fandomtownies | Tea in The Park, Between Two and Five O'Clock, Saturday

There was a moment where in the park, there was no tea.

There was another moment right after that one at which there was.

How the park went from one state to the other would remain a mystery.

But the picnic tables were out, and covered in old-fashioned tea sets. Little stacks of tiny sandwiches were placed delicately upon fine china, and there were baskets of scones everywhere. Next to the scones? Marmalade, in several flavours, well-made.

The tables also produced various other sweets and desserts that wouldn't run out until the tea would, just as mysteriously, vanish right around 5 o'clock into whatever tea-heaven it had came from. By the edge of the park, there were several wardrobes full of the latest 1815s fashions to be worn - which would be a good idea to try, considering the rather judgey glances the British regency ladies were tossing everyone's way.

It was very expensive tea, after all.

Afternoon tea was ready, Fandom. Make use of it while it was still there.

Enjoy it. And don't ask too many questions.

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Raven gave the regency ladies a sideways glance. "And they do not even have to know what I am doing," she said, sending him a gentle kiss.

Not that she cared if they knew or not, because really, what business was it of theirs? Their apparently distress was terribly confusing.

//At least until my knees give out.//

They were getting fairly wobbly, here. But Jono supposed they would just pass that off as him drinking too much cheap ale or something before coming here. After all, he certainly wasn't acting like a proper British gentleman.

"Perhaps you should sit down then," Raven said, pretending to be concerned.f "Because if you were to fall, I would fall with you, and then we would be on the ground together, and that would cause those poor women to faint."

Which wasn't such a bad idea, actually.

//... I might laugh for just about th'rest of my life if that happened,// Jono admitted. Shamelessly.

Raven was going to have to take that as a challenge then, since she liked to hear him laugh. She leaned into him, sending the feel of a rather chaste kiss.

Which she then followed up with the sensation of her nails scratching down his back.

The kiss made for an excellent precursor to nails that Jono wasn't even expecting, yes. So much so that he didn't even bother to check who his 'Ooh,' of approval was heard by. Anybody within a stone's throw, at least.

A nearby lady looked not only scandalized, but a little stunned at the sound in her head.

Jono, meanwhile, looked like he was rather looking forward to more scandal. So much, in fact, that he was running his hands up across her back for real.

No, he wasn't aiming to start anything in the park, but if they got the attention of as many well-dressed ladies as possible, then it would be all the more easy to traumatize them.

Plus he just wanted to touch Raven.

Raven's cheeks turned pink; for her, that had been a very bold move seeing as they were in public.

"You did not fall down," she murmured. "Perhaps I did not try hard enough."

//You did come terribly close,// Jono encouraged. Because he was a terrible person that way, yes. //But I'm confident that you could find some way to one-up that, Sunshine.//

Terrible, terrible person.

Her blush deepened as her eyes darted over to the regency ladies. Then she closed them, sending him the feel of her breath against his skin, then her lips pressing a kiss against his hip, right at the edge of his wrappings.

Challenge accepted.

//Oh.//

Jono didn't get to feel things like this nearly often enough, and this time, his eyes slid closed and he did practically have to prop himself up against her.

He used to be so good at handling physical contact, too.

One of the regency ladies swooned in her chair. Another glared in Raven and Jono's direction as she fanned her overly-dramatic companion.

Raven giggled and blushed more, burying her face against Jono's shoulder. "I am being shameless," she said. "But I do not see why they care so much what we do."

//Because this era was a ridiculous one where people believed that showing a bit of leg would land you with a half-dozen children born out of wedlock and probably a few undesirable strains of syphilis for good measure,// Jono replied, rolling his eyes as he pulled himself back together. //Clearly we should be on opposite sides of th'park, quietly enjoying our tea while looking utterly bored.//

"I fear I would fail at that," Raven said solemnly. "For I am not good at lying, and I can never be bored when I am with you."

She did, however, straighten her skirt, as silly as the idea of what could happen from showing a glimpse of her leg might be. Were these poor women so ignorant of biology?

Well, for all that it was worth, Jono and Raven both managed to regularly drag the concept of 'biology' into a dark alleyway with a baseball bat in order to shake it down for spare change, just for funsies.

//Both excellent things to hear,// Jono decided. //Especially one feeds into the other, like that. And it goes both ways, Sunshine.//

"I know," Raven said, tilting her head back to look at him. She was an empath and could cheat, after all.

"I am so glad you are here," she said. "I know it has not been long for me, but I still miss you."

//And there's something else that's nice to hear,// Jono admitted, reaching down to curl his fingers around hers, witnesses be damned. //I'll need to make these trips more often. With any luck, I'll have more free time for this sort of thing, soon.//

If X-jerks would just stop trashing his place.

If he told her about that, she was going to have to give said x-jerks a piece of her mind. Nobody kicked Jono's tables over on her watch!

"You will certainly hear no complaint from me about that," she said, squeezing his hand. "Though with time moving as it does, my visits to you may be more lengthy." She totally wasn't afraid to game that system.

Oh, milk that one for all it's worth, Raven. Jono was at that point now where he was actually worried that he'd end up an old man well before she ever graduated. Which meant, clearly, that she had to spend all the time ever in London.

Ever. Really.

//Visits to me can be as lengthy as you can afford to make them,// he murmured. //Please, feel free to.//

Raven could teleport between dimensions, and she wasn't afraid to abuse that power.

"Are you settled in London now?" she asked. "I have visited the city in this time, but I would like to see more of it in yours, especially with you as my guide."

//I'm... getting there,// Jono offered. It seemed like a better response than something that would just get him worked up over Bobby and Kurt all over again, and it was the truth, so far as he saw it. //T'say th'place is a mess at th'moment would be a gross understatement, though. I'd like at least to clean it up a bit before I have you over, luv.//

You know. To pick up the table, and so on.

"It cannot be much different from your room at the Academy or when you were living in the dorms," Raven teased. "But I will certainly wait until you are ready for visitors."

Tea in The Park, Between Two and Five O'Clock, Saturday

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