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Guppy comes past. He had been going to talk to Chase, but he looked rather busy. He spots Castle asleep on the sofa.
As someone who regularly falls asleep in the bar he knows it's usually better to be woken up.
He puts a hand gently on Castle's shoulder.

"Lee? You okay mate?"

Lee jerks guiltily awake. As someone who's more than once lectured Behrooz on the stupidity of sleeping in the Bar, he feels like a bit of a hypocrite.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine, just tired..."

He looks up, and, remembering his last encounter with Guppy, feels even guiltier.

Guppy sits down next to him.

"It's not a great place to sleep. I've fallen asleep in here on several occasions. Really kills your neck when you wake up."

Guppy doesn't hold grudges over little things like that.

He winces, finding that Guppy's right. "I keep telling other people not to do it and then I always end up doing it myself. Maybe I should just stay away from the couches."

Zeke, irritated at having been woken up, nudges at Guppy's leg for a compensatory scritch.

Guppy automatically scritches the kitten.

"I don't think most people fall asleep in the bar intentionally. I know I certainly don't, but I have woken up in here on several occasions."

Guppy doesn't have his kitten today. Helen is babysitting it so that he could get some sleep, and not fall asleep at the bar like he did last night.

"I don't even know why. It's not that I've been really sleep-deprived or anything lately."

He shrugs listlessly. "Where's Scampi?"

"Helen's looking after him. She said I needed some sleep and I think she wanted a bit of company. I'm meant to be getting him back off her, but I can't see her around at the moment."

He smiles. "Maybe you just had a busy day."

"Days don't really get that busy around here. I think my problem is that I'm bored, really."

He laughs a little. "I shouldn't be complaining. I mean, it's better than having spells cast on me and having to run away from terrorists and everything."

"Bound are you? I know what that's like. Maybe you should get a hobby. I'm surprised the kitten isn't keeping you busy. Maybe you could train him to do something cool?"

"Yeah, I'm Bound." He refrains from mentioning the reason why. It always tends to make things awkward.

"Zeke has kept me busier than usual," he says, affectionately scritching the kitten. "Especially because he likes to run off and jump on people when I bring him down here. When he's older, I want to train him to be an outdoor cat, because it doesn't feel right to keep a cat cooped up in a room here, but I think he's a little young for that yet..."

"Scampi doesn't do much running off, because he's just a baby, but he does seem to attack anything that beeps, so I'll have to train him out of that before he gets bigger. For now, I would have thought the bar was big enough for Zeke to explore."

"Does he keep attacking your pager, then?" He smiles a little at the mental image.

"Yeah. I'm a little afraid to let Zeke explore the bar. I mean, maybe I'm just being overprotective, but with some of the people around here..." He shrugs. "Maybe I should let him explore some."

"He seems content as it is. Maybe when he's a bit bigger."

Guppy smiles. "Yes, he keeps trying to kill my pager, which is all very well when he's tiny, but won't be good when he's bigger."

Said pager bleeps. Guppy pulls it off his belt to have a look.

"I have to go, sorry Lee. See you later."

[ooc: apols, mun has to go to bed. Night :)]

"No problem. See you, Guppy."