The Drunken Unicorn, Wednesday Evening

[longislandiceme]

So summer was just about drawing to a close, and that meant that soon even those recent graduates who'd stayed behind on the island for the summer would be headed off. Naturally, this meant one last sort of hurrah needed to be had: in the form of getting really, incredibly drunk, of course

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[not_a_parakeet]

Warren was maybe still a bit iffy about leaving Karla on her own, but he couldn't deny that there probably wouldn't be a chance to do this again with all the guys, at least not in the near future. And besides, on Fandom, she was definitely in good hands.

He was just going to drink more to make up for that. Because that could in no way end poorly at all.

"Pretty sure this stuff actually tastes better if you get the atomic hot wings," he shared. "But that could just be because half of my tastebuds have been seared off."

They'd grow back.

[hoorayimrich]

"You have no idea what bad alcohol is," Tony replied, sipping at his drink leisurely. "I had Chinese moonshine that I think could have doubled as jet fuel. In fact, I think I tried to buy the recipe for it to market as that. That night was a little... hazy."

[longislandiceme]

Bobby snickered into his drink. "You would," he declared. "One'f my buddies at home had a still in his lab for a while. It... didn't end well."

[hoorayimrich]

"I can't blow up another set of armor," Tony informed him. "Those are expensive."

And he went through them like tissue paper.

[ultron_junior]

Right, so this was evidently Victor Mancha's life now. Drinking. With two X-Men, a Young Avenger, Tony Stark, and ... a couple other people who he was pretty sure were awesome, even if they weren't, like, celebrities to him. (Topher's awesome still got an asterisk due to the whole alternate universe reprogramming thing, but whatever.)

He managed not to text a play-by-play of the evening to Molly. But it was a near thing.

Instead, he lowered his head and stared contemplatively at his glass of ... something, which had come highly recommended even though the vapors from it made his nose twitch. "Confession time? I've never really been drunk before."

[longislandiceme]

"Ooh, your first time?" Bobby looked over at him curiously. "Was it- did we make it special?"

[ultron_junior]

Victor snickered and drained the glass he'd been staring at. "You were gentle and experienced," he said. "There was protection. Muy bien."

He wasn't sure if Bobby had meant the double entendre, but he was going to play with it anyhow.

[longislandiceme]

"De nada," Bobby replied. "That is the sort of thing I wanna hear. Just uh. Don't headbutt any brick walls, yeah?" There had been a woman who'd done that earlier (unintentionally). It... had looked painful, though at least it hadn't ended as badly as it could've.

[momslilassassin]

Ben'd had a crappy few weeks, so clearly a healthy option that wasn't "hide in his room for two days"--he'd done that already--was "get really drunk."

He'd left his phone with Ender but wouldn't be above stealing someone else's after the third round of tequila shots.

Right now he was poking at a drink with an umbrella, a monkey, and a lot of fruit on it, and regretting asking the bartender to surprise him.

[hoorayimrich]

Which would be why Tony was bumping shoulders with Ben now. You know, bro solidarity and all.

[momslilassassin]

Ben smiled. "Hey. How's China?"

Because like Ben would voluntarily bring up his own stuff.

[hoorayimrich]

"Stephanie learned how to break people without even trying," Tony replied because they couldn't talk about their issues. "Oh, and she got to meet Danny Rand. Didn't even get me an autograph."

[longislandiceme]

Bobby was still kind of traumatized by whatever-the-hell had gone on in that other Fandom. But ahahaha like talking about his problems was in Robert Drake's vocabulary.

Drinking was, though.

So, naturally, he was nursing a Long Island Iced Tea (shut up).

[not_a_parakeet]

See Warren. See Warren wiggling up to Bobby.

Wiggle, Warren! Wiggle!

"Next drink's on me, okay?"

Look, he hadn't been there to see Bobby, personally, in that other Fandom. His focus had been elsewhere. But seeing as he'd had twice the time to get over it in Kaeleeran time and he was still having issues with it?

[longislandiceme]

"Buying me drinks, now, War?" speaking of wiggling, there was some eyebrow-wiggling directed Warren's way now. "Does- do our girlfriends know 'bout this?"

[not_a_parakeet]

"I could call them for permission," Warren offered, grinning amiably. "Both of 'em. And promise them that I'm not going to try anything funny if I do."

Even if he was eyebrow-wiggling right on back, yes.

[hoorayimrich]

Tony had spent time being evil, being in space, and not finding hide or hair of his dad. All and all, not the best summer break he'd had.

Hence the bottle of vodka he'd snagged from the bartender for giving a hundred dollar tip. All class our Tony.

[momslilassassin]

"Toooooony," Ben yelled. "What it's called when you have a lot of monkeys?"

Context was for the weak, Stark.

[hoorayimrich]

"...a felony?" Context was needed, Ben!

[momslilassassin]

"Not like the penguin farm!" Ben replied. "You know, when they're just hanging around. A herd? A crapload?"