Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

Yesterday had been the baby shower, and Kitty was still super appreciative and loved everybody.

But she'd also done stuff yesterday and now she didn't feel like doing anything today, so she had a chair behind the bar and was slacking off under the guise of making sure things were in order in case she went into labor early.

(She'd taken care of everything a while ago. This was just pushing papers around.)


[Open, no OCD!]

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[1000yearstoolate]

The would be weird if she didn't show up. Seivarden told herself that was the reason she was here, casually leaning against the bar and pointedly not looking at the door. She had ordered a beer from Tino, but now smiled at Kitty.

"How are you feeling?"

[throughaphase]

"Tired a d done," Kitty answered. "How about you?"

[died8yearsago]

And there, of course, was Rosa, leaning into the Rosa-shaped groove in the bar from far too long of her having a usual spot on the bar that she always leaned into.

"Hey, Kitty," she said, narrowing her eyes a little bit at the bottles behind the bar, "what do you think would be the most expensive drink you have?"

She'd been thinking about this a lot since Sunday.

[throughaphase]

"Well, top shelf," she said, looking at it. "The owner was a scotch fan, I think, so probably that."

[died8yearsago]

"Scotch." Rosa nodded. "That'll work. Priciest one you've got, neat."

[throughaphase]

"Coming right up," she said, gesturing for Tino to get it. "Is this one of your bet things again?"

[died8yearsago]

"No," said Rosa after a moment. "This is just me being really good at getting other people to buy my drinks."

She was probably that bar's best, least paying customer, really.

True, she'd paid for it in other ways, but that wasn't the point.

[throughaphase]

"Makes sense," she said, even if she wasn't sure it did. "I was starting to worry about how behind on the bet stuff I was going to be by the time I come back from maternity leave."

You know, when people had to make conversation with Tino while pretending they weren't trying to hook up.

And there was Tino with the drink.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden shrugged. "It could be worse."

[1000yearstoolate]

When Seivarden saw Rosa she placed an order with Tino, and a little later she walked up to her and placed a cup of tea in front of her. She had one for herself too. She knew from the smell that it was bad tea.

[died8yearsago]

And there was Seivarden, and there was a cup being set in front of her, and there was Rosa's jaw hanging slightly open for a brief second.

"Tea? Unless that's a long island, that's not what covering drinks means and don't you even think about arguing that it is."

Well. So much for the possibility she'd played with of just ignoring that last text altogether. Whoops.

[died8yearsago]

Rosa...hadn't even thought of a perspective like that. Talking to Tino? Not even remotely worth it, she'd clearly have to think of other ways of pretending not to hook up.

"...how long do you think you'll be on leave for?"

[throughaphase]

She shrugged. "No idea. My plan is to work up until she shows up and come back as soon as possible, but it's all going to depend on when I feel up to it."

Not having a choice in those things was fun, really!

[1000yearstoolate]

So now Seivarden knew that at least.

"You didn't say what kind of drink you wanted, so I took the liberty of choosing."

Bad tea. She had chosen really bad tea only to make a point, and she couldn't help smirking.

[died8yearsago]

"I didn't realize I had to specify," said Rosa, "but I obviously forgot I was talking to an idiot. Besides, my battery died, and I was in Ancient Greece, I couldn't exactly charge it. And then it broke."

God, that sounded like such an excuse, but it was truth, dammit.

"I'm not drinking that," she continued, because she was really on a ranting roll with this one. "I'm drinking this," she lifted her top-shelf scotch with almost a salute, "and you're paying for it. That swill's barely going to cover what it takes to put a molecule of gas in that plane.

[died8yearsago]

"Fair enough," said Rosa, chalking up messing up your schedule as reason number 4,567 why not to ever have kids. "It's going to be weird, though, thinking of you not really around. I might have to actually go meet some of the other bartenders."

Gross.

But still not as gross as just dealing with Tino.

[1000yearstoolate]

"What, there was no electricity in Ancient Greece?"

That was such a poor excuse, Rosa. Seivarden wasn't going to believe that.

"What did you do, drop it in a fountain?"

She looked down at the teacups, wrinkling her nose. "I think this is actually undrinkable."

Coming from someone who had been drinking pumpkin spice vodka shots because they were free. On the other hand, that expensive-looking bottle did look nice.

[throughaphase]

"It's not like I'm going to disappear," Kitty said. "It just might not be the easiest to be on my feet at a night job for a while."

[died8yearsago]

"Of course there's no electricity in Ancient Greece, they don't even have indoor plumbing, the bathroom was literally a pot in the corner. But, yeah, sure, I'm going to be able to charge my phone, no freaking problem."

Rosa was, however, going to delicately step over the part about breaking the phone, and was considering Seivarden for a moment, that face she made, the size of those cups.

"Fine," she said. "If you actually manage to drink that whole thing, I'll let it slide this time. But I mean the whole thing, even the little dregs that you so know are sitting there at the bottom of that cup."

[died8yearsago]

"Yeah," said Rosa, who slouched slightly, probably about as close to a pout as she'd get, "I know. And you should rest and all that junk, too, but that doesn't mean it's going to be any less weird."

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden looked at Rosa. Then down at the so-called tea. Then at Rosa.

That bottle of scotch would be so good, of course she knew that. It was the matter of her pride though, which, granted she had occasionally failed to take into account around Rosa lately, at least when it stood against what she actually wanted.

But. If she finished that tea, terrible as it was, and then bought the bottle anyway, she would win. Rosa couldn't question that. Well, she probably would, but she'd be wrong.

So Seivarden picked up the cup and tried to down the contents as if it was a pumpkin spice vodka shot, but hadn't considered that doing that with a hot drink was a bad idea. It burnt the inside of her mouth and throat, and forced her to cough out half of it on the floor.

[throughaphase]

"And you can come over and hang out while Lexi's sleeping," Kitty said. "I hear they do that a lot."

[died8yearsago]

"Okay. Wow."

That was one of the greatest things Rosa had been lucky enough to witness in a really long time. True, her life had been pretty boring since she got sent here, but, still. That was pretty great right now. She even knew what was about to happen before it did, like she could almost see it happening in slow motion, and it still exceeded her expectations.

"So that was amazing."

And also meant that the scotch was still in the running. Extra bonus.

[died8yearsago]

"Do they?" Rosa's brow wrinkled. "Seems any time I was over at one my sisters', they were always up and screaming their heads off."

Which definitely didn't have anything to do with Rosa being slightly scary, and rather scared of them herself. Like they could smell her fear or something.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden, trying to recover some kind of dignity, wiped her mouth, then reached for the bottle of scotch.

"Let's go."

She looked at Rosa, then turned around and headed towards the door. She'd pay for the bottle next time, it wasn't like they didn't know her.