The Perk- Sunday morning

[throughaphase]

Kitty was having one of those mornings that was just surreal enough that she wasn't entirely sure she wasn't dreaming. After being woken up by "Danny Boy" too early because of a wrong number, she'd ended up bringing her laptop to the Perk because coffee was just a necessity now. The problem was, coffee was a little difficult when you needed water to make it and they kept ending up with Shamrock Shake instead, so Kitty'd just scrapped her order and asked for a Shamrock Shake instead.

And now she was sitting two tables away from a teal deer. The deer wasn't sitting at the table, because deer, but it had written something down when she came in and now was standing on all fours with a notebook on the table. So if Kitty was wearing her glasses at the moment, it was less because she was focusing at all on her computer as much as she was trying to see what was written on the notebook.


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[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"What do you mean there's no coffee here either?!" Josh demanded a little hysterically.

The barista went back to examining her Pinterest-inspired manicure before turning away to text Tino about annoying customers, OMG, leaving Josh gaping.

"Can you believe this?" he finally demanded of Kitty, who would clearly care about this outrage.

[throughaphase]

"Everything coming out of the faucets is this," Kitty said, holding up her shake. "I mean, you could skip caffeine and go for straight sugar."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"I thought that was just at my house," Josh said. "This is a calamity!"

Guess who had a slight caffeine addiction. Go ahead, guess.

[throughaphase]

Hmm, was it Josh? Bet it was Josh.

"It'll be okay," Kitty assured him. "This place does this kind of thing now and then. It'll probably be back to normal tomorrow."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"But coffee!" Josh whined. "I'll have to go to the mainland to get something, and that's, you know, work."

He paused. "Can I call a TA to do that for me?"

No, Josh.

[throughaphase]

"Maybe if you pay them," she said. Kitty was a helper. Of TA's. "I'm pretty sure you could pick up one of those Starbucks bottled things at the store here."

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh wrinkled his nose. "I just want coffee, not dessert in a cup. Maybe I can just reheat yesterday's."

That wouldn't be gross at all!

[throughaphase]

"Five Hour Energy?" she suggested, because as disgusting as that stuff was, it sounded better than reheated day old coffee.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"Might not be a bad back-up plan," Josh admitted. "No one wants to see me decaffeinated." He frowned. "Is that the right word?"

[throughaphase]

"I think it's a word," Kitty said with a little smile. "Is decaffeinated you a scary you?"

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"I have been told so," Josh said, nodding. "Personally, I think I'm charming all the time."

[throughaphase]

"That just says you have good self-esteem," Kitty replied.

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"I used to be a pretty important guy," Josh said, nodding.

[robinonadderall]

"Sweet, milkshakes!" There was no caffeine in said milkshakes but Stiles wasn't about to complain about it. He was also steering clear of the deer. The image of a dead one at his doorstep still haunted him.

"Hi, Kitty!"

[throughaphase]

"Hi, Stiles," Kitty returned. "I guess if we can't have coffee, we can have the next best thing?"

[robinonadderall]

"Shamrock shakes are way better than coffee," he said, already making an attempt to destroy the straw that had been given to him. "You can get coffee any time of year, Shamrock shakes are a rarity."

[throughaphase]

"The official ones are," she said. "But there are recipes online for the homemade ones..."

[robinonadderall]

"Homemade ones seem like they take effort," he said. "I'm not good at putting in effort for food."

[throughaphase]

"And if I promise to make you one in like, July?" she asked. Because now she wanted a Shamrock Shake in July.

[robinonadderall]

"I'd gladly accept it," he said. "I never say no to desserts that are made for me. It's just best I don't make them myself."

[throughaphase]

"Then it's a plan," Kitty said. "So how're you doing?"

[robinonadderall]

"No complaints, been a quiet few weeks," he said. "So clearly something horrible is on the horizon."

[throughaphase]

"Don't say that. Every time someone says that, they jinx everyone," Kitty warned. "Like I did, and then the island went all crazy again."

[robinonadderall]

"I was only trying to jinx myself!" Stiles said. "I'm the one with doom on the horizon. Wasn't Mr. Barton sick last week? You've had something bad happen, you can't be jinxed."

[throughaphase]

"...Oh, god, are we at the point where something bad happening to him means something bad happening to me?" Kitty wondered. "Though he is only sick because I gave it to him."