Caritas, Sunday

[suitably_heroic]

Atton didn't have any kids running around, and he liked it that way. He was feeling twitchy enough about... everything in the personal sphere as it was.

But hey, he had no trouble tormenting other people's kids, so he made it to Caritas early. He put a few nonalcoholic but obnoxiously sugary specials up on the board - 50% OFF - and sat down behind the bar with a magazine.

"You deal with them," he told Tino.

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[blue_eyed_cosmos]

Kueng pushed open the door easily and, after a look around to see that yes, yes the bar was like he remembered, he glanced back over his shoulder as came in.

"Come on," he said, "I'll buy the first round. You can get the next."

[what_dad_was_like]

Jacen nodded as he ambled in, not far behind Kueng. It was cleaner than some of the cantinas he'd seen back home, but admittedly he wasn't exactly a connoisseur of cantinas.

"I guess we'll see how far these dollar things go," he mused. "Credits make more sense."

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

"Dollars aren't that hard," Kueng insisted, rolling his eyes. "Look, the zombies are still here in the past. That's crazy. What do you want to drink?"

[what_dad_was_like]

Jacen looked thoughtfully at the drink list.

"Maybe just a--" He paused, and squinted. There was a list of drinks that were named after people. "Not that."

One was the Kanan.

Nope.

"And now I don't know if I want something that'll knock me on my butt, or just something fruity that I can be angry into."

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

Kueng was busy squinting at the list of drinks himself.

"Is... is that one your dad?" he asked, both impressed and horrified. "Oh my gods, one's named after Uncle Jono. I'm afraid to ask."

[what_dad_was_like]

"There's one named after Mom, too. And Aunt Summer."

Everything here was terror, it was true.

"Can... uh. Can we maybe just do shots or something? People do shots of things instead of drinking weird cocktails named after family members, I'm pretty sure."

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

It was awful, it really was.

"Or maybe beer? Just beer has got to be normal, right?"

[what_dad_was_like]

"Maybe just beer," Jacen agreed. "Or both together? Is beer with shots in it a thing? Maybe with a garnish or something."

He glanced toward Tino, who had been eavesdropping.

Tino shrugged, and then reached up to tap the 'Kanan' on the special drinks board.

Jacen just groaned and buried his face in his hands.

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

"Definitely not that," Kueng said, trying not to laugh. "Maybe fruity and angry is the way we should be going?"

[what_dad_was_like]

"Fruity and angry," Jacen agreed. "I need something with melon in it. And one of those little umbrellas."

He was going to end up with a Hera in front of him instead of a Kanan. That was a thing that was going to happen, here.

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

It was totally going to happen here.

"Can we get two of those?" he asked Tino, not really sure what they were going to end up with but going with it.

[what_dad_was_like]

Tino shrugged, and then wandered off to go rummaging for all the stuff to make those layered drinks. Sure, he could do that.

"See, that's better," Jacen said, sighing. "It'll taste way better than shots in beer, too, I bet."

Yup. It was going to be a layered drink that looked like his mom. Jacen was going to drink like five just so that he could stop caring about the fact that it was a layered drink that looked like his mom.

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

Kueng was going to laugh his ass off, he really was.

"It's got to. I mean, fruit, right?"

[what_dad_was_like]

"Fruit," Jacen agreed, giving Kueng a little grin, "right."

And that was about the point Tino put a pair of Heras down in front of them.

"... You're joking."

IT WAS ORANGE AND GREEN.

ORANGE AND GREEN.

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

"I..."

Oh, wow.

Don't laugh, Kueng, don't laugh.

"I don't think he is," Kueng managed, his voice surprising level, which he then ruined by cracking up with laughter.

[what_dad_was_like]

"I'm going to drink this," Jacen announced, reaching for the drink that was wearing a karking flight suit made out of orange fruit juice because of course it was. "I'm going to drink it, and it isn't going to be weird."

That was the goal here, Kueng. See how well that stuck.

[blue_eyed_cosmos]

Yeah, Kueng was just going to keep laughing.

"Good luck with that!" he managed.

[what_dad_was_like]

"I hate this weekend," Jacen muttered, and then lifted the drink to his mouth and took a mouthful.

... Phew. It was fruity and it packed a punch.