Where Loyalties Lie [Archeron]

[Andy Warrington]

Andy was minding the bar as per usual, and pleasantlyrelieved to find that her crew tonight included three competant bartenders and a waitress too ugly to be groped much by the patrons. The band playing was tolerable, though their drummer could use a few lessons, and she was actually becoming a bit... bored. What was the point of working in a rough and tumble bar if no one made a scene or caused a riot? The whole idea was that it was suppposed to be exciting. Andy sighed and sent two drinks to their orderers down the exanse of sticky resin-coated wood. "Heads up!" she called, and the men lifted their heads in time to spot the drinks and grab them before they slid past.

She leaned back and waited for someone to flag her down for another drink, but everyone seemed to be content, despite the fullness of the bar. Damned useful employees, if they didn't do something to get fired, she might actually have to find a new way to take out her pent up agressions, something other than breaking up bar fights. Her head turned at the motion by the door. a Blonde man walked through, someone she could swear she'd seen before, and it took her a moment to recognise Asher in one of his dusguises. What was he doing here? Her thoughts were interrupted, though, when Archeron walked in a couple minutes behind him. She smiled and waved him over, fixing his usual firewhiskey as he approached. "How's it goin' Love?" she asked, sliding Arch the glass.

[Archeron Hades]

Archeron strolled into the Dragons Lair like he owned the place. He enjoyed the ease they had, now that he and Andy were living together. He smiled as Andy gave him his drink and leaned over the counter to kiss her. He could tell in a glance that the place was slow tonight, mostly calm folk, kids just of age, older guys, not the rough and tumble sort that usually graced the Dragon's Lair.

"Just fine. Slow night?"

Arch knew that slow nights irked Andy, and becuase he was such a fantastic boyfriend, he would love to start something, even if only for Andy to break up a fight.

[Andy Warrington]

Andy smirked at the mischeif in Arch's eye. "Slow enough to make me bored out of my mind." She whipped off the apron she'd been wearing and tuced it away. "Oy! Tony! I'm taking break!" she yelled at the 6'5" man perched on a stool by the door. He was a bouncer and would be useful on busy nights. She put him in charge to irritate the snivelling suck ups working behind the bar who'd been here longer than the two weeks Tony had. "Why don't we have a seat, babe, I need a proper conversation that doesn't involve grunts and dirty looks... well, that doesn't involve grunts at least." she winked and led the way to a table tucked away in a corner, one of the more private booths that had charms for privacy if requested.

Andy slipped into the booth, one of the bar suck up sliding her drink across the table to her even as she settled herself in. The boy gave a smitten smile and rushed back to the bar. Ugh, boys and their crushes. Arch joined her and she was about to tap the knot on the booth wall that turned on the privacy charm when a third party slipped into their booth un asked. She fixed him with a glare until she realized who it was. Asher Jacobs. Bloody prat.

"What do you want?" she snarled, her glare deepening as she hit the knot and the charm lit a light blue shield across the openeing to the booth before vanishing. She wasn't a huge fan of Asher, he knew too easily how to manipulate Amelia into pretty much anything. He ingratiated himself to her with the ease of someone practised in pissin ehr off and cheering her up again, and that bothered her. Amelia shouldn't be so easily gotten to, she shouldn't be so... human. It was odd for Andy to see her best friend and leader acting like that recently and the oddity rubbed her the wrong way.

A quick glance at Arch told her he was on the offensive, ready to start whatever Andy wanted to start with the man. Andy wasn't ready to piss Amelia off that much yet. Instead, she waved to the bar to have another firewhiskey sent over and eyed Asher. "Did you not hear me the frist time? What in bloody hell do you want, Asher? I'm on my break with my boy friend, if I'd wanted your company I would have looked for you in Amelia's skirts." she sipped her drink as she watched for his reaction to the insult.

[Asher Jacobs]

Asher had made a deal with Amelia that he would check out the situation with Andy's boyfriend, to see if he was truely the threat, the leak in their organization. He doubted that Andy had given anything away on purpose, but men such as Archeron Hades were skilled in picking up on the things unsaid. Asher's money was on Scaboir as the traitor. The nasty little man was more than a little jealous and he was beyond pissed at both him and Amy. Still, this was a security risk that couldn't be allowed to continue, not while Archeron's loyalties were so... questionable.

Asher followed the man into the Dragon's Lair and watched as he talked with Andy. The woman noticed him, he saw her eyes on him, but she didn't act like she knew him. She was good at feigning ignorance of those she shouldn't recognise. He smiled lightly when the two moved from the bar to a private booth off the main bar. Asher followed them, quick to jump into the booth with them before Andy dropped the privacy charm to sheild their conversation from prying ears in the bar.

She was angry at the invasion of ehr personal space and Ash though it was funny more than anything else. He knew she didn't like him, not one bt, but as she couldn't help but pick and prod at him with insults, Asher couldn't help but irritate the hell out of her. It was the kind of subtle fighting he'd done with his brother ages ago, fighting over who got the hot baby sitter's attention. At her repeated question he sighed. "Nothing good, I'm afraid. We have a small problem, Andraste." she said, intentionally using ehr full name, knowing it would bug her. "Les Fuex has a leak and... he is playing the feild. All of the feilds. We cannot trust him with his fingers in so many honey pots. Amy- Amelia" he caught himself before using her pet name, she'd bloody kill him if it got out that she didnt mind him calling her Amy. "wanted me to outright kill him, but I'm of a mind to create... options." Asher sat back and waited for the reaction he knew would come. Andy was a fantastic opperative, but she was short tempered and it was this that kept her from important under cover work and solely a brute force and strategist for LEs Fuex. If she could reign in that temer of hers... oh, what a power she could be. "Archeron, you have three options: joinLes Fuex, die, or the one I'm more in favor of... join me." Ash wanted him on his team, his faction was allied with Les Fuex, but Asher liked having options. If the group for whatever reason turned against Amelia, he wanted an out, and having Archeron as a loyal team mate would stregnthen his following two-fold.