The docks- Saturday afternoon

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie finally had everything going for her. After spending a good deal of her teenage years working the pole in order to help her destitute mother pay the bills, she'd finally gotten out of the business and was on her way to becoming a successful doctor. Her mother would be so proud of her.

Except that her mother was still destitute and paying for medical school was expensive. The clinic where Annie was interning only paid so much, and so she'd once again had to find a way to make ends meet. She was really going to have to find herself a rich husband.

As soon as she'd finished the deal, Annie walked down the docks with her backpack full of alcohol, which would be sold under the table in order to make a few bucks. She also knew it was probably wrong to use the clinic as a front for her illicit dealings, but a girl had to do what a girl had to do.

And if she took a moment to stand on the docks and look forlornly out at the water with a single tear welling in her eye, well. Who could blame her?


[I'm getting the feeling I watched WAY too much GH as a kid. SO OPEN.]

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[dollpocalypse]

"You, too?" Sad Rent Boy Topher asked knowingly, drawing the wrong conclusion upon encountering a pretty girl out at the docks. "It's a tough beat."

[[will be SP, but I haaaad to.]]

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Annie's eyes went wide like someone who'd just been caught... doing something still bad but not what they thought she was doing. "I don't know what you're walking about."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke was walking down the docks like someone who may or may not have had a secret. And dressed like someone who may or may not have been poor, but had a monacle kept in his coat pocket in case something changed. Why he was down at the docks...he hadn't figured out yet but he made sure to switch between looking serious and innocent just to have all of his bases covered.

His character had suffered from a writer's strike and now none of the backup writers (which included the cleaning lady and Ryan Murphy's cousin Bryan) could agree on where they wanted his character to go. Still, he was a professional and the show must go on. He wasn't almost nominated for a Daytime Emmy twice for nothing.

When he spotted Annie he started walking towards her like he knew her but then randomly slowed and approached hesitantly just in case the writer's hadn't decided on that point. "You...you...are a person."

There. That worked whether he knew her or not. And his improv teacher said he couldn't make up a birthday card greeting without hiring a writer, pfft.

[stars_and_money]

Jeremy had woken up with a craving for sushi this morning. A pretty bad craving, actually. So, he'd called Sushi Station, and no one had answered, so he'd made his way down to the restaurant, only to find out there was no sushi, which had freaked him out a bit, especially since even offering his credit card hadn't helped.

So why was he at the docks? Because sushi was made of fish and fish lived in the ocean, so he'd kind of hoped someone at the docks could maybe help him out. And if it was someone he actually knew, all the better.

"Annie!" he called out once he spotted her, rushing to her. "Annie, Annie, Annie, do you, um, have a moment?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I am," said Annie, looking at him as if trying to remember whether or not he'd been one of the many men who'd stuffed dollar bills in her G-string during their lunch hours when she was supposed to be in school. "So are you."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Of course I do," she said with a smile, stopping and hoping the bottles in her bag didn't clink together, revealing her terrible secret. "What can I do for you?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

He very well might have been. Luke (if that was his real name) loved the ladies.

Or did he? Bryan Murphy seemed to be confused on the matter. The cleaning lady, however, was using Luke to live out her fanfiction. She might have been related to Sera Gamble.

"Yes, I am." Until he got written into some weird alien plot that involved a lot of probing at Bryan's insistence. "I should have known you'd be here."

The statement would have had a lot more power behind it if he didn't look so confused.

[stars_and_money]

Jeremy didn't give a rat's ass about her terrible secret, to be honest. "Do you know how to make sushi?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I was just taking a walk," Annie said with big, innocent eyes. "Just wanted to clear my head." Because there were just so many thoughts in it!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Why, what have you heard?" Annie asked immediately.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"I don't believe you." That he was sure of, but don't ask him how he knew he was sure because he didn't know. "I think you're...up to...something."

Oy with the dramatic pausing.

[stars_and_money]

That would've been so damn suspicious to someone who wasn't so damn oblivious and self-centered.

"What?" Jeremy asked, frowning, then waved a hand, like that was unimportant. "No. I need sushi. The restaurant in town was closed because they don't have any."

[dollpocalypse]

"Working the streets," Topher clarified. "Selling your junk. Turning tricks for cash."

A beat.

"You might have better luck without a bra assuming you're wearing one," he advised.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Well, the gasp Annie let out was definitely normalish.

"I am not a prostitute!" she cried. "...Except for that one time..." But he'd been offering so much money, and she'd been so, so poor.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I'm not up to anything. I'm a respected clinic intern!" She was so, so young for this sort of life!

She folded her arms, looking cornered neutral. "Are you a cop?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I might know someone who knows how to get it," Annie said in a low voice. "For the right price."

She was so ashamed of herself. So ashamed!

[dollpocalypse]

"But... but you're at the docks."

That was his spot!

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Other stuff happens at the docks, you know," she said, and then shut her mouth. She shouldn't say too much!

[stars_and_money]

"Really?" Jeremy looked very, very intrigued. Also hopeful. "'Cause I can totally pay."

[dollpocalypse]

Topher paused.

"Yeah?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"I was training to be one but dropped out of the academy." There had been a whole storyline revolving around Luke being a cop but that got trashed when an intern spilled coffee on Bryan Murphy's laptop. "The uniforms aren't flattering."

Yes, that was how they wrote him out of that.

"Why? Are you afraid of getting the law involved in your so-called clinic interning?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"You know, stuff."

The way she said that was not likely to convince anyone she wasn't a hooker.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"The law has no place in the clinic! Doctors have to do what we have to do!" she said emphatically. "It's life and death there, don't you understand!"

[dollpocalypse]

Topher squinted at her.

"Are you sure?" he asked skeptically. "I think I've seen you selling your junk before. Didn't you go home with the dean that one time?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Life and death? Don't give me your sob story with your blue eyes that I may or may not be attracted to!" Depended on who was writing that week. "I was a doctor for two weeks and a groundbreaking male nurse for another, don't think I don't know how clinics work! With all the lies and the backstabbing and the lies and the...backstabbing."

He really needed to go back to his improv classes.