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Octavia Blake ([personal profile] okteiviakom) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2022-05-18 03:54 pm

The Devil's Nest, Wednesday Evening

Octavia did not realize why she was looking up how to make a banana daiquiri before she finally caught Tiny humming under his breath. "Oh, not you too," she told him, rolling her eyes. "Hear enough of that at home."

Didn't stop her from actually continuing with what she was doing, though. Or from eventually updating the specials board:

TONIGHT'S SPECIAL
banana daiquiris half price


(The tiny wolf doodle in a corner of the board that appeared later in the evening was not her work.)

Maybe repeatedly putting bananas in a blender would somehow take her mind off everything she'd avoided talking about at therapy yesterday, and what she would most likely keep avoiding in Friday's session as well. Never mind the other doctor's appointment she had re-re-re-scheduled for afterwards, too.

Yeah, that would definitely work.
begmetwice: ([pos] arch look)

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[personal profile] begmetwice 2022-05-18 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Evening, Octavia," Irene greeted her, sliding easily onto a barstool and eyeing the specials board with a slight smile. "Fan of bananas?"

She would not have pegged Octavia as much of a daiquiri person -- but then, she also wouldn't have anticipated that boa being as well-received as it had been, back in February, either.
begmetwice: ([neu] come on now)

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[personal profile] begmetwice 2022-05-18 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Why not." Irene was not much of a daiquiri person herself -- much less a banana one -- but when in Rome. Or when one was threatening to be re-earwormed by Eurovision. "It's appropriately summer-y, too. Probably a bit harder to run a banana daiquiri special in the dregs of January."
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[personal profile] begmetwice 2022-05-18 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gives you a direction to steer them, though," Irene commented cheerfully, watching. "Without banana inspiration, I'd probably just have ordered a martini or a dreadfully boring glass of wine. You're broadening everyone's horizons, Octavia."
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[personal profile] begmetwice 2022-05-18 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then all the better that it comes naturally to you," Irene replied lightly, indeed fixating right in on those knife skills. "I take it you're not a bartender by trade back home?"
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[personal profile] begmetwice 2022-05-18 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It was funny; Irene had lived here for years, at this point, and she still thought of London as home. She probably always would, even if she could also never go back. So Octavia got a very soft little smile for that distinction.

"And what did you do, pre-Fandom?" she amended, tilting her head in interest. If Irene had to guess, she'd put her money on something that involved a great deal of personal discipline. Perhaps a martial art or other combat training, but she could also see acrobatics or dance being a possibility.
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[personal profile] begmetwice 2022-05-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Good to know Irene hadn't entirely lost her touch, then.

"Do you miss it?" she asked after a moment, watching Octavia put the drink together.

It seemed like the least fraught question of the array that had popped up in Irene's mind in response.

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"You know I'd just managed to expunge that song from my mind," Lucifer complained, as he leaned over the bar.
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Lucifer looked at her with betrayal in his eyes. "Why would you do this to me?"
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"But there's always a risk. It is my club," Lucifer pointed out, waving at Tiny to get him a scotch.
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"Please, no more bananas," Lucifer said. "Or wolves."

Post-Eurovision depression was a real ailment.
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Lucifer sighed. "Deal," he said, "I suppose." He snatched his whiskey from Tiny and downed half of it in one go.

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