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i found a liquor store (closed)
who. Stiles & York (
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what. Stiles is a slick motherfucker who can totally get drinks. Absolutely.
where. The Quad,
when. Saturday, after the Vorcha varren announcement.
warnings. Underage drinking.
So things with Lydia were awkward, to say the least. They may have been up front with each other, but he'd still been lying to her and she'd still resurrected one of the people Stiles liked the least of the werewolves. So it was awkward.
And then the showers had stopped working. After that, there'd been monkeys, and now there were alien fucking dogs eating the monkeys. And possibly people. It was carnage. Stiles hadn't even been on Omega a week and already he wanted to get off this crazy train.
Getting up on a bench to avoid a varren chasing a pyjak, he'd heard an advertisement for a bar in Zeta district. Something called the Quad, which a quick search told him was referencing a certain part of an alien's anatomy. (Really?) But they were talking about how they might not have water, but they still had alcohol!
And that lit an idea. Stiles had some credits left from the repair work he'd been (trying) to do. Sure, that was supposed to go towards food and protection money but - he could spend some, right?
Let it never be said he couldn't budget, ah-huh.
So he managed to get in the door - the place was bumping, it seemed, and smelled really bad, but he couldn't tell if that was the bar or the patrons. He wrinkled his nose but then attempted to act like everything was normal, and sidled his way on over to the bar top, cool as you could be if you were a sixteen year old attempting to get alcohol in a space bar. (It wasn't very cool.)
He managed to elbow his way into a seat and hoped he could catch the bartender's attention.
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what. Stiles is a slick motherfucker who can totally get drinks. Absolutely.
where. The Quad,
when. Saturday, after the Vorcha varren announcement.
warnings. Underage drinking.
So things with Lydia were awkward, to say the least. They may have been up front with each other, but he'd still been lying to her and she'd still resurrected one of the people Stiles liked the least of the werewolves. So it was awkward.
And then the showers had stopped working. After that, there'd been monkeys, and now there were alien fucking dogs eating the monkeys. And possibly people. It was carnage. Stiles hadn't even been on Omega a week and already he wanted to get off this crazy train.
Getting up on a bench to avoid a varren chasing a pyjak, he'd heard an advertisement for a bar in Zeta district. Something called the Quad, which a quick search told him was referencing a certain part of an alien's anatomy. (Really?) But they were talking about how they might not have water, but they still had alcohol!
And that lit an idea. Stiles had some credits left from the repair work he'd been (trying) to do. Sure, that was supposed to go towards food and protection money but - he could spend some, right?
Let it never be said he couldn't budget, ah-huh.
So he managed to get in the door - the place was bumping, it seemed, and smelled really bad, but he couldn't tell if that was the bar or the patrons. He wrinkled his nose but then attempted to act like everything was normal, and sidled his way on over to the bar top, cool as you could be if you were a sixteen year old attempting to get alcohol in a space bar. (It wasn't very cool.)
He managed to elbow his way into a seat and hoped he could catch the bartender's attention.
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It was definitely helping business, that was for sure. The bar was a little more crowded than usual tonight -- mostly krogan and batarians, but there were a few humans here and there. It was imposible to ignore the kid wiggling his way into a seat at the bar, though, and York cocked an eyebrow at him before she shook her head, making as if to wave him off.
"Sorry, kid, no soda. Taps are all off."
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But when the bartender shook her head, he still managed to wave his arms in an arc, hitting the Krogan's armor.
"I'm not a kid!" he protested, then swallowed and tried to calm down a little. Being surrounded by this many aliens sucked. "I mean, I'm here for a drink. Even got the credits for it and everything, yeah?" He said, waving his omni tool in her face, then leaned forward and waggled his eyebrows in the mix of convincing her. "Plus I'm legal, back home."
Maybe she'd think he was Canadian or something.
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"This look like home to you, kiddo?" York rolled her eyes, looking unimpressed. With a baby face like that, who was he trying to kid? "Dunno if you noticed, but this is Omega. And you don't even look old enough to buy a can of compressed air."
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"Yes?" Stiles tries, making the statement into a question. Of course it looks nothing like home, but maybe expecting to get a drink regardless of where he was would work in his favor.
"I buy compressed air all the time!" Stiles says after a moment, really indignant now. He leaned forward further. "C'mon, man, there's no water and I haven't showered in like, five days, and my room mate is ignoring me, probably because I smell funny."
No, Lydia was probably ignoring him for other reasons. Still. "Can't you cut me a little slack? Pleaaase?" He even draws out the word, giving his best impression of Scott's puppy-dog eyed face at her.
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Honestly, after a couple of days of this, the bar was starting to get a little dank. This might not have been one of Davrax's greatest ideas. Then again, maybe krogan didn't have an especially sharp sense of smell.
If this kid thought whining and cajoling was going to convince York he was legal, he had be joking, right? Man, of all the bars for the kids on the station to try and swindle booze out of, why did it have to be her bar? York had to admit, the kid did a pretty convincing puppy face, but she didn't look all that impressed.
"How old are you supposed to be, anyway?"
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"Booze isn't gonna fix it, but it's gonna make me care a hell of a lot less," Stiles says, and wow, that makes him sound like he's training to become a burgeoning alcoholic. (Like father, like son, after all.)
"I'm old enough," Stiles hedged, and then sighed. "I'm over sixteen, in fact." That was, in part, almost a truth; his birthday was coming up soon and he was sixteen, almost seventeen..
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"You didn't answer my question, kid. How old are you?"
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"Sixteen, I'm sixteen, all right? But this isn't the first time I've drank." There wasn't exactly a liquor cabinet owned by his father he could conveniently raid to get something to drink.
"I really do just need to relax for a little. Do I seem relaxed?" He gestures to himself. "Also, I'm a mellow drunk."
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Seriously, doesn't this kid realize a hangover's going to be three times as worse with no water? Or is he somehow really that bored? Either way, he's tenacious, she'll give him that. York peers at him, giving him an appraising look.
"What's your name, anyway?"
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"I'm just trying to get a drink here, man. I'm not looking to get so fucked up I end up in the medical ward," Stiles says, and then looks at York appraisingly in turn.
"Why do you wanna know?" And, because he can't resist tacking it on, "Were the eyes working a little bit?"
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Well, probably.
"You think I don't wanna know the name of every kid who tries to con me into serving them?" York grins at him, showing teeth, and gathers up a couple of shot glasses. She can already tell Stiles isn't about to give up as easily as Marco had. That calls for educational tactics, right? "Stiles, right? Well, you can call me York. You in school back home, Stiles? You do much science?"
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"Yeah, I'm Stiles," he says after a moment - he said his name on the network when he arrived, so her knowing it isn't too much of a stretch - and tracks the movement of her hands.
"Yes, I'm in school, and I have an A in chemistry," Stiles tells her, folding his arms. "I earned it." Because Harris really had it out for him this semester, and the fact that he hadn't failed any classes was something to be proud of. "Why?"
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But man, it's been a long week. York hasn't showered in days, and working as a bartender is a chancy job at best. It gets awfully hostile when everyone's cranky and dehydrated, and in a krogan bar, a brawl has disastrous consequences. And on top of that, she still hasn't heard from Marco since she ran into him and his very own dead body in the alley the other day. Plus Wash has been all antsy and weird the last couple of days, and on top of everything else, it's all starting to set her teeth on edge. So maybe she's feeling just a touch crueler than usual today.
"Well, shit," she says, still grinning at him with a mouth full of white teeth. She sets the two shot glasses down on the bar with an audible clink. "Sounds like you're a regular Bill Nye there, kiddo. So I guess a science whiz with all the world experience you've got knows all about hangovers, right?"
She turns halfway to the back of the bar, twisting her upper body to reach for the shelves, and she grabs two bottles, holding them up with an almost contemplative look on her face. "You a tequila or a vodka man, Stiles?"
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He's gotten good at ignoring that particular voice, so he just leans forward, watching York with his best cool expression.
"I know how to avoid one," he tells her, which to him, means he maybe actually ate something before coming here. Its questionable whether he even did that.
His dad ususally drinks Jack Daniels, so Stiles actually hasn't had either of those. Like hell he's telling her that, so he points at the tequila. "That one, por favor," he tells her, but the grin that crawls onto his face isn't really cool so much as it is excited.
i'm sorry i'm not sorry
"You've gotta be familiar with the scientific method, right? Let's call this an experiment. Tequila, matched shot for shot, and we'll see if you really know shit about avoiding hangovers." York's eyes are dangerously bright as she grabs a couple of lemon wedges and a shaker of salt and all but drops them on the bar. She picks up the bottle of tequila and pours them both a shot, her eyes barely leaving Stiles' face. She can hardly stop grinning, her smile breaking only long enough for her to lick the back of her hand, the spot between her thumb and forefinger, and she shakes a bit of salt onto it before she holds out the shaker.
"C'mon, lick your hand. You know how to do a tequila shot, don't you?"
All right, maybe it's a little unfair to taunt him, too. But man, she's had a long week. Stiles picked the wrong moment to try and cajole booze out of her. At least he's getting what he wished for.
im so happy rn
Stiles rapidly realizes he's in way, way over his head. At least, that she knows how to do tequila shots, wheras he's left considering the lemon wedges like they're the aliens in this bar.
But he's stubborn, and so he plows on.
"You're on," he says after a moment. He can't exactly do it in a perfectly practiced way that seems sexy, but he takes the salt shaker and licks the spot, then salts it. Once he's done that he tilts his head back, as if to say hah.
Except that it's obvious from the way that he glances at the shots and the lemon he's not sure what part comes next.
good.
York flashes him an awful grin before she licks the salt off her hand, tosses back the tequila, and bites into the lemon wedge all in one quick, fluid motion. She's not really supposed to be drinking on the clock, technically, but it's not like everybody at The Quad doesn't break that rule every so often. Besides, this is in the name of the good cause of teaching a teenager a Valuable Lesson. Also, she's pretty sure he's gonna choke on that shot and it's probably going to be hilarious.
my room mates have taken over the bathrooms so
He watches her closely, the way she licks the salt, takes the shot, and bites the lemon. It doesn't look that hard. Honestly, it can't be that bad, she's not even choking. If Stiles got used to Jack, he can do tequila.
So he takes a hold of the shot in one hand and the lemon in the other, licks the salt off his hand, and then goes to take the shot.
It doesn't go as smoothly as he hoped. As soon as the alcohol hits the back of his throat it burns, and his eyes water. He coughs, and coughs again, barely managing to swallow the shot. He might actually get some up his nose. He never even makes it to biting the lemon, dropping it back onto the counter so he can pound his chest.
"Oh my god!" He says in a rasping tone. That was disgusting. And he totally failed it.
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Okay, so York is mean sometimes.
She can't help it -- she explodes into laughter as soon as Stiles chokes on the shot, practically spitting the lemon wedge back down onto the bar with a vigorous cackle. She barely manages to set her shot glass down on the bar without dropping it, wheezing out some hearty laughter for a minute or two before she manages to suck down a proper breath.
"Sorry," she manages, in between lingering chuckles. She sounds sort of sincere. "I'm sorry, kid, you just -- whew, you made a face. C'mon, you all right? Gimme your shot glass."
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"You don't sound very sorry," he accuses, betrayal in his eyes before he coughs again. He swears he can still feel it burning all the way down to his stomach.
He hands her his shot glass before rubbing his hands over his face, making a disgusted expression. "Augh. Okay, you have to let me try again, I know what I'm expecting now."'
How quickly he forgot they're matching shot for shot.
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"Big talk for a little man," York says with a raised eyebrow, her grin more of a smirk, and she slides the salt shaker over the bar to Stiles as she pours another round of tequila into their glasses. This time she just grabs the whole container of lemon wedges and sets it on the bar. "You think you can remember not to try to inhale it this time?"
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"I'll try. Though I think this could have something going for it as a nasal cleanser," he says with a straight face before licking his still slightly salty hand and salting it again.
He waits for her to pick up her shot before he grabs another lemon wedge - he's going to try and do it right - and then takes a deep breath, licking the salf off and taking the second shot.
It goes down smoother than the first - if by instead of choking you mean he nearly coughs it up becuase his throat closes up like it's trying to make the right decisions for him. But he swallows it with a vaguely disgusted expression and then finally bites down on the lemon wedge.
Well, at least that helps with the aftertaste.
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She pours them both another round, the tequila burning pleasantly in her stomach. Honestly, even if Davrax were to come back now, she's not sure he'd even be that put off. He spends an awful lot of time with a bottle of ryncol to be criticizing, at any rate.
"How you feelin' by now, kiddo?"
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Still, he's a little overexaggerated when he answers her.
"I'm feeling fine! How strong is this stuff supposed to be, anyway, what's the proof," he points at the bottle, squinting at it a little disbelievingly. Then he looks at York pouring the third round of shots and smiles.
"Aw yes, one more shot. My nasal cavities aren't clean yet."
This time, it's obvious that although he feels 'fine' he's not exactly sober. He gets a little more salt on the bar than he does on the wet patch of his hand. Still, he scoops up a lemon wedge and the third shot, and isn't waiting for York when he takes this one.
It's still not smooth, and he actually doesn't take the whole shot - there's a little bit left at the bottom of the glass. He also forgot to lick the salt off, so he swallows with his eyebrows drawn together and then bites down on the lemon wedge.
"Ugh. Okay, so clearly there's a salty and bitter thing going on, but that was just bitter," he says, feeling a lot more warm and pleasantly buzzed. Three shots in less than an hour for a teenager is a lot. He rubs his cheeks with his hands, a little ruddy-faced.
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She holds off on pouring him another for now, raising an eyebrow. "Yeah, helps if you do the salt. And, y'know, finish the shot. So how's your experiment lookin' now, science whiz?"
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He gets distracted by a salarian walking by - look, this bar is mostly krogans right now, it's a distraction - and then his gaze snaps back to York. "Uh, actually, the experiment is looking good. Really good." To be honest, Stiles doesn't remember what he was experimenting for. How drunk he could get, maybe?
He licks the salt off his palm and finishes the little bit of tequila.
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It comes out as more of a laugh than an accusation, though, and she shakes a bit of salt onto her hand. "You're learnin' pretty fast, kiddo. So where're you from, anyway? And I mean that in the loosest possible sense."
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"Annnd my scientific opinion is that I'm feeling really good, I'm good for another shot."
Honestly, Stiles wasn't worried about anything right now. Well, except for the Krogan, but now that he was focused on York and not them and containing his movements, they were at least ignoring him.
"Mmmm, Beacon Hills," Stiles says, licking his hand and salting it again. "Oh, uh, Earth, 2011. Small town, my dad- "
Stiles has to pause then, even with the alcohol he can't help the stab or worry and anxiety at thinking of his dad, alone, without him. He quickly licks the salt and takes the shot, barely tasting it because of the bitter feeling of worry in his throat. He bites down on the lemon and answers.
"My dad's the sheriff, so being here without him is a little, uh, different, to say the least."
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"Shit, if I'd known you were a cop's kid, I wouldn't have even let you in the front door," she says teasingly, sweeping some spilled salt off of the bartop. She peers at him a little more closely, cocking her head to the side, and gives him a knowing smile. "You and your dad pretty close?"
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"Can't be a cops kid without the cops bein' around. Or the dad," He says, eyeing his empty shot glass a little mournfully. But he shakes it off again to look at York. "Yeah, we're pretty tight," he says, crossing his fingers to indicate as such. That might be something of a lie, considering he'd stolen a police van and cost his dad his job for a while - but after the lacrosse game, his dad had seemed proud of him again so that's what he was choosing to focus on.
"What about you, though? Like, parents, what about yours," Stiles rambles in an attempt to deflect.
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"Do I gotta worry about bein' drafted or anything like that?" He asks, words slurring together a little, before he remembers they're talking about her.
"'M an only kid. More attention for me though, right?" He laughs to himself. "Sounds like a good family, though"
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York figures it's not worth elaborating on the war, not when he's drunk and is probably gonna forget he asked anyway. She's starting to feel a good buzz, too, but she's got plenty of judgment left to sweep the shot glasses off to the side, determining that at this point, Stiles probably doesn't need anymore. What was the point of this again?
"2011, huh? You're a few centuries behind me. So what's that like?"
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He doesn't even notice the shot glasses get removed, but it's probably for the best.
He sits up a little when she addresses him. "Few centuries? Future girl," he laughs, mostly to himself, before he answers. It's a good thing he's used to keeping the werewolf secret a secret, or else he'd be tempted to spill his guts.
"Boring. Except for the part where mountain lions and serial killers have decided everyone in my home town makes a tasty snack." Belatedly, cheerily, "Aside from that, great! I've even played in a lacrosse game." Because his werewolf buddy was failing school, and some of the other players were missing.
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York gives him a critical look, drumming her fingers on the bartop. "You play lacrosse, huh?"
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If only it were that simple, a shot to the head. Hell, if Peter Hale ever showed up, he'd be tempted to do it anyway. But he looks up when she asks about lacrosse.
"Yup," he says, overenunciating the word. "Usually on the bench, but I actually have the championship game under my belt now," he adds, his ego visibly puffing up at relating that fact.
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"I didn't mean you dude," Stiles waves at him, but Krogan doesn't seem very happy about it regardless, and Stiles hunches down. "I think he needs something to drink, York."
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"I'm fine," he insists, even though nobody likely asked, brushing himself off. "M'not too far from here, I'll be kay."
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She'd kinda meant to teach him a lesson -- she hadn't been in the best of moods when he'd shown up -- but in a weird way, she'd had some fun herself. Stiles isn't a bad kid, and he's just one more teenager stranded away from his home. Okay, so her heart goes out to him a little.
wrappy wraps
Either way, Stiles finally makes his wobbly way out of the Quad, happily intoxicated, as was his goal in the first place.