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Melou is slouched at a nearby table. He's cranky, tired and drinking. Fortunately, he has no cause to be angry at Ramon at the moment, so he merely offers a tired wave.

It occurs to Ramon that he should have a back up plan to deal with this kid if something goes wrong. It's an idle thought and he dismisses it almost straight away. Because nothing's going to go wrong.

He picks up his coffee, folds his paper and wanders over.

'You look like shit. What's up?'

"Stuck at Camelot, can't sleep, Angela's gone, which really is a stress I don't fucking need right now." He sighs, loudly, and downs his drink. Good thing he has the bottle.

To his credit, Ramon doesn't look surprised about the mention of Angela. He doesn't react at all actually, apart from to sit down and put his coffee on the table.

'Drink enough and you'll sleep.'

He'd offer to give him a pill to help him out there, under normal cirumstances - but he doesn't want the kid to know he's got easy ways of drugging people close at hand.

'The girl left you? I didn't think you'd be the type to sit around and mope about it - go and get her to come back.'

"Yeah, I will. Just not long enough." He rubs a hand over his face, because, not only does he look like shit, but he feels like it, too.

"She didn't leave me. Got taken." He snorts. "Stupid girls."

An eyebrow is quirked in a suitably suprised-but-uncaring manner.

'They're generally more trouble than they're worth. Who took her?'

"Don't know. Her mother was too busy drinking and trying to make the door appear so she could leave, than find out some useful information." Another drink is poured.

"No wonder she was so easy. Her family doesn't fucking care."

He taps a finger on the edge of his coffee cup, thinking a little. The worst thing to do here would be to deny all knowledge of her family because the mention of his name to most people surrounding Angela would immediately make him a liar - and therefore, suspect. If he isn't already.

So he shrugs and says, 'I think you're wrong about that. They do care. Kim was drunk?'

He would have liked to have seen that, it'd be funny.

Especially since he's already given away to Melou that he knows her family. In a round about way.

"Yeah. Drunk and whining about how she couldn't do anything and shouldn't be here." He looks over at Ramon. "She always like that? She seemed decent enough when I talked to her before."

He suppresses the smile that wants to show on hearing about Kim in that state.

'Decent? She's a little bitch. I've never seen her drunk but I don't see her that often. Maybe it's normal, I don't know.'

Melou just shakes his head.

"Annoying, is what it was. I mean, if someone took my daughter I'd probably get drunk, but I'd also fucking do something about it."

'If she knows who did it and where the kid is, then si, she should.'

And would, he has no doubt. Of course, Kim would just get Jack to do the work for her but that's fine by him.

'Her father wasn't with her? He's normally somewhere about - he's probably the one doing the looking.'

"Not that I noticed. 'Course, I don't know who he is, so I wouldn't've recognized him if he was."

He sighs again. "Now I'm gonna have to get involved and fuck. Stupid girls."