"You're not wrong there," Karen agrees, tipping her head in acknowledgment.
The statement about him getting shot at more than she does gives her pause as she tries to track exactly how high that number is and realizes she's going to need more than a quick moment of mental math to get there. "Well, it's usually not on a weekly basis?" she says after a moment with a helpless shrug. "It's not my favorite part of the job. But I can't imagine doing anything else."
He leans back in his chair and laughs, "Nor mine but I guess it's all part and parcel."
But in a way that's kind of good because it means Karen actually understands parts of his job more than most the women he's met who always say they get it and accept it but later it causes issues.
"Could you imagine doing this again?" He asks, gesturing to the bar and them.
"Yeah, less of a fringe benefit and more of a, uh, borderline drawback?" she suggests, a glimmer of amusement in her eyes as she takes a sip of her own drink.
His question is met with a thoughtful look, a slight smile at the corner of her mouth. "Maybe not at Josie's. But yeah. Do you think you can handle not being involved when I have a dangerous case?" She figures it's a fair question, if fairly direct. And an important one. Keeping people from being caught in the crosshairs of her bullshit is her top priority.
"I believe so." He answers but then lifts a brow at her, "Do you think you can handle not always getting the full story from me about my work or the people who hire me?"
After all he works with some people who require anonymity.
It's a fair question. One shoulder lifts in a shrug. It makes sense that people that want to hire a private security company would also have some conditions of anonymity. "So long as you're not involved in anything shady, I don't think it'll be a problem. If your name turns up in one of my investigations, I'll have a lot of questions."
"Guess that depends on what you define as shady." He says and then expands before she can answer, "If you mean am I working for criminals that are hurting and killing folk? No. But am I always working for saints? No."
"Life's a lot more shades of gray than people usually think," Karen answers. It's clearly something that she's spent a lot of time thinking about. "My sources aren't always fine, upstanding citizens. I'm going to guess that means you've been known to work for some incredibly rich people?" she guesses, sounding amused. Morals tend to get...questionable...once people get into higher tax brackets.
"I've worked for incredibly rich but I've also worked for incredibly poor." He twirls his pint glass with his one hand, "But for the most part I work for Thomas and Martha unless things are dry."
He is intentionally leaving out their last names, he knows that Karen is clever and will recognize the last name Wayne. How could she not when the family is incredibly rich and one of the most powerful in Gotham?
"Sounds like you have a good relationship with them. That must be nice consistency in your line of work." She's met a few other guys that work in private security. The aggressively corporate types remind her of nothing so much as sharks in fancy suits. He strikes her more as the other type, like the draw is in doing something he's good at on his terms.
Karen won't run a search on his usual employers, but there's a non-zero chance she'll put two and two together at some point anyway.
"Also sounds like we should plan to go out again sometime," she suggests with a smile.
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The statement about him getting shot at more than she does gives her pause as she tries to track exactly how high that number is and realizes she's going to need more than a quick moment of mental math to get there. "Well, it's usually not on a weekly basis?" she says after a moment with a helpless shrug. "It's not my favorite part of the job. But I can't imagine doing anything else."
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But in a way that's kind of good because it means Karen actually understands parts of his job more than most the women he's met who always say they get it and accept it but later it causes issues.
"Could you imagine doing this again?" He asks, gesturing to the bar and them.
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His question is met with a thoughtful look, a slight smile at the corner of her mouth. "Maybe not at Josie's. But yeah. Do you think you can handle not being involved when I have a dangerous case?" She figures it's a fair question, if fairly direct. And an important one. Keeping people from being caught in the crosshairs of her bullshit is her top priority.
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After all he works with some people who require anonymity.
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He is intentionally leaving out their last names, he knows that Karen is clever and will recognize the last name Wayne. How could she not when the family is incredibly rich and one of the most powerful in Gotham?
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Karen won't run a search on his usual employers, but there's a non-zero chance she'll put two and two together at some point anyway.
"Also sounds like we should plan to go out again sometime," she suggests with a smile.
ooc: shall we end here?
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