Bartending!

[filemyclaim]

Dixie's been trying to sweet-talk Bar into doing her a little favor for a century or so now. She's quite a persuasive lady, but even Lady Bar's got priorities.

A napkin appears while she's buttering her up one day.

I'll give you the music if you take care of the place while I nap.

She smiled. "I knew you were a gentlewoman..."

In a second, she has her specials up:

~TODAY'S SPECIALS~

Cactus Coolers
Lady Luck
The Lady In Red

Ice cream sodas
Cordials
Ginger Beer

Half price if you can name a few musicians to place on my portable phonograph.

...That is what they call iPods in the 1800's, after all.

Tending is open for the night.

[OOC: Here live for the next four hours live, and open for fresh tags through the next tending!]

Comments

[not_his_pa]

Horus is getting bigger and William's cradling him and his elbow when he comes up to the Bar, its healing just taking its time,

"Hello, Miss Dixie. Could I get an ice cream soda?"

[filemyclaim]

Dixie smiles at the cat - it's been a long time since she's seen both William and the tiny feline. "Coming right up." She smiles. "It's been too long, honey. How's the family?"

[not_his_pa]

"Doin' good, Miss Dixie,"

He rests Horus on the counter and does his best to keep his elbow from going down too hard. On the counter, Horus walks over to say hello to Dixie and get pets.

[filemyclaim]

Dixie does know how to stroke a cat. Which she does, gently giving Horus ear scritches. "Gonna stop running yourself ragged before you turn twenty?" she teases. "Root, ginger, cola or orange? And what flavor ice cream?"

[not_his_pa]

"Root beer and chocolate, please. I don't work that hard just get done what needs to be,"

Horus purrs, he hasn't gotten to visit as much and has missed all the scritches.

[filemyclaim]

Which is easily fixed, and easily served up. She gives him a dollop of whipped cream and a cherry on top. "I know, but a lady's allowed to worry." Once she brings William his soda, she turns toward Horus and starts scratching the middle of his back. "I see things fell back together while I was gone," she notices.

[not_his_pa]

"Yeah, I don't understand how it all happened but Milliways is still around. Thank you,"

He reaches for the drink as he's gentle with his elbow and grins at Horus.

[filemyclaim]

An odd look - something faraway, distant, and sad - flickers through her expression before her features settle back into their typical Sphinx-like arrangement. "Welcome." She lets the cat play with the tip of her lace glove-clad finger. "Were you here, at the end?"

[not_his_pa]

"No, I ended up in another world. I wasn't sure if Milliways would be here,"

That was hard and thinking he'd truly lost his father again.

[filemyclaim]

"I was here." The words are sort of hard, unusually brittle, coming from her lips. Horus starts nibbling her finger, his tail curled about her wrist, and she extends her pinkie to rub the tip of his nose with her baby finger and buy her hand a little freedom.

[not_his_pa]

"Hell, for the battle, Miss Dixie? I saw what the ground looked like after,"

He didn't know that and he doesn't want to think of her here for the worst.

[filemyclaim]

"For the battle. For the end. And I did what I could." She scratches Horus under his chin. "I suppose it might have been worse. I could have gone alone."

[not_his_pa]

"I'm sorry, Miss Dixie. I would have been here but ended up someplace else without meanin' to."

[filemyclaim]

She shakes her head. "William, I'm nobody's responsibility but my own." And she wasn't even Brisco's, at this point. "There's no use crying over spilled blood, anyway."

[not_his_pa]

"Still means I can worry though, you'd do the same for me."

[filemyclaim]

"Of course," she declares. "But you worry yourself sick more often than not." She lets Horus lick her fingertip. "Well? How do you like your soda?"

[not_his_pa]

"It's real nice and I'm tryin' not to do that."

[filemyclaim]

"Good. You'll have an ulcer before you're twenty."

[not_his_pa]

"I won't."

[filemyclaim]

"I hope not," she replies archly. "Finish your soda before it goes flat."

[not_his_pa]

"Yes, ma'am," He doesn't drink it up too quickly as its tasty but pretty quick.

[filemyclaim]

She keeps watching over him, hawklike, while he does. "Just keep on, William It's the best thing you can do."

[not_his_pa]

As she watches, he reaches out to pet Horus, who's a good distraction, "That's what I do."

[filemyclaim]

"You ought to give yourself more credit - you make a lot of people proud, just be knowing you." Horus licks the tips of her fingers. "Keep on with your learning."

[not_his_pa]

"I'll do what I can."