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The word count is 1,590. Warning for mentions of cheating on a significant other. Also this is a Muggle/Coffee Shop!AU so there might be a little bit out of character for some of the characters depicted. I hope you all enjoyed Daphne's Powdered Doughnut Cafe.


The Powdered Doughnut Cafe had been a lifetime dream of Daphne's since she was a small child. She'd always wanted to be in control of her own destiny and when she became old enough and had enough money to do so she bought up property to create the cafe of her dreams.

"Daph, are you almost done with those cookies yet?" asked her co-owner, best friend, and younger sister Astoria who stood framed in the doorway that led to the cafe proper. "The customers are clambering for them."

"I'll be done in a bit," Daphne called, picking up a thing of icing to ice the cookies with.

This had always been her favorite part when she was a child and had been allowed to watch the family cooks bake for them. The icing of the cookies. She had always been allowed to help with the icing if her parents weren't around to watch. Because Mr. and Mrs. Greengrass had a thing about their daughters doing labor that should be left to the servants of the house.

She picked up a tube of red icing and started to frost a heart shape in the middle of one of the cookies that had recently cooled. After all, Valentine's Day was right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the holiday than with a Valentine's Day-themed cookie.

She frosted the hearts onto the cookies first, taking great pride in her work as she went along her way. After that was finished she went back and added the black arrowhead and the feathered end to the arrow.

She couldn't have been more proud of her work than she was at that moment. Picking up the tray of finished cookies she went to the door as Astoria was just about to open it. Something seemed a bit off with Astoria. She looked over her shoulder as though watching someone in fear.

"Storia, what's wrong?" Daphne asked, feeling a bit nervous about how her sister was acting. It almost seemed as though Astoria didn't want her to come out into the cafe proper.

"Um…nothing's wrong," Astoria said, not moving out of Daphne's way.

"Then why aren't you moving out of the way so that I can take the cookies out? You were the one who said that the customers were calling for them, weren't you?"

"I was just thinking that maybe I could take them out and you can get started on the next batch of cookies," Astoria said, sounding exasperated that Daphne was still trying to get past her.

"Astoria, you've never been really good at hiding things from people," Daphne said, cocking her head to the side while her grey eyes studied her sister's own. "What's going on out there that you don't think that I would be able to handle?"

Astoria watched someone who seemed to be nearby. "Don't shoot the messenger, okay?" She held up her hands as she stood to one side. "It's Blaise."

"Blaise?"

The name stung Daphne's heart like a dagger being shoved through her. It hadn't been that long since her ex-boyfriend Blaise Zabini had been found cheating on her. Not just cheating on her. No. He had to go and make matters much worse. He had cheated on her with another man. A man they both knew from their school years. Theodore Nott.

Theo who'd been a best friend to both of them throughout the years. Theo whose shoulder Daphne had cried upon numerous times as she poured her heart out to him about her suspicions about Blaise cheating on her. Theo, who had held her and told her that Blaise wouldn't do that to her.

"It's not just Blaise, is it?"

Astoria shook her head. Her blond locks bounced around her shoulders as she did so.

"Theo's here too, isn't he?"

"Daph, I can…."

"I can handle this," she said, taking a deep breath and gathering her strength about her. After all, it took a lot of strength to confront the man you once thought you were going to marry and the man that he'd left you for.

"Are you sure?"

Daphne nodded. Squaring her shoulders she walked out of the bakery and into the cafe proper not bothering to look at Theo and Blaise as she passed them. If they wanted her attention they'd have to get it as the rest of her customers did.

"Those smell heavenly, Daph," Pansy Parkinson said, grinning as she ordered her usual cup of coffee and a dozen of the cookies that Daphne had just put out. "You are the absolute best baker there is."

"You're too kind, Pans," she said, grinning as she put together a bag of the cookies. "I've thrown in a few extras on the house."

"Daph, you didn't have to," Pansy said, paying for her order and shooting a nasty look over her shoulder at Blaise and Theo who'd just gotten in line. "He has a lot of nerve to show his face here."

"It's alright," Daphne reassured her friend, smiling as she watched the woman make her way through the crowd. "Next please."

The line of customers at the cafe moved along at a steady pace and things were great until they reached the front of the line. Blaise was holding Theo's hand and Theo was looking at him adoringly.

"Daph, I smell something burning in the kitchen," Astoria said, throwing the pair in front of her sister a glaring look. "Why don't you go and check on that and I can take this couple's order?"

Daphne nodded and quickly excused herself. She could already feel the tears prickling at her eyes as she raced towards the bakery. The last thing she wanted to do was have Blaise, Theo, or any of those other people see her cry. Girl's like her didn't show emotions. That was what her mother had trained her and Astoria to believe all their lives. They were stuck to the whims of their fathers and once they married then their husbands.

Once she hit the bakery the tears started to fall. She was thankful there really wasn't anything burning or she'd be out one batch of cookies. She was also thankful for how quick thinking her sister Astoria had been.

She didn't know how long she'd been sitting in the backroom crying for when the door opened and the sound of footsteps approached her. Thinking it was Astoria she didn't bother to look up. Her sister had seen cry before. She had been there when Daphne had found out about Blaise and Theo. Astoria had been her shoulder to cry on when Theo had been found out to be a traitor.

"I'm almost finished 'Storia," she said, wiping her eyes and nose as the footsteps paused in front of her. "I'll be out to help with the rest of the customer's in a minute. Just let me get myself put together once more."

"Are you alright?" a the kind familiar voice asked, making Daphne finally look to see who had approached her.

Blinking the tears from her eyes and hurriedly wiping them dry Daphne stood up and was about to confront the blonde girl standing in front of her. Who was Luna Lovegood to think she could come back here and walk into Daphne's bakery?

"I'm fine," Daphne lied, dabbing at her eyes once more before putting her handkerchief in her pocket.

"It doesn't look that way to me," Luna answered. "Why were you crying?"

"How did you get back here?"

"I'll answer you if you answer me."

"No specific reason. It's stupid." Daphne hung her head in shame as the tears once more prickled her eyes. She hadn't meant to have anyone see her cry. She certainly didn't think that that was Astoria's plan either.

"There has to be a reason. People just don't cry for nothing."

Daphne sighed as she looked at Luna once more. She could tell that the younger girl wasn't going to give one trying to get answers from. Taking a deep breathe she launched into her story of how she'd figured out that Blaise was cheating only to find out that he was cheating on her with their mutal friend Theo. Theo, who was at the moment of her finding out that Blaise was cheating on her, the one that Blaise was cheating on her with.

"That's sounds horrible," Luna said, sitting down next to Daphne. "But that just proves that he wasn't the one for you. There is someone out there for everyone, you know?"

Daphne snorted as she shook her. "Sometimes it doesn't feel like that," she told Luna. She was struggling to hold the tears at bay now.

"There's no shame in crying," Luna told her. "It's better to let out those emotions than keep them in."

"Are you sure?" Daphne could hear her voice breaking and hated herself for it. Her mother's voice in the back of her head telling her to get control of herself. To stop acting like a child and remember herself.

"I'm sure. My mother used to tell me that all the time."

Allowing herself to open up and feel for the first time in a while Daphne wept until she could weep no more. She felt much more better afterward a thing she hadn't thought could be possible. But it was. She felt free for the first time in her life and no one could take away from her. Thanks to Luna Lovegood and a good cry in her coffee shop's bakery.


I hope you all enjoyed Daphne's Powdered Doughnut Cafe as much as I enjoyed writing it.