Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Okay so maaaaaybe Kitty had come in with wet jeans because she’d decided to slide down a hill.

And maaaaaybe it was super uncomfortable now while she was working.

And maaaaybe it was a mistake when she was in the bathroom every five minutes.

Shut up, it was fun at the time.


[Open, no OCD!]

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[reicicled]

"Professor K!" Bobby chirped, before having the grace to look kind of sheepish as he remembered this Kitty had said she wasn't a professor. "Isn't this weather great?"

[throughaphase]

“Yeah, you would love this,” Kitty grinned, stopping just short of asking if he did this. “Now that the power’s back, anyway.”

[reicicled]

"I didn't realize how much I'd gotten used to having a cell phone until it died on me," Bobby admitted.

[throughaphase]

“Yeah, that’ll happen. Meanwhile I’ve recharged all my battery packs and ordered a couple more, just in case,” Kitty admitted. “What can I get you?”

[reicicled]

"Something... I dunno, one of those ones with an umbrella in it?" Bobby said. An Expert on alcoholic drinks he was not.

[throughaphase]

Aww, Bobby.

“What kind of flavor are you looking for?” she asked.

[reicicled]

"Something sweet?" he tried. "I had a beer once. Not a fan," he admitted, wrinkling his nose. "But the umbrella drinks always look fun."

[throughaphase]

“We’ll go daiquiri then,” Kitty decided, grabbing a glass. “Strawberry okay?”

[reicicled]

"Sure, why not," Bobby decided. The irony of a daiquiri being a traditonally summery drink was... lost on him entirely, actually. "Did you see the windows yesterday? Mine had a hockey game going all morning!"

[throughaphase]

“Ours was telling us to go ice skating,” Kitty said as she worked on the drink. “We did not go ice skating.”

[reicicled]

"Why not?" Bobby wondered. Bobby, not everyone's reaction to a three-day-long winter storm was to spend as much time as possible outside.

[throughaphase]

“It was cold, and the fireplace was inside, and then we had anniversary plans,” she said. Whiich, their plans got canceled by the weather, but he Sydney need to know that.

[died8yearsago]

"Lemme get a Heisler."

See? Not taking advantage of the Diaz. Rosa figured, especially after a day of having to fend off troopers trying to convince her to go sledding with them, the last thing she was going to want to do was piss off the people who helped booze her up.

[throughaphase]

She appreciated it!

“Coming right up,” Kitty said, going to get it together. “How’re you doing with the weather?”

[died8yearsago]

Rosa glowered and shook her head, which she felt answered that question pretty well enough on its own. Still, she could elaborate a little bit.

"At least the power's back," she said. "And you're literally across the street so I don't have to go far." A path could very easily be seen that went directly from MHA to the Perk to the Trooper station to the bar then back to MHA, one she planned on repeating and sticking to for as long as this surprise last chance winter lasted. "My dog might have a cold and I'm probably not much further behind."

And, because she could slowly learn to be civil with people when she actually talked to them more than twice, she even returned the question. "What about you?"

[throughaphase]

“I held up fine until my phone finally died and I cried a little,” she admitted, sliding over the drink. “I mean, it could be worse, I’m ready for warm weather and not having to trudge anywhere. The snow hills are kind of fun, though.”

Wet ass aside.

[died8yearsago]

"I'm not really much of a snow hill type."

Shocker, right? But it didn't surprise her that Kitty might be more the type.

"My dog, though..."

Thus the cold. Rosa chugged a good first swig of her beer.

[throughaphase]

“So tell me about your dog.”

Was there ever a better sentence?

[died8yearsago]

Sure there was.

Drinks are on the house.

You've got a perp in interrogation and we're turning off the cameras.

Nancy Meyers has a new movie out.

Just to name a few.

Rosa shrugged. "She's small," she offered. "Has all four legs, a lot of fur, two eyes. And spent two hours on Sunday jumping in and out of snowbanks while I froze my ass off waiting for her."

[throughaphase]

The dog one was better.

“Awwww. We let ours out but they didn’t take that long. Is she big enough to see over the snow or does she sort of blend in?”

[died8yearsago]

"Blends right in," Rosa said. "She's practically white, and she's tiny, so I lost her a good five million times."

She took another sip and inclined her chin. "You got dogs too?"

Did everyone here have a pet dog? If she'd have known she'd be joining some sort of club, she'd have thought twice before getting Arlo 2.

[throughaphase]

“Two. They’re sort of my step-dogs,” she said. “They’re really good.”

[died8yearsago]

Ugh. 'Step-dogs' was about one step removed from 'fur-babies,' making it only marginally less gross from Rosa's perspective.

"Seems like nearly everyone here's got a dog."

Or two.

[throughaphase]

“Really? I haven’t met many,” Kitty said. “Which is sadly making me think I should have been setting up puppy play dates this whole time.”

[died8yearsago]

Nooooo.

Rosa's brain said it so loud, her head even shook a little.

"Really?" she asked, face scrunched a bit because, god, that actually made her sound like she was being social. She needed to cut that crap out. "But yeah, there's...uh, the guy with the animal shelter, the dude who teaches swords in the park, and the hot one with the..." Her hand did a sorta-gesture in the air, "magic?"

Yeah, she wasn't great with names.

[throughaphase]

“Which hot one with magic?” She felt like that could be a lot.

[died8yearsago]

"...there's more than one?"

The hot part, she was more than okay with. The magic....not nearly so much.

[throughaphase]

“Well, everyone’s hot, and I don’t know if you mean Magic or like Jedi stuff or other powers,” Kitty explained.