had seen something. Diarmuid had thought he saw something too.

[beforetights]

Cu Chulainn coughs twice from the smoke before going toward the door with his brother.

"There's rain and smoke and someone's inside our house!"

As if to prove it, White continues to bark at a certain corner of the wall.

[swordofzero]

Suzaku was on his way to the main square, he had heard that more people had arrived and was on his way, just in case there was anyone he knew there. However he hadn't got any further than outside the building when he heard the fire alarms going off in building one.

Diarmuid's building... Suzaku looked around for the small boy, Cu as well, but they weren't with the people milling around outside.

They might be elsewhere... but would they even know what to do when an alarm went off.

Looking around he rushed into the building and up to Diarmuid's room. "Diarmuid? Cu?"

[smallspot]

When Diarmuid hears Suzaku's voice, he runs to the door and opens it, looking up at his friend with frightened eyes. Already, the sprinklers have plastered his wavy hair to his head.

"I don't know what is going on, Suzaku! Why is it raining inside? What is that noise? Please make it stop! It hurts my ears!" As if to prove his point, Diarmuid presses his hands to his head covering his ears.

If Suzaku looks past Diarmuid into the apartment, he will see a lot of smoke coming from the stove. I wonder why that is...

[swordofzero]

Smoke? Suzaku looked over the boy to check he was unharmed apart from being wet. It's coming from the kitchen though he can't see any flames, hopefully the sprinklers have taken care of it. "We need to get out." He told him grabbing his hand. Where's Grey?"

[smallspot]

"Inside with White and my brother!" Diarmuid waves into the smoky apartment. He then tries to pull his hand free of Suzaku's grasp, "Let me go get them!"

[swordofzero]

"No." Suzaku's voice was stern, "Start going downstairs, I'll get your brother and the puppies."

[smallspot]

"But I am a knight! Let me help get Grey at least!" Diarmuid keeps pulling on his hand, but once he realizes he won't be able to get free, he calls into the apartment, "Grey! Grey come out! Brother, bring White too!"

My internet conks out occasionally so it's easier to have two threads

[beforetights]

Cu Chulainn looks up at Suzaku, less with terror and more with frustration and confusion. His long hair is dripping with water and falling into his eyes, so Suzaku is spared the intensity of his gaze.

"Sir Suzaku! Weird things are happening! It's bad magic! I know it is!"

He takes a look at Diarmuid and then goes to hug his brother protectively.

okies!

[swordofzero]

"It's alright, come with me." He's annoyed with himself for not making sure the boys knew what to do in case of a fire, and was beginning to think it really wasn't a good idea to allow them to live alone.

Re: okies!

[beforetights]

"But there's a bad guy in our house!"

White comes to nuzzle against Cu Chulainn's leg as he speaks.

[swordofzero]

"A bad guy?" Suzaku looked around, trying to hear anything, but it was hard over the alarms and water. "Even more reason to get out, did they hurt you?"

[beforetights]

"No, they haven't! I'd make sure they didn't!"

He looks at Diarmuid and the puppies.

"Have them go first. I gotta fight the bad guys!"