Matt Jamison - OCs are forever - barrrrrr

[mm_merky]

It's not that Matt isn't grateful for nepotism. He loves nepotism! And it's not that he objects to the morning commute; that's why God made coffeemakers, and honestly any morning commute that's from the actual city and not a suburb is a huge improvement. It's not even that he's ended up, straight out of undergrad, getting a job that's close enough

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[pi_wakawaka]

Tiwa's currently taking a nap on Bar, she has a pillow and anything and has a rather dusty look to her.

[tantric_slacker]

Matt peers.

Curiously.

... And, upon ascertaining that it's who he thought it was, he grins a little to himself.

Maybe he should get her a blanket.

[pi_wakawaka]

She stirs and mumbles it sounds something like getting the tea ready.

[tantric_slacker]

Matt taps the Bar gently with his fingertips, whereupon, through the lady's infinite providence, a pen appears. He gingerly takes up a napkin and writes the word tea?

The pot and mugs manifest a moment later.

Even if Tiwa wakes up and doesn't feel like tea, it's a safe option for him.

[mmquitecontrary]

. . . is he ill?

Seventeen-year-old Mary Lennox squints at the young man. Sweaty, staggering, dehydrated - it seems quite possible, she decides, that he has the flu.

"Are you in need of medical assistance?"

[tantric_slacker]

Matt blinks, distracted out of his beverage-related reverie.

For a second, he thinks she's said magical assistance. Which he kind of does need.

"Oh," he says, "no, uh--"

He turns to Mary and smiles, faintly wry. "I look that bad?"

[mmquitecontrary]

"Yes," Mary says, immediately, and then reconsiders.

"I have seen much worse. I suppose it might only be that you have over-exerted yourself."

(She looks a little disappointed.)

[tantric_slacker]

Matt's not sure whether he finds her candid spirit deeply insulting or not.

He opts to grin grimly.

"It turns out, unsurprisingly, that physical activity isn't really my thing." With a few notable exceptions. "In my defense, I've spent today simultaneously shifting and unloading my belongings and warding off hostile spirits." Beat. "They might not be hostile. And it might not be a they. But still, lots of cardio."

[stilljustandrew]

"Irish coffee?" says a voice not far from him. "Uh, light on the Irish?"

The voice belongs to a guy with untidy dark-blond hair, in a similar jeans-and-t-shirt ensemble (except that his t-shirt has the Green Lantern logo instead of a concert print), leaning over a mismatched stack of slim leatherbound books resting on the bar.

[tantric_slacker]

Light on the Irish! Now there's an idea. For Matt's drinks, not his personal life.

... Ahem.

Following the sound of a good idea, Matt turns to the guy.

"Maybe that's my happy medium," he says, pleased.

[stilljustandrew]

"Happy medium?" He glances up at the guy who's addressed him, seemingly at random.

[tantric_slacker]

... Right. Addressing total strangers with non-sequiturs only occasionally works out.

"The, uh, lightly Irish," he explains.

"I mean, if that means what I thought it did. A little whiskey and-or baileys but not too much?"

[howling_laugh]

"So," Coyote says, shifting boxes off the bar stool next to him. "I hear you are dating Nita Callahan."

[tantric_slacker]

Matt jumps.

"--Hey," he says, surprised.

"I've ... met you before, I think."

[howling_laugh]

She eyes him. "Is that a line?"

He had better not be flirting with her when he's dating Nita!

...unless Nita is into that? If so, she never said! :O

[tantric_slacker]

Matt eyes her back.

He's already kind of craving alcohol.

"It was," he says slowly, "something to say. Also, I'm still not a hundred percent on whether that night actually happened, so every clue helps." If she thinks it's a line, maybe it really didn't happen.

Or she might be messing with him.

"... You, uh, heard that, huh?"

[deadmanbusiness]

Theo manages to catch a glance through the door before it shuts and hears the noises. Being the curious sort and in a good mood today; he'd remembered that today was his and Enne's first date anniversary with no prompting from anything except his calender. The roses he sent were well received and when he left things would be even better.

With significant others on the mind, he asks Matt "Upset the girlfriend?"

[tantric_slacker]

Matt doesn't quite choke, but it's a close call.

"No," he laughs, "uh. More like upset the neighbors."

[deadmanbusiness]

Well, Theo's had his days where his fiancee has thrown stuff at him. Usually fireballs.

What did you do to cause such a racket?"

[tantric_slacker]

He looks very wry.

"Moved in."