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Ororo Munroe ([personal profile] agoddessonce) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs2024-06-24 10:22 am

[closed] we're headed to the dive bar we always thought was nice

WHO: Ororo [personal profile] agoddessonce and others. Starters posted in the comments!
WHEN: late June and into early July, post-Mission 003
WHERE: Harry's Hideaway Pub, Up in the sky
WHAT: When you're reeling from some trauma, you gotta chase it down with a beer and some good company.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Drinking, healthy and unhealthy coping mechanisms, probably some discussion of X-Men-typical bigotry.


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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-24 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
( since his arrival here to etraya, he feels as if he's been in a constant state of whiplash. from the idea of this place, to the mansion, to jean, to having to relive guilts and memories that have plagued him for months now... he hasn't gotten much in the way of peace and it's beginning to take a toll on him. emotionally, more than physically.

while not a cure by any means, the thought of chasing away even just a fraction of it all with a bit of alcohol is why he's here. leather jacket adorned, ruby quartz shades as always, he slips his way inside. hands in jacket pockets. ignoring the world around him for the most part. that is, until he catches sight of that white hair that would be impossible to miss. not his storm, just as he's not her cyclops. not his jean. yet that doesn't seem to really stop him from going over, what with her being here all by herself. )


Buy you a drink?

( as if that's actually a thing here. it's not. )
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-24 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
What sort of guy do you take me for?

( it’s said gently. a means to try and keep things light despite the very dark shadows stretched across his heart and mind. he does his best to wear them nonchalantly, like always, and takes a moment to look around at what they have to offer here. some strange. some familiar. some you couldn’t pay him to touch. as expected, a little bit of everything. )

But if you’d rather be alone, I promise I can handle the rejection.

( it’s a little dryly said, looking back to ororo as he does. )
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-24 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Think I can handle that.

( there’s a smile just barely there on his lips. a shadow, to go along with the others he carries with him. making his way off to the bar.

he chooses something he knows the ororo he’s familiar with to like, hoping the two of them might share similar tastes. it’s strange to think about. to have these people here who he’s known for so much of his life - has lived with and been through so much with… only to not really know them at all. familiar. but still strangers to an extent. even he himself is that to them.

the usual sort of beer for himself, he comes back to the table ororo has for herself. sets the drinks down, then joins her. gentle slide of the bottle over to her with a knuckle. his own there in front of him. )


You usually come here when no one’s looking?
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-24 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
( top cracked off, he brings the bottle up to his lips. pauses. then takes a swig from it. the number of drinks he's had since everything happened back home... )

No, you're good.

( it's said gently, smile still barely there on his lips as he looks to her, taking another swig after. )

There's been a lot going on. ( a shrug of a shoulder. ) Can't blame anyone for wanting to get away for a bit. Or at least as much as one can when they're stuck here.
Edited 2024-06-24 13:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-24 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
( again, there’s a one shouldered shrug, taking a moment to lick over his lips after indulging in another sip of his beer. it’s definitely not strong enough to temporarily erase everything that he’s feeling, but. he can get there. has a number of times in the past few months. )

Just needed some air. Different bit of scenery.

( aside from the mansion, he means. )
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Starter for Storm

[personal profile] smallbat 2024-06-25 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[In the days after the mess of plushie hunting Cass is tired. There's so much going on with the family while nothing at all she's been avoiding them by getting out and exploring the city. After recently finding Harry's and the pool table Cass has been heading in late at night and playing on quiet evenings. When it's got more then a person or two she won't stay but tonight there's no one there. So she just gets herself a drink from the bar and spends time perfecting her form.

When the door opens she looks up to see Ororo come in and her desire to flee at the idea of strangers is calmed a little bit.
]

Your majesty. [She says with a grin clearly teasing this time as she reaches for the drink she's got to help take a little bit of the edge off. ]
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-25 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it obvious?

( as he holds up the beer. he's here to drink. )
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-25 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Should there be?

( he asks with a glance over to her, taking another swig of his drink, nearly finishing it as he does. )
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-25 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well. I'm not here for a milkshake.

( finishing off the rest, he sets the empty bottle down there on the tabletop. takes a moment. then gets himself up. )

I'm getting another. You want one?
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-25 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
( he doesn’t reply to that, simply gives her a half smile at the “suggestion” and makes his way over to fetch another beer. he doesn’t even wait until he’s seated there at the table with ororo before he’s helping himself to a swig from it. takes a second. then drops himself back down.

bottle there between his hands on the table, he drags his teeth over his bottom lip. stares to the neck of the bottle. ororo isn’t a telepath, but if she’s anything like the one he knows, she knows him well enough to know when something is on his mind, never mind bothering him. so, after a moment, )


I saw Jean here. ( a beat. ) Mine, I mean.

( fingers touching the bottle, he brings it up to his lips with a hand. presses it to his lips. pauses. )

She died. A number of months ago.

( and then he’s taking another swig. )
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-26 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
( bottle held out before him, he licks over his lips. huff just barely there on them, and he's gently setting his beer down on the tabletop, fingertips rocking it back and forth at the neck. )

That it was my fault.

( he only glances over to ororo for a second before he's looking back down. )

That we couldn't save her. That we let her die.

( the x-men, he means. )
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[personal profile] redvisor 2024-06-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I said I was sorry.

( he says that as if it should be obvious. )

All I've ever been is sorry. Angry. Upset that she wouldn't let me- ( he cuts himself off there. gives just the faintest shake of his head. ) She didn't even give me a chance.
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[personal profile] smallbat 2024-06-26 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry I was kidding. [Cass shoots around the table sinking ball after ball while Ororo gets a drink, her aim and skill in it obvious and she's clearly not trying to hide it. ]

I'd think probably queens or whatever would want some time to escape from real life into a place exactly like this though. [She says once Storm gets her drink.]

Outside of the public eye?

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