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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-10-31 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)

"You're not wrong," Harry says, but he's halfway through his life and the idea of rebuilding from scratch feels...

Daunting. But, he realises with a jolt, not unattractive. He gulps another mouthful of Tiffany's liquid horror.

"You know what the only thing I ever wanted was? I wanted to be the guv'nor. I wanted people to look at me and know I could give 'em what they wanted. I wanted some respect for that. Not to be some fucking - bottom feeder, scraping up what the Twins and their ilk didn't have the time for."

He shuts his eyes.

"I ever tell you about Bernie?"

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 08:06 am (UTC)(link)

"Never did. Not really," Harry sighs. "I know where, don't know who. But it was - might as well have done it myself. I sent him there, like he was fucking - "

He sighs heavily.

"Disposable."

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)

"Yeah, means I got some poor lad sent into that viper's nest and didn't give a fuck about him until I got told he'd..."

He drags a hand over his face.

"I look after my girls, at the Stardust," he says, quietly. "National Insurance, Equity cards, all that. No funny business. Bernie and the likes of him...I should've looked after him too."

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)

"I don't know why I hurt them. My boys. Pietro. Never helped anything. None of it ever helped."

Harry stares at the ceiling through a haze of cigarette smoke, eyes melancholy and glassy. He doesn't answer the question.

"I want to go home, warder. Some other London I ain't ruined yet. I want to start again."

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)

"I would," he says solemnly, and with another shot of liquor. "I'm not starting over in any bugger's debt."

Tiffany's deal doesn't count.

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)

"I bet."

He sets the glass down heavily.

"Christ, I feel like I've been hit by a train."

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)

"Love, right now, I'll be lucky if I don't have an aneurysm. You mind if I shut my eyes for five minutes?"

It's going to happen anyway.

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)

"You're a gem. Putting up with the useless likes of me."

He falls off her Item some time between closing his eyes and falling asleep. She should probably put out his cigarette, too.

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It's only because the sofa is intensely uncomfortable that he ends up dozing for half an hour and not out cold for the whole night. When he blinks, his eyelids feel heavy and his mouth is dry.

"Jesus," he croaks. Either this is the fastest-onset hangover he's ever experienced, or this is just how Tiffany's moonshine makes people feel before they sober up.

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)

Sorry, Tiffany, his brain is still half-pickled.

"You what?"

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)

"Fuck me."

He blinks, heavily, and runs his hands over his face.

"You're serious?"

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[personal profile] likeshowbusiness 2017-11-01 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)

He's never actually seen his impression on her Item, but when he looks at it he can understand what she's getting at. He slumps back into his dent in the sofa.

"Should've tried your moonshine a long time ago."

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