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Alice had not gotten very far into the Bs before she discovered an enormous row of albums all by the same artist: The Beatles. Well. That required some investigation.

She nearly wrote them off entirely after her first sample, which seemed to be cheery innocuous bubblegum pop, but she gave it another try with an album that had a completely blank cover, and that was a revelation.

Alice would probably not be playing "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" quite so loudly if she understood what exactly Paul was suggesting.

Groovy Tunes was open.

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Do you, don't you, want me to love you?

Sokka didn't normally hit up Groovy Tunes, but when he heard the music spilling out he felt compelled to walk in. Pretty soon, he was singing along and dancing in a very suggestive manner... Which he stopped immediately when he realized that it wasn't Chad behind the counter.

He coughed nervously. "Sorry about that."

The suggestive part of the dance was lost entirely on Alice, still very Victorian and not certain if Sokka was perhaps having a seizure of some kind. It looked painful.

"Are you feeling better now?"

It was not lost on Sokka that the purpose of his pursuit seemed to have been lost on Alice.

"Uhhh... Yeah. The spirits moved me, and I just had to dance. What song was that?"

"Something off the unmarked album," Alice said, opening the CD case and hoping for liner notes of some variety. "Apparently, these Beatles had no use for a name for this one. Strange. I would think musicians would be endlessly creative."

"No, see, they're bucking the system!" Sokka countered. "Their album doesn't need a name -- it just IS. It's all kinds of artsy!"

"I suppose anything can be art if you say it is," Alice shrugged. "I would have imagined something mysterious and confusing would be far more artistic. I'm not an artist, so I can't say for sure."

"And an album with no name isn't mysterious and confusing?" Sokka asked. "Besides, one of them's a walrus."

"It seems forgetful, not mysterious," she mused. "Like they placed the album out and then remembered that they hadn't ever named it, and decided to omit it entirely."

She remembered her job, then. "Would you like to buy this music? I'm much better at using the cash register now."

So what if Murdock was slipping out a bit early from his office? He'd spent a good portion of his Sunday ~~playing around~~ doing research for his upcoming class, so he figured he'd earned the cutting out. Stepping inside, he grinned when he heard what was coming from the store speakers.

"You found The Beatles!"

"I did," Alice beamed, dropping him a respectful curtsy. "I'm rather glad they were filed under B and not T for The, else I might not have found them for months."

"Oh, I'm sure someone would've introduced you to them." He walked over and leaned against the counter, then frowned a little as he realized exactly what was playing. "Uh, Alice? Do you know what that song's about?" He hoped she knew, otherwise...oh boy.

"Not the slightest, I'm afraid," Alice said, frowning at the speakers. "There's very little by way of lyrics, you know. Whatever it is he'd like to do, he wishes to do so in the road. No one will be watching, you see. Music of this era is so very cryptic."

Similarly cryptic to her were songs such as "Love in an Elevator" and that AC-slash-DC's song about hosting large balls.

"That's...true," he agreed slowly. "The lyrics don't really give a whole lot of detail, but...erm...it's usually in how people...interpret it."

He fidgeted slightly, trying to think of the best way to broach this subject without embarressing her. Or himself. He isn't exactly prepared to give the 'birds & the bees speech' quite yet.

"Well...uh, he would definitly like to be doing...something." A pause. "Probably with someone else." He fidgeted a bit more. "And not the kind of thing..." he leaned in a bit closer to her, lowering his voice a little, "people usually do in public."

"Are you feeling all right?" Alice asked. "You look as though you've come over ill. Would you care to sit down?"

"No, no, I'm fine. It's just that uh..." Talking about a certain subject matter with a teenage girl is making him a wee bit uncomfortable. "Look Alice, that song...deals with two people. Or rather one person. Who really wants to, well...you know."

He wasn't flailing, not really. Twitch.

"Do 'it' in the road," Alice supplied helpfully. "He's established that much. As for your concerns about privacy, he's reassured the audience that no one is to be watching. Is this 'it' something unseemly? You seem rather upset."

If he knew what the phrase 'head desk' meant, he'd so be doing it right now.

"I'm not upset, no." Just getting a bit embarressed, is all. "Er...well, doing 'it'," he made little air quotes, "in the road means...willing to be risky. He's only trying to, ah...reassure the other person that no one will see them. Though there's a chance that they could be spotted. And uh..." he was really trying not to fidget further, since Alice seemed to be under the assumption that he was ill. Or something. "They'd be doing something that...um, most people do in private."

Sure, like any of *that* was going to be *so* helpful.

"Something illegal, then?" Alice asked curiously, clasping her hands behind her back and rocking onto her heels. "Immoral, unseemly, unethical? Are they fighting against a power?"

"Uh, no," he quickly held a finger aloft, "but there are some songs on that particular album that deal with those things. Like fighting against something would be 'Revolution 1'. As for this one however..." He thought for a minute. "Actually, there are also numerous songs also on that album that deal with...the same thing as this song." He pointed at the speakers.

"It's uh..." Clearly, he wasn't making a whole lot of headway by beating around the bush ~~hah!~~ so something a little more direct might be called for. "Personal relationships. Especially..." he gave her a look, "intimate ones."

Alice tilted her head at him, considering that for a few seconds.

"Is he hoping to lure a young lady away from her chaperones?" she asked, flushing slightly. "So that he might be forward with her, while they're courting? I would imagine a road would be rather too public for that, but that's perhaps where the reassurance comes in."

Alice was so very, very Victorian.

And that was probably as close as Murdock was going to get her with innuendos. "Yes." He almost said it as a sigh of relief.

"Definitely with the... being forward part. A lot of forward. The kind that usually results in marriage." Sometimes with a shotgun in tow.

"The road is just a euphuism. For uh...wanting to see if they'd caught. It's risky, you see."

Murdock? So not Victorian. Age of the sexual revolution and free love? Yes. ~~not that he probably *had*, but he was certainly was around then~~

Oh. He was an eager suitor, hoping to steal a few clandestine kisses and caresses. That changed the nature of the song entirely.

She wasn't certain what the road was euphemistic for, and decided she didn't wish to know. This conversation was a bit awkward as it was.

"Do you think I should play a different tune?" Alice asked, fighting down a much harder blush. "Will it be taken that I'm advocating ... forwardness or impropriety?"

"Around here, folks are likely to think nothing of it. Unless they're also from the past or a world where perhaps people aren't always...so forward with one another."

"I don't think it implies that you're advocating anything. Except The Beatles. And that's ok," he grinned a little, trying to dispell the awkwardness. "They've got a lot of great albums, though. Like Abbey Road."

Yah. Because there's nothing sexual about any of *those* songs either.

I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you

Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer

You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer

Edited 2008-05-27 20:46 (UTC)

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