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Metropolis is basically, yeah, Zinda's favourite place. It's hopping with life, people and parties and shops, and it's crammed full of folk who know the world's ended and just want to party.

Which suits the Birds fine.

Chaney's is a well-known meta club in Zinda's world, and apparently that much held true through the apocalypse; the inside is crammed full of humans and metas both, dancing and drinking and making a hell of a lot of noise. Zinda would really kinda like to be inside with them. Where the hell's the rest of her party?

Goldy and Claire should be out of the bathroom any time soon. Dinah and Babs are still off somewhere doin' something. It's not like Spoiler and her Not-My-Boyfriend-Zinda-Okay to be late for a rendezvouz; vaguely, Zinda's beginning to worry for anyone in their immediate vicinity, should they have found trouble. But everyone'll turn up soon, surely.

In the meantime: there's a tall, statesque blonde in uniform with a ridiculously short skirt, leaning on the bricks outside Chaney's and surreptitiously lighting a cigarette while the Skipper's not around.

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Dinah shoots Zinda a sulky glare. And takes the pastry anyway.

"Where'd you get this? Benny's or the Angelinos'?"

"Neither -- the 8-12 at the end of the street." Zinda grins at her, stubbing out her cigarette on the wall beside them. "We wouldn't have gone somewhere decent without you. I like my ribs how they are.

"Skip's already inside. Where've you been?"

"We got mugged," Dinah explains, biting into the pastry with the hand that's not dusting something unseen off her jean hips. "I had to go give a witness statement."

Because of how he's such a fine upstanding citizen.

Zinda snorts. "Hope you didn't beat him too badly. I hear the local cops look down on that sorta thing."

"I didn't."

Dinah is innocent of all wrongdoing! "Anyway, the local cops like me. Once a cop's daughter, always a cop's daughter."

Even though Larry retired from the force before she was born. Shush.

"Sure, sure, soldier."

She glances up the street towards the 8-12 and then back. "I could go another pie while we wait for the kids. You?"

Dinah has taken a bite of this pastry now.

"Not if it's like this one," she says. "Anyway, I think the kids might be a while. Let's get some real food."

"Now that sounds like a plan. They get caught up shopping?"

"Mmmm hmmm."

Evasive Dinah wants to draw this out.

"Caught... yeah, shopping."

"Oh yeah?"

Zinda sniffs Mystery.

"Well, now I want two things. Steak bigger'n my head at Rick's, and to figure out exactly what's goin' on with you an' them.

"But steak first." She links an arm firmly through Dinah's and sets off.

Dinah follows only vaguely reluctantly, trying to hang back.

"Aren't we forgetting someone?"

Zinda eyes her. "The story's that good?

"Okay! But you gotta go crack the Skipper away from the menfolk in there, 'cos I'm not getting in between them."

"You're turning down the opportunity to crack at men?"

What's going on? WHERE'S THE REAL ZINDA?

"Hey." Zinda narrows her eyes. "There's men, and then there's your sister's men!"

She would never interrupt Babs in the process of getting some action.

"But I wanted to watch..."

Babs, food, food Babs...

Rick's wins!

"We have to get him some lobster," Dinah tells Zinda as they go that way. "he let me try the sauce he makes and oh my god."

"Yeah? I always thought his pepper steak was the best he offered. Lobster, eh?"

"Not unless he can find the suppliers," Dinah says sadly. "He can't get it fresh anymore."

HINT HINT.

Zinda eyes her.

"Where would I find fresh lobster this time of year?"

Dinah shrugs.

"What do I know about lobster? I just eat it!"

"You better learn," Zinda informs her, smirking. "I'm not goin' fishing without someone to gut th'things for me.

"... do lobster get gutted?"

"Don't they just get dropped into the boiling pot?"

Dinah knows how to hurt things and she knows flowers and motorcycles. The rest of her education has been rather lacking.

"I haven't got a clue." Zinda grins over at her. "But if I find out, I'll provide Rick with some, just for you.

"Provided you catch me up on the gossip, of course."

Dinah wraps an arm around Zinda and hugs her tight.

"The kids are going to be with us as soon as they break out of jail."

"...?"

:-D?

"Jack caught them causing a disturbance by jumping off buildings. I wouldn't know about it except i had to go and drop off our would-be assailant."