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LEO H. PISCITELLI TWENTY - FIVE BANKER | WANNA BE CHEF BURNNED ALONG HIS JAW AND NECK DOWNTOWN : STACKHOUSE - 522A "AND I THOUGHT I SAW YOU OUT THERE CRYING AND I THOUGHT I HEARD YOU CALL OUT MY NAME"

[maisiejkeller-blog]

So apparently if you have a good sex partner and you go at it for a long time that is better than 3 hours of cardio. 

[maisiejkeller-blog]

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Have you tried using that as a pick up line yet?"

[ariamadaki-deactivated20150905]

"Oh yeah? Well, I can tell you your boss as another thing coming for him."

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Oh yeah? You gonna tell daddy off?" Leo laughed as if what he'd said was hilarious before he swirled his drink about in it's glass.

[dylanreynold]

Halley sighed leaning against the bar. “So just ask mom and dad for some money until you get a new job.” She wrinkled her nose looking over her brother who was probably the drunkest he had ever been around her. “You had a plan, you were going to be a chef remember? Or have the years of sitting at a desk completely trashed any dreams you had?” She raised her eyebrow taking a sip of her drink before waving him off. “It’s like barely even illegal, the bouncers and bartenders didn’t need too much convincing.”

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Ha!" He wanted to point and roll on the floor laughing or something but he had just enough energy to give her that one pointed laugh. "Ask Mom and Dad? When was the last thing you asked for anything from Mom and Dad?" He inquired before he ordered another drink; a beer this time. He didn't want to be a completely sloppy drunk in front of his kid sister. Leo's head hung over his drink, his hand buried in his hair on the back of his head. The idea that his sister was lecturing him right now felt wrong. It wasn't like that for them. He scolded her for her actions. "No one wants to freaking hire me. No one wants me." He mumbled folding his arms over the bar and resting his forehead on his arms. He groaned out loud in disgust. "Ugh! Don't sleep around for alcohol! I'll just buy you some!" Leo free spirited said with his loose lips. 

[graham--fox-deactivated20150221]

“Is that so?” Graham said, more to himself. “Well you know the situation so yeah fine, twist is it” companies closing was something he dealt with occasionally at work. He knew most people dealt with it by getting pissed. “Recovering alcoholic, I drink and it’ll probably kill me” he shrugged as he spoke, he was used to it by now. Well as used to it as he was ever going to be, which really wasn’t much when he thought about it.

[tellingpiscitelli]

Leo made a small huzzah before he finished his next drink. He wondered how many drinks he needed before he would be considered an alcoholic. "So why come to a bar if you're not going to drink?" He slurred, his eyes half open.

[hol--rose]

Hollie sighed as he spoke and, although she didn’t want to, she was pretty certain that it was the best option for him now. “Think about yourself, and Halley, just for a moment. You don’t need me bogging you two down..” She wished that she could find some sort of solution to make things better for him,but without being able to offer him a job, there wasn’t really much she could do. "Him? Who’s him?" She asked with a tilt of her head, "I can figure something out..It’s not like I’m totally useless…" Hollie said with a sigh, "Let me take you home Leo, you’re only going to regret all this drinking in the morning." She knew that he wanted to drink because he wanted to forget about his problems, but she also knew that it wasn’t going to help him and, despite her being there to get away from her problems too, she knew that her priorities needed to have him at the top of the list, at least for the night. 

[tellingpiscitelli]

A part of him couldn't believe what he was hearing and then again, a part of him could. It was Hollie after all. Hollie who would put everyone first before herself. He would have thought though, with everything that was happening she would want to stay somewhere that was stable. "I am thinking about it! I have money to keep us going just fine. I'm a freaking adult." He argued and moved his hand away from hers so he could bring the drink up to his mouth once more so he could finish the rest of it. "You're... you're not! You're not whatevering us down." He said setting the glass down and waving his hands around. When she tried to lead him out though, or at least attempt to get him to go in the direction of leaving he yanked his arm away. "No. I don't want to go. I want to stay here." He slurred, his eyes closing as he climbed back in his seat and sat down. "If you want to go then you can go. I'm staying." He ordered another drink and waited patiently before it was in front of him once more. He looked back to Hollie. "If you want to move out, — then fine. I won't make you stay, you can make that decision." Leo let his head slink forward as he nursed his drink between his hands. "You'd probably just remember him anyway." He mumbled into his drink before he finished it off.

[amrotharchive]

"You are a part of my family, Piscitelli. I am focusing." Adrian nudged the other man and gave him a crooked smirk. "Nina’s doing great, growing bigger everyday. I’ll tell Hallie you called her a little bundle of cuteness, I’m sure she’ll love that." He grinned again, laughing quietly. "We also may have eloped." He mumbled quietly in his glass, taking a long drink to finish it. His brows raised and he made over exaggerated motions for another round. "Cheers to you and your job prospects I suppose. And cheers to me for buying the booze." 

[tellingpiscitelli]

All Leo could do was laugh a very weak laugh. Like he believed Adrian but at the same time was too down in his own misery that he forgot how to laugh. "Beautiful, beautiful girl. You know you're going to go crazy when she hits her teens." Leo simply shrugged and started to drink slowly. "I hear it's good for post pregnancy to boost the mother's self esteem. Bam!" He slammed his hand on the counter, clearly drunk and not giving a fuck of his own actions. "Did ya a solid." At the news though, any other time he wouldn't know how to react but free to say whatever he felt like Leo had only one thing to say. "Con-gratu-fucking-lations man." The man slurred and clapped his shoulder before shaking him. "You're all tied up now. Remember when that was supposed to be me?" He laughed loudly. He was supposed to be married at that moment. "Sounds like you need a toast!" He stood up and tried to climb on the bar stool but though, 'Nah. I'm too drunk for that' and just faced the bar. "LADIES AND GENTLEMAN! HERE WE HAVE A NEWLY CHAINED MAN! HAPPY CONGRATS MARRIAGE!" he shouted, though he doubted many were paying attention to him before he guzzled down his seventh? eight drink. "Cheers!" Leo shouted again. This time actually getting a crowd to cheer for a moment.

[mrhankey]

[telefilmaddictedforever]

[hol--rose]

She dragged her chair closed to him, picking her words as carefully as she could, whilst still trying to get her point across.”Listen to me, okay? I can’t go back to school for a while. I don’t think I’m going to go back for the year in fact. So I’m going to take on a few extra shifts at - at work, okay? I’m not going to leave you to deal with this on your own.  I’ll try my hardest or-” She paused, “Or I’ll move out..I mean - You don’t need the dead weight..” She wasn’t going to let him have to worry about her, when she could probably, maybe, survive on her own. It was sweet of him to offer to look after her, but now he had to look after himself, he had to think of himself and what would be better for him and for Halley. That was the most important thing. 

[tellingpiscitelli]

When she called for his attention, very slowly, Leo looked over at her. His own head resting on his shoulder lazily. Only a few of her words were really registering in his head. A lot of it was either being drowned out by the rest of the bar, or his drunken mind couldn't process it all. What he did hear was that she was moving out and he furrowed his eyebrows shaking his head, though immediately regretting that. "You aren't moving out." He said as firmly as a drunk could slur. "You can't. If you move out... You won't remember anything and you'll only remember him and it'll be shitty. No. Nope. Nopey. Nope. I'll figure it out." He waved his hands out in a big gesture. "Figure it allll out." He said with a nod before grasping at his glass. "No moving out. You're noggin's still omlettes." He explained before finishing his drink and then tried to flag down his bartender for another.

[amrotharchive]

Adrian closed his eyes for a moment, feeling the familiar rage at his father and the family business. Opening them back up, he looked over at his friend. “I can help. Let me try and help?” He asked, his brow quirking up in the hopes that he would agree. He lifted his own glass and drained it. “Tonight we can just get shit faced. Forget about jobs and resumés and interviews for now. It’s on me tonight.”

[tellingpiscitelli]

At the moment, Leo didn't really have an answer for Adrian. He wasn't sure if he was sober if he'd have answer to Adrian's offer. He was so far deep in his glass that he didn't really want to think of the day's events. "You've got a family. Focus on them." He said slapping Adrian on the back. "How is that little bundle of cuteness doing anyway? And baby Cosmo of course." Leo drunkly joked with an over exaggerated wink. At Adrian's proposal though, Leo hollared cheerfully and raised his glass. "I'll drink to that!" He said finishing his drink. "Sacked. Just like that. I mean there was talk about it, but damn. Damn it. Damn it! Fuck!" He cursed trying not to worried about his future. About Halley and Hollie. About Echo and Cora.

[graham--fox-deactivated20150221]

"Well if that’s the word you’re going with then who am I to argue?" Graham shrugged at the comment before, in a rare act of charity, he passed te other man some notes, "well then have one on me".

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Normally... I'm a whiz with words. See what I did. Wiz. With. Word. Word Wizard." He rambled for a second before he laughed at nothing. "And twist, seems fine to me. Not fine. Sucky and stupid. But twist!" He continued to incoherently babble. Leo looked at the money and blinked before saluting the man beside him with his two fingers. "Aye aye, Captain. Captain Morgan." He dribbled on. "You want one. Lets take a shot to shitty shit." He said giving his new benefactor a thumbs up.

[hol--rose]

"There will be other places you can get a job, yeah?That’s not the only thing you can do.." She moved a little closer to him as he spoke, trying to figure out the right things to say to him, but it was difficult, especially when she was pretty certain he was already drunk enough. "Leo, stop. Okay." She place her hand around his, on his glass, "We’ll figure something out okay? Just - this isn’t how you ought to deal with it.." 

[tellingpiscitelli]

Leo lifted the collar of his shirt up, tucking the scarf as best as he could around the exposed marks. He didn't want to explain to her the fear that welled up in him about seeing a future employer and having to explain the scars along his jaw. He scoffed once more and continued to toss the glass back even when it was empty, his tongue feeding the ice cubes into his mouth. He looked at the hand on his before turning his gaze over to her. His attention turned from her hand to her gaze, to eyes that pretended to know him. He set the glass down and laced his fingers behind his neck, his head heavy trying to figure out what he needed to do. How long he could go without a job while still sustaining his life that he'd built. Six months? Seven months? Maybe if he was alone. But now he had his sister, Cora, Hollie, Echo. Bill after bill. He felt like the weight was just getting heavier and heavier.

[amrotharchive]

"My father’s closing the branch? What the hell is happening? That can’t be right." Adrian swallowed and looked at his friend. "I can get you another job Leo. It’s not going to be great, but I can do something. It is Roth Industries after all.” He let out a sigh and waved the bartender over for another pair of drinks. “Here.” He pushed the glass over to his best friend with a sigh. 

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Is he doing it? I dunno. Maybe. They said the higher ups were doing it. Damage to the building or to the business or to the clients. I don't know. They needed to close the branch. And kapoot." He said blowing a raspberry and shrugged. "I'm gonzo." Leo looked at Adrian and shrugged. He didn't want to admit that he wasn't looking forward to applying to a new job. Having to go through interviews. He rubbed the back of his neck while he waited for his drink. When the drink was suddenly by his hand he cheered. "Heyo..." He said lifting the glass. It shouldn't be that big of a deal, but the fact that he would be needing to interview for another job was stressing him out to getting drunk. A part of him wondered if he should actually go out for his career. The one he had a degree in but that path was starting to look like a dead end. 

[graham--fox-deactivated20150221]

"Not a great twist. Pretty sure you can sue them for that you know" as he spoke he shrugged.

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Ya got me there, not a great twist at all." He said pointing at him half listening to the stranger. "But a twist none the less." He shook his head and finished his drink. "Nope. I don't... I don't think I can. Because they're closing the branch. So... unless I'm suing them for closing the branch... I think I'd still lose."

[hol--rose]

 ”Isn’t there anything you can do? I mean - They can’t just do that to you, right? There must be something you can do about it?”

[tellingpiscitelli]

Leo snorted into his glass and shook his head. "Oh I tried. I sure tried. Tried reasoning. Nope. Nope. Too many employees. Had to let go some. Had to let me go." The drunk scoffed and tipped his drink back a little bit more and then looked up at Hollie with a laugh. "I am doing something." He shook the glass a little in front of her. "I'm getting shit faced drrrrrunnnkk" He sang out obnoxiously before he downed the glass and set it on the table.

[dylanreynold]

That’s great. Now you can go find a job that doesn’t suck.

[tellingpiscitelli]

"I don't know if you heard me Halley." He laughed bitterly and lifted his drink so it sloshed around in his glass. "I was laid off. Fired. You know who's been paying for everything right now? Me. Me and that sucky job. Now no job. Now I have to figured out a whole new plan." He said bringing the glass to his lips and drinking his fourth... fifth drink. He pointed at her confused though. "How'd you get in here? Stop... going into places illegally." He slurred not actually caring.

[amrotharchive]

"Wait what the hell? What happened? I can fix this Leo."

[tellingpiscitelli]

"The branch is closing. The damage couldn't sustain the number of employees, and the business wasn't going well. So I was laid off. Fired. After five years." Leo laughed almost bitterly and ran his hand over his hair. "There's nothing to fix. I was fired." He shook his head and tossed back his drink before holding it up for the bartender asking for another one. "No, hang on. I know what you can do." He slurred a little. "You can get me another one of these sine I don't have the funds to replinish it on my own."