plotted starter | @fullofdisgrace
cricket hadn't expected to get so comfortable around mary (or her son, michael, for that matter), she never lets her guard down. not now, while she's wearing calista's skin, assuming her rich, spoiled, and connected identity. and not before, when she was poor little cricket with her sad little life. but here she is, back for drinks at her place after dinner. she'd already had a good selection of wine, but cricket's new man, her husband, brought along a nice collection of his own when he moved into her penthouse apartment. perks of marrying an italian, she supposes. cricket grabs a bottle of red and joins mary in the living room.
she can't help but feel so trusting, there's something about mary, almost like she can see through cricket's disguise, see the evil underneath her mask. but mary doesn't shy away from that evil. no, she encourages it, almost. it's in the way mary looks at her, in the tiffany blue of her eyes. that's how cricket knew mary's was the firm to take her case. because, fuck, is she in trouble. caught red handed, so to speak. her and her husband both. the real reason for their quick wedding. he, a highly connected figure in the crime world, and she, just a girlfriend, and later, a hired gun.
cricket pours them each a glass, and leans back to sip hers. "so what's on the agenda for tomorrow?" she asks. "another grueling day that i'll have to end with an entire bottle of wine? or is it gonna be bad enough that i'll need to end the night with several lines of coke?"











