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Tell me about it. Crystal ripped out Mercedes' weave the other day and it was like fucking WWII backstage.

It's dreadful, isn't it? Bobby stole Helga's lipstick and she nearly broke his ribs at the rehearsal for the kick line bit.

When they start fighting is when I run away and hide. You haven't been kicked until you've been kicked by someone who can hold themselves upside down from a pole with their thighs.

I do something of the same - or at least, I keep as far out of their way as possible until they get pulled off of each other. And are you speaking from personal experience, darling? Thigh strength or not, those jackboots hurt, from what Bobby told me afterwards.

Smart move.

Only from what I've seen! I don't think I've done anything worth getting kicked for. Yet. I'm sure someone's going to accuse me of ripping them off and try to shake me down.

It might be pettier than that, if you're especially unlucky.

Probably. Especially if it's one of the meth heads.

Yeah we keep it classy over here.

We're not any better over here, really. *sighs* Only the best for quality clientèle.

Nice huh?
I want to work somewhere that's like, nice. And cop-less. Or at least with cops who behave. Freakin' cops.

Law enforcement might actually be a relief. We do get everyone else, though. Sozis, Nazis, communists... and they all hate each other, which makes things especially interesting after a few drinks have been had. I do think there's a certain squalid charm in working in such delicious debauchery, but I am stepping up one day. I'm going to be in pictures.

They're probably not so bad at the nicer places, where they aren't throwing their badges around to get laid? Idk. And, christ. I thought getting between Sox and Yankee fans was bad. That sucks chica.

Nice. I know some girls like that. *decides not to mention most of them are now giving handjobs for crack.*

It's probably like that everywhere... else. I imagine they'd all be so much better if they were expected to be. And I don't think I'd mind so much if they didn't always bring politics into it. And didn't harass the band.

Everyone wants to, I know, but a girl can dream.

You'd think they'd have other things on their minds than politics.

Dreams are good!

I know! The most beautiful women in the best club in all of Berlin calling them up right there, and they get puffed up for entirely the wrong reasons.

I rather think money for the rent is too.

Maybe they're all secretly gay.

Yeah, and for some reason like everyone I know doesn't seem to get that. Money = awesome. How hard is that to understand?

Given the amount of leather they wear and all the strapping young men who put on those armbands, I don't think that's out of the question. Although we also have the most beautiful boys, so they should hardly be looking at each other.

I do loathe people like that. They're so very eager to turn up their nose at it until they realize they don't have anything to eat.

Both? That's a hell of a club.

Yeah. If I have to hear "you don't have to do that for money" one more time I swear it's gonna be like, POW! right in the kisser.

Well, it is a cabaret. Not like we're discriminating. Girls, boys, boys pretending to be girls, whatever sells, darling.

Ah, but that's bound to reduce your customers, if word gets out you're prone to that sort of thing.

Oooh. Nice. I wish I could work somewhere like that. We just have trashy hos.

Well, it's very rarely from clients. Mostly from friends and people who just met me who aren't ... paying. And it's like, wow, okay, you've known me FIVE MINUTES, how the hell do you know what I do and don't have to do? Christ.

If you ever find your way to Berlin and need work, I'm sure you'd be in in a heart beat. And having another native-English speaker around would be absolutely divine.

I get that all the time, and it's the worst. And there's no getting them quiet when they believe so badly that they're right.

Yeah? I doubt I'll ever be out that way, but that would be rad. ~~Also underage b&. :( ...though the rules might be different in Germany ANYWAY~~

Yeah. I wouldn't mind so much if they'd drop it after the first time. But they just keep harpin' on it.

It is a rather nice place to work. And everyone else is just so nice, when they're not trying to injure each other over filched cosmetics.

That's when I walk away. Or they walk away. Most of them just give up after awhile.

I can see that being a problem. What do they do when someone steals something more valuable than lipstick?

Do they? Nice to know. I'm still getting "BLAH BLAH DON'T DO THAT" lectures.

I'd rather not find out. We're all so poor, it's not as if we have anything more valuable anyway, but who isn't these days?

Mm, yes. My strategy has just been to blush and thank them politely for it - maybe add in a "Oh, liebling, do go on, you know I adore when people talk about me like that" - and they become dreadfully embarrassed and walk away.

Yeah, I guess.

Haaah. Nice. I'm gonna have to start trying that.

I'm Sally Bowles, by the way, darling. Forgive my manners.

S'cool. I'm Brody, usually. Nice to meet you.

Only usually? What are you the rest of the time. And likewise. Schön, dich kennen zu lernen, and all that.

I have a lot of names. Depends on where I'm working.

Um... gesundheit? Sorry. I don't speak German. ...that is German, right?

I know how that is. I suppose I'll just go with Brody, then?

And yes, it is. Rather atrocious German. Just means 'how do you do', or something like that.

It works.

Oooh. Cool. I'll try to remember that. I'm collecting languages.