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Sometimes 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.

Date: 2006-12-09 12:58 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Small smile)
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Logan hadn't expected Trina to call him. Not after the very public, very messy airing of their family business on national television.

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?"

Date: 2006-12-09 01:04 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Fake a smile/chokeanddie)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"Yeah, I hear its best to shoot people on the weekends. The press picks up on it faster," he says. "Me? I just discussed a load of the Echolls family's dirty laundry on national TV. I'm turning into a Don Henley song. Isn't it great?"

Date: 2006-12-09 01:13 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Default)
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"Which, given the way my trust fund is emptying out, might be the best solution ever," Logan says. "Yeah, scotch on the rocks with a twist."

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.

Date: 2006-12-09 01:23 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Exasperated/eye rolling)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
Logan wrinkles his nose, but doesn't complain. "Anything new with you?" he asks.

Oh, this is going to be a great conversation.

Date: 2006-12-09 01:26 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Neutral/moody)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"I'm still reeling from that one," he says. "Especially because I found out today that he had nothing to do with that fucking reporter."

There's a little venom in the last part, and more than a little regret in the first.

Date: 2006-12-09 01:31 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Neutral/lookingdown/Xanis)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
Logan hangs his head.

"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?"

Date: 2006-12-09 01:44 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Pensive/looking left)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"No," he says, sighing. "Somehow, thinking about other people is not my strong point. I'm sorry.'

Date: 2006-12-09 02:05 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Neutral/looking left)
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"He pretended to be Charlie," he says. "He got me to trust him, to talk to him about..stuff...and...yeah. We went surfing, for god's sake."

It's a little more complicated than that, but not much.

"Also, I punched him. On general principles, mostly."

Date: 2006-12-09 02:08 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Neutral/pretty/nina_87)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"Yeah," he says. "And in order to not be the cover line on Vanity Fair next month, I went public and have pretty much screwed over the real Charlie Stone. Because I'm just a great guy like that."

Date: 2006-12-09 02:25 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Trina/pnimio)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"About the pears," Logan says, a little reluctantly. "The best Christmas ever!"

Date: 2006-12-09 02:40 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Neutral/lookingdown/Xanis)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"There's not - " Logan breaks off, fiddles with the straw in his coke glass, then continues. "There's not much to say."

His voice is flat, emotionless, and he might actually believe what he just said.

Date: 2006-12-09 02:46 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Pensive/looking left)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"Yeah?" Logan says, looking up. "I'm not sure I'm feeling pasta, though. Maybe the chicken marsala."

Pause.

"Did you ever...miss us after you left?"

He barely saw her, after that. And he missed her. For all sorts of reasons.

Date: 2006-12-09 02:59 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Trina and Logan)
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Logan nodded. "I used to think sometimes..."

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.

Date: 2006-12-09 03:06 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Pensive/looking left)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"That you'd come back," he says. "I mean, I know it's stupid. You were only my age, and there's no way I'd do that kind of shit, if I had a younger sibling."

Date: 2006-12-09 03:19 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Neutral/pretty/nina_87)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
Logan finally looks up from his straw. "That wasn't what I was saying," he says. "I mean, no, you weren't, but I just...fuck."

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.

Date: 2006-12-09 03:31 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Burn in hell/_cuethepulse)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"No," Logan says, and it's achingly hard thing to say that short, hard word.

"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?"

Date: 2006-12-09 03:39 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Smilling a little)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
Logan smiles a little, a small, knowing sort of smile that's amused but also a little rueful. "Yeah," he says. "That's a good point."

Date: 2006-12-09 03:43 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Brooding/orange)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
"Very true," Logan says. "This relationship should have self-destructed years ago."

There's a very long pause, and he finally says, very quietly, "I'm glad it didn't."

Date: 2006-12-09 03:46 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Happy/L/nina_87)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
LOgan's smile is now larger, growing slowly. It's also sincere and very, very sweet.

"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."

Date: 2006-12-09 03:53 am (UTC)
obligatoryass: (Happy/laughter/nina_87)
From: [personal profile] obligatoryass
Logan just laughs. She's wrong, he's pretty sure of it. He's pretty sure that last night he made Charlie Stone's nice, ordinary life into something like a living hell, but at this time and this place, it doesn't seem to matter. "Cheers to that," he says, raising his soda.

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