The Perk - Monday Afternoon

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

By the time noon rolled around, Wilson was crawling the walls of his office with nervous energy and after a small debate with himself, he decided to pack up and head down to the Perk for a bit of lunch and some tea. He knew that Phale could find him when the angel was done with whatever work he was doing up at the school and the young doctor just couldn't quite face heading back to the apartment.

Too many subtle hints of the upcoming assignment were scattered about their living space.

Getting himself an herbal tea with a side of cranberry/orange scone, Wilson retreated to one of the oversized chairs by the windows and set down his soft sided briefcase by his feet. Shrugging out of his coat, he sat down, one ankle crossed of the opposite knee and for the time being he stared out the window, letting his thoughts wander.

[ooc: Perk is open for all your perky needs. Wilson is pokable if you wish or feel free to hunt down your own stray coffee bean.]

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[a-phale.livejournal.com]

When he'd finally finished the bookcase reorganization in his office, Aziraphale headed down to the Perk to find Wilson. He could certainly understand the desire to keep away from the empty apartment, and the nice thing about the Perk was that it was public and yet quiet at the same time. Ordering himself a cup of orange spice tea, and made his way to the young doctor's table and sat down next to him, moving his chair close enough that they were almost within each other's space, without actually touching.

"Hullo, James love," he said softly.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Turning from where he'd been watching a couple song birds fluttering about, Wilson smiled warmly when he saw the angel pull up a chair next to him.

"Hey there, you." He said softly, reaching out to touch Phale's wrist for a moment. "How was class?"

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

"Quiet for the most part. They had a test, and for once I think the lecture was on a topic that didn't have cause to upset anyone." The angel spoke with gentle humor in his voice, turning his hand over to catch Wilson's.

"Miss Santos was there, so I must assume she's doing better."

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Chuckling, Wilson threaded fingers with the angel and squeezed his lover's hand.

"No reason to cause upset...huh, I'm surprised that fact alone didn't cause upset." He said, with the same gentle humor as he winked at the angel. They both knew how teenagers could be.

Wilson frowned a little at the news that Nadia had been in class because he wouldn't have thought it good for her to be up and about yet but he shook his head and set the thought aside.

"Do you know what this up coming weekend is, love?"

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Aziraphale agreed with the young doctor's unspoken opinion on whether Nadia should be up and around, but gave a little shrug and a rueful smile. Wilson's question distracted him immediately, though, and the angel frowned slightly.

"Er...it's the first of December?" he offered, feeling quite certain that there was probably some important date he was forgetting, and not for the first time berating himself for having such a poor sense of the passage of time.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Leaning so that shoulder could bump shoulder, Wilson chuckled softly.

"We had the ornament making party a year ago this weekend."

Honestly, Phale shouldn't feel so bad, Wilson just had a strange magpie's nest of a brain that held on to obscure little factoids.

...

Well, okay, he did also remember the day for the amount of unintentional flirting that had gone on during it.

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

The angel's eyes lit up, and he turned his head to smile at Wilson.

"So we did, James! We should do that again, don't you think? Soon, I suppose."

Remembering that he'd be leaving for an assignment soon sobered him slightly, but the obvious joy in his expression over the memory of that party couldn't be quite extinguished.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

It was nice to see the angel bounce and Wilson used the oppertunity to sneak in a quick kiss on his lover's knuckles before lowering their hands back to the arm of the chair.

"Sometime, yes I think we should." Wilson agreed, though he'd come to the realization that it couldn't really happen this year. Though, the angel might come home to find a few of the little ornaments, particularly the one's Phale had done for Wilson last year, hanging around the apartment.

"And then I got to remembering the Holiday party we threw at the bookshop and giving you your gift and I was wondering what you might like this year for a gift from me?"

Dark eyes twinkled as he looked over at the angel. "Got a Christmas wish list, Aziraphale?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

It's a place that sells coffee, so why wouldn't Aiden be there, ordering herself a large vat? She'd spent most of her weekend trying to turn her dilapidated office into a slightly less dilapidated office and could do with the break and the socialisation.

Once her order was up she looked around to scout out a free table.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

A vat or a nice bold Italian roast was always good!

Wilson, not recognizing the young woman, gave her a friendly smile. Since he knew Fandom didn't accept transfer students, he figured she was a new member of the town business association and amused himself for a moment by trying to figure out which business that might be.

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

Aiden smiled back, and greeted him with a fairly cheerful, "Afternoon." She figured it really is a good idea to make a nice first impression on the people in the place you're going to be living.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

"Good afternoon." Wilson said with an easy sort of warm friendliness.

"Fandom is a little too small for me not to at least recognize faces, even if I don't have all the names down and I believe yours to be a new one." He said in a friendly tone, standing up and offering his hand.

"Doctor James Wilson."

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, jus' moved here this weekend," Aiden said taking the offered hand and shaking it. "Aiden Burn."

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

"A pleasure to meet you, Miss Burn." Wilson said before lowering his hand.

"Just this weekend? Well, you picked a good weekend to move in on as it was probably fairly quiet. How are you settling in?"

[outofbrooklyn.livejournal.com]

"I can finally open my office door without assistance. Which is proof of some kinda settlin' in, I think," Aiden said with a grin as she wrapped her hands around her warm mug. "Think I'm only just startin' to get an idea of what this place is normally like today, though."

She paused and added, "An' it's just Aiden. You really don't need the 'miss' stuff in there."

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

"All right, Aiden." Wilson aknowledged with a smile. "Your office door? What sort of business, if I may ask?"

[rustyboywonder.livejournal.com]

Dr. Venture got a cup of coffee and sat at a table, massaging a temple with one hand.

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Another new face!

Wilson took a breath, thinking about asking the man if he was all right, then decided it wasn't polite to immediately start doctoring at people you hadn't met yet. After all, maybe the man just had an itch.

Instead, Wilson smiled in a friendly manner and looked back down at his tea.

[rustyboywonder.livejournal.com]

Dr. Venture raised an eyebrow. "Did you just smile at me?"

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

Wilson, who had been about to take a sip of tea, paused in the act, arched an eyebrow then lowered his cup and said.

"Uh, yes?"

[rustyboywonder.livejournal.com]

"Nobody smiles at me," Dr. Venture said. "Except my sons, Brock, and Doctor Orpheus. And the only reason he does is because he wants into my speed suit." He narrowed his eyes. "That's not why you're smiling at me, is it?"

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

"I can safely say, without hesitation that no, I do not want into your speed suit." Wilson said in a hopefully reassuring manner.

He had no idea what a speed suit was and he was just hoping like hell that if the son wanted into the speed suit it was most emphatically not while the father was still inhabiting said suit.

"I was just...um...being friendly to someone I hadn't seen around the island before." There he went with the smiling again. "Dr. James Wilson. I work up at the school and also down in the clinic."

[rustyboywonder.livejournal.com]

Dr. Wilson would be reassured that Doctor Orpheus was not, in fact, Dr. Venture's son.

"Doctor Thaddeus S. Venture," he said. "I'm starting up a research lab on this island."

[dr-jwilsonmd.livejournal.com]

That got a blink out of the doctor and he sat up a bit, looking at Venture curiously.

"Really? What sort of research?"

[hera-rises.livejournal.com]

Laura sauntered in with a few books, a notepad, and in search of caffeine. It was amazing how quickly the stuff became addicting. Ordering a grande latte, she took over one of the tables with an overstuffed arm chair. Sipping on her coffee carefully, she set up shop and worked on her preparations for class later in the day.