Oh so slowly getting through the
Two People Talking challenges... two of the last are with our favourite thief, way shorter than the last one I'm afraid, and a sort of matched pair with much the same beginning :) Firstly,
kerravonsen asked for Vila and Blair Sandburg...
"As I always say..." Vila said, "stealing's always quicker. And cheaper in the long run."
"And way way stupider, man! You wanted to get arrested, be my guest -"
"Occupational hazard." Vila shrugged. "Everyone gets used to it, don't they?"
Blair blinked. "No, man, some of us don't."
"Never arrested?" Vila seemed to have a problem with the very idea. "Never?"
"Well yes, once or twice for disorderly conduct at Mom's protest marches... and that love-in for peace when I was younger that turned into a brawl, but be fair, half the campus got arrested for that. And now I think of it," he blinked again, "several more times since I've been working with the police, man. Not for stealing."
"I'm a thief, so I... thieve."
"Maybe so, man, but not here - and not that!!"
"I like gold!" Vila protested. "Actually, I like anything that's nice and shiny and precious, but especially gold."
"It was a priceless seventeenth-century Spanish cross from Central America and a vital part of the University's historical-archaeological collections, and how the hell you managed to get it out of all that security -"
"What can I say?" Vila tried, and totally failed, to look modest, "I'm amazingly talented."
"And modest with it, yeah. I can see that. But why hide the damn thing in the bullpen -"
"Plenty of hiding places there."
"- of Major Crimes -"
"Well, they wouldn't look for a minor crime there, would they?"
"- And how the hell are we gonna get it out of Simon's office and back to the campus?"
"Why would anyone be stupid enough to do that?"
Blair looked at him as if he was mad. "Because, man, I really don't want to be arrested again - and by my own captain!"
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