Coffee, Film & Metas (Avery)

[Julien Duval]

Between his intense film and media courses, trying to pass math and working on the college's newspaper's website, Julien didn't have a lot of downtime, especially since he also held a part-time job. So since he had a few hours, he'd made his way towards the campus cafe to have a cup of coffee and finally get around to looking at the footage he'd filmed thus far. He didn't even know if he had enough for his current project yet. He stood in line, fumbling with crumpled dollar bills he was digging out of his pocket, hiking his camera bag further up on his shoulder everytime it started to slip down. 

There were several people in front of him, including a blonde. Julien was just eager to get his coffee and relax for a bit, even if he did have to technically still do work. He was hoping to turn in a film project on meta-humans. But he'd been unable to really catch people in the act of using their powers around town and on campus, even though he kept his eyes peeled and basically had taken up people watching as a hobby. He was still working on the angle he wanted to portray in the film, but he had to get enough footage first anyway.

[Avery Fields]

Avery's class had just let out and she immediately headed for the campus cafe. She was a little bit of a caffeine junkie, especially when she had so much to do. It kept her running and that was every bit a necessity. However, there was a flip side.

As a cryokinetic, she had to be careful with coffee. She didn't do well with heat - it made her lightheaded and faint. Definitely something to be avoided. But she couldn't do without her coffee - she just couldn't. So she compensated.

She grinned brightly as it was her turn to order. She kept it simple today - just a large, black coffee. Thankfully that took the barista all of 30 seconds to prepare and then she was on her way. As she took it in hand though and turned away from the counter, she used her ability to chill the coffee.

Avery didn't think much of it really. She knew as a meta-human she wasn't supposed to advertise her power, but this was so subtle and she had done it a hundred times with no one noticing. After all, it was much better to chill the coffee than end up falling over because the heat had made her too dizzy to walk. Besides, who would really be paying enough attention to notice the hint of frost that had appeared around her hand on the cup?

[Julien Duval]

Julien had his coffee in one hand and was digging his camera out with the other as he neared where he'd set his backpack down near a table. He'd clicked on his camera and mindlessly started panning across campus, eyes landing on a blonde who had also gotten a coffee. Boredly, he set the camera down on the table and clicked record, turning to his laptop and bringing up the editing software.

He turned to look at the camera, seeing the blonde walk away with a few other students just behind her, also holding coffee and sighed as he pressed the stop button. He pressed play and watched, his finger resting on the delete button because he knew randomly recording people getting coffee wasn't going to produce anything interesting, but as he watched the footage, he swore he saw something. It seemed like a glitch and he was worried about his camera for a moment and so he rewatched it, zooming in on the strange seemingly glitchy happening. It looked like ice, or something had appeared around the cup in the blonde's hand.

He looked up and saw her still around and walked after her quickly, stupidly leaving his laptop and backpack behind.