The bartender has be kidding her, and Britta gives him a look that says as much, but he just watches her placidly. She gives in quickly, because you don't argue with the guy who controls the booze, but not without a little grumble as she fumbles for her wallet. "Seriously?"
"I card everyone who looks younger than the chief of police unless I know them personally," he says as he takes her driver's license. "And I don't know you...Britta."
(Duke cards her because she fits a profile, by which he means she reminds him of himself when he was younger and angrier and was looking for any possible way to flout authority. This license is a real one -- no way this girl could afford a fake this good -- but he's guessing that being legitimate is a relatively new development for her. Not that he has any moral high ground, of course, but he does have his liquor license to consider. The fact that she's kind of attractive and it gives him an excuse to talk to her is just a bonus."You're a long way
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They've been talking for almost an hour when the thing that's been keeping Britta interested finally hits her, and she wants to smack her head on the bar. He reminds her of Jeff.
It's not a tangible or a physical thing. They have completely different builds and coloration, and Duke's scruffy look is the kind that takes five minutes in the morning instead of the kind that takes an hour to make it look like it took five minutes. She can't imagine Duke wearing a suit or giving a speech. But he has a version of Jeff's self-assurance and his quiet-but-obvious desire to be liked, and that thing where he might as well have 'LIAR' tattooed across his hands but Britta sort of wants to trust him anyway. He's exactly what she's been trying to avoid thinking about, which means that continuing to flirt with him -- and it's definitely flirting at this point -- is probably a really bad idea. She tries to make herself back away
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Britta wakes up curled against Duke's side, because it turns out he's not the type of guy who kicks you out afterwards. He's the type of guy who offers coffee and bagels in the morning and then kicks her out, with an apology, because she's on vacation but he's not, and there's somewhere he has to be this morning. Before she leaves, though, he asks her two important questions: How long is she staying in town, and can he see her again? The answer to the first question is "a couple days, probably." The answer to the second is "yes, definitely."
(Duke ends up getting dragged into a police investigation that takes most of the morning, but he's in a good enough mood that he doesn't mind. He's in a good enough mood, in fact, that Nathan notices, and knows him well enough to recognize its source and make his distaste known. All this does is put Duke in a better mood.Everything Britta read about the local eco-friendly scene in Haven is true. The farmers' market is amazing, and full of people who're happy to go on at length about the
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I can definitely see Haven being eco-friendly and following sustainability practices. No, I'm serious. It's a small little town. I believe it can happen. Britta must be in Haven heaven there
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I am so happy that you liked this! And I'm glad you prompted it, too! It's one of those ideas that never would have occurred to me on my own, but once I saw the prompt I was consumed with "Dammit, this needs to exist."
As a Jeff/Britta shipper, I LOVE and can really appreciate the ways in which Britta compares Duke to Jeff. This is how I would approach it to if I were to write a piece like this (and who knows? I just might.) But I really like the detail you put into the comparisons, yet at the end of the day, Britta DOES acknowledge the differences between Duke and Jeff and accepts them as such.
"Duke's scruffy look is the kind that takes five minutes in the morning instead of the kind that takes an hour to make it look like it took five minutes." This is the perfect juxtaposition between the 2 men. I LOVE this bit. Jeff would take an hour, lol!
I love how you demonstrated Britta's conflict. How Duke reminds her of Jeff, but then she denies it by saying "but not that much
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The bartender has be kidding her, and Britta gives him a look that says as much, but he just watches her placidly. She gives in quickly, because you don't argue with the guy who controls the booze, but not without a little grumble as she fumbles for her wallet. "Seriously?"
"I card everyone who looks younger than the chief of police unless I know them personally," he says as he takes her driver's license. "And I don't know you...Britta."
(Duke cards her because she fits a profile, by which he means she reminds him of himself when he was younger and angrier and was looking for any possible way to flout authority. This license is a real one -- no way this girl could afford a fake this good -- but he's guessing that being legitimate is a relatively new development for her. Not that he has any moral high ground, of course, but he does have his liquor license to consider. The fact that she's kind of attractive and it gives him an excuse to talk to her is just a bonus."You're a long way ( ... )
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They've been talking for almost an hour when the thing that's been keeping Britta interested finally hits her, and she wants to smack her head on the bar. He reminds her of Jeff.
It's not a tangible or a physical thing. They have completely different builds and coloration, and Duke's scruffy look is the kind that takes five minutes in the morning instead of the kind that takes an hour to make it look like it took five minutes. She can't imagine Duke wearing a suit or giving a speech. But he has a version of Jeff's self-assurance and his quiet-but-obvious desire to be liked, and that thing where he might as well have 'LIAR' tattooed across his hands but Britta sort of wants to trust him anyway. He's exactly what she's been trying to avoid thinking about, which means that continuing to flirt with him -- and it's definitely flirting at this point -- is probably a really bad idea. She tries to make herself back away ( ... )
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Britta wakes up curled against Duke's side, because it turns out he's not the type of guy who kicks you out afterwards. He's the type of guy who offers coffee and bagels in the morning and then kicks her out, with an apology, because she's on vacation but he's not, and there's somewhere he has to be this morning. Before she leaves, though, he asks her two important questions: How long is she staying in town, and can he see her again? The answer to the first question is "a couple days, probably." The answer to the second is "yes, definitely."
(Duke ends up getting dragged into a police investigation that takes most of the morning, but he's in a good enough mood that he doesn't mind. He's in a good enough mood, in fact, that Nathan notices, and knows him well enough to recognize its source and make his distaste known. All this does is put Duke in a better mood.Everything Britta read about the local eco-friendly scene in Haven is true. The farmers' market is amazing, and full of people who're happy to go on at length about the ( ... )
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"Duke's scruffy look is the kind that takes five minutes in the morning instead of the kind that takes an hour to make it look like it took five minutes." This is the perfect juxtaposition between the 2 men. I LOVE this bit. Jeff would take an hour, lol!
I love how you demonstrated Britta's conflict. How Duke reminds her of Jeff, but then she denies it by saying "but not that much ( ... )
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