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You know, assuming Bela hasn't been snatched up by the hungering darkness, she mmmmight want her pistol back.

If that's the case, she'll have to fight Ava for it. She's this close to naming it Rosebud or Widowmaker or something. And she'll have to find it! Because when Ava comes in from target practice, cheeks glowing from the cold and fingers ( Read more... )

Ianto has decided he has a theme. Stick with what you're good at. It seems to make people happy.

TONIGHT'S SPECIALS
MARTININS
for example
ABSINTHE
BLACK
CHOCOLATE
DIRTY
EMERALD
FUZZY
etc.

COFFEE
ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT

At the end of the bar, Stuart Dakin is smiling to himself as he enjoys a pint. Amazing things have happened today. The first is ( Read more... )

The door does not swing open, nor slam, nor is it thrown back grandly. It is, in fact, opened very politely. Exceedingly politely. Overly politely. It is a politeness made up of a thousand different desires to scream, throw a temper tantrum, rip someone's head off (literally) and never, ever see another cup of tea, ever again ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's easy to forget just how far the magic of the Bar extends into the space beyond, the spaces made up of so many different magics from so many different worlds. It's as easy to forget as the fact that time moves differently in Milliways than in the feeder worlds, so a patron may be coming from, say, a warm Caribbean spring and find ( Read more... )

Trudy has been using the bar in part to catch up on her reading. This reading has included her father's scholarly articles and her sister's journalism career ( Read more... )

There's a man...

Well, something like a man ( Read more... )

Michael makes her way from the front door to a corner booth, tossing her bike helmet onto the seat. She passes the booth, however, and swings by Bar herself ( Read more... )

The Marines at Hell’s Gate worship their commander, and Trudy Chacon is certainly no exception to this. Quaritch is a good leader, the kind where you do what he says out of respect rather than intimidation. And he never asks of them what he would not do himself. And as the Marines tell all the new blood, on his first day, he had his mask torn off ( Read more... )

Moist was just going to get a drink when a napkin appeared, he frowned at the napkin and then started a discussion with the Bar ( Read more... )