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[orangetoughguy]

I promise, I promise.

I won't bite.

[ooc: No "I'm a ___." spoilers or crew doubles please?]

Comments

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

People like to tell me I've got spunk. It's gotten me into heaps of trouble.

[orangetoughguy]

People like to tell me the same thing, but I've got a mouth.

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Hey, if someone snaps at you it's only fair to snap right on back. But I imagine a mouth can get you into as much trouble as a bit of spunk can.

[orangetoughguy]

Around here? It's one or the other. If it's both I'd call that impressive, but that's just me and I don't cause trouble.

[ On purpose anyway. ]

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

You 'don't cause trouble'? Color me surprised.

[orangetoughguy]

Why's that?

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

What, a fella from Los Angeles, with a mouth and a head for fast cars? I can't imagine where I got the idea from.

[orangetoughguy]

You're sharp, or maybe I ain't honest enough.

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't mind being called sharp. Do you mind being called dishonest?

[orangetoughguy]

Only a little. How about sidewalk savvy?

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Care to rethink your position on you and trouble?

[orangetoughguy]

[A beat.]

Sometimes trouble happens.

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Sidewalk savvy it is, then.

[ Considers, and then: ] I'm Pearl.

[orangetoughguy]

[For once he doesn't think giving his alias out is silly...even though Pearl's a legitimate ladies name.]

I'm Orange.

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Are you, now? [ She's maybe amused. ] There's a first time for everything, I know. But meeting an Orange isn't one of those things you grow up expecting to do one day.

[orangetoughguy]

Don't get ideas, you gotta drive a truck over me to get any juice at all.

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the advice, but I think I'd much rather have you in the truck than under it, Mr. Orange.

[orangetoughguy]

Cool cause I'm just as good in the driver's seat as I am under the hood, Miss Pearl.

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

[ A light laugh. ] I hate to break it to you, but I've definitely heard that line before. But you don't work double shifts as a cigarette girl without hearing them all.

[orangetoughguy]

[ Aw he can't help but laugh either. ] It's no joke! I was taking wheels out for a spin since I was seven, maybe six.

You still doin' that?

[vampirelikeme.livejournal.com]

Did you learn on your own or did somebody teach you?

[ A beat. ] Me, I don't do much of anything these days. Life's gone all topsy-turvy, which is why I'm thinking a change of scenery would be best.

[orangetoughguy]

My dad, my brother, and a little ingenuity.

Anything I might know about? [ Not that he thinks she had to work the LA Riots or anything. ]