Portal closure preplay

[cocktailwarrior]

"Right," Mona said. "So we're mixing mezcal, bloodwine, ketchup, chocolate milk, and pickle juice. In mason jars."

She did not envy the people volunteering to drink this cocktail. She'd seen a lot of crazy stuff in her years as a bartender -- she'd done a lot of it herself, even -- but this was perhaps the weirdest.

"Good luck to all of you."

[Minor OCD below will be removed in post, I wanted to give you all room to have to talk each other into drinking this sucker as needed]

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Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer let out a slow, careful breath, looking down into her mason jar.

It wasn't really that bad. She'd eaten ice cream with flies in it, after all. She'd made jello worse than this before...

...she didn't eat that jello, but some people had. And, hey, at least she knew what jello she would make to commemorate this event in wiggly goodness for posterity.

No, it wasn't that bad, you just couldn't think about it.

"Alright," she said, resolutely, "bottom's up."

Summer tilted her head back, and threw back as much of it as she could at once, like taking medicine, like ripping off a band-aid, as quick and hopefully painless as possible.

And see? It wasn't that ba---

---oh, wait, there was the pickle juice. Followed by the bloodwine, and her body remembering, ah, yes, she'd had bloodwine before...

"Ohgod."

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[heroic_jawline]

"You can do it," Steve said encouragingly. "It's just like a casserole."

It was nothing like a casserole. Nothing.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Great," Summer said dryly, "now all I can think of is my mom's tuna noodle casserole."

Which was not the thing someone wanted to think about when that was going on in their stomachs.

Still, she knew he was just trying to help, and she gave Captain Rogers a faint, strained smile. "Thanks for the vote of confidence, though."

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[heroic_jawline]

Steve winced because yeah, not helping to think of that particular combination. "You're welcome," he said. "Just...drink it fast. It's how I got through all of the medications of the 1920s."

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer snorted a little. "Good thinking," she said. "But I don't even think a spoonful of sugar will help this medicine go down."

She half wondered if it would somehow make it worse.

One thing that did kind of make it better, though, was knowing that Captain Rogers would be chugging this swill down, too. It was the little things in life that mattered most in times like these.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[heroic_jawline]

Steve winced again because sugar would definitely make this worse.

"You can do it," he said encouragagingly.