06 [Location: Central | Open] I am not yours....

[threelivesdown]

Selina Kyle has a new hat.

She's sitting outside of a cafe sipping at a cup of coffee. Wrapped up inside a shawl, she's warding off the brisk chill of the day. It is trying to creep up into her bones, even with the sun shining down on her. Keeping her hands wrapped around the cup, she watches all of the people, or 'people', if you will, walking by.

This place is strange and she doesn't entirely know what she thinks of it.

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[threelivesdown]

"Thank you," she says as she takes the stairs quickly. The clothing is not what she's used to moving in for this sort of work but she's flexible. The door at the top is easy to unlock but she has to shove it open, having been stuck.

[starknaked]

He followed her, watching the view. He chuckled. "So in all your experience in this, ever gone around dismantling air conditioning units for copper?"

[threelivesdown]

"For copper? No," she says with a small smile as she makes her way to the unit in question.

[starknaked]

"Why do I think there's more to this than just a no," he asked, sliding up behind her, almost crowding.

[threelivesdown]

"There are more to most of my stories than just yes or no," Selina says generally amused by him. She's quickly pulling the air conditioning unit apart. "Now I think I'll need some guidance on where is best to look for what you need here."

[starknaked]

"I never know though if you want to keep them secret, or hint at them for others to ask, poking until you reveal the story," he admitted, having put some thought into why she did things.

"You take off the cover and the side panel. There's a core within where the tubing starts to coil. Those are finer wires, and then thicker ones at the base."

[threelivesdown]

"You can always ask, Tony. I'll let you know which ones I'll answer and which ones I won't," she says as she starts to pull the panels off and strip the wires in question.

"I'll let you know if I don't want to answer."

[starknaked]

He considered that as he opened the other tower and began deftly dismantling it. "What's the least valuable item you ever stole and why? Emotional counts as valuable."

[threelivesdown]

"Huh. I'm not sure. I have a habit of picking things up and pocketing them, so probably something like a paperclip. Though, if we're talking intentionally stole?" Selina pauses before continuing, as she thinking about it.

"On purpose, I'm sure it was a condom."

[starknaked]

He was coiling the copper the best he could when she made that admission. He paused, laughing. "Well then, there's something we've shared," he admitted, remembering a time in college when he wasn't ready to wait for a long line.

[threelivesdown]

There is a wry expression on her face, "I didn't have a lot of choice when I was younger but I was going to be damned if that one was going to be out of my hands." The words aren't light but her tone certainly is. The copper that she's stripped, she coils it quickly and carefully before handing it over to him.

[starknaked]

He nodded, settling in on the end of the dismantled unit, watching her. "They used to disappear when I was out. From my wallet. From my car. Some women... they'd get their heart set on something. So I would sneak into hotel shops and steal them." He shook his head, remembering those days. "That was back in college though."

He watched her a long minute. "Do you keep track of most expensive?"

[threelivesdown]

"Their hearts set on it, huh?" Selina gives him a bit of a look at that, "And I'm sure you were just performing a public service?"

The long look doesn't seem to bother her though she always wonders about the gears turning inside the minds of others'. "When you've stolen a number of things that are 'priceless' that becomes challenging. But my personal favorite..." She pauses and smiles, it is a small smile but intense, as if this is a cherished memory.

"The car. It would have to be the car."

[starknaked]

“Not on sex, let’s be honest. They had their hearts set on trapping me into paying for life,” he pointed out, a bit of why he seemed to be bitter about such things.

Oh now she had his interested. “What car is that?”

[threelivesdown]

"There is a man, like you, at home. You built a suit. He has a car. That car...." Selina makes a sound in the back of her throat and, well, it seems that Selina might have a /thing/ for fast cars.

"Even getting into the car was an accomplishment most would brag about. Turning it on was possible the work of a lifetime for a thief but driving it...?" She shivers briefly with a smile on her face.

[starknaked]

He watched her for a long time. His expression didn't quite shut off but there was a bit of darkness as he nodded.

"You know, I don't know what bothers me most. You keep comparing me to him... or that now I have to worry about you stealing the suit."

[threelivesdown]

"You two are similar but you're better adjusted than he is," Selina shrugs a little. "I mi..." That gets cut off as she looks down, sort of shocked at what she was about to say. She does not miss Bruce Wayne.

Really.

"I'm not going to steal your suit. I don't think I could use it and, really, it is a bit flashy for me."

[starknaked]

Yeah that made him wonder how screwed up this guy was if he was the better balanced of the two. "You miiiiight..." He prompted, giving her an out, though he knew those words. He didn't say them daily about Pepper.

"Why do I feel I've been almost insulted?"

[threelivesdown]

"You haven't been insulted, you just like being flashy. I'm more of a hang out in the shadows sort," she says with a smile. Yeah, he gives her an out but she's just going to push right on without going back. Having finished stripping this unit, she stands up, looking around.

[starknaked]

"And somehow this car that is worth a mint stays in the shadows," he asked, curiosity etched on his features. Definitely was amusing to him, to say the least.

He moved over, already starting to open another, wishing there was a better way to do this. "Figure one more before we might get looked at here." He wasn't risking putting her through that.

[threelivesdown]

"It's black, for one thing," she says with a small smile. Standing up, she follows him over to the next AC unit.

"Sure."

[starknaked]

"So no imagination in this guy, is there," he asked, dropping down to one knee and working to open the unit. "Must make for boring... nights."

[threelivesdown]

Selina makes her way over and chuckles, "Never so that I've noticed the lack. He's extremely focused on whatever he's ... doing." Kneeling, she helps start to dismantle the outsides and then the inside.

[starknaked]

"Oh that's so sad. He has you snowed," he said, actually tsking as if he had any clue what was going between her and this guy. "So were you in love with him? Was that it?"

[threelivesdown]

"If anyone has anyone snowed, I've snowed him. There is no way a man like him and a woman like me...." she stops talking before she, again says more than she's intending to say.

"I don't know. Sometimes I think so."

Those last words are very quiet indeed.