1st Floor Rec Room, Monday Evening

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'Somehow' (Kathy was blaming Dante), dinner at El Burrito Loco had involved not one but several alcoholic flights for them to share: it had started with a cerveza flight with appetizers, turned into a sangria flight before their entrees had come out, and finished up with a tequila flight right before they'd finished eating. It was the tequila flight that had done it; they had been just fine after the sangria, but the shots of tequila, even when divided between the three of them, had sent them right over the edge from 'pleasantly buzzed' to 'gigglng and tipsy.'

The trip home hadn't sobered them up much, which was why they'd somehow ended up in the first floor Rec Room instead of heading up the stairs to the third floor. It was also why the discovery of a fully-functioning karaoke machine was pounced on with delight. Normally, Kathy would have been all over the DDR machine in the corner, but karaoke was a much, much better idea--for one thing, there was far less movement involved.

"We are doing this," she informed the guys, plugging the machine in and pulling out the track listings. There were an insane number of tracks from all over the world. Kathy was shocked to find songs listed by prominent K- and J-Pop artists, as well as the standard fare of Broadway, 50s ballads, and 70's rock. "We are absolutely doing this. In fact, Dante, I challenge you to an 80s power ballad-off right now."

The first floor of the Dorms was in for a very long, very musical night.

[Dante and Anders modded with permission, post very definitely open for anyone who wants to come in and sing! Beat the Mondays with secondhand karaoke!]

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About as serious as any time he affectionately cupped someone's face?

Anyway, Kathy was slipping through his arms down to the floor, holding her hands to the sky. "Every now and then I fall apart!"

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"And I need you now tonight," Dante implored of the heavens, arms suddenly outstretched. "And I need you more than ever!"

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"And if you only hold me tiiiiiiight," Kathy said, clinging to his leg like she was modeling for a 70's pulp fantasy novel cover. "We'll be holding on forever!"

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"And we'll only be making it right," Dante sighed, as he turned his gaze back down to Kathy. "'Cause we'll never be wrong--!"

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"Together we can take it to the end of the line!" Kathy was impassioned. Impassioned. "Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time!"

Probably because she was, you know, down on her knees with him looming over her.

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"I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark," Dante lamented.

He waved his arms around like he expected to make fireworks. (He couldn't. That was Anders' job.) "We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks!"

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Kathy was turning to point to Anders on that line and grin at him. He was excellent at making sparks. "I really need you tonight!" she sang, giving him a wink before turning back to Dante to continue clutching at him. "Forever's gonna start tonight! Forever's gonna start tonight!"

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Dante snickered quietly at her performance, before he remembered to break the big eyes out again.

"Once upon a time, I was falling in love... But now I'm only falling apart..."

He pushed Kathy away from him. Theatrically.

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And she tumbled over in a graceful sprawl, hands pressed against her now broken heart. Also theatrically. "There's nothing I can do! A total eclipse of the heart!"

She was going to keep going, too, taking the next few lines for herself. "Once upon a time there was light in my life," she sang, slowly drawing herself back up to her feet. She gave him a look full of longing and emotional torment, before turning dramatically away. "But now there's only love in the dark..."

Away from those damn big eyes for one.

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"Nothing I can say," Dante sang, fake-stumbling a few steps away from him until his back hit the wall.

He sighed loudly. (It sounded just a touch sarcastic.)

"A total eclipse of the heart!"

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Then came the long musical interlude where all the weird stuff happened on the screen. Kathy did a few flips, tottering a bit but staying on her feet regardless. Preternatural agility trumped alcohol, apparently.

"Turn around, bright eyes!"

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The song Dante was humming under his breath while the interlude went on was not, in fact, the song they were singing at all. It was perhaps an inconvenient time to get Combichrist stuck back in his head, and it made his own "Turn around, bright eyes!" come out with much more brimstone than necessarily intended.

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Kathy gave him a startled look before moving onto the next verse. "Every now and then I know you'll never be the boy you always wanted to be..."

Did it suddenly get awkward in here or what? Kathy was going to press on and ignore that. Too tipsy to go looking for deeper meanings in songs, thanks!

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Dante generally made it a habit of not looking deeper into any song beyond the overall 'FUCK YOU' parts, so he was handily ignoring it as he went into his next, slightly less brimstone-y, "Turn around!"

He was still up against the wall, but he was kinda relaxing against it now.

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Kathy strutted over to him, running a finger down his chest and giving him a naughty smile. "But every now and then, I know you'll always be the only boy
who wanted me the way that I am!"

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Was it possible to make miming a heart sarcastic? Because this was a very sarcastic heart.

"Turn around," Dante chorused, and miracle upon miracles, he didn't grab her ass even though it felt like an ass-grabbing moment.

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A sarcastic heart was easier to believe than a genuine one would be.

And was he sure about that ass-grabbing thing? Because Kathy was turning around, making sure to brush against him as she did, and pointed to Anders again. "Every now and then I know there's no one in the universe as magical and wondrous as you..."

She couldn't not sing that to the mage in the room, come on.

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Dante snickered, and while he didn't grab her ass, he did snag her by the hips.

With one hand. The other one, he needed to make a general 'see what the lady's singing?' gesture at Kathy.

Well, physically at Kathy, generally more at Anders, whatever. "--Turn around," he added, as an afterthought.

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Well, since he asked...

Kathy turned around, wrapping a leg around his waist and then bending over backwards until her head was practically on the floor. Upside down, she waggled her fingers at Anders, singing, "Every now and then I know there's nothing any better, there's nothing that I just wouldn't do!"

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Was Dante visibly trying to repress laughter?

Yes. Yes, he was. Aw, pretzel!Kathy.

"Turn around, bright eyes," he... hollered more than sang, really. While patting her leg.

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When was Dante going to accept that pretzel was just her natural state of being? Not that a simple backbend really counted as a pretzel. That was like Day One At Kiddie Gymnastics level stuff.

"Every now and then I fall apaaaaart!" Kathy pulled herself back upright, only to collapse against Dante's chest again. And if the line came out muffled, well, it most certainly wasn't because she was giggling. No way, that would be ridiculous. Which she never was.

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Dante cracked up and completely missed his line, then started in too early with, "And I need you now tonight! And I need you more than ever! And if you only hold me tight, we'll be holding on forever--"

He wrapped an arm around her waist.

... and then decided to just scoop her up off the floor into his arms, which unfortunately meant he couldn't reach the microphone any longer.

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Please, at the rate they were bellowing, everyone could hear them just fine, microphone or not.

"Ack!" That was not her line, but her delivery was surprisingly musical anyway. And it didn't take long to adjust to being swung up into Dante's arms; it was more laughter that had her coming in late. "--be making it right!
'Cause we'll never be wrong! Together we can take it to the end of the line!
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time!"

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"I don't know what to do!" Dante bellowed. "I'm always in the dark! Living in a powder keg and giving off sparks!"

Seriously, Anders was getting all the amused looks throughout this performance.

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It wasn't their fault it was so fitting! Well, except for how they'd picked the song and all. Details.

"I really need you tonight! Forever's gonna start tonight!" Kathy leaned over and nipped at Dante's ear. Hey, it was in range! What was she supposed to do? Ignore it?

"Forever's gonna start tonight!"