Challenge 656 - Black with three

[m_findlow]

Title: Black with three
Character: Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 200 words
Content notes: none
Author notes: Written for Challenge 656 - Black at tw100
Summary: Ianto feels the need to fill a hole left by Jack's absence. A double drabble.

Ianto stared down at the coffee tray, unable to reconcile the fact that it just looked wrong. There were only four mugs on it when there should have been five, for a start, but more noticeable than that was the fact that all of them contained the same colour beverage.

Ianto was a coffee connoisseur, but despite all his highly held opinions about coffee and how it should be made, he still preferred his with milk. Not too much, but done properly, it complemented the bitterness without ruining it. A decent crema blended with the right half inch of milk froth gave it texture and body.

There was only one person on the team who took their coffee black. It should hardly be a surprise that person was Jack. He liked his bitter and strong, with enough sugar to combat that bitterness, until it was so potent that you could stand a spoon up in it for about three seconds, before the spoon itself would probably disintegrate. Dunked biscuits stood no chance.

But now there were only four, and none of them black. It tugged at him somewhere deep within. He tipped his own down the sink and started over.

Comments

[bk_forever]

*hugs Ianto*