Page 31 of Demon
She moved around the bar, pulled out a stool and sat.She didn’t care if they had coffee or not, as long as they didn’t expect much out of her until she’d finished this cup.
“She’s useless until she gets enough caffeine in her.You want some coffee?”Gavin asked, moving to the coffee maker.
“Please.”
Gavin put a clean cup under the machine and went through all the steps to start it brewing then went to the fridge and started pulling things out.
“If we wait for her to come back to the land of the living, we won’t get anything to eat until noon.”Gavin set the carton of eggs on the bar then turned back to the refrigerator.“Do you have any bacon?”
“Bottom drawer,” Ronnie answered automatically.
Gavin continued digging, setting things on the counter then going back to the fridge.He moved around her kitchen as if he lived there.It wasn’t that he was here that often, but when he did visit, she wanted him to feel at home.
“You hungry?”Gavin asked Demon.
“I’m not starving.I ate a couple of hours ago, but I wouldn’t turn down food.”
Ronnie turned to Demon.“A couple of hours ago?When did you sleep?”
“Haven’t had time.”He shrugged.
She watched him, eyes narrowed as she sipped the black nectar that would hit her brain here any moment then it wouldn’t feel like the oil in the gears of her brain were bogged down with peanut butter or something equally sticky and hard to move through.She wasn’t sure, maybe she’d come up with a better analogy once her brain functioned again.She wasn’t going to hold her breath though.
Gavin went about cooking while Ronnie finished her coffee.When the cup was empty, she stared down at the bottom for a few seconds before setting it in the middle of the bar and laying her head on her bent arm and closed her eyes.
“You okay?”Demon asked.
She opened her eyes and found him frowning at her.
“Need more sleep.Or another gallon of coffee.”
He didn’t respond but shook his head, picked up her cup and went to the coffee maker.
“How much coffee does it take?”Demon asked Gavin, his voice soft.
“Anywhere between two and four cups.”
“Crap, how long is this going to take?”
Someone closed the machine and hit the start button.
“Shouldn’t be too much longer.That’s her third cup.”
Demon didn’t respond, at least not that she could hear.She lay there listening to the sounds of the two of them moving around her kitchen while the caffeine she’d already consumed.
A moment later she heard the clink of her cup hitting the counter.
“Come on, sleeping beauty.We’ve got things we need to talk about, and I need you upright and functional for this.”
She opened her eyes and found her cup sitting right in front of her face.The goggle framed eyes staring right at her.That was better than the other side she guessed.Though if it had been her giving him coffee, she would have set it so the little yellow naked butt was what he saw when he opened his eyes.
The thought made an amused smile skate across her face as she lifted her head and picked up the mug.
“I saw that, firecracker.What made you smile like that?”
She finished sipping from the mug, and lowered it to the counter.“I was just thinking that if I’d given you the cup, I would have made sure it was mooning you.”She turned the cup so the butt was aiming at him, and she was essentially, mooning him, even if it was with her cup.
He opened his mouth as if to say something but closed it and shook his head without saying anything.
