Caritas, Sunday

[suitably_heroic]

Hey, newbie weekend! A joyous and profitable occasion for Caritas as new underage kids found out they could legally drink at this establishment!

... Atton wasn't thinking about that much at all. Atton was behind the bar with a bunch of plastic take-out pitchers sitting next to him. Atton was... making cocktails.

Very large batches of cocktails. He was on a mission - to head out sometime during his shift to go drop them off with Sparkle.

Anyone entering the establishment had about even odds of encountering Tino instead.

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Comments

The Stage

[suitably_heroic]

For singing.

The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

Try to snap Atton out of his furious cocktail-making spree or order from Tino instead.

Re: The Bar

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

After a restless night and a morning of feeling disconnected and adrift, Tisarwat figured that the best thing she could do for herself now was just get out to explore the town, get the lay of the land, figure out where everything was and find out exactly what there was to offer. Place of note that had been mentioned to her: the music shop, the flower shop, the gun shop, and the scrapyard. She watched the ducks and the fish in the pond at the park with quite possibly the most disappointing cup of tea she'd ever had. And that brought her around eventually to the bar, where she hoped at least the alcohol would be better than the tea.

It was hard to imagine it could be any worse.

"Excuse me," she said, reaching the bar and trying to grab the attention of one of the bartenders, straightening her uniform jacket, adjusting her gloves. "Do you have any..." What was it called, that Fleet Capt--...Breq had said the squirrels liked? "...rum?"

Yes, that was it.

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

Atton looked up from his careful weighing and measuring and... everything else, and squinted.

"This is a bar," he said, reaching for the rum. "So yes, we have rum, congratulations, good job, you came to the right place."

Re: The Bar

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Maybe it was just because everyone was so nice yesterday, but Tisarwat blinked her lilac eyes a little, having trouble determining whether that was just general sarcasm or genuine rudeness. But the bartender was already reaching for a bottle, so she supposed it didn't really matter, regardless.

"Thank you," she said, settling herself onto a barstool. "I just heard of it for the first time yesterday, so I wasn't sure."

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

"It's just plain alcohol," Atton said. "Unless you want me to dump skittles in it."

He filled up a glass. "In which case I can't be held responsible for the results."

Re: The Bar

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

"Plain alcohol should be fine," said Tisarwat, who was starting to wonder if she should prepare herself for a drink that was basically going to be comparable to the cheapest arrack one could find. Perhaps squirrels were not a good guide for what to drink after all, now that she thought about it and was faced with the possibility.

"I don't even know what skittles is."

Re: The Bar

[unusual_sith]

Lana smiled and sat down next to her. "Hello; you're one of the new students, aren't you?"

Re: The Bar

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat turned her head toward the person sitting next to her, smiling back. "Hello," she said. "And, yes, I am. At least, that's what everyone keeps telling me. Are you one of the old students?"

Re: The Bar

[unusual_sith]

"Well, I've been here a year now. There are some who've been here longer." Lana held out her hand. "Lana Beniko."

She was not wearing gloves. Sorry, Tisarwat.

Re: The Bar

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack had been avoiding Atton for months. The shit with Sparkle and Hernando's kids had hit her at the wrong place, wrong time, wrong mental bruise and she had noped with the kind of furious detachment that only she could bring to that party. The months in between had been filled with other heavy emotional trips. Silent Hill. Dekuuna and Thessia. Kanan in front of a firing squad while she was stuck to a Lego floor and unable to do a damn thing to help him. And now Sparkle in some shit that wasn't quite so intense but was going to be equally traumatic for him as anything the island could throw. She didn't have time for masks. Didn't have the energy to be worried or afraid or even detached.

Sparkle was important to her. He'd been Kaidan's friend, sure. One of the names on his list and that had been the only reason she'd given him the time of day in the beginning. Their friendship had nothing to do with that. It had grown on its own because Sparkle had marched into her life like a cat and just.. been there for her. She wasn't good at this, she'd never really made a friend in any sort of normal fashion before but.. well, there it was. Sparkle was her friend and someone who didn't want anything at all from her except for her to be his friend. Which, conversely, meant that she'd give him anything he needed. Right now, he needed his people.

Atton was the primary person in Sparkle's life. If she was this juked up about what was coming down the pipe, he had to be about ready to chew iron and spit nails. There was no question that he'd be there. She couldn't even imagine that as a possibility, which meant Atton would be there, and so would she, and her bullshit couldn't be there. Not for this, not for Sparkle.

So she stared at a wall for awhile. And then she got up and went to Caritas. Took a seat at the bar and looked at Atton making enough cocktails to drown a city with. "Toronto?" She figured that was the reason he was distracting himself.

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

"Someone's got to take his mind off of it," Atton commented, pouring some Blue Curacao into the shaker."

Re: The Bar

[biotic_psychotic]

"That much alcohol's gonna take his mind off breathing," Jack noted clinically, "Distractions though, you think?" She had shit-all idea what to do for him. Her regular option was the worst one possible and she'd known that even if Sparkle hadn't come out and said it.

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

"I'm still working through my recipes, space, let a bartender mix in peace," Atton complained, mostly because he could. "Distractions are good, yeah. He's got nothing but empty space to fill for a while and that thwiplike brain of his is just going to keep running."

Re: The Bar

[hernando_fuentes]

and because I'm a masochist..

Hernando went to the bar to see Atton. Sparkle sometimes pulled this 'I don't want to bother him' thing and after their last conversation, Hernando was only too well aware that it was no bother at all to Atton. In essence, he was low-key checking in to make sure his boyfriend hadn't done something dumb like not talking to Atton.

Clearly not the case. "Hello Atton. Sparkle told you about it?"

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

"I mean, he was in our apartment screaming, it was kind of hard to miss," Atton said, barely looking up.

Re: The Bar

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando sighed and rubbed his forehead, "And that is better than him sitting in your apartment as a lump on the couch and deflecting anytime you prod him about it. Good. He made the call." Rubbed his forehead again, "I've accepted a guest lecturer position in Toronto. It's an open-ended contract but it comes with a townhouse. An address in Toronto that's not transient. It has a second bedroom for you. Unless you want other arrangements. But it's there. I'll commute back and forth to the island but I thought it would be a good idea to establish that residence and that tie before this.. begins."

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

"Think they're going to make him stick around there too, huh?" Atton said, rubbing the back of his neck.

Re: The Bar

[unusual_sith]

Lana still hadn't spotted her little sibling, so she decided to come to the bar and see if they'd skipped the official functions in favour of drinking.

She looked around, then nodded politely to Atton. "Have there been any new students in here today, other than that other girl?"

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

Atton shook his head at the tiny Sith. "Not that I've seen," he said, wondering vaguely why she wanted to know in the same breath that he decided he didn't want to know. "Why?"

Of course, that breath didn't end until after he'd said the thing.

Re: The Bar

[unusual_sith]

"I'm supposed to have a sibling this year, but I haven't seen them yet. I was hoping maybe they just wanted a drink or something."

Lana sighed. "Hopefully they'll show up soon."

Re: The Bar

[suitably_heroic]

"Have you checked the sewers?" Atton said. "I mean, I heard one year some kid got lost in there for like a week after the welcome picnic."

The Lounge

[suitably_heroic]

For a quieter time.

Back Room

[suitably_heroic]

In case the owner was in.

OOC

[suitably_heroic]

Sovonight