( Flufftober Oneshots [Murder Drones ships] )

Flufftober 4th : Coffee shop au

Thadzi ( Thad x Uzi )
Idk exactly what this prompts means but I'll just roll with it :)
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The cafe was buzzing with people, most of the tables and booths filled with people sipping cups of hot coffee and eating pastries. The cottagecore-styled shop walls were covered in wood fixtures, wall plants, and fake plastic vines crawling over the dark oak walls and ceiling, hanging from the ceiling were a few plants as well, primarily pitcher plants which kept the place free of flies.

A tired-looking drone had her head down on the counter at the register, her purple eyes half-closed. She got up and went to make drinks, as there were no customers in line, there were no breaks today, it was a very busy day for the understaffed coffee shop.

Uzi groaned, reading the orders to herself, "one large PSL and a matcha with oat milk," she sighed and one of her co-workers noticed her tiredness, turning his head over to her.

"Uzi, you should really take a break," said N, piping whipped cream onto a hot cocoa. "Even if the manager doesn't want you to you really should, she would understand, you look awful." He cautiously handed the finished drink to V, who went to give it to the customer.

Uzi rubbed her eyes and stood up straight. "I'm fine N, I don't need a break," she said, not even trying to cover up the exhaustion in her voice, giving a thumbs up to N, turning to the counter to make the drinks.

N snatched the ticket out of her hand, pushing her over to the register, "You're gonna spill whatever drink you're making, just work the register today," he said, "I don't want you burning yourself with hot coffee is all." He turned and went back to the back counter, reading the ticket her took from Uzi and starting to make the drinks.

After standing at the register for a few minutes with nobody coming up to the counter, she started to doze off standing up, her head hanging.

Uzi was jolted awake by a tap on the shoulder, hitting her head on the register, causing it to open and hit her in the chest. "Shit!" She yelled under her breath, rubbing her head.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" A male voice said, "Are you okay?"

Uzi looked up at the green-eyed male drone in front of her, rubbing her eyes and closing the register, turning to the ordering tablet next to her. "Not your fault, what do you want?" She asked, rubbing her eyes.

The drone tapped his fingers, "One medium dark chocolate mocha with whipped cream and a small regular coffee with milk and sugar." Uzi quickly tapped his orders into the  machine, ripped off the printed orders, and got out a medium and a small cup, uncapping her sharpie.

"And what was the name on that?" She asked.

"Thad," he answered.

She scribbled the name on the cups in messy, barely legible letters and put them with the other orders with the printed orders. "Okay it'll be up in a minute, sit anywhere you want."

"Oh actually I need to run out to grab something and I'll be right back," he said, pointing towards the door.

Uzi nodded, giving him a thumbs up, "Sounds good." He nodded back and went out the door. Uzi slumped over and went over to N again.

N crossed his arms, "I said you can't work back here today, Uzi."

Uzi groaned, "I'll take that break, just get Lizzy off her long ass break to fill in for me," she rubbed her eyes.

N smiled, "Good idea," her turned and yelled to V, "V, GET LIZZY TO FILL FOR UZI"

"OKAY," V yelled back from the back room. Uzi gave N a smile and took off her apron, settling down at one of the empty booths and putting her head down. After a few minutes, she heard someone else sitting down at the other side of the booth, she looked up, her eyes half closed and saw that "Thad" guy sitting across from her.

Thad set down his coffees and chuckled, "Long day at work huh?" He took a sip of his mocha, "Don't worry, I get it."

Uzi took her head off the table and leaned back in her booth seat. "This stupid cafe is so understaffed I can't get many breaks, I've been working since we opened this morning," she groaned on, "One of my co-workers, Lizzy, just can't work for more than 30 minutes before going for a break, and the manager doesn't even care!"

Thad nodded, sipping his coffee, "Some managers are just like that, I'm used to it, my manager gives me a crap for coming into work late."

Uzi threw her hands up, "Lizzy can't be that tired from giving out drinks, she doesn't even have to make any of those drinks," she kept going on, "she's such a bad worker too, she has an attitude with customers and doesn't even get any tips!"

Thad slid the small coffee he ordered over to her, "Here, my treat. You look like you need it." He kept sipping his own coffee.

Uzi looked at him, not sure what to say, "Uhm, thanks I guess." She took it cautiously and took a sip. "I usually just have my coffee black but this is fine I guess."

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Thad stood up in his booth seat, inching out while holding his empty coffee cup, "I have to get going, I have a late shift and my manager is going to kill me if I'm late," he chuckled.

Uzi still sat, "Ugh, now I have to go back to workkkk."

Thad took her empty coffee cup and threw it in the garbage, reaching out his hand to help her up, Uzi averted her eyes and blushed lightly, taking his hand and getting up. Thad reached into his pocket and pulled out a small scrap of paper and a pen, scribbling something down on it and handing it to Uzi, "In case you need an excuse to get off work." Uzi took the paper and looked at it, his number scribbled on it in near-perfect handwriting.

She blushed a little more, "Oh! Thanks I guess..." She shuffled her feet nervously. Thad gave her a little wave as he disappeared out the door. Uzi tucked the note into a pocket on her shorts and sat down for a second, just thinking.

"UZI GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE," Lizzy's bratty voice called out to her. Uzi rolled her eyes and went back to work, feeling more energized.

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Help Thad is smooth
This came out so much better than I thought it would be holy shit, I don't even like Thadzi that much but this was just adorable

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