Caritas, Tuesday Evening

[uncertain_dume]

Help help I've been kidnapped by Tino again.

Kanan was standing behind the bar and texting today. Once again he'd been accosted by the bartender and steered toward the other side of the counter, and once again he'd mostly just decided to roll with it. And here he'd really only just wanted an orange juice and some company, especially since he still smelled faintly of burned pepperment after an attempt at a lightsaber training session earlier today that he was not talking about.

... Of course, there was no hard and fast rule saying that he couldn't help himself to the orange juice anyway. You know. Between texts to whoever would answer them.

He keeps this up, I'm going to move in back here.

For easy access to the mixers, he just might, too.

[OOC: Kanan's temporary hostile takeover of Caritas continues! Open!]

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[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden had debated with herself whether to show up tonight. She wasn't sure whether she wanted to see her usual company, and she definitely didn't want to come across as too eager to do that. On the other hand, not showing up might seem like she was avoiding Rosa. Which she wasn't. Obviously.

So she did show up, leaning against the bar as she nodded at Kanan. "Evening. A beer, please."

[uncertain_dume]

"A beer it is," Kanan replied, nodding. "Tap or bottle tonight?"

She didn't strike him as the most discerning of drinkers, but if Caritas had the selection, he might as well give the option.

[1000yearstoolate]

"Tap," Seivarden said. It seemed like the easiest choice. She made a quite good impression of being calm and relaxed, but inside she was uncomfortably uneasy.

"So you're still here?"

[uncertain_dume]

And Kanan wasn't going to comment on that state of unease unless she brought it to his attention. He just made a reach for a glass, shrugged, and topped it up for her.

"Apparently so," he agreed. "Tino can be a very convincing man when he gets it in his head that he needs backup for something."

In fairness, Tuesdays were apparently the busiest night of the week.

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden glanced at Tino. "I suppose there are worse ways than spending a Tuesday night."

[throughaphase]

I'M SO SORRY

Kittt understood how this could happen.

[uncertain_dume]

Probably hoping I'll take the brunt of whatever new drama there is between the casual Tuesday romance crew. At least I get the best seat in the house for that one.

[throughaphase]

At least you found a bright side! Hopefully it's not a bad night there so far?

[uncertain_dume]

Nah, so far it's been pretty quiet. The biggest drama so far came when I told Tino to make himself useful and cut some lemons.

No knives, and all.

[throughaphase]

Not sure I want to know how the problem solving went there...

[died8yearsago]

Rosa might not have been someone to have received any of Kanan's texts for help, but she was texting him, and about the same thing, too.

You behind the bar tonight?

She knew it was a longshot, but if Kitty was back, she would absolutely make it in....and only under those circumstances. Well. Maybe not only, but if was going to wind up being just her, Temporary Bartender, Shitty Bartender, and Hot Leaf Water, that was going to be a hard pass.

[uncertain_dume]

Afraid so. Kitty's got to be back soon, right?

Kanan dared to dream. He had no idea how these things worked, here.

[died8yearsago]

What a slacker.

Although Rosa realized she probably should try to stop by and see how Kitty was doing sometime soon here; the balance between missing her company and ew baby had finally started tilting in favor of the former that she might be able to tolerate the latter.

And, since she wouldn't want anyone thinking she was only texting Kanan for a status update, she added:

Thought you'd enjoy this

Followed by a video of Ralph yesterday, standing on his desk, making another loud 'the floor is eggnog' proclamation before trying to move from the desk to a rolling chair, only to have that rolling chair slip out underneath him, resulting in a hard land on the floor and him really committing to the game by flailing around and sputtering like he was drowning.

Hey, Kanan opened the door on a potential outlet for Rosa to unload on how ridiculous her coworkers were, and she was going to take it when she could.

[uncertain_dume]

It maybe took a few minutes longer than it should have for Kanan to reply to that message. Because Kanan needed to watch that thing on loop for a solid ten minutes.

Cancel Christmas. With a gift like this, there's no point going on.

It was beautiful. He was only sorry it wasn't a holo so he could watch this nonsense from every possible angle.

[died8yearsago]

someone just please make sure the island knows too

Rosa was all for canceling Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, whatever, if it would mean not waking up and worrying about what stupid holly-jolly holiday bullshit awaited her that day.

But she'd probably be all for canceling it even without Fandom Weirdness, too.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Any hero discounts on drinks?

Well, duh, obviously Summer was going to come in anyway, because she was kind of bored and it was literally across the street for her, and if BDG was bored-texing, then she clearly needed to come to his rescue, but it never hurt to ask first, right?

[uncertain_dume]

I'll give hero discounts all week. It's only fair, I think.

It'd be coming out of his own pocket since he didn't want to screw over Kitty, granted.

... Unless she just ordered the Summer.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Which was a very fine drink that everyone should be enjoying, thank you very much.

Summer's response was just a long string of thumbs-up emojis interspersed with a few laughing-crying ones and little martini glass ones.

And about fifteen minutes later, she came strolling in, grinning at him as she gave the bar a little smack with her hand. "So, what's good tonight, my man?"

[uncertain_dume]

"Depends what you're in the mood for tonight," Kanan replied. "Nothing that requires anything to be cut, though. We ran out of lemons almost immediately, and Tino's been breaking his head trying to figure out what to do about that."

Peel them, Tino. Just peel the damn lemons.

[somethingwithturquoise]

"You could always just get some kind of a vice," Summer offered, holding up her hands in the imitation of one. "Squish 'em." And she brought her hands together with a faint pfftt obviously-what-squished-lemons-make sound.

But then she grinned innocently as she asked, "Think he'd be upset if I asked for eggnog?"

[1000yearstoolate]

Seivarden knew taking out her bad mood on Summer was childish, but...

"Oh, picking up gossip in bars now?"

[unusual_sith]

Kaidan was getting a text message at some point. Did seething anger - or at least disgruntlement - come through in a text message?

What has this island done to my lightsaber?? Is it just mine, or yours, too?

[uncertain_dume]

The sentiment certainly carried, at least.

Not just yours. My saber is going to stink like scorched peppermint for a month.

[unusual_sith]

There were *white swirly*...I don't even know! And the *smell*!

[uncertain_dume]

It's every blade on the island. Check out the cupboards in the common room if you're in the dorms. I'll wait.

Now the question was whether he'd be nice and add that this was probably a temporary thing...