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The Devil's Nest, Friday Evening

Tiny was behind the bar quietly cleaning glasses.

The DJ was playing songs about long lost loves.

Allie was going to sit in her usual spot by the bar and not ask ANY questions.

[OCD free tonight!]
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filleauloup: (Cautious Watching ("Now I remember."))

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Isn't everyone in a mood around here tonight?" remarked Éponine as she wandered in and let herself drop onto a barstool. "Good lord, at least it's quiet."

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm just keeping my head down," Allie replied. "I'm afraid to ask any questions but I'm not sure I'm ready to handle the answers."
filleauloup: (Only a Kid (West End "Look Down"))

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"There's no point, anyhow, in asking questions just for the sake of it," said the girl who could ask a dozen of them in a breath but would argue that she had a reason for every single one of them. She cast an appraising glance at Tiny, hummed along with the DJ's current choice of song for a few bars, and shrugged; her left foot was swinging idly back and forth in time with the music. "You'd only run the risk of them not leaving you alone if you did."

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Exactly. I'll listen to a lot of things, but loves lives and the drama attached them?" She shook her head and shuddered. "I'm not the person for that."
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[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Éponine snorted inelegantly. "If that's what I want to hear about, I'll simply read it in a book instead, so I can put it down or skip ahead when I'm tired of it. What good's it do to go on about it, anyhow?"

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"My secret vice," Allie admitted. "I don't want to talk about it, but I do occasionally enjoy one of the really ridiculous romance novels. You're right though. If it's not working, why all the drama?"
filleauloup: (Smiling ("I know your grandpa's rich"))

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Éponine stared at her for a long moment, then burst out laughing (because the other alternative was being bitter). "As if I would know!" she exclaimed. "May as well ask the baker why the wine's so terrible, since goodness knows I've no experience in the matter."

Unless you counted Montparnasse, and since she'd never bothered to consider that anything other than an arrangement of convenience, she wasn't counting it.

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
At least she had something to not count. Allie had...a few kisses under desperate circumstances.

"Or the bartender why the music's so bad," Allie said dryly. "But he'd answer us and that would be bad."

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[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
All right, true. It had been an enjoyable arrangement (sometimes), that was for sure.

"It's not so terrible as all that," Éponine countered. "Still, I'm not about to ask him to change it, either. I know a trap when I see one, that I do --" that was a broad generalization -- "and we'd only be asking for trouble."

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
"No, he's played worse." There was the night with the country music and the guy and his horse and yeah, not thinking about that any longer. "I think we're better off ignoring them both. Besides, I have a funny story to tell you."
filleauloup: (Almost Hopeful (Éponine's Errand))

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Do you now?" Éponine seemed far too eager about that prospect. "Well, then, long as it doesn't have a thing to do with horses, let's hear it."

Distractions were good.

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not horses," Allie said, laughing at the memory. "Puppies. Who aren't really puppies after all."
filleauloup: (Upset (Just read the letter))

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Éponine barely suppressed a wince. (It had been funny, but after yesterday it was also a bit of a sore spot.)

"Oh, did that happen to you?" she asked casually. "And were you the one surprised or doing the surprising?"

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-03 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Usually I'm a bat." It said something about how accustomed to the weirdness Allie had gotten that she was able to say that with a casual nonchalance. "This was a puppy I'd found almost three weeks ago. I thought it might be someone, but when he didn't change after a few days, I figured he really was a puppy. Then suddenly last Wednesday, oops! Naked Jake on my couch."

Sprawled across Allie as it were, but she was keeping that bit to herself.
filleauloup: (Wry Smirk ("Look what's become of me.")

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-03 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wasn't a puppy nearly as long," Éponine noted with a wry half-smile. "And I was a wolf, not a dog, but the same thing happened to me."

She was also not discussing what she'd been doing at the time. That part was just humiliating.

[identity profile] allie-vamp.livejournal.com 2013-08-04 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Hopefully you were somewhere with access to a handy blanket or towel." Allie shook her head, "I'm at least lucky that there's usually no one around when I change back."

It was one of the fun joys of being nocturnal.
filleauloup: (Weird Little Half-Smile)

[personal profile] filleauloup 2013-08-04 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, don't you worry about that. My modesty --" such as it was any more, Éponine thought -- "was perfectly intact."
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