Hollymooners

[OrochiGeese]

(*Note: This promo does not involve Holly mooning anyone. Sorry for getting your hopes up).


*A yawning Holly, in business attire, is walking with a purpose through the Battle Chamber halls of the Peter Venkman Memorial Arena on Wednesday night. She stops at the door marked "Owner - OrochiGeese" and knocks a few times but no one seems to be there. Annoyed with this lack of presence, she checks her watch and stamps her feet impatiently when she sees its 8:30.*

[Holly:] "Damn it, he's usually punctual!"

*Holly takes out a magazine from her briefcase and leans up against the side of the wall to read it. A few minutes tick by and finally she hears the steps of someone coming down the hallway. But when that person comes into view, she rolls her eyes. For she is greeted by none other then vampire Jakob Furis.*

[Holly:] "What POSSIBLE business do YOU have here now?"

*Furis scowls at her dismissive behavior*

[Furis:] "Do not mock me! I am here to meet Orochi Geese and demand -"

[Holly:] "Whoa whoa, let me stop you right there. NOBODY makes demands of Orochi Geese. And if you try, if you even disrespect him just a tiny bit, he will hang your head from the wall like a f'n TROPHY."

[Furis:] "I am not afraid of Geese or his "chaos". Real chaos is living like me!"

[Holly:] "In a shitty apartment? Yeah, that interciewer guy, John or whatever, told me that you live on watery RAMEN and not blood. Not all that impressive, vampy."

[Furis:] "If you insult me any mo-"

[Holly:] "Just give it a rest. I'll tell ya what. Me and Geese are 'kinda' tight so maybe I can help you out..well with this, at least, not your pathetic life. So 'vhat' is it that you want to "demand" of Geese?"

[Furis:] "Even though I'm not in the Battalion, I vant to go to the moon!"

*Holly's smile immediately fades and her face shows signs of annoyance and mental calculation*

[Holly:] "Hmm, I don't think that's gonna work for me today. You see, I can't have your ridiculous request of being even MORE of a space cadet getting in the way of some REAL business that I have. So what I'm going to do INSTEAD is give you a fun parting gift. You have about 10 seconds to leave the building."

[Furis:] "Vhat!? No, I must meet with Geese!"

*Holly pulls out her Blackberry and types a few short words.*

[Holly:] "5"

[Furis:] "There is no vay I am leaving-"

*Holly looks at her phone again and smiles*

[Holly:] "3"

[Furis:] "You vill not stand in my vay tonight!!"

[Holly:] "2. And just what IS tonight?"

[Furis:] "I think it is July 2nd-"

[Holly:] "1. WRONG - It is your own personal OCTOBERFEST, come early."

*At that moment...Juli Krieger turns the corner and points at Furis. She yells "YOU"....Furis' face turns completely paler and the front of his pants suddenly self-hydrate. He does the best he can to run but Juli catches up to him at the end of the hallway. Comedic Batmanesque-sounds (FWACK! BLOOM!! PLURGH!) follow and Holly stands by laughing. A few moments pass and finally OrochiGeese comes into the building and approaches the door. Without noticing, or more likely reacting, to the carnage going on in the other hallway, he strolls up to Holly and gives her a long hug which she happily returns*

[Geese:] "Should I bother asking what is going on down there?"

[Holly:] "Regrettably Mr. Jakob Furis was informed by your secretary for the day, Juli Krieger, that he must have an appointment to meet with you. She's now in the process of 'rescheduling' him."

[Geese:] "Furis wanted to talk to me? That is most odd. It's been over a year since he's been 'vestling' here and has not come to introduce himself even once. I was actually looking forwards to seeing how pathetic he TRULY is. Plus, I am interesting in hearing what he wanted to talk to me about."

*Holly's eyes widen again but she quickly laughs it off*

[Holly:] "Oh yeah, a total mystery! Butl, I think that option is off the table today since its unlikely Furis will be able to eat solid food for the next week, let alone talk in complete sentences."

*More "PHOOPING" noises are heard along with Furis groans and Juli's maniacal laughter*

[Geese:] "Fair enough. So how did your meetings with the action figure company go today?"

*Holly puts her arm around Geese's shoulder*

[Holly:] "How about we talk inside your office. Things are getting a bit...loud here."

[Geese:] "Agreed"

*They both enter his office and Holly shuts the door*


(Part 2 coming in the next few days!)

[OrochiGeese]

*Holly and Geese put their briefcases down and settle in. Geese sits down on his chair behind his desk. Holly goes to sit down across from him but instead walks over and sits on the arm of his chair. Geese smiles*

[Geese:] "You don't want to talk about the toy meeting now, do you?"

[Holly:] "I'll give you a report tomorrow. To brief you, I found a few companies willing to make "Universal Battle Lunar" sets to 'commemorate this unprecedented, historic event'."

[Geese:] "I see, and did you use that exact language?"

[Holly:] "I had to fancy it up a bit, I AM a Director of Marketing, after all."

*Holly smiles and Geese smirks back*

[Geese:] "So - "

*Holly puts her pointer and middle finger on his lips, silencing him*

[Holly:] "I just wanted to say...I've really enjoyed the past month or so, especially the last few weeks. I mean, I can't say I've ever had someone fly me out to Paris on a whim like last Friday!"

[Geese:] "I enjoyed our time there as well. And on a grander scale too. Like I said, if we are gonna "try things again", we have to be in the right frame of mind and DO things right this time."

[Holly:] "They're being done right. It's a new experience for us now but the one I wish we had all along."

[Geese:] "True, but we weren't ready for it then, not THIS way. Now we have fully earned all we have, especially with each other. And we know there are even MORE big things to look forward to."

[Holly:] "And that's what I wanted to talk to you about, something really big. Literally, out of this world - the Battalion show on the moon, I want to go there with you."

[Geese:] "Hmmm."

*Geese puts his thumb under his chin in thought*

[Geese:] "It's not exactly going to be a vacation up there, Holly. I have real work to do."

[Holly:] "Oh I know, I really do!"

[Geese:] "And when I'm not working, I'll be on call in case anything goes wrong with logistics - before and after the event. Plus, I have to ensure nothing happens DURING it that run contrary to my interests."

[Holly:] "I know but there have GOT to be times when you're gonna be bored up there. Let's be honest, you'll be spending most of your 'quality' lunar time with Drake Yoshida and Agent 0 Personality. That's like cosmic cabin fever!! You may even get lunar lunacy!"

[Geese:] "Those aren't real conditions."

[Holly:] "Wow, and you didn't even need to look them up."

*Geese breaks out in a smirk and begins rubbing Holly's back*

[Geese:] "Listen, to continue to make this work, we still have to be cognizant of the split between business and pleasure. If we're gonna stay at the top of our games in and around the ring, we can't let ourselves be 'distracted' by our feelings...even as they continue to grow stronger"

[Holly:] "Geese...I agree. But you don't have to wrestle on that show and....

*Holly looks downwards, a bit frustrated. When she raises her head to look at Geese again, she has a very different expression then she just had - there's no sarcasm or humor. In fact, its a look Geese hasn't seen from her in over two years - one of vulnerability mixed with intense desire*

[Holly:] "It's just...do you remember what you said three weekends ago?"

[Geese:] "At dinner?"

[Holly:] "Yeah for your birthday when you went to blow out the candles. What you said."

[Geese:] "I said that I don't do "wishes" and I don't waste my time on hope. I MAKE my dreams come true but now I want to do more then just that-"

[Holly:] "You said you wanted to make OUR dreams come true."

*Geese nods stoically*

[Holly:] "You know how things were for me when I was a kid: for the most part, at least. How I liked school and learning but my dad was against it. Against learning in GENERAL. But he SPECIFICALLY hated science. And even more specifically, astronomy. He saw it as an affront to man's "dignity"...in the religious sense of course. I think it still gives him ulcers to admit that the earth revolves around the sun. He hated pretty much anything outside of earth. And hated when anyone took interest in astronomy...especially me."

[Geese:] "I never knew you held that interest -"

[Holly:] "Of course you didn't know, my interest wasn't allowed to cultivate and grow. Studying science was so frowned upon and actively discouraged in my family that it was a total wasted effort to even try. If I bought supplies, my dad would find and throw them out. As much as my parents hated business for the pursuit of money, at least they couldn't really do anything to stop me. We didn't need physical tools for that, just a brain. And believe me, as much as they tried to rob me of that brain, it never worked."

[Geese:] "It only got stronger by fighting their efforts off."

[Holly:] "Anyway, one of my few friends actually had a telescope and I used to look through it when I went over to his house. *Holly smirks* The best part was when my dad found out. He didn't know whether to be more upset that I was over a guy's house "unsupervised" or that I was studying the sky. I'm pretty sure he thought the guy was the devil...though to be honest, my friend DID have a forked tongue."

*Holly makes a lude gesture with her fingers and tongue and Geese laughs in reaction*

[Holly:] "I love how my past doesn't threaten you, by the way."

[Geese:] "The same to you considering I've violently put hordes of people in the hospital."

[Holly:] "Touche! But like I said, I used to look at the sky a lot, especially the moon. I thought it was cool how the Earth had its own "little brother". Kyle and I were so close that I guess I thought in those terms. And I always wondered how it would be to actually VISIT the moon. Not only cause it would be an amazing experience...but cause of how much my father would be SHOCKED knowing that I was able to leave the Earth and exist on some other rock. So the moon kinda became a symbol of "escape" for me, and triumph."

[Geese:] "I didn't know it meant so much to you, and in such a heroic way."

[Holly:] "But it wasn't JUST then. This has been one of the few dreams that survived my childhood and even more amazingly, survived everything with Jo Ryder. It even took on some of the meaning of OUR struggle with Jo, Geese. And for me...for US to go up there now TOGETHER after all we've been through-"

*Holly gets a tear in her eye and Geese puts his hand gently behind her head and draws her in close for a hug. He whispers "yes, you're coming with me, we'll go together. I promise." and she begins to cry for a few minutes on his shoulder before finally pulling back just a bit and drying her tears. She then smiles at Geese and leans in with her lips. He responds in kind. They make contact briefly when -"

*A loud "KNOCK KNOCK" is heard on the door. Geese and Holly are startled and pull back instinctively to see what the ruckus is. Geese asks who it is and the door then opens: General Celes marches in. Her brow furrows in an accusatory glance but then her expression goes back to normal when she sees that Geese and Holly have no reaction to her glare, and remembers her reason for coming.*

[Celes:] "Do either of you have any idea what has been going on in this arena for the last half an hour?"

[Geese:] "In reference to?"

[Celes:] "In reference to finding a certain faux vampire hung upside down in a crucifix like position on the wall next to my office! With duct tape no less!?"

*Holly starts laughing hysterically, tears again flowing.*

[Celes:] "Yes, I should have guessed. I'd imagine you had some help though."

[Holly:] "DUH."

[Celes:] "Now, I don't mean to 'interrupt' anything here-"

*Geese and Holly look at each other and smile*

[Celes:] "But while I'm here, I would like to discuss some matters with Geese in private. So I am willing to make a deal with the proverbial devil. Miss Walker, I won't have Furis set free for the next ten minutes so that you can go and take as many pictures of him as you want for the purposes of further embarrassing him, provided that you indeed leave this office for the duration of my meeting."

[Holly:] "Deal! But first...."

*Holly looks at Geese in a way that appears to block Celes' presence out*

[Holly:] "I'll never forget what you are doing for me."

*Geese smiles back*

[Geese:] "I stick to my promises, and there will be plenty more dreams for us to fulfill."

*Holly gently pecks Geese on the lips as Celes's expression hardens. Then Holly jumps out of the chair with a girlish squeel and runs towards her briefcase, taking out her digital camera and her blackberry. Just before she exists though, she winks at Geese and then leaves, closing the door.*

[Celes:] "I find it VERY hard to fully believe that you two have again decided to-"

[Geese:] "With all due respect, General, that topic is off limits. I am hoping that your original intended subject matter is different or else this will be a VERY brief meeting."

*Celes nods to herself and sits down across from Geese*

[Celes:] "Jean Carter."

*Geese nods with a thoughtful glance and leans back in his chair as the two begin to converse.*



(The "Hollymooners" subject matter promo is over but we're now going to lead into another RP!)