The Perk, Saturday Afternoon

[firstofitskind]

Liam - he was reasonably certain his name was Liam, anyway, since most (though pointedly not all) of the ID he'd managed to find with his face on it had that name - still had no idea where he was, or what was going on.

Valerie? Verity? Whoever she was, had declared that she needed some time to herself, and Liam had obliged.

Except... he hadn't the slightest clue where he ought to go, so he'd settled for wandering around the town until he'd found a place that had hot beverages of some sort.

He'd waited his turn in line, asked the person standing at the counter for a recommendation, and received a beverage. There was just one small problem, apparently.

"Money?" he frowned at them. "I don't have any with me."

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan was reading a bunch of texts from Jack and trying to respond. She was making it difficult by sending a new one before he could hit 'reply'. He went to pick up coffee. Coffee was necessary and hey, he knew what Sparkle liked so that was convenient.

He walked in just in time to hear Liam's problem. Ah, hell. "I got it, Liam," he said. With a nod at the barista, "Two caramel mochas, extra whip - like, just empty the can between the two - and one large black coffee, please."

Back to Liam, "Do you remember anything?"

[firstofitskind]

"Of course," he frowned again, watching the transaction with the interest of someone who'd never actually seen such an exchange before. "I remember this morning." Not what was meant by the question.

[spectre_alenko]

"That's better than a 'no', I guess," Kaidan said with a small sigh. "Hi. Your name is Liam Kincaid. I'm Kaidan. We're friends. You live on an island where sometimes the weekends get wacky and you lose your memory. It's happened a couple times before. It'll blow over by Monday."

He hoped. Hi, Liam, have some relevant data.

[firstofitskind]

Well, at least he'd gotten confirmation about the name thing. That was something. But still... "Why?"

He had a lot of questions, but let's start with that one.

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan huffed a quiet laugh, "And that is always the first thing you ask. Narrow the scope for me, Liam. Which 'why' do you need me to answer first?"

[firstofitskind]

"Why would I live here, if this happens regularly?"

[spectre_alenko]

"Because you're a good guy and, when it's not you that's being affected, you kind of make sure everyone else is ok," Kaidan told him, "You're the sheriff here. You help keep the peace."

[firstofitskind]

That... didn't match up with what he and Verity-Valerie-Whoever had figured out this morning. Between the two of them, there had been far too many weapons for whatever they were involved in to be entirely legal.

But that also seemed like the kind of thing that would be a secret? And if this Kaidan, who said he knew him, didn't know about that, then perhaps he ought not to say anything?

So he just nodded. "Why will this 'blow over' by Monday?" he asked, instead.

[spectre_alenko]

"That, I don't know," Kaidan offered, "It just always seems to. The last two times the memory stuff has hit, anyway. I haven't been around long enough for many of them."

[firstofitskind]

"Huh," Liam nodded, and then took a sip of... whatever it was the barista had handed him. He made a face.

"What is this?"

A latte, Liam. It was a latte.

[spectre_alenko]

"Coffee," Kaidan said, confused, "What did you order?" Shook his head and pointed to the area with all the sugar and stuff. "Might help to add sugar?"

[firstofitskind]

"I don't know," Liam shrugged. "I just asked what was good and they handed me this."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan looked at the barista. "It's a latte! It's the most popular drink on the menu," she said a little defensively.

"Add sugar," Kaidan told him, "It'll help."

Well, it would for him.

Remembered something. "Liam? If anyone offers you aspirin, Advil, or any sort of painkiller type pill? Don't take it. You're allergic as hell."

This is what you get for telling him that, Liam. But at least it reduced the chances you would get drunk from a Tylenol Cold and Sinus pill.

[revengenotebook]

Paris had figured out she was named Paris, she'd conjectured that she had some kind of major fish obsession judging by the huge tank in her room, and now she needed all. the. coffee.

"This is just one coffee," she said to the barista. "I said all of it. I wasn't kidding."

[firstofitskind]

“Shouldn’t you leave some for others?” Liam asked with a frown. How could one tiny person hope to drink all the coffee?

[ooc: at work, so pings will be slowish!]

[revengenotebook]

"If they wanted coffee, they should be here now," Paris said. "I'm not here to coddle the imaginary."

[OOC: General Saturday ridiculousness, so it's all good!]

[firstofitskind]

“Do you want mine?” Liam offered, nodding at the latte the barista had foisted on him. The sugar had made it slightly more palatable, but t he’d still taken only a few sips.

[revengenotebook]

"Sure," Paris said. "Unless there's something wrong with it--" she scowled suspiciously at him. "Are you trying to drug me?"

She was a liiiiiittle paranoid today.

[firstofitskind]

"No," Liam shook his head. "Why would I...? There's nothing wrong with it, I just don't like it."

[revengenotebook]

"You don't like coffee?" Paris squinted suspiciously at him. "Are you an alien?"

[firstofitskind]

Like one-third alien, yeah.

“No?” Liam said, giving her a puzzled look. “Do I look like one?”

[revengenotebook]

"I have no idea what an alien looks like, but hating coffee would definitely be on my list," she said, holding the mug protectively. "Can you shoot mindrays? Are you secretly green? Do you want me to take me to your leader?"

Since she didn't know who her leader was right now. Bonus to amnesia!

[firstofitskind]

Liam considered that barrage of questions. Could he shoot mindrays? Well, there had been... whatever that was, with Kaidan, earlier. Where he'd somehow picked up on the other man's emotional state. Was he secretly green? Again, there had been that memory, of having scales and claws, but that clearly wasn't the case here. Did he want her to take him to his leader? Well, he still had no idea what he was doing here, so.

"... Do you know who my leader is?" he asked, instead.

[revengenotebook]

"Of course not if she's an alien," Paris said.

[firstofitskind]

"I don't think so," Liam shook his head. "I just woke up in an apartment, not a spaceship or anything."

One of the spaceships parked over at the junkyard belonged to him, but again, he didn't know that.