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[everyone_takes]

It probably wasn't exactly the catered party Reggie had been looking for, but it was still a party, which was exactly what Kate needed. The past month had been fucking weird, between everything that had happened with Esther and all the stuff on Halloween, most of which she was neatly repressing and avoiding at all costs. Parties always helped with the whole avoidance thing.

Especially parties where there was tons of alcohol with which to get totally shitfaced.

They hadn't bothered to decorate, but there was food and there were drinks and Kate had even decided she'd share some of her stash -- the one she actually hadn't touched in months -- with some of the guests if they were nice. She'd also realized that having a party where shit was likely to get out of hand with a gun nearby was probably a bad idea, so she'd locked it up and had given it to Danny for safe keeping, a move she thought Harley would approve of.

Especially since the last time she'd held it, she'd shot someone.

But she wasn't thinking about that tonight. She was thinking about the amazing party and the amazing drink she had in her hand.

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[lightningthief]

Oh nice. I think she's drunk already.

"I might've meant my bartending skills," I point out. "And I might have been just messing with you during that whole other talk we had."

[just_hormones]

Aphrodite lets out an amused giggle. "You might have," she concedes with a twitch of one shoulder. "But you might not have. You're a tricky one, mister, I know."

She sticks an index finger out, sending it on a wobbly path that ends at the center of his chest. "You just like to keep me guessing."

[lightningthief]

With her finger on my chest, I grin and reply innocently, "Who me?"

"I wouldn't dream of doing anything outrageous like that. That story might even rival your fond memories of the great Sappho, and we can't have that."

[just_hormones]

"Oh, of course you wouldn't," Aphrodite says with another laugh once she's polished off her drink and held her glass out to Luke in a silent request for another. "You're so totally pure and vanilla."

[lightningthief]

"Virginal," I remark with just a flash of a hungry look. "We need to hang out together at the club more often. For stimulating conversations."

[just_hormones]

Aphrodite grins even wider to cover up the jolt of desire that goes through her at Luke's brief expression. "I don't know why we haven't been already," she says. "Especially if I can go there when you're working and get more drinks like these."

[lightningthief]

"That should work just fine," I say. She'll get drunk and hit on Helen. Awesome. Even if she's not interested, it'll be great to see from afar. But, something tells me I'm in for some interesting times.