OOM: No reason to move.

[obligatoryass]

Logan's still asleep. He couldn't tell you what time it is - nor does he particularly want to. He'd much rather just keep his eyes closed and pretend yesterday didn't happen.

Yesterday, when he swan dived off a balcony into a dance floor at a frat party. Yesterday, when his ex-girlfriend poured him into a cab and sent him home in disgrace. From a frat party.

It's hard to leave a frat party in disgrace.

Logan groans and burrows under the covers, hiding from the sun. And everyone and everything else.

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[obligatoryass]

"There isn't really anything to say," he points out. Except that he's a perennial screw-up. But that part, she knows.

"I don't know. Get a job, I guess."

[dead_hooker_2]

"Could you try to be slightly less woe-is-me, please?"

It doesn't work on Trina, anyway.

[obligatoryass]

"Don't really feel like making the effort," he says flatly.

[dead_hooker_2]

Trina glares. "There's a shocker, someone alert the media."

She passes one hand over her eyes.

"How badly are you hurt?"

[obligatoryass]

"Not very. Twisted my ankle, but I was too drunk to notice I was falling until I hit bottom. Never tensed up."

There's a special Providence for fools and children, they say, and from Logan's life, it's probably true.

[dead_hooker_2]

"Hmmph.

"Logan, I do not know what to do here."

[obligatoryass]

"That makes two of us, I guess," Logan says. "Look, I'm useless. I have no appreciable skills, I think college is for people with direction, and I have none. Not even a little bit. It's wasted on me."

[dead_hooker_2]

"Don't even start," she says.

"I have absolutely had with the poor little rich boy shit from you.

"That's an excuse, and it's not even a good one."

[obligatoryass]

"Oh? What should I be doing, dear sister?"

Because whatever else may or may not be true, the fact that he has absolutely no idea or direction or skills is indisputable.

[dead_hooker_2]

"What do you want to be doing?"

[obligatoryass]

"Absolutely as little as possible."

Again, indisputably true. Useless as a goal, but true.

[dead_hooker_2]

"Well, then, I'd say you're succeeding."

There's a long moment, while Trina makes a decision.

"If you want my help, little brother, this is the time to ask for it. Because otherwise I'm gone, and you're on your own."

[obligatoryass]

"Yeah, but as a life goal, I don't really think it's enough."

He sighs, thinks for a long moment. "I'm asking. I don't know what else to do, Trina, and I need help. I need to be in a place that's not here."

[dead_hooker_2]

"All right," she says. "All right. I will make some calls, and call in some favors and you will stop drinking so damn much, and keep your antics off the internet.

"And I'm not kidding when I say you have to get yourself together, Logan. Because in a month and a half, you can no longer be my top priority."

[obligatoryass]

Nodding, his eyes stray to her stomach, then back to her face.

"I get it."

And he does, as much as he can get anything at the moment.

[dead_hooker_2]

"I hope so.

"Because right I'm a little afraid that the next time I see you, you'll be in prison or the morgue."

He could have wound up in either, if Parker hadn't taken his keys last night.

"And this absolutely the end, Logan. I will help you find a job, but you screw up and lose it, I'm done."

Those are the terms. Take them or leave them.

[obligatoryass]

Logan's been luckier than anyone deserves. Luckier than he knows, most days. And it's time to stop relying on it.

Logan extends a hand. "Fair enough."

[dead_hooker_2]

Trina shakes his hand.

"I'll call you, when I've had a chance to talk to some people.

"It's probably not going to be glamorous or easy."

She can pretty much guarantee that it won't be, in fact.

[obligatoryass]

Logan shrugs. "Easy I'm accustomed to. Glamorous...not so much."

He offers her a tiny, tentative smile. "Thanks."

[dead_hooker_2]

"You're welcome.

"Please don't make me regret this."

[obligatoryass]

Logan shakes his head. "I won't."

Except...well. It's Logan. He doesn't have much faith in his ability to manage that.