Bartending!

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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]

"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?"

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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?"

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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.

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

Seth squeaks happily and blows a spit bubble in her direction. That means he likes her.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Ace is, of course, entranced. She might relax, just a little, as Seth does not explode, or attempt to wiggle his way free, or some such other horrendous happening.
"Hey boyo." She coos. Oy, Ace is cooing. The world just might be coming to an end.

Oh wait.

It's been doing that outside this whole time, hasn't it?

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

We're safe, I think.

Seth lets out a string of babbles that could only translate as his undying love for Ace.

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

Seth-Ace OTP.

"He likes me, Claire. I really think he likes me!" She's grinning like a loon. "Hey boyo, you 'n' me, eh? I'll teach you history, yeah?"

[sendpeanutbtr.livejournal.com]

"He adores you." She grins. "And he definitely will need a teacher. I don't know much about history."

[nitro-is-ace.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I've lived it, we'll do great. I'll teach him all the interesting stuff. Like the nazi hemavores, and such." She beams. She coos and cuddles Seth for quite a long time after that.

(ooc: We can wrap, if you wish. *grin*)

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