Should auld acquaintance be forgot...

[angel_dylan]

If you had been upstairs in the compound at six in the evening of December 31, you might have thought your eyes were playing tricks on you, or that you'd once again been whisked off to some strange, new place. Within the blink of an eye, the rooms had changed, sparkling instantly with festive decorations, and it was all so instantaneous that it

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[oh_muh_darlin]

New Year's Eve for Clementine almost always meant going out. She'd get dolled up, go out and some way or another, end up with her fingers around a cold drink. She had suspected that this year would end up being a big letdown.

The decorations were a welcome change, but it wasn't until she entered the kitchen for snack that Clementine finally really took notice of all that had changed.

There was alcohol. Vodka.

"Holy shit-- there is a God."

[anatomyofdrgrey]

Meredith was poking around the kitchen, curiosity shifting to relief as she spotted the new liquor stock. "I'm gonna have to agree with you," she sighed. "Is that tequila over there?"

[oh_muh_darlin]

"You're fucking right it's tequila!" Clementine said. Because good alcohol and what looked like a good party called for colorful language. She took a shot of vodka and winced a little at how it went down, but there was definitely a wide grin on her face.

[anatomyofdrgrey]

Meredith returned the grin as she dug around for a shotglass and the bottle. "If this is a dream, it's a damn good dream," she said. She threw back a shot of tequila and closed her eyes with a pleased smile, before offering a hand to the other woman. "I'm Meredith. I'm guessing this doesn't happen often?"

[oh_muh_darlin]

"Clementine." She said, taking Meredith's hand and shaking it vigorously. "And you're right--this has never happened."

If Clementine loved the island before, she absolutely fucking adored it now.

[anatomyofdrgrey]

"I'm just gonna hope this is the start of a good long trend," Meredith laughed. She considered the glass and the tequila for a moment, then set down the glass. She was so not letting that bottle out of her sight.

[andrejkoscuisko]

"Is there some reason to suspect there isn't?" Andrej asked. "Andrej Koscuisko," he said with a bow. "Although I suspect you were not speaking to me just now, may I ask the reason for your ... exclamation?"

[oh_muh_darlin]

"Maybe because I've been stuck here for almost a year now with nothing decent to drink until now?" Clementine said, taking the occasion to pour herself a glass of nearby whiskey.

Whiskey. Honest to God, GOOD whiskey.

[andrejkoscuisko]

Andrej smiled. "I had noticed that. I have set up a still, but the quality on such is always bad."

He noticed several beverages including the vodka. "Is that wodac? I think it is called ... hm, vodka, here." Oh, Holy Mother. Wodac.

[oh_muh_darlin]

Clementine shrugged. "Bad alcohol is better than no alcohol. But hey, fuck it, there's good stuff now--like vodka." She pointed at a bottle of it before taking a big gulp of whiskey. "Oh! I'm Clementine, by the way. Nice to meet you, Andrej. Is it 'Andrej'? Am I saying it right?"

[andrejkoscuisko]

Andrej smiled. "Yes, indeed, you are saying it correctly, Miss Clementine." Her language was a bit strong, but there was alcohol involved. Andrej himself had been known to do much worse than curse when drunk.

Andrej poured the wodac ... vodka into a glass and drank. It wasn't overproof as it should have been, but it had been more than a year and he didn't care. "Yes, that is suitable."

[scruffysmuggler]

"There are lots of Gods...and I'm gonna thank all of them for this." Han came up behind her, his sparkling to match his lopsided grin at the sight. Then a bottle at the back caught his attention and his grin was as bright as a sun. "Coriellian whiskey...I think for tonight I can manage to like this place."

[oh_muh_darlin]

"Heeeey!" Clementine said upon seeing Han. If she hadn't had a big shot of vodka in one hand, she might have had the urge to hug him around the neck. She was well on her way to drunk already. "If this place had the right parts, I think I might sleep with it."

[scruffysmuggler]

As delighted as he was, Han wasn't at all bothered to wrap an arm around her shoulders and give her a playful kiss on the temple. Then he took a long drink of the whiskey from his native planet, straight from the bottle. "What odd holiday are we celebrating tonight Herring?"

[oh_muh_darlin]

"The New Year, I think. What the hell does it matter?" She grinned sloppily up at him.

[scruffysmuggler]

Han laughed. "Too true Herring, too true." He didn't really understand celebrating a New Year because technically, a New Year could be occurring on any planet at any given time. But then he remembered he only lived on one planet now and he might as well. And their was Corillian whiskey. And Clem. And Life was good at the moment.