sweetestsurrender | { The Walk Into A Bar Meme }

Entry tags:

{ The Walk Into A Bar Meme }

The Walk Into A Bar Meme!

The bar's a comfortable place, where everyone knows you just have to walk up, give the bartender a smile, and order up a drink. Everyone goes to a bar sometime, whether to pick up a companion for the night, to pick up a friend, or pick up a drink. You never know the story behind the guy sitting next to you, or the bartender. But that's what bars are for, aren't they? To learn about the guy on the stool next to you, drinking his gin and tonic.

So what do you do in a Walk Into A Bar meme?

1. Comment here with your character and their canon in the subject line.
2. Hit RNG for a number between 1-15.
3. Tag someone else using that number as your character's reason for coming to the bar.
4. Profit!

So, what's your poison?

1. Sex on the Beach - You're here at the bar for one reason and one reason only, to find some company for the night. It might help, to buy them a drink first. But then they might throw that back in your face...

2. Tonic and Gin - Life's been one disaster after another lately, and the only thing that makes it easier is the sweet numbing taste of alcohol...

3. Midori Sour - Your friends dragged you out here and they've suddenly abandoned you for some rock star in the VIP lounge. Are you bitter? Maybe. Or maybe you'll just use the opportunity to flirt with the cute bartender...

4. Shirley Temple - You got a call five minutes ago asking you to come to the bar to pick up your too-intoxicated friend/brother/sister. But now that you're here, theydon't seem to be anywhere to be found...

5. Poolside Pleasure - There's nothing like being on vacation in a tropical paradise, is there? And what better way to soak in that tropical vibe than to swim up to the Tiki Bar for a relaxing fruity drink with a paper umbrella?

6. Moonshine - Maybe you're underaged. Or maybe the bar isn't exactly what you'd call legal. Whatever the reason, you're not supposed to be here, but you are, and while you're here, might as well get something to wet your whistle, right? Just be careful not to get caught...

7. Hair of the Dog - Last night was... do you even remember last night? Probably not, given the wicked hangover pounding in your head right now. Well, nothing cure a hangover like having a drink in the morning to take the edge off, right?

8. Champagne - Something great has happened! Did you get a promotion? Kill your nemesis? Whatever it is, you feel great and it's time everyone celebrated with you. A round of champagne on the house!

9. Shaken, not Stirred - To everyone else, this is a regular bar, but not to you. You know you're here to meet a clandestine contact, an enemy informer or a secret spy. Better play it cool and keep your eyes open...

10. Sunken Pirate Ship - You've been out on the high seas for months, and finally made it into port with your pockets full of gold. What're you going to do first? Drink that gold away or buy some company for the evening? You can do both at the bar...

11. Punch in the Rain - You're the bouncer of this bar and you think the guy sitting next to you has probably had too much to drink. Maybe it's time to cut them off. Hopefully they'll go easy, huh?

12. Bartender - Everyone who walks through the door has a story to tell, and you're the guy they love to tell those stories to. Are you the type to listen, or the type to slip a little something extra into their drink in hopes that they shut up about their sob story?

13. Absinthe - Whatever it is you just drank didn't seem to agree with you. And at the corner of your eye you keep seeing this bright green faerie... Is everything happening around you reality, or have you slipped into some kind of hallucination?

14. 357 Magnum - Did you just insult my mother? Whether or not they did, you sure think so, and you know what's the best way to settle things in a bar? With a bar brawl, of course!

15. Happy Hour - Anything goes! Got another scenario you want to play out, this is the place for it!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

He relaxed when Duo managed to laugh, that more than anything comforting him. "No, I don't," he agreed thickly, relaxing as Duo's hand slid through his hair, still down from having been in bed, but snarled for the same reason.

"Okay," he agreed easily when Duo decided they were sharing the room. "But you're already exposed. You could just take half of my bed," it was a queen, and plenty large enough for two relatively small young men to share.

He didn't mind that Wufei's hair was that knotted like that, it gave him a reason to comb his fingers through it to loosen them up a little. It was just as silky as he remembered.

Duo pulled back a bit then, frowning. "You sure about that? If you're sick the last thing you need is another heat source being so close..."

"I'm sure," he replied softly, letting his gaze meet Duo's for a long moment before he continued. "When I was young, one of my parents would stay in my bed with me when I was ill," and then dropped his gaze. It would be a comfort, but he wasn't quite bold enough to ask for it outright.

"That musta been nice." He spoke as gently as he could, because he couldn't relate. Duo was sure he'd had a mother, but whether she'd cared enough to sleep with him when he was sick as a baby he had no idea. She'd not cared about dumping him on the streets as a child so why would she have given a shit about him being sick?

"Alright... If you're sure, we can share." He pulled back a bit more to give Wufei a much better look. The spots covering him looked sore. "But first, tell me how you're feeling? Does it hurt?"

"It was very nice," Wufei agreed, giving Duo's arm a gentle squeeze as he pulled back, too. "The same as yesterday so far, tired, achey, feverish, no desire whatsoever to eat..." he sighed and shrugged.

He reached up without even thinking about it to itch at his cheek.

Duo immediately lifted his own hand to catch at Wufei's to stop him.

"Ah ah ah, don't do that. You'll make it worse." Duo kept hold of the hand and moved with Wufei to the bed to sit down on the edge. "If you don't eat then you need to drink. I bought some energy drinks that should help. But more rest and less scratching."

He blinked as his hand was caught, forcing a little smile and nodding. "Sorry, I didn't realize," he admitted sheepishly, letting Duo lead him back to the bed and crawling into the obvious spot he'd been sleeping in earlier. "I'll drink and eat as much as I can," he promised, and squeezed Duo's hand in reply. "But I really do need to use the restroom first."

"Oh, shit... Was that what you were... Uh, yeah, you go do that." Duo actually flushed, looking embarrassed that he'd gone and dragged Wufei to the bed and the guy had just let him do it! "Tell me next time, Wu! I can't read your mind. I'll go get one of those drinks while you do, some pain meds as well."

Duo flashed a quick grin and got his ass up, leaving in a flash of black and a swish of his long braid.

Once he was downstairs though, he went straight to his laptop and popped it open. Bringing up a search engine he started listing off Wufei's symptoms to find out the best cause. Fingers crossing that there wasn't actually a plague outbreak because... That just wasn't happening. It wasn't taking another one of his friends. Never again.

He smiled, chuckling softly as he squeezed Duo's hand again. "I did tell you, just... slowly," because he was tired and not thinking entirely clearly. He smiled as he watched Duo go, before shuffling off to the bathroom to relieve himself and freshen up a little. Including gently splashing some water on his face.

Then he went back to bed, crawling in and bundling himself up. He drifted on the edge of sleep, waiting patiently for Duo to return and hoping that Duo's infectious hope was well-placed. Even if it wasn't, it warmed him all the way through to know he didn't have to face it down alone.

It took a little longer than he would have liked, mainly due to the fact that Duo had to search through a dozen sites and then do his best to not freak out since half of them claimed Wufei really was dying. Or had some nasty, near incurable illness. It took time to narrow it down until he thought he'd nailed it.

Eventually he returned to Wufei with two bottles, one of water and one of the energy drinks he'd promised. First he knocked and then he stepped into the room. "Still awake?" He called quietly, not wanting to disturb him if he had managed to fall back asleep.

Wufei hummed when Duo spoke, stretching his legs out with a groan and blinking his eyes open. "Mostly," he agreed, slowly sitting up to snag the water and take a long sip. "You look calmer," which meant either he didn't have plague or Duo had an even better poker face than Wufei'd thought.

"Pretty sure you're not dyin. But it's gonna suck for a while." Duo flashed an apologetic smile and sat on the edge of the bed, making sure he wasn't about to sit on any of Wufei's extremities first. Then he waited for Wufei to finish his drink before continuing.

"Looks like it's chicken pox. You never got immunised before you set out to Earth?" Duo had just assumed everyone had. But it looked like Wufei might have skipped out on injection day. That or this was a powerful strain that didn't care about vaccines. And if that was true then Duo was doomed. But he wasn't as afraid as he had been before. This was something they could get over.

He grunted softly and shook his head when he was asked about immunizations, setting his glass aside. "A year before Operation Meteor, the Alliance attacked my colony. They must've assumed their bioweapon was successfully released, because we never got any more shipments after that," which meant it was a matter of time before the colony ran out of parts for critical systems and something failed badly enough to kill everyone aboard.

Unless they won the war and were able to send supplies back to his home colony again. He looked at his hands and arms, already starting to show the faint red splotches that preceded blisters. He sighed heavily, listing to the side to rest his shoulder against Duo's. "I suppose I'd better get word to the others that I'll be unavailable for a couple weeks." It was no small relief that Duo wouldn't have to be. "And I suppose I'd better source some vaccines once I'm well again, so we don't have to do this again," he'd not worried about it before, expecting that first duel with Treize to end in his death.

Duo moved his arm so that Wufei could lean against him, he had his hand pressed to the bed rather than around Wufei's waist. He was fine pushing his luck most days, but with Wufei he didn't want to make assumptions. Especially when he wasn't well.

"Shit. Okay." He sighed. "Well leave it to me, I'll get word out that we're stuck here for a while. Get someone to come by and drop some things off. I've everything to deal with most of your symptoms, but when those spots start itchin, you can't scratch them, Wufei. Makes it worse or something. I'm not above tying up your hands to stop you either!" He wondered if he could request mittens...

Wufei nodded in reply, offering Duo a wan smile. He still felt like a pile of steaming garbage, but Duo's company was a balm. "If it comes to that, you'd better use handcuffs, I'm good at getting out of rope," he warned, smiling a little as if he were telling some kind of joke. "And thank you, again." He didn't know much about Duo, but he knew this was well beyond anything he deserved from someone who was about as close to being a stranger as you could get while fighting together.

"Cuffs not rope, I'll remember." Wufei might have just given him small smiles, but Duo's was as wide and cheerful as it usually was. While Wufei was down he'd do his best to keep things on the lighter side. Misery loved company and he refused to let the other be miserable. It was bad enough he was sick. He didn't need to wallow in it. They could try and make the most of the downtime.

"It's no problem. Just glad it was me here and not Heero. Almost was, actually. You got lucky!" Heero would probably have left Wufei to it, or been the most awkward of nurses possible in helping him out. It was an image creepy enough Duo almost laughed.

He chuckled a little, until Duo mentioned Heero. The face he made said it all, nose wrinkling up. "I'm sure he would have been... sufficient. Medically speaking," and absolutely useless for any sort of comfort. He was very, very glad to have dodged that bullet.

"So, what was I supposed to get immunized for?" Since Duo had apparently gotten all his shots like a good little space mutt.

"Sufficient is a good way of describing him." He snorted a laugh and stubbornly tried NOT to imagine Heero dressed as a nurse, hair in bunches, carrying a comically huge thermometer... and failed.

"Everything." He replied emphatically. "I basically just held out my arm and demanded they load me up on everything." There was a pause, a hesitation... before he continued in a much lower, sombre tone. "I was on L2 when the plague broke out. I watched too many people die. For some dumb reason it didn't take me." But some days he wished it had.

"So when the Prof mentioned inoculations I jumped at it. I don't wanna meet a plague I'm not immune to."

Wufei looked at him, listened even as it made his heart ache, and he nodded a little. An acknowledgement of how difficult it must have been to share, and how much it must have hurt to even think about.

His gaze drifted away when Duo was done speaking, and he let out a soft sigh. "There was only one casualty in that attack on my colony," he said softly. "My wife, protecting me from Oz suits. I was in Shenlong, but it wasn't finished yet. It ran out of firepower." He'd been a sitting duck. It was far less than what Duo had lost, but he wanted the other to know that he understood that kind of pain, if only on a smaller scale. "She was in a Tallgeese. I was so stupid, she looked fine, but..." He let out a heavy sigh. "She died sitting with me in a field of flowers. We'd finally seen each other, understood each other, and then..." His hand sought out Duo's, squeezed it firmly. "It's why I'm willing to die."

He'd only told half of the story, he hadn't made it as personal as Duo knew he probably should have. He hadn't spoken about Solo. No one knew about Solo. But he had a feeling, after hearing Wufei's tale, that maybe he'd understand more than any of the others... Though Duo wasn't going to mention it now. Not after hearing about Wufei's wife. It'd feel too much like competing with him for who had the suckiest past.

When his hand was taken, Duo held it tight and finally moved the arm at Wufei's back to wrap about him. He was gentle, mindful that the other pilot was still sick and aching.

"You... uh... you talked about her some, the other night. She really was brave. But from how you've described her, I can't help thinkin she'd be pissed if you just tossed your life away after she gave hers to save you. I think she'd want you to go on living the best you can. Am I wrong...?" Duo didn't want to step on anyone's toes, but he had a feeling that people who were strong enough to sacrifice themselves for another, would definitely want that person to go on to live their best life.

Wufei leaned into the embrace with a sad little smile, and actually managed a laugh at Duo's question. "Absolutely furious," he agreed warmly. "But I suppose that's just one more thing for us to argue about in the afterlife. Though I think if I take enough of those Oz bastards down with me she'd be willing to overlook my insolence," especially if one of them was Treize.

He lowered his head onto Duo's shoulder. "They're all waiting for us, on the other side of the veil," he murmured, letting his eyes slide closed.

"If we're gonna go then we're gonna go, I don't expect to live through this war. But until the day I go up in that fiery ball of metal, I'm gonna live as much as I can. You should, too." He smiled, he'd kept his voice a little lower than usual. The head on his shoulder made him think that Wufei was trying to rest.

"Not yet anyway, gotta get you healed up first." Duo lightly patted Wufei's arm, he would have rubbed his arm that ran the risk of aggravating the spots on his arms.

He nodded in agreement, and chuckled softly. "I wonder if they vaccinate for it. I could go run through their bases and infect them all," he absolutely didn't have anywhere near the energy required for a stunt like that, but it was an amusing thought. "Bastards tried to kill us all with bio-weapons, only fair to send some back."

He shouldn't have laughed but he did, that was an awful thought and stooping to the enemies level was never a good idea.

"I'll put that down to the chickens messing with your brain." Duo grinned. "Wonder why they call it 'chicken pox'? When've you ever seen a chicken covered in spots?"

That got a smile, and Wufei shook his head a little. "Maybe because it looks like a whole coop of angry hens has been pecking at me," he suggested, chuckling at the idea. "Like that idiot Link, in the old video games."

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject