Bartending!

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

Claire steps behind the bar, Seth sleeping in a baby sling around her neck. She wipes down the bar's surface and straightens the extra glasses, smiling at Charlie playing guitar in the corner.



"What can I get you?"





[[ooc: 6:45 EST: Wrap or slow-time from here on out, please *bats eyelashes*]]

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[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" Oh, she wants details. "He's better, now that he's not being a silly bugger."

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"He was nice." She grins. "And what was he doing that made hima silly bugger?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Wore himself out. Lost weight he really couldn't afford. Moped. Was a silly bugger." She nods.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

She smiles kindly. "Ace, I think most men are. On a good day, Charlie doesn't take very good care of himself. On a bad day? Forget it."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace snorts.
"And they want to rule the world? They can bloody well forget it."

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"They can't do any of that if we don't make sure they eat and get enough sleep." She grins.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace miiiiight look slightly startled and guilty at that.
"Err... right. Most definitely, oh yes." She returns the grin.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

Claire smiles curiously at Ace but doesn't say anything.

Instead she asks the bar for some cookies and then smiles when they appear. "And as a friend, I should make sure that you're eating too."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Just... haven't been hungry, is all." She looks decidedly guilty now. She does her best not to think of her conversation with Wash the night before, but might turn a little green anyway.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"Ace," she says in her best motherly tone. "I have to keep an eye on Charlie and on this little one here. I don't mind nagging you too, if I have to."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Cornered, she pulls out her amazing conversation-topic changing trick.
"Charlie? What happened to Charlie?"

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

Claire squints at her and sighs. "He. . .he's around. Something happened this weekend and he's not taking it very well."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Bloody hell. I leave for a while, and everything gets blown to hell. Well, I'm not helping that, am I?" She's muttering to herself, looking highly irritated.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"You have no idea." She sighs. "But I'm not sure you could have been around to stop this."

She looks at the other woman concerned. "I'm worried about you, Ace."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Don't be. I'm fine. Really." One would think, spending years in crisis situations, that she'd learn how to be more reassuring. Ah well.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"I don't buy that for a second, Ace. But I'll stop bugging you about it." She offers a kind smile. "For now."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Good. Tim worries enough for everybody. Don't need you doing it too." But she's grinning again, as best she can.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"That's just because you're too important to us." She grins hoping for a patented Ace blush.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

You ask, we deliver! Poor Ace.
By the way? She's not blushing. Really. Stop staring.
"Oh, get on with you." She mutters, swirling her cocoa.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"I just tell them like they are." She shrugs with a smirk.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Flattery will get you nowhere, missy." Ace retorts.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"Well, missy," she smirks. "I'm not going anywhere, so I guess you're just going to have to put up with me."

Seth squeaks notifying the room at large that he's awake and ready for attention. Claire grins as she looks down at him.

"Hey, Ace? Would you like to hold him?"

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace's eyes go wide.
"Me?" Oh dear. That was a squeak. And here we thought Aces didn't squeak. "Hold the baby? The Seth baby?"

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

CLaire just grins and carefully undoes the sling around her neck, making sure to support Seth's head she passes him over.

"Here, it's easier just to remove the whole sling then take him in and out of it."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

There's a strangled 'bloody' from the pyro, and then she's got her arms full of Seth. She cradles him cautiously, as if he were a pack of C4 set to go off with the slightest jolt. There's something vaugely terrified about her expression.