Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Kitty finally got good news today, and she was in a ridiculously good mood about it. She even hugged Tino on the way in, and then promptly went into her office to change clothes and come back to the bar, because ew.

So, that's the kind of Kitty you were getting at the bar tonight. Be warned.


[Open, no OCD!]

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[deaddadsclub]

Come on, Kitty, Cristina had just barely started to maybe respect you, here. And you were going to go all bright and shiny on her.

Having spent most of her day in a futile effort to leave the island, including literally trying to walk to the mainland and yet still ending up in that godforsaken parking lot, Cristina was more than ready to take Kitty up on that offer of free booze.

Once she stopped staring at the band, anyway.

"Those guys do not look healthy," she noted. "Even for musicians."

[throughaphase]

"Yeah, they're zombies," she says too casually, and added, "They're friendly and Febrezed, though."

[deaddadsclub]

"Oh," Cristina said, nodding. They'd gotten cosplayers coming through the ER back home all the time. These guys didn't even look like they'd been trampled. "Nerds."

[throughaphase]

"They kind of are. And they'd probably love to sell you their discography," Kitty said. "What can I get you?"

[deaddadsclub]

"Not their discography."

They'd done a good job on their look though. Cristina hadn't seen skin that shade of gray since --

lexie under the fuselage, the coyotes howling

"Tequila. Lots and lots of tequila."

[throughaphase]

"Not a problem," Kitty said, immediately grabbing a glass and bottle. "Shoooould I ask how things have been?"

[deaddadsclub]

"Well, I'm still here, and not at my dream job, and your band has me fondly remembering the days when I used to do things like harass EMTs about missing limbs so I didn't get fired." Cristina tilted her head. "So not great, thanks."

At least she wasn't crying yet.

[throughaphase]

"And this is why the first round is free," Kitty said, sliding over the drink. "It gets easier, I swear."

[deaddadsclub]

"Humans can adapt to anything. That doesn't mean it's good." Cristina downed her drink quickly and efficiently. "You're a lot prettier than my old bartender. Though he had the grace to collapse and let us operate on him once."

Poor Joe. It wasn't easy being the bartender to a bunch of hyper, horny young surgeons.

[throughaphase]

That was a curveball, Cristina.

"Thank you. Though I'm actually going to do everything possible to not need to be operated on," she warned.

[deaddadsclub]

Cristina had a pretty one-track mind.

"That's probably for the best. For all I know, you don't have any organs either."

Jono had really thrown her pretty hard.

[died8yearsago]

"You seem to be in a good mood," said Rosa when she came to the bar that Tuesday, which was not becoming a habit, shhh.

And, really, if even Rosa could notice it, that meant something. All cheerfulness was sort of like indistinguishable white noise to her.

[throughaphase]

"I'm getting my girl!" Kitty announced happily.

[died8yearsago]

"Your girl?" asked Rosa. "For what?"

And then remembering things caught up with her. "Oh, right, the baby thing. Congrats. Girls are cool as hell."

And to her credit, she actually meant it, and you might even be able to tell!

[throughaphase]

"Thank you," Kitty beamed. "We're ridiculously happy."

Nooooo, really?

[uncertain_dume]

Hey, look! It was a Tuesday and Kanan hadn't wandered in for his... fruit juice.

"Kitty," he said, grinning as he slid into his seat at the bar. "I'm gonna need my new usual, if you don't mind."

He was going to pretend it was boozy. It'd be great.

[throughaphase]

"Bad week?" she asked, grabbing a glass.

[uncertain_dume]

"Weird one," Kanan settled on, shrugging his shoulders. "Pretty sure it's not bad, but I've been on edge anyway."

He really needed to sit his Padawan ass down and meditate for a while so that he could at least get it through his thick skull that he was just as safe now as he had been before newbie day.

"Looks like yours is going better, though?"

It was hard to miss that much happy.

[throughaphase]

"I'm having a Lexi!" she said immediately.

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan blinked, processed that for a second or two, and then barked out a happy laugh.

"Well, congratulations, then," he said, and then... were high-fives a thing to do, here? Because he was leaning over the bar for a high-five.

He was not normally a high-five person, but this seemed like a special occasion.

[throughaphase]

"Thank you," she laughed, returning the high five. "And with this news, my own weird week ends. Thank god, I was insane."

[uncertain_dume]

"Must be one hell of a relief, huh?" Kanan settled back down, still grinning. This was exactly the sort of distraction he needed, right here. "You can stop referring to her as a she-or-he and start actually planning for what the kid you know she's going to become is going to need?"

[throughaphase]

"Yep! And the stuff we freak out about is stuff we know we need to freak out about!" This actually was a relief. And as she made the drink, she said, "It's just a lot off of us."

[uncertain_dume]

"I can only imagine." No really, he could only imagine. Aside from some post-kids-visiting freaking out, this sort of thing wasn't anything that was likely to have any pull on his own life, either way.

At least not for a long while, yet.

"So, tell me about Lexi? I didn't get much of a chance to get to know her while I was herding my own around."

[throughaphase]

"And there's your new Kanan," she said, sliding him the drink. "She's terrific. Just super sweet, and too smart, and she's got these puppy dog eyes that she knows will get her stuff. And she's a mutant like me, so she seems to be really chill about a lot of weird stuff in a way that should probably worry me?"