Jacoba can be a worrier. Just saying.

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Prompt: "I am way too sober for this."

"Hey Barn."

"Yes Amazon."

"What the hell are the newbies doing?"

Barney looked up at Jacoba with a questioning look, only to find her looking over his shoulders with her brow furrowed. Turning to look over at the bar's karaoke stage, Barney saw Luna, Mars, Smilee, and Thorn (the "newbies" as Jacoba called them, though she had also been including Doc and Galgo in that group since the plane ride back from the rescue) crowded around the screen, pointing at the choices (at least he thought they were) and whispering amongst themselves. Rolling his eyes, he turned back towards the young woman next to him, who was now looking at him with her eyebrows raised and head tilted to the right.

"If I had to guess, they're picking a song to sing for karaoke. Why?"

Jacoba gave him a droll look before rolling her eyes at him. "Oh, I don't know, maybe some people think that they should be taking it a bit easier than they are. I mean, they were kidnapped and subsequently tortured by Stonebanks less than five days ago. Most people need longer to recover from that sort of ordeal, you know?"

Barney rolled his eyes again as he turned back to his beer for a minute, drinking some before sighing. Looking back at Jacoba, he raised an eyebrow. "So, you want them to be more subdued? Are you being serious right now?"

Jacoba blinked at him a few times before closing her eyes, tilting her head towards the ceiling, and sighing. Tilting her head back down and to the right, she glared at Barney. "That wasn't what I'd meant, old man. I was just worried for them." She scoffed and threw her hands up into there as she turned away. "I am way too fucking sober for this."

Barney snorted as he watched the Amazon saunter towards the table where Gunnar, Lee Toll, Caesar, and Doc where sitting with some shots. He watched as she sat down on Gunnar's lap, giving him a kiss before grabbing one of the shots and raising it with the guys, more than likely to staying together as long as they could. Damn, he loved that crew. No matter how many times Christmas called him demented.