Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from the movie Ten Inch Hero.

000

It was around 3pm, the time of day where things at the Grill were slow, situated between the very busy lunch rush and the slightly less busy dinner rush.

The employees of the Grill were enjoying the break. Priestly and Jen had gotten into a debate about what the best era of Guns n Roses was, original line-up against any other line-up. Most of the debate was going on between Priestly and Jen. Priestly was arguing that it was no longer really Guns n Roses once Izzy had left, while Jen was arguing that the end of the real Guns n Roses was when Slash left. Trucker was throwing in the occasional comment but was mostly focussed on the books in front of him. Piper mostly stayed of it, not really knowing a lot about the band.

"Oh come on! I'll admit to the fact that Slash is a bloody awesome guitarist, but without Izzy GnR wouldn't even have existed!" Priestly exclaimed quite loudly, just as the door to the Grill opened and a new customer came in.

"Totally," the newcomer said, "Especially when you take into account that he helped write the lyrics to Sweet Child O' Mine and he wrote what is quite possibly the most beautiful unrequited love song of all time, being the song Patience."

All the employees and regular customers of the Grill were now staring at the girl. She looked down at her shoes shyly, "Um… sorry. I just couldn't resist jumping in ther-"

She was cut off by Priestly, "Izzy wrote Patience? No way! How could I have not known that!" He exclaimed excitedly, "See this just proves the dudes awesomeness!"

The girl smiled shyly, "Not many people do. It's really sad that Axl gets the credit for it."

"Come'on Jen! You so can't deny it now!" Priestly said even more excitedly ,"I know how much you love that song!"

Jen laughed at Priestly, "Alright, alright… I concede! You win; Izzy Stradlin is the heart and soul of Guns n Roses."

Priestly was now grinning wildly, "You all heard her, she declared me the winner!" He turned and smiled at the girl who had come in midway to the argument, "Thankyou Madame, without your help that could have gone on for several more hours!"

Trucker and Piper exchanged a small smile, they hadn't seen Priestly quite this excited and bubbly in a long time.

The regular customers were now paying attention to the girl as well, she was now blushing slightly.

Jen smiled at the girl, she could tell she was nervous with everyone paying attention to her. Jen threw a glance at Trucker, he always knew how to put people at ease.

Trucker cleared his throat, "so did you come in to order a sub or are you just in the habit of helping to end lengthy debates about 80's hard rock bands?" If someone else had said something like that it could have come across as snide, but with Truckers easy going personality it came out as being a joke and an opening to a friendly conversation.

"Uh… neither actually. Though I am always up for a good debate on classic rock, and come to think of it I did skip lunch and it does smell really good in here…" she trailed off, appearing completely zoned out for a moment. She shook her head and smiled shyly, "Actually, I'm here about the job displayed in the window." She looked down at her shoes.

Piper grinned, "Cool, does this mean I get to help interview someone?"

Trucker laughed, "Of course, that's if…" he looked at the girl waiting for her to say her name.

She smiled, "Oh… Amelia, but I go by Lia."

"Alright, if Lia here is up for an interview," Trucker smiled at her expectantly.

"Oh, yeah sure. No problem."

"Alright, who wants to go first," Trucker looked around at each of his employees, "Priestly?"

"Elvis dead or alive?"

"Tough one, I'd have to say both and neither. My theory he is either an un-dead super-solider experiment gone wrong. Or he returned to his home planet…" She said that last part with a shrug.

"Jerry Garcia?" Trucker asked.

"Grateful and Dead" she said with s small burst of laughter.

Jen smiled before asking, "why'd you move to Santa Cruz?"

Lia just stood there for a moment. Almost as though she was reluctant to answer. "School." She said quickly, "I came here for college, the whole beach thing appealed to me. Plus they had a good media course here…" She trailed off.

Priestly stared at her, "Motley Crue or Guns n Roses?"

"Gunners. Original line-up." Lia replied almost instantly.

"Are you a virgin?" Mr Julius asked loudly.

"Mr Julius!" Trucker exclaimed loudly. While Piper was just laughing, thinking about when she'd been asked that very question.

Lia just laughed, "No I'm not. But what happens on Warped Tour, stays on Warped Tour!" She was giggling as she spoke.

The staff and regulars of the Grill were grinning now. "Okay then, all those in favour of hiring Lia, raise your hands."

Each member of the staff raised their hands and the regulars followed suit.

"Well its settled then" Trucker smiled at Lia, "You're hired!"

Priestly turned and grinned at Lia, "Welcome to the Jungle."

000

A/N: This was more of a chapter to introduce my OC. Will get into a plot-line soon!