okteiviakom: ([neu] standing tall)
Octavia Blake ([personal profile] okteiviakom) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2021-01-20 01:21 pm

The Devil's Nest, Wednesday Evening

Somehow it was Wednesday again. The vibe at the club was different tonight, though. And it probably had a lot to do with the playlist, which was not piano bar stuff or mellow jazz tonight. Oh no, they were going the hard rock route tonight, with some classics from the eighties and nineties.

It was a list Octavia had grabbed largely at random, based on faint recognition of at least some of the names. She was just... giving it a go.

Bringing something louder in here.

(Trying to remember the version of herself that would've loved to do this every week, if with songs she'd actually picked herself.)
betterthanaplan: (head empty heart full)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh. This is giving me flashbacks."

Look, some people hade grown up angry in the eighties and nineties.
betterthanaplan: (inuendo?)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Duke pointed upward. “The songs of my childhood.”
betterthanaplan: (you know how it is)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Duke pressed his hand to his chest. “Ouch! You know, I’m not that much older than you are. Anymore.”
betterthanaplan: (make me blush)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Duke laughed and shook his head. "Well, how about you make your elder a drink, then? While I decide if I should try to relive the glory of my ax victory last week."
flourish_or_perish: ([pb] smirky girl)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
You know what, Faye had had a whole day, between teaching herself and then going to class like a good girl, and she didn't feel like having jello or potentially listening to karaoke.

"Can I have some of that?" she requested, sidling up to the bar and pointing vaguely towards a bottle of mid-range whiskey. "In a glass, with ice cubes."

One of these days she'd change it up.
flourish_or_perish: ([an] lounging)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thanks." Look, Faye could even be polite! It was also a work in progress, but it was easy to be nice to bartenders.
flourish_or_perish: ([an] headache)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gorgeous," Faye decided, throwing a couple bills on the bar before gratefully reaching for the glass. (She was not a great tipper by habit, but she'd actually learned that keeping up a nice ratio here tended to get something like favorable service, so.) "It has been a long day."
flourish_or_perish: ([an] in my other pocket?)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm a teacher," Faye explained, like that explained everything. Also conveniently leaving out the part where she had had to teach one class, for like an hour, and that it had barely been a class. "I had to be at the school for first period. And then I had class. Like, for me."

Look at that Octavia. Faye was so accomplished. Be impressed by her.
betterthanaplan: (pleased)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Faye," Duke greeted. "Nice to see you outside a classroom."
flourish_or_perish: ([an] what do you need?)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Faye lifted her drink in a greeting. "Duke," she returned. "You know, I don't know if I've ever been in a bar with one of my teachers before."

She knew perfectly damn well she hadn't. Unless there was a lot of really interesting stuff about school that she couldn't remember.
betterthanaplan: (Default)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"The joys of adult education," Duke said. "I'd say I've never been in a bar with a student before, but -- I mean, one of them helped me bust up a cult last summer, so I'm pretty sure hitting up a bar together is nothing compared to that."
flourish_or_perish: ([pb] smirky girl)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"A cult?" Yeah, you couldn't just say stuff like that and not elaborate, Duke, now she was all interested.
betterthanaplan: (talks with his hands)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] betterthanaplan 2021-01-20 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bog-standard eastern spiritual appropriation thing," Duke said with a shrug. "Come for the meditation, stay for the drugged incense. Student in question's one of the detectives at the station. Arrested me the first time we met, then next thing I know he's tagging along trying to keep me from getting my ass killed by a wannabe guru."

Danny had bailed him out of several sticky and weird situations by this point, honestly.
flourish_or_perish: ([pb] that sucks)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 01/20]

[personal profile] flourish_or_perish 2021-01-20 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're friends with a cop?" Faye asked, clearly dubious. Though he did sound like a useful cop, at least, but still. She generally tried to avoid the police.