OCTOBER CATCH ALL

[heart_wrenching]

WHO: Winry... and also other people???
WHERE: Vork residence, around De Chima
WHEN: Through October
WHAT: Several toplevels, some open
WARNINGS: none expected, will edit as needed

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[Residence kitchen]

[heart_wrenching]

[ DID YOU KNOW THAT IN THE FAR FUTURE OF 2016 YOU CAN JUST HAVE HALF COCOA HALF COFFEE WHENEVER YOU WANT?????? its fucking incredible, and so just about any time day or night you can catch Winry carefully measuring and mixing chocolate sauce and cream into the coffee that's always brewing. ]

De Chima Library - So open

[heart_wrenching]

[ Reading on a screen was all well and good, but sometimes you just want to touch pages. And sometimes you want to take those pages home and write all over them and destroy them. So she's been at the copy machine for god-knows-how-long. The pile of books she's done with suggests it's been quite a while already. At least she's steadily feeding quarters into the thing, but maybe someone else wants a turn? ]

[jacksonian]

[ Mark wanders in late one night. His head is slightly lowered, and he doesn't greet Winry; he's clearly in one of his shy moods. ]

[heart_wrenching]

[ Hmm, in a quiet way, huh? But the question is, is it shyness or sourness. Well, she'll take a risk on it being the former. ]



Up late, or early?

[jacksonian]

Huh?

[ He looks up, uncertain. Then he looks down again. ]

Oh. Uh - late. What about you?

[heart_wrenching]

Ah, well, I meant to just take a nap, but that was six hours ago, so . . .

[jacksonian]

Oh. It's nice when that happens.

[heart_wrenching]

As long as I don't have any appointments, sure.

[jacksonian]

Did you have any appointments this time?

[heart_wrenching]

None. I guess that's why I keep doing it.

[jacksonian]

See? Sleep is nice. I'd sleep all the time if I could.

[heart_wrenching]

Really? I'd be a robot. Just plug into the wall to recharge and keep working.


Oh! Do you want some hot chocolate while I've got the stuff out?

[jacksonian]

Uh - sure. I've never had that before.

[heart_wrenching]

What!?


Mark, this is- hot chocolate has to be in the top ten foods of the twenty-first century.


[ Already getting another mug out >:O!!! ]

[RESIDENCE KITCHEN, PART 2]

[heart_wrenching]

[ Whoever you are, whenever you go to the kitchen, whatever you were actually trying to get, when you open the cabinet there is a large varmint, with its fat little hands in a bag of cheesy snacks, whiskers already stained orange.


It stares at you for a long, flat moment. ]


This... isn't what it looks like.

[jacksonian]

Oh.

[ Well, then. He takes the mug with a curious sort of eagerness. ]

What is it, like coffee?

[heart_wrenching]

Oh, hold on I gotta heat the milk first or it won't mix right.


It's like coffee, but it's chocolate. Sweeter, and not as bitter, and creamy. It's good!

[fullmetalbrat]

[Ed, being a very cool almost adult, definitely did not yelp in surprise when he opened the cabinet.]

—Winry?!

[jacksonian]

Does it have caffeine?

[heart_wrenching]

Yes. So just. Shhh. Stop shouting.

[heart_wrenching]

A little, I think. But you can make it with coffee if you want! That's what I do!

[fullmetalbrat]

Why are you... Couldn't you just take it down to your workshop?

[jacksonian]

[ He gives her a shy attempt at a smile. ]

That sounds good. Thanks.

[heart_wrenching]

[ Takes his mug back to mix it that way then. ]


You still want milk in it too, right?

[heart_wrenching]

Well, yeah, but...