JGOB- Thursday morning

[notconflicted]

Sia was used to Fandom's little quirks lasting for a weekend. Naturally that meant that today this should be all over. So imagine her surprise when she went to see Atton and found that he was still Jaq. Apparently.

So this morning would see them back in town for coffee, because she might have felt the need to make sure he was okay, and also because coffee made mornings better. "Do you know what you want?" she asked when they arrived.


[For that guy, but open for all your pastry-craving needs! Atton's identity NFB.]

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[suitably_heroic]

"Caf, lots of?" Jaq volunteered, his hands seemingly permanently stuck in his pockets. "I haven't figured out all of these drinks yet."

[notconflicted]

"You're better off keeping it simple," she advised. "Saying 'coffee' works and you can put whatever you want in it to make it taste all right."

Sia was not a fan of fussy coffee drinkers, apparently.

[suitably_heroic]

"Works for me," Jaq said easily. "So what's all of these pastries anyway?"

[notconflicted]

"Mostly variations of the same thing," she said. "Anything with chocolate is automatically superior."

[suitably_heroic]

Jaq threw her an amused look. "It's just chocolate," he said. "Not really a fan."

[notconflicted]

Right, he'd never grown up in a galaxy where that was in short supply. "I don't understand. I understand the words, but not the sentiment."

[suitably_heroic]

Jaq held his hands up. "I'm not opposed to it, but I'm not about to start stampeding down the hill for it..."

[notconflicted]

"Though that could be fun to watch..." Sia mused.

[suitably_heroic]

"Hey, I'm not stopping you," Jaq said, grinning.

[notconflicted]

"I am not a stampede sort of person," Sia told him. "But I'd be happy to watch you do it."

[suitably_heroic]

"You're the big fan of chocolate," Jaq reminded her. "Come on. Not even a little dash down?"

[notconflicted]

"Do I look like I dash?" she asked.

[suitably_heroic]

"You look like you dash if you have to," Jaq said.

[notconflicted]

"And I am nowhere near that desperate," she nodded.

[suitably_heroic]

"That's too bad. I bet you dash pretty well."

[notconflicted]

"Maybe someday you'll get to see it," Sia said. "But not over chocolate."

[suitably_heroic]

"There goes a perfectly good line about watching you walk away," Jaq said. "Out into the great beyond, where sad sacks worse than me hang out."

He leaned over. "I'll have the one with the berries."

[notconflicted]

Sia glanced at him, finally saying, "That almost sounded like flirting."

And naturally she had to have heard that wrong.

[suitably_heroic]

Jaq grinned at her as he pulled back from the pastry display... thing. "Does it?"

[notconflicted]

"Quite a bit, yes," she said evenly. Having spent a lot of time now telling Olive how into her Atton wasn't, this was throwing her off more than she wanted to admit.

[suitably_heroic]

"Can you blame me?" Jaq said. Not... quite with the ease and grace he'd be able to pull that off with a few years later. "You're gorgeous. And you're smart. And you don't seem to hate my guts."

[notconflicted]

Sia decided she would die before she told Olive about this.

"I don't," she told him. "You'll have to forgive me, I'm a bit caught off guard."

[suitably_heroic]

"Sorry." Jaq rubbed at the back of his head and had the weirdest feeling he'd made a wrong turn somewhere - or maybe whoever she'd thought he was originally had. "Uh, can I just... get you some chocolate something?"

[notconflicted]

"It's all right," she assured him, offering a little smile. It was kind of strange that she didn't even mind it, it was just not what she'd expected. "How about a mocha? It's chocolate in coffee, it counts."

[suitably_heroic]

"If you say so." Jaq's smile showed he was still recovering, but he was trying, at least. "One mocha for the lady."