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Date Posted: 21:31:37 05/17/02 Fri
Author: Rabid, sniffling slightly
Subject:

Rabid bellies up to the bar...
In reply to: kande 's message, "Bubba sets up the big screen tv on the klub's stage." on 14:23:58 05/17/02 Fri

..."Pop me a cold one, Bubba," she says, "Make it the vintage stuff."

The little alien complies, pouring out rootbeer into a frosty mug but surreptitiously watching Rabid as she studies the snag in her sweater set. The Librarian/Vampire looks forlorn as if the sweater set somehow held an irreplacable spot in her heart.

"Isn't it a little early?" Kande asks, coming out of the back room.

The Klub is filling up but most of the people are rehashing favorite moments from X-Files past and collecting their armbands. It appears the majority of Shippervillians prefer to keep a froth-free head for the festivities. There will be plenty of time to drowned their sorrows as the final credits roll.

"Well...I...I..." Rabid's voice breaks and she turns quickly away. Bubba and Kande exchange a look. The Klub owner whisks up a handful of tissues and offers them to the weeping librarian. "Uhm...thanks...K-kande," Rabid sniffs, "I guess I must have gotten a cinder in my eye up on the roof...or maybe...it'a...uhm...an allergic reaction..."

"Yeah," kande, readily, agrees, "There must be something in the air...lots of that sniffle going around."

Rabid gives the Noromo a watery but grateful smile and takes a small sip of some really fine rootbeer. The two women share a moment of silent understanding. There are no differences left that matter...Shipper or Noromo...Disillusioned or Still Enthralled...all of Shipperville stands together this weekend.

After a moment, Kande moves on...her civic duty as local bar-keep is clear...she is honor bound to listen without judgment and commisserate with the sorrowful.

Rabid/Raeann
taking another fortifying SNORT of rootbeer to dull the pain of saying GOOD-BYE!

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Replies:

Scullystar and SMH enter the klub.... -- Scully'sMyHero, feeling a little lost, 08:05:43 05/18/02 Sat
- KS lays down her artillery collection -- The sadder sister, 08:53:23 05/18/02 Sat
- sniff sniff -- Scullystar, 16:05:57 05/18/02 Sat
  - :-(...That's all I can say...:-( (NT) -- detoured, sobbing in Mulder's grey shirt getting it all wet, 17:24:22 05/18/02 Sat
    - There is a sharp sound of tapping on glass... -- Rabid, tapping her glass, 22:15:14 05/18/02 Sat
      - The Mayor clears her throat -- kenamom, who can't believe this day has come, 09:52:14 05/19/02 Sun
        As the credits roll...for the fourth time...covering the last time zone in the Pacific Northwest... -- Rabid, channelling, 19:44:16 05/19/02 Sun
        Meanwhile back in the Central Time Zone the phone rings -- CW, 21:07:02 05/19/02 Sun
        And my sadness is worse than Mulder & Scully's -- Scullydoc, to whom Shipperville is a place of refuge, 22:26:12 05/19/02 Sun
        SCULLYDOC...... -- kenamom, waking up the crowd., 22:28:50 05/19/02 Sun
        .....rabid........was that who I think it was?.......... -- kenamom, blinking awake, 22:27:09 05/19/02 Sun
        I am sure that S/he was KM...and don't worry about me...in the end CC and I believed the same thing... (NT) -- Rabid, thanking Scullydoc for the shout out of "Present!", 00:52:57 05/20/02 Mon
        "The VCR! The VCR!" Kande cries out in her sleep. -- kande, who really did have this dream Saturday night, 04:51:03 05/20/02 Mon
        Group Hug! -- KS still in full therapist mode, 22:12:41 05/20/02 Mon
        As The Sun Comes up over Shipperville.......... -- kenamom, 05:23:38 05/21/02 Tue
        Kande picks up empty root beer bottles from the floor of the klub. -- kande, 10:22:40 05/24/02 Fri
        The trio sees KS leaning up against the wall -- the one who shall go unnamed, 14:41:02 05/24/02 Fri
        "psst--is she gone?" -- CW, 07:39:08 05/25/02 Sat
        KS tosses the glass she's been using to hear through the wall -- The paranoid one, 15:15:35 05/25/02 Sat
        "Think she heard us?" -- CW having "fun" LOL, 06:30:51 05/26/02 Sun
        Ouch! My ears! -- Bun? Fun? Gun? Hon?, 18:08:12 05/26/02 Sun
        Curiousity peeked, KS begins to tear apart her house -- kenamom, 08:36:56 05/27/02 Mon
        As KM and CW cower in the closet -- Someone who is still searching, 07:39:58 05/28/02 Tue
        Re: As KM and CW cower in the closet -- CW, 10:50:28 05/28/02 Tue
        The closest thing we have to a nun in Shipperville would be... -- A person musing out loud, 15:04:53 05/28/02 Tue