"Are you seriously telling me that ALL of this music is yours?" Leer asked Kevin with just a little disbelief. The archive was substantial. The man had half a dozen projects where he became a different performer, his least favorite being Kool.
"Yeah, that's what's out there at least." Kevin brushed aside as though crafting music was like milling flour.
"Do you have more than this?" Leer continued in admiration as he popped another disc into the player.
"Lots." Kevin laughed, leaned back, laughed again and said,"lots!"
"You should record them." Leer said immediately.
"I was thinking about it," Kevin said,"but I thought that some people might think it was weird for an old rocker to..."
"You should" Blue stated. Kevin stopped talking and looked at Blue. Blue continued to look at Kevin, deeply,"You should record that music and release it right away." He smiled brightly at Kevin. "We'll help you."
Kevin stood transfixed by Blue's gaze but had the wits to say "How can you guys help me?"
Instantly, Blue was inches away from Kevin's face, breathing Kevin's air."Who would you like to play with?" Blue asked as he slid backwards across the room, effortlessly, smoothly. "Anyone!" Blue assured.
Kevin looked at Blue thoughtfully. Blue didn't seem to care about the outcome. Blue simply kept coming. Like he knew what Kevin wanted to do and was just going to keep at it until it happened. It was true, Kevin did want to get one band together, his own superband, but getting them all together would be..."Anyone", Blue reassured, his eyes trained on Kevin.
The moment before the moment Kevin said "Rory Thompson", Blue knew who Rory was and where to find him. As he let the name finish leaving Kevin's mouth he imagined the surprise both men would have when Kevin popped into Rory's life. However, one of the things that Blue had not adjusted to yet was the amazing speed with which everything could be done. Now.
by him. So
his vision of the two men's surprise was replaced by actual surprise as he simply imagined the two men together and they were.
"Kevin!" Rory exclaimed as he found himself sitting directly across from Kevin in a back corner booth in a bar on the slightly more affluent side of the slightly less affluent corner of the marginally affluent district of RatTown known as MidTown. "What in Varst are you doin' here? Farb-Damn, what am I doin' here?" Rory said in an accent which Blue would normally expect from Kentucky, not on some other planet, light years away from or perhaps more appropriately, dimensionally incongruent to Earth. Kevin tilted his head in the direction of Blue, who smiled at Rory. Rory gave a look like something just snagged in his underwear and he was afraid to move because the pain might get worse. Blue looked back to Kevin who recognized the cue in Blue's gaze.
"Drummer" Kevin said. "Butch Patrick" Rory and Kevin said in unison, and before they finished laughing at the spontaneous, identical choice, Butch was sitting in the booth, slightly wedged between the two of them.
Butch was about to speak when a beautiful waitress arrived with a half-dozen beers on a tray, spilling her bust line directly into Butch's face while sliding a cold beer right under his dropped jaw. She neatly placed a beer in front of each of them until she realized that there was one more beer than persons at the table.
"Just set that one right there, please, she'll be joining us in a minute." Blue politely requested as the other men drooled over the waitress, the beer and the complete absurdity of the situation. Leer was simply drooling over the beer as he had little interest in the other things.
"She?" Kevin asked, pretending not to know who the obvious choice for lead guitar would be,"you said she will be here in a minute", Kevin squinted into Blue's eyes, trying to determine how much he might know about his own feelings toward the "She" in question. "If you're thinking of who I'm thinking of," Kevin continued,"you might as well forget it. She isn't going to want to play with me." That isn't what he meant at all. What he meant, what he felt, was that he didn't even want to try to play with her. She could play any style of music superbly, had played with all of the greats and played to sold out crowds in three different bands. Kevin played to sold out crowds everywhere he played, so it would seem perfectly reasonable to think that playing with her would be no problem, and the truth of it was that there wouldn't be a problem, she adored Kevin's music."I just don't want to disappoint her," he admitted,"I mean, Farb-Damn, Cozi is the best!"
"Bastin' Farbunkle!", Kevin turned around to see Cozi staring up at him from an end of the booth, right next to Leer, just behind the tall glass of beer which Blue had ordered for her. She had appeared just as suddenly as Butch but her hair was still wet from the shower she had just stepped out of only moments ago. In fact, when she appeared, she was still slightly crouched forward about to put her second shoe on her foot."Kevin?" she continued breathlessly, still trying to take it all in.
Together, in a single voice of pure astonishment, Rory and Butch exclaimed," Cosi! Oh Varst! This is gonna be HOT!" They laughed and hugged each other while mutually drooling over Cosi.
"Cosi..." Kevin was going to say more...
"What in Varst is going on?!" Cozi demanded the moment her voice returned. She barked out of fear,"How did I get HERE?"
"Cosi" Blue said her name with the perfect amount of softness and edge and his voice's sound carved a path directly to her soul. She instantly calmed. "I have brought you here to help us. If you will." He said it with such humility yet he had just snatched her from her bedroom where she had just barely gotten dressed. "It's cold", Blue softened his voice slightly, his eyes leading hers to the tall beer in front of her,"and we need you."
Cosi looked around at the men at the table. There was no doubt what they wanted to do, for her, it would be a dream and only she knew how much. She looked at Kevin. He was now wondering whether Blue was going to seduce her. He was wondering whether he was going to seduce her. He was wondering if Rory and Butch were going to try to do it together, or go it alone. Suddenly, his only problem entailed keeping his mind on the music. Cozi said,"I'm in!" her eyes draped over Kevin's silhouette.
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