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Kitty Pryde-Barton ([personal profile] throughaphase) wrote in [community profile] fandomtownies2022-09-09 10:19 pm

Caritas- Saturday before 8:15 pm

It was that time of year again! New people were here! New people to date, get to know, or perhaps make a mortal enemy of!

You never know.

Signs were hung up in front of the bar, both obviously, and easy to miss for anyone who might wander in and get signed up without their knowledge. Above the bar was a banner (in glitter):

TONIGHT!
THREE MINUTE DATES!
GOOD LUCK WBRURBODY


Your hostess wasn't gonna question it. And a few minutes before 8:00, she took the stage.

"Hello, everyone! And welcome to Three Minute Dates!" Kitty greeted them. "If you're new to this, the rules are simple. We call your name along with one other person. You talk to this person, get to know their likes, their loves, their dreams. After three minutes, a buzzer will sound-" Pause for the sound. "-and you'll hear your name paired with a different person. Et cetera. If there is anyone you'd like to talk to more, the bar will be open afterwards for drinks and conversation. Remember that any violence will get you transported into the pond, but also please don't attempt violence in order to flee, that is rude to the rest of your dates. Now I'm going to get off the stage. Have fun, and good luck..."

She trailed off, not going to attempt to pronounce the word on that sign.


[Hold for so much OCD OCD up! Date away!
The bar | Round One | Round Two | Round Three | Round Four | Round Five | OOC]
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] napking 2022-09-10 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Gray had been quickly drinking more of his iced coffee between dates and now had a whipped cream mustache he seemed unaware of. "Hi!" he said to Jo. "How's it going?"
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] onlyajones 2022-09-10 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Jo was trying to not stare, she wondered if it would be rude to point out the whipped cream, “hello,” she smiled, “it’s not to bad, how did your first round go?”

Maybe he would notice it and she wouldn’t have to say anything?
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] napking 2022-09-10 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Jo had sorely overestimated Gray's level of self-awareness. "Oh, it was good," he said. "My date was my roommate, so...always nice to catch up with him, you know? And you?"

The whipped cream was still there, yes.
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] onlyajones 2022-09-11 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
“Oh my first date was with Tahani,” Jo told him, whose last date would happen to be with her roommate but she wouldn’t know that just yet.

She paused, “um…I don’t mean to be rude but you …you have some whipped cream around your mouth,” she started to go rather red as she said it.
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] napking 2022-09-11 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I'm sorry," Gray said, and paused to wipe at his mouth. "Did I get it?" He wanted to ask if Tahani was as posh as she sounded on the radio, but this wasn't about Tahani. "So I'm Gray, and I'm from California, and before we go any further I feel like I should let you know that I'm not looking to date-date anybody." Especially not girls, or actual teenagers.
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] onlyajones 2022-09-11 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Jo felt a bit awkward as she did look at Gray’s mouth, feeling herself redden as she tried to not be obvious with the staring, “I … I think you did,” she told him as she tried to see if there was any marks left.

“Oh that’s okay, I’m not looking to date either,” Jo assured him, “I’m Josephine Jones but I go by Jo,” she told him, “I’m from South West England, 1953,”
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] napking 2022-09-11 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Wow, 1953!" Gray exclaimed. He hadn't ever spent much time in England, but he did remember the 50s. "This must be a huge adjustment for you. So much changed so fast." Did that sound a little like he had firsthand experience? "And you guys were still on rationing then, weren't you?" He remembered the rationing because just the idea of it stressed Raiden out immensely.
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] onlyajones 2022-09-11 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
"It did take quite a bit to get used to," Jo admitted, "learning about computers and cell phones and the internet did take some time to understand, but I do quite enjoy the internet it's very useful," she added.

She did look a little sheepish at the last part, “we technically were, I think the rationing is still going on but my father … well he was always able to find a way around the rationing, even if there were some things even he couldn’t get … we are pretty fortunate, compared to some,” she admitted, she always did feel awkward mentioning her family's wealth especially after all the trouble that had caused at her last school.
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] napking 2022-09-11 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I don't know what we did without internet," Gray lied. They spent hours or days combing through Alastair's books like it was their job, was what they did.

And hey, Gray didn't judge. His family lived fairly outside of human law. But he couldn't tell Jo that so he said, "Hey, you do what you gotta do, right? And now you're here so you don't have to worry about it!"
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Re: Round Two: Gray / Josephine Jones

[personal profile] onlyajones 2022-09-11 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Jo smiled, "that's true, even though sometimes I can't help but feel like my mother wouldn't approve of a lot of things that happen here," like the fact that she was doing these dates unchaperoned. "I think my dad would like it here but I hope he doesn't turn up, he can be a bit much," she admitted.