The Perk - Saturday early afternoon

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando had received a text that morning and taken his bemused self to the Perk for coffee. There were so many more people on the island than usual. It was interesting but also made him a little bit nervous.

He ordered a large black coffee and took it to a table near the window where he could people watch without looking as though he were staring. Just a man spending some contemplative time over a mug of good coffee. The sun was out and the weather was nice.

After a moment, he went back to the counter and procured a pastry and was sure to tip the baristas. Privately he thought his pastries were of better quality but even so these weren't bad.

He picked apart a danish and continued to people watch.

[Open! OOC note: I'm running Jack so Hernando will be super SP while I drown in pings pls be patient.]

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan came in with Jack in tow. He waved to Hernando on their way to the counter.

Jack punched him in the side of his ribs. Lightly. Lovingly. As you do.

Kaidan promptly put her in a headlock and walked her the rest of the way to the counter like that. "I'll have my usual. Jack'll have the largest size coffee you have, black as her heart." He sounded more amused than anything.

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando watched Kaidan come in and the play between the two of them. "New friend?" he asked mildly.

[spectre_alenko]

"Family from back home," Kaidan said, "Hernando, Jack. Jack, Hernando. Watch out, she bites."

He wasn't kidding.

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack's gaze raked over Hernando like she was dissecting him with her eyes. "So. You're Hernando. The guy who thought Kaidan hadn't figured out he liked cock."

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando choked a little bit on that sip of coffee. He took a moment to eye her up the same way before he answered.

"That was an assumption I had made, yes," he answered calmly, "Much to his amusement." He cut a glance at Kaidan, "I see he has told you that story."

[spectre_alenko]

"I did," Kaidan grinned, "She met Kanan last night."

[biotic_psychotic]

"Mmhm," Jack agreed, "Can't imagine why you thought he was Kaidan's type." She waved a hand in a circle around her face, "Too much hair. Chafes."

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack punched Kaidan again on the arm before she took her coffee. She made sure to thank the baristas politely. Then she went to find a table where both of them could see all the entrances. She thought about sitting with the dorky guy in glasses but instead took a table nearby where they could converse but also have privacy if they needed it.

[myownface]

Sparkle still hated these fucking weekends.

Good to know, right? One big old three-day reminder that even if there were people who made like they gave a shit back home, it wasn't like they were going to go out of their way for him. He'd stayed in yesterday and just flat-out avoided it. Today Atton was out with his visitors, because of course even Jedi shit showed up for these things, and Sparkle couldn't stand staying in the apartment one more minute.

So... the Perk. Because nothing said 'shitty family weekend bull' like drowning one's sorrows in a venti it-doesn't-matter-what-kind-of-cappuccino-it's-all-gonna-be-whip-anyway.

He was so stuck in his own head he didn't even bother looking at the other faces in the room as he skulked over to the counter to place his order. Fuck these weekends sideways. With a rake.

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack took idle note of the newcomer until Kaidan looked up and over at him with a nod. She knew Kaidan's face and she especially knew the look on it though anyone else would just see the calm. She'd probably been on the receiving end of that look more than anyone else in his life.

Lounging, she tossed an arm over the back of her chair and asked Kaidan loudly enough to be overheard, "Which one on the list of names is he?" Her chin jerked in the direction of the guy at the counter.

[spectre_alenko]

"That's Sparkle, Jack," Kaidan said calmly, taking a sip of his coffee. "I figured I'd let him actually get his coffee before introducing the two of you."

He took another sip, "And yes, I've warned him about you. I try to warn everybody about you."

[myownface]

And... there. Coffee or something like it. Sparkle paid up, took his cup, and turned around to look for a place to sit. Which... was about the point he realized there were other people in here, and most of them were people he knew.

... Was that one of Kaidan's people?

Even the guy cut off from his own reality got people? Fuck you, Fandom. Not that he wasn't happy for Kaidan, but come on. There was 'shitty weekend,' and there was 'rubbing it in.'

Still, he was plastering on a crooked smile as he lifted his cup toward them in greeting.

[biotic_psychotic]

"Warned him, huh?" Jack drawled with a smirk, "About innocent little old me."

"Come have a seat, new mate," Jack invited. Her smirk grew. "I have a checklist and your name's on it."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan snorted. "Sparkle, meet Jack. She's actually in a good mood right now."

He'd told you she was a bitch.

[myownface]

"Ooo, a checklist," Sparkle said, slipping into a seat without hesitation, looking with keen interest at the woman he'd been warned about. "I don't get put on many checklists, I feel all special now."

[biotic_psychotic]

"I'd bet you're on a few," Jack drawled at him, "You look like the type. How'd your type of trouble wind up friends with my big brother?"

Yes, Kaidan. She said it out loud, even if there was enough sarcasm to drown a goat in attached to it. Faint, fucker. Go ahead.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan didn't so much as blink. He sipped his coffee and smiled faintly. "You should meet the guy he lives with, Jack. Except I'm pretty sure the island wouldn't be able to handle that, so no."

If Jack thought she was going to intimidate Sparkle.. The thought made him smile a little more, hidden by most of his coffee mug. Which was filled with the same type of sugar-coma-inducing thing that Sparkle had.

[2_old_for_this]

Peter was trying to be pretty low-key around everyone's visitors, but it was too nice a day to stay inside entirely. So here he was, getting a nice, spicy chai and nodding pleasantly at Hernando.

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack took a look at the cool drink of water that had just walked in and elbowed Kaidan in the ribs. "Tell me you know him and then tell me I can have him."

[spectre_alenko]

"Peter, Jack. Jack, Peter," Kaidan introduced, then looked straight at Jack and said a firm, "No."

He was definitely saying nothing of the sort. If she and Peter wanted to go be adults in private, that was between them, but he was not sending his friend under that particular bus. No way, no how.

[2_old_for_this]

Peter waved at Jack, a little bemused. "Hi. Nice to meet you. You're visiting Kaidan this weekend, I take it?"

[biotic_psychotic]

"No, I'm rescuing Kaidan from this backsystem hellhole he somehow wound up in," Jack said, sipping her coffee, "Was. Was rescuing him. He's a stupid motherfucker and has decided to hang out here for awhile."

Another sip. "Nice to meet you. So, you're Peter. The one between Mitsuwhatthefuck and Sparkle."

[spectre_alenko]

"Jack's basically my sister," Kaidan explained, eyerolling, "Crew of the Normandy, from back in my reality. Please excuse her. I'd say she's all bark and no bite, but she's plenty of bite. She has had all her rabies shots, though."

[2_old_for_this]

"I'm immune to disease," Peter pointed out. "Between who and Sparkle on what?"

[biotic_psychotic]

"Are you," Jack purred. "Good to know."

She thumbed toward Kaidan, "I made the mistake of asking if he had friends here. He answered. In alphabetical fucking order, if you can believe it." She snorted, "You've met him. You can probably believe it of his uptight ass."