Drinking & Drugs Do Not Mix- A Lucian Story

Drinking & Drugs Do Not Mix

A new drug has come aboard the cruise ship. The Pretty Little Liars cast and crew are aboard partying for the last ever episode wrap. The club lights at the nightclub are flashing overhead when Lucy gets her first glass of the pink drink from the good-looking bartender in the plain white t-shirt to whom if she didn't have a boyfriend, she would have given more than a second look. She's casing the crowd, looking around, trying to see if she can find Ian and Keegs in the pulsating crowd.

The party just really got started -- it's ten p.m. and the DJ's music is thumping the subwoofers so loud that the floor vibrates. It's impossible to hear a word. Lucy takes a sip of her drink. It's not what she usually orders, but the bartender recommended it, and Lucy will try anything once.

It's good enough for now. There are a group of strangers onboard dancing in one corner of the room. One of the girls is wearing a tiara. She is, apparently, getting married. Lucy raises her glass in a silent salute when one of the party catches her staring. This is, apparently, a cue for the entire wedding party to drink. She joins them, taking a bigger mouthful than she might have otherwise.

Then -- she catches sight of Ian.
Why did he have to wear that particular suit? She's got a weakness for it. It's dark, like most of his suits, but it picks up the color in his eyes and makes them seem like lazers, blue and clear and bright. He sees her looking at him, and Lucy quickly diverts her attention back to her own outfit, checking to make sure everything is still in place. Sure she had a boyfriend, but tonight she might break the rules just for one time.

Lucy felt a little self-conscious in this dress when she first put it on. She remembers that much. There's just not much material to it -- it dips between her breasts in the front, held together with a thin strap of fabric and two little hoops on either side of her shoulders , and there isn't much to the back, either. It's an attention-getting dress, the kind of dress she only wears when it's time to do precisely that.

For tonight, she'll do anything because it's the last time she'll see most of these beautiful people for a while. Out of any ship the new drug was aboard THIS ship, it's a very brand new drug, a whisper on the streets, the effects of which are... varied and nasty. It's marketed to men, to give to women as a date rape drug. It's an aphrodisiac and an upper. Best case scenario; those lucky enough to encounter a partner suffer molestation and heart damage, or in the worst case scenario: rape, humiliation and death. Those women who managed to escape and come down on their own died of heart failure.

And it's being marketed and sold on this cruise ship, not officially, of course, but of the three overdose victims in the last week, two were last seen in this nightclub on this cruise ship. Which is doing wonders it's reputation. But nether-the-less Marlene chose this one.

So here Lucy is, in a sexy dress and even sexier shoes, with loads of hairspray in her hair, hoping to party with some of her friends she's enjoyed being with the most. But is the perfect bait for a drug dealer with the eye for the young and the beautiful.

Keegan's moving through the crowd, looking at her, of course, and Ian's eyes are on her as well, a tangible weight on the small of her back when she turns to the bar. Ian wasn't very happy not since he first saw her. Not when she showed up in this dress. Not when she'd teased her hair and painted her eyes and lips. Of course he's had a crush on her since he's gotten to know her and yes he loves that particular dress on her, but the rumors and stories on the news about the new drug got him all worried.

The thing of it is that she fits the victim profile perfectly. A little too perfectly. Young but not too young and very attractive weather she bothers with that sort of thing or not, and she's young enough that she can sell a little bit of naivete in her voice, in her manner.