Devil's Nest, Monday, 06/22

[bitten_notshy]

Jack had noticed the yurts on a tromp around the forest that morning, and was once again smug that he had graduated before the school administration started looking at cabin alternatives. The yurts looked much worse.

Things were quiet at the club that day, so he passed the time taking stock of all the mixers. There was juice from fruit he'd never even heard of, let alone tasted.

[OOC: Open club, open post!]

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[icecoldfrost]

Emma had gotten her good news, and, well, decided the best way to tell Jack "Hey, remember that conversation we had about living in the same universe again sometime? Well, I did something about it, at least for a few weeks." was to surprise him! ...at work.

It was possible Emma was terrible at surprises and had not actually thought this through. As usual.

But here she was, waltzing into the Devil's Nest like she owned it, looking fabulous and plopping herself down at the bar for a drink. And to oggle that boy doing mixer inventory.

[bitten_notshy]

Werewolf senses meant Jack knew Emma was in the bar as soon as she walked in, but he didn't want her to know just yet. He kept coolly restocking guava juice until he reached a natural stopping point.

"Oh, hey," he said, managing not to grin too broadly just yet. "I know you."

[icecoldfrost]

He could take his time! Turned out, he had a rather nice butt (even if it wasn't a 'swimmer's arse' this time).

"And I know you. Fancy that, darling," she drawled. "What does a girl need to do to get a drink around here?"

[bitten_notshy]

"I hear the bartender gives free drinks to any girl he fancies," Jack said, lowering his voice. "Can you imagine the scandal if that got out?"

Tiny rolled his eyes at them and went of to bother the DJ.

[icecoldfrost]

"The town would be up in arms, I'm sure," Emma whispered. "...want to point me to him so I can work my wiles discreetly?"

Emma, you are not discreet. At all.

[bitten_notshy]

"Short fellow. Blond. Fantastically sexy accent," Jack said blandly. "Seen anybody like that around here?"

He failed at discretion too.

[icecoldfrost]

"Hrmmmm...." Emma squinted at Tiny and the DJ, and then back at Jack. "I guess it might be you, then, since neither of them seem the type to have a sexy accent."

She leaned in, providing a fantastic view. "So. What is it you fancy?"

[bitten_notshy]

Jack leered comically at her cleavage. "What do you think I fancy? World peace, of course. But if I can't have that tonight, you'll do nicely."

[icecoldfrost]

"I'll 'do?'" Emma replied, utterly affronted, and put her hand to her chest as she went diamond. "I think I'm insulted. I'm easily worth more than world peace, if you went and got me appraised."

[bitten_notshy]

"... right, I'm going to assume you're speaking metaphorically and let that one go," Jack said, a shade more coolly. He liked diamonds as much as anyone, but he was fairly certain a hundred-odd pounds of diamonds wouldn't buy a handful of congressmen, much less world peace. "What brings me the pleasure of your company, anyhow?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Don't be absurd, of course I was. Even if I shall now have to sulk because you don't think I'm flawless," Emma sighed, shifting back to her default state. "What? I can't show up just because I missed you and thought you might want a nice surprise?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Never said you weren'tflawless," Jack said, by way of appeasement. "And you can, but did you?"

He knew his girlfriend,you see.

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes. Mostly yes," she said, and suddenly Emma was nervous. This shouldn't be hard, she'd practiced with Candy, but what if she'd misunderstood or he'd changed his mind or a million other things that filled her head at that moment.

She reached into her bodice and pulled out a piece of paper, folded in thirds. "Just remember," she warned as she handed over her teaching acceptance letter. "You're the one that suggested more quality time."

[justlurkinghere]

It seemed like ages since Derek had visited Jack at work. Which meant Derek was there, creeping in like the weirdo he was.

Sorry not sorry.

[bitten_notshy]

"Hello there to you, too," Jack grinned. "Don't be so shy."

[justlurkinghere]

"Shy isn't what I'd call myself," Derek replied with a small, quick smile back at him.

[bitten_notshy]

"No, that's not why you're quiet,is it?" Jack agreed. "It just sounded better than telling you not to loom. Sit down, anyhow. Come taste watermelon juice with me."

[justlurkinghere]

"I only loom because you're short," Derek replied. With all the kindness of his heart. "Watermelon juice?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Watermelon juice," Jack nodded, pouring Derek a glass of something pink and frothy and pointedly ignoring the remark about his height. "I was going through the mixers. Basically we've got juice of every fruit known to man."

[justlurkinghere]

He could always just take it out on Derek at the next full moon.

"No one even drinks mixed drinks." When Derek worked.

[bitten_notshy]

"Which is probably why we have so many fucking mixers," Jack nodded in agreement. "We buy them because Tiny gets some idea in his head, and then they stay forever."

[justlurkinghere]

"Tiny needs to stop trying to make these things happen," Derek replied with a sigh. "Unless we start hosting a ladies night, I don't know if these things will be drunk."

[bitten_notshy]

"Exactly." Jack looked thoughtful. "I know this wasn't here you were going with that, but should we have a lady's night? Might drum up a little business."

[justlurkinghere]

"Couldn't hurt to try."

[bitten_notshy]

"At worst it'd give me something more interesting to do on my shift than sort through odd flavors of juice," Jack said. "Unless you wanted to host."