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Who: Gabe Coolidge (The Cheshire Cat) and Jess Winters (Sleeping Beauty)
What: Gabe attempts to apologize after this debacle.
Where: Po, the restaurant where Jess works.
When: Oh, let's say an hour after the aforementioned debacle.
Status/Rating: COMPLETE./PG!
Jess was not the best of servers this evening. She managed to keep most of it under control, but smiles were forced, cups came down a little too hard, and a string of raised eyebrows seemed to follow her around the narrow length of the restaurant. In the hour she'd been on shift, she'd already had to apologize profusely while wiping spilled water off a gentleman's jacket; his meal came off her pay, which only made things worse. Juan, the cook (ironic, considering the restaurant's specialty in Italian), pulled her aside at one point just to make sure nothing was wrong with Matty. Holidays, Jess said. Always got to her.
It was true enough.
That stupid, stupid man. How could he think it was funny? All right, so he didn't know a number of the reasons why it really hurt her--she wasn't about to go blabbing around about her dead husband; telling him about the lawsuit, even as vague as it was, was enough--but anyone with sense ought to know that a fake marriage was not all that funny. Her head hurt. How long till the end of her shift again?
She looked up to check the line forming up at the hostess' counter--"You've got to be shitting me."