Detco Coffee Shop AU except instead of “Coffee Shop AU” it’s just Okiya dropping into Poirot all the time to Rei’s increasing annoyance.
It started as a random thought I had last night as I was falling asleep and now it's grown into something I actually want to write, where Okiya just. Visits Poirot after like every (relevant) case and harasses the very annoyed/adorable feral cat of a waiter.
The other customers go from "why does Amuro seem to hate that grad student, he seems nice and polite" to "wait maybe that grad student has a thing for Azusa, since he's here all the time" (because hetero-normative assumptions) to "he and Amuro are dating, actually, since he's always here and when he's not, Amuro's 'making deliveries' at his residence" when the reality is that they're both just sort of stalking each other and this might be Okiya's idea of flirting.
yes, exactly, you get the vision, thank you.
and for extra silliness, things get more chaotic when Rum starts working next door. Rei realizes he probably has to protect this idiot from Rum and suddenly someone sees Rei like shove Okiya in the bathroom or something. this does nothing to quell the rumors.
