Lunching in LA
Dec. 8th, 2006 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dead_hooker_2Sometimes a girl wants to see and be seen when she goes out in LA, and sometimes she really doesn't. If you're Trina Echolls, the former is usually the case and the latter is hard to pull off these days, after the thing with Nicole and Logan's . . . whatever that was on Larry King last night.
But she manages, at times like this, because Carl is the creme de la creme of maitre'ds. Which is why she's waiting for her little brother in a table tucked neatly in back of a restaurant (that can't be seen from the door or any of the windows), with iced tea, breaking a breadstick into pieces.
But she manages, at times like this, because Carl is the creme de la creme of maitre'ds. Which is why she's waiting for her little brother in a table tucked neatly in back of a restaurant (that can't be seen from the door or any of the windows), with iced tea, breaking a breadstick into pieces.
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Date: 2006-12-09 12:58 am (UTC)But she had, and he's thought it might be a good time to not be in Neptune for a day or so. Meeting Trina in LA seemed like a not so bad way to make that happen.
He follows the maitre'd to the back of the restaurant, smiles a little at Trina when he sees her. "Hey, you" he says. "What's up?"
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:09 am (UTC)"You want anything to drink?"
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:13 am (UTC)The waiter looks at him slightly askance, but apparently this restaurant is somewhat used to underage movie star progeny, because no ID is actually required.
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:21 am (UTC)"Sorry. You'll just have to talk to me sober today."
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:23 am (UTC)Oh, this is going to be a great conversation.
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:26 am (UTC)There's a little venom in the last part, and more than a little regret in the first.
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:31 am (UTC)"I was pissed," he says."I - I didn't think. I didn't call Charlie, or you, or even Veronica, just called Larry's guys and...yeah. Not too bright, huh?"
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:36 am (UTC)"Not really," she says. "But, hey, nothing new there."
It was an odd thing, learning that you have a sibling from CNN. But Trina long ago stopped expecting anything about her family to be anything other than odd.
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Date: 2006-12-09 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 01:48 am (UTC)"What happened with the reporter?"
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:05 am (UTC)It's a little more complicated than that, but not much.
"Also, I punched him. On general principles, mostly."
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:07 am (UTC)Because there's no way she's going to say any of the other things she's thinking right now.
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 02:09 am (UTC)"What had you told him?"
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 02:37 am (UTC)She'd been 17 that Christmas. And she hadn't gone home for Christmas morning again until she was 23.
"We've never talked about that," she says, as neutrally as she can manage.
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:40 am (UTC)His voice is flat, emotionless, and he might actually believe what he just said.
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:42 am (UTC)"The marinara sauce here is really good."
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:46 am (UTC)Pause.
"Did you ever...miss us after you left?"
He barely saw her, after that. And he missed her. For all sorts of reasons.
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:56 am (UTC)"I never missed Lynn. I still don't. I worried about you. And then I felt guilty, so I just thought about all of you as little as possible."
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Date: 2006-12-09 02:59 am (UTC)He stops, shakes his head. "God, it sounds stupid now. Now that they're both dead. But that maybe they'd die, on an airplane, coming back from a shoot or something, and that you'd -"
Logan just stops there. It's too much to finish that sentence, it's too hard and it's too stupid, because it's a stupid dream that never would have worked out.
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 03:15 am (UTC)"I know I'm not a good sister, Logan. You've made your point."
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:19 am (UTC)There aren't words for this, really. She was a pretty bad older sibling, yeah, but she did the best she could.
"I just was talking to this fake Charlie, and he didn't want to be us, our family, a part of that. But he didn't know about the other stuff, and so he didn't even know how much he didn't want to be a part of our family. And I told him, and he was fake, and the other Charlie, the real one...he'll never want anything to do with me. Us. Anyone named Echolls."
He's out of words, now, the rush dried up. He passes a hand across his face, resting his forefinger on the bridge of his nose.
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 03:31 am (UTC)"Not the parents, especially, not Lynn and Aaron. Not the Kanes, either. About the only person who I ever envied for her parents was Veronica. How fucked up is that?"
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 03:42 am (UTC)"I guess, when you get right down to it, it's kind of a miracle we're here talking to each other."
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:43 am (UTC)There's a very long pause, and he finally says, very quietly, "I'm glad it didn't."
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:45 am (UTC)"Well, you're the only relative I have at all that I've known for more than a year. But I'm glad you're the one I have left."
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:46 am (UTC)"Thanks," he says. "Technically, we've got one other relative left out there, but I'm not sure he's going to do us much good."
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:50 am (UTC)This more or less flatly contradicts some other things she's said. But flat contradictions have never really bothered Trina.
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Date: 2006-12-09 03:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-09 03:56 am (UTC)"Always," she says.