The Perk, Saturday Morning

[icecoldfrost]

Adrienne was here. The rumor-mill said that Adrienne was here.

Emma felt like her heart and stomach had both been removed, she couldn't breathe. Clearly, she needed caffeine to process this.

Besides, the Portalocity offices didn't open for another hour, so she couldn't book something to her New York to hide for the rest of the weekend. Yet. And if Emma was lucky, Adrienne would stick to her usual routine of sleeping to noon.

Therefore, coffee, and then a battle-plan. And then Emma could deal with the rest of the day.

[OOC: Open Perk is open, and up ridiculously early for SP issues today.]

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[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

Morton walked into the Perk looking for coffee. If he was going to try to keep up with Karla this weekend, much less some of the other people he knew on the Island, he was going to need the caffeine.

And then he spotted Emma.

She didn't look exactly... good.

"My lady."

[icecoldfrost]

"Morton!" Emma brightened up considerably. "I've been hoping to run into you, darling."

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

He couldn't help but smile at that. "It is my pleasure to be at your service." He even tossed in one of those ridiculous little bows.

[icecoldfrost]

Emma laughed and stood up, moving to press a quick kiss against his cheek. "I'm sure it is," she teased, motioning for him to take a seat. "Have you come to make sure Karla hasn't caused a riot?"

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

Morton flushed slightly at the kiss, but managed to cover it pretty well, he thought. He moved to sit, smiling at her. "If I didn't think that was pretty much a lost cause, I'd say yes. As it is, I'm just here to..." he shrugged.

He just had to check in on her every so often. It was his duty.

[icecoldfrost]

"Just here to make her flail when you talk to her teachers and cross-examine any boys in her classes?" Emma asked archly.

[glacial-warlord.livejournal.com]

"Well, that, I suppose. And to... I don't know..." He shrugged. Check up on her. Just... yeah.

"And, I suppose, while I'm here, maybe I was hoping to see you."

Smoooooth, Morton.

[touch-and-see.livejournal.com]

Silly little Emma. There would be plenty of time to sleep after Emma was safely locked away in an institution and Adrienne was secure in state of Daddy's favorite once again.

Besides, she needed a caffeine dose if she was going to walk around and have inane chats with people all day. Hmmm. Maybe if she claimed she was still on Tokyo time, she could get some alcohol in her coffee, too. Okay, not really. That was more Mother and Christian's method of coping and Adrienne wasn't anything like them. She was the strong Frost.

More importantly, she was an observant Frost. Which meant she hadn't even made it to the door before she noticed Emma through the window. My, oh, my, what a lucky find today. And it didn't look like she was paying attention to anything other than the barista getting her coffee.

"Darling, are you sure you want that?" Adrienne asked, purring into Emma's ears. "It might wake the voices up, too. Or are you lonely this morning and need the company."

[icecoldfrost]

Oh hell.

"Go fuck yourself, Adrienne," Emma replied pleasantly. "If I was prone to imagining things, I'm sure I could come with something more pleasant than your voice in my ear."

[touch-and-see.livejournal.com]

"Tut tut, language," Adrienne said, shaking her head in sorrow. "My, you have really gone native. Next you'll be wearing clothing from Target. In a size ten."

She gave her order to the barista, then turned to give Emma a charming smile. It had about all the warmth you'd expect from a woman named Frost.

"And why fuck myself, darling? I met a charming little bit yesterday at the picnic, Alex Karev? Well, charming if you like them trashy--which it seems you do, little sister."

[icecoldfrost]

"Size three, actually, so your hand-me-downs from Sears are still going to be too big for me," Emma replied sweetly. "But I'm sure I'm touched by your concern." Or something.

"I'm going to tell you once, Adrienne. Stay away from my friends."

[touch-and-see.livejournal.com]

"The ones in your head or out?" Adrienne asked, ignoring the jab.

Please. She'd been a model. Sears was a dirty word.

[icecoldfrost]

"The people here on the island," Emma said shortly, trying not flinch at the old accusation of 'crazy.' "Why don't you stop playing around, and tell me what you want?"

[thefirstwiggin.livejournal.com]

There was a boy, barely into his twenties, and dressed to the nines. He was a frustrated boy, and a very important one (lately, even in places that weren't his own mind) and he was desperately, desperately in need of a drink before he went to tackle the issue of his younger brother later that day.

And so Peter, being Peter, strode straight past Emma, and ordered a coffee, and then turned and glanced, speculatively, past all the people in general area. Lingering maybe a moment more on the blonde.

He was a little irrationally terrified he was going to wind up attacked by one of Ender's or Val's friends. Which was stupid, considering who he was.

[icecoldfrost]

Hello, attractive boy.

Emma had given him a bare speculative glance as he had entered, but looked up again when she sensed his gaze upon her, meeting his eyes firmly.

Bits of thought skittered across her mind, projected in his frustration. Fragments of Val and Ender, and now Emma was tempted to abandon her soothing soothing coffee and find her long-delinquent friend.

Instead she inclined her head just slightly to the new arrival, curious to see what he'd do.

[thefirstwiggin.livejournal.com]

He hadn't, in fact, expected her to meet his eyes.

Now that she did, though, Peter opened his mouth, then shut it again. Right. He composed himself.

Might as well see if there were any connections worth making here, right? He greeted her with a gesture, raising his coffee to her. Now let's see what she did.

[icecoldfrost]

That earned him a raised eyebrow and a bemused smirk. "Don't stand there gaping at me like a fish out of water," she said, breaking their non-verbal dance. "Be on your way, darling, or take a seat. You're making the barristas nervous, standing there like a lumpling."

[thefirstwiggin.livejournal.com]

... So he'd never had a lot of time to study the intricacies of girls. Still, Peter knew better (after many, many years) than to let his irritation at the insults slip through. He approached, instead. "The barristas seem to be fine," he said, pulling up a chair. "Good morning," he continued, "I hope my gaping hasn't put you off your coffee."

He was still a Wiggin.

[icecoldfrost]

"It takes far more than a gentleman checking out our fair Perk to make me lose interest in my daily caffeine fix," Emma quipped. "Are you here to make someone's life miserable, or for a happy family reunion?"

[sorry, fell back asleeps!]

[eyedocsfearme.livejournal.com]

Scott was up bright and early to check out what everything was like in the town where Kitty went to school. He wasn't really sure what to make of the place so far, but that's mainly because he was slightly traumatized last night by finding out that he had children who were older than he was with a girl he wasn't even dating. That had thrown him off his information-gathering game.

But now that the whole "This Is Your Future Life!" thing was done (Well, Scott hoped it was done...), he could get some coffee and just focus on seeing what kind of place it... Oh, wait, hot blonde girl that he presumably didn't have any children with. Well, there went that plan.

"Excuse me," Scott said, approaching Emma.

[icecoldfrost]

"Yes?" she started, looking up before heaving a sigh.

"Great, don't tell me precious little Jeanie is back in town. Or are you the one belonging to Bobby, or to Warren?"

Sorry, Scott, Emma had to deal with too many of you last year at this time.

[eyedocsfearme.livejournal.com]

"Oh come on, does everyone know me here?" Scott asked. "I guess I'm the one 'belonging' to Kitty." He didn't actually do the airquotes, but he figured they were audible.

And then, because he had to check, "...We're not related, are we?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Ew, god, no," Emma said, looking horrified. "I hit on you last year and almost got my heart ripped out by a territorial ginger."

[eyedocsfearme.livejournal.com]

"Ouch. Sorry about that," Scott said. "If it helps, that wasn't me, and I'm not dating any gingers right now."

[icecoldfrost]

"Then that gives me a chance to create a new first impression, doesn't it?" Emma teased, offering him her hand. "Frost, darling, Emma Frost."