The Perkolator - Saturday evening

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe stands behind the counter, doing her best to make the pastry tray look nice and appetizing. She's prepared plenty of coffee, in case anyone is still sporting a hangover.

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[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

Shane steps inside, looking remarkably alert and un-hungover, but then she and Kate hadn't had too much to drink at the townie party the night before, before heading to the movie theater. She wasn't particularly a big fan of movies, herself, really, but then she and Kate hadn't gone to the movies for the movie, exactly, rather just some time spent in semi-secluded public making out spending time together.

She'd contented and diverted herself for a good part of the day wondering about each of her friends and hoping that they'd had a good time at homecoming. As always, though, she found herself eager to get out and do something...

She steps up to the counter, offering the blond girl behind it a friendly smile. "Hi," she says. "Umm, may I have a double-shot of Black Death, please?"

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe returns the smile, setting the pastries aside, to be toyed with at another time. "Normally I'd say no, but since you asked so nicely..." She laughs lightly, and goes about making the drink.

[ooc: woo! *is pounced*]

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

Shane chuckles as she watches her work, long, slender fingers drumming lightly on the counter. "I don't think I've seen you in here before," she begins, tone friendly and conversational as she leans on the counter. "Did you just start here?"

[mycanonhatesme]

"I started back when school started, but I only work on the weekends. And I've had a few things keeping me from being here - school field trips, zombie invasions." Chloe smirks at that last one. "You know, the usual. I'm Chloe, by the way."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Ahh, I see," Shane says, nodding, a knowing grin quirking up one corner of her mouth at the mention of zombies. "I'm Shane. Nice to meet you, Chloe." She pauses for a moment, thinking about something else Chloe had mentioned and remembering something that Red had mentioned to her the previous evening about chaperoning a field trip. "You went on a field trip? How was it?"

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe has to think for a minute to figure out how she wants to phrase this. "It was...definitely not like any other field trip I've been on. It was successful in that we got what we set out to get, and no one died or got seriously injured. And I learned the valuable lesson of thinking twice before signing up for out-of-school assignments, so I guess it wasn't a total waste of time." She finishes making Shane's drink, and hands it to her. "Here you go."

[OOC: *kills LJ* Sorry about the delay. I didn't get the comment notification for this! *flails*]

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Shane says, grin broadening. "I got an answer that sounded a whole lot like that from a friend of mine. He was chaperoning a field trip for a treasure hunt or something? I asked him if they found any treasure and he said, 'well, it'd probably be treasure to someone." She laughs, eyes twinkling. "Oh, thank you."

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe laughs, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, that was my field trip. Our 'treasure' wasn't much to speak of either. Definitely not worth nearly getting eaten by bunnies."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"... bunnies?" Shane asks slowly, both eyebrows arching.

[mycanonhatesme]

"Killer bloodthirsty bunnies. With huge teeth," she says, motioning with her fingers. "Yeah, I know how that sounds. Go ahead and laugh, you know you want to."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no... no, believe me, I'm not laughing," Shane says sincerely. Her smile turns slightly wry. "I was here for zombie weekend, so ... bunnies aren't really much of a stretch, anymore."

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe grins at that. "Ah, so you do understand how weird things can get around here. That's good. Makes me seem less crazy." She smiles at Shane. "Is there anything else I can get you?"

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Your phone number? No, um... this is good, thank you," she says, smiling. "How much do I owe you?"

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe gives her her total because her player has no clue about coffee costs *facepalms*. "So, do you come in here often?" She pauses for a second. "That was about the lamest thing that has ever come out of my mouth."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"That's okay," Shane says evenly, though her eyes are sparkling with amusement. "Yeah, I do. The Black Death is awesome. Not as strong as the stuff I used to get in West Hollywood, but it's pretty close." She grabs a stir stick from a nearby cannister on the counter and slips it into the corner of her mouth, chewing on it.

[mycanonhatesme]

"You're from West Hollywood?" Chloe asks, clearly impressed. "I'm from Kansas, so anyone from California automatically wins major points."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"I'm not from there originally," Shane says, chuckling, "but I lived there for about four years." Leaning her hip against the counter, she takes a sip of her coffee. "I've never been to Kansas, before. Is it nice?"

[mycanonhatesme]

"Still, you've been to California, which is more than I can say for myself." Chloe can't help the sarcastic smirk that comes over her face. "Kansas is nice if you like flat land. And tornados. And the occasional meteor shower."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Meteor shower?" Shane asks, brow arching, her mouth hangs open for just a moment, tongue curling around the stir stick. After a moment, she chuckles. "Shit. Ssounds like this place. What's it called? Your town."

[mycanonhatesme]

"Smallville. We're the meteor shower capital of the world, twice in 16 years." She doesn't mention the possibly extra-terrestrial nature of the showers. Zombies are one thing, but aliens and meteor freaks are another.

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Wow," she says, obviously amazed by that information. "That must have been pretty intense."

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe nods solemnly. "It was. I wasn't there for the first one - I moved to Smallville when I was little. But the second one happened right before I left. That's part of the reason my dad sent me here." She laughs softly. "I guess zombies might be slightly safer than meteors."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

Shane listens intently, nodding. "Yeah, I mean... I don't even know where the hell the zombies came from," she murmurs, worrying thoughtfully at her bottom lip. "I mean, at least with the meteors, you kinda have a clue, right?" She holds up a hand, fingers pointed towards the ceiling, the slightest grin quirking up one corner of her mouth.

[mycanonhatesme]

That gets a definite laugh out of Chloe. "Yeah, you've got a point. Zombies are easier to dodge though. Not quite as fast and all."

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Oh, shit, some of 'em were," she says, eyes widening slightly. "I didn't know dead guys could move so fast." Shane pauses, thinking about what she just said, and makes a face. "I never thought I'd be having a conversation with someone about zombies... and have it be not about horror movies."