It was the vibrating of her cellphone that finally roused Eva at 2pm. She was still laying on the floor of her apartment and had pulled herself into a ball. It wasn't the most graceful of set up, rubbing her face, Eva found that carpet had left a red imprint on her cheek.

Groaning, she reached for her phone and answered with an inaudible "Yeah?"

Her response was rather shrill "Evie!"

Eva pulled the phone away for a second she waited for the noise level to decrease. When it did, she place it against her ear. "Hey Marni…"

There was a pause "Oh, you forgot?"

Rubbing the sleep out of her eye, Eva pushed herself into a sitting position. "No, I didn't forget….. What did I forget exactly?"
On the other end there was a dejected sigh. " I don't know why I even bother inviting you places these days, you always forget."

Getting up, Eva dropped her purse on the counter. Falling into the frayed interior of her couch, she joked. "Not like I wanna go out, you know me. I'd be happy going to the McLerry's and pass the time without sharing a room with people who went one on one with a bat."

She could hear Marni pacing over the phone. "The Iceberg Lounge is one of the places to be in Gotham!"

"So the fact that the place is ran by the Penguin doesn't bother you in the slightest?"

A chuckle was her response "Oh common Evie!"

Snorting, Eva reclined in her seat "Oh, excuse me for having morals. I draw the line at giving business to Rogues."

"Yeah right, you just don't want to go out."

Eyes shooting open Eva snapped "I have a good reason for not wanting to go out! I was up all night brain storming for a client."

Marni seemed to pick up on the panic "Are they mob or something."

Blanking for a second, Eva fell back on her best evasion tactic. "You know I can't tell you."

That didn't do with her friend "So, they are mob."

Shrugging, Eva got up and went to kitchen. She could allude to the client being mob, technically Joker was a criminal. Though his rap sheet was leagues above the mob. "So you say, cause I won't."

Marni relinquished another sigh, but it wasn't one of defeat. "Whatever, you're still coming out tonight. Be ready by 8, I'll pick you up!"

Groaning, Eva muttered "Why can't you just let me wallow in solitude?"

What she got was a huff "Because you're due for a good lay, that's why!"

"Whoa! Since when have you been in charge of my sex life!?"

Eva went about making herself a pot of coffee, 'shit.' She shook the bag of coffee beans, after this pot she'd need to go to the store. Sighing, she tossed them into grinder. "Ever since I realized that without the proper amount of sex, you start getting cobwebs."

It was moments like this that made Eva question her friendship with people like Marni. "Bite me!"

"Let's leave that to the men at the club, shall we."

Suppose it had something to do with the fact that the pair had relied on one another while in Foster care. The system wasn't exactly harmless in a city like Gotham, the only way to stay safe was to group up or pair off. "Common Eva, please? I've been wanting to check this place out for months. When you forced me to go to Gotham's Piercing Expo, you said I could choose the next place we go for drinks."

Now that was true. Marni hated body modification conventions. Almost ironic that a tattooist was friends with a woman that hated any and all needles. Still, Eva was short on friends and Marni always went with her for work related activities. With a sigh, Eva finally bent to her friend's will "Just, promise me that you won't run off with Riddler or something."

The reply was both joyous and guilty "Why would I run off with Riddler?"

With a snort, Eva poured herself a cup of freshly brewed coffee. After taking a sip she let Marni stew in the knowledge of her messed up crush. She smacked her lips to savor the strong taste of her life line to the world of the wakeful "Cause I know you've a thing for redheads and I've seen your web browser history."

Marni was quick to defend herself "Those are for work!"

"Uh huh, and my interest in nude chest shots of Norman Reedus and Victorian Era poisons are strictly work related."

There was a pause "Anyone ever tell you that you're a sneaky bitch?"

"You're the only one I hang out with on a regular basis, so only you…"

Marni chuckled "Touché, so 8 o'clock?"

Eva doused a yawn with another sip of coffee "Yeah."

"Oh common Evie, at least smile."

At the word 'smile,' a shiver ran up her spine. Hell, she didn't even hear Marni's voice when she said it. All she heard was Joker and it and that was when she felt the coffee burn her throat while trying to muscle it down without choking. After long pause, Eva found a retort and it came out monotone "I am smiling."

"You ok?"

Eva shook herself and started coughing "Yeah, coffee just went down the wrong tube."

"Ok, well, see you tonight."