A Little Piece Of Heaven

“So did it work ?”
“Mikey thinks I’m still his love object yeah.”
Lilith gave her friends a charming smile as she walked through the hotel room door. One hand held a half empty vodka bottle, the other a canvas bag with the red cross logo on it. The heavy spellbooks were immediately dumped on the floor. She took another slug, the alcohol helping to hide the residual pain from her battle with the brothers as she drank in seeing her friends altogether around the table. It felt like forever since they had all been together and she let herself forget the problem in hand to enjoy Syn’s arms circling around her waist. He breathed into her ear, smiling at the bag.
“And you brought the emergency supplies with you. Are we having a thought gathering session ?”
Claire grinned and claimed the bottle and a hug as Jimmy pulled Raven to one side with an apologetic grin. There were a few things he needed to explain about just how they pulled some of their plans together. When you were already dead and didn’t suffer from either hangovers or overdosing it was possible to do some ridiculous things and still get the job done. Already Syn and Zack were pulling the furniture to the side of the room as Dani laid out blankets and pillows onto the floor. Johnny was pulling out more alcohol as Matt lit a cigarette and went to find pen and paper. Raven stared at Jimmy.
“What’s going on ?”
“We are going to think up some ideas with the information Lilith has brought back. The traditional method is to get very drunk, very high, fuck a lot and then come up with some plan at about nine o’clock tomorrow morning. It’s a game called Truth or Dare.”
Raven giggled and kissed his smile, liking the light hearted mood that seemed to be gripping all of them. This was the Jimmy she had fallen in love with, laughing and carefree and it reminded her that immortality meant that all bad times were bound to pass along with the good. She watched curiously, all of the couples now huddled in each others arms as she and Jimmy joined the circle and Syn unpacked the red cross bag.
“Well now, coke…..those funny red pills Johnny got from that man in Hong Kong….opium…..weed…and we have vodka, whiskey, absinthe, tequila and whatever else we can steal from the bar downstairs.”
Dani eyed the whiskey, a fine malt that she knew Matt had been saving for the next one of these parties. They had become legendary and had helped them stave off revolution in France during the Great War just by the cunning use of an explicit photo and Zacky’s ass. She half hoped they could use that one again at some point in the future. Lilith drained the last of the vodka and put the bottle into the middle of the carpet.
“For Raven’s benefit the rules are : My bottle so I get first spin. If it lands on you and you choose truth it has to be the truth cos Claire will know otherwise. If you choose dare then you’re a fucking moron and you deserve whatever punishment the others give you. It is then your turn to spin the bottle again. Last to pass out or die is the winner.”
Stefanie relieved Johnny of his cigarette and smiled at the still bemused Raven.
“It works honestly.”
Lilith grinned and leant back against Syn, his teeth nipping at her neck. She had already got several ideas for the night to come to rid any lingering taste of Mikey from her brain along with any thoughts of Gerard. Thanks to them she was in serious shit and now had to find a way around it. The heat of his body and wandering hands helped her think as she spun the bottle on the carpet and they all watched to see who it would land on.
“Looks like Claire is first up. Truth or dare ?”
The wicked twinkle in Lilith’s eye made Claire giggle harder as she swallowed down a shot of tequila and considered the question. The dares were never really worth the risk no matter what the humiliating question might be, only the boys tended to be in macho mode and take the dangerous option.
“Truth.”
“Just what DID happen in the throne room at Buck Palace cos you won’t ever tell me and….”
“BITCH !!”
Claire flamed red and threw a shot glass at Lilith as Zacky had to bury his face in her shoulder to stop the sobs of laughter. Matt and Jimmy were dying to hear the answer to this one question that had puzzled them all for nearly forty years. Dani was fighting a losing battle with Stefanie, both dying to know and both knowing that Lilith had promised never to ask. Johnny passed Claire a lit joint and waited for the answer.
“Fine, what happened was that you got me that fucking drunk that I walked up to Queen Mary and threw up all over her… I nearly ended up in the goddam tower and to make it worse when the King intervened I threw up over him too.”
Everyone lost it, Claire giving in to the proud smile as Zacky choked on his whiskey and Lilith raised another tequila in a toast to her and prayed to god the bottle didn’t land on her next. Syn removed a switchblade from his pocket and loaded up the blade with coke as they all waited for Claire to spin. He had a strange feeling that something wasn’t right with Lilith, she was even more tactile than usual but her eyes were guarded and it bugged him. The hit helped. A whoop went up as the bottle stopped at Raven.
“Truth….or dare ?”
Raven knew they were waiting for her to take the safe option, it was clear having spent any time with any of them that they were capable of humiliating each other like a wolf pack with the possible exception of Dani and Stefanie. She took a deep breath, knowing that Jimmy was waiting for her to say truth.
“Dare !”
“Ladies and gentleman, this girl has serious balls.”
Lilith toasted Raven as the boys struggled in a line and politely golf clapped causing Claire to choke on the joint and Stefanie to sneeze coke rather than inhale it. There was a certain look from Jimmy half pleading, half threatening that made Claire smile even more. Knowing how Raven was fairly new to all of it she decided to go a little easier than she would have on the others.
“Kiss Lilith.”
Lilith grinned and knew now that the boys were suddenly all a little more interested. Raven blushed but shrugged and looked at Lilith uncertaintly. There had never been an occasion when kissing a woman on the cheek had been a dare before but she suddenly realised that she had not quite understood when Lilith kissed her full on the lips, her tongue running along Raven’s lower lip. On instinct Raven opened her mouth a little and felt the heat rush to her face as it turned into a full on French kiss. She could hear Syn and Jimmy cheering and was forced to come up for air. Lilith was quietly interested and wondered if she could talk Jimmy into sharing…
“Very nice, more of that please.”
Jimmy smirked and wagged his finger at Lilith.”
“No I’m not sharing. Spin the bottle Raven, let’s try and get one of the clowns to do something fun.”
“He means you Syn.”
“Fuck you Zack.”
“We do that anyway, that’s not a dare.”
A minor argument broke out that ended in a violent kiss involving the two men that threatened to end in the loss of both clothes and dignity as Raven gave the bottle a hefty spin. She was still too nervous to try any of the narcotics but had found that her liking for alcohol was merely intensified by the knowledge that there would be little to no after affects. She accepted another full bottle of gin from Jimmy as the bottle stopped, pointing at Syn. He smirked and rubbed his hands together, giving Raven a devastating smile.
“Now the fun can start. Dare !!!”
Jimmy leant over and whispered something in Raven’s ear, her face giving away that it was something fairly interesting before she got up and swayed over to the window. She looked down and then beckoned them all over. Lilith was just dying to know what Jimmy had suggested given that the last time this happened he had made Syn take a baseball bat to three police cars in full view of thirty New York policemen. The brawl that followed had become a full day of rioting and Zack and Johnny had ended up staging a prison break.
“See that SS officer down there ? Strip, walk down there and kiss him.”
There was a moment of silence as they all stared at the enormous man and then back at Syn and then back at the man before Syn started removing clothing with a defiant look on his face. Zacky passed him a bottle of scotch and he took a slug before accepting a joint from Lilith and looking over at Jimmy as the girls started quietly betting if he would be shot in the head or the groin.
“You’re a dead man Sullivan but if you think I’m gonna welch…”
“I think you’re going to die. Again.”
Matt used Dani as a shield to avoid the fist coming his way and was forced to enjoy Syn kissing Dani instead in all his glory. All of the girls didn’t both to hide the fact that they were staring at the muscles and ink that coursed under and over his skin. Lilith felt hungrier than ever, annoyed that it had been Gerard rather than herself that had been kissing him the night before. They all crowded back to the window and waited as they heard him descend the stairs.
The burly man had his back to Syn and didn’t have time to process being tapped on the shoulder before Syn grabbed his face in both hands and planted a kiss full on him. Zacky gave up the idea of trying to draw breath as he roared with laughter at the man struggling to escape the inhuman strength that Syn was using to hold him still while making the kiss as passionate as possible. The sight of the naked man and the struggling officer was causing a crowd of other soldiers to start looking over as Lilith, Claire and Dani catcalled from the open window and Jimmy, Johnny and Raven headed for the stairs just in case. They all knew that drawing Mikey’s attention at this stage of the game was probably a bad idea but it was too funny to stop just yet.
“They’re gonna kill him.”
“Yup…..ohhhh that looked like it hurt.”
Stefanie handed a ten reichsmark note over to Dani and Claire pointed out that removing a bottle from a rectum was actually easier than it looked and all of them looked behind them to make sure the spin the bottle glassware was still in place. Lilith looked over at Zacky questioningly.
“Thought you might go down there for a ruck.”
“And leave my beautiful ladies ?”
He swept Claire into his arms, removing her breath with a kiss before hugging the other free and using it as an excuse to cop a feel. A few more clothes went from everyone left and Zacky grinned as he was pinned onto the floor by four sets of hands and thoroughly molested. The idiots downstairs really hadn’t thought their actions through. He was well on his way to enjoying it when the door burst open and Syn limped in followed by the others.
“I won the dare anyway.”
Johnny smirked, his fists still bruised and bloody.
“And got sexually violated. Win-win situation for you.”
“What can I say ? Even gorillas can’t resist my sexual magnetism.”
Lilith handed him back his chinos and they all settled back down to another round of drinks, the blade loaded with coke and the beginnings of serious groping as Syn sat Lilith on his lap and spun the bottle hard. It worked its way around three times before landing back on him and he kissed her on the cheek.
“Your turn baby.”
Lilith considered before taking the safest route.
“Truth.”
Syn considered, hearing Claire’s voice in his head and unable to resist the question that was forming in his mind. The others waited expectantly, half knowing what was to come and eager to hear the answer themselves. The riot outside caused by their game was in full swing and they could hear sirens in the distance as he spoke again.
“Was Mikey a better fuck than me ?”
Lilith grinned, the answer to that one was easy and she turned to lick his bare chest and look up to him. There was a wicked glint in her eyes and the hint of something else lurking behind them as she answered the question as truthfully as possible.
“No, although he isn’t at all bad. Not as good as his brother who by the way is behind this whole thing. Partly my fault as I fucked him back in the day but now I have a god in my head and one of us here is going to die trying to get it out.”

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