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Jun. 15th, 2010 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justasaleswomanShe wants to see you.
Five words, that's all it takes, drop everything and go, because she wants to see you.
And you don't keep her waiting.
Though she might keep you waiting. Verity's personal record on that front is seven and a half months, and she doesn't come close to holding the overall record.
In this case, though, Verity in sent straight into a room decorated in ballerinas and butterflies and blood.
Verity is barely in the room before Lilith orders the members of her entourage over by the door, "Leave us."
She sits on the bed, swinging feet in blood-splattered white patent leather shoes while they file out, and then Verity closes the door behind them.
"Any news?" Lilith asks.
From Ruby, she means. She won't say it, doesn't need to. Verity shakes her head. "No. Not since I last saw you."
Or she would have reported it.
Lilith watches her feet swing back and forth. "You don't like having to do this, do you?"
She doesn't. Lilith isn't likely to shoot the messenger is she doesn't like the news. She's likely to flay her skin of a centimeter at a time for a month.
And that's before you factor in having to take instructions from someone like Ruby.
Verity is not, however, stupid enough to say any of that out loud.
"I will, of course, do whatever you require."
Lilith laughs, and then says in a singsong, "That doesn't answer the question." She raises white eyes to Verity's red ones. "But you're a good girl, aren't you? I think you should go for a drink. And wait."
Great. Just what Verity wants to do with the next however long. Wait around at the end of the universe until Ruby shows up.
"Of course," Verity says.
"Now."
"Of course," Verity says again, and assumes that she has been dismissed.
She starts for the door.
"Verity?"
"Yes?" Verity says, stopping and turning back to Lilith.
She looks Verity over from stolen brown hair to stolen black shoes. "Is that what you're going to wear? It's a bit obvious, don't you think? You could be seen."
It won't make any difference if another demon sees them. But a human . . . well, it would hardly do to have Sam realize that his new friend is chatting with the demon who bought his brother's soul.
This assignment just keeps getting better and better.
"I'll change."
"Good."
Verity starts for the door again.
"Verity?"
"Yes?"
"I am right that you're a good girl, aren't I?"
"Always."
"That's what I thought. Now why are you still here, Verity? You have work to do."
Five words, that's all it takes, drop everything and go, because she wants to see you.
And you don't keep her waiting.
Though she might keep you waiting. Verity's personal record on that front is seven and a half months, and she doesn't come close to holding the overall record.
In this case, though, Verity in sent straight into a room decorated in ballerinas and butterflies and blood.
Verity is barely in the room before Lilith orders the members of her entourage over by the door, "Leave us."
She sits on the bed, swinging feet in blood-splattered white patent leather shoes while they file out, and then Verity closes the door behind them.
"Any news?" Lilith asks.
From Ruby, she means. She won't say it, doesn't need to. Verity shakes her head. "No. Not since I last saw you."
Or she would have reported it.
Lilith watches her feet swing back and forth. "You don't like having to do this, do you?"
She doesn't. Lilith isn't likely to shoot the messenger is she doesn't like the news. She's likely to flay her skin of a centimeter at a time for a month.
And that's before you factor in having to take instructions from someone like Ruby.
Verity is not, however, stupid enough to say any of that out loud.
"I will, of course, do whatever you require."
Lilith laughs, and then says in a singsong, "That doesn't answer the question." She raises white eyes to Verity's red ones. "But you're a good girl, aren't you? I think you should go for a drink. And wait."
Great. Just what Verity wants to do with the next however long. Wait around at the end of the universe until Ruby shows up.
"Of course," Verity says.
"Now."
"Of course," Verity says again, and assumes that she has been dismissed.
She starts for the door.
"Verity?"
"Yes?" Verity says, stopping and turning back to Lilith.
She looks Verity over from stolen brown hair to stolen black shoes. "Is that what you're going to wear? It's a bit obvious, don't you think? You could be seen."
It won't make any difference if another demon sees them. But a human . . . well, it would hardly do to have Sam realize that his new friend is chatting with the demon who bought his brother's soul.
This assignment just keeps getting better and better.
"I'll change."
"Good."
Verity starts for the door again.
"Verity?"
"Yes?"
"I am right that you're a good girl, aren't I?"
"Always."
"That's what I thought. Now why are you still here, Verity? You have work to do."
