Sorry about the "no update" yesterday- you probably know how real life can be sometimes.

But I'll make it up to ya- two for one? Both fairly short, but I'm not aiming for length here, just humor. Enjoy~


Upon waking the next morning, Ventress forgot about the events of the previous day for a moment and wondered how on corausant Obi-wan Kenobi was in her room, and why was he calmly sipping from a mug instead of attacking her.

It snapped back to her when she looked around and realized that she was not in her room, nor was she in her new room in the Temple. She was in Obi-wan's room in the Temple, because she'd been afraid of the dark last night.

How embarrassing.

"Tea?" she asked groggily, sitting up. Immediately, a scent filled her mind- a wonderful, rich scent. It was like chocolate and earth and bittersweetness and… she wanted whatever was making that smell.

"No, coffee." He sipped from the mug again.

Ventress stood up, walking towards him in a rather entranced manner. "What is that smell?"

"Coffee." Obi-wan repeated. "Have you ever had coffee, darling?"

"No. Is it good?"

"Very good. Would you like a cup?"

"If it tastes as good as it smells, then I would love one."

Obi-wan poured her a steaming mug of this "coffee", which smelled absolutely delicious. She sipped in quite a bit of it, then immediately spat it back into the mug, spluttering indignantly.

"Too hot?" Kenobi asked.

"It's horribly bitter. Is it supposed to be?"

"It's what you call an acquired taste."

"But it smells so good…" Ventress sipped again, making a terrible face but swallowing the deep brown beverage. "It should taste like it smells."

"You'll get used to it, I'm sure. Almost everyone here in the Temple drinks coffee. Some of them only drink it because they like caffeine, but I just like the taste." He took another savoring swig.

"I thought you drank tea."

"Tea is an evening drink. I always have decaf in the morning." Asajj had thought, in the past, that she knew all about Jedi master Kenobi. But now she was learning quite a bit about him- the simple, unimportant sort of things that affected his ordinary, day to day life and not his whole personality. And yet, in a way, it was the little, simple things about a person that made them who they were. The way they acted when they were at home sipping coffee was somehow more important than how they fought on a battle field. Funny how she would never have thought such a thing before, and after just one day in the temple, she realized it.

"I never would have guessed that."

Obi-wan sat silent for a moment. "Was that sarcasm?"

"No, I mean it. I wouldn't have guessed something like that about you." She drank more of the coffee. Somehow, it tasted better than before. Perhaps Obi-wan was, as usual, right.

Asajj Ventress: 1
Coffee: 0
Obi-wan Kenobi:


In case you can't tell, Obi-wan gets the "infinity" symbol for this chapter, because he is, as usual, right, and this scores him an infinate amount of points. Just for being Obi-wan he should get an infinate amount of points. Plus last time all he got was a "?", so I'm making it up to him.

I honestly and truly feel for Ventress here. I love the smell of coffee. I want, so badly, to be able to enjoy it. And then I taste it and it's horribly bitter and awful. But it smells so good... D:

Ventress vs Coffee, round two, is this way -