Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Kitty was physically fine, and she wouldn't say she was particularly traumatized by the weekend, but it had given her a lot to think about.

A lot to obsessively overthink about.

But it was business as usual at the bar, where the zombies were kindly sticking to elevator music today. Look, it was better than country.

[Open, no OCD!]

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[died8yearsago]

"Hey, look at that," said Rosa when she got to the bar, nodding toward the stage. "They learned something that doesn't suck as much."

[throughaphase]

"I think they took pity," Kitty admitted. "Next week will probably add extra twang."

[died8yearsago]

"Ugh," Rosa made a face, "why are they like that?

[throughaphase]

"Well, they're dead."

Kitty shrugged.

"That's really all I've got. What can I get you?"

[died8yearsago]

Rosa's doubtful face made it very clear that she wasn't ready to accept dead as an excuse.

She would have reacted like that even before zombies playing too much country music was a regular thing in her life, too.

She shrugged. "Beer's good," she said, "it's a beer kind of day."

She also looked like she might have wanted to say something else, but wasn't entirely sure she should, but then apparently decided to asked.

"How you holding up?"

[throughaphase]

"Eh," she said thoughtfully, going to get the beer. She wasn't one to repress most of the time, so she could be honest. "Got my head messed with after what was already a bad week. I'll get over it, it'll just be tough until I do."

And there was the beer.

[died8yearsago]

And it was really, really a shame Rosa couldn't offer another beer for Kitty, too. "If you need anything..." she said, nodding a little. This was pretty high up there on the opening up and being available for someone scale for her, so she figured that was good enough. It was sincere, though, and she would actually listen and try to b helpful if Kitty wanted to talk about anything.

It would be a lot less awkward for Rosa if she didn't, but she'd be...open to it.

Hey, she was trying, okay?

[throughaphase]

Kitty offered her a little smile, because yeah, she appreciated that. "Thanks. I'll be fine. It's not the worst thing I've been through, it just takes some time. How are you doing?"

[died8yearsago]

"I'm doing great, actually," Rosa snorted a little, then lifted her beer almost as if in a toast to that fact before taking a swig. "I actually got to do my job this weekend," she said, setting the beer down and getting ready to mark her next points on her fingers. "I got to scout for clues...useless ones, sure, but not the point...set up a task force, did a stake-out, a rescue sweep, I got to hack at something with my axe so hard I need to get a new head, and the only thing that died was that stupid fish."

Honestly, if it weren't for, you know, the whole trauma-for-everyone-else side of things, Rosa might of chalked it up to a nearly perfect weekend. Perfect would have also probably required sharing her bed with something that wasn't a pumpkin.

"I really miss all that stupid crap."

[throughaphase]

"And I'm glad you got to do your thing. The problem with it being mostly quiet here is you don't get to do that enough," Kitty said. She meant it, too.

"...You have an axe?"

[died8yearsago]

Rosa's brow furrowed. "What kind of woman doesn't have an axe?"

And, realizing she'd said that exact same thing to Buzzkill, Rosa shook her head. "There is a severe lack of women with axes on this island," she declared. "I gotta talk to Blackstone or something, make it a community project."

It wouldn't even be that hard. Amaya probably had enough axes in her collection to equip every woman on the island twice over without even having to make more.

[throughaphase]

"I mean, I've used one, I just don't exactly have one at the ready," Kitty clarified.

[2_old_for_this]

Peter dropped by, looked in, and sighed. No Kanan

Then he came over to Kitty. "Hi there. Um...can I get a beer?"

[throughaphase]

"No problem," she said, immediately going to get it. "Don't see you in here that much."

[2_old_for_this]

Peter shrugged and gave her a sheepish smile. "I don't get out much. Honestly, I came in hoping to find Kanan. Guess I'll just have to call him or something instead. How have you been?"

[throughaphase]

"Of course the week someone needs him is the week he doesn't show," she said lightly, sliding the beer over. "I have been cranky at both zombies and my feet lately. How about you?"

[2_old_for_this]

"Not too bad. Thanks." Peter picked up the beer and took a sip. "I got caught by that...whatever that was, but not as bad as some people, it sounds like."

He nodded at Kitty. "Can I ask when you're due, or is that rude?"

[throughaphase]

"Better to ask than make a guess out loud," Kitty assured him. The day that happened, she was probably going to cry no matter what the guess was. "November. Still a ways to go."

Sigh.

"I didn't know you were in there, too. Though I also couldn't see anything..."

[2_old_for_this]

"I wouldn't dare to guess," Peter promised. "Sorry about your feet, though."

As to the woods... "Yeah. I can see in the dark, and still." He shrugged. "Most of the stuff it threw at me, I'd come to terms with long ago. It wasn't fun to see it again, but I can cope. You did okay?"

[throughaphase]

"Yeah. I guess it's hard to shake me," Kitty admitted. Luckily, she was built for this stuff. "I've got stuff to think about, but it'll be okay."

Also, nightmares about being chased around by a dead kid, because it had actually happened now.

[2_old_for_this]

"Good." Peter nodded. "One of my friends - do you know Kaidan? - he got hit pretty bad. Seems like some people really ended up the worse for wear."

[throughaphase]

"He's come in a few times," she said, frowning. "He okay?"

[2_old_for_this]

Peter thought about it and shrugged. "I think he will be. He's struggling now, but he's strong."

[throughaphase]

"Good. You kind of have to be, to deal with some of the stuff this place throws at you," she said.

As evidenced by last weekend.

[2_old_for_this]

"Yeah," Peter agreed. "He'll make it, though."