The Perk, Saturday Morning

[hatesparadise]

So, it was A Weekend. That was just peachy.

And all Danny needed right now was some coffee and to not have have Steve see him and take pictures of all his equine glory. Hence the escaping the apartment in order to accomplish both things.

"I hate this place," he grumbled as one of the baristas somehow poured the coffee without using their hooves.

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[betterthanaplan]

Duke had finally been freed from his boat thanks to Lucifer at least still having hands. And after a loud and pissed off post-mortem on what had happened when Octavia turned human, he was storming through town looking for pretty much anything to distract him.

Coffee. Clearly what he needed right now was caffeine.

"Well," he grumbled upon stepping in (push and pull doors were a lot easier to manage with hooves and a horn than boat hatches). "At least I'm not alone in this."

[hatesparadise]

"I don't know if that's any better," Danny replied dryly, trying to figure out how to drink his coffee. Because he didn't have hands.

At least his mane and tail were pretty nice.

[betterthanaplan]

"Shortstop," Duke greeted. Because if the hair didn't give it away, the accent would have. Or the badge on his butt. "Lucifer's still people-shaped. It makes it a little better."

[hatesparadise]

Danny just sighed and glared at his coffee again. "Duke. I don't know if that makes it better, honestly."

Because skipping over people who weren't Danny never did.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke looked at the chairs. And wondered how the hell he was going to sit on them.

"He had to let me off my boat."

He was looking for pretty much anything to make any of this better, honestly.

[hatesparadise]

"I was able to get out through the lanai." Patio. It was a patio. God, Hawaii had broken him.

[throughaphase]

Lexi had turned two yesterday. Today the island was covered in ponies. As far as Lexi was concerned this was all part of a really great party for her.

And since one of those ponies happened to be her mom, Kitty had made sure Lexi was safely strapped on to her back to take her on a trot/very, very low flight around the island, stopping in at the Perk because these days called for caffeine.

"Okay but how do I drink this."

[hatesparadise]

"Very carefully," Danny suggested. Did he had some coffee spilled around him? Yes.

[throughaphase]

Kitty noted that, and looked up at Lexi, who was looking at Danny with the biggest smile possible on her face, and asked the barista to make her drink iced.

And once she'd ordered and was waiting, she said, casually, "So how's it going?"

[hatesparadise]

"Hi," Danny said in that one tone that was solely reserved for children. "Well, I'm a blue pony right now."

[throughaphase]

"Hey, me too," Kitty said. "If it makes you feel any better, you're making a kid's whole day."

[hatesparadise]

"Well. Maybe." Definitely.

[betterthanaplan]

"I did okay with just kind of -- clamping my hooves around it."

[throughaphase]

"I feel like that's a good way to crush the cup," Kitty said, considering it. "I've done this before, but I'm very out of practice."

[betterthanaplan]

"How, uh." Duke cleared his throat. "How often does this whole pony thing happen?"

[throughaphase]

"It's been years," Kitty assured him. "Like, years."

Enough years that she couldn't remember when the last time was except that she hadn't been married yet.

[grenadesandohana]

A drenched unicorn came stomping in, throwing water everywhere. "So. Swimming's a bust," Steve said.

[hatesparadise]

"Of course you have a deadly weapon on your head like this," Danny sighed. But at least Steve was also a pony. Because good god, he'd never live it down.

[grenadesandohana]

"It's nice, isn't it?" Steve said, preening. He somehow manage to still have a strong jawline as a pony, too!

[hatesparadise]

Of course he did. Danny was absolutely correct in Steve being the most magical and handsome of all the ponies and it annoyed him greatly.

"You're also way too tall, I see."

[grenadesandohana]

"I'm exactly as tall as I should be," Steve told him. "You're still short."

He grinned with allll of his pony teeth.

[betterthanaplan]

"What?" Duke looked dismayed. "No, but horses can totally swim!"

[grenadesandohana]

"They cannot, as it turns out, butterfly," Steve said.

[betterthanaplan]

". . . Yeah, I think they probably do more of a doggy paddle."

[grenadesandohana]

"And that was very hard to do around the entire island," Steve said.