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Post by Parker Blye on Aug 28, 2015 13:48:00 GMT
Eliot grinned at Liv, taking a sip of his drink and nodding. “Well then I’ll leave you two to yourselves then,” he nodded before turning to Parker. “You know, Blye, I’m really disappointed that the firm missed the chance to work with you guys. You’ve been doing good work, think it would have made a good partnership.” He nodded before turning and walking away.
Parker thanked the bartender for his drink, tipping them well enough before taking a long sip and watching Eliot walk away. He took a moment, looking down at the contents of his drink. “I’m just trying to remember the conversation we had during the launch party. Where I could have sworn that I said if provoked Riley Nicholls could wage a war on my company if provoked that would send me packing right out of Manhattan. And I thought perhaps that you’ve been aware that I regularly still meet with Brandon Finn and Cooper Benson trying to broker a deal with them. But I must have been mistaken, I must have blacked out and actually said the words ‘Sure, Olivia. Let’s go after everyone who’s ever hurt our feelings and damn everything I’ve worked for in the past ten years just to get some petty revenge.’” He nodded. “I should probably see a doctor, about that blacking out thing.”
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Post by Olivia Warren-Blye on Aug 28, 2015 13:55:37 GMT
Olivia frowned. No matter how much time had passed or how severe the incident was, Parker had a way of making her feel like she was being sent to the principal's office for doing something wrong. Before she could start following that daydream down a dangerous path, she looked up at him. "I never put you in the middle of any of this - you have done nothing that should cause any problems." And while she knew that he was going to point at the fact that the two of them were involved, it had been that fact that had actually made her take the whole thing seriously in the first place. "I'm sorry if you're upset."
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Post by Parker Blye on Aug 28, 2015 14:59:08 GMT
Parker shook his head. "You don't think I'm going to be in the middle of this?" he asked with a dry laugh. "Who do you think they look to when something goes wrong and your name is tossed into the mix. Now, I made my choices, I picked my side. I have your back, but I would love it if we could pick and choose our battles a bit more wisely." Pinching the bridge of his nose, he shook his head. "Getting involved with Eliot Quinn is a bad idea, Liv. I highly recommend you find a way to extricate yourself from this situation."
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Post by Olivia Warren-Blye on Aug 28, 2015 16:17:28 GMT
Liv shook her head, tired of him always thinking that her sins were in some way going to come back to him. She was just about to remind him that he had picked her and not the little do-gooder when he mentioned it himself. "Then why pick me, if you're so afraid of the consequences?" She hated saying it that way - picked - if anything she preferred to think that she allowed him to be with her. Or even that it was somewhat of a mutual decision, a strategy.
"What do you really think is going to happen?" She had no direct ties to implication in anything that had happened, and she was fine with keeping it that way, but part of her wondered if Parker was warning her off of keeping Eliot as an ally in general.
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Post by Parker Blye on Aug 29, 2015 0:50:12 GMT
Parker took a deep breath. "Why did I pick you?" he asked incredulously. "I should think that would be obvious, Liv. Because I care for you. I always have." He shook his head, "And it's because I care for you that I know exactly what's going to happen."
"Eliot Quinn is using you. He's going to keep using you until you're of no further use and then he's going to turn on you. Riley will catch on to the fact that you assisted him in whatever he's going to do to her, why? Because he'll throw you under the bus just for a laugh. But you? You don't have much that they can actively take from you, so they'll go after me because, in a heartbeat, I would step in front of that bus for you. So I'll get tangled in all of it. I told you how it would go - I asked you not to push any boundaries when it comes anywhere within a five block radius of my work, Olivia. Let me explain this as plainly as possible - if things don't go smoothly for me, I might as well not sign the papers on my apartment and go back to Silicon Valley right now. I am here now, Liv. I am trying very much to be with you, to make this my permanent home again and be with you. Every time something like this happens, every time they come after me to get at you, the scales start to tip out of our favor."
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Post by Olivia Warren-Blye on Aug 29, 2015 1:26:46 GMT
Olivia sighed, admitting to herself that it might not be within her end goal and desires to send Parker away for good. "All right, I'm done." She announced. "I won't do anything that will force you to leave." As much as she wanted to think that she wasn't going to do anything that was going to cause him to take the blame for a lot of the things that she did, she didn't know that for certain. There were some things that she knew would be difficult to let go of, and games she was sure was part of that.
"I'm sorry - I want to make it up to you."
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