redintheledger: (because the night)
Natasha Romanoff ([personal profile] redintheledger) wrote2013-11-19 08:06 pm
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Milliways

Natasha is eighty-three. Old enough to be a grandmother. Old enough to be a great-grandmother, had the mother part had happened at all. Old enough, apparently, to acquire a certain degree of wisdom.

What she is doing at the moment isn't very wise.

She's sitting at the bar in Milliways, studying the bottles stacked up on the shelves. There is some logic: Milliways appeared in her apartment just when she was thinking that she'd really, really love to stop thinking, and it's a bar.

A bar at the end of the universe, where people from all times (like Nataliya Shostakova from 1952, whispers the annoyingly persistent part of her mind that won't let her forget it), so maybe they'd have something that'd get her drunk more easily than vodka.

Unfortunately for Natasha's drive for experimentation, another part of her is pointing out that getting drunk in a strange bar when she is freaked out over her memory is stupid.

But Natasha is eighty-three, and she's very, very tired of being careful when all she wants to do is not think for a few hours.
katyafeline: (Dark - curious)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Evidently there was a mage-shaped hole in the universe centered right over the barstool to Natasha's left, because when there's a Katya in that spot, it's hardly surprising.

"Are we stalking them?" She leans over to ask, casually. "If so, I pre-emptively call dibs on all of the budweisers. Except the American one, that's just gross."
katyafeline: (Dark - curious)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
"If you're here, and asking, you already know the answer to that question. The question is, what is stopping you?" Katya notes, sagely. "And there are good reasons and bad, of course."
katyafeline: (Dark - Silly Human)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Usually is. And that sounded like a challenge." Katya replies, grinning.
katyafeline: (Dark - curious)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"If it is because you cannot abide the taste of liquor, mixed drinks until you don't care - but if it is constitutional, there is always Atlantean." She is an expert in (not-quite-all-but-close) things alcoholic, with a PhD in hard drinking gained in Moscow, with a secondary PhD in multiuniverse alcohols from the University of Sentient Furniture.

"I really hope it isn't the former."
katyafeline: (Dark - Silly Human)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Wine of an ancient civilization, looks like something out of a very bad science fiction movie, hits like a pissed-off golem." Katya explains, as she hops the bar to go hunting for some. "There's actual warnings for normal people to not go drinking it for fear of instant liver failure."
katyafeline: (Dark - Silly Human)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
"The stupid, the desperate, and those of us who don't feel like drinking all of the vodka bar can provide before having fun." Katya replies, peering over the edge of the bar to give Natasha a wink, the bottles in the wine cabinet clinking as she shifts through them. "Of course, if you want to go through all the vodka as well, that is fine with me, Comrade."
katyafeline: (Dark - curious)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I haven't been a comrade in a while, more's the pity." Katya sighs, setting out two lowball glasses and a bottle full of a faintly glowing yellowish liquid. "I'm still disappointed by that."

The portions she's pouring out could, technically, be called shots. If one were generous.
katyafeline: (Dark:  You're on thin ice)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
"I watched them build the first McDonalds in Moscow." She retorts, setting the bottle between them. Now that's a depressing subject.
katyafeline: (Dark:  You're on thin ice)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Bah, it should have worked. The analysts were all very excited." Katya huffs, knocking back her portion, and hissing at the burn of it.
katyafeline: (Dark:  You're on thin ice)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
"Khrushchev would have had to be a god, or an Other, to fix the damage that was already there There is only so much one can do to hold back the incoming tide." The mage retorts, refilling her glass. "It was doomed from the start."
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katyafeline: (Dark - so yeah about that)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
"How scared you all were? Imagine how an abandonment of faith in favor of science went over for us! There were wild vampires. Every night."

...

Honestly this would be more of a tragedy if Katya hadn't rather enjoyed running down wild vampires. Though a depressed populous surely hadn't helped anything for the Light.
katyafeline: (Dark:  You're on thin ice)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I was the one trying not to vanish. Bloodsuckers weren't entirely particular whether they got human or Other." And she was short then, before she figured out how to make her shapeshifting ability work for her.
katyafeline: (Dark - gamefaced)

[personal profile] katyafeline 2013-11-20 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
"There is always the human tendency towards the Dark, as there is always one towards the Light." Katya sighs, "Humans are not made to be one, or the other - even when it is in their best interests."

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