The reader and the talker.

Disclaimers: I do not own any of the rights to the characters from Carmilla.

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Chapter 2:

"And then I told her it wasn't a library and she was like whatever and left, the nerve!" Laura exclaimed to LaFontaine and Perry. It had been two days since the encounter with the woman from the store and Laura was still fuming over how someone could be so rude, especially when she tried to be polite about the whole situation.

"Well, at least she's out of your hair now and the shop is back to normal" Perry stated with a satisfied smile on her face. Laura had to chuckle, Perry was really something else, with the intense cleaning and the "normalness". She never really understood how LaFontaine and her got on so well together, but seeing that they had been friends since they were five Laura guessed they had been through a lot together.

They were sitting at their downtown local pub, Oscars, enjoying their Friday evening together. The lights were dimmed, music played in the background and the bar was full of people ordering drink after drink. A typical friday night.

The sound of shattered glass echoed through the bar and the group quickly turned around towards the bar, only to see that the bartender Kirsch had tried one of his new bartricks infront of a group of girls, only to drop the tequila bottle which caused the girls to laugh like it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. Kirsch quickly started cleaning up and Laura could see that he had a awkward grin on his face as he tried to save te situation. But the girls had already gone back to their table.

"Is he ever gonna learn that luring girls in by making bartricks and constantly failing wont get him anywhere?" Perry said slightly annoyed.

"Well, he is trying his best at least. I mean I saw him succeed once… I think" LaFontaine stated before squinting her eyes in uncertainty.

On the other side of the bar, Carmilla and Will were sitting enjoying their drinks before the sound of crashing bottles were heard.

"God that imbecile, I don't even have to turn around to know that this was caused by one of Krisch "bartender tricks"" Camilla said annoyingly as she finger quoted the last two words.

"Well, you have to give it to him sis, at least he's trying. I think he has gotten better." They both turned around to see the girls leaving the bar laughing at the poor, slightly confused bartender.

"Doesn't seem like it." Carmilla said with a sigh. "So, did I tell you about that uptight book girl I met the other day?"

"No, who's this? One of your groupies gone mental again after you didn't call them?" Will said with a smirk on his face.

"God no, I'd never lay a finger on that girl. I mean sure, I like the innocent from time to time. But innocent, uptight and proper? Shoot me if that ever happens." Carmilla said with an eye roll.

"Well, who's this then?" Will said as he took a gulp of his beer.

"Just some girl who works in the book store, The Living, I think it's called. Anyway, so there I'm standing reading and she comes up and almost forces me to buy the books I'm reading and if I don't I have to leave the store."

"Well… I mean she's got a point. It isn't a library and if I know you correctly, you probably already devoured half the book store by then" Will chuckled.

"Well, you know I don't roll that way." She said as she smirked at her brother and took a sip of her red wine.

"True, I'm telling you though, you'll get in trouble one day and if that happens you know who's gonna come knocking on our door right?"

"Yes, Mother will come and probably break down the door and have a one and a half hour long lecture about my life and then I will be grounded, which technically she can't do anymore seeing that I'm 26, but hey what Mother says goes right?"

"Exactly and you guys don't go along so maybe you should think about being more, jeez I don't know sis, careful? You've already been arrested once an-"

"Ok, I'm going to stop you right there. That was a huge mistake, we've been through this several times. I didn't go to prison, I'm fine and I have everything under control. I was reading a book in a book store, it wasn't like I was robbing a bank!" She exclaimed as she put down her wine with force.

"Yea, but if Mother didn't come to your rescue-"

"God can you stop being such a mommas boy? Just for one second?!"

"I'm just saying I care for you and I don't want anything bad happen to you… again."

Carmilla sighed "I know and I swear nothing is going to happen. We both have jobs we love and we're happy now. Life turned out for the better for both of us. Who could have thought that right?" Carmilla said with a genuine smile as she looked at her younger brother.

He looked up at her and smiled a sad smile at her. "Yea, you're right."

"There we go, now stop being a sentimental little wimp and I'll go get us two more drinks." Before Will could say anything Carmilla was already off towards the bar. Will chuckled as he shook his head at his older sister.

Carmilla finally made it through the crowd of people by the bar, she might have elbowed some annoying girl in the face, but she needed those drinks. Krisch finally got eye contact with her and immediately went over to her instead of taking care of the customers who had probably been standing there longer than her. It was nice that Will and Krisch were best buds, not that she ever would understand what he saw in this idiot but a happy Will is a happy Carmilla and plus she got head starts in the bar. Win win.

"Hey sexy lady, what can I offer you tonight?" He said with a wink.

"If looks could kill Krisch… if looks could kill." She said as she gave him a death glare.

"Yea relax Carmilla, but you know I have an appreciation for the ladies." He said with a shrugged.

"Don't we all" She said as she looked around the bar, hoping to spot a glimpse of a potential girl for the evening.

"So, one beer and a glas of red wine?"

"You got it."

"Be right back!"

Carmilla looked around once more by the bar and she couldn't spot one interesting girl. Well, maybe tonight she could just enjoy her brothers company like a normal person.

"Here you go! One beer and one wine for my two favourites!" Kirsch said as he handed Carmilla the drinks.

"Thanks" She turned around only to walk right into a short girl who's strawberry daiquiri came falling out of her hand, right onto Carmilla's shirt and leather pants. Which she had just washed. Saying that she was pissed was an understatement.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry! I didn't see you and it's so crowded and I didn't-" The short girl stopped mid sentence when she saw who she had just run into.