cgraven
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This is a closed thread for Lady S and cgraven, read along and enjoy.
It was a long way from the settlement houses and the docks of Lime House.
Ginger, Ginger West a runny nose kid, to fast to settle an argument or slight with his fists. That shock of ginger hair, and his temper was no lie, the reason for the monacoure. He had attended the school of hard knocks in the post war slums of London and like so many others; his mother was trying her best to raise him on her own. Ray had few memories of his Da, just a uniform, a bottle and his mother sobbing. His Gram had been a driving force in Ray’s younger days. Family that was the most important thing. You did anything necessary to care for them and that was the man’s job, a job that he had been doing sense he was twelve. Honor marked by your word, and once given, you lived by it. The Dole, it was the one thing that his Gram and Mother refused. You worked, you didn’t take a hand out. If there were no legit jobs, well you did what you had to.
He had made his money in the back room gaming, brothels and clubs of the West End. He had brutally made an example of the welshers and crushed the competition when it was called for. Tonight a client was stopping by, a client who he had given a small loan to, a client that had fallen behind. To Ginger it was only a number in a ledger, # 2-96-f-JD.
At the jarring sound of the bell, Ginger lifted his cold gray eyes to the flickering little monitor. A trim young woman in a rather fetching dress stood outside her eyes nervously shifting about.
“It your eight o’clock Ginger.”
“Ring her in Handlen.”
He sat there in the shadows his hands tented before his face. She was left standing in a harsh little pool of white light. There was no chair for her and she was nearly blinded by the light. The room smelled of cheap liquor and cigar smoke.
“You got the Money babe?”
His voice was dark and thick yet it was edged with steel.
It was a long way from the settlement houses and the docks of Lime House.
Ginger, Ginger West a runny nose kid, to fast to settle an argument or slight with his fists. That shock of ginger hair, and his temper was no lie, the reason for the monacoure. He had attended the school of hard knocks in the post war slums of London and like so many others; his mother was trying her best to raise him on her own. Ray had few memories of his Da, just a uniform, a bottle and his mother sobbing. His Gram had been a driving force in Ray’s younger days. Family that was the most important thing. You did anything necessary to care for them and that was the man’s job, a job that he had been doing sense he was twelve. Honor marked by your word, and once given, you lived by it. The Dole, it was the one thing that his Gram and Mother refused. You worked, you didn’t take a hand out. If there were no legit jobs, well you did what you had to.
He had made his money in the back room gaming, brothels and clubs of the West End. He had brutally made an example of the welshers and crushed the competition when it was called for. Tonight a client was stopping by, a client who he had given a small loan to, a client that had fallen behind. To Ginger it was only a number in a ledger, # 2-96-f-JD.
At the jarring sound of the bell, Ginger lifted his cold gray eyes to the flickering little monitor. A trim young woman in a rather fetching dress stood outside her eyes nervously shifting about.
“It your eight o’clock Ginger.”
“Ring her in Handlen.”
He sat there in the shadows his hands tented before his face. She was left standing in a harsh little pool of white light. There was no chair for her and she was nearly blinded by the light. The room smelled of cheap liquor and cigar smoke.
“You got the Money babe?”
His voice was dark and thick yet it was edged with steel.