Caritas, Sunday

[suitably_heroic]

Would a kid man a bar with no age limit? ... Well, this one certainly would.

Of course, anyone entering Caritas today would find Jaq enthousiastically mixing up differently-colored juices and lemonades, rather than alcohol. And he had a big grin on his face for most of it, too.

Otherwise, though, same old same old at Caritas on Sunday night.

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[notconflicted]

It had been a couple weeks, and Sia wanted to check in. So, there would be a phone call when she knew Atton should be at work.

[suitably_heroic]

Something in his pocket was ringing.

Jaq fumbled with it until he realized where it came from, taking the little device from pants. He pressed the big green button and frowned.

[notconflicted]

Sia waited a second for a greeting, then said, "Hello?"

[suitably_heroic]

"Hellooo?" Jaq said, sounding kind of confused. "Who's this?"

[notconflicted]

"This is Sia," she said slowly. "Who is this?"

Please don't let it be AU kids, that'd just be weird these days.

[suitably_heroic]

"Jaq," Jaq said, nonplussed. "Do I know you?"

[chirpchirpchirp]

Ce'na was continuing her rounds of the island, looking for warm places and places where she could get food.

Which meant she was peering into this place, looking through the door uncertainly before noticing the little boy at the bar. Human, always humans, here. Maybe she was on an Empire world. That would explain... a little bit, anyway.

Not nearly enough.

With wide eyes, she was peering up just over the edge of the bar, watching the boy mixing up juice. It looked really good.

[suitably_heroic]

Was someone there? Jaq leaned over the bar and squinted. "Hello?"

[chirpchirpchirp]

Ce'na squeaked and ducked down a little as the boy leaned over the bar.

And then, a little shyly, she looked back up at him, resigned to being discovered, and waved a little hello.

[suitably_heroic]

"Hi," Jaq said, and waved back at her, looking a little confused. "Did you want to drink something? I like your hat."

[chirpchirpchirp]

Ce'na hesitated, considering the boy's friendly tone, and then she stood up onto her tiptoes, peering curiously at the drinks.

"Hello," she offered. Her basic extended that far, at least. She made a face as she puzzled out the rest of what the boy said, and then reached a hand up to touch her hat in question. This?

[spectre_alenko]

The intent had been to bring the thumb drive into the bar and have Tino lock it in the cash drawer. That was the only reason Kaidan had walked into the bar with Hernando skipping along beside him.

And of course Jaq would be at the bar, smiling and having a great time. Because Len wants to kill me.

Kaidan took a seat and watched Hernando carefully when he promptly clambered up onto his own seat.

The thumb drive was fished out and slid across the bar toward Jaq. "Pictures from yesterday, in case you wanted them."

[suitably_heroic]

Jaq blinked a couple of times, then shrugged in that surly preteen boy way, and said, "I guess."

He picked up the thumb drive. He squinted at it. "... Not sure what this does, though."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan shrugged, "The tech from this planet's pretty lame. Sparkle can show you how to use it. Those are the only copies of those pictures, so if you don't want 'em, have him take you out and use it for target practice or something."

[suitably_heroic]

"Why would I do that?" Jaq asked, with the comical stare of a kid who'd never had any reason in his life to worry about stuff like this.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan shrugged a shoulder, "Some people have a thing about pictures."

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando didn't need help anyway, Kaidan. He climbed trees. He could totally climb the bar stool because he had no fear of gravity anyway.

His eyes went big and round when he saw Jaq on the other side of the bar mixing drinks. He beamed at him and chirped, "Hi Jaq!"

Jaq got to do things like the adults did! That was so cool!

[suitably_heroic]

"Hi Hernando!" Jaq chirped back, giving the shaker another, er. Shake. "Did you want a drink?"

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando nodded. Then stopped quickly and gave the bottles behind Jaq a wary look before raising his eyebrows as inquiry.

Just juice, right? None of the icky stuff adults put in their juice to ruin it?

[suitably_heroic]

"It's good," said Jaq, who had no idea of knowing what Hernando was asking about. "Here, this is grape, smell it!"

Sorry, Hernando, you were getting a bottle shoved under your nose.

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando took a dutiful sniff and then nodded even more enthusiastically.

Thankfully for today Kaidan had remembered that he had hair ties in his pockets so there wasn't an amount of hair in that bottle due to the nod.

"Grape juice! Yes, please," he said

[spectre_alenko]

After a little while, Kaidan turned to Hernando. "Buddy, I need to run a small errand. You want to come with or stay here?"

It was Caritas. Literally nothing could hurt him here, except perhaps an overindulgence in sugary drinks.

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando looked around and then patted the bar. Stay with Jaq.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan nodded. And this is why he should never be anyone's child-minder, ever, because yup, he was about to leave a toddler at a bar, because apparently today this is where the kids were going to hang out.

"Do not go outside," he instructed, "Ok?"

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando's brow puckered and he gave Kaidan a 'duh' look. He didn't want to go outside. It was cold outside. His friends were in here. This is where he wanted to be.

A little reluctantly because he felt truly he should not need to say this, Kaidan, Hernando voiced, "Okay."