<div class="floatleft">(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3op8ql1VS1r7wrq1o1_r2_250.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lawrence Hawkins<br/><strong>Place within Hierarchy:</strong>Old Timer<br/><strong>Role:</strong>Act<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Fire Handler, Elizabeths Partner<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Food Car<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Loose fitting bluejeans and a white wife beater.<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Olaana, Kepler<br/><br/>Lawrence was left taken aback at Olaanas words.  Some of them flowed perfectly with the conversation and should have invoked an answer from Lawrence.  But it was the few that he didn’t like hearing that left him silent throughout her words.  He wasn’t even sure how to address her.  His first inclination was to lash out at her for her assumptions.  But he knew Olaana.  She did not assume things with him, if they ever had something that could come off as questionable she outright asked him.  So with the words on Elizabeth, and then the comment that he and her were something that she left unsaid, he realized precisely what it was she was trying to do.<br/><br/>She wasn’t attempting to be a bitch or piss him off.  It was actually quite the opposite, she was only trying to protect herself.  He couldn’t blame her, even if it bothered him quite a bit.  She must have believed that Lawrence intended upon resuming whatever relationship that he had had with Elizabeth, so she was attempting to shield her heart.  Frankly he hadn’t realized that she felt that deeply for him.  The two had always been affectionate, but she’d never really shown any real level of lasting emotions.  Perhaps he had just over looked them, or perhaps she was simply hiding them.  She was a master of survival, and this was just her doing what she seemed to do best.<br/><br/>Her sudden distraction made him smile.  He would have sat there brooding about things until he said something, and likely pissed her off.  So it didn’t matter who it was she had invited over, he was pleased for their company.  Of course the man she did bring was a man that Lawrence still wasn’t quite sure of.  Two Alphas was hard enough to deal with.  But adding a third like Kepler just seemed to make the entire ordeal even more difficult.  Lawrence had hoped to have a sit down with Kepler at some point to figure out exactly where the two men stood, but he hadn’t intended upon it being in a group setting.  And he certainly hadn’t intended upon it being with Olaana of all people.<br/><br/>Everything that he had heard about Kepler said that the last thing that he would do would be to come over and start with small talk.  Lawrence more expected some straight to the point statement.  Yet he asked how they slept, how their stuff had been secured.  So Lawrences eyes remained fixed upon Keplers face as the man looked towards the two women who had entered.  He hadn’t needed to look up to see who it was, one of the wonderful things about the spirit was that you could feel it’s presence in others and the distinct vibe that came from both.  He also really wouldn’t have cared about how either party was feeling, as neither had yet to leave an important mark upon him.  He’d have to go about fixing that in the future.<br/><br/>But Lawrence was the first to break the silence. “I’ve often considered who was the more dangerous, the Animals Olaana keeps or the keeper of those Animals.” It was meant to be a compliment, and he hoped that she took it that way.  But that was the last part of Keplers words that were addressed, he doubted any of the three of them cared about luggage or sleeping routines. “So, Kepler, from what I’m told half of the women within the circus would love nothing more than your name attached to their relationship status.  That puts you in a particularly precarious situation, as if you choose one you piss off another.  Yet your position in the circus dictates that you maintain piece.  I imagine that you must realize a drunken patron is no where near as dangerous to the family as a women scorned, let alone an entire horde?” Lawrence was not attempting to cause a rift with Kepler.  He was instead trying to judge his temper and his character, his pointed words were meant to figure out the mans mindset.  There was no wrong answer, just bad ones.