Devil's Nest, Monday, 12/15

[bitten_notshy]

After a rather whirlwind if handwavey graduation weekend, Jack was now the holder of a BA in European history and a waiver that would let him start law school in a month. Meaning, if all went according to plan -- and he'd long since given up expecting that to be the case -- he'd be a full-fledged attorney in less than three years.

He'd also had a birthday, so he was now 23. (Or 133, if one was inclined to look at it that way, which Jack only was when he was trying to be unsettling.)

But while major life events came and went, Jack's work at the bar seemed to be eternal. As was, apparently, the island's capability to come up with new and surprising strange events. The dance floor was full of chickens in cunning little capes when Jack got to work. They squawked and flapped a little when he walked through them, but otherwise seemed content where they were.

He decided to let them be, even the one who decided his shoulder was a roost. He didn't particularly like having chickens inside the club, but he suspected he'd like having angry chickens around even less.

[OOC: Open club, open post!]

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[throughaphase]

Kitty had managed to have an extremely rare day off of everything, and that meant she was more than happy to come in... and get away from the chickens she kept finding everywhere.

"Oh," she said. "They're here too."

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm sorry," Jack said apologetically. "They haven't been bothering me too much since I set out some bread for them."

[throughaphase]

"I kinda feel like that's what they're really after," Kitty said, taking a seat. "Turns out trying to get breakfast with a chicken on your shoulder is kind of not possible."

[bitten_notshy]

"Tell me about it," Jack commiserated. "They got the bread because they kept trying to steal my sandwich earlier. I tried to tell them to go scratch for some bugs but I don't think they understood."

[throughaphase]

"Why is there no English-to-chicken dictionary?" Kitty said, only half teasing. "So chickens aside, how've you been?"

[bitten_notshy]

"All the animal transformations on the island, you'd think someone would make such things," Jack mused. "You could make a killing."

Smiling, he added, "I'm good, actually. The weekend was commencement and my birthday, so it had all kinds of milestones. How are you?"

[throughaphase]

"Congratulations and happy birthday," Kitty smiled. "I... had the day off? Yours is better."

[bitten_notshy]

"Thanks, and I'm not expecting too many more weekends like it," Jack admitted with a little laugh. "Days off are much more repeatable."

[throughaphase]

"For some of us," she laughed. "So does this mean you're done with school, or is there a next step?"

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm never going to be done with school," Jack said ruefully. "Not for a few years, anyhow. I've still got law school to go. So I'm saving the celebrations for 2017."

[throughaphase]

"You deserve to celebrate a little. You're like half done," Kitty pointed out.

[bitten_notshy]

"True. I'll get myself a free drink," Jack said, slightly wry. "Can I get you one, too?"

He wanted a party. He did. He just hadn't had a chance to think about planning one.

[throughaphase]

"Rum and Coke?" she decided. "So are you planning anything fun with all this time off till the next set of school?"

[bitten_notshy]

Jack mixed the drink for her, using the really good rum because it was a celebration, and got the same for himself.

"Nothing in particular," he said. "I'll spend some time with Emma, of course, but otherwise I'll just be here. What about you, anything more exciting than a day off on the horizon?"

[throughaphase]

"We're staying here," she said. "That's really about it for once. Low drama and everything."

[bitten_notshy]

"We can hope, at least," Jack said. "I think the island may have gotten drama out of the way for now with that ghost caper. Now it's just being silly."

He glanced at the chickens pointedly as he said that,

[throughaphase]

"Yeeeeeah, that does make me think we should go to one of the New Yorks," she sighed.

[bitten_notshy]

"Are there many differences between yours and his?" Jack asked, idly curious.

[throughaphase]

"Well, they don't seem to have mutants around, which is so weird. And they're pretty new to the messed up stuff that happens, whereas my world's been dealing with that stuff since I was a kid," Kitty said. "But we know a lot of the same people and everything, and if I go to his place there it seems like the New York I know."

Less destroyed, though, currently.