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[discardedwish]

Who: Nataku [discardedwish], Ovan [toanuprising], Ianto Jones [not_just_teaboy]
Setting: Noble Street, Torse House, Laundry Cove.
Time: Afternoon.
Summary: Tea party with Ovan. Ianto comes along because Nataku can't be trusted with the simplest of tasks involving food and drink for others. Even in another universe, he's tea boy. Only makes coffee. >_>;
Warnings: This log will never end.

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[discardedwish]

"The reason you are here is because you are making that face. You have been away from people too long and that is not good. Furthermore, you took all the time to make something so nice and I wish for Ovan to see the person who made it for him." Nataku explained as they waited. If he could, he would have set his hands behind his back and leaned up to stare Ianto in the face as he has seen others do that. When they did, it seemed to get their point across, but as it was; he was holding a the gifts and was worried it would spill if he did any elaborate actions.

"A tea party." It was a simple enough explanation. After said explanation, he tipped his head in the direction of his friend. "This is Ianto Jones. I have no intention of making this into a blind date as I am still hoping for Misaki and you to become princess and prince respectively." He felt that this was an important fact that needed to be said or else they might get the wrong idea

[damnfinecoffee]

Ianto tried not to glower as he caught sight of Nataku's face as he sipped his coffee. He prided himself on his coffee, and had never received anything but compliments for him. Even if Nataku was just unused to the taste it wounded his pride.

"That's belonging with," Ianto told him. "And even then it's too idealistic to always be the case."

[toanuprising]

"Thank you for the clarification." He spoke lightly, pausing to take another sip from his cup of coffee. There were no complaints from him, but he was used to a variety of things. Either way, it was certainly acceptable. Even, perhaps, pleasant.

"That is how many see things. There is a certain feeling that is associated with that and it's a sense of belonging. Even then, many feel that there is that one person out there who completes them and makes them feel more alive than they have ever felt before. However, it is different for each person. Sometimes, such feelings are not returned."

There was just a hint of a pause. "Not everyone feels that way, but there are plenty who are."

[discardedwish]

"You are welcome." Staring at the coffee, he scooped a small portion of pie into the cup before stirring it in with his fork and pretended that this was perfectly normal to do so. It left a few chunks here and there but it sweetened the beverage nicely. If he realized that he had accidentally injured Ianto's feelings he would have felt very bad since he did not want his friend to be upset, but seeing as he did not know that was going on -- he continued as he was.

"Why is it too idealistic?" The clone directed the question to both of them.

"Like people who remind others that they have a heart." Nataku happily ate the piece of pie that he cut for himself before sitting down. He wondered if he was supposed to wait for the others to eat theirs before he should start, but it seemed like a waste for it not to be eaten. That was the purpose of its existence, was it not?

[damnfinecoffee]

The addition of the pie to his coffee only served to add insult to injury. Ianto looked away, pretending he was unaware of Nataku's unwitting violation of both his coffee and his cooking.

He shrugged, taking a careful sip of his coffee and chewing on a slice of pie to calm himself before he replied. "Things don't always work out. Sometimes feelings aren't returned, sometimes people are left with no choice but to leave... even if people remain a couple for the rest of their lives one of them will die before the other."

[toanuprising]

If anything, he did have to admit that Ianto was showing amazing restraint when it came to dealing with the little quirks Nataku had, especially when it came to the sudden union of pie and coffee in a rather... unique manner. In the very least, he ate pie in a rather normal manner. He offered a compliment to Ianto, thanking him for his efforts.

"It's as Ianto says. Unfortunately, not everything is meant to be. The world we live in is not as perfect as we would wish for it to be. Any number of things can factor into the outcome. But those are the odds one chooses to face if it is for something they wish to believe in."

[discardedwish]

It was like soup. Coffee-flavored pie soup. Or was it pie-flavored coffee soup. He was uncertain. Regardless, it was quite good and smiled to himself. The clone wondered if he should suggest to the others that they do the same with their own cups. He thought about it for a time as he sipped his not-quite-beverage-not-quite-food before deciding that he would keep it to himself for now. They had seen what he had done and could do the same if they so liked.

"One of them will die before the other?" Obviously, this thought had not crossed his mind. "But if people are really meant for one another would it not be right that they always are together? It does not seem like the correct course of action that the world is unfair to those that should be together. Is there no way to change how the world is?"

[damnfinecoffee]

Ianto wasn't even considering putting pie in his own soup, and he doubted (or at least hoped) that Ovan was either. He smiled at the compliment though, the thought that it might simply because of Nataku's unusual actions he was trying to make him feel better.

"Well, you can't stop a person from dying." He pointed out.

[toanuprising]

Thankfully, no. Ianto was not alone when it came to not considering putting pie into coffee. Such things were best left to those more daring. Or those who saw it as a nice pairing for one reason or another.

"To change the world in such a way means to change the laws that govern life and death. Yet, one can surpass just that. You see, some believe in an afterlife -- a place where you go once you leave this life behind. There, they live forever. In a sense, yes. You could be together, forever, with someone."

[discardedwish]

At least, he had kept the thought of just pouring the coffee on his piece of pie and continued to just scoop the bit into his cup as discretely as he could. "You can heal them so that they will not die easily." He counted, sipping his makeshift soup.

Nataku remembered what he was told when he first came here. Not so much that the third level was full of nightmares, but that he had died and that is why he is now here. That may not be true for everyone, but it still begged the question. "Is this our afterlife? Does that mean we can be with the people that we like forever as well?"

[damnfinecoffee]

He opened his mouth to comment on that, then quickly shut it again. He doubted sharing that his own views on life after death would be particularly good for conversation. Even if he knew they were correct he couldn't prove that there was nothingness for everyone. Just because it had been all there was for those they'd resurrected they couldn't prove it was the same for everyone. And as Owen had put it; death wasn't something the living should know about.

"I don't think this is our afterlife." He settled on eventually.

[toanuprising]

Ovan remained silent for a few moments, tending to his pie as he simply listened, taking in what was being said.

"There are several who believe they should be dead, but perhaps this is their second chance, instead." For Ovan, it was many things. By all means he shouldn't technically even be alive, yet there he as. It was simply a tip of the hat to the enigma that so tightly wrapped itself around the man. "It's not so much as an afterlife as a different opportunity."

[discardedwish]

"But then," Nataku allowed himself to carry that to the next logical conclusion that if this was not the afterlife that they could still die. Which was probably not so much the logical conclusion as it was the only conclusion. "People can still die and can still be separated from the ones that they are destined to be with."

That seemed more that unfortunate. Was he incorrect in trying to find those that were best suited for one another if they were just going to be separated? While he was aware that he still had quite a bit to learn and understand, he had hoped that this was one thing that he had quite a handle on.

[damnfinecoffee]

Ianto frowned, taking another bite of his pie. He hadn't meant to upset Nataku with this line of conversation, he just hadn't wanted to tell him anything he didn't believe to be true himself.

"Not all of us die-- some of us get to go back home." Ianto told him, trying to cheer him up slightly. Or at least that's what he assumed happened when people disappeared from Template.

[toanuprising]

"It's not a permanent separation. It's more like a temporary one, just until they can meet again. One can equate it to when people sometimes need to leave for a while but aren't sure when they'll be back. Deep down you know that they will eventually return." He explained carefully, his words chosen to lessen what has been said before and yet still explain it, twisting it to put it into a different light.

"After all -- if something is meant to be, then it can overcome any obstacle put before it."

[ooc: chibi face 'cause I don't get to use this icon enough]

[discardedwish]

"But I do not want either of you to go home." Not realizing that that was where Ianto was when he disappeared, he did not like the idea of people returning. As selfish as it was. He had been told that he should be just a little more selfish than what he was. But was that being too selfish? People did not find this place as nice as he did. As tentative as that opinion was