[PTL Game] Julia, Nick: Bar

[julia walker]

One of the goons was swinging his cue stick toward Nick.   "Ooh, no you don't." Julia shifted her stance and grabbed the stick on the table beside her, bringing it up and blocking the guy's would-be hit and pushing back, only to turn on her heel a full 180 and bring the larger end of the stick up into the guy's gut.  Still in motion she brought her fist up and connects with the bottom of his jaw, snapping his head back.   "Take a load off." she quipped before finishing with him by tripping him with the stick to the back of his knees and turning to face the others that would have tried to jump Nick from behind  "Back off!"   She bumped into Nick's back as he faced those in front of him but then took a step forward to give him the room he needed to defend himself if the drunken buddy group.   They stayed back from her side, watching the stick she was wielding -- until someone grabbed her ankle from under the pool table and pulled hard, sending her back and her temple hard into the pool table's corner and making her see stars.   "Oh damn." whoever it was from under the table cursed loudly, having heard the dull sound the contact of her head meeting solid wood made.  They scrambled up and ran like hell, even as, fighting the stars swimming in her vision, Julia groaned and was already forcing herself to move, losing her balance to fall to a knee and then trying again.   She thought she heard people yelling, grumbling or something.... but things were blending together on what sounded like a high speed mixer and the only thing driving Julia was knowing Nick's back was unprotected.  Something warm was at her temple too....   <<tag and there... your turn :p>>