Fandom Post Office, November 27 (Tuesday)

[filleauloup]

Éponine had not, it should be noted, intended to bring her cat to work with her today.

But Alouette had, perhaps out of an intense distaste for the idea of being home alone all day with no one to pay attention to her, followed her right out the door and all the way to the post office, and by that point, well, what was Éponine to do but let the cat stay the rest of the day?

It had seemed like a simple enough solution until Éponine sat down to take care of some paperwork and Alouette climbed up and went to sleep in her lap, and now she was looking down at the sleeping cat (which she was petting) and frowning.

"What'm I to do with you now, hmm? I've work to do, you see, but I can't hardly disturb you either, can I? That's the rule. You're asleep on me, so that's the rule. There's no disturbing the cat. It's clever of you, it is, taking advantage of that."

Alouette slept on, admitting no guilt or innocence either in the matter of how effectively she'd played the rules of this game to her advantage.

[OOC: Post open! OCD-free.

The Magic Box, Tuesday

[always_someone]

Norman came in to the Magic Box to find most of Nina's attempts at summoning circles still on the floor.

He stared at them for a few minutes, kind of stunned. And then glanced suspiciously at the books, who were sitting on the shelves, playing innocent.

And then he went to get something to wipe them off the floor with.

At the very first smudge of the cloth against the summoning circle, there was a bright glow of greenish light, and then, standing before Norman, teeth glistening, inky black coat so sleek it seemed to swallow the light itself, and six intense dark eyes staring directly at him, there was--

--- The most adorable three-headed teeny tiny baby puppy he'd ever beheld. It barked. They barked? There was barking involved. And then, while one of the heads clearly wanted to come over and say hello to Norman and gave its tail a wag, the other two heads really, really wanted to actually chase that tail.

In opposite directions.

"Oh my god."

This was not something that Norman had expected from his day, no.

At least the rest of the cleanup had gone smoothly, without further incident. Mostly. Apparently the puppy wasn't (weren't?) quite housebroken yet.

[OOC: The Week Of Puppy continues, dangit! Open!]

Book Haven, Tuesday

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina breezed into the bookstore and stopped, eyeing the blond who eyed her right back, distaste already clear in his expression.

"Oh!!!!!!!!!!!!" she said, like this was some sort of surprise at all. (It really wasn't.) "I know who you are!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're the other blond who does my radio slot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

He grimaced. "You can have it," he said flatly. "What are you doing here?"

"I quit my other job," Nina said, setting her bag down on the counter and heading around behind it. "Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your dog is adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And weird. Definitely weird. That was a tentacle. But she didn't miss the way that the guy thawed slightly at the dog's compliment.

"He--what are you doing?!"

Nina sat down on the other stool. "What's it look like?????????????? I'm now co-owner here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice to meet you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"What? No."

Book Haven is Open!!!!!!!!!

Furnado Animal Shelter, Tuesday

[puppy_fair]

It was actually a pretty quiet day at the animal shelter, today. All of the puppies seemed to be pretty tuckered out for some reason, which meant less playtime and more cuddle time. Which suited Zack just fine, admittedly. He was still a little bit out of sorts - Portalocity wasn't going to let him book a portal back to his own world, and apparently nothing he could say or do was going to fix that.

Giving a heavy sigh, he flopped down in the seat behind the counter, Girl resting her chin in his lap, and tried to take advantage of some of the quiet in order to catch up on paperwork that had fallen a little to the wayside around all of this Portalocity nonsense and that roiling sick worry that he got every time he tried Ino's phone and was sent directly to voicemail.

... The number of cozy puppies in his lap might have steadily increased as the day went on.

[OOC: Open!]

Covent Garden Flowers; Tuesday [11/27].

[white_oleander]

Okay.

Okay, wow.

That was...a lot of poinsettias in the flower shop today, greeting Astrid with nearly aggressive bursts of red the moment she opened the door, finding it difficult to even maneuver around then enough to make her way to the counter, which was practically covered in them, and she had to move a particularly big one that was sitting right on the chair, struggling a bit with it in her hands because there was hardly anywhere else to put it. But she found a spot, got settled behind the counter, faintly irritated, but figuring once she got into her book, it might be kind of nice to feel like she was just surrounded by flowers in a little hidden alcove of sorts.

Because she was definitely hidden there behind the counter, somewhere. If you looked closely, you could see the top of her blonde head there among all the red petals, with the occasional murmur of "It's not even December yet" to guide the way.

Covent Garden is open!

Community Center Class: Modern Earth Entertainment

[2_old_for_this]

When everyone got in, they'd find Peter eyeing the TV oddly. "Okay, this is another one I don't know if I should blame on gremlins or what. I'm pretty sure the movie here isn't the one I rented, but I tried another one and it's the same thing."

Maybe he'd left them in the car too long, and this was what happened to DVDs?

"So I guess this is what we're watching today. Keep an eye out for gremlins, just in case. It is a pretty well-known movie, anyway, and was really popular at the time, so it's a good one for the class. Just not what I'd planned on."

Luke's, Tuesday

[battlewithstyle]

Mitsutada had not gotten the chance to celebrate Thanksgiving as instead he'd been called into a mission at Sekigahara. Again.

At least it wasn't the Ikedeya Affair. Again. The Retrograde forces sure loved to hit the same historical events over and over and over.

Mitsutada didn't even raise a fuss about the specials board today. He was too glum to worry about it.

Today's Specials
California Roll
Texas Toast
Baked Alaska


Luke's was open! And OCD-free as always.

Caritas, Tuesday Evening

[uncertain_dume]

Kitty was still taking leave with her new little one, which meant that tonight could very well have been a Tino night.

Could have been, except that when Kanan made his way in to the bar looking for his usual juice fix, Tino actually made his way out from behind the counter, marched right up to Kanan, pressed his hands to the back of his shoulders, and manhandled him all the way back to behind the bar.

Kanan just kind of shrugged and rolled with it. He missed bartending, anyway. And besides, anything to help Kitty while she settled in to life with a baby.

Or, alternatively, yeah, sure, he'd act as a buffer for Tino from any potential Seivarden and Rosa flirting. He wasn't born yesterday, Tino. He was on to your plot.

[OOC: Posted with permission! Open bar is open, happy Tuesday!]