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Ako had mentioned to Laini about the tabs. Thus, when Laini arrives today, she has a small purse-sized bag with her. It gets set on the top of the Bar, and she rapidly sorts through it. Yira, shekles, galliahs, omis, along with chinese dollars and USD $2 bills get stacked on the bartop as she does conversions on her PDA.

"Sixty-nine per, cross by the inflation rate of feathers in finland... and that should cover it, with a bit to spare. We're good?"

Apparently, as the money vanishes. Laini grins, and orders some sort of coffee drink, with enough flavors and sugar in it that the existance of coffee in the cup is debatable.

((OOC: Slowtime for early shift- night all!))

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"Ooh." Laini bounces back down to her feet, giving House a look over. "That is new, then. And good. Certainly, quite positively on the good side." She laughs, giving him a quick kiss.

"Me? I've been keeping busy. Getting a few things planned, as a surprise for a friend of mine, here. He won't know what hit him."

"Oh, fun. I'm sure he'll love it." He gives her hand a gentle squeeze. "Seems we're both doing well."

"Oh, he'll probably hate it at first." Laini grins at that. "But we'll see afterwards, specially if I'm careful to not get him killed."

"And- it certainly seems that we are. Toast, to that?" She grabs her cup of 'coffee'.

"You bet." House held his milkshake up triumphantly.

It felt good, to just relax and share a good natured conversation with an old friend. He'd been wound so tightly since his return to the bar, even as his leg settle down again. Talking to Laini, he could forget all the uncertainty he was dealing with in other areas of his life.

"To us."

Laini is quite good at that. Chaos Spirit, and just overall bouncy. Too much, at times. But still. She grins, and clinks her coffee cup against his milkshake glass.

"To us, all around wonderful and extraordinary people. They should be in awe of our presence."

"You got that right." House grins. He hasn't felt this relaxed since coming back to the bar. "It's really good to see you."

"You as well." She chuckles, sipping her coffee.

"Aside from the awesome news of your leg getting all put together properly, what have you been up to? Tracking down strange new diseases, and putting the smackdown on them?"

"Something like that. Last case I worked, I just had a guy, rejected by the heart transplant committee because he was too old." House frowns to think of it, even now. "So I found him a heart, a woman who was brain dead after a car accident, and I had to figure out what was wrong with her organs. Of course the husband couldn't tell us the truth, and we wasted valuable time trying to save a dead woman's heart. Turns out she had gonorrhea, and I figured the guy would rather have an STD in his blood, than six feet of dirt on top of him."

"... I didn't know that sort of thing could be transfered that way." Her ears flatten. "But- well, better than the alternative, right? And that sort of thing is treatable... Or at least I'd hope." Laini's tail twitches as she frowns.

"Well, it was in her blood stream, so when we gave him her heart, it was in his blood stream. Operation was a success, though. Old guy will have a few more years with his kid." House smiles, although beams might e more appropriate.

"Makes it all quite worthwhile, doesn't it? What you do." She smiles at that. "I've always envied those that know about fixing bodies, either through medicine or healing. Not my area of expertise, really."

"Don't feel bad. Not everyone can do it, or what would be the point? We'd all just be able to heal ourselves, and I'd be out of work."

"Hmmm." She tilts her head, and then nods. "Quite true. I'm one of the best magi-techs Underhill, but then again, most people there tend to not want to touch anything tech with a ten foot pole." Laini shakes her head.

"See? Somebody's got to do it." House smiled. "I took a couple computer classes once, but it wasn't really my thing."

"Well, when all else fails, what has a chance of working is bowing down and praying to the great computer god." She grins.

She may not be joking. Totally.

"Compared to tech-support advice? It has an equal chance of working."

"You're so not kidding." House laughs. "The hospital has a pretty good tech staff, though. And there's always Wilson. Bribe him with beer, he'll do anything I ask." Not strictly true, but close enough.

"Oooh. Bribes do work wonders. There's something about the idea of getting something you shouldn't, for work, that makes it more appealing. At least to certain sort of people." Laini would be one of those sorts of people, of course.

"Though- good beer, I'd hope?"

"Only the best for my Jimmy. He won't work for anything less."

"... What is considered the best, in America Earthside, for beer?" Laini blinks, tilting her head curiously.

"Whatever I have on hand." House laughs. "No, I don't know. He likes Sam Adams. Becks is good too."

"Hm. I'll have to try those." Laini nods, then eyes her coffee.

Coffee+Beer=yuck, unless its made by Drew and Co.

"Later, though. Can't be worse than Coronas."

House sticks his tongue out. "Much better than Coronas."

"Aw- but Coronas, you get little lime wedges to stick in to the bottle necks." Laini mock-pouts.

"Okay, you got me there." House laughs. "The lime really is a selling point." He shakes his head, still smiling.

"And the whole idea of laying on a beach somewhere down in Baja, listening to Margaritaville being played by a mariachi band, and being on the run from a murderous rabbit sort of sell those beers too." Laini sighs, a bit wistfully.