Fives watches the General disappear into the crowd of writhing bodies on the dance floor and pushes down the surge of disappointment as he realizes he'd never given him directions to Echo's coffee shop. Oh well, he'd probably been deluding himself that he was more than a few minutes' diversion, and he can just hear Rex's lecture on the subject if he were to find out how he'd behaved. He gives himself a moment, then starts making his rounds again, and refuses to think about the encounter for the rest of the night, a resolution that's made at least a little easier to keep by the fact he doesn't catch sight of the Fox General again.
He almost doesn't bother showing up at the coffee shop the next day. It's not like he'll be there, after all. But Echo being on shift is as good a reason as any, and he walks to work with his brother then claims one of the overstuffed chairs in the corner to sit with his coffee and a book he'd brought.
As it gets close to three he starts looking up every time the door opens, and every time tells himself he's not waiting for the General to show up, because clearly he isn't. How could he when he never even found out where this place is? And yet, at three o'clock almost exactly the bell on the door chimes and he looks up reflexively... to the sight of the General in the doorway, looking somehow more out of place in this common, everyday environment than he had in the pulsing lights of the club last night.
Fives doesn't even realize he's stood up until he's already across the room in front of the General, grinning like a damn pup, and completely ignoring the shocked look Echo's giving him from behind the bar. "I didn't think you'd come," he admits. "Since I never actually told you where this place is."
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He almost doesn't bother showing up at the coffee shop the next day. It's not like he'll be there, after all. But Echo being on shift is as good a reason as any, and he walks to work with his brother then claims one of the overstuffed chairs in the corner to sit with his coffee and a book he'd brought.
As it gets close to three he starts looking up every time the door opens, and every time tells himself he's not waiting for the General to show up, because clearly he isn't. How could he when he never even found out where this place is? And yet, at three o'clock almost exactly the bell on the door chimes and he looks up reflexively... to the sight of the General in the doorway, looking somehow more out of place in this common, everyday environment than he had in the pulsing lights of the club last night.
Fives doesn't even realize he's stood up until he's already across the room in front of the General, grinning like a damn pup, and completely ignoring the shocked look Echo's giving him from behind the bar. "I didn't think you'd come," he admits. "Since I never actually told you where this place is."