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thief_parker ([info]thief_parker) wrote in [info]omega_reality,
@ 2011-09-13 01:53:00

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Entry tags:*complete, 2011 09, dead: harvey specter, dead: parker

RP: Parker and Harvey
Who: Parker and Harvey Specter
Where: Parker's house
When: 13 September 2011
Summary: Parker investigates the temporary house guest


It was a little unsettling to have moved so much since the last week, though Parker supposed that was partly her own fault. She and Eliot didn't actually have much in the way of possessions so it had been easy to move that weekend into the home they were supposed to share. And then that hadn't worked out so now she was figuring things out with new housemates and Eliot living somewhere else all together.

She still visited him, because she needed to make sure he was all right - even if April was supposed to be taking care of him, and because he was her friend and she had to poke him some because she wasn't sure if anyone else would bother. And he needed that.

For the moment though her attention was on their newest house guest, Harvey. He was just staying with them temporarily or so she'd been told. He was new and different though and that made him, at least for the moment, interesting.

"What do you do to your hair?" She asked him settling herself on the arm of the sofa, having found Harvey in the living room. "It was different at the wedding." She said narrowing her eyes almost tempted to reach out and touch to see if there might be an answer there.


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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 07:17 am UTC (link)
He’d never thought he’d see the day, but Harvey missed Renko. Damn it. Mainly because he left him alone and let him be moody and just had a quip now and then, but they were pretty happy to stay out of each other’s way. Plus he was pretty sure Mike 2.0 didn’t think he was the biggest asshole here and that made it much easier to relax. But now he was moved into another house and he was just playing at laying low.

But the inside of his own room had been driving him a little bit crazy so he’d ventured into the lounge with the newspaper before he’d end up going for a run. His obsession with the gym was probably going to fade, but right now it was the only thing that made him feel sane.

Glancing up at the blond woman he raised his eyebrows and lowered the paper. They hadn’t actually said a word to each other yet and now she was asking about his hair? Had he missed something? “I had product in it at the wedding, now I don’t,” he said, because really, he thought it was obvious.

“I’m Harvey,” he said after a pause, offering her his hand, because as much as he was a grouchy bastard, he wasn’t actually rude and his manors were still intact.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 07:26 am UTC (link)
Parker pursed her lips considering that, product in his hair. She'd seen Sophie doing her hair before, she'd done her own hair before, and she suspected that Eliot might do his hair sometimes too. But Harvey's hair didn't look the way Parker had gotten to know hair that had been messed with.

"What sort of product?" She wondered, still tempted to touch because his hair looked soft today, where it hadn't looked all that soft at all when he was at the wedding.

She glanced at his hand, understanding the gesture but not eager to return it. She crossed her arms over her chest and smiled though because she might not want to touch him, or let him touch her but she could be nice. "I'm Parker."

"You should leave your hair like this." She decided still resisting the urge to touch - which was strange given how she hadn't wanted to touch his hand, but his hair was just interesting.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 08:06 am UTC (link)
"Hair gel," Harvey said, trying not to give her a complete look of disbelief. Either she road the special bus or someone was fucking with him, it was that simple. She was by far the strangest person he'd met here and he had no idea what to make of this situation.

The refused to shake his hand made him press his lips together in a thin line as he withdrew the gesture and certainly didn't return the smile. "Right," he said as he looked back down at his paper, if that's how it was going to be, he found no need to be polite in return.

"Do you make a habit of commenting on other people's appearances?" Harvey asked, looking up at the girl.

Clearly leaving his room was a mistake. He hadn't been expecting someone so hot to be quite so touched in the head. The hot ones were sometimes crazy, but not usually this obviously.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 08:12 am UTC (link)
Parker hummed curiously, hair gel - she might have to look into that. She wondered if it was for more than making your hair look hard. Maybe Spencer would know.

She stayed there though when he looked back at his paper like he was finished with the conversation, he might be done but she was still curious so she didn't mind sticking around to figure him out for a bit longer.

When he asked the question Parker opened her mouth and closed it again, eyes going wide when she considered what she might have done. "Was that rude?" She asked him. "Like commenting on a woman's weight?" She hadn't meant to be rude now, just as she hadn't meant to be rude in the past, but people seemed to be touchy about so many things it was hard to know what would make them react and what they were fine with answering.

"Your hair just looks soft like this," She told him carefully, like perhaps he might be offended by the comment. "It's nice."

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 08:30 am UTC (link)
He had to laugh, or open mouth and her wide eyes, she was kind of like a child and as much as Harvey had no desire to ever have children of his own, he did like them. Maybe that was the only way to approach this strange girl. "No, not rude. Just strange," Harvey said with a shrug, he was pretty sure she'd have heard that before.

"Thanks?" Harvey said, arching his eyebrows. Because it sounded like a compliment and that was the only thing he could think of to say and he still wasn't sure what was happening.

"Are you stoned?" Harvey had to ask, because right now with the hair thing and the dazed expression, it was looking like the only option. "Not that I'll judge if you are." He'd spent time with Mike before when he'd been stoned and the boy seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with his hair then too.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 08:40 am UTC (link)
Ah strange, Parker nodded. She understood strange, well she understood people thinking she was strange, though she didn't really see what about her question had been strange. But she could let Harvey think she was strange, he certainly wouldn't be the first.

"You're welcome." She smiled happily, because really soft hair was a good thing. He should like having it. Her hair tended to get a little dry, well it did in the past, something about spending her time in air vents and jumping from buildings didn't agree.

Parker tilted her head when he asked if she were stoned, taking a moment to parse out what he meant. "No," She shook her head. "I don't do that. Illegal drugs are bad." She told him, narrowing her eyes at him wondering if he did them, if that was why he thought she might do them too. Parker might be a thief but she had a moral code, it included things like no stealing from children, no illegal downloading, and no drugs. Drugs clouded your mind and made you sloppy, she couldn't afford that.

"Are you stoned?" She asked him, trying out the word for herself. "I'll probably judge you if you are." She warned him.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 09:15 am UTC (link)
She was strange, so strange and he was torn between dislike and confusion. People's hair, even his own, wasn't really interesting and not something he wanted to discus. But if she was going to be hanging around maybe hair was the best topic they had.

Her reaction was kind of hilarious and he laughed again, he couldn't help it. "Yes, you're right. I'm a lawyer, I know a lot about illegal things," Harvey said with a nod. It was like talking to a child, he had to just keep that in mind. Even if the child was a gorgeous woman, which was just confusing.

"I'm not stoned, no, so no need to judge," Harvey said, raising his eyebrows at her.

"Do you like living here?" He asked, because it seemed like she wasn't going to leave and maybe he could steer the conversation away from his hair.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 09:30 am UTC (link)
Parker pursed her lips when Harvey told her he was a lawyer, but lawyers unlike the Federal agents didn't really bother her. It wasn't like Harvey could arrest her after all. "Good." Parker nodded firmly, glad at least they could agree that drugs were illegal.

"Okay, I won't judge you yet." There would be some judging eventually because that was what you did with people. You got to know them and you judged them and decided whether or not you wanted to talk to them again. Not everyone made it through to the second round, but given that their options were limited these days Parker was willing to be a bit more lenient.

"Here in this house?" Parker asked, "Or here on the base? Or here in this dimension?" The questions really did leave a lot open, she decided as she shrugged.

"I'd rather live with Eliot." She said slowly. "He's my friend, we were going to live together but then things changed, but Kensi is nice." As nice as anyone could be around here, and Parker had her own room so in the end it didn't really matter who she lived with even if she'd like to have Eliot closer to keep an eye on him, since he couldn't do that for himself anymore.

"I don't like living on the base, and I'd rather be at home." She finished. Leaving out how being surrounded by military men made her itch to use one of the many escape routes she and Eliot had found, it made her want to gather her things and leave in the middle of the night and never come back. And she didn't mention that she stayed to help them, because she had friends here and she wanted to make sure they were okay.

"Do you like living here on the base?" Parker made sure to clarify her own question.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 10:02 am UTC (link)
The yet made him smile and shake his head. He wasn't going to be able to get on her good side and honestly, he didn't mind. It wasn't going to be different to have someone else here dislike him.

"All three?" Harvey said, wondering if everything with Parker was going to be this difficult. He was thinking that everything with Parker was difficult, she had a glint in her eyes that made him think she was a little unbalanced, but maybe he was seeing things.

She spoke like Harvey should know these people and he decided it was best to just nod along rather than ask questions with answers he didn't care about. "I'd rather live with my friend, too," Harvey admitted, maybe they had that in common.

Okay, so they had that in common as well, it wasn't all bad. "I think most people here are angry control freaks who should get some therapy," Harvey said with a shrug. "But you can't argue with someone who looks like they'd quite happily kill you themselves."

Shaking his head he looked down at the paper. "No, I don't. I don't like sharing houses and I don't like being told how to live. If I'd wanted to be some sort of agent, I'd have done it."

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 10:19 am UTC (link)
Harvey didn't seem happy, and not just in the way that they were all unhappy when they arrived because no one wanted to be here really, but unhappy about everything.

"I'm glad he's here," She said slowly and sighed. "It wasn't easy when I was alone here." Though making friends had helped, it made it easier to get used to the way she felt like people were watching her. "You're lucky you came here with him. Maybe you'll get to live with him later, we get moved sometimes." She explained and shrugged, not sure if Harvey would ever get to live with his friend or not, but they were still close - they saw everyone every day after all.

Parker laughed. "I don't think they're angry really, control freaks maybe - they are agents that's how they work." Parker understood that, things were all about order and rules and information with people like those that were in charge here. It was sort of the same for her, just on the opposite side of the coin. "You could try, I don't think it would do much good though." She told him, shaking her head.

"Did you like being a lawyer?" She asked him, clearly being here and the training and things weren't something Harvey wanted to be doing, so he probably didn't want to talk about it either.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 11:17 am UTC (link)
He was trying, he actually was. It might not look like it to anyone else, but he was. It took effort just to get up and face the day, the people and this damn world. So really he didn't care if people thought he was overreacting, mainly because he didn't care about pretty much everyone here.

It struck him a little bit when she spoke, because he wasn't heartless and he didn't like the idea of anyone being miserable here. "I can imagine," he said softly, looking back down at his paper just because he wanted to avert his eyes. "I am lucky, to have him here, but it's hard to enjoy it when I wish he wasn't going through it too, he's got things at home, people who rely on him," Harvey said with a shrug. As much as he relied on Mike now, it didn't mean he wouldn't have toughed it out on his own if it meant the kid didn't have to be away from his family.

"Yeah well, I've got to say, I'm really starting to hate agents," he said with a sigh. "I know, arguing isn't an option, I've got really good at biting my tongue."

He considered the question before he nodded his head. "Yeah, I love it, it's my life," Harvey admitted. "What is it you do?"

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 05:34 pm UTC (link)
It hadn't been the end of the world when Parker had shown up on her own, a little terrifying those first few days when she wasn't completely sure she hadn't been arrested and this wasn't just some big government conspiracy, but the longer she was there the easier it got. And she'd made friends, she'd had Neal and John and it was okay. It might have been easier if she hadn't been alone, or maybe it would have been harder - she wasn't sure really.

"Selfish." Parker commented, nodding slowly - that was one word she was still learning, trying to figure out all the different things it meant. "It is selfish to want them here, I don't think that makes us bad though." Not bad in the way that she knew she wasn't the good person that people like John were.

Parker smiled, ducking her face and tucking her hair behind her ear when Harvey said he was hating agents. "They're not as bad as I always thought they would be." Of course this wasn't the same sort of situation she might have meet these people under normally and that made a difference. "It gets easier too, it's not fun but ..." She shrugged, fun wasn't really something anyone promised them.

"It's good to do things you like." Parker smiled, she could understand that feeling of something being your whole life, a thief was what defined her. It was what she was made for, to suddenly be without it was unsettling even now. "Recovery." She answered smoothly, having gotten more used to the half-lie, she wasn't sure what Eliot told people about what he did, but she still didn't want to tell anyone that she was a thief.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 08:54 pm UTC (link)
"Yes, it is, but I think it's natural to want things that comfort us." Harvey said as he gave a little nod. Just because he could be a very selfish man didn't mean that he wouldn't have done the right thing if he'd had a choice. He already felt guilty about keeping Mike so late, for being the reason they were still at the office and that probably being the reason they were stuck here now.

"I've put up with a lot of cops in my time, but agents seem to be a whole new breed," Harvey said, his nose crinkling a little bit just from thinking about it. "I'm used to being the boss," Harvey admitted with a little sigh. "This is about as far from being in charge as possible."

He missed it, more than anything and he couldn't help think he'd get so rusty while he was away that he'd get home and be useless, having forgotten everything. "Recovery? What exactly is that?" Harvey asked, intrigued as to what that might mean.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 09:37 pm UTC (link)
Parker pursed her lips and nodded considering that. It being natural to want things that were selfish, even when we knew that people might be better off doing other things. She wondered how people did that, worried about where the line was, between what was too selfish and what was just natural. All of it was so hard, she at times wondered if it was worth having friends at all. "Maybe it is."

"They are, they're not like cops at all." Well some of them maybe at least a little bit at the start, but the longer they were here the less like cops they all were. "I'm used to working alone." She said, when Harvey said he was used to being in charge. "That's sort of like being the boss."

"It's okay to not be in charge, sometimes other people know better." Parker said lifting her shoulders, thinking about Nate - and how much better they all were when they worked together and Nate was the one coming up with the plans. He brought out the best in them, and a part of her thought that maybe they were trying to do that here, playing toward their strengths.

Parker bit her lip when he asked about Recovery, most people were only vaguely interested in what they'd done before they came here. "You know, if something gets taken I get it back." Leaving out the we, she didn't need to include the rest of the team, not for this conversation. "I help people."

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-13 10:11 pm UTC (link)
Harvey had no idea where the line was between enough and too much between him and Mike. He had no idea where the line between comfort and selfishly wanting more was and he was determined to just leave it in the other man's hands from now on. "It is."

Cops were usually easy to understand and he hadn't minded them when he'd worked in the DA's office. But agents were something else entirely. It was almost an obsession, the training and the paranoia, Harvey really didn't think it was any way to live, but he wasn't going to go around saying that out loud. "How did you adapt to being told what to do?" Harvey asked.

Harvey shrugged, he didn't mind being told what to do when it needed to be done, but he still felt like all of this was meaningless.

His eyebrows raised as she explained her job and he tried to figure out just what she meant. "Right. You help people. By taking things." Harvey said with a nod.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-13 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Harvey probably knew better than Parker did what was natural, so she was inclined to take his word on it. So she nodded when he assured her that it was normal to want things that made them feel better.

She leaned forward, elbows on her knees, watching Harvey, he was interesting. And reminded her just a little of Eliot back when they first started working together, not much, not enough to say the two were really alike - but there was something there she decided.

"I don't want to go to jail," She shrugged. "And I can help, I'm good at this, and what I can do can help everyone else. So it was easier to stay and follow the rules and learn how to do these things." She told him. "I just wanted to help."

Parker nodded when Harvey summed up her job. "I help people, by taking things back." She agreed. There was a difference. They didn't take things that weren't theirs anymore. Well if they did they put them back, like she'd done with the hope diamond. It just didn't feel as good anymore for some reason that Parker still didn't understand.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 07:03 am UTC (link)
Parker was hot and he watched her back, wondering what her deal really was. At least she wasn’t outwardly aggressive and that was better than some of the confrontations he’d had. “Is that Reid guy your boyfriend?” He asked, he’d seen them together a few times and close at the wedding and he wondered how someone who was as smart as Mike could deal with someone this loopy.

Harvey knew he didn’t want to go to jail but he didn’t want to be here either. Maybe at night when the whole situation pressed down on him and the dark ate away at him he thought about just leaving, even though he wouldn’t last long. Maybe that was the tempting part. But he really tried not to let himself think things like that, because he wasn’t weak and he wasn’t going to let this place and the people he clashed with get to him. “You’re a good person,” Harvey said with a shrug, because honestly, apart from the very few people he’d got along with he didn’t care about anyone here.

“Right. By taking things back.” It sounded dodgy to him, but he didn’t care, whatever she did was on her. Hell, like he could judge, one of the first things he’d done when he got here was break the law, because he could without worrying about screwing life up at home for himself.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-15 07:47 am UTC (link)
Parker's eyes got wide when Harvey asked about Spencer. It surprised her, and she wasn't sure why he'd want to know at all - it made her twitchy, like the men she approached on a job. At least there were no forks around. "Boyfriend?" She asked shaking her head. "No, no - he's nice. He dances and he showed me how to make crystals." She said quickly, that wasn't a boyfriend, at least she was pretty sure that wasn't a boyfriend. "He does magic."

Her desire not to go to jail wasn't quite the same as Harvey's, because unlike Harvey Parker was a criminal - both here and at home as far as governments were concerned. And that coupled with the fact that she was from another dimension would be more than enough for this government to make her disappear completely if they ever got their hands on her. That thought alone made her want to run, but it was knowing she could help that made her stay. At least at the start. Now it was her friends, people she liked, maybe even cared about. She couldn't just leave them.

The declaration that she was a good person caught her off guard, and her eyes snapped to Harvey trying to figure out what he was doing. "You don't know that." She told him, pressing her lips together and frowning at him. She wasn't a good person the way most people meant it, she didn't know how to be.

Parker wrapped her arms around herself just a bit, chewing on her bottom lip, she didn't want to talk anymore about what she did, or the kind of person she was or why she stayed.

In the end she really only had two options for things with Harvey. She could find something to stab him with, and given their current positions she was rather lacking in pointed objects, or she could distract him. "Can I touch your hair?" She asked, it got him away from talking about her and her life and her motivations and she had wanted to touch since she'd sat down by him.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 08:05 am UTC (link)
"Right, okay," Harvey said, back to being convinced she was deranged. She had a look about her that made him cross his legs and worry about the future of his testicles. And not in a fun way. "Sounds like a swell guy," Harvey said with a little nod, because it was best to just agree.

The way she snapped probably shouldn't have surprised him, seeing as he was pretty sure she was mental, but it sort of did and his eyebrows shot up. "No," he said slowly, shaking his head. "I just mean staying and wanting to help is the quality of a good person, that's all." He said as he held his hands up in surrender.

He'd been ready to let the conversation drop and run back to his room when she asked the strangest questions he'd ever been asked. It was hard to decide what to say, it was probably best not to poke the hidden beast. "Um, sure?" He said, because what the hell else did you say to the weirdest question ever?

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-15 08:17 am UTC (link)
"He is." Parker agreed, nodding firmly. Spencer was very nice, swell even like Harvey said. He was her friend, and she liked him, liked learning how to do magic with him, and how easy it was to talk to him and not have him look at her like she was insane - sort of the way Harvey was looking at her now. Maybe one day she would figure out how to talk to people without making them think there was something wrong with her.

His answer surprised her when Harvey spoke next, and she continued to watch him with narrowed eyes. She didn't understand Harvey, he was strange and confusing and didn't seem to understand simple questions and statements. But he said that she had the quality of a good person and she couldn't think how he might be using that. "Do you really think that?" She asked him.

Yes, Harvey definitely thought she was strange, it was clear in the way he looked at her and the way he replied to her question. But he agreed and that was all she needed really. She reached out carefully with one hand, letting him see her do it - the way she would have wanted if she'd given someone permission to touch her hair.

His hair was soft against her fingertips, and she hesitated just a moment before pushing her fingers in through his hair. "It's soft." She told him. "It looked soft." It was why she'd wanted to touch in the first place.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 08:41 am UTC (link)
"I believe that there are good qualities in everyone but that doesn't necessarily make someone a good person, I made the assumption that seeing you're so passionate about the people here and helping them, that you were a good person, I shouldn't have said it though, obviously," Harvey explained with a little shrug. She was a big giant bag of crazy.

Then she was touching his hair and maybe he'd been hoping she was joking. It was strange like she had no idea that touching someone's hair was an intimate personal thing, like she was totally detached from it.

"Er," he raised his eyebrows as she stroked him. "Thanks," Harvey said, because again, what else was he supposed to do? "You're a little scary, Parker," Harvey admitted, looking up at her.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-15 08:54 am UTC (link)
"Shouldn't people want to help?" She asked him, considering what he said. Whether wanting to help was a good quality or not she wasn't sure. "People want to be good, don't they?" She hadn't ever really been concerned with being good, not until she'd met the team and they'd started to show her what being good could be like, what it felt like to know you'd helped someone rather than just getting away with the shiniest diamonds or the biggest stack of money.

She'd started with one hand, and eventually added another pushing her fingers into his hair, and testing out the feel of it between her fingers and seeing the length of it and comparing it to the memory she had of his hair from the wedding. "You're welcome." She told him and smiled.

"Why do you wear it the other way?" She asked pursing her lips as she looked at him. "It's nicer like this."

Her eyes got a bit wide when he told her she was scary, and she pulled her hands back folding them over one another in her lap. "I don't want to scare you." She told him.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 09:16 am UTC (link)
"I suppose, but not everyone wants to be that helpful," Harvey said with a shrug. "Not everyone wants to be a good person, not everyone cares. Some people only care about themselves," Harvey said, looking down at his paper, this really wasn't a conversation he wanted to be having with someone this unbalanced.

She seemed to be really appreciating his hair and it hadn't stopped being creepy.

"I like it the other way, too. I suppose that's business while this is relaxed," Harvey explained, looking up at her with what might have been a little smile. "Thanks," and a genuine thank you.

"It's fine, you're just..." He hesitated, shaking his head. "You're very intense."

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-15 09:42 am UTC (link)
Parker nodded, she supposed Harvey was right. For a long time she had been that person who was only concerned with herself - with her stockpiles of money and gems, her safe houses, and the life she'd built for herself. The life Archie had taught her to live. "It's easier." She said finally. "When all you care about is yourself, nothing is confusing and it's easy to just leave it all behind."

Touching Harvey's hair Parker decided she would ask Spencer if she could touch his hair too the next time she saw him.

She supposed if Harvey liked his hair both ways then he could wear it however he liked. Though she liked it better the way it was, soft and a little haphazard. "You're welcome." She said again, smiling at the tentative smile Harvey gave her. "You can touch my hair if you want." She offered, just to be polite.

"I don't mean to be intense or scary." She assured him. "You're just new." And that made her curious and she liked to figure out things she knew, plus Harvey was living there with them so she needed to know him.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 10:32 am UTC (link)
Harvey went quiet, because he really didn't want to discus this with her, about how much easier it was to only care about himself. "I like things simple, clean, no attachments." Harvey said, clearing his throat. "It's easier."

He didn't really want to touch her hair, but strangely enough he figured she kind of deserved it. Harvey just pushed her hair back behind her shoulder and then leaned back against the couch. "Very nice," he said, because apparently that's what you said about someone's hair.

"It's fine, intense and scary can be a good thing," he said with a gentle chuckle. "I'm new, so you touch everyone's hair?" Harvey asked, trying to figure her out as much as she was trying to work him out.

"You're very beautiful, I don't mean that to be sleazy, but you must be used to making men confused and maybe a little intimidated," he admitted with a laugh.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-15 10:46 am UTC (link)
She understood that and even agreed with Harvey at times, it was how she had lived for years. "Easier isn't always better though." Parker shrugged. "Maybe that's just me." She was different, maybe she was different about this too.

She hadn't actually expected Harvey to take her up on the offer, not when he was looking uncomfortable with her touching his hair, but she laughed when he pushed her hair back. "Thank you." She smiled big and bright, pleased.

Raising an eyebrow when Harvey assured her that intense and scary could be good, Parker decided to take his word on it, at least for the moment. She could ask some of the others and see what they thought about it. "No, I haven't touched anyone else's hair." She told him. "Yours was strange though." She admitted, the change between the way he'd worn it at the wedding and the way it was now was enough to make her more than a little curious.

Frowning Parker shook her head when Harvey told her she was beautiful. He was so frustrating, one moment he seemed to be easy to talk to and the next she wanted to punch him and run. "No, no I- I don't do that to men, or anyone else."

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 11:07 am UTC (link)
"But easier is easier. I like easy," Harvey said as he shrugged as well. He wasn't the sort of person to go opening up to strangers and he wasn't going to make an exception.

It was strange that she seemed so uncomfortable with him but was so happy with him touching her hair. "Any time, I always did like blonds." He said with a little laugh. Maybe her crazy was growing on him.

Harvey ran both hands through his hair and then over his beard, neither were things he was used to yet. "It's strange to me, too. I'm so used to having it the other way, I'd forgotten what it feels like to just let it be."

She frowned and he realized that she'd probably taken what he'd said the wrong way. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable," Harvey said, holding both his hands up again.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-15 08:15 pm UTC (link)
There wasn't anything wrong with liking easy Parker thought. Easy meant you didn't get caught, you were safe, you didn't get hurt - there were times easy was better, just like there were times that it wasn't. She just nodded though, not sure how to go about putting that sort of thing into words, particularly words she'd want to share with Harvey.

Parker tucked her hair behind her ear when Harvey laughed, feeling happy sitting there beside him talking about his hair. "Blonde is good." She nodded firmly.

"Will you keep it like this?" She asked him, it was harder to picture the other way with him looking the way he did now. She thought he looked nicer this way, a little easier to talk to than he might have been otherwise.

She shook her head when he apologized again, she thought Hardison would be proud of her, she hadn't stabbed anyone since she'd gotten here. Even when that was all she'd wanted at times. "I'm okay." She assured him.

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[info]harvey_specter
2011-09-15 09:26 pm UTC (link)
Harvey decided it was better to just let the subject go, rather than try to talk without telling each other too much about each other. But it stuck with him, the idea that maybe easier wasn't always better and he knew he'd struggle to get those words out of his head.

"I used to be blonde when I was a kid, it's got darker and darker over the years," Harvey said as he shook his hair back from his eyes.

Harvey shrugged a little bit, he really hadn't given much thought to his hair after all. "Maybe," he said. "I'll probably go back to how it was at the wedding when I go home, or if we have to do something where I'm wearing a suit. But I'll probably leave it like this otherwise."

She was very odd and he couldn't help but think she'd been through something that made her act like a child and get upset over the idea of a man finding her beautiful and thus confusing. "Good," he said quickly.

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[info]thief_parker
2011-09-16 01:49 am UTC (link)
"I've always been blonde." Parker said, considering Harvey's hair, reaching out to run her fingers through the dark strands again before she pulled her hand back.

She decided he wasn't too bad, a little confusing and strange, but not too bad. He could definitely be worse, he didn't bother her the way some people did, and he didn't ask too many questions, which was a point in his favor.

"Good, this is good - like this." Parker approved of his decision to leave his hair the way it was, like he really needed her approval for the way he styled his hair.

Parker considered Harvey again, though she thought they were done for the moment. "You can stay." She decided, nodding firmly. And if she were the type of person to touch, she'd have patted his shoulder too, just to let him know that she liked him. "If you want to talk my room is over there." She pointed.

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