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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.