The Perk- Wednesday evening

[solo_sword]

Apparently when Jaina wasn't at Caritas, she was at the Perk. Maybe she had a thing for beverages. She'd just wanted to get out for a while, and even left her datapad at home (her phone and comlink were safely on her person, no one check her head for bumps) to just take some time and hang out for a while. Maybe even do something kind of like relaxing.

This would be easier if the first cup of hot chocolate she'd gotten hadn't gotten spilled when the barista bumped into her table, earning her a free replacement cup. Then the second cup had just been overfilled and spilled on the floor when she went to walk back to her table.

At that point Jaina had decided she wasn't meant for hot chocolate today, and was now sitting at the window table with a coffee. An iced coffee. When there was that much spilling going on today, you didn't want to risk getting scalded a third time.


[Idk, it's been a weird week. Open!]

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

There was nothing better on a rainy night than a cup of overpriced, over brewed coffee. And tonight it seemed like John had picked a good time to go collect his from the Perk. He slid into the seat across from Jaina and frowned at her iced beverage.

"It's finally not hot out and that's what you drink?"

[solo_sword]

"There were incidents," Jaina told him, smiling a little at the way he just sat down. "I decided to go for something cold so I don't end up with burn scars. Hi to you too."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Greetings were so overrated. "Like you can't just levitate the liquid before it touches you," John scoffed. His jealousy over her having powers would never die.

[solo_sword]

"You really think I'm that good?" she asked, still looking amused.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John raised an eyebrow. "There's good and bad now? I thought you were the sword. Doesn't that come with some automatic level up?"

[solo_sword]

"It'd be nice," she said dryly. "No, I still have to work for my... level ups. Which means I'll still manage to get hot chocolate all over me, unless I'm really on my game."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Well, if I remember right, the hot chocolate here is a little on the evil side," John pointed out in her defense. He was such a helpful sort of guy. Except for when he wasn't.

[solo_sword]

"That might have entered my mind," she admitted. "Wait, so is it just that the hot chocolate here is evil, or all hot chocolate everywhere?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

While he had to admit she made an interesting point, John didn't recall the specifics of their discussion from so long ago. "Well, that leads us to the obvious question - have you tried all hot chocolate everywhere?"

[solo_sword]

"Just here and home," she said. "Unless you can remember someplace I've had it that isn't coming to mind right now. So, no, I haven't."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"When you say here, do you mean the Perk here or Earth here?" It was an important distinction.

[solo_sword]

"The Perk," she said. "Which also means Earth here." Smartass.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Hey, you might have hit up J,GOB or something. I don't know." John thought he had a point now and was rather proud of this.

[solo_sword]

"I don't think I have," she said. "Though I can't account for every cup of hot chocolate I've had so I might be wrong. Does that change the evilness any?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John raised his hands to physically show her she was on her own there. "Yeah, I don't think I can help you out with that one. So if you gave up on heat, you looking for the staying awakeness that comes with coffee?"

[solo_sword]

Jaina shrugged. "Mainly I just wanted to get out of my apartment. After a while it gets boring, and Wednesday TV isn't great. Yes, this is my life now where I can say that. Which of those did you come looking for?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Today's Wednesday?" John looked a little concerned. "I think I missed Tuesday altogether."

[solo_sword]

"I hope it's Wednesday, or I taught class on the wrong day. And worse, the class showed," Jaina teased.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"That would be pretty amazing," John said, taking a sip of his coffee and considering the implications there. "I don't think my class would show. I'm betting you have all the geeks who actually wanna fly. I have the kids who didn't wanna take a real class. 'Course, I didn't wanna teach one."

[solo_sword]

"Or you have the ones who just want to get fed without having to pay," Jaina considered. She didn't think she'd mind leftovers, after all. "So why'd you take this one on?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"What? Food class? Sounded easy enough and I found a copy of a syllabus in my old desk for some other guy's version of the class."

[solo_sword]

Jaina stared at him for a moment, then giggled. "I should know better by now than to be surprised at that, huh? And considering you don't have to come up with a syllabus now, you're a lot smarter than me."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

The self-satisfied smile on his face was probably very familiar to Jaina. "I try to work smarter, not harder. One of those things I honed working with my team."

[solo_sword]

"Does that mean you delegated a lot?" she wondered, half-teasing. Maybe she'd never not be interested in his life over there.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Well..." John had to think about how he could answer this question knowing there was a 33% chance of McKay showing up for the weekend. "Let's go with knowing the strengths of my teammates and working that way."