Time is occasionally weird between Milliways and other worlds. As far as Whistler's concerned, it's been hardly any time at all since his last visit. Sure, he has to stop just inside the door and listen to the echoes for a while, but that happens EVERY visit. "I gotta say," he announces to no one in particular, "I like what you've done with the ( Read more... )

Dude, it's Nita!

She's carrying a backpack, and her first stop on coming into the bar is to go to the Bar and drop off a number of packages -- a little belated, yeah, but then, not everyone they're addressed to celebrates Christmas.

As the last one disappears, she says, "Thanks, Bar. And tea for me?"

A large mug appears, along with a plate with a ( Read more... )

Once a long time ago, when Tom first came to Milliways, Bar would only give him lukewarm tea and not the finest quality of scotch. However, that time is long past, Bar gives him the best, and Tom is quite fond of both her and the people who tend her ( Read more... )

This is Larry backing through the front door, in the middle of talking to someone - or, knowing his job, poassibly something - and then brightening a bit when he notices where he is.
It takes a couple seconds before he realizes what happened to his clothes. (Fortunately, the door's shut by that point.)
"...What the... okay, this is not funny. I ( Read more... )

Larry's at a table, with some coffee. The bar caught him after the end of his shift again, and he's not one to turn down a chance to stay awake on his way home and not have to pay for it.
...Well, not have to pay for it now, at least - he's noticed the tab board. But he can worry about that another time.

Keep an eye on the entrance to Milliways long enough and you'll see just about every possible emotion on the faces of the people who pass through it. The look on the face of the bar's most recent patron is nearly unreadable unless you know him well enough, in which case you'd recognize it as relief.

"We've got to stop meeting like this."

"All right, all right, all right, I'll get the-"

The door opens on a darkened closet in an office somewhere, and on a man who's suddenly standing very still. After a few blinks he says, "Bish? Can you hear me?"

No answer.

"Huh boy," says Whistler, but he doesn't sound all that unhappy. He just fumbles around on the far side of the door until he ( Read more... )

Ray took one look at the hotel that the city was putting them up at in Chicago and informed his fellow Ghostbusters that he had some research work to do. This is generally accepted code in his Firehouse for 'I'm going to Milliways to get my sleep in, and probably some research too, so I'll be back in about fifteen seconds entirely too well-rested ( Read more... )

This time, the door to Milliways catches Larry just before sunset, on his side. Even though he didn't lose any time before, it's still a bit easier on his nerves, knowing all the excitement hasn't started yet.
He heads over to Bar to get some hot chocolate, and then looks around for a table to chill at.

"Look, could you guys keep it down and go let the pharaoh out? I won't ask you to stop arguing, I'm starting to think that's impossible, but I think those two are having a moment and.......... okay, who put a bar in here ( Read more... )