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?"

[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.

[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]

"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]

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

[throughaphase]

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

Nooooo, really?

[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.

[throughaphase]

"...I do. If that was your roundabout way of asking," Kitty said slowly. "Why would I not have organs?"

[deaddadsclub]

"I don't know. Guy on Fire didn't have any."

[throughaphase]

"Oh! Yeah, he's a special circumstance," she said. "You'll find other mutants, but as far as I know everyone has organs."

She paused.

"As far as I know."

[deaddadsclub]

It didn't typically come up in casual conversation. Even with most surgeons. Cristina was just having a weird couple of days.

"Mutants," she said, sitting up a little more. "Are you trying to say that him being perpetually on fire is just the result of some gene mutation?"

[throughaphase]

"It happens. At least where we're from," she said. "Do you promise not to freak out if I show you what I can do? There's no fire."

[deaddadsclub]

"I promise nothing." At least she was honest? "Except not to try to tackle you with a jacket. Since there's no fire and all."

[throughaphase]

"I'm pregnant, definitely don't tackle me," she warned, and slowly phased her hand through the bar, and pulled it back out to show she was okay.

[deaddadsclub]

"Mazel tov," Cristina said, then had to cut herself off mid-eye roll to stare at that hand trick. "Wait. So you're a pregnant ghost?"

[throughaphase]

"No. Mutant. I'm very much alive, I just have a unique physiology," she explained.

[deaddadsclub]

"So the last guy was on fire. And you're made of air." Cristina sighed. "Where are water and earth, then?"