[drabble series] Angels and...coffee makers?
Title: Angels and…coffee makers?
Rating: PG
Summary: Chanyeol is a smart derp and Sehun watches too much Supernatural. Part of my university!AU drabble series.
Disclaimer: The usual. I don’t own EXO, or Supernatural, etc, etc.
Baekhyun woke up Saturday morning to the sound of clanging and clanking coming from the kitchen.
“Chanyeol, man, what are you doing?” he asked, wandering into the kitchen with one eye still squinted sleepily shut, to see Chanyeol sitting there on the kitchen floor with their dismantled coffee maker spread out in front of him.
“Oh, hey Baeks,” the other said. “The coffee maker wasn’t working so I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with it.”
“What d’you mean it’s not working?” Baekhyun asks. “That thing’s new; we just bought it this year.”
“I dunno, I put the grinds in and turned it on, but it wasn’t making any coffee! So I thought hey, why not take it apart to see if I can figure out what’s wrong with it.”
“…Chanyeol, do you even know how the internal mechanisms of a coffee maker work? How would you know if something was wrong with it anyway?”
“Oh, I dunno, I figured I’d just figure it out…”
“Did you remember to put water in before you turned it on?”
“…oh.”
Baekhyun just shook his head and wandered back into his room.
“So,” Joonmyeon asked that afternoon as he and Baekhyun were out shopping for Christmas presents. “First stop?”
“I need a new coffee maker.”
“Oh really, what happened to the old one?”
“Chanyeol forgot to put water in to make coffee and ended up taking it apart to try and fix it.”
“Haha, problems with living with a mech eng,” Joonmyeon said with a grin. “Walmart it is, then.”
//
“HELLO,” Yixing yells.
“Xing, why the hell are you screaming,” Luhan asks. “You sound like my dad when he calls home to China.”
“Oh, sorry, I’m a little iffy on the integrity of my microphone.”
“I can hear you just fine, dude,” Jongdae says, his video feed freezing mid-wave on Sehun’s computer.
“Yixing, why’d you set up this urgent call?” Jongin asks, curiously.
“Jongin! How are you awake so early, California is like three hours behind the rest of us!” Sehun exclaims, still comfortably lounging around on his bed, hair messy from sleep.
“…Sehun it is 1 PM where you are, it’s not my fault you are a lazy slob on weekends.”
“SO ANYWAY,” Yixing yells.
“YIXING.”
“Sorry. So anyway,” he repeats in a normal tone, “I have set up this urgent Skype call so that we can discuss the case of TG.”
“Are you serious right now,” Jongin mutters.
“As we all know, Sehun is facing a serious ghost problem.”
“It’s like having termites,” Jongdae interrupts.
There’s a short, confused silence.
“What,” Luhan says.
“You know, serious ghost problem, serious termite problem,” Jongdae explains.
“Shut up, Jongdae,” Jongin suggests.
“I think we should try and communicate with TG,” Yixing inputs. “Like use an Ouija board and hold a séance.”
“Well that’s a stupid idea,” Jongin says.
“I agree!” Sehun says, to Jongin’s surprise. “Holding a séance is dangerous.”
“Oh my god.”
“It is! It happened on Supernatural, the one girl tried a séance and got her eyes burned out because she wasn’t contacting a ghost; it was an angel!”
“You are quoting a SHOW right now, Sehun. A TV show,” Jongin says.
“Aren’t angels supposed to be all…angelic and stuff,” Luhan says. “Why would it burn her eyes out?”
“It’s because they are too beautiful in their original form. He was warning her to turn back but she wouldn’t listen. And his beauty burned off her eyes.”
“Can this get any lamer,” Jongin says. “So beautiful her eyes burned.”
“Yeah, they need a human vessel to come to earth.”
“Oh my god. Well I will be leaving now,” Jongin says. “Off to go write on our company food feedback forum. I wanted freeze-dried corn in the staffroom and there’s some guy hating on it because the American government subsidizes corn and we shouldn’t be bringing in exotic corn from other places apparently. I must argue.”
“The corn struggles of Jongin Kim,” Jongdae intones.
“Shut up, Jongdae,” Jongin says, signing off.
Rating: PG
Summary: Chanyeol is a smart derp and Sehun watches too much Supernatural. Part of my university!AU drabble series.
Disclaimer: The usual. I don’t own EXO, or Supernatural, etc, etc.
Baekhyun woke up Saturday morning to the sound of clanging and clanking coming from the kitchen.
“Chanyeol, man, what are you doing?” he asked, wandering into the kitchen with one eye still squinted sleepily shut, to see Chanyeol sitting there on the kitchen floor with their dismantled coffee maker spread out in front of him.
“Oh, hey Baeks,” the other said. “The coffee maker wasn’t working so I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with it.”
“What d’you mean it’s not working?” Baekhyun asks. “That thing’s new; we just bought it this year.”
“I dunno, I put the grinds in and turned it on, but it wasn’t making any coffee! So I thought hey, why not take it apart to see if I can figure out what’s wrong with it.”
“…Chanyeol, do you even know how the internal mechanisms of a coffee maker work? How would you know if something was wrong with it anyway?”
“Oh, I dunno, I figured I’d just figure it out…”
“Did you remember to put water in before you turned it on?”
“…oh.”
Baekhyun just shook his head and wandered back into his room.
“So,” Joonmyeon asked that afternoon as he and Baekhyun were out shopping for Christmas presents. “First stop?”
“I need a new coffee maker.”
“Oh really, what happened to the old one?”
“Chanyeol forgot to put water in to make coffee and ended up taking it apart to try and fix it.”
“Haha, problems with living with a mech eng,” Joonmyeon said with a grin. “Walmart it is, then.”
//
“HELLO,” Yixing yells.
“Xing, why the hell are you screaming,” Luhan asks. “You sound like my dad when he calls home to China.”
“Oh, sorry, I’m a little iffy on the integrity of my microphone.”
“I can hear you just fine, dude,” Jongdae says, his video feed freezing mid-wave on Sehun’s computer.
“Yixing, why’d you set up this urgent call?” Jongin asks, curiously.
“Jongin! How are you awake so early, California is like three hours behind the rest of us!” Sehun exclaims, still comfortably lounging around on his bed, hair messy from sleep.
“…Sehun it is 1 PM where you are, it’s not my fault you are a lazy slob on weekends.”
“SO ANYWAY,” Yixing yells.
“YIXING.”
“Sorry. So anyway,” he repeats in a normal tone, “I have set up this urgent Skype call so that we can discuss the case of TG.”
“Are you serious right now,” Jongin mutters.
“As we all know, Sehun is facing a serious ghost problem.”
“It’s like having termites,” Jongdae interrupts.
There’s a short, confused silence.
“What,” Luhan says.
“You know, serious ghost problem, serious termite problem,” Jongdae explains.
“Shut up, Jongdae,” Jongin suggests.
“I think we should try and communicate with TG,” Yixing inputs. “Like use an Ouija board and hold a séance.”
“Well that’s a stupid idea,” Jongin says.
“I agree!” Sehun says, to Jongin’s surprise. “Holding a séance is dangerous.”
“Oh my god.”
“It is! It happened on Supernatural, the one girl tried a séance and got her eyes burned out because she wasn’t contacting a ghost; it was an angel!”
“You are quoting a SHOW right now, Sehun. A TV show,” Jongin says.
“Aren’t angels supposed to be all…angelic and stuff,” Luhan says. “Why would it burn her eyes out?”
“It’s because they are too beautiful in their original form. He was warning her to turn back but she wouldn’t listen. And his beauty burned off her eyes.”
“Can this get any lamer,” Jongin says. “So beautiful her eyes burned.”
“Yeah, they need a human vessel to come to earth.”
“Oh my god. Well I will be leaving now,” Jongin says. “Off to go write on our company food feedback forum. I wanted freeze-dried corn in the staffroom and there’s some guy hating on it because the American government subsidizes corn and we shouldn’t be bringing in exotic corn from other places apparently. I must argue.”
“The corn struggles of Jongin Kim,” Jongdae intones.
“Shut up, Jongdae,” Jongin says, signing off.