Social hour. (for mattdevlin)

[stleonardsgirl]

Martina was not the kind to really go out and date. Tony went out, and hung out with his friends, and might have actually had a girlfriend. Not that Martina noticed or cared. Or that they talked much about such things. But when she told her young partner that she had dinner plans in London, he was all too happy to accomodate her. She couldn't help

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[mattdevlin]

Matt was maybe running just a little bit late. It served him right for asking Ronnie to drop him off. It probably would have been quicker taking a cab. It had been a hectic day; one of those sorts where they spent the entire time running around chasing dead ends and not really ending up in any better position than when they started the day. The whole current case seemed like that. It was looking less and less like they were going to find their answers, too.

He entered the restaurant and glanced around. It was nice. Not somewhere he had dined before, either, and the atmosphere was a distinct contrast to the chilled, damp weather London was offering outside. He was greeted by the maître d' and Matt shrugged off his coat and scarf, giving Martina's name in hopes that was what she booked the table under. When he was led over to where she was seated, Matt smiled apologetically. "Sorry I'm late," he told her. "Londond traffic is never on our side."

[stleonardsgirl]

"Don't worry about it. I deal with the same stuff in Wales, albeit not as badly," she said with a smile. Martina could actually be a pretty cheerful person if she was in the right company; it was just the work and the outdated attitudes of her colleagues that tended to grate on her nerves. "So how was your day?" she said. Seemed a good place to start the conversation.

[mattdevlin]

Matt draped his coat and scarf over the back of his chair and smiled in thanks up at the maître d' once he was seated and ordered a half pint of lager to drink. It was actually nice to get a seat that wasn't at his desk and he laughed. "Hectic and useless all at the same time. Running around in circles trying to do everything but really succeeding in nothing," he said wryly. "Probably a typical day in our unit. It's actually nice to get away from it for awhile."

[stleonardsgirl]

"I know that feeling." She nodded a little, her lips curling in a grim smile. She and Tony had been working for months trying to investigate the bombing in Cardiff Bay, and then with everything that had happened at Downing Street with the 456...it was all just a clusterfuck trying to pick up the pieces. "I don't think we'll ever know exactly what happened at Cardiff Bay. We've been working for months and we just keep hitting dead end after dead end. I'm not used to failure."