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English
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Part 1 of Coffee Shop AU
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Published:
2024-04-21
Completed:
2024-04-25
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1,500
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5/5
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Coffee Shop AU (derogatory)

Summary:

It's exactly what it sounds like.

Notes:

You were so hyped for this one, it feels fitting to dedicate it to you.

This one also goes out to my coworker who told me I had to make my coffee shop AU "appropriately represent how soul-crushing being a barista actually is." We're smart enough to not cross the boundary of sharing AO3 usernames, but she was so right and this fic is better for it.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter Text

“La’an?”

The voice, at once intimately familiar and distorted by time and distance, made La’an’s hand slip. The pitcher she held clattered onto the bar as the steaming wand screeched, suddenly exposed to plain air. Scalding milk splattered onto her hands and seeped into the fabric of her shirt.

Fuck.

She looked up into the concerned blue eyes she already knew she would find on the other side of the plexiglass splatter shield, and fervently wished that she could melt into the floor tiles. “Una,” she said, impressively calm for how much her hands were smarting. “Fancy seeing you here.”