Overthinking like teens do

[sweetlies]

Who: Ciel Phantomhive and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Goldstone
When: Afternoon of June 1

[The blue-haired teen is in the kitchen of the Goldstone, a cup of tea steaming in front of him. His communicator is propped up so her can just relax and enjoy his tea. And a small plate of oddly shaped cookies.]

What do you all do when you arrive in a new world in the middle of a year? And yet you left at the end, just shy of your birthday?

[He nibbles at a cookie, sets it down, and takes a sip of tea.]

I arrived in Riverview in July but I left England just two weeks before my fourteenth birthday. So it was sensible to say I was fourteen. I was there a year, so... fifteen. It's been about six months here, would I almost be sixteen now?

[There's a soft sigh, toying with a cookie.] Interesting as all this is, it's a bother to think about it all. I'd be marrying in a year, if I were in England...

[He doesn't seem too concerned about that though and takes a deep breath, smiles, and gestures to the cookies.] There are biscuits here in the kitchen, if anyone on the Goldstone would like. I made too many.

Comments

[somakemelaugh]

[Oh, that sweet tooth.]

I already have. There was one I picked up on that last world we visited. Might need to substitute some of the ingredients it asks for though. Some of it looks like it might have been unique to that world, but it is what it is. We can't expect all of them to have the same things.

[sweetlies]

[He can't help himself.]

Really? [Of course he has. Undertaker was always thinking ahead. Even for something that might seem small to other people but for them? It's one of the teens favorite things in the world, since they'd first gotten close, to cook and bake with Undertaker.]

We'll find good substitutes for those ingredients, I'm sure. It'll be fun figuring them out, anyway!

[somakemelaugh]

[He grins and shrugs.]

Of course I would. I had such a nice time in that little cafe of yours, I thought I might look forward to opening a new one once we get to a place where we can settle down, hopefully with your brother this time, and make a living out of it. My family ran a bakery once. Funny that I should end up right back where I started.

[sweetlies]

Did you really?

[That gives him a pleasantly warm feeling in his chest. The cafe may have been his 'idea' but he's mostly gotten it from Undertaker working one. And the knowledge that Undertaker always preferred to be his own boss. Ciel may have started it but it had been Undertaker's cafe, really.]

I think you'd have a marvelous cafe. It was mostly yours anyway.

[somakemelaugh]

It had my influence all over it, but I made sure people had to look hard for it. People tend to view a cafe a little differently than they would a funeral parlor.

[And it hadn't been Halloween, if Riverview ever celebrated anything like it. Best to tone himself down a bit.]

[sweetlies]

Mm, they do. But you make good food and treats and tea. And I would think you make good coffee, I don't remember hearing any complaints, at least.

[He won't be able to stop the reaper. And he wouldn't have done much more than try to reign it back a little in Riverview. Just for the cafe though. He was still happy with how delighted Undertaker had been with their skeleton roommate.]

What would you do? Any specialties in mind?