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[likesthecoat]

Ianto Jones is a man of simple tastes (classic), dress (suits) and drinks (coffee).

Which is why tonight the specials board reads:

TONIGHT'S SPECIALS
MARTINIS

COFFEE
ANY WAY YOU LIKE IT

One teaboy, ready to serve.

Comments

[sunbaked_baker]

"I think I'll skip the coffee," says the red-head approaching the bar, wry. Coffee is not her drink. "I trust there are interesting kinds of tea back there?"

[likesthecoat]

Blasphemy!

"There's a kind that blooms when you pour hot water over it," Ianto offers.

[sunbaked_baker]

Coffee is Rae's lover's drink. When Mel drinks his coffee on his breaks from working in the coffeehouse's kitchen, his hands have the habit of shaking. He still equates the taste of coffee with cigarette breaks, though he quit years ago.

"Ooooh," Sunshine grins. "I'll have one of those. They're too expensive to get very often back home."

[likesthecoat]

"What flavor? I know for certain we've got jasmine, strawberry and peach."

[sunbaked_baker]

"It seems like a peach sort of day," she replies, after a moment of consideration.

One does rather hope the day is peachy.

[likesthecoat]

"Peach it is," says Ianto and goes back to the kitchen to fetch her tea.

He comes back in a few minutes with a small glass pot and her cup.

"Since half the fun is in the watching..."

[sunbaked_baker]

"One step ahead of me," Sunshine grins. "I had been about to ask!"

All the magic happens as the ball of tea 'blooms' in the water, after all. She wouldn't want to miss that.

[likesthecoat]

He grins at her and carefully drops in the small bundle of leaves.

"I'm Ianto," he adds as the tea begins to bloom. "I don't believe we've met."

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae's smile grows, watching the tiny bubbles of trapped air rise to the surface as the leaves slowly unfurl.

"I don't think we have, either," she says, lifting her gaze from the tea to smile at him. "Nice to meet you, Ianto. I'm Rae."

[likesthecoat]

"Hullo. What's your where and when, Rae?"

[sunbaked_baker]

"Old Town, New Arcadia, Independencia," she says, grinning wryly, then adds, "Earth, 2003."

"You?"

[likesthecoat]

"Cardiff, Wales, Earth," he says. "200-.

"I've never heard of Independencia."

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine chuckles, shrugging. This isn't the first time, for her. "Different worlds, I guess. If it makes you feel any better, I've never heard of Wales, either."

[likesthecoat]

"Neither has anyone on earth," remarks Ianto.

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae tilts her head, slightly confused. "Why wouldn't your own world have heard of it?"

[likesthecoat]

"...that's a tiny bit of a joke.

"My country is very small and not at all powerful, and unless you live on the same island people tend not to know it even exists."