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[run_barry]

[oom: friends from out of town]

Barry is supposed to be be telling his friends to pack it up.

Instead, he makes plans to meet them for coffee in the morning and then heads home, wandering into Milliways instead of his apartment when he gets there.

Not letting the lows of the day bring him down, Barry is still buzzing with excitement. Heading for the counter, Barry takes a seat and is immediately presented with a milkshake. It's peppermint and green, and Barry grins at the countertop.

"See, you understand," he says to Bar, giving her a fond pat and she responds by producing a basket of fries, a note, and the gift that goes with it.

Barry eyes the glass and reads the note, shaking his head.

"Oh, Yamato, noooo."

He should maybe be disapproving, but right now it's more just bemusement.

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[angry_friendship_wolf]

"'Oh, Yamato, no, what?'"

Yamato has no memory of leaving any notes, so it's a genuine question, and he looks completely serious about it as he approaches the Bar, drawing up alongside Barry.

After all, surely nobody in Milliways knows he got drunk except Cassian! And he's sure Cassian will take that secret to his grave.

He has a notepad in his hand, as is usual for him lately, covered in formulae and diagrams. He's also sniffing the air, because the smell of the milkshake has just hit his nose.

"Is that mint?"

[run_barry]

Barry turns on his stool to give Yamato a critical look. Or at least, Barry's trying to be critical, but it's hard to smother all of his smile.

"No, this," Barry says to Yamato, holding up the note in one hand so Yamato can see it, and the glass of sake in the other.

The flavor identity of Barry's milkshake can wait until after Yamato explains himself.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato's expression is flatly unreadable for a moment, before he gives a nervous laugh, raising his hands.

"I don't -- that's ..." he says, awkwardly. "It was a spur of the moment thing. Someone mentioned it as a coping strategy, and Lord Goemon had this rare sake that wasn't being used ..."

He clears his throat.

"I ... didn't realise that drunk me decided to drunktext people."

Or the closest equivalent in Milliways.

[run_barry]

"Yeah? Who said that?" Barry asks, setting the note down, but keeping hold of the glass.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Just someone," Yamato says, glancing over to the side. He can't exactly sell Cassian out. The bond between people who make bad life choices is the most sacred of bonds. "Sorry, couldn't tell you who even if I wanted to."

He sighs, rubbing the back of his neck. "Besides, having to run troops through training exercises with a killer hangover was more than enough to convince me not to do it again."

Or at least to not get drunk on that particular sake again.

[run_barry]

"Oh, just someone," Barry repeats, rolling his eyes a bit. "Well, someone should know that, as a coping strategy, getting random-text drunk isn't the greatest."

Barry takes a sniff of the sake and wrinkles his nose, setting it down beside his milkshake glass (and away from Yamato).

"Whoo, there are also better drinks you could've gone down that road with." Not that Barry isn't going to drink the sake, because he is curious about it and what affect, if any, it might have.

"Do I even wanna ask what the legal drinking age is in Odaiba?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's made with Orochimon venom!" Yamato chirps, before realising that's not the best thing to say at this point, and clearing his throat awkwardly.

"Anyway, I'm in the Digital World right now anyway, right? No drinking age laws there," he says. "Legal drinking age in Odaiba is, er, twenty, but that's -- that's definitely not relevant."

[run_barry]

Barry squints at Yamato, and then gives a small head shake.

"I'm curious, Yamato, how is that supposed to make it better?" he asks, trying to follow the logic.

As far as legal limits, "Not relevant, huh? Not relevant, huh? Why the Digital World booze, then? Why not ask Bar?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's, er, it's ..." Yamato says, awkwardly, scraping a hand through his hair, because no, yeah, that does make it worse, doesn't it. "At least I didn't get drunk on the cheap stuff? There's worse things to get drunk for the first time on. Probably."

Then again, maybe not. He did chew up a book of rare poetry, write drunk-notes to people, pass out on the floor, and then spend the entire next day with a splitting hangover, after all.

Barry's question about Bar gets him to duck his head, giving the bartop an accusing look. Grudgingly: "Because I knew she wouldn't serve me alcohol."

[run_barry]

"At least you didn't give yourself alcohol poisoning," Barry counters. A beat, and then he squints at Yamato. "You didn't give yourself alcohol poisoning, did you?"

By the note Yamato left and the fact he doesn't remember leaving it Barry can assume Yamato and 'somebody' had quite a bit.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"I'm pretty sure I didn't. I felt awful when I woke up, but that was it."

[run_barry]

"Well, lesson learned, I guess," Barry says, smiling and shaking his head at Yamato again.

Barry can't exactly say too much about it. Not after the New Year's Atlantean Incident.

Lifting his milkshake, Barry stirs it up a bit while reading over Yamato's note.

"Oh, and just so you know, I love you, too man," he says with a laugh and grin.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"T-that's not -- I wouldn't -- ..." Yamato starts, looking absolutely mortified. "It's not like -- ..."

[childofrebellion]

Cassian knows the smell of that glass and turns a little pale as he looks over to Barry, "What's that?"

[run_barry]

Barry looks over and flashes Cassian a smile in greeting, and then gives a bemused chuckle.

"A momento, I guess, from someone who must've had quite the night." Yamato must have been pretty drunk to leave these things for Barry with the bar.

[childofrebellion]

"Yes, they certainly did. He left me a note too."

Which talked about being drunk together but Barry doesn't need to know that.

[run_barry]

Barry shakes his head. He and Yamato are definitely going to have to talk about this.

Folding the note up and putting it away, Barry throws a nod at Yamato.

"So, how's it going, Cass?"

[childofrebellion]

"I'm not sick anymore and I know who I am. Just completed a mission and now doing some planning for another one. You look happy,"

There's been some space since he had to fire a shot through the rain and now he's working on what's next.

[run_barry]

"You look a lot better," Barry says with a nod. "I was worried about you."

Having just dealt with another illness with all of his friends on top of Cassian thinking he was someone else, Barry had cause for concern.

Barry smiles even wider when Cassian mentions being happy. "Some friends of mine are visiting from out of town. It's uh, it's pretty cool to have them around."

[childofrebellion]

"I feel better. I didn't like not knowing what was going on in my head. That's lovely. Who are they?"

He didn't like not knowing who he was.

[run_barry]

"Yeah, that doesn't sound fun at all," Barry notes, very glad that Cassian is back to himself.

Not bothering to clamp down on his excitement, Barry answers, "The Arrow, and my two friends who are on his team. He's working a case in Starling and came to Central City for some help."

And, to go by Barry's expression, it is all clearly awesome.

[childofrebellion]

"A case, there must be a lot you can do to help him in all the areas you know,"

Its good to know that Barry has good friends to work with.

[run_barry]

"Well, he doesn't actually want my help with it," Barry admits, some of that excitement dimming. "Felicity has a piece of evidence that she's working with Cisco on. I offered to team-up with Oliver, but... he kind of does his own thing."

Which is cool. Barry gets it.

Sort of.

"But it's still really cool to have the Arrow in town. Although... some people don't think so." But Barry thinks it's awesome!

[childofrebellion]

"Oh, why not? Your work is with evidence."

If Cassian was in a point where he needed to understand evidence then he'd ask Barry as he knows his job.

[run_barry]

"Well, Cisco and Felicity have that, I was more offering to help him with his bad guy and see if he wanted to help with mine, but apparently he's got it and doesn't want to hang around too long. I might ask him again, just to make sure he's sure."

There's still the chance Oliver might change his mind. At least, that's what Barry is hoping for.