Ain't gonna stop for nobody, no one.

[cierva]

Apache was nettled.

Yylfordt, in Apache's opinion, was being a monumental jackass. Granted, she accepted that she probably shouldn't have needled him about his loss to Kadaj while he was still being a pissy little bitch about it, but he acted as though being beaten by him was something to be ashamed of, which apparently it wasn't, so she wasn't the only one who thought he shouldn't have come off worse. Yylfordt thought it himself.

Yylfordt was just petty. When things didn't go his way he took it out on other people and, to make things worse, he took them out on them in Al Bhed, which was just rude when half the room didn't speak it and less than that spoke it as fluently as he did. He just pissed her off when he acted like a baby.

She liked Tayuya's idea of getting out of the palace. It was a good idea. She hadn't gotten out since the Midgar mission. The rest of them had, but they'd elected to leave her behind, as usual, probably at Yylfordt's behest, she thought, so she was due a break. She needed a break. If Tayuya managed to convince Nel, or even Halibel, that a girl-only trip out was worth it, she'd be happy. She needed to be away from the palace's sausagefest for at least a night or she was at risk of getting testosterone poisoning.

As such, she stomped away from the Sunhouse and to the kitchen, with Tayuya. When they got there she was relieved to see that it was entirely free of the usual suspects who haunted it. Nnoitra was nowhere to be seen, Szayel was gone for once, luckily for him, and neither Even nor Luppi were around either. Apache threw herself into a chair with a scowl on her face.

If Nel said no, she was going to murder that blonde-haired Granz bastard in his sleep.

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[destroytiburon]

Halibel flashed a small smile and strode over to the glasses, and wine, pouring herself half a glass.

"Let us hope we do not return to find the Palace in tatters," she said, "after leaving the boys here to fend for themselves."

It was, as far as Halibel was concerned, a risky venture for that fact alone. They managed when Nel wasn't around, but that was planned management. It would be interesting to see what happened among the younger of the Arrancar when Nel was unexpectedly absent from her typical duties.

[thechillyacademic]

Even smiled to himself.

It was curious, because, in his limited experience, leaving the only girl in the group he used to belong to was more of a recipe for disaster than leaving the men.

Some in the palace seemed independent enough not to rely on Nel, at least. The biggest danger was probably somebody offing Szayel.

[cierva]

Apache hadn't been out since before she left Jylland. She had arrived on Ivalice and had almost immediately had to set out finding a job and accommodation. After a month of that, she'd joined the Arrancar project. Being able to just go out and enjoy a night with friends would be fun, she was sure of it.

It might have been a bid to exact revenge on Yylfordt, but it was going to be good, too.

She had been getting ready with Tayuya, trying to pick an outfit that wasn't outright slutty, but that showed off what she wanted to show off. A low-cut top, a push-up bra and a short skirt did the trick, together with some boots. She didn't really have the shoes for a night out, but that didn't matter. With her eye-make up techniques, she ended up using the rock chick look more often than not, anyway.

Together with Tayuya, she headed to the kitchen where they had agreed to meet up with Nel.

[soundfivebitch]

Tayuya, awful as it sounded, had never been on a girl's night out before. She was familiar with the concept, of course, but since she'd spent most of her life in the Palace as the only regular female resident, she'd never had the opportunity.

It also meant she'd never really dressed up for a night out before, so she'd joined forces with Apache to scour her wardrobe for something she could wear. She'd ended up with one of Apache's tiny skirts, and one of her own shirts, tucked and folded so it was that little bit of a tighter fit than she usually wore it.

She'd also dispensed with the headwear for the night. It didn't really go.

The net result was that Tayuya didn't really look like herself if you were used to seeing her around the Palace. She didn't normally put anywhere near this much effort in.

She went with Apache, once they were both ready, and entered the kitchen, glancing at the others. Nel hit about the same level on the slutty scale as Apache did. Halibel, for Tayuya, scored a point higher, because while she was only showing as much cleavage as Nel, hers was peeking underneath her top. Tayuya suddenly felt much more comfortable wearing a skirt.

Even was there too, she noticed, surrounded by boobs he didn't appreciate, and drinking a glass of wine.

"Pre-loading?" She asked, looking pointedly at Nel's glass of wine, and then at Nel.

[declaregamuza]

Nel smiled at the girls as they entered the kitchen. They'd obviously opted to make the most of the evening in the same way she had.

"Well, some of us were taking an age to get ready," she said, in reply. "You two look good," she told them.

Apache might have been out to make Yylfordt jealous, she wasn't sure, yet, but if she was, it was going to work. Even though Yylfordt would inevitably not admit it.

[destroytiburon]

"We're all ready now," Halibel pointed out, giving the two younger women a once over, and then lingering on Apache.

Maybe if the night went slowly....

[cierva]

Apache grinned a bit at Halibel's look and turned to Nel, head tilted a bit.

Thanks," she said, pleased with the compliment. Then she eyed the bottle of wine and Nel's glass of it. "Drink up, then."

She was looking forward to getting out. She had grabbed some gil from her room to cover as many drinks as she could, but she was banking on not having to buy too many herself. She was sure there'd be a few generous guys and girls in the bars or clubs they hit up.

Without waiting, she headed back out into the hallway.

[thechillyacademic]

Even smiled a little. It was lucky Nel was so responsible. Halibel seemed similar, but the idea of four girls going out to clubs and getting rather drunk struck him as a horrifying concept. He imagined they could be far, far scarier when in that sort of state and hoped, for Nel's sake, that no fights broke out.

He looked at the bottle of wine on the table and pointed at it, before Nel left. "May I?"

Well, why not.

[declaregamuza]

Nel narrowed one eye at Apache, and then downed the remainder of her wine in one go. Then she stood, throwing Even a smile, and a, "Help yourself." He might as well, it would only go to waste otherwise.

"Come on then," she said, following Apache into the corridor, and ushering Halibel along with her.

[destroytiburon]

Halibel finished her own wine in a couple of mouthfuls before letting Nel shoo her out into the corridor after the other two. She gave Even another polite nod before she went, faint smirk on her face.

Yes, she was definitely going to enjoy herself tonight.

[palehornedprince]

Yylfordt was on his way to the kitchen when he saw the girls.

"Where the vilg are you going?" He asked, eyebrows raised. He hadn't seen girls dressed up like regular tarts for a bit, and he'd never seen these girls dressed up like that at all.

He wasn't sure what to stare at first. Nel's cleavage? Halibel's under cleavage? Tayuya in a skirt? Apache, uh....

Apache got a look up and down before Yylfordt made himself look away. Fortunately, there were plenty of things for him to look away at.

[cierva]

"Out," she said simply, giving him a slightly defiant look.

If he dared try and put the ban on that because he was the Espada of the two, he was going to find a knee being rammed very forcefully into his groin.

Still, she didn't miss the look over she got. That was almost enough to make her smirk, but she managed to keep it suppressed.

[jawmask]

Grimmjow walked up behind Yylfordt and did much the same as he did, except his eyes lingered on Tayuya instead of Apache and he didn't have to look away. He wasn't sure he'd ever seen her in a skirt before.

"You look nice," he said, giving her a grin. "You asked Kuja if you can go with them, or are you just goin' without givin' a fuck?"

I mean, it was all fine by him, but he didn't want her to get in trouble and get herself banned from Skite outings. That would, in his opinion, be shit.

[soundfivebitch]

"I asked him if I could go out with Nel," Tayuya answered, with a nasty grin. She'd asked permission, yes, but she hadn't given full details; just enough that she'd get permission granted.

Kuja probably wouldn't care so long as she didn't get into trouble, though. He had bigger things to worry about than one of the Sound Four heading out for the night. She hoped so, anyway. Tayuya hadn't wanted to risk getting told no, and even if he did ban her from Skite trips in future, Kadaj could probably talk him round. Or, well, convince him, somehow.

She approved of the look Grimmjow gave her, anyway. She wasn't sure about the skirt, but he seemed to like it, so it couldn't have been bad. Admittedly, Grimmjow would probably give her that look if she showed up in his bedroom wearing a bag, but that was beside the point.

"Wouldn't want him fretting about not being the girliest motherfucker in the building for five minutes, would we?"

[palehornedprince]

Yylfordt tried to find somewhere to put his face, with little success. The problem was that he had a very strong urge to put it in a few places that would get his ass kicked. He found himself staring at Apache again, or rather, at Apache's low cut top, and he made the conscious effort to force his eyes up to her face.

"Right," he said, half distracted. Something was nagging at him and he couldn't put his finger on what. "Well," he began, awkwardly, "about earlier, I--"

It clicked.

"Rumo cred," he said, staring. "Your eyes are different colours!"

[declaregamuza]

Nel, in a good mood, aware that she was being stared at, was all set to hurry the girls on towards the exit.

Then Yylfordt spoke and she just stared at him, as if he was a complete and utter idiot.

"Tell me you're not serious," she said, looking ready to slap him upside the head herself if Apache didn't get there first.

[jawmask]

Grimmjow, briefly distracted from his girlfriend's hotness by Yylfordt's display of epic stupidity, stared at him.

Is that why he'd never said anything nice, for fucking real? When he asked earlier why he'd say that to her, he thought he was just being an ass, he didn't consider the possibility that he just hadn't noticed.

[cierva]

Apache stared at Yylfordt.

Amazingly, he looked genuinely shocked about her eye colour, but still, there was always the possibility that he was messing with her. Right? Right.

"Are you taking the piss?" She asked, narrowing her very mismatched eyes.

[palehornedprince]

Yylfordt realised, from the reactions of everyone else, that he was probably the last one to notice. It wasn't like he made a habit of staring at people's eyes. If he was honest, if you asked him Apache's hair colour when she wasn't stood in front of him the best he might manage would be 'dark'. Noticing that kind of shit was what Szayel did.

Yylfordt could tell at a glance the gauge of a bolt, but he didn't usually notice crap like colour.

"No," he said, wondering how it was possible that Apache seemed even more wound up with him than she'd been before. "I'm guessing they're not contacts," he said, realising that he wouldn't be treated like an idiot for only just noticing those.

[soundfivebitch]

"You are such a fucking retard," Tayuya declared in disbelief. They definitely had to go and get Apache hammered now.

Hammered and, for preference, hooked up with some rando with a pretty face and a couple more brain cells than the average slug, which would make them markedly brighter than Yylfordt.

[cierva]

She stared at him for a little longer and then turned to Nel, addressing her before her absolute disbelief blossomed into full blown ball-kicking anger.

"Can we go now?" She asked, perhaps a little more snappily than she'd intended.

[jawmask]

Grimmjow, diplomatically, didn't comment. He also didn't smack Yylfordt up the ear like he deserved, but that was testament to the enduring nature of their friendship in the face of, if not adversity, definitely amazing stupidity.

He was still baffled. Yylfordt had managed to make it clear that, inside him, he had depths of intense obliviousness as yet unplumbed. It was unbelievable.

He shook it off and turned to Tayuya again, trying to wipe the look of dumbfounded surprise off his face to see her off. "Try not to kill anyone," he said, joking, though his humour was still somewhat dampened by the weight of Yylfordt's unfathomable denseness.

[declaregamuza]

Nel eyed Yylfordt and shook her head. She stepped forward, delivering a sharp, open handed clip round the ear to him, before she smiled at Apache. "Come on, then," she said, sounding cheery, and leading the exodus.

She threw Grimmjow a casual wave with the back of her hand as she turned. "Try not to trash the place while we're gone," she replied.

[soundfivebitch]

Tayuya broke away from her stare at Yylfordt, and his incredible display of unobservantness, to flash a smile at Grimmjow.

"No promises," she told him, with a grin, and then added, "same to you." Grimmjow might have to exert some self control to refrain from killing Yylfordt while trying to beat some sense into his unusually thick skull.

[palehornedprince]

Yylfordt whined his complaint when Nel smacked him around the ear and looked terribly offended. He looked unhappy as he held his ear in one hand, and watched them go, but didn't say anything else to the girls.

He'd probably opened his mouth too much already.