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She can see him struggling for that upper hand guys like him are so used to having and it makes her feel giddy with delight. Borderline dizzy with power – or perhaps that’s just the booze – Kaya takes a sip of her drink, finishing it off with a gurgling slurp as the last of the cocktail sputters up her straws and onto her greeting tongue. She abandons the glass on the small, round table a few centimetres away. The ice clinks against the rounded edge as she swivels back round to mirror Ashley’s appraising gaze.

“Depends,” Kaya shoots right back, “you like wearing collars?” 

She is thirsty, though, and it might be fun to see where this eventually leads them, particularly because, despite the jab at his pride, the dude seems game. 

“I could…” Kaya muses. She’s still leaning against the wall; her head tilts back until it’s resting against the surface, all exposed neck and sharp jawline in view. “I’ll buy you a shot. That’s as much as you’ve earned, don’tcha think? I mean, all you’ve really done is walk over, which… isn’t that impressive.”

“the only branding i’m a fan of is my sponsorships. you know - the ones that give me money.” ashley retorted, though his smile did falter just a little as a realization hit him. it probably wouldn’t be too much longer before those sponsors decided to drop him, seeing as the recovery for his leg injury wasn’t moving along quite as quickly as he’d hoped. but he wasn’t about to give up. ...not yet, at least. he’d worked way too damn hard to get this far. 

“hey, it’s more impressive than you’d think, considering the state this thing was in a couple months ago.” showing kaya what he was referring to, ashley nodded down towards his leg, before lifting the cane that had been resting under his elbow and gently tapping her leg with it. “but lucky for you, i’m always down for shots. get enough of 'em in me, and there’s a good chance i’ll even change my mind about the whole collar thing.” 

“Uhm, I need to confess something. I have never seen E.T. I know it’s a must but come on, there’s no chance aliens look like that. You can’t look like that with all that brilliant technology.” Her theories weren’t exactly based on any scientific knowledge but Edie has been obsessed with aliens since she was five years old. In her mind they looked cool. “I think they look like Anakin Skywalker o Han Solo. That’s how I see them.” Her brother told her she was nuts and they definitely don’t look like human actors but Edie preferred them like that. “If I’m the brains, you’re looks, and just for your information, I can do both, who’s the muscle and who’s the wild card? Because I ain’t carrying a dead alien cat if we find one.”

“you’re not missing much - the movie totally freaked me out when i was little.” ashley chuckled, pantomiming a shudder at the memory. he didn’t know too much - or really anything at all - about the sort of technology aliens had, but he hoped she was right. he was definitely rooting for hot aliens, over creepy looking ones. “the star wars dudes? do you mean when they’re old, or in their prime?” he could get behind that. the first option, anyway. he wasn’t really interested in becoming a sugar baby anytime soon. “i’m the looks, the muscle, and the wild card. i’m a man of many talents. do you want me to flex for you?” so maybe he wasn’t the most built dude in the world, but his years of being a professional athlete hadn’t amounted to nothing. “i’m willing to share the looks title, though. you’ve earned it.” 

           Edie looked at him as if he was crazy but he just might be right. “I have never thought about that really. If aliens love treats, what kind of treats they love? Reese’s pieces? Twizzlers? Do we buy all of them?” For a person who spent a lot of time thinking about aliens, it wasn’t really clear to her how she hadn’t thought about the sweets that aliens like. Especially since she loved sweets herself. “And then what kind of treats like alien cats? This is mental but I love it.” Edie was cheerful by nature, but as soon as aliens were mentioned, she would become even more cheerful. “But I’m allergic to cats so you have to be the leader, my Captain. I’m sorry but it’s a must in this case.”

“oh, uh... i was thinking more like... cat treats, but... maybe we should get both, just to be safe. et was into reese’s pieces, right?” they’d definitely have to make sure that the cat was actually an alien before offering the little guy some of those, though, because he was pretty sure regular cats weren’t supposed to chow down on candy. but who knows? maybe that was just another conspiracy. one thing he’d learned in the little time he’d spent in roswell thus far was that anything was possible. ...even alien cats, apparently. “how about co-captains? you’re the brains, i’m the looks. and the muscle. ...and the wild card.” 

         “If that’s a conspiracy, then it’s so connected to aliens. They could have this Matrix thing and instead of having hundreds of black cats in Roswell, we actually have one that gives us an illusion of having hundreds. Does that make sense? And that black cat is an alien spy.” Edie was always walking on a thin line of being serious and simply joking. Even now when Ashley and Edie were intently eying the lost pets, Edie herself wasn’t sure was she joking this time or maybe not. “You mean you like his alien style?” Winking at Ashley she was more than ready to go after that cat. “Where to Captain Suarez?”

ashley still wasn’t entirely sure just how much he believed in all that stuff, but he was certainly open to the idea that anything was possible. at any rate, spending his day wandering around town with a pretty girl was always something he was down for. “if that’s true, than it’s really only in our best interest to get on his good side, right? maybe we should pick up some treats, before we start searching.” did alien cats like the same treats as earth cats? there was really only one way to find out, he supposed, but it seemed better to be safe than sorry, on that front. “captain, huh? i like the sound of that. though... i think it might be better if you’re the leader here. you seem to know more about this kind of thing than i do.”