[Dan/Rosie/Death] Take Evasive Action

[Rose Elliot Madison]

Rosie looked up when Dan came back, handing out more beer and saying they should go dancing. Rosie smiled, that familiar feeling of excitement welling up inside. "Yayy!" she said quietly, but smiled at Ethan, drinking her beer and grabbing her credit card before, dancing her way to the door, "Chachachachacha CHA!" she turned around, bending her finger toward herself, getting Ethan up off the couch and out the door. Once they got to the store, Rosie grabbed the first little green dress she saw on the rack, not bothering to look at it. Why should she, she looked hot in everything, and nothing for that fact. As she headed for the dressing room, she stopped briefly, placing a hand on Ethan's arm, "Help zip me up?" Rosie found a dressing room next to Meredith, pointing to the dress she had brought back, "Love," Rosie stepped in the dressing room, stripping off everything but her lace underwear, taking the dress off the hanger when Ethan came in, "See, what would I do with out you..." she said as she stepped into the dress and pulled it up over her bare chest. Like he hadn't already seen it all, so what. Rosie picked up her hair off her neck, waiting while Ethan zipped it up for her. "Yeah Dan, that's an open invitation, get in there man." Rosie looked up and smiled at Ethan in the mirror, laughing slightly.

[Ethan John Fox]

Seriously mate. Ethan sighed as he stood inside the store. Had he or had he not directly said to Dan. ‘ Hey mate I’ve got early class in the morning, so I figured we’d stay in’. Then low and behold he goes and gets Rosie all excited about dancing. Now he was in a store where he knew him and Dan were going to be picking up the bill and he was going salsa dancing. His life could be worse, but it also wasn’t the comfort of his own bed either. He shook his head at Dan before he followed Rosie in diligently. She always needed help zipping up the back of her dress at his place, it had sort of become habit to do it for her any other time at this point and she was already calling him in to help her anyways. Ethan shut the door behind himself, narrowing his eyebrows as he looked at the back of her neck. He licked his lips slowly before he looked away from the nape of her neck and down at the zipper where he pulled it up for her. “ I have no idea, what would you do without me?” he said with a small smile. He turned his head towards the door as he listened to the conversation happening and then looked back into the mirror at Rosie and smiled as she made her own little sassy comment. “ The dress looks perfect on you. Sure you can dance in it?” he asked, still looking at her in the mirror as he stood behind her.

[Daniel Joshua Hudson]

Dan laughed when Ethan went off after Rosie to zip up her dress, at her beck and call always. He headed back toward the dressing rooms too, shaking his head at Meredith after she'd gone in her dressing room, talking about her sexy dreams about him. And Rosie telling him to go get it, being the wingwoman she was. Dan grinned, "Oh, you wanna find out Meredith?" Dan opened her door and stepped inside, closing it behind him, "Alright, you're going to have to enlighten me about this dream, what exactly was I doing?" Meredith was already down to her skivvies, dress waiting to go on, but that could wait, he was curious as to what exactly had gone on in this dream of hers. So she started telling him about her dream, and how he as a fireman with the suspenders, but he had no shirt. And he was all sweaty and covered in soot, and then they banged it out in the back of his firetruck. "Ohh, okay, sounds like a good time. So what exactly was I doing?" Meredith waved him off, saying she would just show him, telling him to lift her up, so he did, "Like this?" She nodded, telling him more of what happened, telling him where to put her leg, "Ohhhh, gotcha." He said, nodding, before pressing her back against the wall, "Like this?" he questioned, raising an eyebrow. It was quiet in the next dressing room, they ere either having sex, or listening very intently. Probably the latter. They wouldn't be that quiet if they were banging it out next door.

[Meredith Renee Jergens]

Meredith smiled as he came in behind her and looked down at her dress, knowing that she had to tell him the story before she would be able to put it on. It was easy to talk to him like this, because she had every reason to be honest with him. Why would she lie about finding him attractive? They were friends. It was whatever. She arched her back away from the wall slightly after he placed her against it and adjusted herself against his arms. “ Yeah I mean..almost” she said before moving her arm away from his neck and pushing some of her hair away from her face. It was still braided messily and now some of her bangs were falling over her eyes. She’d have to fix it later. She squeezed her leg tighter around his waist as she leaned her body back against his chest and then rested her lips against the side of his neck. “ We were just a little more entangled.. like that” she said before she playfully bit the side of his ear and then leaned back against the wall since he was already holding her steadily and placed her hand against his shirt where she tapped her finger against the fabric of it. She stared at it for a moment before she brought her hand back up to the back of his neck where she tangled her fingers back in his hair, tracing her thumb gently over his jawline as she spoke “ And you weren’t wearing a shirt,.. and I’m pretty sure this store doesn’t sell suspenders. So it looks like that ending stays in my dreams. Which is probably a good thing. You probably couldn’t handle the heat” she said before she smiled at him and lifted her eyebrow.

[Rose Elliot Madison]

Rosie shrugged seriously when Ethan asked what would she do without him, saying dramatically, "Probably die." But she smiled at him in the mirror when he said she looked good, asking if she could dance in it. She wiggled around a little, determining the answer was yes and she nodded, adding, "But I can probably dance better out of if. We can find out later. Pants of dance off..." she smirked, winking at him. Yeah, so they hooked up one time, and they'd silently agreed to not make it weird. Would she do it again? Absolutely. If he'd let her. Rosie froze, watching Ethan in the mirror, listening. She mouthed to him silently, "What the fuck are they doing?!" They were talking sex and trying things out and demonstrating...? And there was a thud on the wall. Rosie jumped up and down slightly, this was so exciting, "Are they gonna have sex or what?" she mouthed, her face full of excitement, listening. Get it boy, that's all she had to say. They have to ask Dan about it later, man to man, like, how was he even doing this? She was almost taller than him. He must be creative. She grinned, mouthing to Ethan, "You need to get her suspenders for her birthday, to go with Dan's gift."

[Ethan John Fox]

“ Pants off dance off” Ethan repeated in the same tone he always did. One of his favorite sayings of all time. He’d already cornered Dan with it in their kitchen this afternoon. He’d only been moved in for a few hours, had to be a record. They hadn’t ever discussed the time they hooked up,and.. sure they probably had plenty of opportunities to do so afterwards. Ethan just didn’t want Rosie to think she was some sort of fuck buddy. He cared more about their relationship and keeping her in his life than he did about getting laid, and making sure he didn’t hurt her feelings or use her in any way was a part of that. Not that it was the easiest thing in the world to not try and make a move on her, but he did care about her. Then again, they were also going to be drinking later tonight. Tequila negated most rules. Ethan stood still in almost the same exact moment that Rosie did, listening diligently to the conversation that was happening just a few feet away from them. He looked up in the mirror at Rosie as she mouthed to him and shrugged his shoulders mouthing back, “ I don’t know, have they had sex before?” he wondered, making a slight face. Surely Dan would have told him. When he heard the thud against the wall he widened his eyes, mouthing again, “ How is he doing that?” he questioned, trying to listen to the rest of their conversation. But Rosie was all but bouncing up and down out of the dressing room she was so excited. “ Why are you excited?” he whispered as quietly as he possibly could. “ Yeah I don’t think he wore them long in the dream,” he said sarcastically before he placed his finger against Rosie’s lips so she would stay quiet and they could listen.

[Daniel Joshua Hudson]

All joking aside, Meredith was hot, and all of the things that they were suggesting, he knew he'd totally be down with in a second. And the thing was, he never even really looked at Meredith like that, other than attractive. It wasn't as if they'd ever kissed or been involved. But here he was, had her pinned against the wall, her biting his ear, and she was in her underwear. And if he didn't get the hell out of there right now he counted be held accountable for what he did next. So he had to get out. Who knew what his testosterone driven self would do. He set her down, laughing quietly, "Oh please, I am a fire fighter, i can handle the heat." Dan stopped for a second, it really was awfully quiet. They were probably putting on quite a show for Rosie and Ethan. he held his finger to his lips, and quietly left the dressing room, silently shutting the door. Once he was out, he let out a long silent breath, shaking it out quickly. He'd gotten to close to letting his other brain dictate his actions, he'd have made out with Meredith if he hadn't remembered that they were just joking. After a long moment, it was still quiet in Rosie's dressing room, so he walked over to it and loudly knocked on it, disturbing the peace and heard someone jump and a thud on the dressing room wall. he laughed, shaking his head, nosy kids.

[Meredith Renee Jergens]

Meredith dropped her eyes from Dan’s and brought it down to his lips and then his chest. She had this thing with arms. He had strong ones… it was nice. She took in a few deep breaths at the silence and found herself oddly upset when he set her down. Well that was strange. Why would she give a shit? She made a slightly confused face at her feelings and looked back at him as he suggested that he could handle it because he was a firefighter. Well he sure as hell handled it in her dream, but he was running away from her in reality. She nodded slowly when he put his finger to his lips and then watched the door shut before she blinked, staring at it. Weird.. she could still feel his hands on her body. “ ……What the fuck,” she said quietly as she looked down at herself after Dan knocked on the door loudly and scared Rosie and Ethan. Those three could be in their own little world, she was busy trying to acclimate back to this one. How were legs supposed to work again? Cause her feet being on the ground and her legs not wrapped around Dan, well that just felt odd now. She took in a deep breath and grabbed her dress pulling it on quickly before she ripped off the tag so that she could hand it to the cashier and could just leave wearing the dress. Meredith opened the door to her dressing room, looking at Rosie and Ethan as she pushed their door open further. “ We need to go. I need a drink” she said, taking her hair out of the braid and untangling it so that it got left in soft beach type waves. She looked at Dan opening her mouth to say something before she instead held the price tag out to him and made her way out of the store.

[Rose Elliot Madison]

Rosie was still watching Ethan in the mirror, smiling broadly and listening while trying not to burst out some loud comment. What on Earth was going on over there? Rosie leaned back and rested against Ethan, letting him put a finger to her lips, telling her to keep quiet. She waited, even trying to breathe quieter, when there was a loud knock on their own door, startling her and she jumped, bumping her elbow against the wall roughly. Rosie moaned disheartened, she had been having such an unclumsy day. Thank you Dan. "Ohhh, my elbow..." she laughed, smiling at her own self and left the dressing room, pointing at Dan, "You are inappropriate, and I love it. Good work," she joked, finding a pair of shoes on the rack that were her size, a perfect pair of heels to go with the dress and carried them to the counter, looking back and waiting for Meredith. Meredith did look like she needed a drink, and Rosie wanted one too. Why the hell not? She smiled wrapping an arm around Meredith, "Hi gorgeous," and dropped the shoes on the counter and the gave the tag for her dress to the cashier. She watched Meredith hand her own tag to Dan and Rosie smiled. Whatever went on in that dressing room, they'd find out later. For now anyone might jokingly assume he was just paying for her services... Rosie chuckled to herself inside. While the cashier rung up her purchases, Rosie looked out the window. The city was very much alive, even for a Wednesday night. This city never had down days, that's why she loved it.

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan laughed as Rosie hit her elbow when Dan knocked against the door loudly. That girl was the clumsiest thing ever. He gave a nod to Dan, not going to say anything while the girls were around. Which didn’t really stop Rosie, already making her own little comment and Meredith was off after handing her price tag to Dan. Ethan watched Rosie go pick out a pair of shoes and was already pulling out his own wallet as he looked at Dan. “ So uh.. what was that?” he asked with a slight smirk before he shook his head and made his way over to the counter where he handed the cashier his credit card after she told Rosie the amount. Once he was done signing the receipt he gestured to Dan. “ You’re up,” before he set the pen back down on the counter and placed his wallet back in his back pocket and made his way towards the front of the shop. “ You alright?” he said with a smile at Meredith. ‘ I think I forgot to turn my oven off..’ Meredith said with her eyebrows narrowed while she looked deep in thought. He looked up waiting for Rosie and Dan before he opened the door for Meredith and made his way towards the club. “ Look Meredith I know I give you guys a lot of shit about being in love and stuff .. but that’s just because I genuinely believe you’re in love with him. I’m gonna tell him to try and hit that.. but that’s cause I’m his bro. You gotta be careful to not get your heart broken because I’m just gonna keep peddling him bad advice and be a bad influence. You’ll both get lucky then he’ll move on and you’ll put too much thought into it.. cause you’re a girl. You have press junkets. That’s a long stretch of awkward moments..” Ethan said, looking at her but she was counting off on her fingers. “ You’re ignoring me.. not listening to a word I say..” he said as he watched her. “ I had sexual reassignment surgery.. my name is actually Susan…” he said. Nope, nothing. He gave a small nod, looking over his shoulder to see if Rosie and Dan were catching up with them yet.

[Daniel Joshua Hudson]

Dan took the tag that Meredith handed him, confused, sort of. She was acting weird. But then again, they were sort of weird, the way they acted around each other. But then again, again, they did act like this a lot of the time, do there wasn't really a reason to be weird about it now. She had just walked out of the store so Dan headed over to the counter where Ethan had stepped in a paid for Rosie's things, and had gone out with Meredith. Rosie had looked at the door and then back at Dan, deciding to wait up for him. Dan looked at her while the cashier rang up Meredith's dress, "Is it me or did things get weird?" Rosie shrugged, looking back where Meredith and Ethan were, "Eh, maybe." Dan grinned, looking at her like she was failing him, "That's all my wingwoman gives me? Anything else I should know, any advice, other thoughts?" Rosie rolled her eyes, but smiled anyways, "Advice? You and her send the same messages to each other, but I don't think either of you understand why. Just be careful. Her acting weird? She's trying to figure out whats going on. Give her time to dissect it before you get all gung ho about getting in her pants. That's what girls do." Dan looked at her confused, so she clairfied, "You know, over analyze it? Like exactly what your not about to do?" She shook her head laughing as he signed his receipt and she dragged him away and out of the store. Maybe Rosie was right, they sent a lot of suggested messages back and forth, but Dan never thought much abut it. They were just flirting, just fooling around. All fun and games right? Was Meredith really about to dig into it? What was she looking to find? they were friends, they joked, what else was there? One thing Rosie did say though that stuck with him was 'be careful'. He didn't know what he was being careful about but if there were feelings involved, treading lightly might end up being needed so no one's feelings got all stepped on.

[Meredith Renee Jergens]

About a bottle of wine and a few glasses of champagne later, thank you Ethan , Meredith was at the point where she was no longer denying that she was drunk and accepting it. Yes, I Meredith Jergens am wasted. Definitely was. And Dan looked so… yummy. Did he look more yummy when she was intoxicated? What was that expression? Beer goggles? But then he would dance with some girl and the weirdest thing would happen. Every single time he flirted with some girl she suddenly got the feeling something wasn’t right . Like, maybe she DID leave her oven on. Or.. maybe she forgot to go to the bank today. Did she turn off the light in her bedroom? God, there was so much that it could be and she just couldn’t remember. She was probably going to come home to a home completely lit up with all of the electronics turned on and her oven on. Damn. But for right now, she was staring down at her phone. No texts, nothing like that. She was sort of hooked on looking at comments that people had about her being Katniss. Most of them were deprecating. She looked at the rum and coke in her hand and set it down. No need for the extra calories from the soda, so instead she spoke up to the bartender. “ Can I just get a shot of vodka?” she asked. Clear liquor would have less calories than tequila or rum. “Thanks,” she said unenthusiastically before she tossed it back and set the glass down. She was about to look at her phone again before she felt it being gripped from her hand. “ Hi Ethan,” she said with a forced smile. ‘ Hey Catnip’ he said with a smile and a wink before he reached over and dropped her phone in a pitcher of beer. “ ETHAN!” she screamed out, digging her hands into the pitcher of beer as she tried to dig it out. “ Sorry, I’m so sorry. I’ll buy you a new one,” she said to the group of guys whose beer she was digging her hands into before she got out the phone and looked at Ethan. “ Proud of yourself?” she asked him, shaking her arms and phone off. Which was now ruined. ‘ Indubitably’ he said with a smug smirk. ‘ Go dance with Rosie, don’t make a scene. I’m not getting into a fight tonight.’ he said before he brought his own beer bottle to his lips and took a drink. Meredith sighed in annoyance and went to object but then stopped and smiled. “ Indubitably” she responded before she made her way past Rosie, “ You like those Taboo kids right?” she asked before she went over to the DJ and climbed the steps to talk to him. After a few minutes he agreed to stop the live band and switch to some modern music. Meredith walked down the steps and walked past Rosie, clutching her hand in her own before she brought her to the middle of the floor. “ Ethan said not to cause a scene,” she said, waiting for the music to start before she moved herself closer to Rosie to dance. Maybe it was the amount of alcohol in her system, maybe it was the fact that Rosie was one of her best friends, maybe it was the fact that she really just wanted to piss off Ethan ,.. most likely it was a combination of all of the above but after dancing with her for a bit she placed her hands against Rosie’s cheeks and leaned forward to lay one on her.

song

[Rose Elliot Madison]

They'd eventually made it to the club and had all gotten incredibly wasted right off the bat. Which was fun. Dan was dancing with various girls. Meredith was at the bar, Ethan was... somewhere... and Rosie was dancing by herself, just enjoying the live band. There was something about a live band that made you wanna let loose and dance but she was tired and went to find Meredith at the bar. She found her, but Meredith was walking right past her to the DJ booth and Rosie stood idly, wondering what she was doing. But Meredith came back, and Rosie heard the song. "Hey, I love this!" Meredith was dragging her to the middle of the floor, saying Ethan didn't want them to cause a scene, "So.. we should cause a scene...?" she asked, confused. Yup, that was it. Because even though Rosie was down for dancing, Meredith had leaned in and planted a kiss right on her lips. Rosie froze, were there this drunk? Yup! So she figured what the hell? At least there wasn't some random dude hitting on her, just Meredith. Rosie didn't see any other alternative that seemed logical at that time so she did what any logical thinking person would do, kiss her back. She grabbed Meredith's arms and kissed her back, not very aware of the people around them getting all in a tizzy because they were two girls making out. Gosh it was like they'd never seen to drunk females making out, what did those people do when they came across lesbians?

[Ethan John Fox]

Ethan set his beer down, taking his wallet out to buy the guys whose beer he had demolished by tossing Meredith’s phone into the pitcher. “ Sorry mates” he said before setting the new pitcher down for them. Rosie had been out dancing the entire night, enjoying the live band. Dan was enjoying.. the girls. He sort of sympathized for Meredith. He could see her expression as she watched Dan with other girls. Only she had no idea what was causing her all of her distress. And Dan.. he really didn’t blame the guy. They were young, and it wasn’t like women were trying to run away from them. Let him enjoy it. So he was torn. Being a good bro to Meredith, or being a good bro to Dan. But he looked away from Dan who was dancing with some girl and stopped as he spotted Meredith and Rosie. He sighed as they started to dance together. Alright, better go stop this. He lowered his beer bottle and started to make his way towards them before he slowed down and then stopped completely. Were they..? They were. He felt his jaw slack a bit as he watched the two girls holding onto each other as they kissed. He reached his hand out, gripping Dan’s shirt to pull him away from the girl he was dancing with and turn him towards the girls, all the while keeping his eyes glued on them. “ We have to stop that… in a bit..” he said, not moving to see what sort of reaction they were getting from any other men.

[Daniel Joshua Hudson]

Upon arriving at the club, Dan had mostly forgotten about the stuff that was weird with Meredith for the time being. They were all having a good time, live music, drinking, joking around. Dan always had a girl to dance with and the drinks kept coming. Dan was still dancing with this one chick, she wasn't too bad. Not the hottest girl he'd seen, but she was a good dancer. Ethan was at the bar with Meredith, and Dan shrugged, focusing his attention back on the chick he was dancing with. He hadn't caught her name, but eh didn't really care either, didn't want to know. It wasn't like they'd be getting to know each other, he already had people to go home with. Suddenly Dan felt himself being tugged away from the girl by his arm, turning around to see Ethan who was staring into the crowd, jaw hanging and pointed. Dan looked, seeing Meredith and Rosie making out and felt his own jaw go slack. Oh shit. That was awesome. He heard Ethan beside him saying they had to go break that up... in a minute. "No.. we don't actually have to, it's... incredibly hot. Fuck bro." Why was girls making out such a turn on? He'd completely pushed earlier thoughts of the evening out of his head, like being in the dressing room with Meredith, but now this was making him remember them full force. Meredith was suddenly so very appealing. He would say Rosie was too, but that was stepping into Ethan's territory and he didn't want to get punched. It'd be a K.O. for sure. Dan only barely noticed everyone around them in the club taking notice, but he only just said, "Just let them. I wanna watch..."