{SF} The Prom King's Auction

[François Laffont]

François shouldn’t be so nervous, considering he already did that last year and knew exactly how it would go. At the very least, this time, there wouldn’t be any sexy music and Frank would not try to get rid of his shirt so she could oil his chest. Although that might still happened. He eyed her, incapable of fully trusting her. But could anyone blame him? She was able to burst in at any moment to either cancel a bid or bid higher or... with Frank, the possibilities were endless.

He told Elsa not to limit him to guys only. Sure, the ‘dates’ could come off as romantic but everyone knew he was gay. He didn’t know how many knew he also was dating someone but he believed Jasper might not mind if a girl won him, since, after all, he was the best placed to know nothing would happen. For he wasn’t sure if his boyfriend could afford him. He heard some of the sums offered for previous people, not only here at the center stage but also on the others. And he knew Jasper did not work or have any rich parent to get the money from. He knew he was not against stealing though and he didn't want to see that happening. He didn’t get the chance to tell him it didn’t mean anything if he didn’t win him. He could offer him all three dates if he wanted, or any other of his choosing afterwards. And they could expect sparks this time.

He waited until he was announced to walk onto the stage, the bright smile that could almost be considered his trademark on as he waved to the people who gathered around. He had no problem doing the introduction himself. “My name is François but I think most of you know me as Franck,” he began with a smile still on the whole time. He was not going to get rid of it. But his eyes kept scanning the crowd. Looking for two very distinctive heads. Of course, it might help if he knew they’d have white or brown hair. “Like they said, you made me the prom king, thank you for that. I’m really happy to be here for this good cause and I look forward to this date, whichever you choose. I know it will be great.” And, why not, another smile as he nodded in thanks. Would a girl go for the fancy restaurant? Yeah, he was seeing himself ending up with the fancy restaurant. Or the movie, if it was Jasper. In truth, he hoped he wouldn’t get the horse. Just because he never did any horseback riding. But he would still find it fun and love it. Now, they only had to wait for the bidding to start.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

Where the siblings still a little upset about the whole prom thing? Yes. After all, Franck didn't ask Jasper; his boyfriend, to prom. Sure they were not Juniors at the time so that meant they could only go if a Junior or Senior invited them, or even a college student. Neither of which happened when they expected Franck or Alex to ask them. They were uncertain where they stood with Alex, but at least with Franck they felt like they were on pretty good terms. After the entire boy up on stage now had taken them to the fair and made them have like a together birthday celebration.

That was something that was never done for them before in all their now seventeen years of being alive. So yes, while they were upset that they didn't get to go to prom with Franck; they were happy that he won Prom King. He was an attractive guy after all and with how nice he was it was sort of expected he would win such a thing. The only negative about it was that Franck was being put up for bid, and while the twins felt like it should not bother them, it did. Was it bad that they were feeling a little selfish and needy and not wanting Franck to be with anyone else? If it was, too bad because that was how they felt.

It didn't help that Franck had a lot of friends that he was super nice to and also had a job that he had to deal with. The siblings; mostly Jasper, did his best to bother Franck when he was at work but he did pull back some to allow Franck to live his life and not get all needy for the boy to only pay attention to them. That was probably part of why they lost Alex, because they had basically made it a choice for her and they didn't want to lose Franck. That meant that they were just going to have to win the bid; and hopefully they had already won Lucy's bid already too.

The biggest problem was the twins were not exactly made out of money and they didn't have a job so money was not growing on trees for them. That meant that they just had to prevent anyone else from making a bid higher then what they could do. Or that they would have to borrow from other's pocket, which was likely something they were still going to do. "Sixty bucks!" Jasper yelled out. That was the price of a new video game, but it was also all they had left after their other bid. The brother still cracked their knuckles and dared anyone to go any higher. They really needed to get a job.

[Cameron & Mason Starr]

Cameron and Mason hadn't signed up because of their road trip, they had just gotten back from the trip and were gonna head lut again down to Miami but they heard the hot French boy was up for action. Well Mason heard and dragged Cameron along. Who of course made him cancel the rest of the trip to do things. Like bid on the French boy who had a boyfriend. Cameron heard the bid and whispered it too Mason who was too busy staring at aaid boy to notice.

"One eighty!" Mason said send a smirk over at the blonde twine as Cameron facepalmed. He had to start a fight with the trouble twins. He really needed to talk to his brother about timing. Fairs werent places for fights

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The actual fuck? Did someone just bid on Franck after the brothers were making sure to send out waves of 'don't anyone dare fucking say anything or you are dead' from the way they were standing and glaring at pretty much everyone there but Franck. Who wanted to die? Jasper was already looking for the source of the voice to find two boys, twins at that. The hell? Someone trying to still him and his brother’s thing and also his boyfriend? Oh, they were so dead. Plus who had that kind of money? One eight was like...one hundred and eighty bucks right?

Jasper looked to his brother who shook his head no in relation to them not having that much money on them. They could start checking the people around them to see how much they could get but it didn't who knew how much others had on them in cash. It was kind of hard to steal a check if it was not written, so cash was the way to go. "Wait a sec; I'm pretty sure that guy was kidding. He is taking down his bid." Jasper said, not leaving it up for an option. He waved at Franck with a smile and then glared at the one who was smiling at him.

"Brother, what tricks you got on you still?" Jasper asked his brother as he started to crack his knuckles. A small smirk started to spread across Casper face as he too cracked his knuckles and stood next to his brother. "A few ones to certainly make things go boom or catch on fire." Casper assured his twin. Yes, they were at first at least going to go for intimidation and give the fool a chance to back down from his claim on Franck. Then it was war.

[Cameron & Mason Starr]

Cameron was quietly horrified, did his brother really think this was a good idea? Fighting at a charity event was not how they were raised. If this got to out of hand their parents would kill them. However no matter how much he gave wanted to just retract the bid he didn't bid it. Nope his brother did and Mason was always up for fight and a challenge. He knew the idiot was flirting with Franck when fhey first met him, he so called it. Cameron felt like Mason had planned this whole thing so he could get a date with Franck.

Mason on the other hand was not about back down from the trouble twins. "Of course they're right, I would like to take my bid" Mason smirked at Cameron who visibly relaxed before mason opened his mouth again "I meant to say Three hundred" Mason was snickering on the inside, while Cameron took off his glasses and put them in his backpack. He knew a fight was coming and him and Mason would have to merge. While he didn't approve of this, he had Mason's back.

Mason on the other hand was enjoying this incredibly well. He wasn't exactly sure what he was getting out if a date with a guy who clearly loved their boyfriend but hey...he was having fun.

[François Laffont]

Franck was not surprised that someone bid higher than the twins. Or, maybe he should say, considering what was going on right now, his twins. It was not surprising because they were not known for having a large income. He had wished he could have reason with them, with Jasper mostly, pointing out that he could have all three dates later on if he wanted. It was also why he let this auction opened also to girls. He thought if one bid higher than him and won, he might not be as upset. After all, Franck was not interested in girls that way. All that would happen was that Franck would make her important for the date and listen to her and make her happy but the most romantic he might do is a kiss on the cheek as he tells her goodbye. Nothing more.

But it was no girl who happened to bid a lot higher than Jasper. He recognized them, mostly because they were twins also and Franck must know about all the twins at school, or at least most of them. He couldn’t really tell them apart though and in his current state, he was not even able to remember their names. He was too busy having a fight between his smile and an expression of terror slowly showing up on his traits. Because he had the scene right before his eyes. The stage even gave him a good view of what was about to go on. Especially when that guy raised his bid despite no one bidding higher. Suddenly, he had wished he had Elsa next to him instead of this other person in charge, since she didn’t seem to be in charge of anything. But Elsa had left to look over Zoe’s auction and Franck had been fine with that since he knew how to sell himself, least he thought so. Apparently, he knew too well.

Not wanting a fight to happen at this charity event, even less because of him, he hopped down the stage, only making the girl taking the bids opened and close her mouth with wide eyes, not understanding what was going on. But if someone could calm Jasper down, wasn’t it him? He had to try at least. If he could get to them.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

They were going to go to jail. They could already see it in their future and had always guessed that they would end up in jail from killing someone. With their power and how it affected them, it was only a matter of time before someone pushed them the wrong way and ended up dead. That was what this guy clearly wanted by placing up a bid higher than them and having that look on his face like he purposely knew what he was doing. Had the guy looked innocent they might have not both been upset, but he looked like he was doing it to piss them off and he was going to have to die for it now.

It would have been better if some girl had put up a bid for Franck; even if Jasper still would have wanted to beat her up, at least Casper would have been calm enough to point out that Franck only liked guys so he would have nothing to worry about. That was not the case, this was a guy, and he had a twin. The siblings were Franck's set of male twins and he didn't need any others. That was why both Casper and Jasper were currently both pissed off and it was going to take something big to calm the two of them down. Especially after the guy called back his bid only to say he wanted it even higher now; he was so dead.

"Call off you bid, before I make you." Jasper warned as he and his brother started to approach the other set of twins. They were already tapping into their powers, tempted to just grab someone that was standing around and throw them at the boys. They held off on that idea for now, giving them at least one last chance to get smart. "You do not want to be enemies with an Emory." Casper pointed out, standing right next to his brother and just as angry as him, if not even more because someone was messing with his brother.

[Cameron & Mason Starr]

Cameron was really done with the whole fighting for a boy thing. He liked a good fight, but he was pretty sure they could get slammed with assult if a minor, he'd never get to be a pediatrician...or was that mason who wanted to be a pediatrician. He had no clue, he just saw the twins coming and he thought about becoming one with his. He was hoping Mason was thinking about something else because he didn't want to merge. He doubted it since he was starting to think bidding for franck was a good idea.

Then one of them talked about making them do something and Mason spoke up "Its not my fault if you cant afford to bid, I mean really you should just be glad it's so little" Cameron face palmed at hearing his brother words, he wasnt even sure which one of them had said that...was it him or? Oh no, thats why..Mason had been thinking about merging and then gettin distracted, he didn't like that. No no this was messing with his head. So he just stood there...waiting for Mason to actually pick a fight.

Mason was read though, he had saw his brother take off his glasses, he was giddy with anticipation. He knew that he should focus on merging but he was waiting and his kind skipped around. It was probably him breaking concentration that made them unable to merge most of the time. His eyes dared the boy to do something, he had no idea what the guy's problem was but he was ready to be a super twin and beat the breaks off them. He was always ready to fight.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

If there was one thing the siblings hated more than people that played games with them when they liked to be in control, it was people who did something on purpose despite clearly seeing that it was upsetting them. Alright, so it was a little taste of their own medicine in a way but they had been actually trying to be good and not play with people's feelings as much. Okay, so it was more that they were not going around a lot of people and mostly keeping to themselves while they did a lot of thinking and tried this whole 'not treating people like their toys' thing.

Thus far it was going pretty well with Franck but now with what was going on now they felt like clearly they could not just be nice to people. "That is not a little. You could by a TV with that kind of money or a used video game console and at least several manga books." Casper responded to the guys comment about the money being a little bit. Sure it was not his fault that they could not afford the bid but he didn't have to jump it so high when it was only at sixty dollars.

Jasper was already reaching up his sleeve, pulling out a long ribbon; the colorful kind he normally used for tricks involving pulling said ribbon out of his mouth or out of his ear. Now he planned on using it to strangle the twin that was giving them an issue or to not go to jail right away it would probably be best to tie him up with it. "Tell you what, we will let you get the first hit and then after that be ready to wait up in the hospital." Jasper said as he pulled on the long ribbon. Casper meanwhile was pulling out his small liter he used for his fire related tricks. Time to make the world burn; or specifically these stupid guys.

((Franck save the day! I don't want them to go to jail! XD))

[François Laffont]

Franck couldn’t leave things like that. They would all get in trouble and even if he was definitely more concerned about the Emory than the Starr twins, he wanted neither of them to be kicked out of here or worse. What if the whole fight degenerated? The people in the crowd was not doing a single thing to stop them, mixed between the fear of what might happen if they do and the excitement such a scene can produce on some people. Franck was not going to do like the rest of the crowd. He’d stop them. Even if that meant getting punched in the face.

He couldn’t see them too well as he advanced towards the four of them but he could start to hear them. Plus he started to feel the hostility that clearly came out of ‘his’ twins. Some people went away with a much higher bid than three hundred and it was precisely for that reason that he feared something like that would happen. He still secretly wished that some girl in the crowd would bid four hundred or something like that, anything that would be higher than what Mason - or Cameron, he couldn’t tell them apart - bid. A girl, it would upset them less.

Oh, why did he tell Elsa she could watch over someone else’s auction, that it would be fine? He’d love for her to be there right now. She could handle that kind of situation better. He finally reached them but the anger from Casper and Jasper was choking him, really. “Jasper, arrête!” he let out as loud as he could, too upset to realise he actually told him to stop in French.Being there however was eating him and he back away, only to hit people in the crowd, making him jump. There were too many people around and since this whole scene upset him as well, he was not sure he would be able to stay here for long.

[Cameron & Mason Starr]

Cameron and Mason were already focusing on merging when they heard the comment about being more than a little. It would be unfair to mention that they had more to bid than three hundred. It was hard for them to think of which one he was talking to, as they finally became on, Their shirts ripping, thankfully they had sweatpants on. It was always kind of up in the air where the clothes went when they merged considering their pants always stayed.

"I have no plans of going to the hospital, jail maybe. I think its illegal to fling someone across the fair" Cameron and mason while merged stil retained bits of their own personality though they weren't sure where one began and the other ended, it was getting hard to find a reason to fight as each personality fought for dominance in their merged brain. Masons ultimately one and they were ready for a fight when Franck showed up. Mason wouldn't hurt franck, and he was to close for what he wanted to do. He would wait for the boy to move.

[Frank "Sunny" Laffont]

Technically Frank had just finished her auction (and getting won by the hunky Bellefonte, yo), so she was still dressed to impress, all dayglo colors and well done makeup. Frank had been talking over the details with her own bidder and then she'd noticed that her biffle had come up. So naturally it was time for her to throw her two cents in.

"I bid tree fifty!" Frank said, waving her arms in the air and surging forward. She tramped past other people on her way to get to the stage, which she clambered onto with her usual grace. "And a delicious sammich!" she said, before digging around in her pockets, trying to recall what else she happened to have on hand to bid with. Not that she couldn't actually bid with, say, real money, being fairly rich, but this was far more fun.

"And this half-eaten back of sour gummies!" she said, holding the found bag up triumphantly. "Only slightly chewed!"

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

The brother stared for a moment when the twins before them became one. The staring was for two main reasons, one because they had not seen that power before, and two because they felt like it was the stupidest move to make when you were going up against two people. Not that the brother's thought that the other set of twins had even the slightest chance against them, but now it dropped so low that it felt almost wrong to kick their ass in public. Would be such an embarrassment for them and would also lead to the siblings getting in trouble. Too bad to them that sounded perfect and if the guy wanted his beating to go that much faster and end up with more injuries then fine by them.

"Let me know what it feels like to have all your teeth knocked out." Jasper said as he and his brother shared a glance and got ready to attack. However; there was the sound of someone yelling, a familiar voice. It was Franck. Calling out Jasper name and saying something in that foreign French language of his. As if Jasper understood, which he didn't. "Stay back so you don't get hurt, Franck!" Jasper yelled and with the he rushed forward to go give this now 'one' guy a good hit aimed at his stomach. At the same time Casper ran ahead as well, running past this new one person, only to make a quick turn, leap up in the air, and go for a side kick to the guy’s head.

It was always best to hit a person where they were lightly going to pass out to make the fight as short as possible and then less likely for jail time. Right? Either way, the brothers were both using their power now, allowing them to move, react, see, and well pretty much everything better than the average human. They had bodies of already trained human being and with their power it just made them a little bit better then Olympic trained athletes, so one could imagine where their confidence came from. Before the brother would do anything further, they were stopping at someone else daring to make a bid.

Who the hel-oh Frank. They remember her from that time where they were having a snow ball fight of sorts with her. Jasper was still not pleased that someone else was bidding on HIS Franck, but at least it was a girl. A girl that he knew for a fact was one of Franck close friends so he had nothing to worry about in terms of anything going on. "What kind of sandwich is it?" Jasper asked, because that was important if it was being used to bid on his boyfriend.

[Frank "Sunny" Laffont]

The question had Frank, still holding up the bag of gummies in one arm, turning to face the asker. She beheld the vampire and ghost brothers, and tried to figure out which one had spoke and which one happened to be the one that was doing the dating of her best friend. She spent a few seconds just shifting slightly, looking at first one and then the other.

"Well, I guess it really doesn't matter which one is doing the thing," Frank said to herself. "It will be a delicious sandwich!" Frank declared, thrusting her hand (the one holding the gummies) outward, some gummies popping out from the motion. "Probably involving bacon, but I could totes make it according to, like, whoever's eating it," Frank looked around then. "Whoever that happens to be," Frank still wasn't sure who was getting the money or the sandwich or the gummies or anything. She looked back at Franck, figuring that, as per usual, he could probably explain and/or direct the situation better than she.

[François Laffont]

Watching Cameron and Mason merge into one was impressive but not nearly enough to have Franck forget why he ran down the stage into the crowd. He shouldn’t be in here. It was a terrible place for him to be. And to make matters worse, what he got from his favorite set of twins, do not tell the Bellefonte sisters that, scared him. The violence, the anger, all of this. He didn’t think he’d pick that from them. It was a side of them he didn’t like, not one bit. But more than that, more than being scared of what they might do in that state, he was scared of what might happen to them after. They were clearly unable to think about it. Bt Franck was. And for that reason, he had to stop them, before any of them ended up at the hospital, in jail or worse.

“Non,” Franck argued with Jasper, still being very French but at least it was something he might understand this time. He dared not touch any of them but he still moved enough to now stand in the way. “Stop it, all of you,” he said, loud and clear and perhaps with more anger in his voice than he meant to. But this situation, and the emotions he picked up, got him frustrated too and it was coming out that way. Oh, he knew Jasper risked hitting him at this point. But what Jasper didn't know was that if Franck obviously always dreaded violence and would never use this as the solution, he could use it when forced to. He was ready to shove both Casper and Jasper before they did anything they might pay for. The plan might have been better if both twins did not try to have a go at the guy at the same time. He would not be able to stop them, he’ll get hit.

Luckily for him, a voice rang out and bid higher than the previous three hundred bid the guy made. Looking up, Franck tried to see who talked, just like pretty much everyone really. Frank. He could go to her and kiss her, in a non-romantic way mind you, right now. She probably had no idea what she just put an end to. Her bid was amusing but he was not focusing on it. As soon as Jasper asked about the sandwich, he turned his attention back on them, ignoring the fact that Frank was actually answering them. “Who cares. You calm down you two. It’s supposed to be a charity event for God’s sake!” Franck really had to be upset to talk like that. He forced himself to breathe it out and calm down as well. “Now. If she wins this auction, or if anyone else bids higher,” He tried not to look at the now one guy that was Cameron and Mason while saying this, “you’ll just leave it at that, is it clear?” His tone was firm as he talked but his gaze quickly softened. He could never stay mad for long. “Please Jas. It doesn’t mean anything. We can have all the dates we want.” He was almost begging now.