Jobs
(Crash, that night)
"That's fifty-dollars Sketchy," Alec said as he sank the eight ball, "So you ready to hand over you money?" he asked Krit who started setting up the balls while Sketchy gave his money to Alec. "You're going down man," he told him. "Sure you break." Alec replied. "Hottie, 12 o'clock." Sketchy broke in staring at the door. Alec looked over to see the girl from his run that day and smirked at the glare her boyfriend gave him. The girl leaned over whispering something in his ear and kissed him before heading over to the bar. "Hey I don't think that guy likes you Alec." Krit smirked. "Hey he doesn't even know me. Now let's play."
Liz rolled her eyes when she saw Richie glaring at the bike messenger from earlier. "Richie I'm with you so just relax, besides I seem to remember you doing the exact same thing he's doing to annoy Kyle who you didn't even know, when I was dating him and you came to check on me," she whispered to him before kissing him and heading to the bar.
"Hey this place is pretty cool." Lizzie commented as she and Kat walked into Crash. "Ya, let's go get a table." Kat replied. "Do you know that girl next to the red head, she keeps staring over here?" Kat asked as they sat at the table. "No, though she looks a lot like an old friend of my parents but she died when they were teenagers." "Oh well, I just found something better to look at, over at the left pool table." Kat nodded to a pool table where two guys were playing. Both were tall and nicely built, one had dark hair and the other dark blond. "Hmm, I think I like Tall, Dark, and Handsome. What about you?" Lizzie asked. "The blond." Kat replied, just as the blond sank the eight ball and held his hand out to his friend who handed over some money. "Who's next?" the blond challenged, " No one can defeat me!" Kat and Lizzie looked at each other and grinned. They started walking over, "I'll take that challenge." Kat proclaimed and found herself looking into the most gorgeous blue-green eyes she'd ever seen.
"Who's next?" Alec challenged, as he took Krit's money, "No one can defeat me!" "I'll take that challenge" a soft velvety voice said behind him. He turned around to find himself staring at the deepest dark brown eyes he'd ever seen, with gold flecks in them. Tearing his gaze away from her eyes he looked at their owner, she was medium height with shoulder length dark brown hair, and wearing a dark blue tank top with black leather pants. She was with a short blond with blue eyes in a red tank top and dark hip hugger jeans. "So may I ask what you lovely ladies names are?" he asked putting on a charming smile and noticing Krit staring at the blond, which was fine by him, he favored the brunette. "I'm Kat and my friend here is Lizzie," the dark haired one said smiling back at him. "I'm Alec and that's Krit," the dark blond introduced himself and his friend. [ This guy has player written all over him] Kat thought as she replied, "So how about that game?"
"Sure, you can break, I'll go easy on you" Alec said as Kat just smiled at him. All thoughts of going easy on her or purposely throwing the game vanished as Kat sank three balls with her break, "You better hope I'll go easy on you," she replied preparing for her next shot. Alec stood directly behind her, noticing the view as she prepared for the shot, Kat gave him a look as he stood behind her receiving a smirk in reply. She just smiled at him and jammed the end of the cue into his stomach as she sank her shot. "Oomph" "Thank you so much!" Krit laughed as Alec stepped aside. She missed her next shot so Alec took his turn sinking two shots very much aware of where Kat's gaze kept strolling to. Kat smirked, "Prepare to go down." Alec just raised an eyebrow. Kat managed to sink the rest of her balls and the eight ball. "Man, I owe you big time, I love this girl." Krit laughed along with Lizzie at Alec's astonished face as Kat held her hand out for her winnings. "Thanks," she said as Alec handed it over and then sauntered over to the bar with Lizzie.
They were laughing over the game when Kat felt some one come up behind her and take the stool next to her. "So I've never seen you ladies here before" Alec commented as he sat besides Kat and Krit took the stool next to Lizzie. "We've just moved here." Kat told them. "So where you from?" Krit asked, "Roswell, New Mexico." Lizzie replied. "The alien town, know any?" Alec joked, "Yep and nope." Kat replied with a straight face. "Well I'm sure you girls didn't come all this way just to rob me of my hard earn money and sit at the bar, so what you say we dance?" Alec asked holding out his hand for Kat's. "Sure thing." They moved out onto the dance floor and started swaying in time to the music. Alec pulled Kat closer to him, he wasn't sure why but she was different from all the other girls he'd been with. He actually found himself wanting to take the time to get to know her after only spending a couple of minutes in her company. Kat felt Alec pull her closer and didn't resist, as she normally would have done. She was dimly aware of Lizzie and Krit dancing extremely close together next to them. All she could think about was Alec and how she wanted to get to know him better but it was too dangerous because of her secret.
"What's wrong Liz?" Richie asked worriedly. "Nothing, the blond over there leaving the pool table reminded me of an old friend of mine from Roswell." Richie didn't say anything for a moment, he knew everything about the Liz's time in Roswell and that she hadn't gotten over it completely. Plus she didn't like to talk about it, the only reason she told him was one time during their work out she had let off a stream of green energy. After calming down she had told him and Mcleod about being healed by an alien the time she was shot at her parents restaraunt. It had taking a while but with some help from Cassandra, who had special ablities also,and Methos she had learned how to control her emotions so she could control the powers. "You wanna go some where else?" he asked. "No its ok," Liz turned and smiled at him, " I think they have the right idea," she nodded towards the group from the pool table as they walked out onto the dance floor, and dragged Richie out with her.
(Next Day)
"God this is so unfair," Lizzie, groaned coming into the kitchen area, where Kat sat drinking coffee and looking through the wanted ads. "What is?" she asked distractedly, she may have been looking at newspaper but her mind kept drifting back to the night before. Her first impression of Alec was of a player, but after talking to him she came to the conclusion the player image was a cover to keep people at arms distance, kinda like how she used her sarcastic attitude. "You, we stay out all night and I can barely drag myself out of bed in the morning but you just jump right up and go about you business like everything's fine," she grumbled as she poured herself some coffee, bring Kat out of her thoughts. "Must be the shark or cat DNA or something cuz I can tell you one thing for sure Angel and Buffy were not morning people, when I lived in L.A. Now come on we gotta get jobs if we want to continue having coffee in the morning and eating." "You find anything in the ads?" Lizzie asked as she grabbed herself a bagel. "Some stuff you might be able to get, but they all require too much background info for me. I think I'm just gonna have to drive around and look for something." Kat replied. "Let me get ready and then we'll get looking," Lizzie said walking back into her room.
(Later that morning)
Kat was walking down the street, Lizzie had found an open waitress position at a restaurant down the street and was currently having an interview with the owner. She was pretty much sure to get the job with her experience working at the Crash Down for her parents, who had inherited it from the previous owners. Kat however was still looking and was begining to become discouraged. She had seen a help wanted sign in the window of a dojo near the restaurant and knew she could easily get that job if she wanted too but didn't' want to express her martial arts knowledge and abilities. [Looks like I may have to go with that one] she thought as she came upon a messenger place, Jam Pony.
Kat walked up to the counter where a man wearing a headset stood giving out orders. "Excuse me, are you the boss?" she asked. "We're not responsible for any packages, we've got a signature for," he replied without looking up. "Actually I was looking for a job?" "Forget it, I've already have enough dead beat slugs working here." "I'll vouch for her, Normal," said a familiar masculine voice behind her, "she's an old friend."
Alec's mind kept drifting back to the night before as he stuffed his things into his locker. Kat was unlike anyone he'd ever known, even Rachel. She was smart, she instantly had a come back for whatever wise crack he made, she was funny, and down right beautiful. He got the feeling she liked to keep people at an arms distance thought; every time he asked a personal question about herself she'd change the subject, which just made him more intrigued. "What not bragging about some new conquest last night?" Max asked as she opened her locker. "Nope, he got his ass handed back to him playing pool by a girl," Krit told her and O.C., "wasn't even able to get her number." "If I remember right you didn't get her friend's number, who you were drooling over, either." Alec replied. "It's about time some boo taught you a lesson about being a playa playa." O.C. said. "I just wished we could have seen it." Max put in. Alec was about to reply when a voice at the counter stopped him, "Excuse me are you the boss?" He turned around to see Kat talking to Normal. "Excuse me," he told the others walking away and leaving them confused till they saw the young girl at the counter. "That boy gots a one track mind, though I can't argue with his taste. O.C. commented as they watched him walk up behind the dark haired girl. "Hey that's Kat from last night." Krit said "The girl that beat him at pool?" "Ya, I gotta run if Kat's here maybe Lizzie is around also. C-ya" he said taking off to the front of the building. Max and O.C. just looked at each other "Guys" they said rolling their eyes.
"Forget it, I've already have enough dead beat slugs working here." Alec walked up to catch the end of the conversation. "I'll vouch for her, Normal, she's an old friend." Kat turned around, he smiled and winked at her, "ALEC! Long time no see, How are you doing?" she asked playing along. "You're a friend of Golden Boy? Why didn't you say so? Welcome aboard." Normal's attitude towards her instantly changed, "Golden Boy?" she looked at Alec and raised an eyebrow. Alec just shrugged and rolled his eyes, "So you know where I can get a bike?" Kat asked. "Here you go you can have a company bike and just work off the price." Normal said wheeling a bike out from behind the counter. "Thanks," she told him as she filled out forms with her name and address. "Since you already know my Golden Boy here, he can show you the ropes," he said handing Alec and her some packages before turning around, "Hey I'm trying to run a business here people get back to work! Bip, Bip Bip!"
Alec led Kat back to the street, "Is he always like that?" she asked him. "That's Normal for you, so what made you chose this merry old hell hole to ask for a job?" "Needed to make money some way other then hustling guys like you out of their money," she replied innocently, "So where to now Golden Boi." "Better watch out, he might start calling you Golden Gal," he shot back. [It'd certainly fit with those eyes] he thought to himself as they came upon Krit who was talking to Lizzie. "I see Alec was able to convince Normal into giving you the job. Welcome to Hell," he remarked earning him a slap on the head from Lizzie, "Hey!" "Congratulations Kat," she said smiling innocently. "Thanks you two," Kat laughed, "So did you get the waitress gig?" she asked. "Yep" "Hey does this mean we can weasel free food from you when you're working?" Alec asked earning him a slap on the head from Kat, "Hey!" "We gotta go, Alec's supposed to be showing me around, I'll see you later." "Ok, maybe we could all meet up for lunch?" "Sure thing how about 12:30, meet outside here, ok with everyone?" "Ya" they all replied and went about their business.
(Later that day)
"So what was life like in Roswell?" Alec asked. He looked over at Kat as they made their way to the next delivery, he was so unsure about what to say to her, and it was a new feeling for him. "It was ok, all the alien stuff kinda threw me off at first," she answered. "At first? So you're not originally from there?" "No, I moved there in high school from California." [Shit! Why am I'm telling him all this. I just freakin meant him last night!] "That's gotta suck moving in the middle of high school and leaving your friends." Kat just shrugged, "It was ok, I meant Lizzie and we became best friends, I didn't really have many friends where I was originally from." "What about you parents?" "Never knew them, my mom died shortly after I was born and I don't know who my dad was." "Sorry, it was the same for me. So where were you originally from?" he asked. [What is she hiding?] "Just some small town in California," she replied, "So what made you decide to come to Seattle?" "Just looking for a change of scenery, I was getting kinda restless living in Now Whereville, New Mexico, and Lizzie wanted to get away from her parents. What about you?" Kat asked trying to steer the conversation away from her. " Here and there, I moved around a lot before settling here," he told her. [Hmm. He's hiding something, oh well it's not like I'm being exactly open here, and we're not together.]
"So you and Lizzie coming to Crash tonight?" Alec asked changing the subject. "I'm not sure." Kat answered, it was going to be a lot harder keeping her distance from Alec now that they were working together and hanging out after work may not be a good idea. "Come on, we gotta celebrated you two getting jobs, plus it'll give you a chance to meet the gang they'll all be there tonight, and for me to get some of my money from last night back." "You mean it'll give me a chance to meet the gang and take some more of your money," she smirked. "Is that a challenge?" "What do you think?" she said taking off on her bike. "You're going down O'Reily!" he called taking off after her.
(Crash, that night)
"That's fifty-dollars Sketchy," Alec said as he sank the eight ball, "So you ready to hand over you money?" he asked Krit who started setting up the balls while Sketchy gave his money to Alec. "You're going down man," he told him. "Sure you break." Alec replied. "Hottie, 12 o'clock." Sketchy broke in staring at the door. Alec looked over to see the girl from his run that day and smirked at the glare her boyfriend gave him. The girl leaned over whispering something in his ear and kissed him before heading over to the bar. "Hey I don't think that guy likes you Alec." Krit smirked. "Hey he doesn't even know me. Now let's play."
Liz rolled her eyes when she saw Richie glaring at the bike messenger from earlier. "Richie I'm with you so just relax, besides I seem to remember you doing the exact same thing he's doing to annoy Kyle who you didn't even know, when I was dating him and you came to check on me," she whispered to him before kissing him and heading to the bar.
"Hey this place is pretty cool." Lizzie commented as she and Kat walked into Crash. "Ya, let's go get a table." Kat replied. "Do you know that girl next to the red head, she keeps staring over here?" Kat asked as they sat at the table. "No, though she looks a lot like an old friend of my parents but she died when they were teenagers." "Oh well, I just found something better to look at, over at the left pool table." Kat nodded to a pool table where two guys were playing. Both were tall and nicely built, one had dark hair and the other dark blond. "Hmm, I think I like Tall, Dark, and Handsome. What about you?" Lizzie asked. "The blond." Kat replied, just as the blond sank the eight ball and held his hand out to his friend who handed over some money. "Who's next?" the blond challenged, " No one can defeat me!" Kat and Lizzie looked at each other and grinned. They started walking over, "I'll take that challenge." Kat proclaimed and found herself looking into the most gorgeous blue-green eyes she'd ever seen.
"Who's next?" Alec challenged, as he took Krit's money, "No one can defeat me!" "I'll take that challenge" a soft velvety voice said behind him. He turned around to find himself staring at the deepest dark brown eyes he'd ever seen, with gold flecks in them. Tearing his gaze away from her eyes he looked at their owner, she was medium height with shoulder length dark brown hair, and wearing a dark blue tank top with black leather pants. She was with a short blond with blue eyes in a red tank top and dark hip hugger jeans. "So may I ask what you lovely ladies names are?" he asked putting on a charming smile and noticing Krit staring at the blond, which was fine by him, he favored the brunette. "I'm Kat and my friend here is Lizzie," the dark haired one said smiling back at him. "I'm Alec and that's Krit," the dark blond introduced himself and his friend. [ This guy has player written all over him] Kat thought as she replied, "So how about that game?"
"Sure, you can break, I'll go easy on you" Alec said as Kat just smiled at him. All thoughts of going easy on her or purposely throwing the game vanished as Kat sank three balls with her break, "You better hope I'll go easy on you," she replied preparing for her next shot. Alec stood directly behind her, noticing the view as she prepared for the shot, Kat gave him a look as he stood behind her receiving a smirk in reply. She just smiled at him and jammed the end of the cue into his stomach as she sank her shot. "Oomph" "Thank you so much!" Krit laughed as Alec stepped aside. She missed her next shot so Alec took his turn sinking two shots very much aware of where Kat's gaze kept strolling to. Kat smirked, "Prepare to go down." Alec just raised an eyebrow. Kat managed to sink the rest of her balls and the eight ball. "Man, I owe you big time, I love this girl." Krit laughed along with Lizzie at Alec's astonished face as Kat held her hand out for her winnings. "Thanks," she said as Alec handed it over and then sauntered over to the bar with Lizzie.
They were laughing over the game when Kat felt some one come up behind her and take the stool next to her. "So I've never seen you ladies here before" Alec commented as he sat besides Kat and Krit took the stool next to Lizzie. "We've just moved here." Kat told them. "So where you from?" Krit asked, "Roswell, New Mexico." Lizzie replied. "The alien town, know any?" Alec joked, "Yep and nope." Kat replied with a straight face. "Well I'm sure you girls didn't come all this way just to rob me of my hard earn money and sit at the bar, so what you say we dance?" Alec asked holding out his hand for Kat's. "Sure thing." They moved out onto the dance floor and started swaying in time to the music. Alec pulled Kat closer to him, he wasn't sure why but she was different from all the other girls he'd been with. He actually found himself wanting to take the time to get to know her after only spending a couple of minutes in her company. Kat felt Alec pull her closer and didn't resist, as she normally would have done. She was dimly aware of Lizzie and Krit dancing extremely close together next to them. All she could think about was Alec and how she wanted to get to know him better but it was too dangerous because of her secret.
"What's wrong Liz?" Richie asked worriedly. "Nothing, the blond over there leaving the pool table reminded me of an old friend of mine from Roswell." Richie didn't say anything for a moment, he knew everything about the Liz's time in Roswell and that she hadn't gotten over it completely. Plus she didn't like to talk about it, the only reason she told him was one time during their work out she had let off a stream of green energy. After calming down she had told him and Mcleod about being healed by an alien the time she was shot at her parents restaraunt. It had taking a while but with some help from Cassandra, who had special ablities also,and Methos she had learned how to control her emotions so she could control the powers. "You wanna go some where else?" he asked. "No its ok," Liz turned and smiled at him, " I think they have the right idea," she nodded towards the group from the pool table as they walked out onto the dance floor, and dragged Richie out with her.
(Next Day)
"God this is so unfair," Lizzie, groaned coming into the kitchen area, where Kat sat drinking coffee and looking through the wanted ads. "What is?" she asked distractedly, she may have been looking at newspaper but her mind kept drifting back to the night before. Her first impression of Alec was of a player, but after talking to him she came to the conclusion the player image was a cover to keep people at arms distance, kinda like how she used her sarcastic attitude. "You, we stay out all night and I can barely drag myself out of bed in the morning but you just jump right up and go about you business like everything's fine," she grumbled as she poured herself some coffee, bring Kat out of her thoughts. "Must be the shark or cat DNA or something cuz I can tell you one thing for sure Angel and Buffy were not morning people, when I lived in L.A. Now come on we gotta get jobs if we want to continue having coffee in the morning and eating." "You find anything in the ads?" Lizzie asked as she grabbed herself a bagel. "Some stuff you might be able to get, but they all require too much background info for me. I think I'm just gonna have to drive around and look for something." Kat replied. "Let me get ready and then we'll get looking," Lizzie said walking back into her room.
(Later that morning)
Kat was walking down the street, Lizzie had found an open waitress position at a restaurant down the street and was currently having an interview with the owner. She was pretty much sure to get the job with her experience working at the Crash Down for her parents, who had inherited it from the previous owners. Kat however was still looking and was begining to become discouraged. She had seen a help wanted sign in the window of a dojo near the restaurant and knew she could easily get that job if she wanted too but didn't' want to express her martial arts knowledge and abilities. [Looks like I may have to go with that one] she thought as she came upon a messenger place, Jam Pony.
Kat walked up to the counter where a man wearing a headset stood giving out orders. "Excuse me, are you the boss?" she asked. "We're not responsible for any packages, we've got a signature for," he replied without looking up. "Actually I was looking for a job?" "Forget it, I've already have enough dead beat slugs working here." "I'll vouch for her, Normal," said a familiar masculine voice behind her, "she's an old friend."
Alec's mind kept drifting back to the night before as he stuffed his things into his locker. Kat was unlike anyone he'd ever known, even Rachel. She was smart, she instantly had a come back for whatever wise crack he made, she was funny, and down right beautiful. He got the feeling she liked to keep people at an arms distance thought; every time he asked a personal question about herself she'd change the subject, which just made him more intrigued. "What not bragging about some new conquest last night?" Max asked as she opened her locker. "Nope, he got his ass handed back to him playing pool by a girl," Krit told her and O.C., "wasn't even able to get her number." "If I remember right you didn't get her friend's number, who you were drooling over, either." Alec replied. "It's about time some boo taught you a lesson about being a playa playa." O.C. said. "I just wished we could have seen it." Max put in. Alec was about to reply when a voice at the counter stopped him, "Excuse me are you the boss?" He turned around to see Kat talking to Normal. "Excuse me," he told the others walking away and leaving them confused till they saw the young girl at the counter. "That boy gots a one track mind, though I can't argue with his taste. O.C. commented as they watched him walk up behind the dark haired girl. "Hey that's Kat from last night." Krit said "The girl that beat him at pool?" "Ya, I gotta run if Kat's here maybe Lizzie is around also. C-ya" he said taking off to the front of the building. Max and O.C. just looked at each other "Guys" they said rolling their eyes.
"Forget it, I've already have enough dead beat slugs working here." Alec walked up to catch the end of the conversation. "I'll vouch for her, Normal, she's an old friend." Kat turned around, he smiled and winked at her, "ALEC! Long time no see, How are you doing?" she asked playing along. "You're a friend of Golden Boy? Why didn't you say so? Welcome aboard." Normal's attitude towards her instantly changed, "Golden Boy?" she looked at Alec and raised an eyebrow. Alec just shrugged and rolled his eyes, "So you know where I can get a bike?" Kat asked. "Here you go you can have a company bike and just work off the price." Normal said wheeling a bike out from behind the counter. "Thanks," she told him as she filled out forms with her name and address. "Since you already know my Golden Boy here, he can show you the ropes," he said handing Alec and her some packages before turning around, "Hey I'm trying to run a business here people get back to work! Bip, Bip Bip!"
Alec led Kat back to the street, "Is he always like that?" she asked him. "That's Normal for you, so what made you chose this merry old hell hole to ask for a job?" "Needed to make money some way other then hustling guys like you out of their money," she replied innocently, "So where to now Golden Boi." "Better watch out, he might start calling you Golden Gal," he shot back. [It'd certainly fit with those eyes] he thought to himself as they came upon Krit who was talking to Lizzie. "I see Alec was able to convince Normal into giving you the job. Welcome to Hell," he remarked earning him a slap on the head from Lizzie, "Hey!" "Congratulations Kat," she said smiling innocently. "Thanks you two," Kat laughed, "So did you get the waitress gig?" she asked. "Yep" "Hey does this mean we can weasel free food from you when you're working?" Alec asked earning him a slap on the head from Kat, "Hey!" "We gotta go, Alec's supposed to be showing me around, I'll see you later." "Ok, maybe we could all meet up for lunch?" "Sure thing how about 12:30, meet outside here, ok with everyone?" "Ya" they all replied and went about their business.
(Later that day)
"So what was life like in Roswell?" Alec asked. He looked over at Kat as they made their way to the next delivery, he was so unsure about what to say to her, and it was a new feeling for him. "It was ok, all the alien stuff kinda threw me off at first," she answered. "At first? So you're not originally from there?" "No, I moved there in high school from California." [Shit! Why am I'm telling him all this. I just freakin meant him last night!] "That's gotta suck moving in the middle of high school and leaving your friends." Kat just shrugged, "It was ok, I meant Lizzie and we became best friends, I didn't really have many friends where I was originally from." "What about you parents?" "Never knew them, my mom died shortly after I was born and I don't know who my dad was." "Sorry, it was the same for me. So where were you originally from?" he asked. [What is she hiding?] "Just some small town in California," she replied, "So what made you decide to come to Seattle?" "Just looking for a change of scenery, I was getting kinda restless living in Now Whereville, New Mexico, and Lizzie wanted to get away from her parents. What about you?" Kat asked trying to steer the conversation away from her. " Here and there, I moved around a lot before settling here," he told her. [Hmm. He's hiding something, oh well it's not like I'm being exactly open here, and we're not together.]
"So you and Lizzie coming to Crash tonight?" Alec asked changing the subject. "I'm not sure." Kat answered, it was going to be a lot harder keeping her distance from Alec now that they were working together and hanging out after work may not be a good idea. "Come on, we gotta celebrated you two getting jobs, plus it'll give you a chance to meet the gang they'll all be there tonight, and for me to get some of my money from last night back." "You mean it'll give me a chance to meet the gang and take some more of your money," she smirked. "Is that a challenge?" "What do you think?" she said taking off on her bike. "You're going down O'Reily!" he called taking off after her.