Re-entry

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

The door opens, and Donovan walks into the bar, backwards, talking on a big marrow-bone-sized late 1990s cell phone.

He stares at it when the other side doesn't answer, and only then realises he has stumbled into Milliways, and not where he was expecting to go.

He puts the phone away, sits on a bar stool, and flops dramatically over the bar herself for a moment.

"Oh, hi, glad to be back. It's hell out there," he murmurs to the long piece of sentient wood.

Then, he sits up straight. "A glass of tequila, neat, please!"

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[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

Cuddy hasn't seen a phone like that in - well, ages, really.

And the drink order certainly earns him a raised eyebrow.

"Little early in the day for tequila, isn't it?" she asks. (It is for her, at least.)

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"Hullo," Donovan says, turning to look at her. "Nah, I think I earned it."

The tequila materializes on the bar.


[[OOC: Of course it's okay -- it's even excellent!]]

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

"Really?"

That eyebrow doesn't go down, even as Cuddy sips her own drink - coffee.

"How so?"

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"Her name is Tamar, and she's the worst pain in the uropygium since, well, you don't need to know the details," Donovan says, downing the tequila and ordering a coffee in the same breath.

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

Cuddy hides a smile at the more advanced term. You don't need to be a doctor (or an ornithologist) to know what that means.

"I think I can wager a guess."

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"Oh, she's not my girlfriend; she just likes to make trouble," Donovan says. "She's from Georgia -- the USSR one, not the USA one."

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

"Georgia?"

Cuddy nods slowly. That may or may not be a ways away from -

"Where did you say you were from?"

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"She's in Baltimore," Donovan says. "I came in from St. Louis and am now in Milliways, while she is still in Baltimore, most likely screaming at a silent phone."

He grins, liking the idea.

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

Which explains the cell phone in his hand, even if it does look archaic.

Cuddy nods again.

"Got it."

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"So, where are you from?" Donovan asks, as they are talking places anyway.

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

"Princeton. New Jersey," she adds, for clarification's sake.

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yes, there, been there," Donovan says. "I like the north-east, really. It's not so hot, and close to the sea."

And does not contain Anita Blake.

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

"It's a nice area, when it's not covered in snow."

Which, knowing Princeton, will be any day now, really.

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"It's very nice to fly over, too," Donovan says.

[gotaheadstart.livejournal.com]

"You fly often?"

Cuddy might've deduced as much, what with him and this woman being in two separate places.

[born-to-it.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Donovan says. "Both in a plane, and without it."

At home, Donovan can't talk openly about what he is; here, he can.