Caritas, Monday

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While Jake wouldn't quite call it brooding, Mother's Day had always managed to get him down just a bit. So he was drowning his sorrows the day after in the tried and true Doyle way: drinking.

He'd probably serve you a drink too, if you wanted. Probably.

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Oh, so there had been a holiday or something, yesterday? Jono hadn't even realized. After all, Mother's Day was in a completely different month back in the UK, and his own mother was... something of a failure when it came to mothering, if a few months of quality time with a gaping chest wound and no visitors despite making international news was any indication.

So he wasn't really all that bothered by missing the holiday. What was kind of eating at him was the realization that the island seemed to have grown a great deal lonelier since graduation. And what better way to combat loneliness than by sitting on a barstool, knocking back imported beer, and looking terribly antisocial?

It was one of his great talents. Don't you dare judge.

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"You're looking crooked."

...Some people generally started with 'hello', Jake.

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Some people! Jono wasn't generally one of those people, either. He did glance up with a raised eyebrow, though, taking a moment to... decipher that.

"Assuming that means I'm looking like I'm in a mood and generally unapproachable," you know, in real-people language, "it really isn't much different from how I normally look, mate."

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"And yet you're here, instead of drinking alone in the basement like the rest of us when we're feeling unapproachable," Jake noted.

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Tall, blue and broody was getting a drink sent over, courtesy of the pretends to act like a lady. Scotch seemed about right for world-weariness. At least it looked classier than sending over a beer.

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Scotch always looked classy, and it was met with a bit of stunned silence and some mildly baffled staring at before Tino pointed out who had sent it Jono's way and he actually looked.

Which resulted in a bit of a tilt of his head, followed by a wry little smile and a nod as he lifted his glass.

He would have taken the beer too, of course, but he would have judged like hell if it hadn't been an import.

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Please. Callie would never attempt a pick up with a Budweiser.

She was going to saunter her way over to the man, now.

"Do you come here often?" she asked. Cliche, but best to start with the classics.

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Mary didn't have a problem with Mother's Day. She did have an issue with spending another night in her suite watching Lifetime movies with Gunther. So there she was at the bar, ordering a Shirley Temple from Tino and giving Jake a warm smile.

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"Mary!" Jake returned that smile, greeting her warmly. "Always a pleasure."

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"I should get out more often if it will make you smile," said Mary. "How's your day going?"

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"You're in a bar, but you're not drinking," Callie said.

It wasn't entirely meant to be antagonistic. Callie was just bad at making friends.

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"Recovering alcoholic, and I wasn't in the mood for coffee," said Mary. "It kind of narrows down the choices."

Antagonistic or not, she was happy to talk to anyone who wasn't Gunther.

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Jaye wasn't brooding. She had, though, been expected to be home, all weekend for Mother's Day, which meant that today she was in the bar.

"Beer," she said. "Beer beer beer."

It was that kind of weekend.

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"Four beers, coming up," Jake said obligingly, placing them in front of Jaye.

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She should have known that in this bar, those words would get that response.

"And thus, you are now my favorite bartender," she decided.

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"Good day for double-fisting them," Callie noted, lifting her own martini in solidarity.

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"I tend to try to stick to single fisting. Tends to end better for everyone that way," Jaye said.

She 'that's what she said'ed herself in her head, thank you.

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Callie wasn't sure how she hadn't found the bar sooner -- oh, right, because she had alcohol in her room. But this was socializing, and with adults, unlike the teenage creatures that were in her class.

"Vodka martini, dry," she said, taking a stool at the bar. She checked her lipstick in her compact's mirror one last time before closing it and taking in the bartender. "Is this the usual crowd for a Monday?"

She was new.

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"Mondays are usually pretty quiet," Jake had to admit, as he got the drink ready. "Aside from me, I suppose. I'm here every Monday."

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"Are you saying you could use some company?" Callie asked, leaning back with a grin.

See Succubus. See Succubus Flirt.

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This went up slightly later than I intended. Sorry, got distracted by spreadsheets!

Might be slow for a bit during class, but around after!