The Perk; Friday Morning [09/28].

[died8yearsago]

Apparently, there was a thing this weekend? So Rosa figured she'd have to make it to her dumb office at some point, but she had other things to take care of first. It was the last day of supplying fancy coffee for the station due to her ill-conceived raccoon bet, and she also owed Kincaid a tea. She thought about hitting up that fancy new tea shop for it, but it was Friday, and she didn't need any squirrels thinking they were cute by speculating about why Rosa Diaz would ever be in a fancy shop for hot leaf water.

So she put in the order, familiar to them by now, shoved a few bills into the tip jar, and then settled, leaning against the counter as she waited for it to be finished.

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[spider_adjacent]

Some things, even across dimensions and times, never changed. One was that Gabe wasn't facing his brother without coffee for both of them.

Fortunately, this place seemed able to fix that.

He nodded and smiled at the lady there as he set about ordering two coffees, one black and one with plenty of sugar.

[died8yearsago]

Oh, yeaaah. The thing that was a thing thus weekend was a thing with people, wasn't it? Gross. But Rosa still met the nod from the guy with a lift of her chin in acknowledgent. Guess she was feeling super friendly that morning.

[spider_adjacent]

Which just encouraged Gabriel to come say hi while his coffee was brewing.

"Hi."

Gabriel O'Hara, supreme ladies' man.

[died8yearsago]

Ah, crap. It talked.

"Hey."

Rosa Diaz, sensational conversationalist.

Seriously, Ralph, why did you have to get the world''s most stupidest drink that took a million years to make?

[spider_adjacent]

"I'm Gabriel." Gabe stuck out his hand.

[died8yearsago]

"Rosa," she offered after a split second of considering a fake name. And great timing on the barista's part, setting the large black coffee for her on the counter, so she could picked that up and take a pointed sip and leave the offered hand hanging.

Then her brow wrinkled a little. "You're not someone's dad or something, are you?" Seemed kinda young, but the more she looked at him, the more there seemed to be something familiAR there.

[spider_adjacent]

"I shocking hope not!" Gabe laughed a little nervously. "I'm here to visit my brother. You live here?"

[died8yearsago]

"Yeah, I do," said Rosa, narrowing her eyes slightly because now it was starting to bug her a little. "Who's your brother?"

[spider_adjacent]

"What if I tell you and you hate him?" Gabe asked. He grinned. "He's not always a likable guy. Not like me. So what do you do here?"

[died8yearsago]

With an answer like that, Rosa was pretty sure that if his brother was not like him and that grin, she'd like his brother just fine, and she imagined her face said as much.

"I hate everyone," she informed him, "so try me."

She wasnt going to bother answering his question, either. He got a name; what more did he need?

[spider_adjacent]

Well, Gabriel clearly wasn't getting anywhere on his own. "Miguel O'Hara?" he ventured, hoping it wasn't a mistake to mention him.

[died8yearsago]

"Miguel?"

Give her a moment.

"Ohhh, yeahhh. You mean Tightpants."

Which meant looking over thus guy with a new angle of apraisal."Okay. I can see it now."

She'd have probably seen it sooner if maybe she'd paid as much to TP's face as she did those aforementioned tight pants.

[spider_adjacent]

"Tightpants?" Gabriel was torn between teasing Miguel mercilessly for ages and scrubbing his brain. "Ugh."

[died8yearsago]

And Rosa's work here was done. Have fun with that one, Gabriel.

Trying not to smirk a little at that reaction, Rosa made another note to keep tipping the barista well as she proved to have impeccable timing once again with finishing the order and setting it on the counter, and Rosa turned to get it all situated to carry it out easily.

She quirked her chin up again at him before heading to the door, about as much as a good-bye or end to the conversation as she was going to bother with.

[spider_adjacent]

"I hate this place already," Gabriel muttered as she left.