The Perk, Monday Morning

[vanillajello]

Dorian had still been sleeping when Kate had slipped out of the hotel room. See, she had a quest, and that quest was to acquire all the best breakfast foods from around town for him for a Monday morning feast, because as much as she didn't want to think about it, this was probably going to be their last day together.

But there was still plenty of it left. And somewhere between JGoB (mmm, donuts) and the Perk, she'd been surprised to run into Christian this early, but that had been cleared up with a shrug and an "I was hungry". Of course he was hungry. All her children seemed to have inherited her bottomless stomach for sweets. He'd unsurprisingly tagged along with her to the Perk, and she couldn't say she minded. Wasn't every day you got to sit at a table by the window at your favorite coffee place, taking phone photos of your teenaged son as he stuffed his face with muffins.

Well, not if you were Kate, at least. Maybe this quest was going to take a little longer than anticipated.

[Ooopen, for all your Kate/egotastic demigod spawn/general Perk needs!]

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[bitten_notshy]

“You’re completely misunderstanding Sartre’s point,” Felix told Christiana as he, his “stepsister,” and their erstwhile father came into the Perk for a morning dose of caffeine. Amelie and Annika had simply snarled when Jack tried to rouse them; Christiana was on her own, for once. “It was more about –"

He didn’t get the chance to finish saying what he thought the philosopher had been on about, because Jack cut them both off when he spotted Kate. He hadn’t thought he was so old at 20, but he was too old to listen to more philosophical bickering from teenagers who both seemed to be better-informed than he was.

“This is my friend Kate,” he said, rather firmly. “Kate, this is Felix and Christiana. I have two others back at Ronan’s house.”

“You don’t need to sound as though we’re property.” Felix sounded offended, but smiled pleasantly as he turned to Kate. “Very pleased to meet you.”

[vanillajello]

Kate and Christian had both turned towards the chatter when Jack and his children had entered. It wasn't much of a surprise that introductions were in order.

"You don't already know me?" Kate asked, raising an eyebrow but smiling all the same. "I'm hurt." No she wasn't, and that was obvious. "Hello, Felix." She nodded at the girl, too. "Christiana."

Beside her, Christian was keeping his mouth shut, for once. If he looked like he was sizing them all up for things he could steal from them, well, that was just his face.

[tri-psi-lupi.livejournal.com]

"I've met you," Christiana volunteered. "I'm in school here back in my world. This one" -- glance at Felix, here -- "lives in the stone ages, so his experiences are limited. I'm charmed to see you again."

[hasvampdaddies.livejournal.com]

"1960 is not the stone ages," Felix put in, wounded.

Behind them, Jack was checking for his wallet. It was just something about the look Kate's son was giving them.

[wee-demigods.livejournal.com]

Kate gave the girl an easy smile. She didn't really need to guess twice at who her mother was. Not with that face. "Well, I'm charmed to meet you too," she said. "Even if it is for the first time."

"And what about me, Mom?" Christian asked, leaning back in his chair. "Oh, yeah," Kate said, glancing, over at him. "This is Christian. Christian, you know Jack, right?"

Christian gave them a lazy wave. "Yeah, we've met. Hello."

[bitten_notshy]

"Hello," Jack returned, with a tilt of his head. "It's a pleasure. Do I know your father, too?"

To Kate, he added, "Christiana is part of a set of triplets with Emma" -- not that he though the mother was any surprise. "Sebastien and I adopted Felix."

[wee-demigods.livejournal.com]

Kate just gave that raised eyebrows that said 'triplets? whew'.

Christian shrugged. "Don't know, I can only speak for where I'm from. But, it's Luke Castellan." A pause. "And my grandfather's Hermes."

He said that just because, really. He didn't get to mention it often, living among regular flavor mortals.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke didn't know if it was Anna or Percy taking care of Aritaseus and at the moment he really didn't care. If the kid was wandering around town by himself, well, it'd be fine. Luke was by himself at that age and he turned out all right. Sort of.

It wasn't all that hard to spot the table of blonde after grabbing his coffee. "Aww, isn't this cute."

[vanillajello]

"Full set!" Christian said, toasting his dad. With a muffin. Shut up, it worked for him.

Kate gave him a little wave too. "Hey. Think the table will withstand the awesome?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Oh they were built to withstand Fandom weirdness, they can contain our ego," Luke said, sitting down. "How're things? Nobody go insane or get arrested yet?"

[wee-demigods.livejournal.com]

"Not for lack of trying," Christian said, smirking. Then she caught the look his mother was giving him. "I'm kidding! Jesus, Mom. I've been a good boy."

Kate rolled her eyes. "No one's gone crazy as far as I know," she supplied. "Though I've mostly been hanging out with Bod and Dorian."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I was stuck with the most annoying of my kids yesterday 'cause Percy went off with our daughter." Luke looked over at Christian. "Yes, there's a child more annoying than you."

[vanillajello]

Christian feigned looking hurt, hand over his heart. "You wound me, Dad."

Kate silenced him with a light thwap on his shoulder. "You have two kids with Percy?" she asked Luke. "Dude. How's that going for you?"

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

A flash of blonde, shaggy hair came speeding into the Perk right about then. He stopped and looked around though, trying to spot the person he and his daddy had set out to see.

"Mum?" Dorian called, trying to find her. "Muuuuum!"

Bod wasn't too far behind and he could even see Dorian through the shop windows as he made his way up.

[vanillajello]

Kate looked up at the sound of his voice and chuckled. "Over here, Dorian," she called out.

That made Christian, too, look curiously over towards the source of the voice. Still chewing on a mouthful of muffin, naturally.

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

Dorian bounded over to her and reached his hands out to her when he got closer. "Hi! Up up up! Hi!"

[vanillajello]

Laughing, Kate reached down to pick him up into her lap. "Okay, okay," she said. "I got you. Happy?"

Christian was still trying to swallow.

[puddingordeath.livejournal.com]

"Yep! Hi! Daddy's coming but he let me be the line leader," Dorian told her like it was a huge accomplishment. "I got here all by myself!"

With Bod's help, of course.

[wee-demigods.livejournal.com]

"Oh I'm sure you did," Kate replied, ruffling his hair and chuckling. Fully aware Bod hadn't been far behind. "Very good."

Christian had finally won the fight of demigod versus muffin, and he tilted his head, looking the little boy over with an idly critical eye. "So you're the famed Dorian, huh?"

[teenwiccalawyer.livejournal.com]

It was late morning when Lynn wandered into the Perk. She was fifteen, totally old enough for coffee. Or something fancier. As long as it was caffeinated.

[expecting someone]

[weealienwitch.livejournal.com]

Victoria bounded into the Perk with her dad. They were on an important mission. They were going to get coffee for her mom. Because everyone knew moms needed coffee in the morning.

"Hi!" she said cheerfully as she reached the counter.

[teenwiccalawyer.livejournal.com]

Lynn glanced in the direction the voice came from. Then there was much blinking. "Victoria?"

She wasn't usually this wee in Lynn's time.

[blessed_twice]

"You know Victoria?" Wyatt said, looking over at the girl. She looked familiar but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

[teenwiccalawyer.livejournal.com]

Well, Lynn definitely recognized him. "Wyatt! You're here, too?"

She was always happy to see her big brother. Even in the past when he didn't know her, yet. Huh.

[weealienwitch.livejournal.com]

"You know my dad?" Victoria asked. "And you know me?"

"Who are you?"