somehow i'm keeping it steady, oh baby i'm tearing up this town

[patricide]

Who: Lex and Ilde
What: rich kids chat about poetry and interior design
Where: "some random waterfront café in raven's gate"
When: Newdi afternoon
Notes: holy crap, they're finally meeting in person
Warnings: pretentiousness?

The food arrives promptly after Lex and Ilde find their table upstairs. It's certainly not the most casual of restaurants, but nothing too fancy either, the table affords a nice view and the atmosphere is altogether light and pleasant. He's wearing a suit sans tie and doesn't feel at all overdressed, though this is largely due to the fact that he is used to wearing suits a majority of the time as it is. It's one of many habits that Lex refuses to change just because of a little displacement.

Lex takes the time to appreciate his surroundings rather than begin to tear into his sandwich straight away, looking at the café's color scheme of cool tones to compliment the outside scenery. It all culminates with a centerpiece of a single flower in a slim vase on each table. He looks to Ilde and nods toward the flower. "Nothing against plants, but that might be a bit much at my place."

And then we had a conversation about vampires.

[coffeeking]

Who: Ianto Jones and Jack Harkness
What: No, seriously, a conversation about vampires. Also, about Greek gods.
Where: In bed.
When: Immediately following this craziness.
Notes: Communication is key to a successful relationship.
Warnings: Possible bickering. In bed. Now with smut! :D

Ianto disconnects the call with Cassandra, and he can't help but think the ringing silence in the room is rather foreboding. He hasn't done anything wrong, he knows that, and yet he knows Jack isn't pleased about what he probably feels is a failure on Ianto's part to pass on important intel. It's not always easy to separate their working relationship from their personal relationship, especially while living in a situation that falls under their jurisdiction, but in a foreign world where Torchwood is a non-entity. To make matters worse, Jack's defenses are visibly up about the whole vampire thing -- and Ianto is going to have words with Cassandra about mentioning things that only serve to scare the shit out of Jack.

Now they're on the precipice of what is probably going to be a very uncomfortable discussion, and Ianto has already given up on getting any more sleep in the near future. He looks sideways at Jack, but doesn't dare speak first.