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Finn cleared the last of the dishes from the dinner rush and carted them into the kitchen for Tandy, laughing when she asked if he'd been demoted to busser.

That chore done, he headed back into the bar to do a walk around, checking with those in the game room and those at the tables and booths scattered around the bar area. He joked with a few of the regulars and greeted the faces he couldn't remember seeing before taking his position behind the bar again.

Leaning against the back counter, he surveyed his pub and couldn't help the smile that formed. For as much flak as he'd received from his family over his choosing such a small town when he finally struck out on his own, he really did love the town. The atmosphere was open, accepting, and the sheer fact that he could use his abilities without causing the National Enquirer to drop onto his head made it perfect.

He looked up when the door opened and called out a welcome to the newcomer.

"Welcome to the Pub."

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[comeonbro]

"This is why this is my favorite bar," he said, attention riveted to the TV. It was important to have a bar where the bartender knew you and had the sporting events that you followed on when you went there.

"And yeah, the usual please," Roosevelt added, turning to nod at Finn in thanks. "How have you been, busy day?"

[comeonbro]

Roosevelt was completely engrossed in the game and didn't even notice the woman until she spilled her beer on the bar and half of it ended up in his lap. Jumping up from his stool Roosevelt gave a shout as he looked down at his partially soaked lap.

"Hey, watch out-" he started to say before he looked up and saw that a very attractive woman had spilled the beer. "You don't want to end up with any of this on you either. Are you okay?"

[pullmeapint]

Finn rolled his eyes. "It's amazing how closed minded some can still be. I guess we're lucky in that my parents are a little more open than most. Probably better for my brother and his partner. Scared him green when he came out to them, then they were all laughing and crying in this huge hug when they said they didn't care who he loved so long as he was happy."

He'd always known he'd been lucky with his family, and he always hated that not everyone had the same experience. "I'm sorry you're bearing the brunt of that closed mind."

[pullmeapint]

"It's been an interesting one. Somehow managed to get my bar set up as some sort of staging area for something called LARPing. A couple nights a week I'll be dressing in my Ren Faire outfit and hosting others in costume that are role playing something or other." Finn laughed and picked up his coffee cup, sipping from it. "You learn something new every day, right?"

He took another sip. "How about you? Anything catch on fire?"

[starting_over]

"Sorry!" Samantha said again when the man whipped around, clearly pissed off, and she was already grabbing up napkins from the bar and blotting at the wetness she could see on his jeans. "My foot caught the stool and gravity took over. Next time I'll just finish my drink at the bar and not worry about taking up space there."

She started digging in her purse for a card. "I should pay for you to get it cleaned, or if they're damaged beyond repair. Or anything."

[wastelandflower]

"Family," Rian says, shrugging. What can one do with family besides live with it, most of the time. Live with them or run away.

"Mine have always been open about that kind of thin, but the fact that I rushed into a marriage and it fell out before Sophie was even born? That's on me."

[thediceloveme]

Lee laughed. "So you own this place? Nice gig!"

[pullmeapint]

"I'd say on the both of you, to be honest, but that's just me," Finn responded with a shrug of his own. "I've never been married, never even been close, so the odds are pretty good that I'm talking out of my ass."

He gave the baby a little bounce. "Still. You got this little princess, right?"

[pullmeapint]

"Yep. It's all mine, success or failure, so I'm heavily motivated to make it the former. Otherwise I'll never live down that I'd be the first Finnegan to fail at providing drink, food and atmosphere to the masses." He paused, considered, then grinned. "Well, my cousin Jean failed rather spectacularly, but she's still insisting that she was just too early with her plan and that the world wasn't quite ready for her signature style."

[keirasullivan]

"I don't know when I've ever been intimate or sweet," Keira replied, taking a pretzel and crunching on it loudly as she grinned and looked over Finn. One day she would stop objectifying him but today was not that day. Today was the day she got to point out to her best friend how ridiculously attractive their bartender and owner was. "I would love a big glass of beer though. Or another big glass of beer. I thought you might want girl talk for your Mr Cute face."

[keirasullivan]

"Depends on the witch you're with, I'm sure some people could make it a lot of fun. And beside there's always got to be a price with magic, their sacrifice is someone else's gain." Keira replied, laughing as he shuddered about that. "And also it can make the orgasm when you do finally get to come that much more intense. I've heard some people pass out afterwards from pure pleasure."

[aoife_coombs]

"Do I need to introduce myself?"

Mr Cute face? If that would have come from anyone else than Keira, Aoife would have skinned them. Verbally, of course. A lady never used her hands.

"You're always sweet to me, for starters. Intimate I don't necessary want to know, especially because I don- because that's your business."

[thediceloveme]

"Well that just begs the question; What the hell was her plan?" Lee said with a laugh.

[pullmeapint]

And this conversation wasn't having any visual or physical effect on him at all. Nope. Not even a little.

Christ, he was such a liar. Especially when it came to lying to himself. Still, there were some things he didn't bend that far on.

"Probably all true, but I'm not one for using magic and sex together." He shot her a wicked grin. "I prefer to make my own magic."

[pullmeapint]

"That would be a food truck that specialized in dessert protein," Finn said, with as much seriousness as he could muster. "Her Oreo-Crusted Pork Chops were a thing to behold."

[thediceloveme]

Lee blinked at him. "I'm not gonna lie...I'm terrified and slightly hungry."

[keirasullivan]

Keira laughed, groaning at his words and grinning at him in equal measure. He really was just the worst flirt. At least he hadn't rolled out the puns yet.

"Your loss, I personally don't mind dabbling in a bit of both. Depends on the guy or girl," Keira replied, leaning across to pinch the wicked grin off his cheeks. "Let me know when you graduate from solo work. I can't imagine that would be that satisfying."

[keirasullivan]

"That is Finn, in my usual way I am thinking about teasing him until he cracks. Or you know I do, whichever comes first." Keira replied wryly, a smile lingering on her lips. She had yet to crack but then she was used to flirting with guys and never committing. She hadn't found anyone worth it yet, not worth getting hurt over. "Being sweet to you is different, you're my bestie. And yes, you do want to know. Well, maybe not now but eventually. Besides I like giving you terrible ideas of what you could get up to if you were as morally bankrupt as me."

[pullmeapint]

"Go with terrified. Trust me. Have an Oreo, have a pork chop. Do not have both together on the same plate. It was, in all honesty, the only time I've ever spit food back out again since I was out of a high chair."

He still had nightmares thinking about the Butterfinger Fish.

[thediceloveme]

Laughing, Lee shook her head. "Okay maybe it is a bit more terrifying than appetising." She said. "I'm assuming she's not the chef here."

[pullmeapint]

Suddenly Finn was thinking that he needed to clean out the freezer in the back. Or maybe just sit on a block of ice. Because the added images of Keira switch-hitting were not, repeat not, helping. In the slightest.

"You're just jealous that my right hand knows my equipment better than you do. Hell, even my left does, too," he quipped back, flashing both hands at her jazz-hands style, before turning to wait on someone else at the bar.

[pullmeapint]

"Oh Hell no. She's pretty much been summarily banned from all Finnegan kitchens since she was caught trying to slip M&M shrimp onto a plate at my uncle's place. I think she's in Thailand now or something, expanding her culinary education. I somehow doubt that's going to help. At all. Not if the pictures she's posting to Instagram are any indication."

[aoife_coombs]

"Keira ..."

She put her head on her friend's shoulder. "Eventually, indeed. When another weird magical event takes our town and I suddenly turn into some sexy vixen that can't stand not being sexed up." If she would have been around anyone else, she would blush with how blatant she was being.

"You're not morally bankrupt, else I wouldn't be spending time with you."

[thediceloveme]

"Oh god...Thai sweet savouries?" Lee shook her head. "She's a mad woman. What was her punishment for the M&M shrimp?"

[pullmeapint]

"She calls herself an unappreciated genius. Truth told, we're all hoping she crosses paths with Gordon Ramsey at some point, maybe she'll listen if he tells her that what she's making is inedible."

Finn laughed and loaded empties into the bar dishwasher. "Banishment from our restaurants was the punishment. In my family, that's kind of a big thing."