[ota] It's a drinking sort of time

[di-a-mond.livejournal.com]

So, it's happy hour and there's been all sorts of upheaval in the Deck recently.

Times like these, she really did miss having Garrett around.

"Oh well," Diana muttered to herself as she opened the bar. "You'll manage, you always do."

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Diana's eyes widen a little as she takes in the new Jack of Hearts. Of course she and Athena didn't particularly know each other but she knew who the former Queen of Spades was.

"Well...work has a way of doing that, when you find yourself without he help you've gotten used to, you know?"

[needsnomirror.livejournal.com]

Well, who didn't.

"Actually... yes." In many ways, Hagen had been for her what the missing help had been for Diana. She downs her glass of... whatever it was she had ordered before.

"Where did your help go?"

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Diana leaned on the bar, ready to provide a refill when Athena was ready but otherwise without any customers at the moment who needed her assistance. "Off-Deck, I think. He's a bit of a wanderer." She shrugged and laughed, "I should've hired a homebody, obviously."

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"Well, seems like now that he's gone, you have good chances for a second attempt."

Do refill, Diana. This is going to be a long night.

And here she had wanted to quit.

[di-a-mond.livejournal.com]

"Definitely something to be said for second chances."

And there's your follow-up drink, Athena, like magic.

"Anything else I can get you?"

[needsnomirror.livejournal.com]

"An ashtray?" It is allowed to smoke in here, isn't it?

"Second chances, third chances, fourth chances... some people need more."

[di-a-mond.livejournal.com]

It was allowed, though Diana made an effort to encourage smokers to take it outside most of the time with a bench under the awning by the door.

Still, she didn't say anything, just slid over an ashtray for Athena.

"It can take a while to get things right." She shrugged. "Nothing actually wrong with that, though."

[needsnomirror.livejournal.com]

Perfect, absolutely perfect, and good thinking on not sending her outside.

"Why not?"

[di-a-mond.livejournal.com]

"Because we're human?"

And thus, imperfect.

[needsnomirror.livejournal.com]

"And that allows mistakes?"

And gone is her drink. Again. Someone really loves her liver.

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"None of us are perfect."

And she gets another.

Eventually, Diana will cut her off, but she's still speaking sober so...

[needsnomirror.livejournal.com]

"Oh, but it's expected of some of us."

Sooner or later, Diana will find that the transition between 'sober' and 'I cannot walk anywhere ever' is a short, fluent one.

And there goes another.

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"I guess I wouldn't know."

There were different pressures on Deck Royalty, after all...than the woman who supplied them with liquor.