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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!

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Wufei wasn't the only one who choked on his oatmeal. Duo ended up coughing hard, tears in his eyes, and stupidly trying to laugh at the same time.

"The hell...?" Soon as he got himself together and had wiped the tears from his eyes, he grinned over at Heero. "Didn't even realise you knew what that word meant. Even used it in the right context. I'm impressed." The grin became a smirk. "But you're right. They're fucking. Can you blame em? Who else'd love people like us except people like us? Besides, I think it's kinda cute they're so into each other and pretend it's some big secret."

Heero lifted both brows at Duo. "Of course I do," but he didn't explain further, letting his gaze drop when Duo asked who else would love them. He grunted softly, and finished off his bowl. "Guess that's a good thing for you two."

Wufei's brows crept up towards his hairline. "Well. Uh." Heero wasn't wrong, but he wasn't exactly right, either. And it meant that Heero was the odd man out.

"Course you do, huh? I know, I know. I'm just teasin!" He laughed some more. And when Heero mentioned 'you two', his grin remained and he took it in stride. "And I think it's a good thing for all of us. I'd meant that we're brothers-in-arms, Heero. For some of us, we're the only family we've got. And I'll say it, I love the lot of you, even if you drive me crazy sometimes. I'm glad I was able to meet everyone." He was glad to find he wasn't alone... And maybe it was why he was trying so damn hard to give everyone reasons to want to stick together in the longrun?

Oh, there was that smile again. "As long as you don't die like family," Heero replied, making a poor attempt at a joke.

Wufei let out a breath he didn't realize he'd been holding. "We have no intention of doing so," he promised with a little smile. Even if he'd thought it was his destiny just a few days before. He'd thought of himself as expendable from the moment he learned what Operation Meteor really was. "But if it's just the same to both of you, I think I'd like to wipe the Barton Foundation off the map nearly as much as Oz."

"Don't plan on doing that. Not if I can help it." Duo smiled back. He didn't much get the joke, and it was very much like a knife to the heart, but he wasn't going to let that show. Heero had tried, he was smiling so he knew it hadn't been malicious. It was a fear they all had. Getting close... came with risks.

"I think they both have to go for the world to really be at peace." Duo agreed around a mouthful of oatmeal. Technically them too, if he was honest. But he wasn't about to think about that. When the time came he'd give up the gundam, he'd give up the weapons, he just wanted a normal life. Or as normal as he could get.

Heero grunted softly. "And destroy their databases, so they can never train someone like me again."

"And all records of mobile suit construction," Wufei agreed. "Make it too much trouble to go making them again."

Duo didn't point out that if someone wanted to make another Heero Yuy they would do it, regardless of whether they had the old records or not. But he understood where Heero was coming from so he nodded.

"All of it goes." Duo decided. "In the end it all gets wiped. That's the only way we'll really win. If they can just regroup and start again, what's the point in any of this?" No, they needed to get to the heart of it. Strip it all down piece by piece until there was nothing left but scrap to be melted down to make toasters with.

They both nodded in agreement, and a heavy silence settled, but Wufei didn't let it linger. "And then we'll go to a theme park, all five of us, and try to act our ages."

"Maybe a little younger," Heero suggested.

Duo spent that silence finishing his bowl of oatmeal and it was as he was leaning over to put the empty bowl on the table that he laughed at Wufei's, and then Heero's, comment.

"Yeah, you guys need to know what it's like to be kids, huh?" He settled back and pulled his legs onto the seat with him, though this time he crossed them and dropped his hands into his lap. "I think, once it's all done with, all the fighting, there's a bunch of stuff we could all do together. There's a whole world out there. Anythin else you guy's have always wanted to do? Mine is a beach. I've been there once or twice." He'd recused Heero that time and they'd ended up at a beach. "But actually relaxing on one? Buildin sand castles? Playing in rock pools? Eating ice cream? I wanna do that."

Wufei hummed in agreement. "We've all been forced to grow up sooner than we should've," he agreed softly, and flashed a little grin. "Mine's... well. It's a little silly, but I'd like to go see a Moon Festival in China. I've never been to a festival outside a colony, but I've heard that they're much more extravagant."

With a little smile, Heero nodded. "I want to go to school."

"Moon Festival, huh? Yeah, that sounds fun. I'd tag along if you're willing?" Duo dropped his elbow onto the arm of the chair and his cheek fell onto his hand. He was smiling, just letting himself daydream. Until Heero manfioned school. He pulled a face.

"I hated school. But I was just a kid so... Maybe it'd be different? Just not one of those rich bastard schools." He couldn't stand those rich kids. The last time he'd been on a school like that he'd been forced to be friendly but he'd wanted to blow up the whole damn place.

They both laughed at Duo's reaction to school. "We'll have to pick one together, then. I was called back before I graduated to get married," Wufei agreed. "Some of them have obnoxiously strict rules."

"I went to one for a while before my mother died, and I went to St. Gabriel's for a few weeks, but that's it," Heero said with a shrug. "I want to learn to be normal."

"Normal? What's that?" Wufei asked teasingly, setting his empty bowl on the coffee table with Duo and Heero's.

"Who knows?" Duo laughed. Normal seemed far removed from what they were.

"You think schools gonna make you normal? We can give it a try." But he had a feeling they wouldn't last. Kids could be assholes and they wouldn't be allowed to teach them lessons. Keeping their hands to themselves was going to be tough. But it'd be something they would have to try to be sure. Maybe it'd surprise them?

Wufei nodded in agreement. "I pity the school administrators," he said with a little grin. "Just one of us would be bad enough, but if all five of us enroll in the same place?" He shook his head.

"We might end up educating them," Heero agreed with a chuckle. "We might be required, anyway, depending on how they change the laws after everything is said and done." As much as he wanted to get away from being ordered around, it was nice to have a little guidance still.

If they had any sense they'd give them a place of their own and hire tutors to educate them to a certain point before throwing them to the lions. But Duo didn't think that would enter into their thinking. So he was with Wufei. Whatever school was unlucky enough to get them was going to have some problems. Especially if it ever got out who they were...

"Whatever happens, if we stick together, it'll work out." Duo decided. He had his reservations, but he was open minded enough he'd give it a try.

There was unlikely to be a lot of common sense involved in any decisions made about them after the war -- even if they were the ones making them. "Together," Wufei agreed.

Heero nodded. "We should ask Trowa and Quatre what they want to do, too." The idea of all five of them forming a family was in his head now, and his stubborn streak was about to get fixated on it.

Duo glanced at Heero and nodded, smiling he shifted to the side and reached into his pocket for his phone. "Not askin them to come here and maybe get infected... Quat should be okay but Trowa..."

He sent a quick text just asking if they were close by and free to chat. They were talking about the future and figured they'd want in on it. Then he hit send. "Now just to wait and see what he says!"

"Trowa was unsure of his vaccinations, so we gave him the same set I brought for Wufei," Heero agreed with a nod. "Plus chicken pox."

"So he's probably as cranky and achey as I am," Wufei chuckled.

The phone rang a moment later, and Quatre's bright voice was on the other end when Duo picked up. "We'd love to be included, but I'm afraid Trowa is resting right now." And Quatre may or may not have been literally sitting on him to make sure he didn't get out of bed.

Duo was laughing when his phone rang. He answered and put it on speaker.

"You're on speaker, Quat. He as hard to keep pinned down as these two?" he asked and pulled a face at Wufei and Heero before he laughed again. "But listen. We're just talking. Do you guys have any plans for when we kick this thrice damned war to the curb?"

"He's very stubborn if you don't know what to bribe him with," Quatre agreed smugly. "I don't think we've really thought to much about it, except that we want to stay together."

Wufei made a face right back, while Heero just looked between the two like they'd gone mad.

"I want to go to school," Heero announced.

"I'd I bet you know just what that is." Duo laughed. "Yeah. Sticking together is what we want to do. Heero wants to go to school. I wanna go to a funfair and the beach. Wufei wants to go to a moon festival. And we wanna do those things together."

"School? Seriously? Military school?" Trowa wasn't sure he agreed with school. He didn't know it was a place he'd fit in very well.

"Regular school," Heero replied. "It's... normal," and that was what he was after, moreso than an education. J had included education in his training, of course, but nothing about how to live life after the war was over. He was expected to die, and on a certain level the whole conversation felt a little like betraying J. He curled himself up into a ball on his corner of the couch, even though it made his ribs throb.

"You're hurting your ribs," Wufei scolded, albeit gently. And kicked Heero lightly in the hip for emphasis.

Duo looked over in time to see Heero doubling up and was up and off the chair a moment later. "Nah, just normal people school, Tro. Learn what normal kids do, y'know? Math and science and all that jazz." as he spoke he'd moved across the room and dropped himself down between Wufei and Heero. Just as with the night before, he draped an arm across Heero's shoulders and made him sit up.

All the while he kept his voice light and friendly, even laughing, as if nothing was wrong and nothing to worry about. To Wufei he winked and nudged him with his other arm.

"Normal high school, huh." Trowa sounded thoughtful. He wasn't sold. But if Quatre went... He looked at him with a raised brow.

Wufei moved his legs out of the way when Duo came over, and maneuvered the blanket so Duo would get a share of it, too, smiling softly as Duo straightened Heero out.

It took a little convincing, but Heero eased out of the uncomfortable position and let himself lean on Duo instead. "Yes, normal," he agreed. "I want to know what it is."

"I'm not sure any of us knows what normal is," Quatre replied thoughtfully, gazing over at Trowa. "But I don't think it's such a bad idea to try, and staying together sounds nice... there aren't a lot of people out there who will be able to understand us when it's all over."

Duo didn't give up until Heero had straightened himself. The surprise was when he actually leaned against him that way. He didn't protest and just kept a hold of him so he didn't go and do anything dumb again.

"Yeah, that was my thinkin too, Quat. Who's gonna know what we need better than us? Sticking together, least until we've a better idea of where we wanna go, is best." it wouldn't be forever, he wasn't dumb enough to think that. But until they were stable enough to strike out on their own, sticking together was the only solution.

"So I guess school it is. You know it's gonna mean dumbing down to their level, right?" Duo grinned and looked down at the top of Heero's head. "No one likes a show off. You'll get bullied. Then get in trouble when you break their legs."

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