love will make you drink and gamble

[brother2dragons]

Who| Dan and OPEN
What| Dan goes to a bar a little distance from Tribute Tower in the hopes of not running into anyone who will know who he is. Let's see if we can dash those hopes.
Where| A bar in the Capitol
When| Final week of the Arena, during Dan's off-duty hours.
Warnings/Notes| Alcohol


Daniel had gotten into the habit of spending as many of his hours off duty in the basement of his family home. He'd taken up residence in the lab with a single projector playing the Games in the corner. He needed to stay up on what was happening with the Tributes, after all. He needed to know which ones might have a grudge against which other ones and who might be looking to get revenge for some wrong doing inside of the Arena once they were outside of it.

He imagined those kinds of concerns were strange new ones in this strange new, multi-dimensonal world.

The problem with spending all of his time alone though, was that he had to remember the pieces of his personality he didn't care much for. Self-doubt took up residence at the back of his mind like an unwelcome house guest. Rather than dwell on it, though, he finally worked up the nerve to leave.

Blake drank all of the time without worrying about what it did to his professional image and while he was no Blake, he could try to relax every once and a while. Still, he choose a bar that was far enough from Tribute Tower that he could reduce the risk of running into a Tribute.

It wouldn't be very professional for one of them to see him drunk, after all.

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[wantwhatiwant]

Ian was incredibly drunk, he was also incredibly lost. He had went to a party, and then from there went on to another party, and there had perhaps been a third. He had spoken to loads of people but somehow managed to lose sight of anyone he actually knew, be it tributes or any mentors or escorts that he knew by sight.

He shouldn't have gotten this drunk, but he couldn't bring himself to care and so just stumbled into another bar.

He attracted some stares in this one, some part of him that was still actually functioning realised there were not many, if any tributes here and he grinned sheepishly, flopping down next to a guy who looked as drunk as him and hoped their weren't any sort of citizens only bars. Because getting arrested or something would suck.

[brother2dragons]

Daniel looked up and saw the Tribute stumble in and frowned a bit. He glanced around to see if anyone else recognized him. There were a couple who were looking at him with interest. Sighing a bit, he with to Ian's side.

"How are you doing, son?" he asked, uncertain if the boy would know him out of his uniform. They hadn't spoken before, but Dan had been around the Tower enough to be seen.

[wantwhatiwant]

Daniel might have been around but Ian not so much, he had barely been there two days when the Arena started, and though he thought he had seen this guy around in the few days since he came back, he couldn't tell if he was an escort, mentor, even a tribute though he didn't think the latter.

"Not your son." He slurred, grinning as he did so, "'m fine how're you?"

[brother2dragons]

"A little worried about how you found yourself so far away from the Tower. Think you might need some help back?"

[wantwhatiwant]

"Don't have a clue where I am." He admitted, "Am I really that far away?"

[brother2dragons]

"You are. I'll walk you back," Dan offered, though it seemed less like and offer and more like something they should do. When he glanced back at the men who had noticed Ian he got even more of a feeling that was the best idea.

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian followed his gaze and saw the stares, grinning again and waving at them, his danger sense practically non existent.

He had no idea what he had drank, or how much. "What if I don' wanna go back?"

[brother2dragons]

"Then we should at least move closer to the Tower that you're sure to find your way back," Daniel said after a moment. He really hoped that this kid wasn't going to get to be too difficult.

[wantwhatiwant]

"This place off limits?" Ian was still grinning, though he wouldn't push to hard if the man insisted they move.

[brother2dragons]

"No, but it's easy to get lost here," Dan said. "Plus there are plenty of good bars by the Tower, if you're not finished with your celebrations."

[wantwhatiwant]

"Not really a celebration." Ian nodded though, because he had no intention of getting lost and sleeping on a bench somewhere, he wasn't Frank.

"Good bars sound... good."

[brother2dragons]

"All right," Dan replied with a small smile. "Let's go."

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian stood up, swaying a bit but grinning as he followed the man. "'m Ian by the way."

[brother2dragons]

"I'm Daniel Dreiberg," Dan introduced himself easily, not really wanting to bring his Peacekeeper title into this while he was out of uniform. He lead the way out of the bar and towards some public transportation. He hadn't brought his car because he was expecting to get drunk. "I've seen you around the Tower but it's a pleasure to finally speak with you."

[wantwhatiwant]

"Nice to meet you." Ian followed, swaying a little and shoving his hands in his pockets, not that they would go too far, the pants his stylists had dressed him in were so tight.

"Yeah I think I've seen you too."

[brother2dragons]

"Usually in uniform though," Dan said with a small smile. "I expect that means you try to avoid me otherwise?" He didn't really know if Ian had any reason to avoid the Peacekeepers, but he had come to realize that most of the Tributes had no reason to trust him, and probably shouldn't even if they did.

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian blinked as he finally realised where he had seen the other man.

"Shit you're a cop." Peacekeeper, whatever they were called in this place. His eyes narrowed in suspicion.

[brother2dragons]

"Not exactly, but don't worry. I'm not going to detain you. I only want to make sure you get back safely."

[wantwhatiwant]

His eyes narrowed even more and he stepped back, too drunk to deal with this logically. "I've done nothing wrong, didn't even want to go to the fucking party anyways."

[brother2dragons]

Dan paused. "You're right. You've done nothing wrong, but people here will take advantage of your fame."

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian rolled his eyes, but that was a bad idea as it meant he felt dizzy. Still the idea that he was famous, and only because he had died publicly.

"So you're protecting me now?" He sounds incredulous, Ian doesn't have much faith in law enforcement.

[brother2dragons]

"It's my duty to protect you. That's why I'm back in the Capitol."

[wantwhatiwant]

"Yeah, well your doing a shit job." He frowned, "Back? Where were you before?"

[brother2dragons]

"I was assigned to the Districts," Daniel explained. He ignored the part about not doing his job well.

[wantwhatiwant]

"Oh." Ian frowned, he didn't know much about the districts, or the history of this place. But he could guess from what he did know that the last thing this guy had been doing in the districts was protecting them.