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hybridxjamie

Jamie grabbed the napkins quickly, dabbing away at the already healed wound. “Ya no, it’s okay. Think the cool November air saved my ass.” She smiled, though frowned as she leaned back slightly. “Well I know some people run on coffee. So really, I wouldn’t mind. I really should watch where I’m going but ya know, got a test today.” She smiled gesturing to the book in hand.

Ashley frowned a touch as the woman shrugged off second degree burns like it was nothing, she wondered what she was.“It’s not important, I just like wasting money,” she teases with a shrug and a small smile. “Ouch. I definitely don’t miss or envy you for it.” Ashley sometimes wonders if she should have kept on in education- which she enjoyed and excelled at, but the stress of it all was hardly worth it.

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cunningcharlie

Charlie snickered. “I can’t imagine it would go smoothly without some sort of high potency alcohol involved.” Taking a large bite out of her sandwich, she shook her head. “Me too, with me in it.”

Laughing with a shake of her head. “Nate and low potency alcohol is something I’ve never known.”

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zacdavison

He nodded sighing deeply “yeah it’s a lovely personality trait I have” he paused “it’s a gift and a curse” He chuckled and shrugged “Unfortunately, no. That’s why it’s such a mess. I should really start asking her to”

"Yeah well, watch who you show your ‘gift’ to, you’ll get your ass kicked next time.” Ashley paused, about to walk away when her curiosity gets the better of her. She can’t seem to place this wolf and the numbers seem to be going up and up as of late. “Zac, yes? You from around here?”

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Jamie suddenly felt a rush of hot liquid trailing down her arm, realizing that she’d crashed right into someone on this chilled morning. It burned slightly but with time subsided as she shook her arm out. “Uh, sorry, I’ll ah, buy you a new one if you’d like.” 

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Late to open up the gym, probably leaving Teddy out in the freezing cold, Ashley hurried out of the shop door with her coffee in hand, seeing too late the woman headed her way. “Shit,” immediately throwing the empty cup into the bin she wiped her hand on her jeans. “Shit, it’s just coffee are you okay?” She reached into her pocket to pull out a wad of napkins and thrust it into the woman’s hands.

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lostwclf

 ‘ not for me. the only solution for me has been to – to run. ‘ it’s all she’s ever known. and it’s all she can do. falling in love with someone is already a slow death on it’s on – but falling for your close friend – who’s straight – is the fastest way to your death.‘ i hope so – family is important – ‘but what would i know about that? the only family i knew – and returned ashley’s smile with her own small one. ‘ are you sure? i don’t want to bother you when you could have your own things to deal with. but i’ll try–? ‘

“You can’t run forever.” Ashley knows far too well that something always has to give- and facing your problems, while sometimes the hardest thing in the world, is the only way to change things. Anticipating a protest she piped up again, “I’m not preaching and certainly don’t want to spew that ‘it gets better’ bullshit but take some responsibility over your issues and you’ll be better prepared to fight them.” She gave a firm nod, “don’t be silly I wouldn’t have offered if I didn’t mean it. Give me a shout and I’m more than happy to help.”

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immcrtalbeast

liam nearly choked on his drink - he couldn’t help himself but laugh at what the woman just told him. it was actually pretty damn hilarious that he made no objections to her and gestured for her to take the seat next to him. ‘ you get points for hilarity - was not expecting someone to point out my drunk friendly ghost. but you can go ‘head and sit. ‘ placing the drink down on the counter to pour himself some more, liam had to ask - might as well make friendly with people since he’s slightly drunk already, ‘ so – ‘ he started as he placed the bottle back down on the counter and picking up his glass, ‘ what’s the thing you’re avoiding and replacing it with alcohol. ‘

“If that’s what you want to call it,” Ash slid onto the bar stool, motioning for the bartender who looked otherwise preoccupied with the other end of the counter. Turning to what looked like the only company she was going to have for the next however long she took in the broody stranger. “Drowning your sorrows? Why, you don’t seem the type.”

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cunningcharlie

“Those are dangerous words.” Charlie replied, knocking her knuckles on the wooden countertop. “Yeah, I am a bit concerned he would burn the place down for the insurance money if I ever left, and Teddy wasn’t around to stop him.” She sighed, vacations weren’t really in her future.

She shrugged and lolled her head against the back of the chair, “I’ve probably just started the apocalypse.”  Ashley laughed, “can you imagine? Surprised he hasn’t given it a good old fashioned try already.”

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zacdavison

Zac smiled and shrugged “I’m sorry, I was being rude. Apologies” He looked down and sighed, the rude approach wasn’t the best and it was hard to maintain when he had a pretty face staring him down. “Kid? that’s new, I wasn’t aware I looked like a baby goat?”

Slipping her phone into her pocket her eyebrow quirked again. “Yeah, you were. But, apology accepted.” Every word out of his mouth had been frankly idiotic but she appreciated his willingness to accept it. “You must know, unless your mom still does your hair for you.” 

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   steps to avoid emotional turmoil and pain: turn off the little switch of your humanity – then everything will be fine. but since liam can’t, and is afraid, do that – he has started drinking. which is out of the ordinary for him as he’s someone who doesn’t care to drink much – but lately - he’s been drinking. much more than normal and he’s starting to grow used to it - which is bad. it brings that alternative to his mind and there was no way he would let paige suffer the consequences or the burden of her lost cause of a brother. so now he’s at the bar - on his day off - drinking, ‘ that seats taken. ‘ liam uttered absentmindedly as he heard footstep coming to the seat next to him - he rather keep the misery to himself and not have company

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Charlie, busy. Alexis, busy with soccer... Ashley made a mental note to branch out and find some other people to hang out with. In reality she’s found that socialising is difficult when your main hobby is murdering the supernatural. Nonetheless the last thing she wanted to do was sit inside her apartment but herself. Pushing her way through a crowd she kept her eye out for spare seats. “Shit,” she mumbled under her breath as she ducked away from the group of women waving at her, the group who frequented Deadlift for exclusive use the cross-trainers and regularly invited her out for happy hour. She knew one thing for sure, these were not the type of people she wanted to associate herself with. Spotting a place at the bar she made her way over. “Casper needs to take a hike he’s taking up valuable space.” 

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zacdavison

Zac grinned “Zac, and you are?. It’s only fair I get to know your name, considering your heartbeat sounds like you are concealing some rage there” he shrugged “I was just trying to be at least a little friendly” he stepped forward “It’s nothing, love. Just a man having a misinterpreted conversation to a lady”  

Ashley rolled her eyes at his response. Great. A werewolf. She really wasn’t in the mood to deal with this first thing in the morning; especially one who was so ready to expose himself so easily. “You’ve got a real niceguy’s impression of friendly, kid.” Ashley cringed at the pet name, resisting the urge to rip him a new one in the middle of the street.

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zacdavison

Zac let out a laugh and shook his head. She smelt human and a human with an attitude but he liked a challenge. “For someone so pretty you have a sharp tongue. Looks like someone else needs to shrink that ego” he paused and looked up and down “or don’t, it suits you”

Ashley frowned, weight shifting from one foot to the other as she sized him up. “And you are? You got somewhere to be you should get on your way- I don’t appreciate whatever this,” she motioned in his general direction,”is.”

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cunningcharlie

“You know what? Tammy and John were meant to be and you know it.” Charlie caught herself, shaking her head. Eyebrows raised, she chewed her lip. “You know, we should just take the holiday. I could use a vacation to the islands, it’s been years since I got to actually relax and be a girl. We could just leave the hunting and the gym to my brothers. Those responsible heathens will be sure to take good care of it.”

“It has been pretty quiet,” she began in a sing song voice. As far as Ashley was concerned, especially on the hunting front, she’d hardly needed to take any action- and wasn’t that getting boring. “Maybe leave Nate out of it,” she grimaced, “I don’t want to come back to that.”

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Zac walked up behind the person in front of him needing to get around them but they were too invested in their phone. “Yeahhh, I have places to be so could you kindly move out of the way?” he asked, it wasn’t the most polite way of saying excuse me but he had had a bad day so manners had slipped away for the time being. 

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Ashley let out a chuckle as she read an incoming text, a chuckle that quickly vanished when she heard the voice behind her. If vampires were high on her shit list then so were rude, entitled men. She raised an eyebrow as she turned to the approaching stranger, one glance was all it took to confirm her thoughts. “There’s an entire sidewalk, shrink your ego and you might be able to squeeze past.”

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cunningcharlie

“You always did like trashy tv.” Charlie joked, grinning. Her taste wasn’t much better, if she were honest. Kicking up her feet on the counter, something she never would’ve tolerated from an employee, she leaned back in the office chair. “True, I don’t know if there’s a raise big enough to cover that many issues.” The teasing tone was still there, but the glint in her eyes cooled considerably. “And then, you’d probably develop a drinking problem, and then I’d have to pay for rehab too.”

“I see you watching when you’re ‘on the phone’, tell me you don’t love watching straight couples ruin each others lives on Don’t Tell the Bride.” Ash side eyed the guy about to approach the desk so that the pair wouldn’t be interrupted- whatever he needed could wait. “If you wanted to have a crack at crunching the numbers I wouldn’t complain,” she lifted her foot to nudge Charlie with the toe of her boot, noticing the shift in attitude. “You can come with, it’ll be the holiday we never get to take.”

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lostwclf

if you only knew – ‘ she - means a lot to me but there were – yes it’s all very complicated. ‘ la look of regret passed over her features, there were a few things that bree wish she could go back and change – but it was long ago and dealt with. not really. she wondered how ashley could voluntarily stay in this town until the other mentioned that her sister stayed here as well – a sister. bree winced a little - the talk of family is still a very –weird subject for her to deal with or talk about. considering the ‘adopted’ family she had - and the not knowing her real family were alive or if they were killed after she was taken. so if bree were to feel – any emotions because of this thought process -it’s her own fault for bringing it up in the first, bree started fidgeting with the edge of her t-shirt. ‘ she’d probably worry a lot if you left her is one thing. you have someone here for you when needed. and maybe i’ll look into living in town. probably. ‘

“Whatever way you’re dealing with things, there’s a solution in there somewhere.” Seeing the young woman’s reaction to the mention of Alexis, she felt a pang of guilt for ever probing into the topic of home, whether it be the actual physical thing or the comfort of loved ones and family. “I’d like to think so,” she added with a hesitant smile. While the two of them have been incredibly close as of late, there was always the fear Ashley might lose her. “That’s a start- and you know, if you ever need anything I’m always around if I can help. Not to intrude but just while you’re finding your feet as it were.” 

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cunningcharlie

Smiling at what she perceived as a compliment, she tilted her head. “To be fair, it’s possible he’s adopted. Or switched at the hospital, he’s just too nice.” Charlie laughed, it was true, Teddy was the good kid, and she loved him so much because of it. “I’m impressed, but I wouldn’t dive too far into my brain. You might find some weird shit.”

“Sure I saw a lifetime movie like that once. Pretty sure I’ve seen several lifetime movies like you guys,” Ash is joking of course- somewhat. She’s not privy to all of Charlie’s darkest secrets, mainly.. no, all, because her friend has a tendency to be closed off, but knows enough not to pry. She pulled a face in response, “you don’t pay me enough to cover all the counselling. 

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cunningcharlie

“And you know how much I like to motivate people through fear.” Charlie laughed, eyeing the food in Ash’s hands. “I’ve gotten better about letting Teddy run things, but he’s unloading stuff. I mean, he is the nicest Jamison sibling, who knows where he got those manners.” Leaning forward, opening the bag with curiosity, she tried not to be disappointed that they were out of her loaded burger and fries she usually had to eat in her office.  “You got me Pesto Linguine instead? Damn, Ash, how do you always know?”

Ashley hums a noise in agreement, fishing the tea bag out of her takeaway cup. “I wouldn’t be half as capable at fighting if I didn’t fully believe all the threats you throw my way.” She laughs gently, “you sure he’s your brother? He’s an absolute angel, bless him.” It was noticeable how much had been done in the 20 minutes she’d been gone. “Psychic,”she adds, tapping her temple for effect.