Ella blushed slightly and handed over their coffees. Luckily, she'd already had a fresh pot brewed, so they got the first cups from the pot.

"Thanks," Steve said, smiling as he took his coffee. "Everything okay today so far?" She looked good, but he'd noticed Simona staying much closer to her than normal, up until they came in.

"So far," Ella said, nodding. She was still slightly pink. She wasn't about to just admit she'd been freaking out the night before, after all.

Steve nodded. "Good." He was already relaxing as her scent wafted to them. It was relaxing, but also pressing, because everything wasn't quite settled yet and his inner Alpha wanted things to be settled and people to be undeniably claimed.

Ella, on the other hand, was trying not to let the scents of the Alpha and Beta distract her. Her inner Omega wanted nothing more than to snuggle up to the two of them and let them dote on her, but she knew that wasn't an option at the moment.

Steve and Bucky took their seats again, which were quickly becoming their normal seats, and settled in to relax there for a while. Because they could.

Ella occasionally glanced over at them as she worked, and made sure they got refills on their coffee. She could feel them watching her in return, and somehow, it made her feel warm inside. She liked that they were interested in her.

Steve's attention was more focused on her than Bucky's, and every few minutes he forced himself to blink and look away. He didn't want to make her uncomfortable.

Eventually, it got towards the end of the night, and Ella started to clean up the store so she could close. She was starting to get a bit nervous again; the next day was her day off, and her date with Steve and Bucky.

The two stuck around until closing time, and then they both paused outside so they could say good night to Ella.

"Go on, I'll finish up," Sim told her, shooing her outside. "Most everything's done anyway."

"You sure?" Ella asked. "I mean, I'm not here tomorrow, I don't want to leave you with too much to do..."

"I'm sure," Sim said, shaking her head. "It won't take me long to finish up. Go talk to them for a few minutes."

"Alright." With that, Ella headed out to see the Alpha and Beta. "Heading out?" she asked them.

"Yeah, just about time to be heading back," Steve said with a little smile.

"Unfortunately," Bucky grumbled good-naturedly.

Ella turned a little pink at that.

"So I guess I'll see you both tomorrow?" she said, only a little bit shy about it.

"Of course," Steve said.

"Not too early, though," Bucky said with a grin. "I'll take this chance to sleep in a bit myself."

Steve just rolled his eyes.

Ella grinned a bit.

"I don't remember the last time I slept in late," she admitted. "I'm so in the habit of getting up early to work the morning rush, I just keep getting up early."

"I wake up when he gets up," Bucky said, jerking a thumb at Steve. "And then I go back to sleep about half the time."

"I make coffee," Ella said, shrugging a bit. "Even at home, I make coffee."

"Technically I don't need it anymore," Steve said with a little shrug. "But it's hard not to have coffee in the morning, although this stuff is worlds better than what we had before."

"I get to experiment with different brews at home," Ella said, grinning. "Most of the specialty flavors and blends are ones that I figured out myself."

"Sounds like fun," Bucky said with a little grin. "I'm not surprised you experiment. I would if I had all this coffee paraphernalia."

"Don't tell Tony, he'll buy all sorts of things," Steve said, making a face. "And probably add AIs to them, too."

Ella couldn't help but laugh a little bit.

"Really, he does that?" she asked.

"Practically the whole kitchen is sentient now," Bucky said, shaking his head. "It's... disturbing."

That made Ella blink.

"Does it cook for you?" she ventured after a moment. "And do you trust it to without causing food poisoning?"