c3childs | Short Fic: Hug in a Cup

Title: Hug in a Cup
Word Count: 178
Rating: k
Original/Fandom: the Mentalist
Pairings (if any):
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con/RPF etc):
Summary: A cup of tea is like a hug in a cup. Duh.

“A cup of tea is like a hug in a cup. That’s obvious.

“Even at its strongest, it is soft, subtle, and sometimes biting. A few spoonfuls of sugar or honey help the lovely amber go down. The warmth goes all the way down to the belly and spreads out into the chest, like Mother’s quilt on a cool night. Its scent is pleasantly there, lightly about the room, lingering.

“Try that with coffee. No matter how much it’s sweetened or flavored, it will always have that rough, coarse taste. The smell is always too strong. And one cup of Cho’s wicked brew will leave a man twitchy and wired for hours.

“I have tried everything short of hypnosis and cognitive persuasion to persuade my team of the tea’s superiority, but they simply will not listen.

“Sometimes, I think about taking all of the coffee and replacing e it with tea – a very nice, black blend. But then they all have guns, and Lisbon would be the first to shoot me.

“Oh, well. More for me, I suppose.”