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Colin Hammond (cloudedwaters) wrote in darkdividerpg,
@ 2014-08-30 14:46:00

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character: eli lasko, character: max lasko, date: 08.14.14, type: group scene

Look at Little Sister
Who: Colin, Eli, and Emma, later Max
What: Visiting family
When: August 14th, Thursday Evening
Where: The Stumble Inn
Warning: Language

Emma had been ridiculously busy for her lack of commitments. Which had Colin even more interested in what was going on his youngest sister's life. While he was the most understanding in the family of Emma's need to make her own way in the world, she could get carried away. Often.

He'd given up on trying to get a call back to schedule time to meet with her and just decided to choose a slower weeknight evening to show up at her place of work. Dressed casually in jeans and a button down shirt, he headed straight for the bar when he spotted his sister's black dyed head. Sitting down at an empty stool, he waited until she came over. "You are a hard woman to pin down, Emma," he teased her. "Did I make inadvertantly make you mad enough not to return my calls or were you just trying to make me play hide and seek?" His littlest sister loved to play games. She swore she hated politics, but there was a set of politics that had to be played with her to keep her from shutting him out the way she had the rest of the family.

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middlem
2014-08-30 11:00 pm UTC (link)

Out of all of her family members, Emma liked Colin the most. Colin didn't look down his nose at her, and she appreciated that more than she'd ever admit. When she began to morph her appearance from a curly haired brunette to a black haired, raccoon eyed rebel, he never said a word. Occasionally he would try to insert a voice of reason when it came to her behavior towards the rest of he family. He was the only one that ever made her feel like a guilty child when he did. Everyone else's scolding pleased her. It was exactly what she wanted from them. From Colin, not so much.

"I've been busy, butthead," she tossed over her shoulder, before turning away from restocking empty liquor bottles to face her brother. "I've got shit to do, dead bodies to bury in the basement, parents to annoy, you know, important stuff." Wasn't his version of important stuff, not with him being a part of the Hammond political machine, but she didn't like his version. It came with black ties and tight collars. No thank you.

"So you found me. I guess you win."

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cloudedwaters
2014-08-30 11:10 pm UTC (link)

Colin was the only one in the family who understood Emma's need to rebel. Although their family had nothing on his dangerously oppressive in-laws, the sentiment was the same. If anything, Colin was rebelling vicariously through his sister and only saw fit to reign her in when she upset things too much or was doing something dangerous to herself.

He scoffed at her list. "Please, you know better," he scolded in a teasing tone. "The bodies go in the foundation of unfinished buildings where they'll never be found. Get it right." If he didn't meet Emma's show of inappropriate sense of humor at her level, he would never get anything out of her.

"Yes, I win," he said. "I hope my prize involves some burbon and why that scruffy man who looks remarkably like your boss over there is staring at us like that." He caught his eyes and offered the man who couldn't be that much younger than himself a slight salute. Apparently Emma had gained an admirer. It would be amusing to see how he handled the situation, since he obviously hadn't figured out who Colin was.

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middlem
2014-08-30 11:21 pm UTC (link)

"Basements work in a pinch. I'm too tiny to haul bodies around Chicago easily." She went and got him his drink, but kept her face blank regarding the scruffy part. Damn Colin and his stupid eyes that saw things they weren't supposed to. Eli needed to work on his poker face, she was going to have to kick him for that one. This was not how things were supposed to go between her family and Eli.

"My boss doesn't like you, don't salute him, you'll only make him mad. Max is real mean and he bites. You're only going to rile him up." Evade and ignore, it was the best way to go about this. She never let her eyes move to where Eli was, keeping her gaze locked firmly on Colin's, daring him to tell her she was lying. Emma was part of their family, after all, and lying was the first thing all tiny political cogs were taught as children.

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cloudedwaters
2014-08-30 11:26 pm UTC (link)

"That's why you hire thugs to do it for you, dear Emma," he quipped. It was a little bit of wicked fun to poke at the ill stereotypes of the world Colin was fully entrenched it. "It keeps the economy healthy and all that."

Colin rolled his eyes. "Well, I'll go introduce myself then," he said as he shifted off his stool. "I'm certain he'll feel better when he knows who I am." Yes, he was calling her bluff. Now he was very interested in who the man was. Especially since he glimpsed the man's duplicate wandering around the bar somewhere. Interesting...

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middlem
2014-08-30 11:41 pm UTC (link)

"Not all of us have the money to hire good thugs, butthead. Some of us have to do the heavy lifting all on our own." Shunning the family meant shunning the money. While it was hard having to work to earn a living, it was a lot more freeing than chaining herself to the family bank account. She'd take this any day over the fake smiles.

"Don't, he's insane, they just let him out of the hospital yesterday and politicians turn him into a rage beast," she said quickly, though calmly, still holding onto the image of having little regard for the person who she was going to punch in the arm later on that night. "I thought you were here to see me. Why bother with him?"

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cloudedwaters
2014-08-30 11:46 pm UTC (link)

"Because I wouldn't help you out?" he teased, eyes crinkling in humor. It was rather fun to parry back and forth with her. His relationship with Mia was softer, Emma's rapier wit was fun though.

Colin's brows went up. "I was wondering why you were too busy to return my calls, Emma," he reminded her, then took a drink of his burbon. "Now I think I know why." He set his glass down and gave her a look. "Emma, remember who you're talking to. I'm not Mom, or Dad, or Mia. If you've got a new beau, so long as he makes you happy, treats you well, and isn't your married boss, I don't really care who he is." He gave her a pointed look.

"So let's start over," he said. "How have you been, littlest sister?"

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middlem
2014-08-31 12:01 am UTC (link)

"Drag a politician and a lawyer into my nefarious deeds? I might as well just walk up to the prison and declare myself guilty. Or I'd have to kill you, too, which would really suck because then there'd be no Hammond's around that are tolerable." This was why she liked Colin so much. Colin didn't expect anything more of her than what she was. No need to live up to perfection for her brother.

When he called Eli her beau, though, she doubled over in laughter. What was it with her siblings and outdated words? "You found me out," she said in a heavy southern accent, bringing her hand to her chest. "I've had a gentleman caller, dear brother. He's a biker just getting out of Riker's. We're married now and I'm pregnant with his mini Hell's Angel. We're going to name it Harley, of course." Wasn't too far from the truth. Eli was going to be her husband, and a lot sooner than anyone would expect it, Colin was no exception.

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cloudedwaters
2014-08-31 12:07 am UTC (link)

Colin laughed. Because the all of that was completely ridiculous and probably not even a quarter of it was true. Emma obviously had a thing for him, so it would be worth needling more actual details out of her. Or at least the name of her new boyfriend so he could do a proper background check on him. "Well, now I know what to get for the baby shower," he teased wryly before taking another drink. "I'm sure they make leather jackets in newborn size."

Now it was his turn. "Elise will be thrilled," Colin continued. "She'll have someone to mommy talk with. It'll be a lovely way for you two to bond." Now it was her turn to try and figure out how much he was bullshitting her.

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middlem
2014-08-31 12:19 am UTC (link)

"No pink, please, we're sticking to blacks only." The thought of a baby shower gave her the creeps, because it was such a foreign idea to her. She was not a baby person in the least, but she'd be willing to learn for Eli's sake. It was important to him, so it would be something important to her.

She arched a brow at him. "You're gonna let me corrupt your kid? Awesome. I'm buying nerdy things only, and probably the loudest, most annoying toys I can find on the shelf." It was possible for Elise to be pregnant. She knew they wanted kids, but if it was true, she figured the announcement would be a lot more grandiose than sitting in a bar on a Thursday night while Spock glared at them from the corner. Boy was going to really have to learn to rein it in.