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Bright and early again, the bar's resident dining car is behind the bar, setting out juice, sugar, sauces, all the things one needs for a good breakfast at the end of the Universe, the specials already written up on the chalk board:

Breakfast Specials
Breakfast Wellington
Apple And Raisin Oven Pancakes
Half a grapefruit

"What'll you have?"

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"He has a very tiny one," Indy explains. "I help him with it."

"I bet you do," Dinah says with a wink.

Indy stares suddenly in the wake of the wink. "Elephant! The pet elephant is tiny!"

Dinah laughs softly.

"I got that, dear. I'm just teasin' you."

"Oh... right. Heh." He snickers. "A lot of people get the wrong idea about me and Mikey. But we're both happily coupled up..."

"...with other girls!" he adds desperately.

"That's good to hear," Dinah says with a fond smile. "What's her name?"

"My girl's a lady called Delia, and Mike's is a cute vampire slayer called Mel," he says after an exasperated breath of recovery.

Dinah nods and continues to smile sweetly.

"Delia's a nice name. How did you meet her?"

Indy purses his lips, and withholds the truth of a skinny dipping encounter and then a leather clad second meeting during a Slayer duel.

"Oh, we just kept bumping into each other around here. And then... friends... and then more than friends."

"That's sweet," Dinah says. "Finally realised how much you meant to each other?"

He nods. "There was other stuff as well. Brought us closer together. The bar has a strange way of doing that, with all the peculiar things that come to pass when an infinite number of universes collide in one establishment."

"This place sure is somethin'," Dinah says with a grin. "Was it the same for Mikey and Mel?"

He thinks. "Um... sure. You'd have to ask them. But there're certainly an incident or two that spring to mind."

"Well," Dinah says brightly. "Surely in all of those things, for both of you, there's one incident you can tell me about?"

While she's talking, she refills his coffee.

He looks a bit cagy. "Well, my girlfriend went back to her world, and died, then came back here a few days later. And I kinda witnessed it all."

Dinah cringes.

"Oh I am sorry."

He shrugs. "You asked. It's fine now."

"Yes, I did," Dinah agrees. "Can I get you anything else, Indy?"

"No, thanks." He pulls up a smile for her. "Keep up the good work. It's nice to have a dazzling smile to come down to on a morning... on a... mor..."

He stares for a second. "What day of the week is it?"

"Wednesday," Dinah informs him with a frown. "Why?"

"Ugh... oh geez." His stare turns kind of blank, then his head hits the bar gently. "Nevermind..."

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