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Nothing a stiff drink can't fix (Active)

Characters: Luxord, Yuuko
Content: Yuuko's in search of booze, and she seems to have found it - and a drinking buddy.
Setting: The Cheap Prayer [F5]
Time: Evening
Warnings: ...booze? :D

It had been far too long since Luxord had been to this bar. Seedy as it was, there was something about the atmosphere that kept him coming back. This place was a bit too shady for most "visitors," and the locals were like sheep - everyone left one another well enough alone and nobody noticed anything, let alone a black coat.

Not that he wore his in public anymore. It garnered a bit too much attention on the streets, and while that could be fun, it (along with a good chewing-out from the Superior) certainly wasn't what he wanted at the moment. Khakis and collared shirts had become his uniform of sorts, at least for the time being.

So he relaxed on his barstool, nursing a fiery red cocktail and letting the city go by. It wasn't as if the alcohol affected him anymore, but at least he could appreciate the taste.

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Yuuko had a few rules when she was in a new world and looking for answers and one of those was to find the nearest, shadiest alcohol establishment there was. Watanuki probably would have been very unhappy with this idea however Yuuko knew from experience that if one wanted to find out information about a place you went to the 'darker' places of that world.

The Cheap Prayer hadn't been hard to find at all...then again Yuuko seemed to have an innate talent for finding booze so it could have just been that. As far as she could tell it was your typical bar...with the evening slowly turning into night the customers would come flocking in...bringing her much needed information. She stepped in, making note of the people already there, her red eyes scanning over the crowd...someone, something of interest was bound to catch her eye.

And it did...she found that someone rather quickly and with no shame at all waltzed right over to where he was seated and pulled up a seat herself. "Mind if I join you," she asked sweetly (after the fact that she already had). She smiled and waved the bartender down, "Hello~ I'd like whatever he's having."

"...certainly," Luxord finally replied to the newcomer's question after she'd already pulled up a seat and ordered. He raised an eyebrow at the woman's attire - interesting taste, and not a style he knew - and mannerisms. The rules may have shifted slightly, but this was still a game, and it seemed he now had a fellow player - whether she was teammate or opponent remained to be seen.

He waved at the bartender, signaling for him to double the order - Luxord's glass was near empty, and he could certainly use another drink - before turning back to the woman. "Interesting outfit," he commented lightly. "What's the occasion?"

Yuuko was used to getting 'looks' from people...she just wasn't very good at the 'blending in' thing...of course she could make herself less conspicuous if she really cared to but at the moment that was not on her list of things to do. Of course the man wasn't the only one doing the studying, Yuuko worked with many different people from different worlds so she had a knack for reading them (aside from the fact that she was also psychic and could see their future under the right circumstances).

She tilted her head to him and chuckled, "Occasion? Oh, there's no occasion, I dress like this because I like to." She glanced down at her outfit, a black shirt revealing a bit too much clevage and a tad too much stomach with long sleeves and white designs covering the arms and back of it (it looked like a butterfly if you looked at it in the right angle) as well as flared white jeans and black heeled sandals. Yuuko smirked and waved her hand, "Besides...clothes aren't very important are they? I'm not really one for the saying 'clothes make the man'...they may influence him but a person is far more than the clothes they choose to wear."

For example she had a feeling the man's clothes were hiding how interesting he truly was...but that was mostly her intuition. "So," she continued, "Care to share your name, sir?"

"It's as good a reason as any," Luxord replied lightly after hearing the woman's explanation, "and I would agree. The clothes, however, don't have to make the man in order to say quite a bit about him." He thought of his black trenchcoat, temporarily abandoned in favor of secrecy.

"Ah, forgive my rudeness," he apologized, sliding one of the newly-mixed cocktails the bartender had brought by down the bar to her and turning on the charm. "You may call me Tobias. And you, madam?"

"Hmm...yes you do have a point," Yuuko murmured, yes she was beginning to think she had made a wise decision coming here. Of course, according to her beliefs this meeting had been fated anyway.

Yuuko elegantly picked up the glass the cocktail was in, it was a nice color and she sincerely hoped the taste reflected that. Her lips curling into a smile she took a sip before speaking again, ah yes that definitely hit the spot. "Tobias, eh," the name rolled around in her head before plopping into some unknown area of information that she often stored, her smile broadened, "What a lovely name. You may call me Yuuko if you like...it's what I usually go by at any rate."

"Thank you," Luxord replied - evidently he'd chosen his false name well, "and it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Yuuko." She seemed the type to appreciate the extra formality, so he casually laid it on.

"If I might ask," he started after nursing his drink in silence for a few seconds, "what brings you down to this corner of the city? Surely you know the Glass Bonsai is just up the street." Where the liquor wasn't nearly as good, but it was a classier joint that many preferred. Frequenting the Cheap Prayer, however, made Luxord less visible - who paid attention to a seedy old bar, after all? - and so he continued to come here. He'd be interested to hear Yuuko's answer to the question, however.

She did...she didn't get to be called 'Miss' very often after all.

"That uppity place? Oh no, it's not the type of place I'm looking for," Yuuko replied to Tobias' question, smirking all the while. "I may not look it but I'm fairly new to this place...and from experience the best places to get information are places like this...those 'nicer' bars never know the details I'm looking for." She swirled the liquor in her glass before downing a good portion of it, setting the glass down on the bar, "Besides~ I have a great sense for good alcohol...I knew this place would be better!"

Luxord did his best to hide a smirk as Yuuko explained her reasoning. She was quite the character indeed - the game would be that much better for her participation. "Forgive my original assumptions," he replied conversationally when she had finished. "You are much more astute than I had ever thought."

"You're correct on both accounts. A meeting at the Glass Bonsai is merely a formality, whereas a meeting here has meaning...or at least good booze." He paused and sipped his cocktail. "No one makes cocktails quite like the Cheap Prayer, after all. This particular concoction-" He couldn't help but smile, or at least smirk, at the name - it amused him far too much, "-is known as The Roof Is On Fire."

Yuuko laughed, oh she was VERY astute, "I get that a lot...sometimes I'm a bit too much for some people."

"It's amusing how often good booze and a meaningful meeting go hand in hand...or perhaps that's just me," Yuuko replied, taking another sip from her cocktail. The taste sparked her tongue and she enjoyed it...yes she would definitely have to come back to this place in the future. "Ooh, so that's it's name...I don't believe I've ever had one of those," this was saying something coming from Yuuko considering how much she DID drink. "A very interesting name for a drink...I don't suppose you can name its ingredients," her tone was hinting at a challenge and she wondered if he would accept.

"Believe me," Luxord replied, "it isn't just you. I've had quite a few interesting conversations over a good stiff drink.

"Few people have," he continued. "It's not commonly known." It seemed as though Yuuko enjoyed a good game as much as he did, and he rose to the challenge. "Cinnamon Schnapps and Vodka Citron. For its simplicity, it has an excellent flavor."

"Hah~ that it does," Yuuko made note of the ingredients and name of the drink...perhaps she could figure out how to make it later, after all, one who loved alcohol as much as Yuuko didn't get by without knowing how to make a few drinks.

She finally finished off her drink and made a sound of satisfaction as she set the glass down, "Delicious!" The woman clasped her hands together with a smile and then turned to 'Tobias.' "So, you seem to know a little about this place or at the very least it's drinking establishments, how long have you been here," Yuuko inquired.

Watching Yuuko finish her drink, Luxord tapped the bar - two fingers. The bartender had long since come to know the mannerisms of his most frequent patron, and he slid two more of the cocktails down the bar. Catching them deftly, Luxord slid one to Yuuko and tasted his own. "I'm glad you enjoy them."

"I've been here a good while," came a simple and rather vague reply to the question. "I'd be more specific, but I'm afraid I'm just terrible at keeping track of time." It was an outright lie, but it wasn't as though Yuuko knew it, or needed to know.

If Yuuko suspected a lie or if she was suspicious at all it didn't show and in fact it was highly doubtful that she cared. There was very little that ever worried the woman and this place and its people was not one of them at the moment. She smiled when the new drink was summoned, "My, my what a gentlemen to get me another drink without requiring me to ask."

Of course it didn't hurt that Tobias continued to provide her with drinks.

"I tend to have the same trouble with time," she waved her hand, "it's all relative anyway according to some scientist or other...and really time is a funny little thing anyway so what does it matter." Yuuko took a drink.

"A gentleman should never have to ask a lady if she'd enjoy another drink," Luxord replied smoothly. He didn't often follow that rule - he didn't often have company that could be considered ladylike and he rarely acted the gentleman, so it simply didn't apply - but it was a good one to have for situations like this.

"That it is," he agreed mildly, sipping his drink. "Funny how it seems to run so slow at times, and then speeds up faster than can be caught." He'd know all about that, as a good number of the mentioned fluctuations were his doing, but there was no reason to admit that.

Oh she liked this man a lot...smooth talker indeed...at least he wasn't annoying about it like a certain glasses wearing bastard she knew. Now wasn't the time to think of past companions though.

"You certainly seem to know a lot about it," Yuuko mused on his reply to the concept of time, "it's funny how it can go all loopy on you sometimes too...but it is an easily malleable thing if you know how to handle it properly."

"Oh, not at all," Luxord deferred Yuuko's assessment of his knowledge. "It's simply what I've observed during the course of my life."

"Is it really now." He raised an eyebrow at her last comment on time. "Are you saying that time can be bent?" He'd be interested to hear her answer to this one.

"Well then that's very astute of you," Yuuko amended, feigning her impression with the man's observation. She wondered if she had lost him with her latest comment and tapped her chin in though as to how to explain what she meant. "Well," she mused, "in a way it can...time isn't linear really so bending it isn't the problem more like a...large lake or something and you just have to know where on the lake you want to float to."

She laughed suddenly and took another sip, "I have to have a lot more booze if you want me to explain this deary~"

It seemed as though Yuuko's explanation was shaping up to be a lengthy one, and Luxord simply didn't have the time for it. Much as he hated to leave the bar, he knew he had business waiting for him that he couldn't put off much longer without unwanted consequences.

So he laughed. "Sorry, I've nearly reached my limit for drinks, and I do hate to leave a lady drinking alone. Maybe we could do this another time?"

Yuuko's lips curled into a smile, "I'd like that." Yes, she still had a lot more she wished to learn of this place and she also had a shop to find. The woman finished off what was left of her drink in one go, very satisfied with the buzz it left her. "Perhaps you can even swing by my future shop...I do have a reputation to build after all since apparently mine did not proceed me here," Yuuko replied, looking up at Tobias.

"Certainly," Luxord replied smoothly, leaving a handful of silver leaves on the counter for the bartender's payment as he rose to leave. "Contact me over the journals and let me know when I might visit you. I look forward to it."

With those words and a smile (fake, like all of them were, but convincing nonetheless), he turned and made his way to the door. He had places to go and, more importantly, people to see.

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