Another Branch (of the Anarchist AU)

*Horatio doesn't really go out much; he likes his books and his games and his shows, and anyway it hasn't been much fun going out without Hamlet or Rosencrantz or Guildenstern. but occasionally it gets lonely, sitting at home (with the unarticulated understanding that he is waiting to see if Hamlet is going to show up at his door) ... so tonight he's gone out to a bar to see if there's anyone interesting to meet, and he is right now engaged in a somewhat lackadaisical game of pool. a degree in physics, he has found, is not as useful for angling one's cue when one has already had a few beers*