Stuck in Time --Ivy

[Kaz Victoria McCoy]

The stroked the wall, as she passed the decreptide building, the old brick nearly crumbling at her touch, she dragged her hand against the wall. Not thinking about anything as she passed the building, nothing except for the dark streaks, that nearly looked like stripes on this old church. She smirked, a church in this place? There was no faith, it was beaten out of people, hope was an endangered speices, and they wanted to breed faith, she rolled her eyes, as she got to the doors, they were old wooden oak, and falling apart. It didn't take nearly anything to open the doors, just enough to slip in even though the door was chained, to prevent squatters.

She didn't know why this chuch compelled her to come, even after all these years, a chuch of all places, and her being her, they shouldn't have mixed. The dust on the carpet that she kicked up, and felt the desire to fall down and curl up into this carpet like she had a thousand times before, to hide and lay inside one of the benchs or hide behind a pew. Kaz saw this place threw the eyes of her childhood, wondering if they were behind every corner, she swore she could hear the faint sound of someone laughing, like it was still echoing off the walls. She touched some of the wood, and when she got to the front her heart nearly lept out of her chest, it was still there. There names were still carved into the front bench, Cass, Ivy, and Kai, there names next to each other, and there it was the tea party they'd had like it was stuck in time, little chairs, and a table, with plastic cups, they'd all stolen from home and the stores had "donated" to them, three kids who had nothing else to do, but to sit in this old church and pretend nothing bad could touch them here.

Kaz walked over to the stage just in front of the tea party, she walked behind the old podeum, and stood there looking at everything. "They were a fool to build a church here," she said thinking out loud, she closed her eyes and waited for the words to echo off the walls, like they'd done when she was a child.

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[Ivory Jillian Paige]

It had been weird to see Kai. Like nothing had changed, except they were all much older now. Her two childhood friends were lovers and her sworn enemies because of the colors they wore. Some people said that people never really changed, but Ivy disagreed. She felt different. Sure, she was the same being, but through life, things changed, they crumbled and withered away and new things took their place.

Her fingertips touched her tattoo as she passed the place, that old church, a perfect symbol of what had once been. She paused mid-step and wrapped her dark sweater around her more tightly, crossing her arms over her chest, hands tucked into her armpits, as if daring the cold wind to enter.

Ivy didn't remember making the choice to, but her feet were taking her closer to the breaking fortress. The shadow of a time that had been alright. Friends, the potential for love, no gangs... What a different world she had now. Her fingertips brushed the crumbling stone as she contemplated entering.

That was when she heard it. Kaz's voice from inside. Unless she was dreaming it... either way, it was almost funny. They used to come to this church as a place that was safe from everything outside, a safe house from reality.

[Kaz Victoria McCoy]

Kaz looked at the stage, it was still so big she thought to herself, she was still so tiny like the stage could swallow her whole at any second with it's black painted stage, and wooden floor boards that were unreliable. She hosited herself on top of the stage without using her hands, and stood there looking over the stage, not thinking about the poduim, or getting close to it, she moved with a grace that she never carried, her mind filled with a daunting melody, that should have died years ago, but still rang off the walls, "one...two...three...four...one...two...three..four... counting. She didn't vocalise the words, the numbers, and sounds, she closed her eyes, and when she opened them, it was still there, the world she'd built in her mind. This place was their palace, and they were Queens and Kings, of everything, not broken or afraid, her feet moved to the rythem, moving in a boxes shape, waltzing across the broken damned floor of the church's stage.

Ivy sat in the corner in a little plastic chair they'd brought, she was in a dress and pretty little shoes, her hair was up and she looked so pretty like a real princess, Kai and Kaz just looked like always. She'd worn the only dress she had simple and plain, her hair was down, straight and blond, she felt like she looked bad, but when Kai grabbed her hand, and Ivy sat on the chair, counting, they danced, and moved until it was Ivy and Kaz dancing, and then she was sitting, Ivy was the teacher, the privlaged one with the laywer father, Kai and Kaz were just two kids on the street. Bitterness washed away the plesant memory of times that'd passed long ago, more long than she'd care to think. The room came back, and it was dingy and dirty, she was standing on the lip of the stage, looking at the tea party.

"We were such dreamers," she thought out loud, thinking about the tea set, none of them had ever thought that this would end like this, that it would come to this. Kaz and Kai in a war, and winning, the tops of ranks they were the best at what they did, but now things were going to get more complex, Ivy was in the war now. Kaz shook her head, "The Princess should know better then to mess with the commoners affairs," she carried herself off the stage jumping down and touching the tea set as she said the words. Ivy was always the Princess, and now she was mixing with the street rats like Kai and herself, "What would Daddy think," she mocked.

[Ivory Jillian Paige]

Ivy heard Kaz's voice again and knew for sure she wasn't making it up. Princess. Kaz had always called Ivy that. And now seem a good a time as any to announce her presence. Here, in this place, they were less likely to go at one another. They had been friends once, and while Ivy didn't like Kaz's tactics and ways even though she was over Kai-- It had been so weird to run into him. Ivy slid through the chains and said, "You know I was always good at hiding things from daddy." She said, slipping her hands into the pockets of her black leather jacket.

She'd been in the Snakes a long time, long as Kaz had been in the Tigers, and now, finally, they were at the same level. They were the top. Part of her wondered if they could unite, but she doubted it. Even if they were civil.

"Its been a while Kaz." Ivy said, a smile tugging on her lips. Not particularly with genuine happiness, nor with a smirk. Just a motion that felt right.

ooc-- no churches i know have stages *shrug*