dawla (dawla) wrote,
@ 2008-10-03 11:03:00

for Hiro

The quiet bar Leo usually haunted was closed for remodeling. With Leo's luck, it would re-open as the latest zen hotspot--or other some such yuppie bullshit theme club. He'd have to find a new place to relax after work was through. The local cop hangouts were not an option, considering most of the people he worked with didn't like him. Respect and like were two different things, and while Leo had earned their respect, they still didn't like the little sonofabitch.

This watering hole was a few blocks down from his old one. He'd tried to go downtown instead of uptown, but really either way had its serious drawbacks. "Why don't everything stay the goddamn same?" He asked his beer, looking down into it. The bartender looked at him oddly, and Leo waved him off. The place had typical music, typical everything, and at least it wasn't trying to be anything it wasn't. That was a blessing these days. He sat there, looking tense for a man who was on his third beer.

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	crucio 2008-10-07 07:09 am UTC (link)
	Hiro lifted a hand up to his lips, his fingertips brushing against them in thought as he let his eyes flicker downwards. He watched Leo pull out his wallet and then he lifted his attention back up to the man's face. "Why do you say that?" he asked, arching a brow, "Are you in law enforcement?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

dawla
2008-10-07 07:23 am UTC (link)

Part of Leo wanted to tell the man to stop touching his mouth like that. It pulled his eyes in that direction and just watching the movement made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. It was a good sensation, even if it felt a little out of control for such a simple gesture.

"Yeah, I'm a cop. Detective." He'd recently been moved up in the ranks to the job he'd gone into the academy for. "What do you do? Other than blow in and out."

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crucio
2008-10-07 07:28 am UTC (link)

"Ah, I see," Hiro said simply with a smile, letting his fingertips drum against his lips a little before his hand dropped to his lap.

It wasn't a big shock to him, now Leo's behavior made a tiny bit more sense to him. He probably immersed himself in his work. And work such as the kind Leo did probably left him jaded even more so than he usually would have been.

"I collect art," he said honestly, "Kind of... like an art dealer. I collect and trade, sell. Buy."

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dawla
2008-10-07 08:02 am UTC (link)

"I've never understood art." He shook his head, the very idea of making a whole career out of it mind-boggling to him. Not that he didn't think it was a perfectly valid way to spend one's time, but he was clueless when it came to value. Looking slightly embarrassed by that, he covered up with a shrug. Real men didn't need to think about ridiculous things like art--right?

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crucio
2008-10-07 08:07 am UTC (link)

Hiro shrugged, too, smiling a little. Art wasn't for everyone. Hiro had been an artist before he'd been changed, but once he'd been changed that creativity died. It was rare that vampires could keep that spark going after they'd been changed.

"A lot of art isn't suppose to be understood, I guess," he said after a moment. "So... if I wanted to see you again, I'd have to get into some sort of... legal trouble?" he asked with a slightly flirtatious air.

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dawla
2008-10-07 08:17 am UTC (link)

Who would create something that wasn't meant to be understood? Leo wondered, shifting around on his bar stool a little bit. Perhaps Hiro would. He was ready to get up and go when the playful question came and it stopped Leo from going anywhere. Begrudgingly, he liked that tone and it made his heart trip up a couple beats in his chest.

"I can't possibly encourage legal trouble. But you'd have to be involved in homicide, or missing persons, or maybe an assault. Any plans for any of that?"

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crucio
2008-10-07 08:27 am UTC (link)

Hiro caught that pick up of Leo's pulse. He could hear it, feel it, and it made him smile a little more. Why he was so interested in a human was confusing, but he went with where the wind blew him like he said. And right now it was blowing him at Leo.

"I only bite when it's wanted," he said with a playful smile.

It was true. He only fed from people who were pliable and wanted physical attention, and he didn't feed enough to kill them. He didn't bleed them dry. He took just enough to sate his need and then he let them go, feeling mostly drunk.

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	dawla 2008-10-07 08:49 am UTC (link)
	The choice of words amused Leo and he finally broke into a smile, one that reached up into his dark, round eyes. "Then I could hardly charge you for that. You'll have to come up with a less illegal way of seeing me again if that's something you want." He hesitated a second. "Unless you're looking to avoid me, in which case, you're golden." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

crucio
2008-10-07 08:55 am UTC (link)

Leo's smile caused Hiro's smile to grow, to reach his eyes, too. He slipped up off of the bar stool and smoothed the material of his shirt before he reached over to snag a pen off of the bartop. He took a hold of Leo's hand then and wrote his number on it, then let go, the pen dropping back down on the bartop.

"I guess it's up to you if you want to avoid me or not," he said with a smile.

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	dawla 2008-10-07 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	The cop-instinct to jerk his hand away was overridden by the strong desire to be touched by this person. He dropped his eyes to watch the scrawl of the pen, revealing the kind of information that unlocked Hiro to him in a way. "All right. I guess it is." He put his wallet back into his pocket and searched for his keys, fumbling more than anything. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crucio 2008-10-09 07:13 am UTC (link)
	Hiro didn't say anything else after that, instead he simply sat back down and watched Leo with a faint smile. He liked Leo. He was interesting. Dark and broody and so many other things, Hiro was certain. And those things? Hiro wanted to find them all out, if he could. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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