Happy Hour...of the future!!!!

[gonna_live]

Once upon a time in the magical world of Milliways, Kaylee and Eddie Dean were having a conversation. Kaylee said wistfully that she'd always wanted to try bartending, only...mechanic, and lack of time. Well, says Eddie, How about you take a shift and see what it's like?

So. Cookies have been dropped off at the Dean residence as a way of saying thanks; the Black Books of Bartending Lore under Bar have been perused (on Eddie's advice), a few specials have been chalked up on the board:

Specials:

Wooly Mitten
Pink Cello
Tangerine Dream
New Canaan brandy

And Kaylee is leaning on Bar, looking eager and adorable. You know how it is. Sometimes you just want to duct-tape her mouth and drop her in the hold for a month.

"Hey, folks. Happy Hour's open. What'll you have?"

Comments

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"Star Trek. It was a television show in my world. Though around here, I wouldn't be surprised to find that it's actually the way things were somewhere else."

She shrugs.

"Their ships were always these huge, elegant things with sliding doors and voice activated computers."

[gonna_live]

"Well...they got those, I think. Alliance cruisers. But they ain't exactly built to last. Like to kill everybody on board."

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"So all the gloss and shine on the outside hides something that doesn't work quite right? Typical."

She shakes her head and sips her drink.

[gonna_live]

"You're tellin' me." Kaylee's got her hands on her hips now, and is looking both wry and disdainful. Confidentially: "The design? They route the exhaust feeds into the main air controls, so if anything goes wrong? They're gonna asphyxiate the entire crew. That's junk."

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

Easter looks a little incredulous. She doesn't know a lot about engines, and less about spaceships, but that sounds bad even to her.

"Carbon monoxide poisoning on a massive level can't be good. I think I'll stay with my feet firmly planted on the ground, thanks."

[gonna_live]

"Lot of folks do that, yeah -- hell, I'd never left where I grew up until I signed on with the crew. So that's always an option." Kaylee grins.

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

Easter laughs lightly.

"I'm not even terribly fond of airplanes, though once I rode on a thunderbird. That was kind of fun."

[gonna_live]

"A -- what's that?"

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

Easter tilts her head a bit.

"The airplane, or the Thunder bird?"

[gonna_live]

"The second one."

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"It was a bird that some of the early people in America said made the lightning and thunder by beating it's wings. Among other things. It was like riding on lightning. Literally."

[gonna_live]

Cue really, really wide eyes. "Damn."

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"Of course, they really don't like it if you pull their feathers too much."

She sips her drink thoughtfully.

[gonna_live]

"Well, hell -- can't imagine anybody would." Beat. "...what happens when you do?"

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

She makes a face.

"Let's just say that you don't want to fall off the back of a lightning bolt. Though I didn't get dumped, they really aren't passenger birds. It was a bit of an emergency."

[gonna_live]

"Can't say I'd want to ride on lightning, either, though -- kind of hot, you know?"

Sometimes Kaylee is slow to realize that logic does not apply to things like thunderbirds.

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"It was exiting. Probably not something I'm ever going to try again though."

Actually, it was kind of hot, just not as hot as you'd think.

[gonna_live]

"Can't say as I blame you." Kaylee shakes her head.

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

She shrugs again, and sips her drink.

"What made you want to fly on a space ship instead of staying on your world?"

[gonna_live]

"Because it was better than stayin' there, gettin' knocked up, and marryin' a fella who'd probably knock me around." Matter-of-factly. "'Sides, I love ships, and seein' new places is just about the best thing ever, so...when captain offered me the job, I took it right then and there."

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

Easter frowns and has to remind herself that she has no power to prevent such things from happening in Kaylee's world.

"Certainly better than all that. You are happy on your ship then?"

[gonna_live]

"Nowhere else I'd rather be." Immediate and sincere.

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"Good."

She smiles and reaches over to pat her hand gently. It is a bit of a blessing, that.

"I am glad of it, Kaylee."

[gonna_live]

She grins. "Me, too."

"So what is it you do when you're not ridin' on thunderbirds and whatnot?"

[eostre-of-dawn.livejournal.com]

"Not a whole lot, actually."

She blushes and swirls what is left of the liquid around in her glass.

"I was.. um.. a goddess. But goddesses are a bit out of date in my world. We do what we can to get by."