Serena -> Dany - "We only just met..."

"We only just met, but I'd like to see you again. I think." ~ Serena to Dany

 

By this point Dany seemed in a bit of a haze where he sat leaning against the bar within the clubhouse. A mixture of exhaustion and deep thought and so much so he'd about forgot he had only a few moments before been talking to Serena before they'd briefly been interrupted as she ran past to go after Sigefrid. Undoubtedly the other was on a mission by the look that had been in his face to really it shouldn't have been shocking how fast he'd dismissed her before hopping on his bike to go with a few of the other guys out of the lot.

They had people to collect. Family. Friends. Anyone remotely close enough that the other M.C or their associates could Target. Which it was all to concerning just the fact that Kjartan was only a badge short of being a cop himself. Fucking two timing shits.

Casually popping a piece of the jerky he'd been snacking on into his mouth Dany's light brown hues soon briefly met Serena's before he sort of snickered. 'Just met' oh he was gonna live this shit up. 'Stupid slut'

"Yeah well… . Considering I'm probably gonna be here for awhile I'm sure we'll see plenty of each other" He replied after a moment.

 

Serena had made it a habit to hang out in the clubhouse. For the most part, her presence was accepted, though there were the occasional few raised eyebrows. She as well aware that not everybody was as warm and inviting as Trent and his friends, and she had remained in her questionable habit of thinking of people she wasn't personally invested in as characters created for her entertainment. This habit dated back to college, when she and her now ex-boyfriend had planted bugs on his now-wife. They had used to watch the feeds together while cuddling. Then after graduation, by some unhappy coincidence, they had found themselves in the same state and she had been tasked with planting bugs again while Trent hacked existing surveillance feeds in the county.

Sometimes, it was very obvious that she didn't see those around her as fully formed people. She was convinced most of them saw her the same way, as something made to amuse them. Sometimes, she felt like she, Sigefrid, Erik, Haesten, and Dagfinn were the only real people in the world.

"That's good," she said, her tone laconic as usual. "You made a good impression, so I'm glad to see you round. What do you do around here?" she asked conversationally.

 

"Scrap people for parts" Dany replied without missing much of a beat. However it was certainly more of a joke given he didn't really know how in with the club she was and he soon snorted a laugh and smirked. "Just kidding…. At the moment I'm off my day job. So mainly I've just been working on getting shit secure with their Sergeant" He informed her. Being as he and Bloodhair had the same title he was at the moment but a helping hand for the other male with all this shit currently hitting the fan.

 

Serena looked intrigued till the man said he was kidding. "Shame," she said to that. Then, as he continued, she nodded. The more she looked at him, the more familiar he seemed, but she still couldn't place him.

"I like your hair," she said after staring at him for a moment. "And your ink."

 

Raising one eyebrow towards her Dany thought for a moment just sort of studying her. Yeah it would be interesting to see how long it would take her to figure this shit out. "Thanks" He finally replied chuckling almost awkwardly. "You know for someone who doesn't remember me… ." He paused and shifted a bit more to face her. "You seem to be flirting a lot. Still charging $3,200 a night" He whispered finally as his chocolate colored hues met hers and a rather twisted smirk crossed his face. From her first comment to now she couldn't be that stupid right? Either that or she was in fact lying and this was some silly game she was playing.

 

Serena’s face lit up immediately and she practically pounced on him to hug him. "Oh my goodness!" she squealed. Then, releasing him, "How have you been? It's been a minute. And no, I quit hooking after I, um…  made a new friend." She beamed, biting her lip slightly.

 

Well that confirmed it, she at least somewhat remembered him. Snickering a bit he merely moved one arm to return the hug before he slowly nodded. Yeah he'd somewhat managed to put two and two together already just watching her so she really didn't have to explain that was for sure. He also wasn't shocked to hear she hadn't been doing that since being as Sigefrid seemed like the type to be a bit demanding of attention in his opinion. "Yeah… Well I don't exactly live around here. How long you and this prez been a thing?" He asked rather bluntly. Sort of snickering at the thought. She seemed a bit bubbly compared to the girl who'd been at his arm the last time they'd been in town.

 

"Where are you from?" Serena asked curiously.

Then, to his question, "Are we…? I'd like to think so. We met about 18 days ago and sort of slept together then, but uh… I'd say it took us a few days to start getting along, so probably a couple of weeks? Does— does he consider us a thing?" she asked, her cheeks warming slightly. She'd caught that little snicker; was he making fun of her?

 

"Norway" Dany replied rather simply to her question before moving back to where he'd been leaning on the counter. Reaching to take another jerky out of the bag and pop it into his mouth he snickered hearing her next question. In response he merely shrugged. Honestly he wasn't to sure himself, he was just good at reading people and he'd known immediately they were at least sleeping together being how she was reacting to everything going on and the way she went bounding after him only a little bit ago.

 

"Ah, Norge er et vakkert land med vakre menn," Serena replied; 'Norway is a beautiful country with beautiful men.' She nodded her chin at him as if to say, 'Case in point.'

"Well, you're the second person to indicate that, so I guess it must be so." She nodded happily. "He's really great. It only took him a few days to forgive me for stabbing him," she said affectionately, "among other things, and since then he's let me come round and help with stuff."

 

Dany cast her a bit of a subtle cheeky smirk at her comment. "Stabbing him?" He almost immediately commented after she'd continued. This actually had him look far more amused than before and suddenly he was borderline cackling. "Holy shit you fucking stabbed him!!? How didn't he blow your damn brains out!!?" He added all to amused by this. That did make more sense though. The chick was absolutely INSANE and just not someone you ran into everyday. Probably what had Sigefrid still dealing with her. Something about a crazy woman just seemed to get many men walking around with instant boners pretty much. Granted he wouldn't have necessarily put himself on that list but he knew plenty who were like that. Easton for example. He was pretty sure if a female just walked up and gouged the man's eyes out he'd forever cling to her like a lost puppy. Which is what he'd done with two of his ex's and one was now in a damn nuthouse and the other had basically just disappeared one day and still had the guy reeling.

 

"Well— yes. I mean, we got along at-first-at first, but then he found out something I'm not in the habit of disclosing to every person I meet, he assumed I had lied to him, and he kind of pissed me off, so…  I stabbed him." Serena shrugged. "He stabbed me right back, though, so I figured we were even. He didn't really see it that way, though." She gave a little chuckle. "All's well that ends well, though, right? I mean, once we got over that little disagreement, he's been…  perfect, honestly."

Actually, she thought of Sigefrid as 'sweet', but saying something like that to men in their line of work had the risk of undermining Sigefrid in their eyes, so she kept that particular opinion to herself.

 

Laughter somewhat calming Dany slightly shook his head "Damn, sounds like you two had a glorious start to a wonderful relationship" He remarked and honestly his voice was dripping in sarcasm. Not like he knew their business but frankly he'd always been a bit judgemental of most people and especially ones he didn't understand and this he definitely didn't get. If a bitch tried to stab him over something stupid he'd have probably bashed her to pieces and called it a day… Or worse. Why keep the drama around? She must have glorious pussy to be as lucky as she was apparently.

 

"Oh, it was! And it is!" Serena chirped, oblivious to Dany's judgment. "He has a certain boldness and strength to him that I admire. He's fierce and he doesn't let anything get in his way. Well, I'll stop boring you with my gushing opinions. Can I make you some real food? Steak and potatoes, maybe?" She'd gone shopping on the way there and had put away most of the food before having seen Sigefrid and making a beeline for him just before he'd left.

 

Ok yeah at this point Dany was seconds away from giving her a hair flip and saying 'Oh my gosh girlfriend'

Seconds…

However he'd merely stifled another laugh as the thought crossed his mind ESPECIALLY with how overboard she seemed about the other male. Then…  The bitch brought up FOOD! Almost immediately he seemed to perk up and casting her an almost impressed look his eyes moved over her for a moment actually shocked. "And here I was starting to think your ass was just a bunch of pretty words, guns and high heels!" He somewhat teased her before sniggering away at his own joke. "You make something I'll eat it. Not gonna say no to food" He added bluntly despite still moving to continue snacking on the jerky. Granted most of the time he was a bottomless pit and it was an ongoing joke in his own charter that anytime someone lost ANYTHING food related to just blame him. In most cases they weren't wrong.

 

Serena frowned down at her shoes. She rarely wore higher than an inch these days, because she was already 5'9" and no longer performing onstage, but she reckoned even one inch might be considered high to some people. She shrugged and went to start cooking.

She filled a large pot halfway with water and emptied a whole bag of red potatoes into it, then turned the heat up to medium high. Then she grabbed a cast iron pan and put that on to medium high as well. She'd bought Kerrygold butter, her personal favorite, and put one stick in the pan to melt.

"Do you care if they're rare or medium?" she asked. "Seasoned with garlic salt, Cajun or Szechuan spice?" She didn't reckon he was too picky, but it never hurt to ask.

 

"Medium! I ain't no animal" Dany teased in response, raising his voice enough she could hear him through the door of the kitchen seeing as he hadn't budged other than to sit down for a moment on one of the spinning bar stools next to Asa who'd wandered in while the female was in the kitchen asking him something about some shit back home before handing him the phone.

Now with Asa standing there looking impatient beside him Dany was twirling on the stool like a teenager while still on the phone. In fact he'd hardly caught all she'd said after that seeing as the other person on the line began ranting about if he was paying attention. "I fucking pay attention. You know what fuck you Vaugn. And your mom! Oh oops was that to much?" Dany sniggered smartly cracking a terrible grin. This however soon faded as his best friend started in angrily again but this time more directed as Dany for making such jokes.

"Ok ok forget I said anything YES I heard you. Look I'll fucking send someone up there as soon as I fucking can you dick for brains. Did Daddy not mention… . We ain't in fucking town bitch" Dany snarked actually looking annoyed suddenly. 

"I can go? The fuck am I… " Asa started to offer.

 "Shut the fuck up bitch you ain't goin nowh… . Vaugn quit shouting at me or I'm hanging up the god damn phone. Yes I was talking to Asa shut your paranoid ass up!" Dany snapped angrily finally moving to hop down from the stool after a moment and pacing away from the bar area and now for the hall. Just in case he decided fuck it and to start shouting at this idiot.

 

Serena scoffed. She personally preferred steak rare; did that make her an animal? But she didn't comment. She just added some garlic salt to both sides of two large slabs of meat and put them in the pan to cook. She turned the burner the potatoes were on to high so they'd boil faster. Dany was alright, she thought. She was grateful she hadn't followed through on her offer to drop to her knees for him the first time they'd met.

About fifteen minutes later, the steaks and potatoes were ready. She had drained the water, mashed them in the pot, and liberally added the butter, salt, and pepper. Since she'd heard Asa's voice, she assumed it would be a good idea to cook for more than just Dany. She had put the ground bison she'd bought into the steak pan with some more butter, added Cajun spice, and pulled out some vegetables to chop.

She brought the steaks and three potatoes out to where Dany had been sitting, then offered Asa a smile. "You hungry? There's some more mashed potatoes in the kitchen and I'm starting a taco bar."

 

Hearing her Asa perked up for a moment and sort of nodded. Otherwise not really saying anything however as he cast another look for the hall as he did now hear Dany's voice raising. Yikes, Vaugn was really trying to get into it today it seemed. Moving to pull out a cigarette Asa was soon checking his phone impatiently waiting to find out if he'd have to head back over to the hospital or if he'd ACTUALLY get the night mostly free. Other than of course dealing with Dany and his little bullshit scene apparently taking place back home.

Back with Dany Vaugn had finally set him off and after shouting at Vaugn for even assuming Asa had anything to do with what was happening there he finally just got tired of listening and moved to almost throw the phone before just stopping himself. Fucking rich mobster bitches!! Taking a slow breath he finally turned to head back down the hall and over to where Asa was waiting. Sliding the phone to the younger male and spotting the food he hopped back up on the barstool looking a nice shade of irritated even as he reached for the plate.

"So?… " Asa asked raising an eyebrow after a brief moment not sure what all had happened himself. 

"So I'm eating… Don't fucking answer that bitches phone calls again" Dany half snapped as he moved to take a bite of the steak and for a moment looked a bit zoned out.

 

Serena chopped vegetables while the ground bison was cooking, then when that was done, she grabbed the pan with a potholder, drained the grease, dabbed the outside with a paper towel and put it back on the burner. She pulled out some tortillas from the fridge and put them, one at a time, in the pan. When they were cooked but still mostly flexible, she put them on the counter and added shredded cheese, meat, and finely chopped vegetables. When she'd used up a whole pack of tortillas she declared herself finished, turned off the burner, gave everything a quick wipe-down, and brought the food out on multiple plates with multiple trips. She set down one plate in front of Asa specifically and one on Dany's other side, where she sat and began to dig in. She loved cooking, but it gave her a hell of an appetite and it was nice to relax for a bit.

"What was that all about?" she asked Dany. "I heard yelling."

 

"Just work shit. Back home…." Dany replied in a bit of a dull voice as his went for the female who was now moving to join them. 

"Damn, I knew I smelt cooking. You?" Easton's voice came as he, Ragnar, Bjorgulf and Harvey came drifting in from the hall finally. His eyes going to Serena seeing as he immediately knew it hadn't been Dany or his own kid who practically looked like he was starving. However he was the only one to really say anything as he came up beside Dany and purposely reached to act like he was about to grab something off of Dany's plate only to end up with the blonde smacking his hand to get him away. 

"Bitch get your OWN!" Dany snarked pulling his plate away. Well as he did Asa took that opportunity to immediately grab a piece of the the steak and pop it into his mouth seeing as the plate was closest to him.

"Oh you two fucking hounds! Fuck outa here!" Dany barked moving with the plate to quickly get up as Easton busted up laughing at his kids quick thinking.

 

Serena offered a sympathetic grimace, then turned to the men who had just come in. "Hey, guys!" she said between chews with a little wave, covering her mouth with her other hand.

Then at Easton and Asa's antics, "Guys, come on. There's like five other plates of food here." But she was smiling. It was fun being around these guys.

"Poor Dany," she remarked before taking another bite of her burrito. "He seems stressed.”

 

Easton made a bit of a face as he heard her comment, glancing over his shoulder towards where Dany had retreated for the sofa area. "Aren't we all…" He remarked after a brief moment before moving over to where Bjorgulf was already digging into one of the plates of food. 

"You heading for the hospital?" He asked, looking to Ragnar who even with the option of food was simply walking back out of the kitchen with a rockstar in his hand. 

"Yeah, do I need to call the others?" He asked pausing for a moment to look at Easton with a rather tired look still on his face. Very evidently he needed the damn rockstar.

"Take Brody. He's out working on his bike. Should be bout done. Skorpa said he'd meet you guys there and…  That's about where I squirreled so if you have questions please see my supervisor" He remarked sort of snickering as he took a bite of the food. Rolling his eyes Ragnar slowly nodded and headed around the bar towards where Dany was sitting. Why'd he ask Easton anyway? Fucking idiot barley held down his own shit and really Dany had been in charge of assigning shifts other than Haesten refusing to leave the hospital for a single thing.

"Thanks Serene" ((YES ON PURPOSE)) Bjorgulf finally spoke from down the bar. For the first time sense he'd started eating and everyone was talking and by now he'd all but inhaled the entire plate.

 

Well, yes, it was probably a given that they were all stressed. It was a stressful situation. "Yeah. I guess you are," Serena said, a little apologetically.

She wondered what was going on in the hospital — someone had probably mentioned something, but she had forgotten in all the hubbub — but she already had been asking a lot of questions, so she let this one go.

"Sure thing, um…  person," she responded, a little flippantly, to … that guy, whose name she couldn't place. And because she couldn't remember his name, she wasn't about to give him a hard time for fucking hers up.