#* laurent

Gio and Giordi, he'll never consider anyone else close while he has them to lean on. Special mention goes out to Laurent for reasons

"If there's a beheading this weekend, that's my bingo card full for this year."

"Should I even ask how you managed to swing a night off so early? Or are you really as incessantly annoying as I pinned you to be?" A rough hand clapped against Laurent’s shoulder as he moved to take a seat beside him. Beyond his own, there was nobody within the city that Vincenzo would put his faith in more than the one beside him now. The unfounded connection offered them out of sheer coincidence had bloomed in ways that he’d not expected. “It’s about time I bought you that drink I owe you,” - although, admittedly, he owed the man a lot more than that. A singular gesture to the bartender drew their attention, and moments later a tab drawn and drinks poured before them. When he’d found out the extent to which Laurent copped the brunt of the fallback of Vincenzo’s.. gift to the Russian’s some time back, he’d reached out and offered far more than his condolences for the trouble caused -- another added pair of blood stained hands,