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It's very sudden. Atton just gets up from where he is sitting, drinking something surprisingly non-alcoholic and leaves the bar.

A couple of moments later, he enters again. Except he looks much younger. Thirteen years younger, in fact, or thereabouts. And very hungover.

"Oh, kriff, not again - ..." Eighteen-year-old-Atton-who-is-not-yet-called-Atton breaks off into a stream of curses, but runs out of them before long. So he goes and looks broody in a booth.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

((Mun may have to go in forty minutes or, at the most, two hours, so slowtime may be necessary.))

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"Oh, no. No, no, no. No," Jaq shakes his head. "No, no."

"Is that a no?"

Grinning,

"I'll buy you a drink." Directly after taping a note to the top of the crate that says 'DO NOT KICK. EXPLOSIVE CONTENTS'.

"That's a no. I could do with a drink, though." Jaq grins crookedly at her, raising an eyebrow.

"Anything in particular?" She asked, ordering herself a glass of water.

"As long as it's very non-alcoholic, I'm fine. I don't think I have enough tastebuds left to care what it is."

"That's not like you." She tapped Bar, waiting until a very strong mug of coffee appeared, then slid it over to him.

Watching him for a bit, she sat on the edge of a stool. He looked younger than she remembered. Or maybe she just felt older.

"I'm fairly certain the worst way to deal with a hangover is to drink more." Jaq replies, shrugging and sitting down.

Surveying him over the top of her glass, the words drop into the air strangely. A sort of caring where there should be none. Aeryn's found that she cares for everything more these days.

"Have you been...well?"

"Well enough. You?"

Can Jaq detect shifty eyes as well as Atton? Only time will tell!

"Acceptable."

Jaq tilts his head slightly.
"Acceptable?"

"Acceptable." Aeryn repeated, giving absolutely no leverage.

"In general."

"Acceptable." Said in the same way that somebody might say 'You're a dancing walrus. Right, of course you are.'

Aeryn is not a walrus. Neither is the mun. ~~Your momma!~~

"That's what I said."

"Yeah," Jaq sips his drink. "I heard. I'd like to say I'm not that gullible but I probably am."

"If I killed you," Aeryn stated, jumping subjects. ", Atton technically wouldn't exist..."

"It's an interesting thought, but there's a reason I'm a pilot and not a philosopher or a physicist. So, how are you really?"

Interesting? Or tempting. He'll never know now.

"It's been a rough monen, but I get by as always." It's at times like this the mun wished she smoked, it'd give her something to do with her hands. Other than let them fidget.

The fidgetting irritates Jaq somewhat. After all, there are better things to do with hands. Like steal.

"Right." He's seemingly satisfied with this answer, and takes a sip of his drink.

Always blunt,

"You are more like him now. Annoying."

"I'm in a bad mood. Cut me a bit of slack, here," Jaq mutters. "Or maybe you could just stop comparing me to him - me - us - Kriffit."

"You are him."

A calm sip of her water.

"That's what irks me."

"Well, yeah," Jaq admits, biting his lip. "But I can't be that much like him. Right? I mean, you made him sound a bit on the evil side when I was last here."

"Evil is a point of view. And that was in his past."

Aeryn resolutely didn't add that they kissed the same."

"Please do not even tell me what was in his past. I honestly do not want to know." Jaq replies.

He doesn't ask if they kissed the same. Which works out well, considering she doesn't add it, really, until he does.

"Do we kiss the same?"

See?