OOM: Date Night

[geeky_agent]

Chris and Jack step out of the bar, into a cold New York City night.

The first big difference from Milliways? All the noise. The sound of horns from the cars on the street, cops blowing their whistles as they direct traffic and someone down the street playing a violin come together to create their own symphony.

She pulls her wrap a little tighter around her shoulders and looks over at Jack with a smile. "Surprise."

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[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"Sure," he says, picking up his fork.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

When Chris enters the restroom it's empty but when she exits the stall she notices two teenage girls standing and chatting by the mirrors. She doesn't pay much attention to either till she moves closer to the sinks to wash her hands and notices their conversation has stopped.

And that they're staring at her.

She looks herself in the mirror, smoothing her dress and making sure nothing is out of place. Nothing is and Chris finds herself confused by the attention. Chris looks over at them, smiling nervously. One girl says hi, while the other looks away, still giggling.

Ok! Chris turns her back to dry her hands and can make out some of what they're saying.

"No... Ask her what it's like to kiss Brad Pitt,"one girl says before dissolving into giggles.

Huh? Her hands dry, Chris turns briefly towards the girls and nods in greeting. Producing more giggles from them. Thoroughly confused, she exits the restroom and walks back to her table.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Now it's Jack's turn to look at her with a puzzled expression. "Something wrong?" he asks.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

She sits down across from him, still confused. "I don't know... There were these two teenage girls in the bathroom and the kept giggling and looking at me. But it seemed like they recognized me..." her voice trails off and she gives Jack a small smile.

"It sounds crazy, I know."

The server walks by to refill their wine glasses.

"One of them wanted to know what it was like to kiss Brad Pitt," she adds, still puzzling over it.

As he walks away, the server can be heard mumbling "tourists" in a disdainful tone.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

Jack blinks. "What?"

There's another moment of blinking before he adds, "Is there something you're not telling me?" with a soft smile.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"I'm the real reason Brad left Jennifer Aniston several years ago," she says sarcastically.

"We met at Spago and one thing lead to another..." her voice trails off, Chris is uninterested in keeping with the charade. She takes a sip of her wine.

"I must have misheard them."

Because nothing else makes sense.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He shrugs. "Maybe they just think you look like someone. It's New York; if you look like an actress, it's not so unbeliveable they might mistake you for them. I used to get it in L.A. occasionally."

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"Really? Who'd you get mistaken for?"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He shrugs. "Kiefer Sutherland and Kenneth Branagh. And some people can't take a hint."

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

Chris laughs at this. "Kenneth Brannagh? Really?"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He sighs. "Yes. How, I don't know. Besides the hair."

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

Chris tilts her head, looking at him. "I could see the Kiefer resemblance more. Except I think he's supposed to be kinda short."

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I've heard that a couple times. 'You're taller than you look!' At least no one ever did it when I was undercover or in the middle of an op."

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"I wonder who they thought I was?"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"I don't know; I'm not exaclty an expert on Brad Pitt's movies," he says with a teasing smile.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm more of a George Clooney fan myself."

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"Well you know my taste in movies," he says. Not surprisingly they tended to run to action, some espionage, some drama and, oh yes, Lord of the Rings. The extended editions.

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"Lord of the Rings, spy movies and more Lord of the Rings?"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, pretty much. How on earth did you figure that out?"

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"CTU didn't hire me for nothing."

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"So it was your amazing observational skills rather than the fact that they take up a good foot of space on my entertainmetn unit?"

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"Withou my amazing observational skills how would I have noticed?"

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

"Again, maybe becase they take up a lot of space on my entertainment unit? Not to mention the books on my bookshelf?"

[geeky-agent.livejournal.com]

"I probably should have asked this a long time ago, but you never dressed up as Legolas or whoever to go to a Lord of the Rings premiere, did you?"

Right now, she wouldn't be surprised.

[action-antihero.livejournal.com]

He gives her a good-naturedly exasperated look. "No, I didn't. I didn't even get to go on the opening nights, thanks to work."