OPEN | prompt ten | MONEYPENNY

[moneypenny]

prompt ten | M O N E Y P E N N Y

natalia ( pre )

moneypenny ( canon/au )

marling ( post )

natalia ( adventurers )

mvp ( EMBEDS )

mp ( rule!63 )

Comments

( MP )

[debts]

[bruv]

[ He isn't the smartest boy there is, but MP hasn't gotten as far as he has without a few rules here and there. (Don't shit where you eat. Don't double-cross women. Reward success, punish failure. Say sorry if you lose your temper.) They're nothing elaborate, mostly common sense, but they're the sort of thing he has to remind himself of daily, otherwise get buried in an avalanche of his own shit. Another rule: know every face at your gigs and this girl — short, sharp, bright red hair — she's new and that sets his lizard brain to stalking.

His smile's easy enough when he makes it way over, past a bank of hardcore dreamers, going the distance in a week-long spar of the Most Dangerous Game. One of the opponents is the French ambassador to Egypt, who is responsible for the current digs overlooking most of Paris and the Eiffel Tower. ]

Fancy a go? [ Not a come-on, but a pretty standard hello for this kind of a set-up. MP assumes she must be somebody's +1, but nobody in the general vicinity seems to have dibs. ]

[debts]

[ The air smells like copper and something sharp, like anesthetic, but you only have to look to see hunger here. (For better, for brighter, for blood; they amount to the same thing for enough people.) There's a roll of cash stuck in the pocket of her jacket but Natasha smiles anyway, the curl to her smile slippery, as if on purpose. Look long and hard enough and you'll find where your mark went; dreamcades are new enough on her radar that they make something in the set of her shoulders itch.

She tips her chin to look him in the eye, the heel to her stiletto skittering as she shifts her weight. ]

Is that a request or an offer?