who buffy & the doctor! what randomly meeting where starbucks when friday afternoon warnings a sulking doctor, probably a pop culture reference bonanza, not much else!
As much as he'd tried to constantly prepare himself for the near inevitability of Rose leaving, he'd still been gutted by it. From the very second she'd vanished, he'd retreated. It hadn't been fair to the others who remained behind, but he couldn't stall the spiral. Although he hadn't withdrawn entirely, even going so far as to see Kate when asked, he remained otherwise silent for a long time. Rose was gone, he needed to come to terms with that on his own.
His return to the city had been recent--four days ago to be exact. As he'd told Alexis, the Doctor had been distracting himself with absolute nonsense in Asia. From Beijing to Tokyo and Taipei to Singapore, he'd been one dial away from adding present day Thailand to this track record when the urge to go back to New York had struck him. Not broadcasting the return just as he hadn't broadcasted his disappearance, the Doctor lapsed into old routines.
Then, promptly broke them by going to the worst coffee shop in Earth's modern history: Starbucks. Dressed in iconic fashion, coat and all, he'd strolled into the shop and ordered a chocolate smoothie that was more banana than chocolate (per his request). It was sparsely populated given the hour, not that he noticed, and so made himself comfortable atop a coffee table close to the front of the shop. Legs crossed, smoothie in one hand and a laptop manned by the other, he appeared to be hard at work on something.
Aside from the occasional perturbed stare from workers and customers alike, he remained wholly engrossed in his drink and the screen.