The Devil's Nest, Wednesday Evening

[okteiviakom]

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.

Comments

Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

Talk to Octavia or mod Tiny, your choice!

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[begmetwice]

"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.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

"It's because of a song," Octavia replied, dryly, with a little glance of her own towards the specials board. "Thought we might as well make the most of it."

Also she was hugely in favor of fruit of all kinds, always, but that was not something she needed to bring up right now.

"Do you want one?"

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[begmetwice]

"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."

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

Octavia gave a little shrug like 'wouldn't know' as she went to grab another banana to get started.

"I don't run a lot of specials to begin with," she said. "People can order whatever they want."

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[begmetwice]

"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."

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

Even if it was just slicing a banana, Octavia working with a knife was a thing to behold.

"Yeah, well, that's mostly accidental."

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[begmetwice]

"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?"

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

"This is home."

Octavia didn't sound offended, but she didn't sound like much of anything else, either. It was a flat, dry thing.

With the banana done, she moved on to the much less exciting measuring of things. But she still had the same methodical and focused air about how she did it. "But no," she added, "I wasn't, before Fandom."

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[begmetwice]

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.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

Rum joined the banana in the blender. Then lime juice.

Sugar.

"I was a warrior."

A soldier, an assassin, a queen - but, details. She always fought.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[begmetwice]

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.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[my_own_advocate]

"You know I'd just managed to expunge that song from my mind," Lucifer complained, as he leaned over the bar.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

"That's not my problem," Octavia told him.

Mercilessly.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer looked at her with betrayal in his eyes. "Why would you do this to me?"

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

Octavia snorted. "You're usually not even here on Wednesdays, I haven't done anything to you."

Yoour hurt eyes had no power here, Lucifer. (Okay maybe a little.)

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[my_own_advocate]

"But there's always a risk. It is my club," Lucifer pointed out, waving at Tiny to get him a scotch.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

"Clearly not enough of one."

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[my_own_advocate]

"Please, no more bananas," Lucifer said. "Or wolves."

Post-Eurovision depression was a real ailment.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

"Fine," Octavia said, picking up her own drink (an alcohol free banana daiquiri, so mostly just... banana and lime and ice). "But I'm not taking the sign down."

She so rarely put anything on there in the first place.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer sighed. "Deal," he said, "I suppose." He snatched his whiskey from Tiny and downed half of it in one go.

Re: Have a Drink [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

Octavia watched him do that, taking a very small sip from her own glass.

Axe Range [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

For violence.

Back Office [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]

For Eric.

OOC [DN 05/18]

[okteiviakom]