119 Howls: [Video] 3.14

[coyote_walking]

[Mercy's looking absolutely exhausted, as if she hasn't slept for days. Which would probably be fairly accurate. She's been indulging in her go-to activities for dealing with bad emotions, namely baking and cleaning. The glimpses someone might get of the kitchen in the house show everything spotless and cleaned to within an inch of its life, as would the rest of the house if you could see it.

The problem at the moment is the sheets and sheets of chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies - and are those brownies over there?

She's staring at the latest batch she's started in dismay.]


I don't know what's going on, but every time I try to make something I end up tripling the recipe. At this rate there won't be room for anything in the house but cookies and brownies and the freezer's already full. Including the chest freezer downstairs. And if I bring anymore to the store Donna may kill me for getting crumbs all over her paperwork.

Tosh? Ianto? Fresh hot cookies?


Could the Welcome Center or Youth Center use a few hundred dozen or something? Anyone? Please.

I have so many more than any of us could ever eat.



[Oh so very cursed. Come get a cookie - or 3.14 of them if you'd rather. Voice/video for anyone who wants, action for anyone in the house or who might want to come by to get cookies or make Mercy stop baking.]

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[coyote_walking]

I know.

I can't help it.

This is what I do when I'm stressed.

And well... yeah.

I could sit on the couch and cry all day if you'd rather?

[She couldn't actually. Not for a whole day. And not where people would see her.]

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[likesavantgarde]

[Ianto sighs.] Mercy... why don't you take a nap, or something. You look exhausted. I'll make you some tea and clean up in there.

Please?

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[coyote_walking]

[She raised an eyebrow at him.]

How well are you sleeping?

And you don't have to clean up after me. I'm very careful not to mess up your kitchen.

[And she pauses, struck by something.]

How funny. I still think of it as your kitchen and someplace I have to be careful not to mess up. Lucky me, though, I don't drink coffee, so I've never messed with that giant monstrosity of a coffee maker other you bought.

But really, I can do this.

Though, if you wanted to make me a cup of hot chocolate, I wouldn't object.

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[likesavantgarde]

I've had wose nights. [ Anyways, he needs something to do or go mad and get alcohol poisoning.]

Mercy. You may not beliece it, but far as I'm concerned, this is your house as much as it is Tosh's or mine. You were here much before either of us.

Hot chocolate coming right up.

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[coyote_walking]

I've had worse nights, too, believe it or not.

[She shakes her head with a smile.]

I know. It's just funny. When I first came I was afraid to use the kitchen, in case I left something out of place because it was 'Ianto's Domain'. And I hadn't thought about it in a couple of years until just now when you came in and my first thought was, 'oh no, I messed up his kitchen'.

I'll straighten up some of this while you're making it. Thanks.

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[likesavantgarde]

It's still your kitchen too. [Slight quirk of the lips that could be a smirk.]. Although, the number of times Owen or Jack would destroy my kitchen or archives looking for something...

There's no need. I need something to do, anyways.

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[coyote_walking]

I bet.

There was an Owen here for a while. He took more blood samples and stuff than I'd imagined possible. But then I'm the only one of my kind he'd ever run into.