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[lockwood]

It's been about a month since Tyler left Mystic Falls, since the first time he ran into Bo. He's been staying in the city, keeping to himself as he worked on trying to break the sire bond as quickly as possible. But even with all that, he has to take breaks every once in a while in order to keep himself going completely crazy. Which is why he's currently sitting at the bar, nursing a drink. He's keeping to himself, though he can't help but watch the people around him. He keeps expecting to see one of Klaus' other hybrids to show up, trying to drag him back.

But so far so good. It hasn't happened yet.

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[dontkanyeme]

Bo hasn't been expecting to see Tyler again.

The regulars are the regulars, she learns their faces pretty quickly, but they're usually, with the exception of Kenzi, all Fae. Tyler isn't Fae. She isn't sure what he is, but she knows a Fae when she sees one, and he ain't it. But not knowing isn't going to stop her from trying to find out.

She makes her way back over to the bar after finishing her pool game with Hale and Kenzi. They had dissolved into a debate about something that Bo doesn't care about, so she has a feeling they won't miss her. She settles onto the stool next to him.

"Well, hey stranger. Thought you were just passing through?"

[lockwood]

He glances up at Bo when he hears her voice. He had noticed her presence earlier in the evening, though hadn't done anything about it at the time. He shrugs his shoulders a little.

"Guess I ended up staying for a bit."

[dontkanyeme]

She nods with a bit of a frown. It's an acceptable answer, though she's a bit curious as to the why. Asking him outright doesn't seem to be the answer either, so she says something a little bit to the left.

"Guess this town isn't so boring after all."

[lockwood]

"It's entertaining enough."

Not that he's seen much of the town, really. He still mostly keeps to himself, working on breaking his bond and not much else.

[dontkanyeme]

She nods as Trick places a beer in front of her, and she glances back to him with a smile.

"How much longer are you going to be sticking around?"

[lockwood]

"At least a couple of weeks."

There isn't exactly a time frame for how long it might take to break the sire bond.

[dontkanyeme]

"Good to know," she says with a bit of a smirk. "Guess I'll have to keep an eye out."

She likes talking to him, and she thinks there's more to his story than just passing through. She's practiced this enough by now that her curiosity doesn't quite get the better of her, but that doesn't mean it goes away.

[lockwood]

"Guess you will," He said, returning the smirk with one of his own. He liked Bo well enough. She was good company, and if things were different, he wouldn't mind talking to her more.

[dontkanyeme]

"Good." The smirk turned into a grin, before she nodded back towards the pool table where Kenzi and Hale had taken up bickering instead of actually playing. She then turned back to him, and tipped her head to the side.

"You play?"

[lockwood]

He smirked a little, following her gaze over to the pool table. "Yeah, I play."

[dontkanyeme]

Her grin widened and she pushed to her feet. "Let's go."

She headed back to the table before batting off Kenzi and Hale as she reached for the triangle. "You wanna break?"

[lockwood]

"Sure," He said, taking the triangle from her so he can go about setting it up for them.

[dontkanyeme]

She moved to the side, going to pick up her cue from where she left it as she watched him put everything together.

"So what do you do, other than wander through towns and decide to stay a while?"

[lockwood]

"Not much, really." He says with a shrug, grabbing a cue as he sets up the first shot.

[dontkanyeme]

Her eyebrows went up a bit as she leaned against the side of the table.

"No hobbies? No job?"

[lockwood]

"My family has a lot of money." He said with a shrug, taking that first shot. The balls scattered, one of them sinking into a hole.

[dontkanyeme]

"And so you just do nothing but roll in it?" Bo was not convinced that you did nothing with your life, Tyler. And she will keep needling until you open up, so ... just give her something.

[lockwood]

"For the moment? Yeah. I'm taking a break from school." Again. How Tyler is even still enrolled after all his extended absences is just impressive. It helps to have your mom as mayor.

[dontkanyeme]

"Please tell me you're at least trying to find yourself or something? Because 'wandering aimlessly' doesn't always go over as well as you think."

[lockwood]

"Or something fits pretty well." He's not exactly ready to go telling strangers about the whole breaking the sire bond thing.

[dontkanyeme]

She watched him for a minute. Responding with "or something" just made it seem like he was hiding something, but Bo wasn't the type to push.

"Whatever it is, I hope you find it."

[lockwood]

"I think I will. I kind of have to." Which is as much as he was going to say for now.

[dontkanyeme]

"Good luck."

And she means it. Finding something like yourself is never an easy thing to do, and Tyler's got a road ahead of him.

[lockwood]

"So, you've lived here long?" He asked, more than happy to switch subjects now.

[dontkanyeme]

She shrugged. "Almost two years? But I have family here, so it's starting to feel a little more like home as I go."