Hi hi! So over Thanksgiving Day's weekend, I got strep throat! It's only just recently started to clear up so I haven't had any time to work on this chapter. Or even think about it really. Sorry. But now I'm at least semi-coherent and I still want to be on time for an update.

I.O.N.

Enjoy!

They had finally made landfall after a month two nights ago, and everyone was relaxing at the small harbors pub. It had been decided that, since Kim was the most intimidating and Marinette was probably least likely to start a fight with someone else, Kagami, who had never been on solid land or around so many humans, would stay with them. Adrien, who had only gotten accidentally drunk at parties Lila had invited him to, was under the watchful eye of Chloe, who had the best tolerance out of them all.

When Kim found out that Kagami had never had a drink before, he immediately got drinks for the three of them. It was an odd feeling for the siren, but she was quickly realizing that after the first few sips, it wasn't that bad.

A few hours and many drinks later, Kagami laughed at a story Marinette was telling, thoroughly drunk "You did not!"

Marinette giggled as she took another sip of her drink, "We most certainly did! Lady Discourse didn't even realize we were on board until two hours later when they found us in their cellar almost completely drunk!"

"And they just let you go after that?"

"No. The three of us were tied up and doused in cold water until they decided we were sober again. Guess they didn't want the fish to get their booze!"

Kim, who was completely and irrevocably drunk by this point laughed and pounded his mug on the table. Marinette finished her story by draining the last of her drink and hiccuping.

At the bar, Alix was nursing a water as she people watched.

Nino and Alya were sitting at a corner table doing who knows what. A drunk man was stumbling around the room looking for anyone who would buy him another drink. Chloe was down at the other end of the bar swindling a couple of thug-like men into a drinking contest (losers buy all) while Adrien sat beside her way out of his depth. Two young men, new recruits of the navy if their uniforms were anything to go off of, walked in and started trying to throw their weight around. Alix decided to keep an eye on them, just in case. Kagami seemed to be recounting a funny story to Marinette and Kim who were both laughing.

As her eyes drifted over the pub and its inebriated inhabitants, the bartender walked over, "Sure you don't want something stronger miss?" he asked eyeing her drink.

"No, my friends have started insisting that I avoid the strong stuff." Alix laughed.

The bartender raised an eyebrow. "Really? Why?"

"Well apparently, I get mean when I'm drunk and 'start too many fights!' Which, I have to admit is partially true."

"Only partially?"

Alix sat up straight like a proper lady and said, "I have never started a fight." Then she leaned closer to him and said, "But I have ended them." The bartender laughed. It wasn't often a small young woman could claim that she ended most of the fights she got into, but something about her made him believe it.

Then Alix shrugged and said, "Also because out of all of us, I have the worst tolerance for alcohol." Before the bartender could respond, the two young men who had entered earlier started making a racket.

With a roll of his eyes, he said, "Duty calls." Before heading over to try and calm them down.

Around the room, seven people finally felt like they were home. Or were at least on their way back.

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