A theif is a theif, whether she steals a diamond or a cucumber

Sometimes, Pearl felt invisible. She wasn’t quite sure if it was an ability, she had earned without knowing it and might be shutting it on and off all the time, but what she did know, was that she had been left at this pub. The Wolf’s Den. She wasn’t really the one who could just get up and follow her friends, no, because her leg was exhausted, and she could barely stand. The latter could be discussed if it was because of her alcohol intake this evening or if it was her leg – but probably both. It wasn’t even because it was that late, but she hadn’t held back on getting free drinks from creepy guys, nor stealing other people’s drink. She sat right now and sipped on the last few drops of a pale green drink, humming oh so innocently to the sound of some music playing in the background. While everyone else had company and talked, she was starting to eye out who she should steal a drink from next time.

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It had been a long day, yesterday to say at least. Today had been somewhat peaceful, just Jamie trying not to work himself up with the small fuel of anger he had lighted up in himself. Therefor, a beer was highly needed as he entered the Wolf's Den. He took a deeper breath in as he sat down on one of the bar stools and ordered. There was a lot of things on his mind as of right now. A lot of information that made him confused and somethings that made him peaceful, over all he just needed a good drink. Finally it was placed in front of him and he grabbed the flask, moving it up to his lips taking the first and larger mouthful. There was a lot of different scents on the bar, not that he minded it. His eyes landed shortly on a blond siren not far from him, but for now he didn't grand her with much attention. He picked up his phone for a second, Ayah had given him a number in case he wanted to call, given he had asked her if there was a way he could contact Sariel. Well, he had figured by now the hybrid wasn't too good with phones, so it made sense - he kinda hoped she would walk through the doors, which was why he looked back towards them for a moment. Odd how someone could get stuck in your head.

Pearls eyes got stuck on a guy who had only just sat down to order. He looked like someone who might even buy her a drink for free, but who knew. “Hey,” she said to catch his attention as he continued to look back and forth as if he was waiting for someone. “Are you waiting for company?” she wondered with a slight smile. Normally, she would’ve gotten up to her legs and approached him, but since her leg was so tired, it was so very difficult to get up from the chair without falling immediately. “Because if you are waiting… Well then, I can be your company until your person gets here,” she said smiling warmly and welcoming.

"Hey," looked towards her as she talked to him. Sirens, creatures that he rarely trusted, mostly because of the majority of them did have some reputation that he wasn't going to test. "No, it's just been a long month," he responded with a softer chuckle before taking a sip of his beer. The warm smile, he couldn't tell if it was just politeness or if she was trying to lure him in, either way, Jamie took the friendliness and the warm smile as an invite to being social. "You often just sit here by yourself looking pretty socializing with strangers?" Jamie then asked tilting his head a little bit to the left. "Or perhaps you are waiting for someone?" Jamie then asked, because it could be she was waiting for someone even though he didn't really believe it was the case. He held his free hand out towards her, "I'm Jamie," he presented himself with a friendly smile.

Pearl smiled gladly as the man replied that it had just been a long month. “Aw, what a shame,” she said and put her arm up on the bardesk so she could lean her head towards her hand while she looked at him. Her smile curled even more as he asked if she usually just sat there by herself looking pretty. She shook her head a little as he asked if she was waiting for someone. “Well… No and yes,” she replied, elaborating right after, “My friends left me here,” she said pulling on a sad smile, stretching her bad leg, “I don’t walk that well, so now I’m just sitting here socializing with handsome strangers,” she said and looked up at the shapeshifter and winked at him. He presented his hand and she leaned forward to take his it, “Call me Pearl,” she said with a still charming and warm smile. “So, dare to tell a stranger why your month has been long?”

He couldn't tell if she was just used to the attention that followed by being a siren, or if she was perhaps as lonely as he was. Her friends left her here? He pressed his brows a little together, it did sound like the siren needed new friends. Jamie paid attention to how she stretched her leg as if something was wrong with it, perhaps there was. Jamie chuckled a little bit to her excuse about not walking well, at least it seemed like a fair reason to sit and hit up strangers. He found her amusing, mostly because she seemed so carefree and just going on a flow, not overthinking about anything. Pearl, he shouldn't be surprised that a siren would have a name with a somewhat under the sea theme. Why had his month been long? "I was looking for some people who have wronged me, and it didn't go so well, but it's the least of my concerns," he took a deeper breath in, it was true though. But one of the vampires remained on the loose. The hybrid that had hurt his sister's feelings and everything in between, yes, Jamie was a bit on edge. "What happened to your leg?" He wondered and took a sip of his drink

Besides the fact that Pearl didn’t walk that well from the injury she had gotten, she was also a siren who hadn’t been walking on land before 2018. She only had three years’ experience of walking. Nobody expected a baby human to walk perfectly by the age of three years, so she never really understood why people looked weirdly at her when she said she couldn’t walk no more. It wasn’t even like her injury made it better.
She raised her brows interested and leaned a little forward to spice up that she was listening. He had been looking for some people who had wronged him. Juicy. She nodded a little as he explained that it hadn’t gone well. “I’m sorry your hunt for the people didn’t go as planned,” she said pulling on a little smile, almost as if she did care about it. To be fair, how quickly did you care about a stranger? Pearl had a tendency to seem to care very quickly because she was so curious of her nature. She looked down at her leg as he mentioned it. She shrugged and tilted her head a little. It had been a while since she had explained what had happened, since everyone she talked to was a part of the serpents, and the serpents knew. “Well,” she breathed, “Three years ago I was swimming close to the surface, and out of nowhere the surface froze damaging my tail,” she said pressing her lips a little together, “So, I couldn’t swim properly and I had to seek to the shore,” she elaborated, “On land my leg’s muscles doesn’t work properly, so I easily get tired because I compensate with the other leg and yadda, yadda,” she said with a wider smile and rubbed her right leg, right where her skin seemed to be paler than the rest of the leg.

Hunt for people, that sentence made the grin on his lips wide a little bit, mostly because it wasn't really people he was hunting, but oh well, in this world - who really knew? "There is always a new day tomorrow," he reminded her with a little smirk, before taking another sip of his beer. Jamie was curious about what had happened to her leg, it didn't really seem like something that was good for a siren. And listening to the issue of it damaging her tail, made her an easier target, she really should be careful with giving too many personal details about herself - she never knew who might be listening. "I'm sorry to hear," he then said, meaning it. He couldn't relate to it, his body healed before he got a real taste of the damage taken. Or well, depending on the damage, there was one time when Theo had tried to cut off his little finger to see if it would heal - which it had, but it had been a pain in the ass. Jamie took a deeper breath in and narrowed his eyes a little bit before breathing out. "Little pro tip, never tell a stranger how to hunt you down, some might take advantage of it," he gave her a softer nod, taking a few mouthfuls for his beer till it was emptied, then ordering a new one. "No matter how good your bite is or voice," he let a little smirk curl up on his lips. He did not underestimate sirens, far from.

Pearl smiled a bit as he replied that there was always a new day tomorrow. It was a healthy way too look at things, right? Pearl believed so. If the day didn’t go as planned, look forward for the next day. Pearls light eyes followed his movements as he took a sip of his beer. She licked her lips and pulled on a soft smile.
Pearl had spilled all of the weaknesses with her leg and tail, and she hadn’t even thought once about how that could affect her. She was just so confident in her other abilities that she didn’t care. A sad smile appeared on her lips as he said he was sorry for what had happened to her. She shrugged a little. She had somehow learnt to live with it. After all her whole life had been turned around. Her eyes almost lit up as he mentioned a professional tip. She was immediately interested. Never tell a stranger how to hunt you down. A broad smirk spread on her lips and she waved with her hand as if it didn’t matter. But he then assured her that her bite and voice wasn’t going to be good enough. The smile slowly lessened. “Yeah,” she said softly. She inhaled a little greater and straightened her back, shaking her head a little so her hair got out of her way. She narrowed her eyes a little and leaned forward, “But you wouldn’t, would you?” she spoke with a slightly teasing manner and a kind crooked smile. “Because it would be such a shame to let a man like you go to waste,” she said with a teasing voice and her smile grew slightly wicked. Nothing out of the ordinary. What she meant was of course that if he wanted to take advantage of her weaknesses, well, then she would do whatever it would take to take him down. Eat him and what else she could find of interesting things. She would hate for this man to not live his life just a little longer.

It wasn't hard for Jamie to analyze how close the siren was to her animal instinct she was almost primal, but trying to play under the covers as if everything was going just as she planned for it. The crocked smile didn't leave his lips despite her leaning a little bit forward. As a matter of fact, he never really had missed a chance once it was there. But you wouldn’t, would you? The shapeshifter chuckled a little, still keeping his eyes on her, now more than ever observant to her movements. Because it would be such a shame to let a man like you go to waste, he clicked his tongue a little bit before licking his lips. "Don't worry about that sweetheart, I bite back," he blinked onto to have his wolf eyes show for a brief moment till he once again blinked. "But I'm not here hunting for dessert," he informed correcting the right sleeve of his shirt, before looking back at her again. Usually, back in the days, he would have set a target on her back, and hitting the target had never been an issue of his. But he had to place that boiling instinct of vengenge in the past. He had gotten one person out of four back, and the other were at peace, he should be thankful and happy - and to some point he was. He was over the moon that his younger brother had returned to him. He was thrilled that Elenora had her fiance back, that the two of them could get their happy ending. "What do you say, I don't bite if you don't?"

She liked how he chuckled by her assumption of him not going to take advantage of some of her weaknesses. Her eyes tried to analyze what he was doing, even though the analyzation wouldn’t give her the biggest clue. She raised her brows a little as he mentioned he would bite back. She saw how his eyes turned animalistic for a moment before they returned to their original humanoid eyes. She licked her lips a little as he continued to tell her that he wasn’t hunting for dessert. She hummed a little to acknowledge his statement. “No dessert for you then,” she mused, not really taking her eyes of him or his movements. Her eyes found his as he asked her how things worked. A smile widened on her lips. “That sounds about right,” she replied and let her eyes fall onto his lips before they went back to his eyes. She calmly straightened back up and with a gentle movement, she moved a strand of her hair behind her ear, “Unless you want me to bite,” she teased before she took a sip of her almost empty drink.

A smaller snort left him as she mused that he wasn't going to get any dessert then. Jamie wasn't blind to how the siren acted, if anything those creatures were masters of seduction and killing, it was why they were so dangerous. How they had killed men over so many years by luring them into the water to their death. Jamie clicked his tongue a little moving his eyes out to the crowd for a brief moment till she started an attempt to tease him, making him move his eyes back to her. "Oh sweetheart, I know how you treat your playmates," he breathed out in a lower voice keeping his eyes on hers. It was a rather black and white view on how it would even go if one were even to fall for the lure a siren owned. Jamie downed his drink before waving the bartender over to get a new beer.

Pearls smile stayed wide as he looked back at her and said he knew how she treated her playmates. “Oh, you do?” she said, not taking her blue eyes of him, even though he waved the bartender closer. She put her hand on the stool between them and moved as gracefully as possible closer to him. “So, how do I treat you?” she said with an alluring voice and a cheeky smile. The way she spoke, she had clearly chosen that he was now a playmate – but not food. Or, that was at least not her plan, besides she couldn’t do much when she was ‘crippled’ as one of her sisters had called her. She asked the bartender of a refill of her drink.

Jamie chuckled a little taking the new beer he was getting and took a larger sip of it. He wasn't going to tell now was he? He placed the bottle down for a moment looking towards her. "Sweetheart, if you don't know - then it seems like I know you a lot better than you know yourself," he gave her a little wink before once again taking another mouthful of his beer, as the bartender refilled her drink. Jamie exhaled as he once again placed the already almost empty bottle on the desk, looking at her. Being the outcast of your family and friends weren't rather nice - even if it seemed like he might have an actual change to get back into his brothers life without the judgement the rest of their family held on him. Jamie had gotten so used to that judgment again after rejoining the clan. Too used to it, but it was easy to fill out the shoes you had walked in before.