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[GP/EP] Check in Day - Feb 1

Caroline waved to Kitty as she dropped into her table in the cafe. It was a banner day. A full month of living in a hotel without her mom or her friends, hungry literally all the time.

But at least there was coffee.

Caroline went through her notes - many people had already started to take on roles in the hotel. Snow and Lindsey ran the stables. Kitty ran the bar. The brothers tackled the ghosts that popped up now and then - Caroline held her tongue on how wrong it was to discriminate against the undead. The list went on.

Caroline knew very well - having a job kept the despair of being trapped away.

She hadn't expected today to be different than any other day, but then, she should learn to stop expecting things. Apparently, it was check-in day again.

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"Hello, Kitty," Phryne offered cheerfully as she sailed into the cafe on the heels of a chance meeting with Jack.

"The usual, Miss Fisher?" Kitty held up a bottle of chilled gin.

"Champagne today, I think, Kitty. I'm celebrating." Phryne flashed her most charming smile.

"Are you? What?"

"Life. Isn't it glorious?" Phryne twirled around, grinning.

Kitty laughed and gestured to Caroline. "Maybe you ought to talk to her about that."

Phryne inclined her head in the direction of the blonde and gestured for Kitty to bring her champagne to the table. "Join me, Caroline?"

Caroline looked at her notebook, thought about the work she was going to do...and laughed. "Sure, why not?" She flipped the notebook closed and shifted over to sit with Phryne. "What's glorious today?"

"Life. It's rather an adventure, isn't it?" She swept both girls up in a conspiratorial smile even as she dropped herself into the seat she'd chosen.

As she beamed, Phryne glanced surreptitiously at herself in a gleaming copper pot hanging on a decorative post. Unsmeared and unmussed. Perfect.

"And handsome men, of course," she added and noted, after the fact, that she'd left out the customary 'young'. Jack wasn't, and she'd found she quite enjoyed that.

Caroline laughed. "I'll drink to that." Even if every relationship Caroline had had recently had ended badly (and yes, that mistake with Klaus counted as badly. Not as bad as Tyler breaking her heart or Elena murdering Jesse after Dr. Maxfield had made him an Augustine vampire. But still bad.

The point was, drinking to handsome men was totally okay. Drinking to true love or something like that would have been stupid.

Laughter from Caroline, a quick, possibly subconscious frown from Kitty. Phryne noted both while she sipped her champagne. "Fortunately, they are a commodity the hotel doesn't seem to have a shortage of." One of the few. "Have you girls got your eye on anyone in particular?"

Before she'd even finished saying it, Kitty had moved off. Phryne made another mental note to pin the girl down at some point and get some answers out of her. But for now, she smiled at Caroline, "Just you, then."

"Specifically?" Caroline thought about the guys here. Plenty of them were hot but they all were complicated too. And Caroline didn't think that complications when you couldn't ship them back to New Orleans afterward was a good idea. "Not really. By this time, I feel like I'd already have a wedding planned out but, trying to figure out what's going on seems more important right now."

"Do you plan a lot of weddings?" Phryne inquired, merriment in her eyes and on her lips. She supposed Caroline to have meant that she fell in love quickly, but she was far too young to have been married at all, let alone more than once. And on the off chance she planned other peoples' weddings, Phryne added, "For curiosity's sake, you understand. I've no interest in being married myself."

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