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Who: Helena, Haru, Gokudera, Max, Hubb, and still OPEN!
Where: Hong Kong's room
When: Toward the end of the blizzard
Rating: PG for swearing?
Summary: Some people get together to launch fireworks in order to lead the lost people back to the Mansion.

Helena and Haru had one encounter before, a very brief exchange over the network, that had left her with a bad impression of the quarter-lynx. Needless to say, actually doing something with him is something she never really considered, but for tonight she could make an exception. Maybe he wasn't so bad, in any case.

Besides, if this idea she had of launching Hong Kong's fireworks managed to lead the lost people home, then she'd put up with anything.

Out of breath from climbing so many floors, Helena arrives at Hong Kong's door, and enters immediately.

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Max smirked at Haru and Hubb.It was cute the way some guys tried to get her to be careful. Just so long as they let her do things her own way in the end, anyway.

Stooping down by the trunk, she withdrew one of the larger rockets and looked at the hole in the roof, calculating the exact positioning necessary for optimal visibility. "Something tells me a fire on the roof stands the chance of spreading, and since we ain't got no other place to go, that might not be the best of ideas. Also, we gotta be careful not to accidentally shoot more holes in this place and cause things to start collapsing. Concussions ain't generally fun."

Looking up at the others, she asked, "Who brought the matches to this shindig?"

"I hope it's enough. Hong Kong blew up the mansion on his floor pretty good when he screwed up. If they're anything like that there should be a kick to them.That would be mister smokes there~ Gokudera! Give the lady a light!"

He aims to kick the other young male in the butt to edge him forward.

"Max raises a good point though~ Concussions are really no fun. Neither is testing concrete with your head. Some of us may not be able to stand it."

Haru will not look at Hubb but it's very obvious that he's thinking about him.

Gokudera manages to avoid the kick, shooting a glare at Haru as he stepped toward Max.

"Here." He took his lighter out of his pocket and held it out to her. "I've got matches too, if you need them."

"I really hope this works out." She's glancing back and forth among the other people in the attic, and she's not just talking about the fireworks. All the smirks going on in the group, all the subtle insults and glares... It leaves her feeling a bit tense, like everyone could suddenly start shouting at each other.

Or maybe it's because she's feeling a bit subdued right now, and she's taking everything too seriously. In any case, they'd taken too long setting up already. She feels a bit impatient, like she wants to grab the rocket and the matches and just launch already. But she knows she'd probably end up burning the whole place. She fidgets a bit, impatient and anxious.

Hubb caught the smirk; now who said women couldn't be macho idiots? Not that he wasn't, bt that was a completely different matter.

Hubb gave Haru a glance, "Some people are more hard-headed than others."

"What's the worst that could happen?" He asked, looking at Helena. "We blow up the hall, set the roof on fire, and we all die in a shower of burning concrete. So, let's light em up."

Rising to her feet, Max accepted the lighter from Gokudera. "I think I got this. You can use the matches on another one, set it off somewhere over there." She pointed somewhere a bit off-center of the collapsed roof, about eight feet away from where she was planning on setting hers off. "Depending on how much of a punch these have to them, you think setting off two at the same time will have a better effect, or is that just gonna make the whole place collapse?"

Raising an eyebrow in Hubb's general direction as she headed for her designated spot, she remarked, "You must be one of those big-picture type of people. Still, even if this place decides to bring us back from the dead over and over again, I'd rather not take the chance. Haru, if you see any sign of flames going crazy, get that trunk outta here before it can light up and make things worse. Helena, Hubb, just be ready to spring back and protect your heads and the back of your necks if things start falling apart. We cool?"

"Got it Boss Lady~" Haru plopped himself down next to the the chest. He kept an eye out for any signs of sparks or disaster.

"Hubb if you die Ritsuka will never stop complaining.." He looked at Helena for a moment as well. "Or America~"

The whore did not know whether or not Max or Gokudera had anyone but his eyes were staring at the back of Gokudera. Now wasn't the time.

"I hope this works...at least it's something. I think the snow has changed the mood of the mansion completely. When Spring comes, maybe the complaining will start again."

Gokudera took an armful of fireworks from the chest as he answered Max. "Setting off two at a time'll be fine. If James made these the way I showed him, the force won't be too great for the place to handle. And in this weather, setting off two is better than one. More likely to be seen."

He heads over to the area Max indicated and fishes the matches out of his pocket, ignoring Haru's stare, though he can feel it. Without waiting for further instructions, he goes ahead and sets one of the fireworks off.

Helena grins at Hubb. "Well, when you put it like that, I guess it's not so bad." Her first impression of him was that he looked pretty strict, not the kind of guy who'd think working in a circus was a good use of one's time. But she liked him more and more.

And although she didn't like to think she was useless, Max did have a point. She supposed her job was done after she suggested the whole thing to Haru, so she just stood back.

Haru's comment, though, sort of makes her raise an eyebrow and shuffle uneasily. "What's that supposed to mean...?"

She watches as Gokudera launches the first firework, and is tense for a moment as it passes very closely to the edge of the roof. There's another moment of anxiety as she waits for a pop... And then it's there, a huge cascade of red sparks falling in an umbrella pattern, blurry but still very visible in the blizzard.

"It worked!" She gives a cheer as secondary pops are heard, and a few smaller bursts of color appear close to the first, sparkling like gunfire.

Hubb could be a macho idiot too. He stepped out on the roof, preparing some of the materials. Not so much because it was a smart idea, but that someone had implied that he couldn't. He'd trust the bomber about timing, since demolitions weren't his specialty, bt he wasn't about to dck his head out of danger.

The pop was good, it meant the wind wasn;t blowing them too far off course.

Max blinked at Gokudera in surprise when he lit his rocket off, having expected to set them off simultaneously. "Hey-!" She couldn't really complain, though; even if they didn't release both of their fireworks at the same time, the kid managed to both test out the waters (or skies, as it was) and not blow a hole through himself, so that was always good.

"Nice," she remarked as she lit the fuse on her own and backed away. She kept an eye on it long enough to be sure that it launched without taking out a chunk of the building on its way out, then looked back to Hubb. She hadn't really expected him to fall back, not an old timer like him, so she was utterly unsurprised to see him setting about his task.

"Set me up with more ammo, H?"

Haru tossed a firework to Helena. "Hmmm? Oh nothing~ Wanna help pass them to the old man?"

After a moment curiosity got the better of the whore. He leaned a little closer to Helena and mumbled softy to her. "He's your friend isn't he?"

So far the plan was working. He would have to find a way to thank Helena.

Gokudera smirked a little, tilting his head back to watch the blasts go off. Fireworks weren't his specialty, but it was obvious Hong Kong knew what he was doing when he made them. He was proud of the young nation.

Assured that the fireworks would work, he timed his own blasts to coincide better with Max's after that.

It's good Haru passed her the firework, because she was suddenly getting extremely conscious that everyone was working but her.

She passed the firework to Gokudera, letting Hubb help out Max. She did it more to buy her time, so that when she answered the quarter-lynx, her voice would sound normal.

She said quietly, "Well, yeah. Yeah, he is."

Hubb handed the next couple to Max. "Short fuse." He advised, noting the different make of this set.

He scoffed briefly. "It's Hubb McCann, boy." No more than that, since this really was not the right place to be picking fights.

He let the other two handle the other set, at least death wasn't too permenant here.

Max nodded at Hubb with a muttered, "Thanks." Keeping an eye on the lasting sparks from the fireworks Gokudera set off and being sure to launch a new one whenever said sparks began thinning out, she figured that the two of them quickly fell into an easy rhythm.

Raising her voice so Haru and the others could hear her over the sounds of the explosions, she eventually called out, "How long we planning on going at this? 'Til we run out or 'til our peeps get their butts back in here?"

Haru sighed with relief. He had dodged the wrath of a teenage girl once again. He wouldn't mention yet that he had seen them together at the ball.

"Until we run out, Max! Let's face it. We can't keep it up forever and..It's mostly about feeling useful isn't it?"

Accepting fireworks from Helena, Gokudera alternated setting them off with Max. At her question, he looked over and added, "I've got a lot of explosives on me. They don't have the same effect as the fireworks, but they're loud. We can go as long as you guys want to."

When Helena thought about it, while passing more fireworks, she had to agree that the chance of this actually saving anyone wasn't that big. But it was better than doing nothing. Much better.

Haru gets her thinking, and for a while she's silent. Although she does speak up after Gokudera.

"Yeah, let's just keep it going for as long as we can."

"It's not like we have anything better to do." Hubb added to the conversation, selecting the likeliest looking fireworks to hand over to Max.

Grabbing the next set of fireworks off of Hubb, Max turned to Gokudera. "I really hope you knew you was coming up to help before headed out, or else I'd be asking what you're doing walking around with explosives."

Letting off another firework, she added, "Just so long as we get the chance to blaze before everything falls to pieces, I can keep this up for hours if I gotta."

"He's always walking around like a bomb~ And he smokes all the time too! All you need is a match and he'd be dead!"

Haru hoped that Gokudera thought about that for a moment. If he couldn't have his drug why should the other? He watched the sky with a hand shading his eyes. Well it certainly was bright and colorful up there now.

"Oh yeah that's right. I forgot that we're stuck in an insane mansion bent on keeping us trapped in it's boring halls~"

Gokudera shot Haru an annoyed glance. "No one's managed it yet." He looked at Max. "Yeah, I carry dynamite on my at all times. But I know what I'm doing."

If Haru thought he hadn't considered the dangers, he was wrong. After so many years, Gokudera knew how to handle his weapons and, more importantly, how not to handle them.

He turned his attention back to the fireworks, continuing to accept them from Helena and set them off until they ran out of stuff that would explode or the others decided to call it quits.

Helena was busy watching the fireworks to really listen to the conversation, although she did notice some banter going on between Gokudera and Haru.

She doesn't really know if they'll notice, but she grins at all of them, happier than she has been in a few days. The fireworks are great, they all felt pretty useful... And for the first time she felt sure that the others in the snow would soon be back.

Hubb just kept up his half of the work, this might not do anything, but it was something.

And they were all still arguing. Kids...

Tilting her head at Gokudera before letting out a careless shrug, Max replied, "So long as you don't spontaneously combust, I can be down with that."

She didn't know who all was missing, but she assumed that most of the people there with her stood to get back someone they cared about. If that was the case, then Max was more than happy to light up everything with a fuse within her reach. And if the crazy pyrotechnics going off in the gray sky didn't bring people back, then at least she helped to give these kids a bit of hope. That's more than a lot of people back in her world ever got.

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[Anyone for wrapping this up?.]

[Sounds good to me. o/ This'll be my last post anyway.]

[Sure sure :D]

Gotta end somewhere :)

I'm cool with a fade to black if ya'll are. ♥