Caritas, Saturday Evening

[newroutines]

Mike still had his beard and his mustache, because no one had convinced him to give them up yet, and he was actually starting to get a little used to them.

But that wasn't really what was on his mind tonight. He'd been listening to the radio, and while he hadn't been paying a ton of attention to the island over the last week or so, even he still had an uneasy feeling about the way the wildlife and nature on the island seemed to be acting. Maybe it was nothing. Maybe it was something.

He was trying to stay optimistic. At least the island didn't seem to be invaded this week?

TONIGHT'S SPECIAL
Calm Voyage

Caritas was open.

[ooc: Open, no ocd!]

Comments

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

Cheerful after a day spent searching through Baltimore, Allie came into the bar and placed several bags on the counter.

"Guess what I got," she grinned at Mike.

[newroutines]

"... Bags?" Mike guessed, raising his eyebrows at them.

He was not a great guesser. But he looked amused, so maybe that made up for it somehow.

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

Allie rolled her eyes and smirked. "Yes bags. But it's what's in the bags that's important."

Since he wasn't psychic, she started emptying the bags on the bar. From one plastic bag she pulled out several chocolate bars she'd gotten at a chain drugstore. From the other, much fancier bag, she pulled out a selection of chocolates (http://mapetiteshoe.com/chocolate-1). "I remembered how we'd talked about if there was a difference in chocolates. I thought we could do a little taste testing."

[newroutines]

Too bad Mike's eyebrows had already been up, because that meant he couldn't raise them the appropriate amount now. "Holy shit," he said with a snicker. "That's a lot of chocolate."

Hold on.

"Wait, don't you –– I mean, wasn't there a whole thing about how you can't taste it or something?"

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

She had a lifetime of chocolate deprivation to make up for!

"I did," Allie admitted. "But now I don't. I don't need to worry about the sun either. Or sleeping during the day."

[newroutines]

"Oh," Mike said, nodding. "It's one of those weekends? The usual weird thing."

Well, that's what it sounded like to him!

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

"Yup, one of those weekends," she agreed, quietly grateful that she didn't need to lie.

So...moving on to important things.

"So where do we start? The every day stuff and then work our way up?"

[newroutines]

Mike shrugged with a little smile. "Sure, that sounds like as sound a strategy as any. I, uh, haven't ever given that much thought."

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

"I might have put a little thought into it." Or a lot, judging by her somewhat sheepish smile. "The girl at the shop said to take my time and savor everything."

A piece of a plain Hershey bar seemed like a good place to start.

[newroutines]

"I think the girl at the shop was probably right," Mike noted, picking up one of the fancier chocolates just to give the package a closer look. "Man, you went all out."

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

"I probably got carried. But how was I supposed to make decisions with that many choices?"

She nibbled a piece of the Hershey bar and smiled. "Tasty."

[newroutines]

Another smile tugged at the corners of Mike's mouth. He reached out for the Hershey bar, to break off a piece for himself. "Yeah, it is," he said. "So, what else have you been doing with your newfound ability to be like a non-vampire?"

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

"Taste testing everything. Wandering around in the sun. Just enjoying it. I even made it into D.C. to finally see the museums," Allie told him. "Did you know they have a rock from the moon in one of them? And they let you touch it!"

[newroutines]

"I... actually did not know that." Mike Lane was a lot of thing, but a big museum-goer was sadly not one of them. "Sounds cool. Did you like it? I'm assuming you liked it."

[allie-vamp.livejournal.com]

When it came right down to it. Allie was a nerd who enjoyed learning stuff.

"I loved it. There were dinosaur bones and tools that were made thousands of years ago." She paused and tried to sum up why it was so important to her. "I always knew we'd lost a lot of knowledge when everything went to hell. But to actually see how much was kind of sad."