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your favourite characters? now they're in high school
and some of them work in a coffee shop (silver and vivid shenanigans)
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Most people would find intimidating the idea of suddenly moving away and start a new life at a new High School. But Temperance took it as just an opportunity to enjoy new things, make new friends, and go new places. And it was so nice that she met Gabriel and Erin. They are very friendly, and allegedly "The Work Juice Café" is everyone's favorite meetup place for all kind activities, including this tutoring program that pair up students across the different high schools, which is a neat idea. Especially, Even if Temperance haven't done any official tutoring before. But Erin thinks her grades are good, and the tutoring program's organizer is rather friendly.

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And The Work Juice Café is its quaint and hospitable little self, a two store brick and mortar building with stripped awnings and a large sign depicting its name, its mascot (The King of Coffee) and the line "home to the most caffeine dense coffee legally available in the U.S." There are tables on the outside, where two older women play chess while feeding crumbs to birds.

The inside is very cozy, a nice mixture of the traditional café experience but with paintings and decorations showing the tired working class drinking coffee and gaining the boost to go to work.

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"I like this place already," she says observing the picture of the King of Coffee knighting someone.

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"It's cute, isn't it?" Erin agrees, "They make the best muffins in town, and the coffee's to die for - and the wifi's free, too. It's the perfect place to get some studying in, so long as you don't mind the noise." 

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"Speaking of studying," Gabriel murmurs. He nods across the room, "There's the two we're tutoring. I'll leave you to make introductions-?"

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"Oh, no you don't," she gets a grip on Gabriel's shoulder, "You can't escape so easily. You know Felix better than I do, anyway. Come on," she tugs him over to Felix's table, "This way, Temperance!"

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Sure she follows them to their usual corner, briefly distracted by the displayed food.

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In their usual corner, they find the triplets. Felix is testing frenetically.

"J.D. says he is in swim practice."

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"Ask him when he got a waterproof phone or to get a better excuse."

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"He just linked to a youtube video about fan fiction tropes. He just doesn't want to come. Anyway, I don't think we will find a substitute in short notice."

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J pushes himself up from the back of a nearby booth, hands in the pockets of his apron, "Really, no one at all? I thought the program saw a bunch of expansion this year?"

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"More people are asking for tutoring than signed up to give it," Gabriel explains as they reach the table. "And your situation's a little unusual, isn't it?" He looks to Felix, "Felix," he greets, "Fenris, Trevor. Francine couldn't make it?" 

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"Bad case of strep throat. Her sister, was very clear about she needing rest. Apparently, it was a stressful week for their family."

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"What's unusual about your situation?" She asks J, before the names click. "Does the sister happens to be named Meghan?"

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"I'm a chronic skipper," he explains cheerily. "And yeah, that's the one. You know them?" 

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"The standard school system is just not really a suitable learning environment for you." Trevor says in a mock serious tone.

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"Thank you for not using the term 'kid jail'," Fenris says absently while typing on his laptop.

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"Oh, well. I am their half-sister. We had a big family dinner with the other other half-siblings. It was stressful, yeah."

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"It is, though," J laughs, distracted from the newcomer by Fenris' comment.

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"Oh wow, that sounds so uncomfortable!" Erin frowns, "Strep throat is awful. Do you know how she's doing?" She directs this to both Temperance and the Brights.

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"She was fine when we met, but looking back, she was definitely just coming down with it. But it was nice to meet her, she is nice."

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"But if you use my phrasing, you're more likely to convince that you have a point. At least for the people that have orbited around the sun more times than we have. Anyway, that makes you half-siblings with Ezra, right?"

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"True," J admits, before tuning back in to the other conversation, "Nice, yeah, that's one of the first words that come to mind with Francine. She's great." 

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(A sappy sigh can just barely be heard, coming from above.)

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"Ezra's around here somewhere, isn't he? I'd almost forgotten that he and Aaron were related to Francine." 

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Gabriel looks up from a textbook he'd opened and started looking through at some point, "He's tutoring my cousin, they're probably upstairs." 

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"Huh, I am neutral about meeting him? I mean, I got around to properly talk to Aaron and Francine, before the stressing." She is serious, but then she perks up. "Hey, they wanted to introduce me to you because of the tutoring program? I could replace her while she gets better? I mean, we did have a lot of in common, on top of some genes. Or maybe we had a lot of in common, because of our genes."

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"You just said that to the most different set of identical triplets in the world, but that sounds like an idea."

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"She has the grades for it," Gabriel offers. 

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"Yeah, we came by to introduce you guys and to vouch for her." 

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"You'd be cool with working in weird places? It wouldn't be here - I work here - I like to set up somewhere different every time." 

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"Oh, I would absolutely cool with different and weird. Totally, my teaching style. Well, I haven't tutored like this, but fits me better than kid's jail."

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"That sounds great," Felix says giving him trademarked smile.

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Gabriel buries his face back into the textbook he was looking through.

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"Sounds like we're a good fit, then! I've got all the work I missed this week, if you wanna go somewhere and start poking at it? Just, let me get out of my work clothes."

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"We could introduce you to our tutees while you wait, if you like, Temps?" 

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"I would like that," She tells Erin. "And no need to hurry. I will purchase something for us to eat on the way? What do you like?" She asks J.

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"I will pay, you're a lifesaver."

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"Oo- could you get me a chocolate chip muffin? And the salted caramel tea, it's my favourite right now." He bounces over to hug Felix, and also Temperance if she's willing, "Thank youu! I actually do want to get out of this stuff, though, gimme a sec." He heads for the back to do that.

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"Drinks and snacks first," Erin agrees. She taps Gabriel on the shoulder and heads for the counter, ordering one of the carrot muffins with the big, poofy tops, and two medium coffees. 

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Gabriel looks up at the tap and follows to make his own order.

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Felix hugs back, of course.

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Temperance also accepts the hug, and giggles at it. She then goes over to order, and takes a moment too long picking up a second kind pastry. Just because, then she goes over to be introduced to Erin and Gabriel's tutees.

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She leads her over to the table in the corner while Gabriel waits for his own order.

"Hey, you two. Temperance, this is Henry and Gabe," she sets one of the coffees in front of Henry and settles into the chair beside him, setting to work dissecting her muffin with the dull butter knife that came with it and its butter. "Henry and Gabe, Temperance," she adds, "She just moved here at the start of term."

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Henry lifts up from helping with Gabe's school work and smiles at Erin fondly, but frowns at coffee. "Thank you-".

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"And he needs all the caffeine, so double thanks." Gabe interjects, while lifting the cup to Henry's lips with a remark easy. "Nice to meet you, Temperance."

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Henry is vaguely annoyed that he can't say "I will pay you back" but doesn't waste a single drop of coffee.

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"You can call me Temps. As Erin said, just moved here with my dad. Still figuring out the hot spots."

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She shoves her plate away with the muffin bottom still on it and takes a bite of the fluffy top. "Mm..." she swallows it down and turns to look up at Temps, "That was pretty quick work! Like Gabriel said, there's more tutees than tutors in the program, but I still didn't expect you to pick one up right away." She frowns, "I hope Francine is recovering alright."

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"Oh, I am of the philosophy that there is no point in passing up chances."

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Henry does not give a wistful look at the bottom part of the muffin, like he wishes to confess anything to it. Neutral face, while neutrally taking a bite.

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"I am surprised you get this many people to basically work for extra credits."

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Erin does not smile at Henry - let the illusion stay in place until he's more comfortable letting her feed him, if that ever happens. She smiles at Gabe instead, "Some of us are in it just to help, more than for the extra credit." She looks over at Gabriel, making his way through the tables towards them with a tray, "And some of us are in it for those and- other reasons," she stifles a giggle as he nearly runs into another patron, distracted by watching the triplets' table across the room. 

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Gabriel sets the tray down on the table and gives her a questioning look in response to her stare. She just smiles at him, so he shakes his head and sits, "I picked up your order too, Temperance," he tells her, nudging the tray over to her as he removes the two drinks and plate of scones he'd ordered himself. "J should be out any moment," he adds. 

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Fenris is watching a video that Trevor is showing him. He snorts before resuming whatever work he is doing at his laptop.

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"Thanks! Well, honestly, I am doing it just to see how it works. And because I wanted to meet the people from the other high school."

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"Well, you've met three of them now, then. J, Henry and Gabe all go to Riverside High."

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"Do I, though?" J asks, coming up to the table behind her.

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"You 'go' at least a few times a week. I think that's enough to count."

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"Point," J agrees, "Then yeah, I guess I am a Riverside inmate. Hey Gabe, Henry," he adds. He picks up the cup with a tea bag trailing out of it from the table, raising it at Temps in a 'cheers' motion, "Thanks!" 

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"Sup, HJ!"

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Snort. "Hello, fellow prisoner."

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"Thank Felix for paying. Are you J or HJ?"

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He laughs, "It's J. It's just Gabe that calls me that. I could be an author with a name like HJ Theobald, though, maybe I should go for it." 

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"It's short 'Hot cup of Joe', not that Joe is his real name. He keeps it a mystery."

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"Ah, a mystery, fun. And Theobald already covers you on the sounds-like-an-author department."

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"It does but I think J's kind of literature would be more... transgressive than the name implies."

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"I would write racy adventure books," he grins, "Illustrations included."

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Henry covers Gabe's mouth. To anyone, but Temperance this is a pretty common sight, though how he manages to do it with such easy and without looking is still remarkable.

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Temperance raises an eyebrow at Erin, but then smiles, like she is not intimidated.

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Erin is making her way through her muffin top and watching the conversation play out with dancing eyes. She winks at Temps when she looks to her. 

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"Welcome to the Greendale Zoo," Gabriel tells Temperance with a sigh. 

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"They let us beasts roam free so long as we only bite if asked nicely," J tacks on, to Gabriel's exasperation. 

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"We appreciate that you volunteered to be J's zookeeper for the day."

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"If only I had brought my safari gear."

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"We can stay on the trails for your first day, leave the bushwhacking for when you're prepared for it." 

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"So you're not going to lead her on a spelunking adventure, then?" Erin asks, raising an eyebrow at him over the rim of her coffee cup. 

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"Not yet! I only take people caving on the third date," he winks at Temps. "They're not really a good studying environment, anyway," he adds.

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Snort. "Where are we going? If you have any plan at all."

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"A few ideas! I avoid making concrete plans." He sucks down the last few gulps of his tea and wraps his muffin up for later, slipping it into his backpack. "Come on - see you guys later," he tells the rest of the table as he starts towards the door. 

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Erin waves, and then she and Gabriel get started on helping their own tutees. 

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Gabe tries his best to focus, outside the occasional uncomfortable remark.

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Temperance follows, she is not quite skipping, but she is not-not skipping either.

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After a week of tutoring him Gabriel has mostly perfected the art of selective deafness. He guides Gabe through his homework without missing a beat. 

(Erin occasionally has to smother a laugh at a particularly outrageous remark, but is mostly focused on helping Henry.) 

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J, meanwhile, leads Temps out of the shop, slipping past a trio of students in Academy uniforms on their way through the door. He hangs a right outside the shop and leads a her down the side street there, eyeing her own uniform consideringly. 

"You okay going up while wearing a skirt? Most people don't look up, but..." 

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"I am okay. I am wearing short leggings under it."

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"Smart! Okay, come on, this way!" He sets off at a leisurely run down the street, leading her further into the small downtown area. 

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She skips along. Aware of her surroundings, but looking more curious than cautious.

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From his vantage point, someone observes the pair walk away. "Is that J?" Ezra asks his tutee. "And he is... not with Francine."

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"She's sick," Robin glances up from his work, following Ezra's gaze to the window, "Yeah, I heard them talking over the railing, that's... uh, Temperance? I think? I wasn't paying that much attention." 

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"Temperance Greenpond," Ezra says in a tone that needs someone paying attention to notice the discomfort. "She is new at my school." And family. "And Francine is sick?" It's rare for him to turn the topic towards that direction.

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"...Yeah, she wasn't at school today. I asked her brother - Adam, I mean." He looks back down at his work, blushing a bit, "I was worried, she doesn't miss school usually." 

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"I know. Adam is a good kid." Ezra says mostly to fill the conversation lull with something that wasn't addressing Robin neon-sign obvious crush on that half-sister.

It's pretty obvious that Adam would be the source of the information, instead of Meghan. Ezra wasn't sure what Meghan thought of that crush, but it was probably too intimidating for Robin's constitution.

"Back to your assignment." Ezra says looking down.

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"Right," he sighs. Back to work. 

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"Okay, this way," J steps into an alley, glancing back at Temps to see if she's coming, "Just down this dark alley," he adds with a little laugh. 

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"How spooooky."

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He giggles, "Nothing spooky back here except the basement windows over there," he motions to the greasy, almost blacked-out windows of one of the nearby buildings, as he heads over to a fire escape on another building. He jumps up and catches the bottom of it and climbs up over the railing. Then he lowers the ladder attached to it so she can climb up without having to jump, "Climbing, as promised." 

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"Oh, thank you. Remind me to try getting the ladder myself next time, useful skill." She climbs up easily enough.

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"Can do! Have you done this sorta thing before? Parkour, exploring places we're not supposed to explore, climbing buildings, that kind of thing?" 

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"Let's say I have a skill-set very consistent with the kind of activities you just said. But I can neither confirm nor deny have break into places such as an old warehouse."

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He turns around to point at her as he starts making his way up the stairs (thus going up them backwards), "I think I'm going to like you," he laughs.

"Right, if you're not a novice at this, I won't give you the easy mode." And he turns back around to lead her the rest of the way up the stairs and out onto the roof. "Though, I was just gonna set up here, so maybe we can do the challenge run next time," he adds, motioning to the picnic table set up in a sheltered corner. 

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"Ooh, you did this for Francine? I can see why she would enjoy teaching you." She says after reaching the picnic table.

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"Sure! She's great about this sort of thing - and she can keep up, too. She does cheer, you know, the training that goes into that makes you fitter than most people probably think." He hops up to sit on the table, setting his bag beside him so he can unzip it and pull out his muffin. Nom. 

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"Oh, yeah. I tried it for, like two weeks. It's intense. Which can be fun. But it can be very intense."

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"So I hear. Francine is pretty built, really." He smiles a little dreamily, and then shakes his head.

"So, gonna teach me, teach?" He tugs his binder out of his bag and plops it down on the table beside him. 

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"That's the plan. Go over where you are at?"

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"Can do!" And he starts in on that, between bites of his muffin, showing her what they were working on last session and the work he should complete sometime in the next week. 

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Meanwhile, another customer steps inside the Café, looking around the main floor for signs of Erin. 

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Robin, peering over the railing again while avoiding his homework, grimaces. "Ugh, what's that asshole doing here." 

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Ezra tries - in the most polite way possible - to pull Robin back into homework. "Dunno? Looking for Erin? What's your problem with him?"

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"Oh, you know, he's all," he turns back towards Ezra, sticking his nose up into the air comically, "'I'm too good to speak to you, peon, get out of my sight', and all of that." He shrugs, going back to normal, "Not that he'd ever actually go so low as to talk to me."

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(Erin is on a bathroom break, and therefore nowhere to be found.) 

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Henry is there, helping Gabriel with Gabe while Erin is away.

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Ezra distractedly looks down at Caine before looking back at Robin. "I guess he gives that vibe? I don't know much about him to tell you."

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Robin shrugs, "We used to be... sort of friends, is all. Before he moved schools. Guess it makes sense he'd be different after what happened, but still, doesn't have to be an asshole about it." He shakes his head, turning back to his homework. 

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Caine catches sight of Henry, Gabe and Gabriel after a moment. He sighs subvocally, but forces himself to head for their table. 

"Where's Erin?" He asks tersly once he reaches them, interrupting an explanation of Gabriel's. 

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(Ezra doesn't press further on the topic.)

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"She went to the restroom."

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"Hi, Caine. How are things?" Henry says, a bit self-consciously.

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Caine nods at Gabe, and his eyes flicker over to Henry briefly.

"...Fine." He glances down at his work, noting a mistake, "You should pay more attention to your own work, let the tutor do his job," he says shortly. 

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Henry makes an inquisitive noise, before noticing the mistake and correcting.

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"My fault. I just so easily distractible. Specially with so many pretty faces around."

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Caine gives him a blank look, "You should work somewhere with less distractions, then." 

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Gabriel coughs, "Thank you, Caine. We have a good system worked out. Erin should be out soon if you want to wait for her up by the bathrooms?" He knows Caine prefers the quieter upstairs whenever he has to be in this café, anyway. 

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Caine hmms quietly, looking between them, but nods and retreats from the table, heading towards the stairs. 

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"He sure knows how to play the whole, white-haired anime emo vibe."

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"I'm not sure 'emo' is the right category?" Gabriel says distractedly, watching him leave, "But he's certainly a quiet one." 

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Caine heads for the stairs, taking them two at a time and then pausing up at the top to look around there, too. He catches sight of Robin, grimaces just the smallest amount, and then sees Ezra. He pauses for a moment, staring. 

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Ezra is trying to explain something for Robin.

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"Yeah, whatever you call never-has-any-fun kind of character."

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"Might be that he finds different things fun than you do?" 

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Robin is trying very hard to understand! Math is haaaaard. 

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Math can be very hard, but Ezra tries his best to teach the moving parts of the problem.

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"Most people don't have my good taste. But I don't think Caine ever does anything fun?"

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"I don't know, maybe he likes... studying," he counters, lamely. What does Caine do for fun? 

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"If that is the case, then I guess your fancy school is not giving him enough homework, or he has another reason for being like that. Maybe he is always secretly with a sour taste in his mouth? Which, too bad, he is already quite pretty even with the sour face."

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Gabriel shakes his head, a little exasperated, and redirects Gabe's attention onto his homework.

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Upstairs, Erin steps out of the bathroom... and sees Caine's back, as he's still watching Ezra discretely. Impishly, she decides to shut the door with force just shy of a slam, making a loud enough noise to draw attention from around the upper floor.

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Ezra reflexively looks. Then he looks back at the table, as not to be impolite, then he looks away again, but glancing at Caine.

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Caine starts, half-turning to look at her - missing Ezra's glance in the process - and then glares a little in response to the look on her face, flustered. 

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"Sorry!" She says, eyes laughing, "That was a little loud." 

She meets Ezra's eyes past Caine, and smiles wide at him, "Ezra, hi!" She steps past Caine towards their table, "And Robin," she nods at the other boy, "You two getting along?" 

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"I am, Robin is pleasant company." Ezra pats Robin's back like the other boy is many years younger.

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"I am?"

Robin looks away from his mostly one-sided glaring contest with Caine.

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"I mean, yeah, we're getting along great! And my homework's getting done and everything. You can focus on your new... tutee?" 

(He ducks away from Ezra's hand.)

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"That's good!" She looks to Ezra, "You know Caine, right?" 

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"Yes, of course. His hair is striking. In a good way, I mean," he amends quickly.

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"It is that," she laughs. "I've been trying to convince him to join up with the program, but he's being very resistant." 

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Caine, who is definitely not at all flustered by Ezra's compliment, gives a short shake of his head, "I have better things to do," he states.

With that in mind, he addresses Erin, "The psychology class I missed on Wednesday. You said you'd take notes for me."

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"Well, sure, but I don't have them on me right now," she tells him, a little exasperated. 

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"Oh, I have those. Let me rummage around for them."

The action is less rummaging around and more taking them out of a neatly organized color-coded folder.

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In reaction to the evidence of Ezra's habitual organization, Caine's expression relaxes a little, into something almost like a smile. He takes the notes and looks them over briefly, nodding, "These will do," he agrees.

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"I have a system to write them, ask if any of it is confusing." The notes themselves are color-coded. "But most of it is matching the colors with the numbers, or the colored numbers."

He writes two sticky notes on, lending the notes to Caine, and puts one where the notes were in the folder and the other in another folder - for sticky note reminders. Then he packs the folders back.

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He listens seriously and nods.

"-thank you," he adds, belated, the words tasting a little odd in his mouth. "I'll copy them and get them back to you..." he hesitates, "How long will you be here?"

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"I still need to help Robin with his homework, but I think I will head home before getting dark. You can return them any time before the weekend, though."

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Hm. His eyes flick towards Robin, who is directing a look at him which he can't read, and then away again.

"I'll find you at lunch tomorrow," he agrees. He pulls his own binder out of his bag and slips the papers into it.

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"See you then." Ezra - oblivious of any subtext - just registers the entire interaction as uncomplicatedly positive and turns back to his table.

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Caine nods to him, conspicuously ignores Erin, and turns to head downstairs and out of the coffee shop.

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Erin is smirking, "Well, I'd say that went wonderfully."

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"Erin what the fuck was that."

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Erin doesn't even bother trying to look innocent. She just takes a step back, "I need to get back to Henry. Good luck with math, you two!"

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"Bye?" Ezra waits until she leaves to ask Robin. "Did I miss something?"

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"Uhhh," Robin stalls, and then frantically shakes his head, "Nope! Definitely not!" He looks down at the table, tugging his worksheet closer, "So the square root of 36-"

Math distraction!

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"It's six..." Ezra answers, then goes over the mnemonics on square roots rather than push the topic.

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Henry and the Gabriels are still where they have been left.

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"Sorry for the wait," Erin says as she settles into her seat again, "I picked up another muffin to make up for it," she claims, pushing the item in question towards Henry and Gabe, "Where were we?"

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"I was trying to convince Gabriel here that my sense of humor is pretty great."

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"Thank you, Erin. And we are here," Henry says, pointing at the relevant part of their work with one hand. The other takes the muffin.

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Erin leans around Henry and pats Gabe's shoulder consolingly, "I don't think you're going to convince him anytime soon."

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"Your sense of humour- has it's place, I'm sure?" Gabriel tries. Awkwardly.

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"Aww, that was the best thing someone said about it in a while." Gabe returns the shoulder pats.

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"Don't incentivize him, it took me years to train him well enough that he could be around people at all."