Halloween

[hallelujahpilot]

In the end, she'd won their race. It wasn't exactly a race, except in the sense that both her and Carl are/were career military, and thus competitive as hell. Trudy is younger, fitter, used to going for her runs in an environment harder than Earth and, yes, she did whoop with triumph

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[one_man_army]

Carl went down to the bar and asked for a bucket of Halloween candy -- and that's exactly what he gets. A bright orange plastic pumpkin bucket full of various types of candy from all different worlds and universes. And plenty of beer.

Also, he ends up back in the kilt from the year before, a white t-shirt, and his trusted combat boots.

He knocks twice on the door before opening it (he does have a keycard, so it's easy enough to swipe it through the lock) and pushes into the room with his shoulder, letting the door fall shut behind him.

"If you set the Bar on fire, it might make seeing each other difficult," he quips, moving to set everything down.

[hallelujahpilot]

"...that's cheating," she says, sitting paused at the entrance of their 'tent'.

"That's really cheating."

Says the woman who, although she might just be wearing a t-shirt, also has on the leather pants Bar gave her (they are comfortable! and he mentioned something about missing out...)

[one_man_army]

He hands over the bucket, the beer, and then drops down to sit beside her, needing to unlace his boots.

"At least I didn't cheat while we were runnin'."

[hallelujahpilot]

"And how would you have done that?"

Mm, loot. Loot won in sweet, sweat-stained victory.

(she really hates running)