The way it works out, Nick finds himself established much faster than he probably would have been if he'd been able to do it with more...legality. (And less death.) This is why at 2:30PM he's giving his receptionist a friendly smile as he goes past and letting the first of his new clients here - Marik - into his office ( Read more... )

The flat in Carroll Gardens is quite nice - it'll probably be nicer when there's more furniture, and since he has to get an office before he can open it that rightly should be a higher priority in the immediate than it actually seems to be.

(The truth is he really enjoys the hell out of walls that stay exactly where he left them. A more reliable ( Read more... )

[01:34] * Maria is perched on the bar, as is her rightful place in life, debating toeing off her heels ( Read more... )

It's about 8:30AM or so local time when Nick expects Alya at the hotel; he doesn't exactly have a lot of things to tidy up, but making the effort is something to do in the intervening minutes, anyway. He's got clean clothes, anyway, and may have actually burned what he came to the nexus in ( Read more... )

( i know i'll never hear you like a sound that wafts inside from outside there )

[18:35] * NHardaway has acquired clean clothes in the nexus, marvel. (Though to be fair at the best of times his outfits: not that interesting.) He's coming into Stigmata again because it's the closest thing the nexus has to 'vaguely reassuring', and also because he can have a smoke and a drink and chill while he considers his next steps ( Read more... )

Alya shoved $150 in his pocket before she left Wyoming - don't worry, you can owe me - and he thinks vaguely that that should probably be worrisome in and of itself, but it's not, really. If he could read her at all, he'd know one way or the other (and why), but he can't and he's too tired to care about that.

He puts the pinpoint he did manage to ( Read more... )

[09:08] * Alya ...looks rather surprised to be here, but not as much as she might. She managed to get off work early, and for this she is proud; her hair is dark and loose, and she's dressed in the pencil skirt, boots, and white pressed blouse combo that indicates she's...probably got money ( Read more... )

[06:11] * NHardaway is not sure whether to go straight there or stay a while here, yet, while he orients himself. ...The need for nicotine makes the decision for him, though; broke as he presently is, the nexus is a better bet there ( Read more... )

[23:12] * Candice is, as per usual, thirtysomething in jeans, boots, and tank top, locs tied half-back. She is going to make herself coffee, kthx.
[23:14] * NHardaway enters the bar like he's punchdrunk tired, from the outer nexus. He's not quite ready to be surrounded by everything out there, although on second thought a bar named Stigmata may ( Read more... )