Turtle & Canary; Wednesday [12/02].

[sake_shinigami]

"Oh, I don't know, Apu-san," Shunsui was saying, looking up almost fondly at the tinsel that somehow still managed to fall from the ceiling of the store as well as outside, occasionally getting caught in a draft from the air vents and catching in the floursecent lighting, "I rather like it. It's a bit like cherry blossoms...but...shinier ♥."

Apu was giving Shunsui the exact sort of look you'd expect the man holding the broom in this situation to have.

And Shunsui might feel slightly differently in a week when he was still finding strands of tinsel to be pulled from his hair.

Until then, though, he was just going to enjoy the prettiness of it and compliment Apu on the fine job he was doing in sweeping it up off the floor, while contemplating how he didn't much care for the idea of sweaters (this was, after all, a man who found socks to be 'too restrictive'), and decided to research whether there was such a thing as ugly Christmas haori.

(Spoiler alert: there was).

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[okteiviakom]

When had Octavia been here last? Seemed like forever ago, but, here she was now.

There was tinsel tangled in her hair already, so she did not seem thrilled to find there was more of it in the store. But maybe that was just her slight hangover.

Or just... her resting face.

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui sometimes had trouble remembering even exactly who had been in in the previous week, let alone keeping track of when it was these days that Octavia decided to grace the store with her cheerful presence, which just meant that any time she did was clearly an occasion.

Granted, he'd felt that way when it was a more regular event, as well. So the smile on his face when she did come in should hardly be a surprise.

"Ahhhh, Octavia-chan ♥!" he greeted brightly. "Ohayō gozaimasu~~! To what do I owe this particular pleasure ♥?"

[okteiviakom]

"I'm out of orange juice," Octavia said, simply, uselessly brushing tinsel off her shoulder as she made her way towards the counter. "Ha yun, Shunsui."

[sake_shinigami]

"Tsch ♥." The faint click of his tongue was quiet and soft, along with the shake of his head, but the grin on his face was anything but. "A dismal fate indeed, but one not so dire that it can't wait a moment more. I highly doubt the orange juice will up and leave on us any time soon ♥."

Although around here, you really couldn't tell. But he was of course pouring as he spoke, practically had the jug in his hand before she'd even made it to the counter, so that two cups were ready and offered out with barely a pause in the process.

"Sake, Octavia-chan ♥?"

[okteiviakom]

Octavia was practically already reaching for one before she made it to the counter too. Which meant her mild "Sure" seemed a little mismatched with her actions, but, whatever.

She was careful and slow and deliberate about picking up the cup, again. Fingertips brushing against his palm.

[sake_shinigami]

Another thing that seemed to have gone the way of events that Shunsui no longer expected but would always be a pleasant surprise and greatly appreciated when it did resurface. And he would be deeply remiss if he was not to respond in kind, his own fingers lifting, curling, to glance against her slowly retreating hand until the soft pressure of it had retreating, leaving only that remaining cup.

"And the woeful lack of orange juice aside," he asked, his voice now a bit more of a rumble, though the smile on his face held its crooked jocularity, "how are you today, Octavia-chan ♥?"

[okteiviakom]

"Hungover," Octavia admitted with a ghost of a shrug, once she was left just holding the small cup between her fingers. "Went to the Nest last night."

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui's smile opened a little with the faint breath of a laugh. "And you made quite an evening of it, too, I see ♥," he said softly, and he felt confident that it wasn't just the heavy veil of Octavia's persistent stoicism that lead him to believe which side of the coin that evening had landed on. "Well! I always have found sake," he now lifted his own cup with a nod, "is excellent at keeping such things at bay, and I know I don't need to tell you that there is certainly more to fill your cup should that first cup not be quite enough to chase it away...

"Or the second," he added, grinning.

"Or fourth. Or sixth..."

His hand danced in air a little, to leave the rest of the point to the wind.

[okteiviakom]

Octavia shook her head, although the movement was slight. She remembered being a lot more expressive last night, but there was no trace of that now.

Because, you know. Stoicism firmly back in place.

"Need to go back tonight."

[sake_shinigami]

"Well," said Shunsui, "I would imagine they have sake there as well, neh ♥?"

[okteiviakom]

"Yeah, and I think I'll leave it to the people on the other side of the bar, tonight," Octavia said, and finally took a sip. A slow one, savoring it, before adding, "It's fine."

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui's head dipped a little as he acquiesced to her temperance, before lifting his cup again and smirking around a sip.

"Your work ethic," he said, if one should desire to call it that, "is far superior to mine, Octavia-chan ♥."

Not a high bar to reach!

[okteiviakom]

It was less about a work ethic, anyway, and more about what Octavia found comfortable right now. But she wasn't going to get into it.

"How have you been, Shunsui?" she asked, instead. "Napping and boozing?"

[sake_shinigami]

He hadn't really meant it like that, anyway.

"Among other things ♥," Shunsui beamed as though having a list of things more than the two listed was quite the accomplishment. "But those are some of my greatest hits. Yourself, Octavia-chan ♥? We covered the boozing part already, so how's your napping?"