thecapitol | love will make you drink and gamble

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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Ian was still suspicious, but he got on the transport and sat down. At least it was nicer than the public transport back home.

"You sure you're not taking me in?"

"I'm sure," Dan says with a smile. "You haven't broken any laws by getting lost." He doesn't really care about the underage drinking. Tributes should be allowed certain things, so long as they don't get rowdy or dangerous.

Ian hadn't even bothered to check the drinking age of the Capitol which showed how much he cared about underaged drinking.

"If you were going to make getting lost a crime you should make the city easier to navigate." He said, relaxing a little even if he were still suspicious.

Dan chuckled a bit at that. "We really should," he said, adding in some humor to his tone. "At least easy to navigate while under the influence."

"Yeah." He nodded, "If you insist on throwing all these parties, at least."

"Well, most people who go to the parties know where they're going. Or they're escorted by people who do. Did you happen to get abandoned by a friend?"

"Not a friend," Ian shrugged, "Just some guys, we were in a group but I don't know where they went."

"Were they other Tributes?"

"A couple I think, most were citizens," come to think about it he had lost the other tributes a good few hours ago.

"Did they mention a particular party they went to?"

"No. Maybe. I can't remember." He shrugged.

"Okay. I just wanted to make sure that you wouldn't have people out there looking for you."

"Naw, I don't think they'll remember I was with them." He shrugged.

"Oh. Well I promise I won't do the same."

"Yeah, pretty sure you'll be in trouble if you start losing tributes."

"It would be the opposite of my orders," Dan admitted with a bit of a smile. "Though, I'm off duty right now, remember?"

"Yeah but, it's not really something you stop doing. Not like a normal job."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well like..." Ian didn't usually talk this much, especially to authority figures but he was drunk and no one was here to talk for him.

"If you saw someone being mugged right now would you just turn around and walk away because your off duty?"

"Of course not," Dan answers. "That's different."

"Yeah so it isn't really like a normal job, you're never really off duty."

"I see what you mean," he says. "I do feel like I'd get in trouble if I saw one of you in peril and didn't do anything."

Ian nodded, his point made. "Exactly."

Dan smiled a bit. The train started to slow down at their stop. "This is us," he said, getting up to lead the way out of the stop. The Tower was in view now, though it was a couple blocks away. They could see it lit up in the night.

"I'd have never found it alone." He said, he should probably go out one day, sober and actually get the lay of the land and understand the transport system.

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