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#2012-01-17 16:40:37, as written by Jag

Vash Laric matched the glare of her reflection in the mirror of the small bathroom. "What are you doing, Vash?" Carefully applied makeup hid a bruised cheekbone with a splash of red. It was as normal as the young woman ever managed to look. Lifting up the red jacket and white shirt beneath, she traced the bruising on her ribcage on the right side of her body, wincing as she dared to poke the area out of curiosity and a sickening sense of self-inflicted pain.

With a few minutes, she'd collected herself and returned to the bar, sliding in from the back. As much as Gambit's was dangerous for all the strange and lethal that walked in an out of its doors, it was a great place for a "normal" person to hang low and let the freaks draw all the attention.

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#2012-01-17 16:53:17, as written by Jag

A smirk rose like a reluctant sun at the sight of Gil Buchanan walking through the door with that goofy smile on his otherwise goofy face. Vash lingered at the corner of the bar for a moment until the boy claimed his seat and settled in with a jovial step in his normally awkward gait. Then she sprung into action.

With sure and damn near silent footsteps, she crept behind the boy and slowly lifted the leather case away from him, swinging around the table and sliding into the chair across from his with feet propped up.

"Hey hot stuff," she said, flipping open the case nonchalantly. "What's in here?"

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#2012-01-17 17:23:40, as written by Jag

Vash Laric sat with her mouth cocked slightly open as she so often did, running her tongue against the ridges of her upper teeth out of idle habit. A bitter taste flooded her mouth in the form of the painkiller she'd taken in the bathroom moments before, opting to crack and chew the pill rather than wait for the same thing to digest slowly. The sour look on her face coincided with her gazing on the pictures with no correlation.

"You really did this?" She said, tracing in the air over the intricated lines of the first drawing before flipping to the second one, where she stopped. Three sets of eyes. A vacant, distant gaze in the picture, fearful and nervous eyes across the table, and her own with a burning curiosity.

"Is this some sort of joke?"

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#2012-01-17 17:41:07, as written by Jag

Her hands recoiled immediately, pulling the works out of Gil's lanky reach and retaining them as her eyes flashed a challenge to the young man before she returned to flipping between the first two. Back. Forth. Back. Forth. Eventually, she gazed over a few more in silence before she tucked them back down into the leather case and closed the flap back over the top of it, adjusting her feet still propped on the table.

"The least you could have done was at least given me a little something more to work with here," she said, indicating to her own chest before kicking her feet beneath the table and leaning forward anchor her face between fists.

"Your boyfriend seen his?"

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#2012-01-17 17:48:50, as written by Jag

Tilting her head to the side like an intrigued puppy that didn't understand why the game was over when it still wanted to play, Vash crinkled her nose and pressed her lips together while staring across the table at Gil.

"G'damn, are you ever not serious?" Her hand reached across the table as she leaned foward and touched the bottom of Gil's hand with her fingers, doing her best not to wince at her bruise ribs. That was an explanation she didn't want to give to him of all people.

"Take two breaths and then stop freaking about everything, okay? If I didn't like you, I wouldn't keep hanging around."

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#2012-01-17 17:59:45, as written by Jag

In world where Vash and her sister Elevens took on any identity they wanted on any given night with no qualms about what waited for them on the other site, the paralyizing lack of self confidence bleeding through every thought, spoken word or movement by Gil was simulatenously surpremely frustrating and fascinating.

"Then I'd say a celebration is in order," she said, leaning back in her chair and kicking her feet back onto the table once more. "And I'm guessing that Judas was el number uno on that list of people to share the news with?"

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#2012-01-17 18:05:42, as written by Jag

"I don't know, that sounds like some hardcore partying right there. If you were any more of a rebel, you'd drop some marshmellows in there and shit would get out of control," she joked back at him with a glare that damn near warned him not to get upset or to take her words seriously.

"Well, they're pretty damn impressive if you asked me. And you certainly have good taste in models," she said, touching her own face, being careful to avoid the artfully-hidden bruising.

"Ahh, what the hell. Hook me up with that devil's drink and we'll celebrate."

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#2012-01-17 18:36:06, as written by Jag

A bad joke, but at least it was a joke. Vash had to the give the boy some measure of credit for trying, after all. The arrival of Judas strangely simulatenously seemed to relax and tense Gil in Vash's eyes as the calm and confident man took his seat at the table with them. Vash hadn't spent much time around Judas, but she felt like she probably knew him on some level. Truth be told they probably had a fair bit in common.

That was probably the reason she was, on some level, afraid of him.

"Well now this really is a party. You know," she said, leaning over to Judas, "our budding artist here has taken a fancy to putting you and me on paper. I was thinking maybe we'd really give him something to draw," she fired with a smirk, leaning back in her chair.

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#2012-01-17 18:57:48, as written by Jag

Well, that was certainly a change. Vash wasn't sure exactly what brought about the sudden sense of bravado in the young man, but the girl was intent on pushing the situation to its limits in the same way that she pressed every other line drawn in her life. Climbing out of her chair, she rotated around the table and tossed her arms around the two boys, leaning her head slightly against Gil's.

"I can do you one better than that. Watch this," Vash said, darting her head back and forth before literally springing herself up onto the bar and down to the other side. Idle chatter of the young woman talking to herself fell into symphony with the clinking of glasses and bottles. Within two minutes, she was back at the table with three glasses filled with an inviting and delicious-smelling blue liquid.

"A little homebrewed creation. Don't worry, it's amazing."

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#2012-01-17 19:59:45, as written by Jag

The drink wasn't going to kill anyway. Well, it hadn't yet, anyway. Still, the drink was very strong on the back end although with a sweet aftertaste that tempted one to brave a rush into the fire once more. It had been a favorite of hers since long before the ability to score the ingredients for herself. Like Father, like one of countless synthetic daughters.

Knocking back her own drink with a twist of facial features followed by a satisfied sigh, Vash tuoched the glass back down the table.

"Yup. Gil here's about to be famous."

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#2012-01-17 20:19:49, as written by Jag

On the opposite side of the table, Vash was all smiles from ear to ear. The flush of red to Gil's face this time had nothing to do with shyness or embarassment but a pure physiological reaction to the liver-killer she'd proudly introduced into her system. Vash felt the pang as well, tempered somewhat by the fact that she'd practice grown up on the stuff since hitting her "adulthood" -- and a number of other reasons she just chalked up to hellaciously-good engineering.

"Let's see," she extended her hand, counting silently to herself. "Ya know, what, just suffice it to say that the curacao gives it the color and that absinthe gives it the...well...that," Vash said, pointing to Gil's face.

"So do you just love your job bringing joy and cheer the hearts of the world?" She turned to Judas with the question.

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#2012-01-17 20:44:25, as written by Jag

Crossing arms over chest, Vash felt her elbow prod painfully into the bruised ribs and the tender skin running along her torso. There was a time for fighting and a time for retreating to lick wounds. Right now, Vash was content to play the part of the coward.

At Gil's sudden mention of his newly-found talents, Vash did everything in her power not to burst into some sort of laughter. Her eyebrow arched and turned to Judas with a you've-got-to-be-kidding-me amused glare prior to turning back to Gil. The boy looked like he was probably going to have trouble standing, let alone...poledancing?

"Oh dear god, yes," she said with a smirk as she ran her finger on the inside of the glass and tasted the last remnants of the drink. She wanted another, but...no, this place was too open, too exposed.

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#2012-01-23 23:37:14, as written by Jag

The young woman barely lifted her head to catch her surroundings upon entering the bar, eyes mesmerized by the glint of gold from the trinket in her hand. She wasn't sure exactly how much the watch would bring, but it would be more than enough to make sure that she didn't have to steal a place to sleep to night from Gil or anyone else. The lift had been an easy one. Then again, it was never the crime, but the punishment that hurt.

Vash had developed a knack for avoiding that part.

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#2012-01-23 23:52:40, as written by Jag

Vash Laric leaves.

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#2012-01-26 01:04:43, as written by Jag

The young woman brushed back a few locks of red hair and patted down her pocket for a pack of cigarettes that wasn't to be found. "Oh right, quitting," she muttered to herself, forgetting she'd made the same promise for no telling how many times now.

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#2012-01-26 01:11:39, as written by Jag

The first glance was little more than a passing one. This was Wing City, it wasn't anything out of the ordinary to run into a handful of strays. Hell, there were more than a few people that saw Vash was a bit of a stray herself. The second glance, however, from the young woman's eyes locked onto the strange creature on the street. Slight alarm quickly gave way to absolutely curiosity.

"And just when I thought things wouldn't get any stranger, you walk right by," she spoke along. The only thing stranger than seeing a chicken-cat-thing to her was Vash's instinct to speak to it.

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#2012-02-01 04:08:48, as written by Jag

Checking herself in the bathroom mirror, Vash reached up and poked her cheekbone just below the right eye, rewarding herself with the reaction of a wince, flinch, and threw in a curse just for good measure. A light touch of cosmetic wonder masked the last vestiges of the black eye from which she'd been suffering for days, but the tenderness was still there. He'd told her that one more word and she'd feel it, and it turned out that he'd been doing more than just bluffing. Vash also knew that it was worth it. A devious smirk spread across the young woman's face as she stepped back out into the bar proper.

She was dressed as casually as one would expect -- faded blue jeans, a fitted black tee hugging her torso, and a white bubble jacket hanging from her shoulders clashing sharply with the stark head of red hair. As for any other colors Vash needed to complete the look, she looked to the wall of bottles behind the bar.

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#2012-02-01 04:34:40, as written by Jag

As for that drink, Vash was still on the fence. Not that she was in any hurry or had anywhere to go home to. It was one of the advantages of literally living day to day while on the outs -- without a consistent roof over your head, you seldom had to worry about someone calling after you. If push came to shove she could always track her way to Gil, but then there would be dealing with his awkward insecurities and the girl found that it wasn't worth the hassle just for the sake of a warm bed.

"This one's on the ol' Doc," the red-haired woman spoke aloud to no one in particular, although the idea seemed to amuse her greatly as she fished a bill out of her pocket and began to eye the selections in front of her. Without a score in mind or a pressing need to run from someone intended to stab her, Vash was starting to get that idea that Wing City could be just a little boring.

Still undecided, the young woman jutted out her bottom lip and blew upwards sharply to remove a few rebellious strands falling before her face.

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#2012-02-20 22:21:26, as written by Jag

The last drag of the cigarette was a bittersweet pull. It was going to be her last for quite a while, the young woman had firmly sworn. Nevermind she'd made the same decision at least twenty times before, this was going to stick...for a while. Muttering under her breath as she crushed the last burning vestiges of the cigarette under her heel before entering the bar, she cursed the addiction as a terrible programming decision.

Faded blue jeans, a solid white long-sleeve shirt, and a worn and weather red jacket that once carried a vibrant hue now beat down to a dull brick red covered her body as she entered, red hair pulled up into a messy bun over her head. Style could wait. Probably.

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#2012-02-20 23:11:46, as written by Jag

Vash made a dash for the back and the bathroom as soon as she entered Gambit's. Cold water splashed across flushed cheeks to breathe a startling jolt of life into the otherwise dead expression she'd been carrying around for most of the day. Whatever it was she'd taken the night before, it had been one hell of a drug. The young woman counted herself lucky not to have ended up any worse for the wear. Touching up and covering the traces of bruising on her right cheek, she exited and quickly found herself standing in front of Gil. Talk about timing.

"You know, I'm starting to think that you barely exist outside of this smoky ol' bar," she said with a tinge of a smirk and she clipped his shoulder with a light punch. "I think I've seen you out of out if...twice. And only one time you were sober enough to know the difference."

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