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Who: Rogue and Xena
What: random bar encounters and flirting
When: recent
Where: A bar
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13




Rogue escaped to a bar. One of the back alley hole in the walls. She'd parked the bike and walked in all leather and giving off the vibe fucking with her wasn't a good life choice. Of course it only took ten minutes before she had to knock someone's teeth in but if we were being honest rogue was really ok with that.

Now she sat at the bar, nursing her fourth whiskey of the hour, leaving Logan's power on standby so she'd know when someone was coming, which meant the whiskey was just nice tasting water in her system. A tiny trade off for not needing to break more noses. Her fingers clenched as someone approached.

“Fancy meeting you here,” came a woman’s voice. Xena leaned on the bar next to Rogue, giving her a once over. “What brings you to my side of the tracks?”

Rogue smiled, she'd liked Xena. “Better brawls to pick on this side.” Her lips twisted into a smirk. “it's good to see you again.” Because it was, a little. Rogue tried to keep everyone at arm's length or longer but she was trying to be better. Which meant she didn't bolt the other way.

“You ain’t wrong.” Xena flashed her a grin, tapping the bar to order a drink. Whiskey, neat.

“Good to see you again.” She liked Rogue too. Rogue was hot and hot-headed, a combination Xena had always liked.

Rogue laughed - “I kinda figured, yeah.” she smirked a bit as she leaned back and rolled the tension out of her shoulders. Rogue was hot headed and had a violent streak a country mile wide, and was often accused of being hot.

She decidedly thought it depended on the day. “I’ve been floating between hermit and workaholic.” she waved a hand lazily and shrugged. “So here I am.”

“Neither is very fun, you gotta find that balance. A little fun, a little hiding, a little work, and a little fun if you catch my drift.”

“You’re as bad as well… everyone in my life.” she said after a moment, taking a sip of her drink. “The fun, I tend to be bad at and the fun is just often too dangerous.” she waved a hand lazily. And she was trying very hard to not give Kitty another reason to harass her about Logan. Which meant avoiding that fun pretty solidly.

“I can help you with some of that.” Xena knew some fun could be dangerous, but that was half the …. Fun!

“If you want.”

Her first instinct was to bash her head into the counter - but she resisted. Her sexuality was, at it's core, pretty straight. If she let those in her head influence her, it was more fluid.

“I'd hurt you, it's not really a might, it's almost guaranteed.” Which wasn't a no.

“You know what they say, hurts so good.” Xena flashed her another smile. “Just depends on what kinda fun you want to get into.”

This time she did headdesk. “You're as incorrigible as everyone else I know.”

“That says more about you than us,” Xena pointed out.

Rogue looked up, brows furrowed. “That's a compliment isn't it?”

“Just that you attract a certain type of friend.” She nudged Rogue’s shoulder with her knuckles.

“Some days I wonder why I haven’t booked it back home, then I realize, none of ya’ll would let me get past the state line without dragging me back.” she laughed, no malice in it. It was better to have them.

“I don’t know, we’d let you get at least as far as Arizona. If you don’t turn back by the time you reach Phoenix you’re not turning back.” Arizona was kind of a hell state, almost as bad as Texas.

She laughed a little - before taking another drink. “My vacation to get away from everyone for a few days was to Alaska… so”

“I can think of worse places. Like Arizona.” Xena looped an arm around Rogue, leaning against her.

She laughed a bit and leaned back, carefully, very mindful of where skin was. “Arizona is pretty awful.”

“Few places worse than that, but not by much.” And most of those were in her dreams.

“I've seen places people think are amazing but you live in the underbelly it's awful.” She drummed her nails on her arm and sighed.

Xena jerked her head. “Come on. Lets get into trouble.”