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As the sun had sunk below the horizon, Charlie started to become aware of her surroundings, had begun to take in everything. She could tell she was safe in her bed but when she opened her eyes, she was oddly unable to see. She went to take a breath and found out why she couldn't see as she inhaled fur. Her little fur ball was laying on her face. She sighed and lifted the little guy off her face, setting him on the bed beside her as she opened her eyes again and was thankful that she could see. "You know, you'd think you'd be more comfortable sleeping on your bed instead of sleeping on my face when I am dead to the world little one." She said in a light voice, gently scratching his head before she sat up and glanced around. Everything still looked the same, stuff was relatively untouched. Though she could tell that Temp had dropped by because there was more stuff for her to sell or use to make the things she needed for her side jobs.

Sighing she got out of bed and went about getting ready to go out. She needed to pick up some things, sell things, basically just get a lot of stuff done that she had been a bit too scared to do given her recent attack. Before she left she made sure to call forth some of her shifter powers to make sure that when she went out in the world, those that had attacked her wouldn't be able to tell it was her. Or at least would have a far harder time telling it was her. She set everything up, locked everything up and hit the button just outside her door to the elevator. When she hit the lobby she did a quick check to see if she could find a willing 'donor' but it seemed that all the donors were out and about so she took a breath and headed on out. Today was a good walking day so that is what she did until the smell of Java began to sing to her like a siren to sailors on the open sea. Ahh she missed a good caffeine buzz but at least she could still enjoy the flavors of the coffee.

Walking into the coffee shop she walked over to the counter and looked at the barista for a moment, then she smiled to the woman and leaned against the counter, making sure her messenger bag full of stuff to sell didn't bump against it as well. "Can I get a Grande Mocha Latte?" She asked with a sweet, almost child like tone, it was one she often used with the shop dealers around here. For some reason, one that she was starting to understand, this tone, this sweetness, made them far more likely to give her a good discount on things.

"That will be a dollar." The lady responder, she smiled as she handed over the money then watched as the woman tilled it away and went to make her drink. As the drink was being made, Charlie turned to lean against the counter, looking at everyone in there, taking everyone in, assessing who may or may not be a threat to her. She noted the girl sitting off by herself, picking at her nails. It was something charlie herself did, which is why she really only wore colors that seemed like they should have chips and dings in them. Mostly, black. Charlie turned when the woman set the cup down for her and smiled as she took it into her hand. "Thank you." She said politely before she moved over to sit at an empty table. Setting her cup down, Charlie reached into her bag and pulled out her laptop, opening the thing so she could see what was going on in the 'world' of the vampires as she liked to think of it.

"********... nothing of importance... unbelievable ********... nothing there... nothing there also..." She said softly to herself as she opened page after page then went through them, looking at each one with only a split second, not that she needed more than that - photographic memory had its perks. Of course, it also had its down falls, not nearly as much as it had when she had been human, but still there were times when she felt as if her mind were just cluttered with information. She sighed a little and then jumped nearly out of her skin when the bag hit the table her laptop was on. The impact even made the laptop shudder a little. Charlie's chocolate brown eyes lifted and she pushed some of her hair out of her face as she glanced up at the woman just as she was pulling out a seat to sit on.

Charlie pulled her screen down a little as she looked at the woman and then leaned onto the table, one arm bent so that her chin rested in the palm of her hand as she looked at the girl. "I was just reading some of the CN, you know how things on there are." She said with a slight shrug. "Can I help you with something or are you just in need of someone to talk to?" She asked with a light laugh. Either way, she would be open to the new situation. If the girl needed help with something, she would - to the best of her ability - try to help, if she just needed someone to talk to well in that case she was more than able to help. She smiled a bit more, looking a fair bit more open to the idea of being social than she had when she had sat down and opened her laptop. Of course, when she was concentrating on things on her laptop, she pretty much forgot the world existed.

"Either way, I'm pretty much open to meeting new people. I'm Charlie. You are?" She asked as she held out her hand to the girl over the top of her semi-closed laptop.

A small smirk and a chuckle fell from Charlie's lips as the girl spoke and then pulled out her phone to check for something she had been reading on the CN. When Alex slid her phone back into her pocket, Charlie couldn't help but watch where she put it. It wasn't that she was planning to rob the girl, but as a pick pocket and a thief she just naturally looked for the people and their mistakes with things like their cell phones, wallets, and sometimes the drugs that dealers carried. Usually though, when she picked the pockets of gangsters all she got from them was ammo. Not that she would complain, she was still sort of a bad shot and the gun she used took the ammo she took from them. Charlie shook herself out of her thoughts as Alex shook her hand and she smiled to the woman politely.

"Yes, I am a bit different, but then again who in this city isn't a little different?" She said softly before she continued on, "As for what brings me here, for today it's the wifi, I love a free wifi signal." She said with a laugh and then continued on "And the cops are staking out my apartment complex. Cops and I aren't on the best of terms" she said. Some times this weird inability to lie was annoying, this really wasn't the girls business but at the same time, it's not like Charlie would hide who she is or what she does if she was asked plainly. "Now that I am here though, I think I may stay for the pastries and coffee. Is that any good?" Charlie asked as as she looked at the girl's coffee. "One thing I have noticed about this city in the short time I have lived here, the coffee seems to be pretty good everywhere."

It was true, at least when she thought about it. And as she thought about it, she probably liked it because she couldn't feel the caffeine anymore. Instead of drinking something just to get the buzz, she was drinking something because she truly enjoyed the taste of the thing she was drinking. Perhaps though that was just because she was a vampire now.

Charlie gave a little bit of a laugh as she looked over the girl when she asked about the interest. Why shouldn't she be interested in if the coffee was any good? Oh yeah, she was one of the lucky few that could still retain the ability to eat and drink unlike so many others that she had heard about. She sighed ever so softly after a moment and then just gave a shrug. "I'm a fan of coffee." She said with a soft smile, still looking at the girl for a moment before she glanced around the area to see who was in ear shot. "One of the lucky few you can say who doesn't get sick." She added on.

It wasn't usually like her to hide things, in fact she often told the truth, but thankfully the logical side of her mind made it so that it wasn't so much her lying in her thoughts that made her speak the truth but learning how to dance around the truth so that the truth was still there but she didn't up and say 'hey i'm a vampire' and end up getting herself killed again. She closed her eyes and shook the image of the gang that killed her and then looked at the girl once more. "Though I understand about Loyalty, when it comes to these places, i'm as loyal as they come. However, if it's one thing I've learned in my line of business, it's best not to have too many patterns. Especially recently. I tend to keep from sticking to patterns now. It comes in handy in this town."

Charlie gave a small shrug to the girl when she had questioned about getting sick. "I've just heard that certain paths have a problem with digesting food, that is if they even eat at all. It's kind of weird, but apparently, I don't get sick because of what I am. I don't know." She said as she looked around for a moment and then looked back at the girl nodding to her words. It was weird that it was a problem for other vampires, but she had been told that because Allurists were the most human apparently they got the perks in that regard.

Then the girl asked about what she did and Charlie sighed a little, she had hopped the girl wouldn't ask, because then she could easily blow off telling the truth. Now she really had no choice. "Well I guess the thing I am best at doing is being a Hacker, but I've also been starting up with Thievery, Breaking and entering and also making a lot of the things I need to do say breaking so I don't have to kill guards. I really hate when I am forced to kill an innocent." She said, she knew by now she had said more than enough but it was all the truth, she hated to kill unless she absolutely had it.

It wasn't so much that she was protecting the fact that she was a vampire, she couldn't care less if someone knew she was a vampire. No it was more the fact that she had a fear of being killed again, as well as a dislike for anything violent. That didn't mean she couldn't fight, just that she hated doing it. She shook her head as the girl asked her final question and she smirked a bit. "That last part though, that I could help you with. Given what I like to do around here, I know quite a few places where one could sell stuff they have lifted off other people or from other places. Actually, I think there is a place right down the street." She said as she looked out the window and then smirked a little more at the girl.