part 10

Laurie ended up having to work the lunch shift on Tuesday, which meant he might be a little tired for his and Danny's excursion to the Blind Pig, but he wasn't working until dinner on Wednesday, which meant he could sleep late. He had to shower when he got home from lunch - his last table had included an annoying and badly-behaved small child who had jogged his arm and made him spill coffee all over himself. He'd changed his shirt at the restaurant and tried to clean himself off, but he thought he still smelled like decaf. Which was fine if you worked at Starbucks, but not so great if you were going to a club to find your half brother a boyfriend.

( in which danny kind of opens up, and laurie gives advice )

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part 11

The Blind Pig had had a brief life as a theater, and you could tell. The owners had ripped out the theater seats and refloored the dance floor, and the sloped balcony had been torn down and replaced with a smaller, flatter balcony, but there was still an air about the stage that made you think of local theater productions putting on Macbeth or Guys and Dolls or plays by local playwrights. Maybe it was the heavy red velvet curtains, now permanently pulled to the side and tied with red velvet rope.

( in which we finally make it to the pig, danny goes off to find someone, and laurie meets a boy of his own )

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note: there's an actual bar called the blind pig in ann arbor, michigan. it doesn't look anything like this one, tho.