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.

Comments

[wantwhatiwant]

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

[brother2dragons]

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

[wantwhatiwant]

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

[brother2dragons]

"What makes you say that?"

[wantwhatiwant]

"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?"

[brother2dragons]

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

[wantwhatiwant]

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

[brother2dragons]

"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."

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian nodded, his point made. "Exactly."

[brother2dragons]

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.

[wantwhatiwant]

"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.

[brother2dragons]

Daniel nodded. "Now that Tributes are allowed to leave the Tower, it might be a good idea to pass out maps or directions," he admitted. "I'll bring it up, see if we can have a safer environment for you all."

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian blinked at him before nodding again, surprised. Then again, he wasn't too surprised, it was clear the Capitol didn't want any harm to come to them until they were in front of cameras.

"Sure."

[brother2dragons]

"Do you think you'll be okay from here? Or did you want me to make sure you got all the way home?" Daniel asked after a moment, smiling a bit in an encouraging way. He wouldn't judge Ian if he wanted to go a bar closer to the Tower.

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian nodded, "Yeah I'll be fine." He didn't want to take up any more of Dan's night off than he had done.

He didn't actually have any intention of going to another bar, the walk had sobered him up and he figured he should go and sleep, since he was bound to have to go to another party the next day.

[brother2dragons]

Daniel nodded. "Contact me if you need anything," he offered. "Though once I'm in uniform again, I'll still be a Peacekeeper."

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian nodded, a thin scowl on his face. "Yeah, thanks anyways."

[brother2dragons]

Daniel nodded. "You're welcome," he said. He waited to make sure that Ian was on his way safely before turning to go back.

[wantwhatiwant]

Ian nodded and set off, glancing back to make sure he wasn't being followed at all. But the peacekeeper seemed to go back and so Ian relaxed a bit and found his way back to the tribute tower and his room.