A/N: Story roughly inspired by The Beauty of the Rain, by Dar Williams.

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Connor and Murphy MacManus sat next to each other at the bar in McGuinty's, cracking jokes and whistling at women in their usual bawdy way. What was a bar for if not this? To Murphy's right sat Terry O'Donough, a regular at McGuinty's and a good friend of the brothers'. "Whoowhee! She's a real firecracker!" he commented, staring after the waitress who had just blown him off. "Fucking gorgeous!" He looked at his companions. "What? No?"

The two brothers shook their heads as one. "She's too skinny," Murphy explained.

"You're crazy bastards, ya know that?"

"No," Connor corrected, laughingly, "We're Irish."

"And we're made ta like Irish women," Murphy continued.

"Who have a little more meat on their bones," his brother finished.

Terry laughed. "I'm Irish, too, but I ain't one for fatties."

"Yer, what, fifth? sixth generation?" Murphy taunted him. "That barely counts."

"An' we're not talking fatties, just… not bags of bones." Connor scanned the room. "Like… her. Over there." He pointed to woman sitting alone at a booth across the bar. "She's gorgeous."

"An' she's got Irish eyes."

"You're not going to tell me, Murphy, you can tell she's Irish from over here. That's absurd," Terry challenged.

"Oh, yes, I am. Those er Irish eyes, them. Though I wouldn't expect Mr. Fifth Generation to know that."

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Trista saw the three men at the bar and marked it as one of them pointed at her. Seeing her chance, she rose from her lonely booth and made her way over to where they sat. This was the very opportunity she'd been waiting for.

"Trista O'Fallon," she said by way of introduction. "I saw yeh watchin' me."

Murphy laughed and shoved Terry nearly off his stool. "Told yeh she was Irish."

"Well, it's not like it was a long shot. It is a predominantly Irish bar."

"Oooh, predominantly. Nice bar talk," the brothers taunted the American.