The coffee shop is for Wai to make easy money by serving over-caffeinated college students, a good place for Pran to study while they can still sort of hang out, and so Wai can get through his first year between schoolwork and juggling his rugby scholarship.

But most importantly: it is not for some annoying Engineering boys to start flirting with his best friend while he’s working, and make things more confusing all around.

“A-Yao,” Nie Mingjue says, taking his saber from Jin Guangyao’s hands. “Let me clean Baxia, get yourself cleaned up—”

“Hm?” Jin Guangyao looks down, moving his hand along the cloth.

Where the blade had slid right along his skin is clean, unbroken.

Nie Mingjue blinks. He thought he saw a red line, where Baxia would slice right along his palm, a sliver of blood slipping out. And yet he is scarless, woundless.

“Are you okay?” Nie Mingjue asks.

“Of course I am, Da-ge,” Jin Guangyao says. “Are you?”

–

Or, a Jennifer’s Body AU

Chase keeps Raimundo and Jack prisoner.

Cameron, Tyler, and Divya, after the depositions.

They learn to fall into step. Asahi likes the warmth that they bring.

Wearing your best poker face, you call his bluff. (No hearts were broken in the making of this long con.)

Eduardo isn’t sure if it’s healthy that he compares all these little things Eli does to Mark, but he finds that he doesn’t really prefer one to the other—it’s just that they look so much alike that looking for similarities and differences is almost inevitable.

The reporters never asked him about N—it has never been about N, for them. White’s face is open and interested. Or, the AU where instead of searching for N, Black spends his post-championship at the Gear Station in Nimbasa City.

They live, together. Yachi watches them, together. (She does not notice them watching her back.)

Joaquin doesn’t like Maria. Which means he also doesn’t like Manolo, because the way he feels about the two of them is pretty much the same.