coffee

John likes mysteries. And every morning he dips into the local independent coffee bar with his newspaper and ponders another... one Sherlock Holmes. Coffee Shop AU.

Tony Stark has disappeared, only hours after his final break-up with Pepper. No-one knows where he is - non-one except the darker side of the New Yorker High Society.Being kept as a slave, humilitated and tortured, he begins to lose his self respect as well as his will to live. Half starved and hanging on his sanity by the smallest tread he gets bought by a stranger. A stranger he has never seen before ... but who seems to know him, and who may be the only person able to bring him back to himself.Little problem: This stranger is intent to keep him as a pet, sitting at his feet, getting brushed every day and eating out of his hand. And Tony finds himself liking this attitude more and more ... This does not contain non-con or Loki treating Tony like a slave. It's a hurt/comfort-story.With bits of Loki being Loki, of course.

Why is Severus Snape working at Hermione's local coffee shop? She is determined to find out. NOW FULLY ILLUSTRATED!Note to all:Severus as an international man of mystery is in Chapter 9.Snape making balloon animals for children? That's Chapter 24.Candlelit evening out? Head to 45.Hermione's dragon slippers are in 65, and weepy little first-year Hermione is in Chapter 77.Hermione and Severus making googly eyes at one another is in 92!Severus getting an animated eyeful in 117!Go to 136 for a swoon-worthy Severus licking dessert from his fingers and 144 for... Well, you'll see!156 has little first-year Severus.178-182? Hermione and Severus gettin' frisky...