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[awesome_lilly]

Lilly's gotten a booth and a mug of (spiked) coffee. There's some paperwork about the changes to the brothel in front of her, but she keeps looking away from it to glance around the bar.

It's never easy for her to stay focused on one thing at a time, but it's gotten a little harder these days.

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[true_desire]

This probably won't help with the focus much, but here comes a blast from the past: Cigarette in one hand and a slow comfortable screw in the other (courtesey one Captain Mu Ji), Meg's Papi slips into the other seat in her booth.

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly blinks, looking across the table in surprise.

"Hey there. S'been a while."

It has, but there are some people you just don't forget.

[true_desire]

Desire grins. "In a manner of speaking. Love what you've done upstairs."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly looks both proud and faintly smug.

"Thanks! Means a lot coming from you. And of course, you're welcome there any time."

She smiles hopefully at Desire.

"We're expanding, you know. Into a nightclub-slash-brothel."

[true_desire]

As if Desire weren't already there on a nightly basis... Metaphorically, anyway. Still, the invitation visibly pleases the Endless: Desire grins behind the cigarette, the smoke curling into a heart-shape above the booth.

"I'll be sure to stop in... Although, perhaps I could beg an official tour?"

[awesome_lilly]

"Oh, of course."

Lilly takes a sip of coffee.

"We're having a grand reopening party, obviously, but I'd love to give you a tour before that, see what you think of the place. Sound good?"

[true_desire]

Coffee. That reminds Desire of another pretty, petite blonde girl in the vicinity -- but Desire hasn't forgotten that mild irritation with la petite.

Desire's head shakes slightly, clearing the idle thoughts and sipping the drink at hand.

"That would be magnifique, Lilly." There's a passing gesture toward the paperwork. "When would you be less busy, that I could take advantage of your generosity?"

[awesome_lilly]

"Hmmm."

Lilly frowns a little at the papers.

"We've still got some decisions to make on the layout and looks, but it's not like bar takes any time with construction, really... I'd say give me a week or so?"

[true_desire]

"Bien sur," Desire concedes, sliding French into the conversation like the daughter. "I have no doubt it will be worth the wait."

Desire may be watching her with slanted eyes, catlike in their mischief.

[awesome_lilly]

"I usually am," Lilly says airily.

There may be the faintest hint of a smirk.

"And so are my tours, of course."

[true_desire]

Desire makes up for that hint of a smirk with a proper one, the glass set aside as the Endless's fever-warm grasp catches one of Lilly's hands up from the paperwork.

"Then I'll be sure to make the most of the invitation," Desire advises, dropping a small kiss against the back of Lilly's captured hand.

[awesome_lilly]

"Oh, really?"

Meg would kill Lilly for the look she's now giving her friend's father.

"Well, then. I'll definitely be looking forward to that."

[true_desire]

Tch. Meg wouldn't kill her... She'd just be mortified.
And probably never let her Papi hear the end of it, either, though threats of no more sleepovers in the Threshold might not be a complete deterrant for Desire's behavior.

Still, clearly Desire isn't thinking of their dear Meg when answering Lilly with a sly wink that somehow and entirely says 'Whatever you want.'

"And so will I. -- À bientot, Lilly."

[awesome_lilly]

Lilly watches wide-eyed and admiring as Desire melts away into the crowd.

"Damn, and I thought I knew how to make an exit," she mutters to herself.

The paperwork has absolutely no chance of holding her attention now.