The Perk [Friday afternoon]

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Sookie was overdue for a visit to the island, anyway, but yesterday she'd sent a text to people who, you know, she thought might want to know about her new jewelry and all. Granted, she'd been really vague -- generally they fell along the lines of 'i've got something to teeeeeeeeell yooooou and i'll be on the island tomooooooooorow if you can make it but she was pretty sure that caginess wasn't going to last too long.

Particularly considering how she'd ordered her coffee while using her left hand as much as she possibly could. So what if she was a rightie? She was learning to be ambidextrous. For the moment, while she read a book and waited for some of her non-vampiric friends to possibly swing by (Eric, naturally, was kind of going to be more of an evening thing), she kept her hand under the table. Not like, in a weird way. But it was a surprise, okay? A surprise. (To no one. Shh.)

[100000% open, naturally, though I'm sort of in and out all day due to this being my last day in Alabama before I head back north.]

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[icecoldfrost]

Since Jack had needed to leave NYC, getting Sookie's message meant Emma really had nothing better to do than head to Fandom. She'd handwavily gotten herself a room at the hotel, so Kaidan wouldn't have cause to sulk again, and unpacked for the weekend before heading over to the Perk.

Being a telepath meant never needing to text your friends when you were looking for them. You just looked in their brains.

Oh look! And the staff still cowered when she came in! Emma just smiled sweetly, ordered her 'usual,' and waltzed over to Sookie's table.

"Kiss kiss, darling."

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"Hiiii!" Sookie actually bounced right up out of her seat to hug Emma, dork that she was. "How are you? Have a good Christmas?"

Because she was polite, and didn't want to just lead with 'MINE WAS AWESOME, LET ME SHOW YOU.'

[icecoldfrost]

"Jack and I did New York," Emma replied, with a bit of a smirk. "Parties, ice skating, and museums. It was acceptable."

"He even made me a cake for my birthday."

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"Awwwwww," Sookie cooed, grinning. "You let him make you a cake?"

[icecoldfrost]

"It wasn't so much 'let,'" Emma sighed. "I left for a few hours, and I came back and he had commandeered my kitchen-space and baked a cake. From scratch. How, I have no idea, because I know I did not having baking supplies anywhere in my apartment."

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"I'm willing to blame magic," Sookie decided. "Cake magic is probably the best kind of magic. I don't even know if I knew Jack could cook."

She idly leaned her chin in her left hand, not drawing attention to anything yet.

[icecoldfrost]

"Jack does bachelor-cooking; enough to feed himself, usually, and no more, but he's capable of following basic cooking directions," Emma answered.

"And how was your Christmas? No supervillians, I'm hoping."

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"We were a little light on those this year," Sookie said, shrugging. "We had people up at the mansion, and it sort of made me a little homesick but Jason's got the house now, and all." She exaggeratedly reached for her coffee cup-- again, left-handedly, because she was getting really good at that -- and smiled. "But it was...you know, good."

[icecoldfrost]

"You know you're the most unsubtle person currently in this shop, right?" It was said with love, Sookie, promise. "And when did that happen?"

[glacial_queen]

"That," Karla declared, "is my greeting. No using it unless you mean it, Ems darling."

[icecoldfrost]

Emma just blew Karla a kiss. "Bite me, darling," she retorted sweetly.

[glacial_queen]

"Is that an invitation, too?" Karla asked, wicked grin blooming. "Well, so long as Jack's inclined to share..."

[icecoldfrost]

Emma just smirked and raised an eyebrow. "Inclined is a matter of definition," she quipped cheerfully. "It would be more accurate to say 'reclined,' if he's playing too. Although we haven't had a girl in there before..."

WICKED, EMMA.

[glacial_queen]

Yeah, that had Karla's grin fading as she tried not to choke. Stupid mental images. And the worst part? Emma wasn't the one providing those! They were all courtesy of Karla's own imagination.

"Unf," was Karla's very intellectual reply. "...You fight dirty."

She didn't only fight dirty, sweetheart.

[icecoldfrost]

Well, she wouldn't hesitate to fight dirty too...

But Emma just beamed at Karla innocently. "I'll let the boys know you said so," she promised, although not naming names. Not that she thought Jack or Ronan would mind, but it was more fun to let Karla's imagination run wild.

...and mentally eavesdrop on the aforementioned imagination. Because sometimes Emma was the worst.

"Sit down, darling," she practically purred, gesturing to a chair. "Tell Auntie Emma what you've been up to."

Karla? IT'S A TRAP. You don't send Emma texts like that and then run off, you just don't.

[glacial_queen]

Unfortunately, all of the mental processing power that would set Karla's danger senses tingling were being used for enjoying some dreadfully dirty mental images right now. Which was also likely Emma's intention.

Because she fought dirty, yes.

"Just got back from Kaeleer," Karla said with a shrug as she dropped into a chair. "Went home for Christmas as you know. Spent some time back home for break. Same old same old. How was your Christmas? And birthday?"

[icecoldfrost]

"Kaeleer, of course," Emma prompted sweetly. "And how was break?"

[glacial_queen]

Hurricane Karla (or should that maybe be Nor'easter Karla because of the season?) practically slammed her way into the Perk, avoiding leaving a trail of destruction behind her only by the barest of margins.

"Kiss kiss, Sookie!" she squealed. "Hi! It's so good to see you! Hugs!"

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"Hugs!" Sookie agreed, leaping up to do exactly that. "How was your Christmas? I'm so sorry I didn't host y'all again this year -- Bobby and I were up at the mansion, and Jason has the house now, and we were all just so busy...."

[glacial_queen]

"I can't pretend I didn't miss you and the gathering," Karla admitted, hugging Sookie tightly. "But that's okay--it sounds like you had a busy one anyway. I can't imagine how many X-Men you ended up cooking for."

Because Sookie? Not cooking for Christmas? BLASPHEMY!

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"I made so many cookies," Sookie agreed, sighing as she took her seat. "But it was a lot of fun, still. Kind of surprising in a lot of ways, and different, but...fun." She drummed her fingertips on the table, splaying her hands for no reason at all, really, and added, "You have fun over yours?"

[glacial_queen]

"I did," Karla said with a nod, turning away at exactly the wrong moment to order a mulled cider from the barrista. "We ended up celebrating Christmas back at the Hall. They pulled out the Winsol decorations for Warren and Mrs. Beale made every Christmas recipe under the sun and then we spent the next day or so sleeping off the food coma."

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"Did Santa come?" Sookie asked, frowning at Karla's turn. COME ON, KARLA, YOU ARE LITERALLY PSYCHIC. She covered it up quickly, though, and smiled across the table. "I mean, I'm pretty sure he'd be able to find Kaeleer, right?"

[glacial_queen]

"Not to Kaeleer," Karla said with a sad shake of her head. "It is another world, so I can't really blame him for not being there. I haven't been back to my dorm room yet to see if he left anything there. But I hung my stocking up just in case!"

...Karla was going to get a sad wakeup call when she did manage to get back to her room. Boo.

"How about you? Was Santa good to you? Emma said she told him to put coal in my stocking, but you know Emma."

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"Santa didn't bring me much of anything," Sookie admitted, "buuuut the mansion has really good security? So maybe he just gave my gifts to other people to give to me."

Sure, Sookie. That sounded logical.

"Diiiid you get anything good?" she added, tilting her head. "What'd Warren get you?"

Ahem.