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Caritas [Tuesday]

Robin was bored enough tonight that she was betting with Tino. The bet was contingent on whether she could hit him in the face with tiny balled-up straw wrappers -- if she got ten, she won.

So far, she was at seven. Tino was less than pleased.

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Sing!

Drink!

Unsurprisingly, Jaina was having one of those nights when she just didn't want to be alone with her thoughts, which meant hitting up the only place that was guaranteed to have at least one person there. And upon walking in, she saw the bartender and realized, "I haven't been here on Tuesday yet."

Robin glanced up from trying for number eight, and raised a brow. "No, you haven't. You look older. You're Jaina, right? Unless Brooke shrank."

She sort of missed Brooke sometimes.

"It was so much better when that name never got brought up," she sighed, taking a seat. "Yeah, I'm Jaina. It's been a while, so you're the Robin who's not green and felt?"

"Oh, god, I'll refrain from mentioning Brooke if you refrain from mentioning my froggy namesake," Robin said with an eyeroll. "What can I get you?"

Jaina did not smirk at all at that little bit of revenge for the Brooke reference. "Just an iced tea," she said. "What's with the papers?"

"You don't think Tino deserves to be hit in the face with straw wrappers repeatedly?" she wondered.

"I'm kind of sorry I didn't think of it first," Jaina admitted, frowning.

"I win if I can hit him ten times. We're on eight now," she said proudly.

"What do you win?" she asked.

"Tino didn't set terms for that. He just wants to get to do it to me if I lose," Robin said happily. "So I'm still deciding."

Tino didn't look thrilled about this, no.

"Well, that was his fault for making it completely worse for himself," she reasoned.

"Exactly," Robin said, hitting Tino squarely in the middle of the forehead. "You should try. Do you still work here? I thought I heard something on radio."

"I don't want to interrupt your ten," Jaina told her. "And yeah, I've still got Saturdays. Apparently as long as I'm in Fandom, I get to work here."

"But you must've left and come back. Or else you really need to get more sleep," Robin suggested. "How old're you now?"

"Twenty-seven," she said. "I do not look like I need to get more sleep." They had techniques for that.

"Yeah, but you were like, sixteen or whatever last time I saw you," Robin said, waving a hand. "You kids need to stop leaving and coming back all old. You're making me feel older."

"Saw John, too, huh?" she guessed. Unless someone else had come back older and she'd missed it.

"He came to my wedding," Robin admitted. "Not nice, making a bride feel all old on her wedding day, I might note."

"Jaina," Aly said, giving her a smile. "I heard you were teaching now, but I was starting to think it was a myth."

Wow, that was someone she hadn't expected to see again. "No, not a myth. Though I am questioning that due to sudden flashbacks of being sixteen," she grinned. "Hi, how are you doing?"

She chuckled. "It's kind of nice making someone feel younger for once. Usually I get the other way." She shook her head. "I've been well. I think it's been longer for you than me since you were in my class, hm?"

"Five years plus the... however long it was since I left your class. I can't tell time like that anymore," she explained.

"Congratulations," she said. Meaning for staying alive mostly. "Teaching just for a break from real life or is it a career change?"

"A break from real life would be the best way to put it," she said slowly. "What about you? I didn't expect you to be back here."

"You and me both," she admitted. "I missed my students a little bit apparently."

"It's not a bad reason to come back," Jaina said with a little smile. "Just for the semester, or is it a more permanent thing?"

"We'll see about that when the semester ends," Aly said. She rolled her eyes teasingly. "No reason to decide these things too early or anything."

"Good call," Jaina said. "That's what I've been saying, only it's more like 'I don't know.'"

"Nah, you have to spin it better," she said, obviously amused. "Like making it into a positive thing that you haven't decided yet. Get people to try to convince you."

Jaina raised her eyebrows, looking likewise amused. "Do I want to be convinced?"

"I don't know, but it's always fun when they try," Aly replied.

"I might have to try it your way," Jaina decided, more interested in the results than anything. She didn't think anyone would try to convince her. "We'll see how that goes."

"People usually find that works best," she said with a mischievous grin.

Aly hadn't been back in Caritas since the semester had started, but when she walked in, she couldn't help smiling at how much hadn't changed. Same zombies, same Tino, even same bartender - with some new jewelry.

"I've heard congratulations are in order," she said, giving Robin a smile as she nodded towards the ring.

"It's new, yeah," Robin said with a little smile. "But not so new that you have to fawn over it, don't worry. I didn't know you were back!"

"Don't worry. You were in no danger of fawning," she chuckled. "I've been sadly hermit-like since I got back. Time to fix that, i think."

"You should try to grow a hermit beard. Or at least get a fake one," Robin decided.

"My cheekbones aren't strong enough to carry off a beard," Aly decided. "It's a bad look for me."

"Beard would just hide those cheekbones. Or you could always just get a giant mustache," Robin suggested.

"I've done a mustache," she said thoughtfully. "Want you to bring me one next week? Handlebar or the twirly kind?"

"Is that even a question? Twirly!" Robin said, beaming. "When did you become a mustache connoisseur?"

"Disguises have always been my thing," Aly laughed. "The twirly ones are way more fun, it's totally true."

"I can be diabolical," Robin said with a nod.

"You'll have to work on your laugh," she pointed out.

Lounge!

...be in the back room!

I have new canon tonight, so there may be slowness!

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