Lucy began driving. She had no destination, she figured she and Amy would play it by ear. Amy asked, "Where are we going?" "Where do you want to go?" Amy considered for a second, quickly looked in the rearview mirror. Janet yelled out, "Home!" Lucy glanced over at Amy, and Amy grabbed her hand and lightly motioned her head forward. Lucy smiled and realized that was all the encouragement she needed. Alright, Junkpit it is.
Scud smiled at Janet and said, "Did you go to Dalton?" She surpressed a small giggle. He whispered, "You're a Deb?" She nodded. "You've been emailing me the last few days and you knew who I was?" She nodded again and shared a small smile with him. "So...rematch?" She grinned at him this time. "You are so gonna lose."
The Maltese Falcon ended, and an infomercial started playing on the TV, selling some kind of headlight restorer. Max was about to change the channel, then realized she could probably use this stuff for her truck. She got sucked in and tossed the remote back on the couch cushion next to her. She once again looked up at the ceiling. She couldn't remember the last time Dom skipped a night. She sighed and focused once again on the television.
After a few minutes of driving through seemingly endless tunnels, past dead end signs and other warnings, Lucy glanced over at Amy and gave her a look full of mischief. Amy looked from Lucy to the wall they were doomed to hit. Janet and Amy yelled at the same time, and stopped, confused, as Lucy drove through a holographic wall. They soon rolled into the parking lot of the Junkpit. Amy murmured to Lucy, "A little warning next time would be nice." Lucy rolled her eyes. "That takes all the fun out of it." Lucy opened her door and winked at Amy. "C'mon." Scud slid out of the car, following Lucy. Amy looked back at Janet after they left. Janet shrugged. "I don't know about you Amy, but I have to pee. I know I have no idea how to get back through those tunnels. Looks like we are stuck here for a bit." Janet exited the car and began walking quickly toward the bar. She spun around and gave Amy a meaningful, "Let's go, I gotta go!" look. Amy smiled to herself and got out of the Skymobile. She followed Janet into the Junkpit, where she saw Scud get Lucy's attention and point them out. Lucy gave Amy a sexy smoldering look and Amy found herself rooted to the spot, unable to look away. Lucy walked up to her and grabbed her by the sleeve. She grabbed two beers off of the tray of a passing waitress and lead them to her favorite booth.
Amy was surprised that everyone already sitting in the booth just got up and left as Lucy approached it. She shot Lucy a look and raised her eyebrows. "I guess being a bad-ass has it's privileges." Lucy nodded. "If it didn't, it certainly wouldn't be as much fun." They slid into the booth, sitting a comfortable distance from each other, knees touching under the table.
Scud smiled at Janet. "Do you want a drink or something?" Janet shook her head. "Just your money on the foosball table..." Scud's smile got impossibly wider and he laughed. "You really let me win?"
Janet rubbed her thumb and forefinger together. "Money talks. Guess you won't know til you put some down." Scud's smile fell a little bit, as Janet's grew. She nudged his arm with her shoulder. She was teasing him. Scud put on his best Edward G. Robinson, "You're good kid, but as long as I'm around you'll always be second best..." Janet got excited at his reference. "I love love love The Cincinnati Kid!" Scud and Janet began chatting away while playing a somewhat distracted game of foosball. Scud won the first game but didn't hound Janet about it, which got him an appreciative smile, and a great look at her pretty ballerina legs as she turned to flag down a waitress. "What can I get for the winner?" Scud eyed her suspiciously. "You brought money with you? You're in your pajamas." Janet blushed furiously. "Well, it's not exactly my money, but that guy is so drunk he will just think he spent it on his tab." She waved her hand in the direction of a very drunk man passed out in a booth. I think I've found the woman I'm going to marry. Scud snickered. "A Deb, huh?"
Lucy looked sideways at Amy. "So, how long you been a Deb?" Amy rolled her eyes dramatically and lightly chuckled. "What I'm not allowed to ask questions? I know there's gotta be a shitload of questions you're just dying to ask me." Lucy turned her head and signaled the waitress. Amy raised her eyebrows, grinned evilly, and muttered to herself, "Not the only thing I'm dying to do." Lucy turned back with a questioning look. "Hmm?" Amy recovered well. "I guess my central hypothesis is that, as a woman, operating in a male dominated field, you felt a need to...overcompensate by being exponentially more ruthless and diabolical than your established male counterparts." Lucy blinked at her. "You think I'm ruthless and diabolical?" She gave Amy a full on pout. Amy giggled. "Well, not when you make that face." An easy laughter passed between them. "Please continue." Amy looked into Lucy's eyes, wanting to gauge Lucy's reaction to the next part of her hypothesis. "I think that these psychological forces combine to create a kind of emotional void, in which you are incapable of loving, or being loved." Lucy looked shocked. "That is so not true! I'm open to love, I am!" Amy took Lucy's hand and began rubbing soothing circles with her thumb on the back of her hand. "I'm sorry, it's just a theory...one I was really starting to hope wasn't true."
Lucy noticed that Amy was suddenly trying to put on a serious face, but wasn't doing a very good job at it. Lucy stared at her, wondering why. Amy started to ask a question. "So...what's up with Ninotchka?" Lucy's eyes opened wider, and she put a hand to her face, tilting her head back and screwing her eyes shut tightly. Amy giggled, unable to keep a straight face anymore. Lucy mumbled something about her being a headcase.
Janet looked over from the foosball table at Amy and Lucy. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but your friend appears to be hitting on my friend." "You're not wrong." "Yeah, but my friend's not into that." Scud, trying to be polite, bit back a laugh and instead smiled at Janet. He looked back over at Lucy and Amy and said, "Care to make little wager about that?"