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Tweak says, "Oi, with the poodles already"

Henriette Stillman (not_that_henri) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2009-10-22 19:00:00

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henriette stillman, thomas raith

Who: Henn Turner & Thomas Raith
Where: Coffee shop in NY
When: Thursday afternoon
What: Crazy random happenstance!
Warnings: Possible, but surprisingly unlikely

Henn was making her final list for party decorations, things had settled a little at home, and at the Guildhall, so she was using New York as a stopover between New Orleans and London.
What this really meant was that once she'd finished her window-shopping she'd gone to get horribly overpriced teadrink and bask in the fall-weather crowd at the two-tier Starbucks not too far from the Halloween shop she'd been at.

She was in the upstairs, sitting in a window corner and finalizing her lists and plans, sipping at her chai and occasionally nibbling at the thick slice of gingerbread on her plate. She liked the upstairs because she could still get the contact buzz from the people downstairs without actually being bothered, there were a couple of med students taking up one of the mostly-comfy couches on the other side of the room, cramming for a test, but besides the upstairs barista the place was empty.

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bodycologne
2009-10-25 03:55 pm UTC (link)

"Ancestry can be a bitch," Thomas nodded thoughtfully. Divulging too much information could be deadly. But then, he wasn't at home by any stretch of the imagination, and he doubted she knew about the wars raging against his kind. "I am an incubus, a vampire of the White Court. My monster doesn't care who he feeds from, as long as he gets what he wants. Keeping it in check isn't easy, but ever since Justine, I try not to let him loose. Leech a little here and there, by touch, not blood." He shrugged, a slightly sour taste touching his words and his expression at the idea of drinking blood. The rest was old hat to him, though his monster was never quite happy, or quiet, or calm inside of him anymore.

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not_that_henri
2009-10-25 05:05 pm UTC (link)

"Ah-ha." She said with a nod, "That explains it, I thought you felt like family." There was a small smile then, crooked and amused, that was something that ran in the family as well, "This place brings in all sorts. The world, not just the Starbucks."

She sat back, "I've always been able to pull energy off people, I only take the excess though, easiest way to explain it is that I take off whatever's colored outside the lines, people generate a lot of energy they don't even use."

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bodycologne
2009-10-25 05:30 pm UTC (link)

"I'm a hair dresser. It's the easiest way to get my fix." He considered it nibbling, taking just a little, enough to quell his hunger, never satisfy it. He didn't like what he became, when he gave in to it, damn Harry's influence, making him want to be a better person.

He sort of felt a kindred spirit to her. She was like him in some ways, in ways no one else could relate to. His sister was too power hungry, his brother was...different. Harry was one of the real good guys. Hey, at least it gave Thomas something to aspire to, even if he knew he'd never really get there.

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	not_that_henri 2009-10-25 05:43 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh clever." She said, the crooked smile just spreading, "I wouldn't have thought of something like that. I was bartending before I got my internship, and I was good at that, might go back to it if the lawyering ever falls through." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bodycologne
2009-10-25 07:09 pm UTC (link)

"Bartending would probably be just as effective." Maybe not as immediate. Being a hairdresser, he had hands on his clients. There was a fine line, and he had to be careful not to cross it, every time like it was the first time.

"Not sure standing in a courtroom would have the same appeal." Thomas didn't have a high opinion of those who made and enforced laws, to begin with. Too many of them were power hungry.

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not_that_henri
2009-10-25 07:24 pm UTC (link)

She nodded, "A lot of people don't get it, especially given my family businesses, but I'm not really good at either of those, directly, so I figured I'd help in the way I was best at."

The crooked smile was back, "You might be surprised at how many cases I've helped win just by wearing the right blazer and stockings with seams up the backs." Then again, he might not, all things considered.

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	bodycologne 2009-10-25 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey, whatever works, right?" Thomas gulped down what was left of his coffee. he didn't care for it once it cooled, and made a point not to let it get to that point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	not_that_henri 2009-10-27 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	"Something like that." She said, smile spreading, "Personally I just go for whatever's the most entertaining at the time." This was more or less true. She always figured it came from being the child of thieves and more thieves. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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