A certain bar in Niagara Falls- Tuesday night

[fates_jaye]

It was Jaye's 21st birthday. Screw classes. She spent the first part of it driving back to Niagara Falls without saying a word to her family she wanted to enjoy this thank you and goodbye, to hang out with Mahandra before they headed off to the bar where she worked.

Since Mahandra wasn't working tonight, she too a seat next to Jaye and called over the bar, "We're going to be needing drinks over here. Card her, okay? She'll like it."

When asked for ID, Jaye turned over her brand new driver's license, a real one that said she was 21 instead of a fake one that said she was 21, and the bartender got her a beer. "You know, you're right? This is kind of awesome."

"Told you," Mahandra said. "But you didn't wanna listen."

Jaye took her first sip, put the bottle down, and decided, "Aaaaand now drinking seems to have lost some of its fun." Now that it was legal. Dammit.

The bartender frowned. "...Haven't you been coming here for like two years?"

[She did bring her phone with her, should anyone want to call.]

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[sith_happened]

Oh, look, her phone was ringing!

[fates_jaye]

That it was!

Jaye checked her caller ID and grinned as she answered, "Drinking buddy!"

[sith_happened]

"Birthday girl!" Anakin replied. "For this momentous occasion, I fought a dinosaur...thing on top of a cliff!"

Pause.

"In semi-related news, Fandom is being odd."

[fates_jaye]

"...You called me during the oddness! Happy birthday to me!" she realized. "Seriously, I miss it every time."

That happens when you don't live there anymore, Jaye.

[sith_happened]

"Want me to mail you a dinosaur?" Anakin asked. "I bet I can fish it back out of the ocean."

[fates_jaye]

"How about you send me a picture," Jaye suggested. "My dorm room's not big enough for me and my roommate, I think a dinosaur might be pushing it."

She paused. "But if you could send it to my parents, that'd be awesome." Not her sister, though, her sister still had a rap sheet to clear for her.

[sith_happened]

"I'll get a picture tomorrow," Anakin promised. "Unless this was a one-day random dinosaur and fog thing. In which case, I'll find you plastic dinosaurs and mail them to your parents with no explanation at all. Deal?"

[fates_jaye]

"You should do that anyway," she said. "Revenge on them for driving me nuts. Didn't you guys have dinosaurs before?"

[sith_happened]

"That's how I knew what this was," Anakin said proudly. "Only this one was shorter. And could manipulate air. It was a little confusing."

[fates_jaye]

"Wait. The monsters get superpowers now? What the hell, how's that fair?" Her got taken away after like a week. Was that an old school ref? Yes it was.

[sith_happened]

"As soon as I can figure out where to write the letter of complaint, I'm on it," Anakin promised. "I prefer my invasions shuffling and none too bright. Snowmonsters, zombies..."

[fates_jaye]

"Hey, my snowmonster was a brilliant, talented dancer," Jaye pointed out. "There was no shuffling."

She was totally having this conversation at the bar. Mahandra didn't even blink, she was used to it.

[sith_happened]

"My granddaughter is dating another version of the kid who peed on a snowmonster," Anakin said. "That was a proud day for me. Really."

[fates_jaye]

Jaye had one question for that: "When did you get that old?"

[sith_happened]

"I don't know," Anakin whined. "I blame the island for it. I have relatives popping up all over the place."

[fates_jaye]

"Well obviously you did something horrible in a past life," she said, with absolutely no idea that she was actually right on that. "Though I bet it's amusing to everyone else, so. Like gremlin bites."

[sith_happened]

There was a heartbeat of a pause as Anakin thought if Jaye could have figured out who he used to be before he decided to just laugh. "The gremlin thing seems to be hereditary," he said.

[fates_jaye]

That was the best news ever. Seriously. "Awesome. I want video."

[sith_happened]

"Maybe as your Christmas gift," Anakin said. "Assuming that the ridiculousness doesn't involve me, of course. How are you?"

[fates_jaye]

"Good. The bartender just found out I've been an illegal patron for a few years but he served me anyway," she said. "Which is good since I have a court date in a few weeks. It's been interesting."

[sith_happened]

"...court date?" Anakin repeated. "What happened?"

[fates_jaye]

"I assaulted some girl. The panda told me to. I might have batteried her, too. You know I'm still not sure what battery is?" she said. "Do you know?"

[sith_happened]

"I think it might be lawyer for 'add another five years to the sentence,'" Anakin said thoughtfully. "Why did the panda want you to assault her?"

Because that part of the conversation was normal.

[fates_jaye]

"Her boyfriend had to meet up with his long-lost half-sister who as it turns out, is a paralegal in the prosecutor's office. Small world. Bitch girlfriend is still pressing charges so far." Sigh.

[sith_happened]

"She should be more grateful," Anakin decided, "unless perhaps she doesn't like the new sister?"

[fates_jaye]

"I think she's just pissed about the drink in her face. And the punching."

[sith_happened]

"I'd be a little pissed about the punching, too," Anakin admitted, "but I would've just punched back."

See? Very healthy.

[fates_jaye]

"I don't wanna hear that when you'd be punching me," Jaye pointed out.

[sith_happened]

"Well, just tell the panda you don't want to hit me," Anakin teased.

[fates_jaye]

"You'd be amazed how much that doesn't work," she said. "If the panda says hit you, I gotta hit you. Sorry,it's the rules."

[sith_happened]

"Can I hit the panda back then?" Anakin asked. "You know, in this hypothetical situation."

[fates_jaye]

"Well, the panda was on paper, so... sure? But I don't know what would happen if you did that. If karma would get me or something."

Jaye had yet to ever fry a lion.

[sith_happened]

"Hmmm," Anakin said. "But would it get me?"

Very ethical there, Anakin. Especially for someone who teaches the subject.

[fates_jaye]

"Don't be hypothetically mean to the birthday girl, Anakin," Jaye said, even if she was smiling.

[sith_happened]

"But it's how I show affection," he replied, laughing.