Happy Hour!

[thanksrainman]

Gus stumbled from his room and makes his way on auto-pilot to the bar. When the napkin appears, it takes Gus fifteen minutes and a cup of coffee before he notices it.

"What?...Oh, come on."

He makes his way to the other side of the bar, fishing about for something to write on the board with.

TODAY'S SPECIAL:
HALF OFF ANYTHING I DON'T HAVE TO MIX

That taken care of, he returns to his coffee and waits.

[[OOC: taking over for tonight, since mamaplays2win is getting lightning'ed on.]]

Gotta call slowtime early, because of sudden feeling of nastiness.

Okay, I'm back.

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[gorgonfondness]

"You don't have to mix milk, right?" asks the lady who obviously stole her husband's clothes. "We'd like our cookies with milk."

The "We" she's speaking about is in reference to her small but present baby bump.

[thanksrainman]

Gus blinks at her a few times.

"Uhhh, no," he says.

Assuming the "we" means that someone else will be joining her shortly, Gus pours two glasses of milk and sets them on the bar.

"There ya go."

[gorgonfondness]

She takes one glass, but blinks at the second.

"Why'd you-?" she begins, but then she realizes. "Oh! You didn't get my little joke. Or I'm too small for you to tell."

Mia smooths out her husband's shirt over her stomach.

"I was talking about him."

[thanksrainman]

Gus laughs nervously. "Oh, right," he says with a nod. "I didn't even--" he waves his hands in a matter to signify that he didn't even notice it, but it comes off as more of a flail.

"I'll just, uhm..."

He takes the second glass, and after a few moments hesitation, pours a bit of the milk into his coffee.

[gorgonfondness]

She giggles at that.

"It's all right. I'm sure I'll want more milk. You didn't have to do that."

She nibbles on one of her Nutter Butters, which happens to be covered in chocolate.

"I've been told it's obvious. I've also been told that I look very pretty the way I am now."

And frankly, she feels pretty.

[thanksrainman]

"Well, in my defence, it's been a while since I been around someone who was pregnant. I think it's been about seven years since my wife--ex-wife was."

[gorgonfondness]

"You don't have any reason to defend yourself; you haven't offended me."

Really, it's hard to get a rise out of Mia.

"I'm sorry to hear the ex-wife part. What happened?"

Beat.

"If you don't mind telling me, that is. I know it must be quite a personal question. I'm sorry if I offended you."

[thanksrainman]

Oddly, Gus has never been asked this question before.

"We just...had some problems when I lost my job back in Las Vegas. You know how that goes."

[gorgonfondness]

"Oh, yes, I know how that goes, in a way. My family dynamic changed a lot when my mother retired from her job and I started working. That was a rough time for us. And we had to move to another city when it happened, so that just added to the stress. I don't know how I survived it since it was before I started coming here."

It might be worth mentioning that Mia's only twenty two and looks it.

[thanksrainman]

"Yeah. She eventually packed up and went back to Indiana to stay with her mother. I haven't seen her or Thais since then."

He sighs that sigh and looks down at the counter.

He's gotten rather good at that bit.

[gorgonfondness]

"I'm sorry to hear that. Do you miss them?"

[thanksrainman]

"Like crazy, some days," he says.

Jumping slightly, he pulls his wallet from his trousers and opens it to show off a picture.

"This is them."

[gorgonfondness]

"Awwwww. They're beautiful."

Mia really needs a wallet for her pictures. They're all going to get crushed in her pocket.

"This is my husband Draco and me," she says, showing him the first picture.

The next picture is of a toddler with tan skin, blonde hair, and fangs.

"That's our niece Rachel. She'll be two this autumn. Right now, she's wondering why Auntie Mia's tummy is getting bigger."

[thanksrainman]

Gus tries very, very hard to ignore the fangs. He still hasn't quite got the swing of this place yet.

"I never had any nieces or nephews," Gus says. "Well, I didn't. I might now, for all I know. I've been a bit out of touch lately."

That's understating things just a bit.

[gorgonfondness]

"Well, she's really just my best friend's daughter. Draco and I don't have any siblings."

[thanksrainman]

"I got a brother somewhere. We sort of fell out when he got busted for fraud a few years ago, though."

He bites his lip lightly and looks aside for a moment.

[gorgonfondness]

"Not the most honorable sorts in your family?" she asks. "I've got some of that history in my family, too."

[thanksrainman]

Oh, you have no idea.

"Yeah, well. There are worse things to be."

He smiles. It's not exactly an innocent smile, but it's not sinister or threatening, either.

[gorgonfondness]

He smiles like Draco smiles.

"For better or worse, my family has that, too. Sort of."

She waves her hand in a sort of way to match.

"My kind of stepfather, now he was no good in his later years."

[thanksrainman]

"Oh, really?"

Gus is interested, now. This kind-of-stepfather sounds like his sort of guy.

[gorgonfondness]

He won't in a minute if Gus cares about...well, anything.

"He was the reason behind a lot of corruption in our local government. My mother used to be in charge, but she had to retire after he had attacked her mind. After that, he started a world war in a mad attempt to achieve godhood that nearly destroyed everything."

[thanksrainman]

"What happened to him, then?" Gus asks.

[gorgonfondness]

"My friends and I stopped him."

She didn't always like how they stopped him, but it was simply what needed to be done. Some people can't be stopped any other way.

[thanksrainman]

"Oh."

Gus can't help but feel disappointed in the slight anti-climax there.

[gorgonfondness]

It was an epic battle.

Where Mia helped kill the man who read her bedtime stories and picked her flowers from the garden.

She doesn't like going into detail.

"It...weighs heavy on my mind sometimes. And I know, sooner or later I'll have to tell him why he only has one grandfather."