Disclaimer: I do not own the Ten Inch Hero storyline or cast. As much as I would love too…

Also sorry it took so long to update!

000

"Welcome to the Jungle" The words echoed around Lia's head as she lay in bed. "What did he mean?" she thought. She closed her eyes and all she could see was Priestly smiling, his beautiful straight teeth, the shape of his lips and the way his tongue kept playing with the piercing in the middle of his lip. "Dammit" she groaned quietly, "Why the hell did the one decent place for a job have to have a really attractive guy who would never look at me?" she mumbled the words into her pillow. She sighed, "Forget it." She berated herself quietly, "The job's the important thing. Get money, get out." She sighed again, Priestly's smile still on her mind.

000

It was midday when Priestly showed up for work. He smiled as he walked into the Grill. He hadn't enjoyed work for some time. But over the last few weeks he had slowly started to feel like himself again. Arguing with Jen and Piper, talking about music with Trucker, being playful and sarcastic with the customers. It was a slow process, but he had begun to feel better, he had missed that side of himself.

It was a long time ago that he had become Priestly, the person he was comfortable being, Tish had wanted Boaz, someone he had hated being.

Today he'd coloured his Mohawk so it was in a rainbow, seven points going from red to violet.

Piper smiled at him when he came through the door, today she couldn't work all day due to exams and assessments she had due so Priestly was covering for her on what was meant to be his day off, he wouldn't have had to work but Trucker had set aside today because he had heard through the surfer grapevine that there was a good swell coming in and all the employee's of the Grill agreed Trucker needed a day off. Working today was actually something Priestly was glad about, it meant a bit of extra cash for him, and as he'd been working at the Grill for a few years now he had always enjoyed being there for a new employee's first day, Trucker rarely hired someone who didn't fit in.

Piper was about to go out the back to grab her things when Priestly handed his bag to her grinning, "Come'on save me some time?" he joked. Piper just laughed and took his bag.

Priestly turned and looked at Jen and Lia. Jen was showing Lia how to work the computer and register. "How's it going girls?"

The girls turned and smiled at him, Jen's was wide and easy while Lia's was a little shy. "I'm good" Jen answered, "Think Jeff and I have almost found a decent compromise" she smiled widely.

"Well good, knew you and Fuzzy would work things out!" he hugged her from behind and she laughed at his use of Jeff's online name. "Lia, how bout you?"

Her expression switched to one of feigned seriousness, "I'm fine. But you're computer system is totally whackadoodle. Though that may be cause I'm a Mac person."

Both of the Grill's employee's stared at her; she looked down at her feet and started playing with the ends of her hair. Twirling the bright blue tips around her finger.

Priestly just kept staring, "Whackadoodle?"

Jen was staring too, "Mac?"

It was at that moment Piper came back from out the office, "Thanks so much Priestly!" She gave him a quick hug and poked his hair, "Love today's colours, proper rainbow! Awesome!" She grinned.

"Hells yeah!" He replied before she walked out the door. She waved as she headed off.

"Proper rainbow?" Lia questioned.

"Whackadoodle?" Priestly repeated.

Jen just laughed, "A proper rainbow is seven colours going in the order red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet."

Lia nodded, "So the song is wrong?"

"Song?" they both questioned.

"Yeah you know like in Darkwing Duck," She started to sing, "Red and yellow and pink and green, orange and purple and blue, I can sing a rainbow, sing a rain-" she stopped when she caught there gazes, "I'm not that bad a singer am I?" She joked awkwardly.

"First whackadoodle, then singing a song about rainbows and all while wearing a Muppets shirt?" Priestly looked at Jen, "Yeah she fits here."

He nudged her shoulder playfully before grabbing an apron and going to start cooking some meat in preparation for the lunch rush.

"We'll finish the computer stuff later, right now you can practice putting subs together." Jen said smiling, before turning back to the computer to see what orders had been sent in.

Lia nodded and moved to the sub station, quickly tying her long black hair with blue tips up into a messy ponytail.

000

It was around 3 o'clock when Trucker came back to the Grill, complaining that the swells had died out.

He sat at one of the booths and watched as Jen was once again trying to explain the computer system to Lia.

Lia sighed as she tried to concentrate, "Jeez, can I just serve people, make sandwiches and do the till and leave the crazy genius stuff to the rest of you?" She was half joking.

The three other staff members laughed.

"I take it you're not a computer person?" Jen asked.

Lia shook her head, "I use a Mac for video editing, and internet and stuff, but otherwise I just get frustrated with'em."

Trucker smiled, "Same, why you think I do all this by hand?" He gestured towards the books in front of him.

"So tell us a bit more about yourself Lia" Priestly smiled at her.

She smiled back, "Only if you guys tell me about yourselves too."

They each nodded, "So movies huh? That what you studying?"

"Yep, wanna go into something cool, like music vids or so the like" She smiled shyly, "But I doubt it, its tough."

"I'm sure if you work hard you'll make it angel," Trucker said with a smile.

She nodded, "Thanks Truck"

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A/N sorry it took so long to update, hopefully this is satisfactory, any notes or suggestions would be much appreciated!