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

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*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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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