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The second the door appeared in the Bar, she was out. It didn't matter where or when, there was somewhere else to go and she took it.

Weeks later, sitting in a slowly cooling room in an inn on Wuzhao, she smokes a cigarette beside the window and starts to think about what to tell people, if she happens to stumble back. Not that she wanted to go back, of course.

It's just that it might be a good idea to get out of Wuzhao soon. The room wasn't the only thing rapidly cooling and someone was bound to collect soon.

The next week, gardening on Gaia in a sunhat and dress the kind old couple of the farm offered to the young woman their grandson was so taken with, she wonders what she should tell Bill if she goes back. She had been so excited to go home that she couldn't wait? She tried to peek through the door and got pulled through? She tripped? She tried to find him and left word with Bar, but the damn thing must have lost it...

One month later, she's in silk with a flute of champagne in her fingers, leaning into the arm curled around her shoulders and showing off a ring that she's been told is divine at least fifteen times tonight. An hour later in the coat room, 'celebrating' her engagement with her fiance, she wonders if she'll get back to Milliways again at all or if she'll ever stumble into another world.

And just as she's finished winking at the boy bringing them room service on her way to the pool, the automatic doors do not open to a glimmering, shimmering, holographic representation of a beautiful beach on what should be a basic pool.

It's a bar. Or, rather, a Bar.

Blinking, the redhead looks around in surprise.

Surprise will give her the time she needs to remember what alias she was going by the last time she was here.

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Bill is sitting at the bar but with a beer from a wait rat since Bar doesn't seem up to serving right now.

He doesn't notice the new arrival as his attention is focused on the bowl of pretzels he has and the log cabin he's building. Bored? A little. And totally unawares.

Well, if there was going to be anyone to remember that alias...

"Bill!"

He doesn't need to stand up - she's short enough to throw her arms around his shoulders while he's still on the bar stool.

Bill jumps in surprise and the log cabin collapses. He twists to see the face that matches the voice and grins wide, "Eva!"

He pulls back from her just enough so he can get his own arms free and around her.

She laughs, so happy to see him.

Evangeline Walker. That was the one.

And since Evangeline Walker would have missed her boyfriend quite a bit, she cups his face in her hands and kisses him.

And the kiss is well recieved. During it though Bill's mind suddenly flashes to the most recent kiss he's had and who it was with. He kisses her and then draws back and hugs her again, using the time to look over her shoulder and scan the bar for a purple lady.

Not spotting one he draws back and looks at Eva smiling, "Eva. It's...it's been awhile. How you been? Everything alright?"

Hugging him back tightly, she leans back still smiling brightly, excitedly, her arms around his neck with her fingers in his hair. "It is now! Duibuqi, Bill, I didn't think that - people come and go so quickly here, I didn't think just peeking into the door would take me away for so long! How are you? Did I miss anything exciting?"

He glances at the door and then back at her, "Yeah, door can be crazy like that. Nothin...to exciting." He says the last slowly and carefully and hurries on with a smile, "I'm good. Been missin you, of course. This place has just been as crazy as it usually is."

He gestures to the stool beside him, "Here, sit down. You hungry? I can getcha somethin to eat."

Hopping up onto that stool, she smoothes her skirt over her legs, ankles crossed while her sandles clack against the bars of the stool. She's still grinning at him, giddy as she folds her arms over the counertop. "Oh no, I had lunch just a little while ago. Ooh, I could go for tea, though, that wildberry one that Bar makes so well."

Testament to Bill's powers of observation, there is, in fact, a purple girl in the bar.

"Hey babe, who's the skank?" she asks cheerily.

The skirt smoothing catches Bill's quick attention and he thinks he notices something shiny on Eva's hand. Before he can comment on it though his attention is quickly pulled towards the new arrival. Oh. Shit.

"Woah, hey." He says, to Raz in what he'd like to be a stern manner but comes out mostly nervous and shocked.

Which goes very well with Eva's expression, staring at Raz with wide, startled eyes. She glances between her and Bill for a moment and makes a very careful note of the way Bill does not come rushing to her defense.

"I... uh... excuse me?"

It's the best she can do after being called a skank, after all.

Eva gets looked up and down. And up... and down.

"Yeah, you. What's your name?"

Raspberry leans on the Bar casually.

Bill straightens up and get's his voice back. There is no way this is ever going to end well. But, he tries.

"Hey now Raz, really don't appreciate that. This is Eva." He reaches over and takes Eva's hand and gives it a squeeze. "Eva this is Raspberry."

He considers adding 'my girlfriend' to Eva's introduction but doesn't know how good an idea that is, what with Raz coming up like she did.

From the look she sends his way, the redhead was apparently expecting to get some sort of title. She keeps that look of nervous, near-distrust for a moment before curling her hand around his and looking at Raspberry again. "...Nice t'meet you... I guess. I'm Eva, dui."

Raspberry snrks. "Yeah, nice to meet you, too." She leans over and gives Eva a kiss on the cheek, because there's nothing like mixed signals to make a goo girl's day complete.

Bill blinks at the kiss and uses the hand he's holding onto to draw Eva a little closer. "Yeah, she just got back from her world, door was gone awhile. Was just gonna buy her dinner."

Please. Go away. And don't say anything. Is Bill's mental plea.

She nearly jumps with that kiss, startled and staring, drawn closer to Bill just because he tugged and also because she'd apparently like to get away from Raz.

"You're... new to Milliways, miss.. uhm, Raz?"

In the background, very soft, there is singing.

There has been singing for some time. But now the words are audible.

"Beedle-dee dee dee dee.... two ladies!
Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee ... two ladies!
Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee ... and I'm the only man, ja!"

If they look closely, there may be a chorus line of slugs on the edge of the bar.

Dancing.

"What the fuck. What..." Raz stares, and points, and stares some more. "Wha-- are those slugs? And... dancing, singing-- what the fuck?"

"She..." Bill starts to answer for Raz and then turns towards the singing. If you have never seen a grown man FREAKTHEHELLOUT! on a bunch of slugs you're seeing it now.

"Holy fuckin shit!" Bill shouts out and leaps up, tumbling out of the stool and covering his mouth quickly. For his part though he does bring Eva with him and even though they fall he does place his other hand over her mouth as they hit the floor.

Why? Oh, because once upon a time ago brain slugs invaded his town and zombified people by crawling into thier mouths. See, he's not completely nuts.

He definitely looks it, though.

Squeal muffled against his palm, she falls back against him when they hit the floor, flailing with his arm around her. She tries to look back at him, hands up against his arm and-- well, she would try to shout at him again.

It's just that there are slugs on the bar and they're singing.

Rather well, too. They're still going (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8jHeLtQ8tE):

"Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, I like it.
Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, they like it.
Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee, this two for one!"

...although they all trail off in surprise when the bigpeoples hit the floor.

That's not the desired reaction!

Ouh. The slugs are sad now. They all hang their heads and look mournful.

Raz is still staring.

"...Okay. Dancing slugs, dude. That is fucked up."

Long pause, then a grin.

"You guys want some booze or somethin'?" (Said to the slugs, not to the crazy man on the floor and his skank.)

Bill just sits there with his hand around Eva's mouth STARING at the singing slugs. Who now all look rather sad.

He blinks and turns to look up at Raz, removing the hand over his own face enought to say, "Don't let em in your mouth."

So they're not red like the ones during the invasion, but they are also singing so definetely not normal slugs either.

When Bill takes his hand down from his own mouth, she doesn't feel too bad about tugging at the one over hers.

"Why would they want to get in our mouths?" she asks, once free and starting to climb to her feet, catching Bill's hand in her free one.

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