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Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [11/11].

Shusnui felt that there was something he was going to do that day, when he got to the store, but when he actually did get there, it seemed to have completely left his mind. He supposed that meant that whatever it was couldn't have possibly been that important, but it was going to bother him a little until he remembered.

He asked Apu-san if he might know what it was he was going to do, which was met with a derisive but fair comment that he was surprised that Shunsui would have thought to do anything, and he considered texting Summer-chan and asking her if she knew, but he knew that would result in her finding something else for him to do in the meantime, so that was right out.

So his next option, clearly, was to see if maybe all that was needed to jog his memory was a little bit sake and a good nap...

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Even with all the bar hopping Jessica did, there still was a reason to get supplies. Especially as she would be moving into her new apartment within the next day or so.

Those supplies? Highball glasses and two large bottles of whiskey from the bottom shelf. Which of course she gathered by going a very long route in the store to avoid the panda and the weird squishy machine.

She dropped the bottles and glassware a little harder on the counter just in case Shunsui needed a little wake up call.

And she also threw a packet of postcards on the pile.

It may have looked like Shunsui needed the wake-up call, but, of course, he hadn't been in his nap since she walked through the door. Of course, that didn't stop him from giving a small just-pulled-from-sleep hum, the struggle apparently real as he lifted his hand from his hand, lifted his hat from sheilding his eyes, and gave a slow, sleepy smile of recognition.

"Ah," he murmured, "Miss Jones-chan ♥. Making an upgrade, I see ♥?"

"Sticking around a while," Jessica said tapping the glasses. "Figured I should get the essentials."

"I'd say anything that puts more steps than strictly necessary between one's drink and one's lips," Shunsui mused lightly with an increase to his grin, "falls firmly into the category of luxury, but a very fine one at that ♥. Who doesn't love a little bit of pampering every once in a while, neh ♥? And speaking of which..."

Like falling into a very familiar pattern, there were two cups and a jug of sake joining this opulent array of glasses and whiskey.

"Perhaps I can convince you try a bit of my sake from a proper cup this time as well, Miss Jones-chan ♥?"

Jessica rolled her eyes in amusement. "That depends. Do you offer sake to everyone who walks in the store?"

"That depends," Shunsui countered back, smoothly and unabashedly, as he weighed the two obvious answers and considered instead a third strategy. "Which answer is more likely to have you say yes ♥?"

"Shunsui. The relationship between the client and seller of alcohol is a holy pact," Jessica said narrowing her gaze at him, trying to keep the corners of her mouth from turning up into a smile. "Let's not lie to each other shall we?"

"Ahhhhh," said Shunsui, thoughtfully, with no attempt on his end to restrain the corners of his own mouth, though his smile did take on a certain indulgant, beatific glow as he leaned in slightly, holding out the two cups, "but I'm not selling this alcohol, am I, Miss Jones-chan ♥? And even if I was, where I'm from, it would be quite customary and appropriate to celebrate such sacred transitions with a drink and a toast, and I have always been a strong proponant of mixing business with pleasure ♥.

"That said," he added more lightly, "with respect to transparency, I do offer sake to almost everyone who graces my business. It's just good customer service ♥."

"Well then. Here's to transparency," Jessica said picking up the sake cup. "I won't lie. I enjoyed the free jug of sake you gave me last week."

"I'd be concerned if you didn't," Shunsui chuckled lightly, looking all too pleased to hear it and to have the cup taken, and now he claimed his own, lifting it in a silent toast to her and her beauty before enjoying a sip at long last. "That was very good sake ♥."

"I probably shouldn't have sucked it down like a teenager with wine coolers," she said sipping the sake.

"I have to agree with you whole-heartedly on that, Miss Jones-chan," said Shunsui, halfway between mostly impressed and slightly appalled, but he was overall amused. "Sake is a drink that is intended to be enjoyed slowly and savored for each and every tantalizing drop, but..."

Here the impressed managed to wholly beat back any offense at such an idea, as indicated with his grin.

"That would have been quite the sight to see ♥."

"Me very buzzed hanging out in a tank top? You didn't miss much," she joked.

Then again. This is Shunsui.

"So you equate the exquisitely divine with 'not much'?"

So, yes. Shunsui.

"You really do have high standards, Miss Jones-chan ♥."

While he possessed almost literally none.

"Says the guy with the high quality sake to the girl with the bottom shelf whiskey and no utensil?"

She smirked.

"Are you trying to flirt with me? I don't flirt."

"No ♥?" asked Shunsui, the mild, amused surprise in his tone almost seeming to suggest that her smirk might be saying otherwise, but there was an easy willingness to suspend his disbelief. "Well. That's a shame ♥. It really is quite fun, you know. I'd be happy to teach you ♥."

"I like just telling people what I want," Jessica replied, her smirk almost a smile.

"And what would that be," Shunsui asked, head tilted, expression open, to show he was all ears, "Miss Jones-chan ♥?"

"I believe last time you mentioned something about a back room?"

"Ahhh, yes," said Shunsui, his grin wide despite all his efforts (which weren't exactly strenuous to begin with) to make it sound as if he'd nearly forgotten such a place existed. "The back room ♥. It's very nice, as far as back rooms go..."

There was, perhaps, just a moment, very fleeting, covered well by that shameless, crooked smile, where he considered Jessica, looking this time with a bit more intent toward actually seeing. And then he moved, slightly, gracefully, almost gliding back with an inviting gesture of his arm, like any good host.

"Shall I show you ♥?"

Jessica said nothing but gave Shunshui a smirk as she strutted to the door to the backroom where...

Where stuff happened between two consenting adults in a public community thread. And the squirrels were not invited.

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Well, it had only been a matter of time:

A raccoon slipped in through the door, and began sniffing around with great curiosity. This place smelled delicious, and Octavia was enthralled.

And that racoon--which didn't exactly seem like your run-of-the-mill craft-booze distilling Fandom racoon, now, did it?--definitely had Shunsui's attention enough to watch her and her sniffing with a quirked, intrigued eyebrow, wondering exactly what she might plan on doing with those delicious smells, and if it would require him to go tell Apu-san to fetch the broom.

Ever since the unfortunate incident at JGoB, Octavia hated brooms. Just, for the record.

But she wasn't worried about meeting one right now. She was far too interested in a display with packets of cookies on it. In fact, maybe she could actually climb up on it...

The broom, as Shunsui saw it, would have been more for the clean-up of the mess he was starting to feel was inevitable than anything else, although it was fair that Apu-san was not nearly the pacifist his boss was.

That inevitable mess was now looming much closer as Shunsui half-laughed to himself as the racoon started to climb, thinking he should probably really do something about this, this really was quite terrible, where there was one racoon, there might very surely be another, but he did rather hate doing much of anything if it could be helped....

Though something he could do right at that moment was pour himself a little bit of sake to enjoy with the show.

He gave it maybe a few minutes until Apu-san noticed and started flailing about why he wasn't doing anything about it, but the man should know by now that that would just be a waste of energy...

Several packets of cookies tumbled onto the store floor.

Octavia grabbed one before hopping back down, herself, then settled happily down to tear into it to get at the delicious.

Hey, now, that wasn't even as bad as it could have been! Certainly not as bad as Shunsui had expected it to go, but, then again, his experiences with collateral damage tended to be....absurd.

"I do hope," he informed the racoon, leaning forward on the counter a little, cradling his chin i his hand, "you plan on paying for those..."

Not that he cared, of course, it just seemed to be the thing to say...

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