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RP: Relaxing Drinks

Aug 10, 2011 22:16

Date: August 10, 2011
Characters: Elliot Winters, Ryan O’Shea
Location: The Hawthorne
Status: Private
Summary: El goes to get a drink.
Completion: Incomplete

( Just a quick drink )

character: elliot winters, post: private, august 2011, location: hawthorne, character: ryan o'shea

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ryan_oshea August 11 2011, 02:30:06 UTC

The Hawthorne was quickly becoming a favorite place of Ryan's. It had a laid back atmosphere and it got him out of the office. Though he always ended up working on his articles there anyways. Fuck, he needed to get a life. Marie was the only person, who wasn't from work, that he saw on a regular basis anymore. It was sad that he was also including his housemates in that analysis. He was coming and going at such odd hours that he always seemed to miss Rori and Cody.

Ryan glanced up from his notepad when someone slipped into the bar stool a couple seats down from him. God, he looked really familiar. He ran through a mental list of people he'd interviewed (he knew this guy wasn't from the paper), trying to place a name to the face. It was probably weird to stare at the guy, but for as little people as he had interacted with lately it was driving him slightly nuts that he couldn't place the guy.

elliot_winters August 11 2011, 21:04:48 UTC

Elliot sipped at his drink, trying not to think too hard on anything. Instead, he opened his mind and allowed his eyes to wander around, not settling on any one thing or person. At least, not until he felt the weight of someone else's gaze. It was a familiar feeling, and he immediately set about finding the source of the gaze.

It was a familiar looking man a couple of stools down from him at the bar. He tilted his head contemplatively for a moment, running places and people through his head until he at least hit upon the 'where' he'd seen the guy before--the bakery.

He raised his glass politely to the other man. "You go to Jones French Bakery, don't you?" he said conversationally.

ryan_oshea August 11 2011, 23:25:23 UTC

"Yeah," Ryan answered, glad that he hadn't simply been going crazy. He'd stopped by from time to time to visit Marie when she worked there and vaguely remembered seeing this man there on occasion as well. "My sister used to work there so I came in every now and then. Glad you figured it out though, I thought I might've been going crazy or something." Being in the business he was, it drove Ryan nuts when he couldn't place someone. "I'm Ryan, by the way."

elliot_winters August 12 2011, 01:23:54 UTC

"My girlfriend is the baker there," Elliot said, feeling a thrill that always came with naming Carrie as his girlfriend. His lips curved up in a small, pleased smile. He really was rather crazy about her, moreso than he might readily admit. "Carrie Harper, the brownie goddess." If his sister worked there--and he remembered Carrie mentioning a female coworker--then he would probably recognize the name.

"No, not crazy. I'm Elliot, nice to actually meet you," he said, extending his hand to the other man. "I'm often in a uniform when I go to the bakery, if that helps at all. In and out can look different sometimes," he said. He liked to visit Carrie on his lunch break, sometimes, or whenever he could get away.

ryan_oshea August 12 2011, 01:56:55 UTC

"Oh," Ryan said with an amused smile. "I've heard a lot about her legendary brownies. I think they're want Marie misses most about not working there anymore." Actually, he knew that for a fact. Just last week he witnessed Marie stop eating a brownie after one night and sigh, 'it's just not the same. It was no small moment when Marie didn't finish a perfectly edible baked good.

"Nice to meet you," Ryan said as shook Elliot's hand. "I'm Ryan, Marie's brother. She was the redheaded cashier. And, yes,the uniform thing does make me feel a bit better," Ryan admitted with a lopsided grin. "I'm usually really good at remembering where I've seen people.

elliot_winters August 12 2011, 02:38:09 UTC

"You never had one? You are so missing out. She is the most excellent baker ever." And he didn't just say it because she was his girl. But it was simply an added bonus that he could brag on her. "Well, even if she's not there anymore, she can still go by," he said.

"Ah, yes, I remember her," he said. "She knows my brother, too. Who, heh, also works there. Fisher." He went there to see Fi as well, but as much as he adored his brother, Carrie gave him an entirely different set of feelings.

"Figured it might. I've gotten it before." Could be the cover, though he tended to take it off upon entering a place. "So if your sister is no longer at the bakery, where is she at?" he asked curiously.

ryan_oshea August 12 2011, 03:39:06 UTC

"No, I've tried them," he said with a laugh. Elliot was obviously enjoying bragging about his girlfriend. It was very sweet. While it made Ryan think of Aleksei, it didn't hurt. That was nice change. "It never stopped Marie from telling me about how amazing they were though. She actually mentioned stopping back in sometime this week."

He remembered Marie mentioning Fisher before. She really seemed to miss talking with him and Carrie. "Small world, huh?" To think that both of their siblings had worked at the same place for half a year and that they had even been in the bakery at the same time on multiple occasions and had never spoken until now was pretty funny on some level.

"She's a reporter at NBC now," Ryan said, smiling proudly. "Well, she's still training actually, but she's about to be done with that." He'd be lying if he said he wasn't shocked when Marie accepted the job offer. She'd always been a strictly behind the camera kind of person, but she seemed to really be enjoying the job though.

elliot_winters August 13 2011, 02:10:48 UTC

Elliot loved to brag on Carrie. It just felt right somehow, and it just made him feel so pleased. Especially that he could claim to be attached to someone talented and smart and beautiful like her. He was lucky to have her as a girlfriend, especially considering how messed up he still felt sometimes. Especially lately. He'd found an even keel after being here for awhile, but it didn't seem to take much to remind him of how much of a misfit he really was sometimes. "She should. I'm sure Carrie will be happy to see her again."

His eyebrow raised in surprise. "Oh wow, that takes talent and drive. Good for her," he said, pleased for her even though he didn't know her. "And good luck to her. Not a job to sneeze at, that." He couldn't say he loved reporters, really, but some of them did good jobs. It really just depended on the person. He'd known field reporters he had hated, and some he'd admired.

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