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WHO: Jessica Jones and everyone who showed interest
WHERE: Bar & Peace
WHEN: Saturday 18, night
WHAT: BATTLE OF THE BANDS!? STAND UP COMEDY!? You decide.
WARNINGS: Jessica Jones, as usual.

[ A promise is a promise, so on Saturday night everyone coming to Bar & Peace in Maurtia Falls will find it cleaner than usual, as well as nicely decorated, with a fully functional stand, sound system included. Jessica has even thrown some spare instruments for the more needed, but she has also mentioned that if you're playing, you better bring your shit.

The bar and the tables remain the same, although the lights are dimmer than usual and there's an obvious extra space for whatever crowd wants to stand in front of the playing bands/people/opportunist performers. The woman herself will be mostly at the bar, leering at everything and everyone and serving drinks, as you do. She's there for small talk and sharing drinks with the customers though. That's basically all that bartenders do, right?

The stage is set, the performers are ready, the crowd is (kinda) filled with expectations. From the bar, Jessica holds a microphone and calls up the first loser willing to entertain them all. Here goes nothing.

What's the worst it could happen, right? ]

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Maybe I'm just interested to know who's been complimenting your eyes! I don't know what's new in your life lately.

Wonderin' if I settled down with a nice someone?

I don't know if I'd ever apply the phrase "settled down" to you...

Well, settling's boring.

[ Well. "Settling's boring" certainly doesn't make him think about his probably-for-real-this-time-ex back home, telling him if Piper's going to up and fly halfway across the world without warning, maybe he needs to reexamine what it is he wants in a relationship. No siree. ]

...You know, it kind of is.

[ He shakes the thought off and has a sip of his drink. ]

But speaking of settling down, have you heard? Cold's apparently kind of married in his world.

...I think.

[ James is mid-sip of his drink when Piper replies with that, and he just about chokes. ]

No way. He told me he wasn't the marrying type.

Well, he sure implied a whole lot about not being able to get a marriage license when you've recently broken out of prison.

Maybe he was screwing with you.

[ Please god say he was screwing with you. ]

But then again, I guess our Cold was sort of kind of a romantic. You know. ...Ish.

Buying your favorite prostitute season tickets to the Combine Arena isn't really romance.

Says you.

Would that romance you?

Well, no, but I'm not much of a hockey fan.

[ He laughs. ] Fair enough.

But, seriously, what? Who's he married to, Mick?

That's... Kind of what I'm assuming, yeah.

Oh god because I thought it was just me making wild assumptions, but you're like, y'know, actually the expert here, so...

[ He takes a drink. The puppet on his hand manages to look horrified. ]

Oh god.

The expert? [ He raises an eyebrow. ]

On, y'know, guys... doing... things.

[ oh no not this road again ]

We're getting awfully close to foot in mouth territory here, James.

[ He eyes the Trickster puppet still on his hand. It's a shame hand puppets don't have legs, or he could better illustrate this. ]

Anyway, I'm no expert, gay or not. I'm just as thrown by all this as you.

...Maybe not as much as Mick, though.

[ Piper doesn't get mad at him, and it hits James again that, oh, right. He has no idea. He doesn't remember James being an absolute dick to him for weeks on end. No betrayal.

God, is this cheating? It doesn't feel like the good kind of cheating. ]

Hey, I'm just saying. And, uh, look, I hate to admit it but objectively you've probably had way more relationships than me, regardless of gender. So whatever, you're the expert.

Anyway. I'm sure no one's as confused about it as Mick is. Man, I wouldn't trade places with him for anything. Hey, do you think he looks like an underwear model in that universe too?

Edited 2016-06-28 07:11 (UTC)

[ He covers his eyes with the hand with the puppet still on it, grimacing. ]

James. Please don't make me picture either of them as an underwear model.

[ He pulls the puppet off, finally, and hands it back. ]

...Anyway, I just got basically dumped right before I showed up here, so I don't know how much of an expert I am at relationships.

[ Aw, no more puppet time? He tucks them both gently and carefully back into his pocket. He was never privy to knowing how Piper's last relationship had ended — only that it had. He'd had more important things to deal with at the time, anyway. ]

Okay, I'll bite. What's "basically" dumped?

We're "taking a break" [ Yes, that's complete with air quotes. ] but he asked me to move out. Apparently I need to rethink what I want out of our relationship? I'm still not sure where it all came from.

[ He sounds annoyed, like it's completely inconceivable that his boyfriend would be worried or concerned or irritated that he dropped everything to fly to the other side of the world to help out an old crime buddy. What he doesn't sound, however, is terribly hurt or upset by it. ]

Hold up, is this because of the Zhutan thing?

I don't know. I told him it was important, and I thought he understood that, but maybe not. He always gets touchy whenever anything about my past comes up. That includes you, I guess, even though he knows you're reformed, too, so it's not like we're out knocking over jewelry stores or something.

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