The Abandoned Whorehouse District, Saturday afternoon

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

A year ago, Zayne was on top of the world. An associate of the Skywalkers. Slowly buying up all of the independent land on the island for himself. But then he lost everything.

Everything... including his dignity.

The only things he managed to keep were his body and any clothes that were tight enough to let people know that yeah, he was willing to lease his body out for a reasonable price. He made his way over to the warehouse district, found a nice street corner, and tried to look classy, but not TOO classy and definitely for sale.

Business world, Zayne Carrick would be back inside of you just as soon as he had the money, just like... Actually, let's just leave it at that.

[OOC: Yes, I declare the warehouse district to be where SOW hookers go. TRY TO RESIST THE WHOREHOUSE DISTRICT PUN. YOU CANNOT.

Open to customers, fellow hookers, and maybe even police.]

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[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"This is my corner--Zayne!" Oh, how the mighty had fallen. Guy had never had the fancy Skywalker money. Or even the less fancy Wayne money.

Or the even less fancy Honey Boo Boo money.

So, there was that. As he hunted for his long lost identical twin brother, he needed to make some sort of money, okay?

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Guy! No!" Zayne cried, holding his hands up to cover his face and his shame. "Don't look! I don't want you to see me like this."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"But how?" You were so successful! A rising star in the business world!

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Things change, Guy. People... People change," Zayne said. "You make deals with the wrong people and everything can just disappear before you know it."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

A titan of industry!

Wait, no. That was pushing it.

"And here you are." In the gutter with the rest of them.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"And here I am," Zayne said. "But it won't be forever. Once I pay my way through business school, I'll own this town."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"You'll never beat the Skywalkers," Guy informed him with a bitter laugh. "You saw how they destroyed the Winchesters and then the Starks. They're ruthless."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Business school takes a while, you see," Zayne explained. "And by the time I'm done with it, they'll have destroyed themselves. Who else do they have to challenge them? I'll just bide my time and wait for them to pick each other off."

"I'll even let you watch me do it for twenty bucks."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

That was tempting. So tempting.

"No, Zayne. I don't care what happens to them. I just need to find my brother and leave this godforsaken place."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"But don't you care... what happens to me?" Zayne asked.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"What we had is in the past, Zayne. Before you left me for your business. And those Brazilian models."

Really, who could blame him for that one?

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Dammit, Guy, I offered you an internship! You could have accepted. And the models were willing to share!" Zayne said.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"You know how much I hate Brazil! Ever since that tragic boating accident!"

The one he lost his family in. Only to later find out his brother was alive somewhere... somewhere...

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

And there was Jake Doyle, private-detective-turned-Sheriff of this no-good town. Or, at least, this reasonably okay town with a disturbingly high number of comas and also a whorehouse district. Barrel-rolling out from behind a trashcan, he sprung up and pointed a finger accusingly at Zayne.

"You."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"I tried to tell you they were Chilean, but you couldn't let it rest. You just had to look them up on Facebook," Zayne said. "If you hadn't done that, we could have been so happy."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"I'm just standing here, Sheriff," Zayne said once he recovered from the surprise. "There's no law against standing. If there was, you'd be guilty, too."

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"We could never be happy, Zayne." Oh, the tinkly music was playing now. The kind from Lifetime originals. "I found out your little secret."

[shagthis.livejournal.com]

"I make the laws here," Jake told him darkly. "And I decide who's breaking them, too. Which you are in fact doing right now."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Nobody knows my secret!" Zayne shouted. "I mean, I have no secret!"

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"Did you think I wouldn't figure it out?" Guy demanded. "Did you think I was too stupid to know?"

Yes. Yes he did.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"What's the charge, Doyle?" Zayne asked. "I know my rights. I ask, you gotta tell me."

[newroutines]

Why was Mike here again? Wasn't he trying to leave this world behind him? Wasn't he working towards redemption?

But this was easy money, and he was weak, so here he found himself yet again. And sleeveless, because the costume department didn't care that it was cold out here.

[onepunchguy.livejournal.com]

"Doyle, what are you doing here?" Guy demanded. "You're blowing my cover!"

Yes. Somehow Guy was a cop despite all that lead in before about his male prostituting.

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"If there is a secret, and I'm not admitting there is, then it's hidden away so far that nobody could figure it out. Not you. Not my mom. Not Anakin Skywalker himself," Zayne said. "You're bluffing."

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Oh, great. It's you. Thanks for taking work away from the rest of us," Zayne sighed.