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Fandom Post Office, March 12

If yesterday had been a bit light on deliveries, today was even more so: there were several regularly-scheduled parcels that Éponine had been told to expect every Tuesday, and none of them had come in. (That was probably for the best, since she knew perfectly well that there were bottles of rum in there and had been trying to figure out how to 'appropriate' some of them for herself and then re-seal the packaging without anyone noticing.)

On the one hand, it meant she and her scrawny frame didn't have to lug them around town, but on the other hand it left her with a little more down time in her day than she liked having.

As a result, she resorted to tidying things up around the post office, reorganizing and even doing a bit of cleaning up. If she was doing this for the sake of figuring out where she could stash some of her things (particularly the liquor) for safekeeping because no, she still didn't have an actual place to live? Well, no one had to know.

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As you do.

If that's more your thing.

Kitty had been meaning to check up since the party (...a month ago, oops) and in between dealing with work issues she decided to go for a little walk and do just that. "Hey there," she greeted her with a smile.

Éponine looked up from the stack of customs forms she'd been arranging and half-smiled in response. "Mademoiselle," she answered, nodding her head. "I haven't seen you in a while."

"Yeah, I know, I sort of... failed there," she admitted. "You can call me Kitty, by the way. I just wanted to come in and see how you were settling in."

For a second or two, all Éponine could do was stand there and look at her in surprise; she had no idea what to do with people taking an apparent interest in how she was, and somehow people here kept doing that.

"I think I'm managing, so far," she said, gesturing around the post office before she leaned against the service counter. "How in hell that happened, I haven't a clue."

Random runs of good luck: she also had no idea what to do with those.

"Talent? Luck? This place being freakishly easy like that?" she suggested.

Éponine snorted. "Whatever it is, I won't turn it down," she said, though she still expected something to come along and yank the rug out from under her any time now. "I haven't eaten this well since -- well, never mind."

She stared past Kitty for a moment, humming softly, then snapped out of it.

"It's so quiet here, after Paris, and none of those awful crowds."

"I don't think Ive ever seen a real crowd here. Maybe the picnics," she said thoughtfully. "We haven't bored you yet, have we?"

"Hardly. I quite like it," Éponine assured her. "Except for when everyone went away on that trip! Then it was dreadfully quiet, not pleasantly quiet. Anyhow, some days I'm run off my feet here and hardly have time to think, much less be bored."

She glanced toward the back room and frowned. "It's oddly not that busy today, though."

"Everyone forgot to send mail today?" Kitty guessed.

"Someone did. I've been expecting a few packages to come through, and they haven't," Éponine replied. "It's just as likely they're a day late, I suppose."

"I've been dealing with stuff like that all morning," Kitty said. "Maybe it's going around."

"That could be," Éponine agreed absently. "Is it anything in particular that's missing?"

"Rum shipments." And then realizing that probably sounded weird without context, added, "I run one of the bars. It's not for me or anything."

Pssh, as if Éponine would have judged her for getting rum shipped in for herself. "Well, that is strange," she blurted out, "seeing as that's exactly what I was expecting to come through today."

And, you know, possibly steal from, but details.

"Ugh. It's probably the same people I've been talking to, too," she sighed. "Some sort of dispute, yadda yadda, no idea when we're getting anything no matter how much I yell..."

"You mean to say they aren't sending any at all?" Pardon her for looking slightly horrified about that.

"Doesn'took like it. At least not till things get resolved," Kitty said. "I'm hoping it won't take any more than a day or two."

Ha.

"It's liquor. Someone will find a way to persuade them soon enough," Éponine decided, because she'd grown up in a tavern and had a somewhat skewed experience on the matter. "You aren't in any danger of running out, are you?"

"Of rum, I give us maybe a day before we're out, but we have other stuff so I'm sure it'll be fine," Kitty said. "I'm sure people will live as king as we still have vodka."

Éponine winced. "As long as there's something to keep everyone happy, perhaps they won't notice? Otherwise I might know a few tricks to stretch the supplies."

Éponine. No.

Well now she had to ask. "Like what?"

Éponine raised an eyebrow. "Let's save that information for if you actually need to use it, hmm?"

Sorry, Kitty. No giving away for free what she could get some kind of profit from if possible. Opportunism was a hard habit to shake.

"Information tease," she smiled. Since truth was, she probably wouldn't have used it anyway.

She probably wouldn't have wanted to, because it was gross and would not have passed modern FDA standards. Hell, Éponine wouldn't want to either.

"A girl has to have some secrets, you know."

"True, I just never considered that they'd be about how to make alcohol last," she said lightly. "But then, I was sheltered." Yeah, no, not really.

"My parents kept an inn when I was younger," Éponine explained, shrugging like it wasn't a particularly wince-worthy memory. "There's a thing or two I learned, hanging about."

Thanks to

fates_jaye for letting me play with the rum thing.

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