The Perk- Thursday morning

[throughaphase]

Kitty had just wanted to get out of her office at Caritas for a while when doing paperwork, so she'd brought some of it to the Perk to get it all done. Easy. She got a drink and a seat at a table by the window and settled in.

It was just that for the moment she was like fourteen. Totes normal.


[Bring it on.]

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[somethingwithturquoise]

You know what Beth hadn't had in a very long time? A nice cup of coffee. From Earth.

(She didn't care what anyone said; the stuff they had in space was garbage coffee).

So now that she was planetside again and in that cute little town where her daughter was living, she happily found the coffee shop and get in line to order up a drink, trying to decide what to even get, after it had been so long.

She supposed she should probably go find Summer, and everything, but, well, daughters were infininate (apparently), but coffee? Earth coffee??

Yeah, Summer could wait.

[throughaphase]

Kitty looked up and would probably have said something about a new person. But instead she picked up a seed to swing.

[somethingwithturquoise]

Which was quite a way for Summer to find herself not actually her mom, but back to herself, with Kitty swinging a sword, presumably at her, she didn't know, she had just been trying to get some coffee and then she was her mom and now this.

And, really, the only appropriate response to that was to sort of gasp in shock as she expected to just suddenly be sliced down by the boss of her that didn't even usually carry around a sword!

(Not that Summer had noticed, anyway).

[heroic_jawline]

Steve had absolutely left the house wearing a shirt today, but it kept disappearing! Hopefully the Perk didn't have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy?

"I need two really, really big coffees, please," he said, trying not to look freezing. Being shirtless in January was a Choice.

[throughaphase]

"Good look," Kitty said, downing a shot.

[heroic_jawline]

"Should you be drinking so early in the day?" Steve asked, looking disapproving.

[scarlet_chaos]

Look, it wasn't often you saw Captain America shirtless, and let's be real, he had seen enough of Wanda naked by now that she was kind of owed the view. "Wow."

[heroic_jawline]

Well, at least he was back in a button-up, even if it was a smedium button-up. He looked down pensively at the shield he randomly had. "Yeah. It's been happening all morning."

[scarlet_chaos]

Wanda had just come in for a coffee but somehow that translated to her accidentally throwing a ball of red whispy energy when she walked in, sending a jar of Splenda packets flying. "Whoops."

Yeah, this...this is why she'd be going to the bar tonight.

[throughaphase]

Apparently that was so hot Wanda needed to be made out with?

[scarlet_chaos]

"Oh!" Not that you weren't attractive, Kitty, but she knew you were very taken. "I mean, thank you, but I'm good. For right now."

She had no idea what she meant by that, but it seemed like a polite way to let someone down gently.

[crimson_sister]

Why not stop by the Perk and finish the book she was reading? Lucille had spent too much time at home lately, and a cup of tea surrounded by people might be what she needed.

She sat down at a table, now and then looking up from the page and staring out thought the window, lost in thought.

[throughaphase]

"Good book?" Kitty asked, conversationally.

[crimson_sister]

"I have read it many times," Lucille said, glancing down at the page. "I was halfway through reading it to Tisarwat before she left."

[imafuturist]

Was Steve being too slow for Tony's coffee fix? Maybe! But also, why was Tony all set up for the gym?

"Kitty?" He just had to confirm here.

[throughaphase]

"Did you think I wouldn't be?" Kitty asked, back to her normal age.

[imafuturist]

"It's possible here!" Tony replied, looking alarmed at the change.

[heroic_jawline]

"Tony!" Steve said happily in his World War II uniform.

[imafuturist]

Which Tony clearly though was A Choice. "You're in uniform?"

[notagoose]

Goose’s morning was already weird and after visiting Ignis he desperately needed caffeine. Except now he felt the need to carry a massive rifle into the Perk with him for some reason.

“Please tell me this isn’t just me?” he asked, sighing as he tried to adjust it so he could order.

[throughaphase]

"Yeah, it seems to be a thing that's happening," Kitty said with a sigh. "Again."

[notagoose]

Goose would have responded but he turned into Goose the cat who looked up at Kitty with wide eyes instead.

[died8yearsago]

"Okay," said Rosa, who had no idea how she got to this point when all she'd done was take care of some business on this side of the island with the intention to grab a coffee on her way back to the office, but there she was, standing at the counter with a large piece of a paper and reading off the list on it, "I need two no foam wet cappucinnos iced, a tall vanilla double espresso decaf, a chocolate mint frappuccino with no mint or chocolate, and a flat white americano with no shots."

She blinked at the list.

"Who the fuck are these even for? Screw that, just get me a black coffee."

A beat.

"Please."

[throughaphase]

Kitty's daemon from that time looked up at her, cutely.

[died8yearsago]

"Oh, wait a second," said Rosa; she wasn't ignoring the cat if she just hadn't noticed it, right? She was still looking at that damn paper.

"There's more. One venti caramel macchiatto sugar free cafe au lait? Hot tea but can you, like, make it cold instead? Just a bunch of coffee grounds still in the filter?"

She blinked, gawking at the paper.

"What is this crap? This is nonsense. And what are the odds, anyway? Two," she looked at the barista planitively, "two black coffees."