Piper, Faith, Oz and Rebekah
Piper dialled in Faith's number and waited patiently for her to pick up.
"Piper? What's up?" Faith's voice came through worried.
"Hey Faith, nothing. Just wondering if you could ask Oz and Devon if they wanted to play. We've got an open night at P3, on... the first of November. We really need more than one band, even singers, but I guess we could just go with Dingoes," Piper replied.
"Yeah, well Dev and Oz are at the mansion, so I'll give them a shout. Oh, do you need another band? What about Room69?" Faith asked.
"Usually they'd be first choice, but I called Noah, and they've got a record deal - "
"Cool."
"Yeah, and they're busy writing and recording, and they unfortunately turned it down," Piper explained.
"Ah... actually... there is a band up here, 'The Displaced', that would probably be interested in playing? I mean, like if Dingoes are gonna make the trip down, I guess these guys wouldn't have a problem with it. I hope," Faith replied.
"Could you ask them? I am so run off my feet at the moment," Piper said.
"Sure, I'll do it after I go see Dev."
"Could they all get here in time?" Piper asked.
"I don't think it'll be too much of a problem..."
"Paige could always orb them over, so could Leo."
"Good point. Actually, there's a singer up here too, Rebekah. I'll ask her too."
"That would be great, thanks. Alright, well, call me back and let me know?"
"Sure." Faith hung up and went to find Devon and Oz. She found them in the caf.
"Hey guys."
Devon looked up and smiled. "How's our Slayer?"
"She's not yours." Faith sat down and Oz nodded in greeting.
"Meanie. Anyway, to what do we owe the pleasure?" Devon asked.
"Piper wants to know if you guys want a gig on the 1st," Faith replied, snagging Devon's drink and taking a sip.
"Yeah? Cool," Oz said.
"Well we don't have anything planned. But do we ever?" Devon grinned.
"So that's a yes?"
"Yup," Devon said.
Faith nodded. "Ok, well I'll be back with more details... now to find Bek." She stood and left the caf and headed outside, where she saw Rebekah sitting with her guitar.
"Ah, I was looking for you," Faith said.
"Me? Why?" Rebekah looked surprised.
Faith explained Piper's dilemma and the details to her, and Rebekah agreed.
"Thanks. I'll come back to see you later with more info, ok?" Faith asked.
"Ok."
"Hmm, gotta find Tav. See ya later." Faith went around the mansion looking for any of the members of 'The Displaced'.
Jono
They were all practicing in the room Spike had set up for them and Jonothon let them take a break for a bit to rest their hands and voices.
He heard a knock at the door and got up to find Faith there.
Hey Faith. Everything orright?
Faith
"I hope so."
Faith smiled.
"I think I may have a gig for you guys. That is, if you want to accept."
Jono
The room exploded into excited yells.
I think that's a yes. When?
The corners of Jonothon's eyes crinkled slightly.
Faith
"First of November. In Tulsa."
Faith grinned.
"Is that gonna be ok? You'll be after Rebekah, but before Dingoes."
Jono
That's fine with us. First real gig...we get paid, or we doing this gratis? Jonothon asked.
Just...we really can't keep using some of these borrowed instruments forever.
Faith
"Paid. But probably not that much, seeing as it's a line-up of three. But we will market you guys properly and stuff. Once I call Piper, she'll print off the posters and fliers."
Faith nodded.
"And it'll be a Saturday night. Our busiest."
Jono
"Cool," Angelo said, grinning.
Yeah, sounds fine. We'll get Dem and Wolf to port us, no probs I'm sure. How many songs do they want?
Faith
Faith chewed her lip thoughtfully for a second.
"Well, I think Rebekah will do about three, and probably five from you and five from Dingoes."
She grinned.
"And coz you're playing, you get free drinks from the bar. Ok, probably shouldn't encourage underage drinking, should I?"
Octavian and Sergei
"We can order soft drink, but what we'll end up drinking is another matter," Octavian laughed.
Sergei grinned and wriggled his fingers.
"I can transmute almost anything into drinkable alcohol now."
Faith
"Well, I'll just make sure I'm working the bar that night, and I'll just give ya drinks."
Faith shrugged.
"One of these days she's gonna lose her liquor licence because of me. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Anyways, you won't be playing till about... 8, but you'll need to be there at... 5 to do a soundcheck? Piper likes to be oragnised. We don't open till 6, so you'll have 3 hours before you're on, to wander around Tulsa."
Displaced
That sounds cool.
"Da, fine."
"Cool."
"How very exciting this all is," Octavian commented, smiling at Faith.
"This is going to be fantastic."
Faith
"Extremely."
Faith turned around to leave.
"I'll let you guys get back to practicing. Have fun."