Little Unsteady

She laughed at his eye roll. “My hot little house wife.” Victoria did appreciate everything he did. Back in New York she just hired a maid. She was too busy to clean everything herself. “Oh come on. Why don’t you come with me to Richmond next time?” 

“oh i don’t know, i’ve been known to see it spread pretty quickly when it needs to.” she’d been on the bad side off that a number of times growing up, and even on the odd occasion after. it was part of the town charm, she supposed some would call it. “if not, i suppose just this once i could offer one of my bottles. a good deed of the day.”

“Thank you, seriously.” She smiled. Scarlett liked to do it on her own but at times there were things that went above her. If someone was offering to see if there was a legal way around this she was going to definitely take that. Grabbing the papers that fell on the table from her bag and putting them together. She put them back into her bag and closed it.

“that would be a miracle, wouldn’t it?” she asked with a laugh - pine river getting any sort of press, becoming some sort of tourist hot spot, was about as unlikely as anything else. michaela doubted that there was ever going to be a time where it might become the place to be. “maybe we’ve missed something. some star is coming to visit so everyone’s flocked here. if that’s the case, it might be my cue to hide.” getting away from the sort of life she’d had before was part of the reason she was back, and any whiff of celebrities coming to town would have her heading for hibernation. “i think you should. you can’t go wrong with a glass of something alcoholic.”

He was thankful to know most of the owners of the small businesses in town. He was a loyal person Cooper, and when the man said he’d come back and pay for his tab, he meant it. However this time Christian got it, and the Detective made a mental not to pay Christian back as soon as he got home and was able to function. He was exhausted, Cooper was exhausted and he was kind of glad that Christian picked up on that. “I’m fine. I’m just exhausted. I need to sleep but I can’t because it just wont stop.” His words were slurring still and Cooper took a deep breath. He folded his arms across his chest and walked out of the bar with Christian “Talk to me about Victoria. I can’t talk about this right now. It hurts too much.”

Victoria nodded watching him. “You never know what might happen. When you need one you just let me know.” She was being cocky as usual. Victoria knew she was good at her job and she knew everyone eventually needed a lawyer.

“Yeah, you’re not wrong.” He smiled. “What else have you been doing lately?” James looked at Darius. Shifting in his seat a little bit. Feeling his phone vibrate James looked down at it briefly to see a text from Gage. Setting his phone down he would text her in a moment.

“It’s…going.” She said laughing a bit. “How are you doing Darius?” The town was small enough that Rylan knew almost all of her regulars. Well at least the ones that were willing to let her get to know them. “Do you want a beer or something stronger than that tonight?” 

Meg was coming off from what seemed like a very long shift and needed some energy in the form of caffeine. Except there was one problem. She didn’t seem to know the way to the coffee shop. She had only been here for about six months and had a horrible sense of direction. The young woman would’ve able to get lost in a paper bag if she was being honest with herself. “Hey.” she spoke stopping the person on the street. “Can you tell me how to get to the coffee shop?” She asked a little embarrassed that she wasn’t more sure of the way.

Taking the napkin from him she wiped off her face and set it on her lap. Smirking at his response. “We all know why.” She leaned back into the chair more. “Awe, my little housewife.” She grinned. “Gotta get out some more.”

“Uh, yeah actually.” Scarlett grabbed her bag. It was a complete mess right now cause she had been digging through it earlier. Searching for the vendor contracts she grabbed the one and handed it over to him. “Thank you. I really appreciate that. I’m just not sure what i’ll do if I can’t get these.”

michaela supposed he was right. you didn’t get everything the second you knew you needed it - these things took time, no matter what it was in life you were looking for, looking to achieve. “sounds more fancy than mine.” she gave a small laugh. “your fancy dinner might have to wait though if this place is still as swarmed as this. could be an hour before we even get out of here. did you even know there were this many people in town? what, did they all come here all at once?”

Cases that involved children always took a toll on Cooper. Especially the ones he couldn’t save. It was because him and his sister were children when she passed and he couldn’t save her. Cases with children who he couldn’t save always bothered him and for that reason. He tried not to think about it, tried not to get to attached but Cooper couldn’t help it. It was something he was working on. That’s how he found himself here at the Winery. That’s how he found himself calling Christian for help. When Christian grabbed Cooper’s shoulder for a moment, the Detective sighed and looked down “I had her. I had her but I couldn’t save her.” At this point, Cooper wasn’t sure if he was talking about the victim he lost or his sister. Taking a deep breath, Cooper swallowed hard. “We caught the son of a bitch but it just still doesn’t seem right. It’s’s not fair. She was too young.” The younger they are, the harder it is. “Well if you say so.” Cooper said to Christian, smirking a bit. He took a sip of his water that the waiter brought him and Cooper swallowed hard again. Cooper didn’t want to push Christian into talking about Victoria, but he knew his friend and he knew that there was something he wasn’t telling him. Choosing to ignore it however, Cooper’s face fell when Christian brought up his ex again. Shrugging his shoulders, Cooper took another sip of his water “Not good. I don’t know. There’s a lot going on right now. I don’t really know how to deal with it.” He looked at Christian and sighed “I fucked things up badly with her. I’m so in love with her still but I need her to stay away from me.” 

She grinned at him. “Wonder why else you keep me around.” Taking another bite of her sandwich she set it down and looked back up at Christian. “Ah what you do best.” She smirked. “You’re a great listener.” There had been many times in the past where she yelled and he just sat there. “Did you do anything else fun while I was gone?”