[hr][CENTER][color=silver][h1][b]Natalie Ellis[/b][/h1][/color][/CENTER][hr]

[color=silver][i]Location:[/i][/color] Freckles', Argyle Boulevard
[color=silver][i]Time of Day:[/i][/color] Late Afternoon


Natalie got a bad feeling when she saw the man she's tried to kill, and the man whose life she saved by stopping Archie, huddle with several other large men, and whisper something. Natalie used to be in an amateur gang. She knew what this was. They couldn't cause a scene by dragging her out by her hair. One of them was now going to approach her alone and spin some bullshit. Natalie knew this because that job usually went to her, as the prettiest and least imposing, if possibly the worst actor at the time.

When one did approach her, and it was him of all people, she contemplated raising some kind of alarm, but decided not to. Why didn't she? It was either professional courtesy as a former gang member herself, or a strong desire not to get involved with the police lest she get found out. Instead, she decided to play along. When this man went down the 'hitting on her' route (of all the angles to play!) she resisted the strong urge to look disgusted, and made herself flush bashfully a little by thinking of Archie.

[color=silver][b]"Welcome to Freckles'. Can I take your order, please?"[/b][/color] she replied, not exactly shooting him down, but changing the subject. If last night hadn't happened, this is what she would have done anyway, even if she was interested. Now he was actually placing an order, with a twenty frickles coupon, and two originals. Natalie processed the order, and printed off the receipt.

[color=silver][b]"Your order is number 406. And, uh, I finish in twenty minutes. Why do you ask?"[/b][/color] she responded, with just the right amount of wide-eyed naivety that for a second he could believe that she was legitimately interested. But there was something in the way that she looked at him that suggested she knew as well as he did that this was a farce, and that she remembered the last time they met. She just didn't want to cause a ruckus.


[@Lord Wraith]