A Decent Meal [OPEN]

[nada]

Nada pushed through the door to one of the many Cajun bar and Grills that populated New Orleans. Always loud, always crowded, always smelling like smoke and beer. Nada didn't mind though, the more crowded it was the less likely she was to be noticed and if she was starting a fight always made for a great escape.

Tunneling her way to the bar she grabbed the first open she could find. Snagged a menu, spending all of maybe five seconds looking at it before smelling what she wanted three seats down. Gumbo. Nada's mouth was watering simply from the sweet scent of it. And for once she could savor it. She'd just been paid for the service of her rather unusual talents and she fully intended to gorge herself, before she hit the road again.

Now if I could just get some service. she thought sourly as she struggled to gain a servers attention. This was about the only thing she hated about looking like a bum. No one wanted to wait on her because no one thought she could pay. And while New Orleans was the capital of Southern Hospitality, they did not tolerate free loader. Unless of course they were family.

"Excuse me, ah, hey, miss. Oh screw it." Nada grumbled grabbing hold of the next waitress that pasted with an empty tray. "Hi. Are you busy? No. Good." She smiled sarcastically to the stunned waitress. "I'd like a blow of Gumbo, a plate of jambalaya and a ice tea. No sugar, extra lemon. And if you get all for me in the next ten minutes you get twenty dollar tip." Nada stated, pulling two twenties from her pocket slapping them down on the bar for the waitress to see. "Now go." she said and released the waitress. Watching as she ran behind the bar hopefully to put a rush on her food.

[Nicka Commen]

Nicka was busy tonight as she ran around the grill. She looked at a fellow waitress named Gena who seemed in a rush. She looked over at one of the customers at the bar who Gena was serving. A young girl. She had money slapped to the table. Gena was shaky tonight, spilling the girls iced tea as she prepared it, Gena cursed. Nicka sighed, and put a hand on Gena's shoulder. "I'll do it. Just go." she said. Gena looked up at her and nodded, not arguing a bit.

Nicka got the food in and on her tray and then the iced tea. She hefted the trey onto her shoulder, and walked out from behind the bar over to the girl. "Here you are. Jambalaya, Gumbo, and an Iced tea. Extra lemon no sugar." she smiled. "Now how about that twenty dollar tip you promised Gena over there." she jerked herhead to the shaky waitress.

Gena had caught Nicka's attention. She was serving a couple of drunk and roudy rednecks. The rednecks grabbed at her, trying to pull her onto their laps. Gena fought back, pulled away. One big redneck stood up and yelled at her. Nicka hissed, her yellow eyes flashing, unawear that the human she served more than likely saw.

Nicka put her tray down on the bar, and went over to the table. She yanked Gena out of reach of the men, and took her place. "Do we have a problem here?" she asked.

One of the men scowled. "That bitch isn't taking my order!" he shouted.

Nicka growled, ad her hand wrapped to his throat. Her force was so string, he ended up on the table with her hand still to his neck. "We have the right to refuse service to anyone." she hissed, and glared up at the other rednecks.

She let him go, and turned away from them. As she walked away, she heard the man curse, and he grabbed her arm. Nicka whipped around, and cracked him in the nose so hard a loud and nasty cruch was heard through the bar.

Nicka let the man drop and she walked away, going back up to her human customer. "I'll take that tip now," she said, clearly annoyed.

[nada]

Nada stared up at the clearly inhuman woman standing before her. Sleek, sexy, and tattooed and looking for a rights and reasons to be about six inches away from snapping someones neck. And being as Nada was currently the closet idiot to her it most likely would be her. Looking back down at her food she grabbed for fork took two big bites from both dished, burning her tongue and the roof of her mouth as she did. then drowned it down with the tea, wincing that the tartness of the drink.

"Waitress." Nada said after her sour expression had cleared up, looking directly into the woman's eyes. Eye's which a moment ago had gone from a dark brown to a bright yellow. Eyes which meant Vamp in Nada's book. But just short of throwing Nada out on her ass now and hunting her down later. She doubted the woman would do much more than that at the moment.

Still she tempted fate by calling for the woman who she had snagged to place her order. The Waitress who was currently trembling behind the great tattooed amazon. Funny she hadn't seemed so sheepish when she'd grabbed her for the order. Guess she did better around bossy women, than grabby drunken men.

Still Nada sat at the bar looking up at the woman expectantly. There was nothing wrong with tempting fate, if you knew who the outcome would favor in the end.

[Nicka Commen]

Nicka looked down at the human female. "What you want?" she sighed, calming down, her eyes dimming back to brown. "If you don't like what you got on your plate, yough. Yu order what you want,you eat what you get." she said. Nicka was in no mood to be tested. Nicka looked behind her as the rednecks started to leave with their drunk and injured friend in their arms. She looked won at her shoes then, putting her hands on her hips. She wore her 5 inch pumps and small bacl shorts with the white Tee shirt with the resaurants logo. The company uniform made her look cheap and easy.

Nicka looked at the clock. She was off in about 4 minutes. Good. She needed to go blow off some steam. She needed to find a human to drink from. She looked down at the girl again. "So, what is it?" she asked. She smelled the air around her, searching for just that girls scent. She couldn't tell if the girl was scared of her or just teasing. The girl smelled good too. Not as in delicious, but the girl sort of smelled like herself. Spicy, isn't afraid to talk back, and looks for trouble.

[nada]

"No Problem with the food. Just lookin' to give credit where credit it due." Nada replied with an easy shrug. "And the only other person who's touching this twenty is her," Nada glanced over to the waitress. "not you." she added waving for the waitress to come over, which did in mousy kind of way, quickly by shy.

"Damn Good tea Hon. Perfect amount of lemon." Nada smiled to the waitress, slapping the two twenties in her hand. "What ever's left over from the other twenties you're to." Nodding the waitress took the money and vanished back into the crowd of patrons swarming the floor. And Nada went back to dinner, ignoring the glare of the vampire before her.

As rule Nada never showed fear in front of vamps, or anything else of a non-human nature. It only encouraged them. And Nada was not in the habit of encouraging the creatures that go bump in the night to make a meal or playmate out of her. She had enough problems with her own talents she didn't feel the need to add on to it with theirs as well.

"If you're going to stand there and glare at me the entire time I eat. You're going to get bored real quick. Cause the only trick this meals going to do is vanish and I'm going to take my sweet time about doing it to." Nada stated as she ate, this time savoring the food, instead of in haling it and burning the roof off her mouth as she'd done the first time.

[Nicka Commen]

Nicka's eyes flashed yellow again. SHe leaned closly to the girl so the tip of her nose was almost the her's. "Watch it, girl. You don't want to push my buttons tonight. And I don't need your damn money," she straightened up. "I was going to take it to her. She needs it mre than I do anyways." she said, looking at Gena. Gena was broke out of her mind. Nicka sometimes slipped a couple of hundreds into her purse when she wasn't looking. Nicka was only looking out for the human. She looked at the clock again. Time to go. "It's about damned time." she growled. She took off the waist apron, and threw it behind the bar.

Nicka looked at the girl again. "Try not being a smartass." she said. Her fangs elongated when she wasn't aware of it, their tips protruding from her lips. She gasped and covered her mouth, now sure as hell the human knows what she is. She gave the human one last long look, and Nicka went through the swinging kitchen doors and into the back. She looked around, and no one was there but a passed out bum down the ally. She opened her mouth and poked at her throbbing fangs. She needed to feed...

Nicka sat on the ground against the wall and leaned her head back. She closed her eyes and took in deep breaths. When she calmed down, she smiled to herself, and laughed. That girl is daring. Very daring.

[nada]

Shit! Hungry Vamp!!! Nada's mind screamed as she watched the woman's fangs slide out. Just a hint scraping her bottom lip. It was the first time she'd ever seen a vamp show fang in public. And found the action very unnerving.

This particular vamp was either very sure of her self or very young and cocky. But being a vamp and without actually touching her it was hard for Nada to determine which. So for the sake and safety of her neck and any other bite-able regions on her body Nada remained placid. Being sure to keep her shut to keep her from getting into anymore trouble.

Showing fear to predator was never a wise move. Aggression to was unwise, especially if they knew they could squash you like a bug. And Nada had no problem believing this one knew she could. Going back to her meal without so much as a flinch to the vamps snide remake, Nada watched from the corner of her eye as the vamp left the pub.

Now dreading the prospect of leaving herself since it was more than obvious she'd just pissed the vamp off. And she obviously thought Nada was good enough to make a meal out of. Something she generally tried to discourage among vamp and other such creatures. Though tonight it seemed she'd failed miserably.

But on the bright side if she did die tonight at least she got a decent meal out of it first.