I do now own Cabin pressure, I do own the Ocs.
"Talking"
¤Writing¤
#Signing#
A café
Martin walked through the rain he had just ended a job for Icarus removal and the lady who he had help had been so happy with his work that she had tipped him really well, so well that Martin felt he could have a cup of coffee at the new café that was closed to his flat.
He open the door and step inside and the first thing he notice was that it was both silence and not silence in a weird way, nearly no one was talking but mugs and cups was slamming down on the table and hands was slamming down on the table tops too.
Martin walked up to the cake display to order his coffee there stood a pair of young people in line before him so he started to look around and soon found the reason for the weird no sound but still a bit noise, a table not too far from him sat a group of people and was he first thought waving their hands but then the penny drop so to speak, they weren't waving their hands they were signing in sign language.
Martin stood still and didn't know what to do, should he leave? Or stay? He could nearly no sign language maybe his name if he remember it from that one lesson they had in primary school so long ago.
But before he had a chance to walk out it was his turn.
"Ehh," Martin said blushing so bright he thought it could be seen from space "I would like a coffee."
The person on the other side smiled and nodded before she picked up a notepad.
¤It will be a few minutes, I have to put on a new pot of coffee¤ she wrote ¤Sit down and it will come and it will be 2 pound please.¤
Martin paid and sat down at an empty table and after a waiting of maybe fifteen minutes a young woman a few years younger than him walked over with a mug of steaming coffee and a plate with a few biscuits.
"I didn't order the biscuits," Martin stuttered
The woman smiled and sat down.
¤It is my treat¤ the woman wrote on a notepad
Martin nodded and said a thanks, he tried one of the biscuits that was like a long stick with pinkish red and white sprinkles on it and a chocolate base, and it was really good tasted like candy cane.
The woman smiled at him as he eat one biscuit after the other.
Martin looked over at the woman who was at the moment looking at her phone not in a rude way, he tapped the table in front of her to get her attention like he had seen the others at the café do.
She looked up from the phone.
¤Thanks for the biscuits,¤ he wrote on the notepad ¤they were really yummy.¤
The woman smiled big back at him.
¤You are most welcome¤ she wrote back to him on the notepad ¤I am the owner Hermione nice to meet you.¤
¤Nice to me you too¤ Martin wrote back ¤I live closed by at the student house, Am Martin.¤
Martin drank the last of his coffee and once again thanked Hermione and walked back to his flat.
A few days later he once again had just enough to treat himself to a coffee so he returned to the same café, but when he saw that the café was closed he sighed and was just about to turn around and walk home when a brown haired head poked out of the door and waved at him, it was Hermione.
So Martin walked back and was let in to the now empty café.
"Ehh I…", Martin started but then picked up the notepad he had put in his pocket before ¤Hi, I thought you had closed for the day.¤
Hermione smiled and signed for Martin to sit down.
¤Coffee?¤ she wrote on her notepad
Martin just nodded and soon was a mug of steaming coffee and a big plate of biscuits and muffins and other things that looked really good.
Hermione sat down on the other side of the small table with a mug of steaming tea.
Martin took one of the muffins and started eating it he couldn't help it he was so hungry.
Hermione take one of the biscuits a round one with chocolate in it, they sat there in silence enjoying the goodies that was on the plate.
¤Thanks for the coffee and everything¤ Martin wrote when he had drain the last of his coffee
¤You are most welcome¤ Hermione wrote back and followed Martin to the door and waved him off.
Martin kept going to the café as often as he could and he would when he could try and learn sign language so one day when he stood before Hermione who was at the checkout he took all the bravery he had.
#H-E-L-O I W-A-N-T C-O-F-E# He slowly sign and know from the smile on Hermione's face that he had miss-sign a lot, a bright blush grow over his face and he just wanted the floor to swallow him whole.
Hermione nodded and pointed to an empty table and Martin slowly walked over, he was so sure that Hermione was laughing at him and that he had blown his chance of having a friend like her.
Hermione looked over at the still bright red faced red haired man while she put a few more biscuits on his plate, when the coffee was done and pour into a mug she walked over to the table and placed it in front of Martin still smiling.
¤I am so sorry¤ Martin had written on his notepad
Hermione frown why was he sorry?
She tapped him on the shoulder.
¤Why are you sorry?¤ she wrote
¤I made so many mistakes¤ Martin wrote
Hermione sat down on the other side of the table.
¤Do you want to learn?¤ she asked
Martin nodded he really did wanted to learn for some reason.
Hermione nodded and wrote that she would teach him then.
And so Martin started to learn British Sign Language he had no illusion that it would be easy.
Hermione started with giving him a paper with the alphabet and told him that when he could sign this in his sleep she would teach him the next step.
Martin took that paper everywhere he went home to work and everything in-between so much so that he had to ask Hermione for more copies of the paper as the one he first got sort of crumbled to pieces.
But he learn and learn and soon he could have simple talk with people, he soon become friends with many that either worked or visiting the café.
His friends at work had notice that he was doing something but he refused to tell them what he was doing for some reason he felt that this was his own privet thing, he know that one day he would have to tell them about this but until then Martin was just happy for once.
A/N:
So that was the first chapter of this story, I hope you like it.
I am myself learning BSL so I am not an expert so please bear with me. I am learning and studying it so well.
